Garage Conversion Valley Village, California

Geography

City of Los Angeles

The boundaries of Valley Village as delineated by the Valley Village Neighborhood Council are Burbank Blvd to the north, the Tujunga Wash to the west, the Ventura Freeway (US 101) to the south and CA 170 to the east.

Google Maps

The boundaries of Valley Village as delineated by Google Maps are Burbank Blvd to the north, the Tujunga Wash to the west, the Ventura Freeway (US 101) to the south and CA 170 to the east.

The Los Angeles Times’ Mapping L.A. Project

The Los Angeles Times‘ Mapping L.A. Project delineates the Valley Village borders as Burbank Blvd. to the north, the Hollywood Freeway to the east, the Ventura Freeway to the south and Coldwater Canyon Avenue to the west.

The 2.09-square-mile (5.4 km) neighborhood lies north of Studio City, east of Sherman Oaks, and south and west of North Hollywood.

Climate

Located within the San Fernando Valley, Valley Village has a far ahead degree of diurnal temperature variation than the friendly basin or coastal areas. According to the Köppen climate classification system, Valley Village has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa), with subtropical and semi-arid characteristics. Summers are long, hot, dry and smoggy, with average high temperatures in the mid-80s to lower-90s °F (30–34 °C), with nighttime lows in the upper-50s to lower-60s °F (14–17 °C). Temperatures reach or surpass 100 °F (38 °C) several times during the summer, raising the risk of heat battle or new heat-related illnesses. The all-time record tall temperature in Valley Village is 117 °F (47 °C), recorded on September 6, 2020.

Winters are short, sunny and typically warm, with average tall temperatures in the upper-60s to lower-70s °F (20–23 °C), but with chilly nights in the lower-to-mid 40s °F (4–7 °C). Winter is after that the wet season, but rain is usually infrequent, even during the winter months, as most of the area’s rain comes from Pacific storms. It can be especially rainy during El Niño cycles, with flash flooding sometimes occurring. Sub-freezing temperatures (32 °F, 0 °C) and below, as skillfully as frosts, occur several get older during the winter; however, these chilly weather undertakings are typically brief, usually deserted lasting for a day or two past temperatures reward to normal. Snow is definitely rare. The all-time cassette low temperature in Valley Village is 23 °F (–5 °C), recorded on January 29, 1979.

Spring and fall hardly exist in this climate, with these months typically innate sunny and warm. The Santa Ana winds typically occur between fall and spring, lowering humidity levels and raising temperatures, which increases the risk for wildfires. During the late spring and to the fore summer, more specifically in the months of May and June, conditions are often overcast and foggy, a phenomenon known by local residents as “May Gray” or “June Gloom”.

History

Founding

According 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 comprehensible motion portray studios built houses there. The local name office upon Magnolia Boulevard canceled all mail gone a “Valley Village” postmark. It was, however, officially a section of North Hollywood.

On page 30 of his autobiography Endless Highway, David Carradine says:

Separation from North Hollywood

The idea of separating Valley Village from North Hollywood was brought into public light bearing in mind a meeting of very nearly 300 homeowners at Colfax Avenue Elementary School in December 1985, yet it wasn’t until 1991 that Valley Village got seven additional blue reflective markers from the city of Los Angeles to mark its borders.

Reporter James Quinn of the Los Angeles Times wrote that Valley Village no longer wanted to be united with North Hollywood, “a community that has grown old, heavily Latino and crime-plagued,” but, in the similar article, Valley Village leader Tom Paterson was quoted as motto that the move “was more than an attempt to boost property values” and that it “had nothing to realize with ethnic demographics.” Rather, he said, “It was one economic level seeking to have its own identity.” Quinn wrote that:

“Stucco mountains”

In December 1985, some three hundred homeowners gathered at Colfax Avenue Elementary School to begin a disconcert to head off progress of what they called “stucco mountains” – continued construction of large apartments and office buildings in the area. Councilman Joel Wachs said he would preserve the drive, although he rejected the details of a proposed reproving panel for the area. He said a proposed panel of homeowners might overlook the concerns of renters and the need for rental housing. Residents complained very nearly blocked views, parking problems and traffic congestion because of buildings as high as five stories neighboring their single-family homes.

The action would not have banned construction but would have limited anything new buildings to two stories and the square footage of public notice development to 1 1/2 become old the size of the lot. The target had the maintain of Valley Village resident Tom Paterson, president of the Valley Village Homeowners Association, but the opposition of, for one, Marvin Eisenman, an apartment-building owner who said it would not be fair to landowners who purchased property following the idea of developing it. It was touted as a temporary accomplishment until city planners could conduct public hearings on new, permanent press forward limits. On September 17, 1986, the City Council qualified the idea on a 10–2 vote, but less than a month complex it reversed itself after oppressive lobbying – by former Councilman Arthur K. Snyder, among others – and sent the ordinance back to committee, with the idea that it could be brought incite with exemptions for areas where momentum had already occurred. Finally, substantially the thesame measure was certified by the council on a temporary basis like exemptions for two dozen properties in areas where there had already been substantial development, like the south side of Riverside Drive between Colfax Avenue and Laurel Canyon Boulevard.

Eventually, the Los Angeles city Planning Commission recommended that a three-story limit be adopted for the Valley Village area.