An 11-month closure of Bouquet Canyon Road is now being planned for mid-January, according to a web page from Lennar created for its 375-home development near David Way in Saugus.
After a community meeting in November attracted a crowd of residents upset about access to Bouquet Canyon Road being shut down in December, the city of Santa Clarita said it would get involved.
City Manager Ken Striplin said the developer’s closure plan had “work to do,” while the developer has indicated the road work would be led by the city.
City Engineer Damon Letz said the developer had to follow a series of steps to create the detour, laid out in a plan at the developer’s website, prior to the city permitting any closure of Bouquet Canyon Road. Letz added the timeline for the completion of that work was being set by the developer.
Next month, residents should find out more details on what’s going to happen, although the full details are not yet available until the second community meeting, planned for 6-8 p.m. Jan. 7, at The Centre located at the city’s Sports Complex, according to a web page created by Lennar.
“Once work begins on the demolition of the Bouquet Canyon Road bridge, a temporary detour will commence to route traffic around the Bouquet Canyon Road closure,” according to the web page. “The roadway closure is expected to begin in mid-January 2026 and is anticipated to last 11 months to allow for this significant roadway safety improvement.”
The steps listed on the website include improvements to the following intersections, which are also shown in maps available online: Bouquet and Seco canyon roads; Bouquet and Haskell canyon roads; Plum and Bouquet canyon roads; Bouquet and Centurion Way; Bouquet and David Way; and a few others along Copper Hill Drive.
No further details on the timeline were immediately available from the developer Monday, for the web-page update on BouquetCanyonRoad.com.
The developer plans to present more information at the community meeting, which “will be an opportunity to share the latest information about the roadway safety realignment and the planned temporary detour due to the need to close Bouquet Canyon Road with the removal of the Bouquet Canyon Bridge and work to install the new flood control channel,” according to the page created by Lennar, the project’s builder.
The location of the meeting was chosen as the closest public facility to the Saugus area that could accommodate the size of the anticipated crowd, per the website.
The website and meeting notice did not give exact dates for the pending closure, only that it will happen next month.
The work is meant to better accommodate traffic and offer a more direct route between Plum Canyon Road and Vasquez Canyon Road, according to the developer website, referencing a county plan, “which has been a planned safety improvement since the 1960s.”
The city approved the project in November 2020.
It calls for “extensive public infrastructure improvements, including a reconfiguration of Bouquet Creek and its adjacent floodplain to provide flood control within the project and maintain regular stream flows already occurring,” according to Lennar.
Lennar’s Bouquet Canyon construction site is on the east side of Bouquet Canyon Road, south of Copper Hill Drive and just southwest of Camp Joseph Scott, a currently unused facility but designated as “the only county facility for non-serious female/gender-expansive youth” in the future realignment of the juvenile justice system.
The development is now in the first of five phases, which will add a residential community consisting of up to 375 attached and detached, two-story, for-sale housing units located within five neighborhoods. The actual building area for the homes is just under 16 acres, according to the 2020 plans.
The first phase is described as Planning Area 1, which is the west side of the project site, where 52 homes are planned for just under 3 acres. The northern portion of that will have nine units with a proposed gated entry and cul-de-sac for access from where Bouquet Canyon Road already exists, opposite Pam Court. The southern portion consists of 43 units with access from the new segment of Bouquet Canyon Road, which is also a part of the plan. City officials indicated the realignment of Bouquet, which is part of the work, is also considered in the city’s general plan.
The second area is the southern side of the project, east of the Canyon Country retail area, where 12 homes are being planned for a three-quarter-acre area.
