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Brentwood is a suburban neighborhood in the Westside region of Los Angeles.

History

General

Modern loan began after the launch of the 600-acre (2.4 km) Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors in the 1880s. A small community sprang in the works outside that facility’s west gate, taking upon the name Westgate. Annexed by the City of Los Angeles upon June 14, 1916, Westgate’s 49 sq mi (130 km²) included large parts of what is now the Pacific Palisades and a small portion of today’s Bel-Air. Westgate Avenue is one of the last reminders of that namesake.

Local traditions adjoin a Maypole erected each year upon the lawn of the Archer School for Girls, carrying on that set by the Eastern Star Home before housed there. This building was the exterior establishing shot for the “Mar Vista Rest Home” that provided a key scene in the 1974 film Chinatown.

Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone designation

The State Cal-Fire Authority officially designated Brentwood, from Mulholland next to to Sunset Boulevard, a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone, due to the long, uninterrupted be unventilated to of urban-wildlife interface in the hillsides that has resulted in multiple fires over many years, destroying entire neighborhoods and requiring numerous evacuations. For this reason, the Brentwood community has been strongly supportive of halting anything further loan in the hillside and canyon areas.

On November 6, 1961, a construction crew energetic in Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley north of Brentwood upon the far side of the Santa Monica Mountains noticed smoke and flames in a clear pile of rubbish. Within minutes, Santa Ana winds gusting occurring to 60 mph (100 km/h) sent in flames brush aloft and greater than the ridge into Brentwood.

More than 300 police officers helped evacuate 3,500 residents during the 12-hour fire, and some 2,500 firefighters battled the blaze, pumping water from neighborhood swimming pools to douse flames. Pockets of the flame smoldered for several days. Even as firefighters battled what was to become a Bel Air disaster, another flame erupted in Santa Ynez Canyon to the west. That flame was contained the adjacent day after absorbing nearly 10,000 acres (40 km) and nine structures and blazing to within a mile of Bel Air and Brentwood. The fires were the fifth-worst conflagration in the nation’s history at the time, burning 16,090 acres (65 km²), destroying beyond 484 homes and 190 additional structures and causing an estimated $30 million in damage.

O. J. Simpson murder case

Brentwood was the site of the 1994 stabbing deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, outside Nicole Brown Simpson’s Bundy Drive townhouse. Nicole’s ex-husband, football performer and actor O. J. Simpson, was acquitted of the murders, but was vanguard found answerable for the deaths in a civil trial. O. J. Simpson’s Brentwood house was when sold. The new owners demolished Simpson’s home and built a new residence.

Geography

Boundaries

The district is located at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains, bounded by the San Diego Freeway on the east, Wilshire Boulevard on the south, the Santa Monica city limits upon the southwest, Sullivan Canyon/Westridge Trail upon the west and Mulholland Drive on the north.

Environment

Brentwood, like clear Santa Monica, has a self-disciplined climate influenced by marine breezes off the Pacific Ocean. Residents frequently wake to a “marine layer”, a lid of clouds brought in at night which burns off by mid-morning. The topography is generally split into two characters, broadly separated by Sunset Boulevard: the Place north of Sunset is defined by ridges and canyons of the Santa Monica Mountains and is located in a Cal-Fire designated Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone; south of Sunset the area is mostly flat. The area South of San Vicente features an underground spring which bubbles going on into a small creek along “the Gully” near the Brentwood Country Club.

Demographics

The 2000 U.S. census counted 31,344 residents in the 15.22-square-mile Brentwood neighborhood—or 2,059 people per square mile. In 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 33,312.

The population was 84.2% Non-Hispanic White, 6.5% Asian American, 4.5% Hispanic or Latino, 1.2% African American, and 3.6% of further origins. Iran (27.2%) and the United Kingdom (4.8%) were the most common places of birth for the 21.1% of the residents who were born abroad—which was a low percentage for Los Angeles as a whole. The median once a year household pension in 2008 dollars was $112,927, high for the city of Los Angeles as well as the county.

Notable sights

San Vicente Boulevard is on bad terms by a wide median on which stand many large coral trees. This green co-conspirator replaced a Pacific Electric trolley track, and the trees have been named a City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.

Brentwood features a number of residential sub-districts:

Each sub-district is represented by a oscillate homeowners association.

Recreation

Brentwood’s Barrington Recreation Center has an indoor gymnasium which converts into a little auditorium past a talent of 250. Outdoors is a lighted baseball diamond, an unlighted baseball diamond, lighted indoor basketball courts, lighted uncovered basketball courts, a children’s exploit area, picnic tables and lighted tennis courts. As of March 2018, Barrington Park customary a grade of “D” from the Los Angeles Parks and Rec Department due its poor facilities; upon investigation, the Brentwood Community Council discovered $1.1M in missing funds that were supposed to be used for capital upgrades at the park and fought the city for their return – successfully. With the funds assist in place, the Community has worked to total the park. The Barrington Dog Park is across the street from the recreation middle and is part of Barrington Veterans Park, which is owned by the West LA VA and leased to the City of Los Angeles.

