Agoura Hills officials plan to hold a public hearing tonight to receive comments about a revised environmental impact report drawn up for the proposed Agoura Village development area.

The city Planning Commission will conduct the hearing during its regular meeting, scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall, 30001 Ladyface Court.

The revised draft of the report was written after a legal challenge targeted an earlier version of the document, which involves an area at the city's southern edge near Agoura and Kanan roads including the landmark Ladyface Mountain.

As a result of that legal action, a court ruled that the report needed more detail.

The hearing tonight will deal only with the changes in the environmental report, not the other aspects of the Agoura Village proposal, said Allison Cook, senior planner with the city.

"This is a hearing on the EIR adequacy, not on the merits of the project itself," Cook said.

Agoura Village is envisioned as multiuse development including restaurants, retail stores, residences and other land uses.

Among the changes in the report are the results of a survey that found that the Southwestern pond turtle, a protected species, inhabits Lindero Creek, and that an endangered plant inhabits a wider area than previously thought.

"This doesn't change the conclusion (of the original report) at all," Cook said.

The public comment period regarding the draft report began June 23 and will end Aug. 7. A public hearing will be held in August to discuss the Agoura Village project, Cook said.

In April 2007, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Chalfant ruled that the previous report fell short of the requirements set by state environmental law.

"The city's failure lies primarily in a lack of biological surveys," the judge wrote.

"Knowledge of the regional biological setting is critical to the EIR's assessment, and special emphasis was required for sensitive plants and wildlife," he added. "While the EIR need not perform an environmental analysis of specific developmental projects, it must describe the environmental setting in sufficient detail to appraise readers of the nature of the environmental resources affected by the project."

More information is available online at http://ci.agoura-hills.ca.us or at 818-597-7300.