Chatsworth Ca Development And Redevelopment

A long-running fight over the future of Chatsworth Reservoir edged toward a truce at City Hall on Tuesday as a top official of the Department of Water and Power finally agreed to preserve the land as open space. For months, Councilman Hal Bernson and DWP board President Rick Caruso have locked horns over the 1,300-acre site, a dry reservoir carpeted with grass, wetlands and oak trees that the city has designated a nature preserve.

Groundbreaking for a long-awaited county courthouse in Chatsworth, scheduled to be built in the early 1990s until fiscal woes ground the project to a halt, will officially take place Thursday morning, county officials announced.

Ever since hundreds of postage stamp-size lots were drawn onto subdivision maps 70 years ago, residents of the quaint Twin Lakes Park and Deerlake Highlands communities in the craggy hills north of Chatsworth have dreaded development but feared it was inevitable.

Natrol Inc., a manufacturer and marketer of dietary supplements, will move its Laci Le Beau tea division from Fresno to the company's Chatsworth headquarters.

Although the start on construction of the West Valley's first county courthouse was delayed many years, work now underway is several months ahead of schedule, officials said Tuesday.

A group of Chatsworth residents announced Monday they have filed a lawsuit to block a proposed 21-home development in a horse-keeping area, charging that a City Council-approved zone change threatens the neighborhood's equestrian lifestyle.