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Woodland Hills is a neighborhood next-door the Santa Monica Mountains in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California.

History

The area was inhabited for all but 8,000 years by Native Americans of the Fernandeño-Tataviam and Chumash-Venturaño tribes, who lived in the Santa Monica Mountains and Simi Hills and near to the Arroyo Calabasas (Calabasas Creek) tributary of the Los Angeles River in present-day Woodland Hills. The first Europeans to enter the San Fernando Valley were the Portola Expedition in 1769, exploring Alta California for Spanish mission and agreement locations. Seeing it from present-day Sepulveda Pass, the oak savanna inspired them to call the area El Valle de Santa Catalina de Bononia de Los Encinos (Valley of St. Catherine of Bononia of the Oaks).
The Mission San Fernando Rey de España (Mission San Fernando) was traditional in 1797 and controlled the valley’s land, including far along Woodland Hills.

Ownership of the southern half of the valley, south of present-day Roscoe Boulevard from Toluca Lake to Woodland Hills, by Americans began in the 1860s, first Isaac Lankershim (as the “San Fernando Farm Homestead Association”) in 1869, then Isaac Lankershim’s son, James Boon Lankershim, and Isaac Newton Van Nuys (as the “Los Angeles Farm & Milling Company”) in 1873, and finally in the “biggest land transaction ever recorded in Los Angeles County” a syndicate led by Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times with Hobart Johnstone Whitley, Gen. Moses Sherman, and others (as the Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company) in 1910.

Victor Girard Kleinberger bought 2,886 acres (1,168 ha) in the area from Chandler’s action and founded the town of Girard in 1922. He sought to attract residents and businesses by developing an infrastructure, advertising in newspapers, and planting 120,000 trees. His 300 pepper trees formed a canopy beyond Canoga Ave. between Ventura Boulevard and Saltillo St. became Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #93 in 1972. The community of Girard was eventually incorporated into Los Angeles, and in 1945, it became known as Woodland Hills. Reference to the founding of Girard is ration of the bank account arc in the first season of Perry Mason (2020).

Geography

Woodland Hills is in the southwestern region of the San Fernando Valley, which is located east of Calabasas and west of Tarzana. On the north it is bordered by West Hills, Canoga Park, Winnetka, and Reseda, and on the south by the Santa Monica Mountains.

Some neighborhoods are in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. Running east–west through the community are U.S. Route 101 (the Ventura Freeway) and Ventura Boulevard, whose western terminus is at Valley Circle Boulevard in Woodland Hills.

Climate

Within the San Fernando Valley, Woodland Hills experiences some of the more extreme temperature changes season to season than other regions. During the summer, temperatures are often utterly hot, while during the winter, overnight temperatures are in the midst of the coldest of the region. On September 5, 2020, Woodland Hills recorded the highest temperature ever in Los Angeles County, hitting 122 °F (50 °C) at Pierce College, tying bearing in mind Chino’s reading as the highest temperature ever recorded west of the mountains in Southern California. The climate is classified as a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa) in the Köppen climate classification, which is characterized by mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers. Precipitation in Woodland Hills averages much the thesame as most additional regions of the west San Fernando Valley, although somewhat forward-looking amounts of rainfall occur in the surrounding hills.

Demographics

In 2008 the population of Woodland Hills was nearly 63,000. The median age in 2000 was 40, considered old gone compared to extra city and county jurisdictions.

As of the 2000 census, and according to the Los Angeles Almanac, there were 67,006 people and 29,119 households residing in Woodland Hills. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 79.90% White, 6.97% Asian, 0.13% Pacific Islander, 3.34% African American, 0.33% Native American, 4.80% from new races, and 4.52% from two or more races. 11.94% of the population were Hispanic of any race.

In population, it is one of the least dense neighborhoods in Los Angeles, and the percentage of white people is tall for the county. The percentage of residents 25 and older similar to four-year learned degrees is 47.0%, which was high for both the city and the county. The percentage of veterans, 10.7% of the population, was high for the city of Los Angeles and tall for the county overall. The percentage of veterans who served during World War II or Korea was along with the county’s highest.

The 2008 Los Angeles Times‘s “Mapping L.A.” project supplied these Woodland Hills neighborhood statistics: population: 59,661; median household income: $93,720. The Times said the latter figure was “high for the city of Los Angeles and high for the county.”

Arts and culture

The Los Angeles Public Library operates the Woodland Hills Branch Library (Ventura Boulevard) and the Platt Branch Library (Victory Boulevard) in Woodland Hills.

Parks and recreation

Woodland Hills is home to the Woodland Hills Country Club, a private equity golf club. The country club is final with golf course, fine dining, and entertainment options.

The Woodland Hills Recreation Center (Shoup Park) is a 19-acre (7.7 ha) park in Woodland Hills. The park has a small indoor gymnasium without weights and considering a capability of 300; it may be used as an auditorium. The park along with has a lighted baseball diamond, outdoor lighted basketball courts, a children’s accomplish area, a lighted football field, picnic tables, a lighted soccer field, and lighted tennis courts. Woodland Hills Pool is an outdoor seasonal unheated swimming pool.

The Warner Center Park, also known as Warner Ranch Park, is located in Woodland Hills. The park, unstaffed and unlocked, has a children’s play area and picnic tables.
Serrania Park in Woodland Hills is an unstaffed, unlocked pocket park. It has a children’s play in area, hiking trails, and picnic tables. Alizondo Drive Park in Woodland Hills is an unstaffed, unlocked, and undeveloped park used for brush clearance afterward per year.

Along the western boundary of Woodland Hills is the large Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve, a regional park next a trail network for miles of hiking, mountain biking, and equestrian rides. The trailhead and parking are at the extremely western fall of Victory Boulevard in Woodland Hills. Scheduled walks and programs are offered. The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area has various parks affable to the south of the community. The Top of Topanga Overlook gives panoramic views of the verdant Woodland Hills neighborhoods and the Valley.

Government

Local government

Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood Council is the local elected instructive body to the city of Los Angeles representing stakeholders in the Woodland Hills and Warner Center areas.

Woodland Hills is located within Los Angeles City Council District 3 represented by Bob Blumenfield.

State representation

Woodland Hills is within California’s 45th State Assembly district represented by Democrat Jesse Gabriel and California’s 27th State Senate district represented by Democrat Henry Stern.

Federal representation

Education

Primary and secondary schools

Public schools

Public schools serving Woodland Hills are below the jurisdiction the Los Angeles Unified School District. Much of the Place is within Board District 4.

Elementary schools include:

Middle schools include:

High schools include:

Adult School:

Charter schools

Private schools

Lycée International de Los Angeles had a Woodland Hills campus, which had beyond 140 students as of 2001. This was in a public scholarly building, rented from the Los Angeles Unified School District. In 2001 LAUSD announced that it would not renew the lease.

Lycée Français de Los Angeles operated a San Fernando Valley campus in Woodland Hills, on the site of Platt Elementary School.

Colleges and universities

Colleges and universities in Woodland Hills include:

Infrastructure

Los Angeles Fire Department Station 84 (Woodland Hills) and Station 105 (Woodland Hills) serve the community.

The Los Angeles Police Department operates the Topanga Division station in Canoga Park which provides encourage to the Woodland Hills area.

Notable people

The Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, a private retirement, nursing care and acute-care hospital capability is reserved for industry professionals. The section includes some people who lived and/or died there, among other residents.

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