VOICE Preparing for Verdugo Hills Golf Course FEIR
The committee to save the Verdugo Hills Golf Course awaits the city of Los Angeles’ projected May release of the Final Environmental Impact Report, while it promotes an alternative vision for the 63-acre property through media channels including its Facebook fan page.
Thank you for picking up on this story from the panoramic view of your Sunroom Desk. As a member of Glendale-Crescenta VOICE, the Sunland-Tujunga Alliance, and the S-T Neighborhood Council Land Use Committee, this is an issue I’ve been following since 2006, when community members from throughout the greater Crescenta Valley came together on behalf of the Verdugo Hills Golf Course.
In 2009 the Draft EIR conceded that two of the fourteen environmental elements studied – Aesthetics and Recreation – could not be mitigated. That the proposed development would have significant negative impacts on both elements.
However, the DEIR downplayed some of the other elements, including Traffic. The draft document concluded that the addition of 229 houses at the corner of Tujunga Canyon Blvd./La Tuna Canyon Rd./Honolulu Ave. could be mitigated sufficiently to avoid significant negative impacts on an already heavy and treacherous traffic corridor.
We wait to see what their Final EIR has to say about this and the other elements of environmental concern to those of us who live in the foothills.