By Patric Hedlund

Tejon Ranch’s Centennial project will be the subject of an open house presented by the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning on Saturday, Dec. 12, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. The location is Gorman Elementary School (49847 Gorman School Road, Gorman, CA 93243). The public is invited.

A projected 19,333 residential units (from single family homes to condos and apartments), plus 700 acres of commercial and industrial development (including two golf courses) are proposed. That could mean 58,000 new residents in a new city on 12,000 acres near the intersection of Interstate 5 and Highway 138, southeast of Quail Lake.

A ‘phased build-out’ plan is proposed, anticipated to take over 20 years to complete.

About six weeks ago, on October 21, there were complaints by those who attended the Centennial scoping meeting about the refusal by the moderator and L.A. County Planning’s Sam Dea to answer questions about the project, saying they did not know the answers.
Members of the Centennial management team were sitting in the back of the room taking notes, but not invited to respond to the public’s concerns.

The open house invites the public to “Learn about the project;” “Meet the project team;” and “Share your thoughts.”

You can read letters already submitted about this project by your neighbors, organizations and government agencies at http://planning.lacounty.gov/centennial.

All comments submitted are not online. Some in the “Constituents” collection were duplicates when we checked on November 30. One of the most useful is at the very end of the “Constituents” collection, by local resident Lynn Stafford.

This is part of the December 4, 2015 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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