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Los Angeles County is now offering training about green-building practices for the state and county to comply with The state’s green-building codes.

The county held a free three-hour training session at the Santa Clarita Sports Complex on Wednesday, attended by about 20 local builders, engineers, utility representatives and developers. The session outlined the requirements within the California Green Building Standards, or CalGreen, which was passed in 2010 and went into effect Jan. 1, 2011.

Dr. HOA,
I have lived in my townhome for nearly six years, and the association board is trying to implement new CC&Rs that will not allow us to rent our units.
My fiancé and I are looking to move into a house to start a family, but with the state of the current real estate market, it does not make sense to sell, so we are looking to rent our unit.
Can an association forbid me from renting out my townhome? Thank you
— Suzie T.

Hello Suzie,

It has been 17 years since the project was conceived. The documents concerning it total 109,444 pages. It has been reviewed by 25 government agencies, has had 21 public hearings and several lawsuits and been the topic of more than 700 meetings.

The Newhall Ranch project is a 20,885-home and commercial center development in the northwest Santa Clarita Valley, to be built in four distinct “villages” on 12,000 acres off Interstate 5 along Highway 126 near the Santa Clara River.

The Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corporation is excited to announce its partnership with the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation. The partnership comes after much anticipation and in an effort to streamline business outreach opportunities, stimulate job growth and attract businesses to the Santa Clarita Valley.

   Facing the challenges of preparing an educated and skilled workforce to compete in the global market, Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, or LAEDC, issued a report last week identifying industry clusters in the county to focus and tailor the organization’s policy and economic development efforts in the region.

The end goal is to allocate enough resources to maintain or build critically needed infrastructure, foster a climate of technological innovation and product development and pursue sustainable growth, the report stated.

In the spirit of collaboration and partnership, several of Santa Clarita’s leading business organizations will host the SCV Leadership Awards on Thursday, Aug. 16, at the Hyatt Regency Valencia from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Family businesses often don’t reach the third generation, due to lack of passion or entrepreneurial skills by that point. But three Santa Clarita-based businesses – all with a national and global reach – have arrived at the third generation of family employees or are well on their way to doing so.

When you purchase a red velvet cupcake at Kupcake Kitchen, know that owner Lisa Jurado’s entire family was involved in making it for you.

In 2010, when the public relations specialist turned her baking hobby into a full storefront business on Bouquet Canyon Road, Jurado enlisted her then-unemployed husband and her parents, in-laws and children to help with the bakery.

Since the advent of the Internet, we are now experts at everything. (Thanks Al Gore.) Information on almost any topic is just a search button away.  Just think of all the middlemen the Internet has eliminated.

More Santa Clarita Valley companies could benefit from the Enterprise Zone tax credit program if they make themselves aware of it, or work with their CPAs to claim the credits, said Laura Biery, administrative analyst with the city of Santa Clarita’s Economic Development division.

Tax credits for hiring employees who qualify can offset the payroll costs for hiring employees, said Tim DiTomaso, keynote speaker and president of DiTomaso Incentive at Thursday’s Enterprise Zone lunch seminar.

In any economic state, and even more so in an unhinged economy, new global competitors and challenges abound ranging from the uncertain successes of emerging markets, to the instability of the skills gap and quality of the workforce pool. The upswing in emerging markets has placed significant pressure on traditional industries to enhance competitive competencies; a strong workforce at the foundation.

The Valley Industry Association’s top goals for 2012 have been identified as collaboration, member recruitment and retention, and leadership development and successor planning.