KITCHEN REMODELING Agoura Hills, California

Agoura Hills is a city in the Santa Monica Mountains region of Los Angeles County, California, United States. Its population was 20,330 at the 2010 census, which decreased to
20,299 in 2020. It is in the eastern Conejo Valley amid the Simi Hills and the Santa Monica Mountains. The city is in western Los Angeles County and is bordered to the north by Bell Canyon and Ventura County. It is 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Downtown Los Angeles and less than 10 miles (16 km) west of the Los Angeles city limits at Woodland Hills. Agoura Hills and unincorporated Agoura sit neighboring Calabasas, Oak Park, and Westlake Village.

History

The area was first established by the Chumash Native Americans on 10,000 years ago. The Alta California (Upper California) coast was settled by Spanish Franciscan missionaries in the late 18th century.

In virtually 1800, Miguel Ortega was approved a Spanish grazing concession called Rancho Las Virgenes or El Rancho de Nuestra Señora La Reina de Las Virgenes. The grant was solitary after Ortega’s death in 1810, and José Maria Dominguez was fixed Rancho Las Virgenes as a Mexican land take over in 1834. Maria Antonia Machado de Reyes purchased the rancho from Dominguez in 1845. (The “Reyes Adobe” ranch headquarters sits today in central Agoura Hills, where it is share of the Reyes Adobe Museum built not far-off off from 2004 and owned by the Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation Department.)

By 1900, the area was bodily used as a popular stage End for travelers because of its natural spring.

In the 1920s, the community was briefly known as Picture City, as Paramount Pictures owned a ranch known as Paramount Ranch used for filming Westerns. To come by a name office of their own, the residents were required to pick a one-word name, and in 1927 chose the shortest state proposed: a misspelling of the last state of Pierre Agoure, a local Basque man and French immigrant who had fixed in the area in 1871 to rouse the lifestyle of the Mexican rancher. Styling himself Don Pierre Agoure, he was a rich sheep herder and had a reputation as a swashbuckler.

Agoura began to ensue in the late 1960s after the Ventura Freeway section of U.S. Route 101 was built through the area, dividing the community into northern and southern sections. The first housing tracts in Agoura were Hillrise, Liberty Canyon and Lake Lindero. Rapid growth continued during the 1970s, when schools were built and much of downtown erected.

In 1982, the residents of the proposed city voted like-minded of cityhood by a 68% majority. Agoura Hills became the 83rd City in Los Angeles County. Elected to the first City Council were Mayor Fran Pavley, Mayor Pro Tem Carol Sahm, Councilmembers Ernest Dynda, John Hood, and Vicky Leary. Incorporating a year after against Westlake Village, the dream for cityhood in the region was largely based on public discontent following the county’s failure to limit residential move ahead of the area, motives that influenced Calabasas to follow war in 1991.

The 1980s was a grow old of growth, with large land areas monster subdivided into housing tracts. In the 1990s, businesses set taking place shop in the downtown including shops and restaurants.

In 1995, the murder of Jimmy Farris (the infamous Brandon Hein case) awakened the city to a rising drug difficulty and petty theft by its young. As a result, the city began sponsoring flesh and blood music competitions and concerts in local parks.

In November 2018, the Woolsey Fire occurred during Santa Ana winds on fire through the community. One victim was found on Tuesday November 13 in the 32000 block of Lobo Canyon Road.

Music

Agoura Hills is known regionally for its conscious music scene and originality in the nu metal scene, a fame that has unqualified rise to such acts as Linkin Park, Dub Thompson, Skye Aspen, Incubus, Hoobastank, and Fort Minor.

Agoura Hills is home to The Canyon Club, a concert venue that hosts touring acts such as Peter Frampton, Smash Mouth, Pat Benatar, Cyndi Lauper, REO Speedwagon, X, Steel Pulse, The New Cars, Asia, Boyz II Men, Alan Parsons, Foreigner, Bret Michaels and The Smithereens.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total Place of 8.2 square miles (21 km), of which 8.2 square miles (21 km²) of it is home and 0.04 square mile (0.1 km) of it (0.37%) is water.

Agoura Hills has a mountain called Ballard Mountain named after fortune-hunter settler and freed slave John Ballard. The proclaim of the mountain was officially untouched from Negrohead to Ballard in a ceremony upon February 20, 2010.
Ladyface Mountain is option prominent mountain on the west side of the Conejo Valley and stands at an height of 2,031 feet (619 m).

Agoura Hills is called the “Gateway to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area”. The city is unofficially at odds into a number of varied districts centered on the radical Downtown Place of the city. The most notable of these districts enlarge Morrison Ranch, Downtown, Forest Cove, South End, Malibu Junction, East Agoura, and Old Agoura.

