The measure would not have banned construction but would have limited all new buildings to two stories and the square footage of commercial development to 1 1/2 times the size of the lot. Residents complained about blocked views, parking problems and traffic congestion because of buildings as high as five stories next to their single-family homes. He said a proposed panel of homeowners might overlook the concerns of renters and the need for rental housing. Councilman Joel Wachs said he would support the drive, although he rejected the details of a proposed advisory panel for the area. In December 1985, some three hundred homeowners gathered at Colfax Avenue Elementary School to begin a campaign to head off development of what they called "stucco mountains" – continued construction of large apartments and office buildings in the area. And the cheaper house is likely to have an overgrown, dusty yard and to be in a neighborhood reeling from crime, with gang graffiti splattered on block walls and street signs. Elsewhere in North Hollywood, that same size entry-level house can be purchased for as little as $150,000, real estate agents say. Houses along Valley Village's lushly landscaped, graffiti-free streets cost up to $800,000, and a two-bedroom, two-bath entry-level house will run $300,000, residents say. Reporter James Quinn of the Los Angeles Times wrote that Valley Village no longer wanted to be associated with North Hollywood, "a community that has grown old, heavily Latino and crime-plagued," but, in the same article, Valley Village leader Tom Paterson was quoted as saying that the move "was more than an attempt to boost property values" and that it "had nothing to do with ethnic demographics." Rather, he said, "It was one economic level seeking to have its own identity." Quinn wrote that: The idea of separating Valley Village from North Hollywood was brought into public light with a meeting of about 300 homeowners at Colfax Avenue Elementary School in December 1985, yet it wasn't until 1991 that Valley Village got seven new blue reflective markers from the city of Los Angeles to mark its borders. In the other direction from the house was an empty lot well, that's what we called it. Across the street from the house was a dirt farm, usually in corn: acres and acres of it. It was situated at what you might call the end of Los Angeles: the city, the county, and the idea. In 1939, when we moved there, Valley Village was an isolated two-block town in the middle of miles and miles of orange and walnut groves, peach orchards, and cornfields. I spent most of my time in swimming trunks, sitting in the upper branches of a giant apricot tree that grew at the corner of the farm, eating apricots and stuffing my trunks full of them to take home. The San Fernando Valley is a really hot, dry place in the summer. On page 30 of his autobiography Endless Highway, David Carradine says: It was, however, officially a section of North Hollywood. The local post office on Magnolia Boulevard canceled all mail with a "Valley Village" postmark. Valley Village is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, located within the San Fernando Valley.Īccording to Elke Garman, co-president of the Valley Village Homeowners Association in 1991, the history of Valley Village went back to the 1930s, when workers at nearby motion picture studios built houses there.
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