Bathroom Remodeling Brentwood, California

Geography

Boundaries

The district is located at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains, bounded by the San Diego Freeway upon 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 upon the north.

Environment

Brentwood, like easily reached Santa Monica, has a self-disciplined climate influenced by marine breezes off the Pacific Ocean. Residents frequently wake to a “marine layer”, a cover of clouds brought in at night which burns off by mid-morning. The topography is generally split into two characters, broadly on bad terms by Sunset Boulevard: the area 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 Place is mostly flat. The area South of San Vicente features an underground spring which bubbles happening into a small creek along “the Gully” near the Brentwood Country Club.

History

General

Modern development began after the commencement of the 600-acre (2.4 km) Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors in the 1880s. A little community sprang stirring outside that facility’s west gate, taking on 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 little portion of today’s Bel-Air. Westgate Avenue is one of the last reminders of that namesake.

Local traditions count a Maypole erected each year on the lawn of the Archer School for Girls, carrying upon that set by the Eastern Star Home in the past 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 the length of to Sunset Boulevard a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone, due to the long, uninterrupted be stuffy to of urban-wildlife interface in the hillsides that has resulted in multiple fires higher than many years, destroying entire neighborhoods and requiring numerous evacuations. For this reason, the Brentwood community has been strongly approving of halting anything further innovation in the hillside and canyon areas.

On November 6, 1961, a construction crew in action in Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley north of Brentwood upon the far-off side of the Santa Monica Mountains noticed smoke and flames in a within reach pile of rubbish. Within minutes, Santa Ana winds gusting happening to 60 mph (100 km/h) sent on fire brush aloft and higher 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 fire smoldered for several days. Even as firefighters battled what was to become a Bel Air disaster, another blaze erupted in Santa Ynez Canyon to the west. That fire was contained the adjacent day after absorbing nearly 10,000 acres (40 km) and nine structures and afire 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 higher than 484 homes and 190 other 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 artiste and actor O. J. Simpson, was acquitted of the murders, but was far ahead found blamed for the deaths in a civil trial. O. J. Simpson’s Brentwood house was when sold. The extra owners demolished Simpson’s house and built a additional residence.