Vista Canyon Development in Canyon Country

The Specific Plan is designed to deliver a premier mixed-use, transit-oriented neighborhood to the eastern Santa Clarita Valley. The Specific Plan is guided by the goal of creating a unique, environmentally sensitive neighborhood where people can live, work, play, and shop. The Specific Plan reflects the rich heritage of the site and retains the character of the surrounding area while bringing a new vibrant mixed-use neighborhood to the community.

The size of the Specific Plan site provides a unique opportunity to plan an integrated neighborhood that balances the environmental sensitivity of the Santa Clara River with the opportunity to create a “town center” for this portion of the Santa Clarita Valley. This design concept is intended to maximize walkability and encourage day-to-day interaction between the mix of land uses within the Specific Plan. The Specific Plan also is committed to parks, recreation, and open space, and includes trails and the preservation of important river resources in and along the Santa Clara River.

The Specific Plan's design includes a new multi-modal transit hub, entailing a Metrolink Station, commuter platform, parking, Bus Transfer Station, and accessory improvements, to facilitate transit and reduce automobile trips. The multi-modal hub is enhanced further by an integrated, extensive network of trails and pedestrian connections, including two significant extensions of the Santa Clara River Trail.

In addition, the Specific Plan creates a one-of-a-kind opportunity for new employment in the eastern Santa Clarita Valley with premier office, retail, and live/work uses integrated within a street system oriented around a "Main Street" (Vista Square). A diversity of housing types will be provided, in conjunction with a proposed trail system and public and private parks connecting to Vista Square and the new City/Metrolink transit center. The Specific Plan will make significant on- and off-site roadway improvements to facilitate access to and from the subject property.

Upon buildout, the Specific Plan will allow a maximum of 1,100 residential dwelling units; up to 950,000 square feet of commercial and office, retail, theater, restaurant, and hotel uses; and open space, parks, trails, public and private street system, utilities, and associated amenities.