Bridgeport | Valencia Portrait Photographer

There’s a storm brew­ing here in town regard­ing the Bridge­port devel­op­ment and their place within the greater Valen­cia mas­ter­plan. In a nut­shell yes­ter­day signs went up stat­ing Bridge­port was pri­vate prop­erty for res­i­dents only and pho­tog­ra­phy was specif­i­cally pro­hib­ited. Accord­ing to the city of Santa Clarita the areas sur­round­ing the lake at Bridge­port were always zoned and intended to have pub­lic access and those areas are con­sid­ered part of the Valen­cia paseo net­work and there­for the signs are ille­gal and must be removed. Tonight the signs remain threat­en­ing pros­e­cu­tion if you enter Bridge­port or God for­bid take a pic­ture. I was asked to write an arti­cle on the sub­ject for SCVtalk.com. Within 20 min­utes of my arti­cle being posted the Sig­nal News­pa­per called and asked me for an inter­view. Clearly peo­ple pay atten­tion to SCVtalk.com and the infor­ma­tion and opin­ions shared there. Please go read the arti­cle, learn the details and leave some com­ments with your opin­ions on the sit­u­a­tion. Here’s some pic­tures I’ve taken at Bridge­port over the years, it would be a darn shame if that area were no longer avail­able to SCV res­i­dents even though the devel­op­ment was approved for con­struc­tion based upon it being open the the pub­lic and part of the paseo net­work. Imag­ine what our beau­ti­ful com­mu­nity would be like if each neigh­bor­hood in Valen­cia declared their sec­tion of the paseos pri­vate prop­erty and blocked access. It cer­tainly would no longer be the com­mu­nity we’ve all come to love and call home.