Las Lomas wins first round

With a $20 million investment on the line, the Las Lomas Land Co. won the first round Tuesday in a fight to keep its proposed 5,553-home mini-city near Santa Clarita moving forward. Kerry Cavanaugh in the Daily News.

The win came as the City Council's planning committee agreed that Los Angeles must continue processing Las Lomas' application to annex the development into the city in what would be the first major annexation in nearly a decade.

But the real battle will unfold today, when the full council is expected to vote on whether to stop work on Las Lomas and kill the 555-acre development planned for the last swath of open space between Santa Clarita and the city of Los Angeles.