May 11, 2015 – Daily Brief

By Josh Premako

Responding to Loss: "Those things are gone, and I’m OK with that because they’re not gone in my mind. It’s not tangible, but it’s here.” Good interview by Luke Money with the man who lost his home in a Canyon Country fire. The Signal
Original Valencia Development Taking Shape: Part of the original Valencia master plan, Entrada South will bring roughly 1,500 homes to the area near Magic Mountain.KHTS
Bottled Water is Big Business: "Crystal Geyser in one day plans to pump more water than any three of my neighbors will use in an entire year." Drought be damned, companies continue to use California water for bottling and selling. Daily News
How Much Will it Cost?: "Can the proposed California bullet train break even? The answer is unequivocally no." We still don't know how much travel via the bullet train will be — if and when it's built — but things don't exactly look promising. LA Times
The High Cost of Renting: It's news that likely doesn't surprise anyone, but California has some of the highest apartment rents in the country, not to mention the third lowest home ownership rate. Daily News
Surveying the Changes: Luke Money takes a look at the voting changes coming to SCV school districts as a result of California Voting Rights Act complaints. The Signal
Internet Woes: “The only thing I think we can do is to start researching and start our own municipal broadband. That would shake up the players because they don’t want you do that.” Jana Adkins digs into the dated internet infrastructure with which the SCV business community needs to deal. The Signal
Historic Eats in the Southland: A great list of some of the oldest operating restaurants in the L.A. area, including Saugus Cafe and the Rock Inn. Los Angeles Beat
A New Low: "We need to stop growing alfalfa in the deserts in the summertime.” With Lake Mead hitting a new low point, the drought situation in the Southwest is getting worse. Slate

Comments (2)

Coastal SageMonday, May 11th, 2015 at 1:10 pm

Wow, look at all those anti-traffic, anti-housing development comments on Entrada South, which were posted on SCVNews. A few people even worried about where the water will come from for this new development. Water? Newhall Land has no worries. What voters, taxpayers and Santa Claritans do not realize is in the contract dated 12/12/12 whereby Newhall Land sold Valencia Water Company to Castaic Lake Water Agency, the geniuses at Castaic Lake Water Agency promised, in writing, around Article VI of the contract, that Castaic Lake Water Agency will supply all of the potable water needed for full development of Newhall Ranch and Newhall Land's other projects...like Entrada South. How much water is needed by Newhall Land for future development? Every last drop of water which existing Santa Claritans are using right now. Your idiot elected officials have promised, in writing, to take ALL of your water away so that the Valley's new residents, businesses and industries in Newhall Land properties can use it instead. Read the dam 12/12/12 contract people. Your elected officials have royally screwed you, but you keep electing them!

blutoTuesday, May 12th, 2015 at 3:38 pm

Is there another Coastal Sage out there? Someone using that handle wrote what is one of the most ignorant, race baiting posts I have ever read on the Signal site in regards to the article about the Canyon Country shooting/homicide. They would have been better off using Sharpton as a name for the author of such garbage.

Coastal SageMonday, May 11th, 2015 at 1:10 pm
Wow, look at all those anti-traffic, anti-housing development comments on Entrada South, which were posted on SCVNews. A few people even worried about where the water will come from for this new development. Water? Newhall Land has no worries. What voters, taxpayers and Santa Claritans do not realize is in the contract dated 12/12/12 whereby Newhall Land sold Valencia Water Company to Castaic Lake Water Agency, the geniuses at Castaic Lake Water Agency promised, in writing, around Article VI of the contract, that Castaic Lake Water Agency will supply all of the potable water needed for full development of Newhall Ranch and Newhall Land's other projects...like Entrada South. How much water is needed by Newhall Land for future development? Every last drop of water which existing Santa Claritans are using right now. Your idiot elected officials have promised, in writing, to take ALL of your water away so that the Valley's new residents, businesses and industries in Newhall Land properties can use it instead. Read the dam 12/12/12 contract people. Your elected officials have royally screwed you, but you keep electing them!
blutoTuesday, May 12th, 2015 at 3:38 pm
Is there another Coastal Sage out there? Someone using that handle wrote what is one of the most ignorant, race baiting posts I have ever read on the Signal site in regards to the article about the Canyon Country shooting/homicide. They would have been better off using Sharpton as a name for the author of such garbage.