Economy and businesses

The enormous majority of office impression in Brentwood is rented to professional facilities firms: accountants, lawyers, medical care.

There are three upscale billboard areas: Brentwood Country Mart, Barrington Plaza and the San Vicente Business District, which intensify restaurants, clothing stores, and extra high-end retailers.

A few long epoch businesses should be noted: Brent-Air Pharmacy, run by the founding Lassoff intimates from its inception until June 2007, served Brentwood for higher than 50 years. The drug stock has been the scene of many famous scandals and, like its defunct West Hollywood cousin Schwab’s, is known as the pharmacy to the stars, where many now-notable actors and actresses worked as delivery boys or “candy counter” girls.

The Brentwood Country Mart, near the corner of San Vicente Blvd and 26th Street adjoining the Santa Monica city limit, is a shopping and food middle that first opened in 1948.

Vicente Foods is an independently owned and operated grocery make known that has served Brentwood before 1948. Other local markets include Whole Foods and Ralphs.

A popular Place for dining and coffee for local residents is located in Brentwood Village at the intersection of Barrington and Sunset. More than a dozen restaurants and coffee shops are located within a two-block stretch offering a broad variety of cuisine.

Dutton’s Brentwood Books, a local landmark called by Sunset magazine “the last of the in fact independent bookstores”, closed its doors in April 2008.

Government and infrastructure

Brentwood leadership and city services

Brentwood and Pacific Palisades both chose to form community councils in order to have an independent voice once regard to issues that impact their communities, such as their joint Community Plan, which is a City official document that governs the aesthetics of zoning and design for the neighborhoods. The Brentwood Community Council holds monthly public meetings, as does its Land Use Committee, and has been a powerful and effective voice for the community since the 1990s. The BCC Board includes members from everything local HOA’s, plus members representing schools, business, environment, transportation, civic affairs and a work dedicated forlorn to residents below 40, called Brentwood ’49. City Services are provided by the Los Angeles Fire Department Station 19 is in Brentwood. The Los Angeles Police Department operates the West Los Angeles Community Police Station in West Los Angeles, serving Brentwood. The City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power give utilities. All areas of Brentwood are served by a Residents Association of some kind.

West LA VA and VA Master plot Redevelopment

While the annual County of Los Angeles homeless put in rarely attributes more than 50 persons as homeless in Brentwood, the majority of the homeless persons are Veterans. While the VA does have welcoming beds and treatment programs, many Veterans locate it difficult to accept the first step to accept VA guidance for a variety of reasons, including deep mistrust of the VA, dishonorable discharges that prevent them from receiving services, the mandatory teetotal living environment on the VA campus. The Brentwood Community Council took the plus in 2013 to help establish Veteran safe parking and safe camping programs, which allow Veterans to accept an ‘intermediate step” between homelessness and cooperative full VA guidance and these programs have been wealthy and have grown higher than time. Some Veterans believed the VA was derelict in its faithfulness to have the funds for housing and successfully sued the VA, proving that compound leases of VA property had been used for fraudulent means. Several individuals went to prison, including a former VA executive. As a upshot of the deal in the Veterans civil suit neighboring the VA, the $1B VA Master plot Redevelopment of the West LA VA property, including 2000+ units of housing, was recognized by Congress in 2019 and was completed in late 2020.

County

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services SPA 5 West Area Health Office serves Brentwood. The Supervisor for this Place is Lindsey Horvath.

State

Brentwood is represented in the California State Senate by Ben Allen and in the California State Assembly by Richard Bloom.

Federal

The United States Postal Service operates the Barrington Post Office in Brentwood. Ted Lieu represents the Place in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Education

Seventy percent of Brentwood residents aged 25 and older had earned a four-year degree by 2000, a high percentage for the city and the county. The percentages of residents in that age range in imitation of a bachelor’s degree or greater were tall for the county.

Primary and supplementary education

Schools within the Brentwood borders are as follows:

The public elementary schools in the Place are Kenter Canyon Elementary School (an LAUSD charter school) and Brentwood Science Magnet Elementary School (an LAUSD vary school). Paul Revere Charter Middle School is Brentwood’s public center school. High theoretical students are zoned to University High School in West Los Angeles, and Palisades Charter High School, in the to hand neighborhood of Pacific Palisades.

The following private schools are located in the Brentwood area:

Public libraries

Los Angeles Public Library operates the Donald Bruce Kaufman – Brentwood Branch Library.

Notable people

See also

References

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