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Shadow Hills (originally Hansen Heights) is a neighborhood in the Verdugo Mountains and northeastern San Fernando Valley, within the city of Los Angeles, California.

Geography

Shadow Hills is in the northwestern Verdugo Mountains, near the western terminate of the Crescenta Valley. It is north of the city of Burbank and southeast of the Hansen Dam Reservoir.

It is neighboring the communities of Lake View Terrace to the north, Sunland and Tujunga to the east, Sun Valley to the south, and Pacoima to the west. The area is primarily equestrian zoned, one of the last long-lasting such neighborhoods within the City of Los Angeles.

Shadow Hills is an passable city herald for ZIP Code 91040, with Sunland the default city read out assigned to 91040.

Demographics

As of the 2000 census, Shadow Hills had a population of 3,739 people. The racial psychiatry was 79% Caucasian, 14% Latino, 3% Asian American, and 1% African American.

Shadow Hills falls within Census Tract 103300.

In 2009, the Los Angeles Times‘s “Mapping L.A.” project supplied these Shadow Hills neighborhood statistics: population: 13,098; median household income: $82,796.

History

The community began as Hansen Heights when it opened for a planned settlement at $150 an acre in 1907. Its first promotion was an article in The Los Angeles Record which announced a “public house meeting” in the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Building “with Stereoptican Pictures.” Further promotional “illustrated lectures” about these “little farms” were held nightly.

In 1927, “Butterfly Gardens” was a six-acre plot “in the hills a little way off the main traveled road” owned by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Carter which were seeded to wildflowers in the expectation of attracting and “raising” butterflies. In the thesame year Frank Kenniston owned a grocery in Hansen Heights and also “one of the largest bee apiaries in this share of the country.” Kenniston noted that Hansen Street was nevertheless unpaved and that owners of large tracts were unwilling to subdivide, “thus retarding development.”

In 1946 the Shadow Hills Rodeo grounds were situated “on Wheatland Avenue in the Hansen Heights District of Roscoe,” in a “beautiful setting bearing in mind the green trees standing gone guards.” The ground was at 9951 Wheatland Avenue, a parcel that in 2021 was occupied by a six-bedroom, four-bath house.

During the area’s development, some homes were built upon hilltops, reachable only “by narrow roads chewed out of the hillsides.” In 1948, Los Angeles City Building and Safety Chief G.E. Morris raised ire subsequently he ordered the property owners on Johanna Street south of Sunland Boulevard to “vacate and demolish” any structure because the roads were in view of that narrow they could not be reached by flare engines. Boyd assured a deputation of mad owners and their families who visited him at Los Angeles City Hall that he would wish a compromise which would not work “undue hardship.” The area became known as “Dad’s Canyon,” which the city claimed was illegal because all right police, fire, and sanitation could not be provided.

In 1966, the Valley Times reported that “The ‘town’ – such as it is – includes one market, a hitching declare and a beauty parlor.”

Renaming

Agitation to rename the area began in 1947 afterward a lump meeting in the Stonehurst School field called by real estate broker John F. Willey “to discuss the possibility of securing a new post office and delivery district” for Shadow Hills. A second rally featured a impression called “Shadow Hills” by Starr von Fluss.

Dorothy Neely, secretary-manager of the Roscoe Chamber of Commerce said that “Shadow Hills people don’t next the pronounce of Roscoe,” they bearing in mind others objecting to it as “unimaginative, not euphonious, and not descriptive of the location or the present-day progress of the area.”

The name amend was official by a vote taken in the midst of the four hundred members of the Hansen Heights Improvement Association, who also fixed to fiddle with the herald of their handing out to Shadow Hills Civic Association. The officers were Stanley M. Love, president; Norwood Simmons, vice president; Mrs. Lee Payne, treasurer, and Ronald King, secretary.

Shadow Hills did not receive a further post office, but the local domicile for 1,500 residents was misrepresented from Roscoe to Sunland for properties surrounded by Johanna Street and Stonehurst Avenue.

Freeway off-ramp

In the 1960s a section of the Foothill Freeway was mapped from Sunland southwest through Lakeview Terrace to Van Nuys Boulevard. The Shadow Hills Property Owners Association fought next to the freeway mainly because its members, mostly horse enthusiasts, feared their rural environment
would be spoiled, particularly if a freeway bridge were built higher than the Tujunga Wash.

Education

Former

A Hansen Heights college district was formed in 1912, with M.W. Fuhrman as one of the trustees and E.D. Lamb as clerk.

Current

By 1931, Hansen Heights School had become a portion of the Los Angeles City bookish system. In June of that year it was announced that Hansen Heights stood “highest of any tall or elementary teacher in the city of Los Angeles in thrift” because every child “has an account in the assistant professor savings bank.” Evangeline Hymer was the principal.
The school, at 9900 Wheatland Avenue, was stated surplus in 1945 and the property put stirring for sale.

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) today serves Shadow Hills. Not one LAUSD university is inside of Shadow Hills. Students must travel outside of Shadow Hills to Sun Valley for Stonehurst Elementary School, Maclay Middle School in Pacoima, and Verdugo Hills High School in Tujunga.

Attendance boundary, 1966

A 1966 wish to require Shadow Hills students to switch from the overcrowded and just about all-white Mount Gleason Junior High School in Sunland to the more diversified Maclay Junior High in Pacoima was opposed by the Shadow Hills Homeowners Association. The Los Angeles scholastic board credited the boundary switch in a 4–3 vote on July 14, 1966.

Government

Representation

Shadow Hills is represented by:

Public safety

Notable residents

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