City staff and project officials gave a tour of the planned Princessa Crossroads project site Tuesday, showing off the vacant 146-acre lot south of the Santa Clarita Activities Center and north of Golden Valley High School.
The plans call for 300 market-rate apartments there, which will have access from the north and the south with help from a Via Princessa extension expected to be approved shortly after the apartment plan is, according to city officials.
The idea was to give the Planning Commission and any interested members of the public a view of the hillside where about 10 million square yards of dirt will be graded and balanced on site, ahead of a future public hearing for the homes.
In addition to the first planning portion, which is focused on the residential units in the southeast portion of the site, near the high school, there’s going to be a significantly larger commercial area.
Not far from the homes will be four other building “pads” with about 1.5 million square feet of business park space west and north of there, which will be accessible with some of the road work being planned. In addition to two internal private streets and signals within the project, there are access points from Golden Valley Road and the Via Princessa extension. The extension of Via Princessa is a separate but related effort the city has been planning for years.
The project is seeking permits for significant ridgeline alteration, zoning changes and grading in excess of 100,000 cubic yards.
Once approved, the construction itself is expected to be phased due to market demands, with an anticipation of it being built out within approximately three to five years, according to a planning document for the project. While grading of the entire site would be done as one phase, the timing of building construction would depend on market conditions at that time.
Glenn Adamick, who is one of the project’s developers, along with Dale Donahoe of Intertex, said the pads were planned to minimize the grading to the hillside.
The first planning area calls for 542 parking spaces and a maximum building height of 50 feet.
The business-park portion calls for building heights of up to 75 feet, and facilities that range in size from about 4 acres to 10 acres.
Of the 146-acre property, there also will be about 52 acres of developed open space and 7 acres of natural open space, in addition to public streets, private streets and a water tank.
The Via Princessa extension would extend Via Princessa for about 1.2 miles from Sheldon Avenue to Golden Valley Road in an effort to improve traffic circulation. Construction will consist of a six-lane roadway with a 14-foot raised landscaped median, a 10-foot sidewalk on each side, and a 12-foot, two-lane bike path along the south side, according to a city statement.
“In addition to the on-site development components, off-site improvements to the adjacent, approximately 30.1-acre, city-owned property to the north will be undertaken,” according to the project’s environmental impact review, a planning document on the plan that was circulated in March. “As part of the off-site improvements, this property will be graded and ultimately developed with park improvements equivalent to the in-lieu fee set.”
The timeline given for the project during last year’s environmental review was mid-2026, but a date for the Planning Commission to formally review the plans for a conditional use permit has not yet been set.
