Forget Global Warming, there are plenty of other reasons to oppose this.

In its simplest form, the principle says that the actual air pollution from commuting to and from an outlying subdivision must be calculated based upon the potential cost of the new homes, and the actual locations where jobs which will support payments on a 30 year mortgage are located.

Assume, for argument’s sake, that the average home in Landmark Village will cost $400,000. How many new, permanent jobs will the project create which will allow the project’s residents to live nearby? In theory, the commuting to and from the new, high paying jobs in the new project should not be “counted” for air quality calculations for the new project.

How many existing jobs in the general locale (i.e. Santa Clarita Valley) paying enough to support a mortgage on a $400,000 home are currently vacant, or held by people who commute into the Santa Clarita Valley. In theory, the new project occupants’ commuting to and from the unoccupied high paying jobs and the high paying jobs held by outsiders should not be “counted” for air quality calculations for the new project.

Which brings us to reality. There are very few houses newly built in the Santa Clarita Valley which cost as little as $400,000. There are even fewer permanent, high paying jobs to be created by the project, or held by outsiders who might move to this new project.

All of that brings us back to reality. In the Santa Clarita Valley, expensive developments (e.g. must build own sewer plant, must buy expensive water supply, must build costly infrastructure) create expensive homes. By and large, only people who commute southward to the San Fernado/Glendale/Burbank area, Downtown LA and West LA will be able to afford to buy a new home in Landmark Village. Not only will their commuting in their automobiles create additional air pollution, the clogging of southbound routes out of SCV with more traffic will greatly add to air pollution created by the cars of existing commuters.

Forget greenhouse gas emissions. Ordinary air pollution will increase dramatically as Newhall Ranch and the 30,000+ other new housing units approved for the SCV are built.

SCV’s jobs housing balance is way upside down, and will continue to be for the forseeable future.

Frankly, the majority of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has absolutely no concern about air quality in the SCV. They never have and they never will.

You can get anY EIR and study you want if you pay the right cosultant the right amount of money.

The County still lets the APPLICANT (i.e., NLF) choose the EIR consultant. This is the fox guarding the henhouse.

NR is a wolf in green sheeps clothing, and the sheepskin dye is being drenched on it pretty thick these days.

By the way, the water study portion of their EIR got thrown out by an appeals court. More lies from the paid-off EIR consultant get exposed…