The Signal

Council set to discuss homeless plan

City also slated to talk on Bouquet Canyon developmen­t at meeting

- By Crystal Duan Signal Staff Writer

The Santa Clarita City Council is expected to discuss a plan to address homelessne­ss and a Bouquet Canyon developmen­t Tuesday during its first meeting since going into recess July 10.

The council plans to discuss its drafted community plan to address homelessne­ss and the responses it received from the community, according to city documents.

The plan came about from a stakeholde­rs’ meeting in May at the Old Town Newhall Library, where two consultant­s from Analytic Insights

LLC facilitate­d the session to assess where Santa Clarita stood in terms of providing services and what it may lack.

In developing the plan, the intention is to align “city resources, including the nonprofit and private sector organizati­ons in the city and county investment­s,” the draft said.

The plan is online at santa-clarita. com/homeless.

Bouquet Canyon developmen­t

The City Council is also slated to consider a contract for the environmen­tal impact report for the Bouquet Canyon developmen­t project through its consent calendar.

If the report is approved, the project would add developmen­t and re-align Bouquet Canyon Road, which currently does an S-curve around the property. The project would realign Bouquet Canyon Road so the road would go straight through instead, Crawford said.

This means that the city would hire a firm to prepare the EIR, which would determine if the area was suitable for the developmen­t and what impacts to traffic and the environmen­t would be.

The proposed residentia­l developmen­t would add 461 homes to the Saugus community, said Jason Crawford, the city’s economic developmen­t manager. After years of proposals to do a project on the property, the city was approached in May to build the homes.

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