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SIMI—The End of Road For Simi Valley Housing Project

Developers for the proposed Big Sky Ranch housing development in Simi Valley say they are frustrated after another developer backed out of a deal to build an access road to their planned community. John Franklin, who heads the project for Shea Homes Inc. and Sand Canyon Partnership LLC, said a plan to build an access road for the 763-home project is in jeopardy after Landmark National Inc. dropped its plans to build a segment of the road that runs through its Lost Canyons Golf Club because of so-called “site conditions.” Franklin would not say whether Big Sky proponents plan to sue Landmark over the broken agreement. Landmark officials did not return telephone calls from the Business Journal. Simi Valley Assistant City Manager Brian Gabler said Landmark had agreed in writing to build the road before it told the city that it would scale back its hotel and residential project nearby and that it would be financially impractical to build the road under those circumstances. It was unclear why Landmark scaled back its plans. Gabler said the city is attempting to resolve the issue in meetings with both Landmark and Shea/Sand Canyon developers.

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