They fought over future traffic jams and air pollution, feared depletion of water supplies, and worried about how sewage lines and landfills would become so strained it would thrust Los Angeles' sanitation system into Third World conditions.
But within environmental impact reports that outlined a plan for 3,395 homes that would become the Porter Ranch development, and amid heated debates between San Fernando Valley residents, developers and city leaders, there were no obvious references to a massive natural gas storage facility that is about a mile away on county land from the project site.