A community in California, later incorporated into Santa Clarita
Newhall, Iowa
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With his death in 1882, Newhall left his five sons six California ranches totaling 143,000 acres and a wish that the land not be sold.
The Newhall Family understood then that their farming operations would be increasingly compromised by surrounding development and higher taxes.
Newhall Ranch, its next new town and Valencia together form one of the nation's most valuable land holdings - 36,000 acres, 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.
Newhall Ranch would also have significant adverse impacts on the quality of life of all current residents of the Santa Clarita Valley, including loss of open space, degraded air quality, increased traffic congestion, and increased storm-water runoff.
Newhall Ranch, although proposed as a "master planned" community, involves basically the same type of auto-dependent sprawl which has caused much of California's open space to disappear.
Newhall Ranch should be redesigned to have a much smaller footprint, confined mostly to the existing entitlements in the eastern portion of the property.
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