Santa Clarita Ca Ordinances

Standing at the intersection of Sierra Highway and Soledad Canyon Road, Assistant City Manager Ken Pulskamp looks around and doesn't like what he sees. What he sees are signs, everywhere. Billboards, posters, placards, mini-mall signs crowded with the names of multiple businesses, signs advertising hamburgers, auto repairs, dental work and yard sales. "If I asked you to count all the signs you saw right here, you'd still be here a half an hour from now," Pulskamp said.

Standing at the intersection of Sierra Highway and Soledad Canyon Road in Santa Clarita, Ken Pulskamp looks around and doesn't like what he sees. What he sees are signs, everywhere: Billboards, posters, placards, mini-mall signs crowded with the names of multiple businesses, signs advertising hamburgers, auto repairs, dental work and yard sales.

Clasping his hands behind his back as if handcuffed, day laborer Jose Trigoros pretended he was being arrested while his companions--waiting on a Newhall street corner for someone to stop and hire them--broke out laughing. Trigoros, 51, was reacting to news that the city of Santa Clarita will begin issuing $250 fines Thursday to anyone soliciting work on city streets--and his playful pantomime reflected widespread skepticism here that the new law will have much effect.

Santa Clarita city officials and county sheriff's deputies hope a new city ordinance designed to cut down on truancy has an additional payoff--reducing the increasing number of daytime burglaries. Statistics have not been calculated, but there is evidence that many daytime burglaries are committed by truant students, said sheriff's Sgt. Lee White.

City officials and Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies hope a new city ordinance designed to cut down on truancy has an additional payoff--reducing the increasing number of daytime burglaries. Statistics haven't been calculated, but there is evidence that many daytime burglaries are committed by truant high school students, said Sheriff's Sgt. Lee White.

More than 250 angry mobile home owners, many of them senior citizens, packed City Hall Tuesday night to voice their opposition to a proposed suspension of rent control in mobile home parks. One after another, the mobile homeowners pleaded to the City Council to keep rent control in place, even though current city law calls for controls to be lifted now that the vacancy rate in the parks has risen above 5%.

This city, long opposed to sex-oriented businesses, is on the alert again, this time with residents objecting to a store that will sell adult videos and magazines next to a children's dance studio. Mature World, a novelty store expected to devote half of its space to erotic material, is scheduled to open Monday in a small shopping center on San Fernando Road.