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Verdugo Hills--Several weeks ago, one of the messages from CAP Views was they were looking for a few good bakers, "Bakers against Whitebird or help the save the Verdugoes with Pastries". Well, they pulled it off. The pastries were great and musicians superb as the all day Concert and Bake Sale raised funds to protect the Verdugo Hills. From a tropical paradise out door theater, a dozen bands played all day and people drove up the winding roads of the Verdugo Hills to attend and offer support.
What's at stake? The difference between the Whitebird developers bull dozing the hills out of existence for a new development or the Scenic Corridor and Community Plans for the Verdugo Hills and La Tuna Canyon being up held. This is horse country and the community sentiment is very clear. The Community Plan calls for preservation and protection of equestrian and agricultural use of the land. Whitebird is proposing higher density non-horse properties.
The Whitebird carrot is a few equestrian trails and a turn-out for horses being promoted by a high priced PR firm who specializes in overcoming community objections. There are no written guarantees once the first couple hundred houses are built on one corner of the property, the developer won't come back and start all over again to ask for variances of the Community Plan on the rest of the property.
The fact is one wonders why the City Council office even discusses the issue, rather than just explaining the zoning is equestrian, the slope density ordinances state this, and the Scenic Plan states this. Here are the guidelines, please submit a plan within the "law of the land" and plan of the community.
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