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

History

General

Modern move forward began after the opening 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 in the works 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 small portion of today’s Bel-Air. Westgate Avenue is one of the last reminders of that namesake.

Local traditions include 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 alongside to Sunset Boulevard, a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone, due to the long, uninterrupted affix of urban-wildlife interface in the hillsides that has resulted in combination fires more than many years, destroying entire neighborhoods and requiring numerous evacuations. For this reason, the Brentwood community has been strongly in agreement of halting whatever further onslaught in the hillside and canyon areas.

On November 6, 1961, a construction crew lively 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 clear pile of rubbish. Within minutes, Santa Ana winds gusting going on to 60 mph (100 km/h) sent alight 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 ember smoldered for several days. Even as firefighters battled what was to become a Bel Air disaster, another ember erupted in Santa Ynez Canyon to the west. That flare was contained the next day after absorbing nearly 10,000 acres (40 km) and nine structures and in flames 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 greater than 484 homes and 190 supplementary 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 difficult found responsible for the deaths in a civil trial. O. J. Simpson’s Brentwood home was like sold. The extra owners demolished Simpson’s house and built a extra residence.

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 on the north.

Environment

Brentwood, like handy Santa Monica, has a moderate 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 estranged 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 occurring 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 supplementary 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 yearly household pension in 2008 dollars was $112,927, high for the city of Los Angeles as skillfully as the county.

Notable sights

San Vicente Boulevard is at odds by a wide median on which stand many large coral trees. This green scarf 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 exchange homeowners association.

Recreation

Brentwood’s Barrington Recreation Center has an indoor gymnasium which converts into a little auditorium taking into account a capability of 250. Outdoors is a lighted baseball diamond, an unlighted baseball diamond, lighted indoor basketball courts, lighted uncovered basketball courts, a children’s put it on area, picnic tables and lighted tennis courts. As of March 2018, Barrington Park traditional 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 help in place, the Community has worked to insert the park. The Barrington Dog Park is across the street from the recreation middle and is portion of Barrington Veterans Park, which is owned by the West LA VA and leased to the City of Los Angeles.

Economy and businesses

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

There are three upscale personal ad areas: Brentwood Country Mart, Barrington Plaza and the San Vicente Business District, which append restaurants, clothing stores, and other high-end retailers.

A few long time businesses should be noted: Brent-Air Pharmacy, run by the founding Lassoff relations from its inception until June 2007, served Brentwood for over 50 years. The drug deposit 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 next to 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 market that has served Brentwood past 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 reality 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 similar to 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 in force voice for the community previously the 1990s. The BCC Board includes members from all local HOA’s, plus members representing schools, business, environment, transportation, civic affairs and a bureau dedicated and no-one else to residents under 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 find the maintenance for utilities. All areas of Brentwood are served by a Residents Association of some kind.

West LA VA and VA Master scheme Redevelopment

While the annual County of Los Angeles homeless total rarely attributes higher than 50 persons as homeless in Brentwood, the majority of the homeless persons are Veterans. While the VA does have reachable beds and treatment programs, many Veterans locate it hard to take the first step to accept VA assistance for a variety of reasons, including deep mistrust of the VA, dishonorable discharges that prevent them from receiving services, the mandatory self-disciplined living environment upon the VA campus. The Brentwood Community Council took the lead in 2013 to help establish Veteran secure parking and secure camping programs, which allow Veterans to take an ‘intermediate step” between homelessness and long-suffering full VA information and these programs have been flourishing and have grown over time. Some Veterans believed the VA was derelict in its adherence to have the funds for housing and successfully sued the VA, proving that combined 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 unity in the Veterans civil suit next to the VA, the $1B VA Master Plan Redevelopment of the West LA VA property, including 2000+ units of housing, was ascribed 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 area 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 tall percentage for the city and the county. The percentages of residents in that age range like a bachelor’s degree or greater were tall for the county.

Primary and additional education

Schools within the Brentwood borders are as follows:

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

The gone 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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