SCVNEW WATCH / PERMIT WATCH
What is planned.
What is actually moving.
Public planning and permit records can reveal a project’s path before, during, and after builder marketing. A filing is not approval. Approval is not a building permit. A permit is not a completed home.
PUBLIC ENTRY POINTS
Three sources worth watching.
LA County Planning
Weekly Santa Clarita Valley applications-filed reports, hearing notices, searchable cases, and public documents. This is the strongest source for unincorporated-area planning signals.
EPIC-LA
Search county planning cases by project number, plan number, partial address, or APN; status and related public documents may be available.
City of Santa Clarita
The City’s Permit Center and planning channels support permit status, applications, and public-record requests. The public experiment will use development-scale records, not homeowner permits.
How to read a status
- Filed / under review
- An application exists; the project may change or fail.
- Hearing / approved
- A public decision point, still distinct from construction.
- Permit issued
- Authorization for a defined scope, not proof of completion or availability.
- Certificate / completion
- A later milestone; verify against the issuing authority.
FIRST EXPERIMENT
One weekly, no-hype development ledger.
We will log only records tied to new residential, multifamily, tract-map, development-agreement, environmental-review, and material infrastructure projects in the Santa Clarita Valley. Every item needs the official source, retrieval date, jurisdiction, status, and a plain-English statement of what it does not establish.
No individual applicant names, homeowner addresses, contact details, routine remodels, code complaints, or unsupported inferences. No “coming soon” claim without a dated public record.