Environment

Natural areas of Agoura Hills are portion of the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion and are covered by hundreds of local tree-plant species, some of which are definitely rare, and others of which have become popular ornamentals. The range is host to an enormous variety of wildlife, from mountain lions to the endangered Southern California Distinct Population Segment of steelhead. The mountain lion population within the Santa Monica Mountains (which includes the Simi Hills & Santa Susana Pass) is severely depleted subsequently only seven known active adult individuals. The primary cause of the decline is due to a amalgamation of traffic united mortality (three from the Place were killed within a issue of months,) anti-coagulants ingested from human polluted prey (two individuals within the Simi Hills) and attacks by other, more dominant mountain lions (an elder male, known as P1, killed both his son and his mate, this is thought to be due to a deficiency of ventilate available.) The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is a proposed vegetated overpass spanning the Ventura Freeway and Agoura Road at Liberty Canyon upon the east fall of the city. Snakes are common but without help occasionally seen. Local species total the Southern Pacific Rattlesnake (the and no-one else venomous species), Mountain Kingsnake, California Kingsnake, Gopher snake, and Garter snake. The mountains are also house to the Western fence lizard.

Invasive species

In 2010, the Los Angeles Times reported that the New Zealand mud snail had infested watersheds in the Santa Monica Mountains, posing massive threats to original species and complicating efforts to intensify stream-water character for the endangered steelhead trout. According to the article, the snails have expanded “from the first declared sample in Medea Creek in Agoura Hills to approximately 30 additional stream sites in four years.” Researchers at the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission take that the snails’ expansion may have been expedited after the mollusks traveled from stream to stream on the gear of contractors and volunteers.

Climate

Demographics

2010

At the 2010 census Agoura Hills had a population of 20,330. The population density was 2,599.0 inhabitants per square mile (1,003.5/km). The racial makeup of Agoura Hills was 17,147 (84.3%) White, (78.6% Non-Hispanic White), 267 (1.3%) African American, 51 (0.3%) Native American, 1,521 (7.5%) Asian, 24 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 590 (2.9%) from other races, and 730 (3.6%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1,936 persons (9.5%).

The census reported that 20,242 people (99.6% of the population) lived in households, 15 (0.1%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 73 (0.4%) were institutionalized.

There were 7,327 households, 2,799 (38.2%) had kids under the age of 18 bustling in them, 4,565 (62.3%) were opposite-sex married couples booming together, 726 (9.9%) had a female householder when no husband present, 302 (4.1%) had a male householder considering no wife present. There were 263 (3.6%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 36 (0.5%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 1,346 households (18.4%) were one person and 438 (6.0%) had someone living alone who was 65 or older. The average household size was 2.76. There were 5,593 families (76.3% of households); the average relatives size was 3.15.

The age distribution was 4,904 people (24.1%) under the age of 18, 1,582 people (7.8%) aged 18 to 24, 4,465 people (22.0%) aged 25 to 44, 7,089 people (34.9%) aged 45 to 64, and 2,290 people (11.3%) who were 65 or older. The median age was 42.4 years. For all 100 females, there were 97.2 males. For all 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.6 males.

There were 7,585 housing units at an average density of 969.7 per square mile, of the occupied units 5,715 (78.0%) were owner-occupied and 1,612 (22.0%) were rented. The homeowner vacancy rate was 0.5%; the rental vacancy rate was 6.8%. 16,111 people (79.2% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 4,131 people (20.3%) lived in rental housing units. The median household allowance was $107,885, according to the 2010 United States Census, with 7.1% of the population living below the federal poverty line.

2000

At the 2000 census there were 20,537 people in 6,874 households, including 5,588 families, in the city. The population density was 2,511.8 inhabitants per square mile (969.4/km). There were 6,993 housing units at an average density of 855.3 per square mile (330.2/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 86.96% White, 1.32% Black or African American, 0.25% Native American, 6.50% Asian, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 2.09% from other races, and 2.78% from two or more races. 6.85% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 6,874 households 47.3% had kids under the age of 18 living in the express of them, 67.7% were married couples successful together, 9.9% had a female householder bearing in mind no husband present, and 18.7% were non-families. 13.8% of households were one person and 3.0% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.98 and the average intimates size was 3.30.

The age distribution was 30.5% under the age of 18, 6.3% from 18 to 24, 27.6% from 25 to 44, 29.4% from 45 to 64, and 6.2% 65 or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.1 males. For all 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.0 males.

Economy

Top employers

According to the city’s 2020 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city are:

Government

Agoura Hills is governed by a City Council/City Manager form of government. A five-member City Council is elected by the residents to oversee city operations and guide the move ahead of the community. Councilmembers are elected to four-year terms. The terms are staggered as a result that a put-on of continuity is maintained from one Council to the next. The role of Mayor rotates among the Councilmembers. The Mayor is selected by the City Councilmembers to help a one-year term. The City Manager is appointed by the City Council to supervise the administrative personnel and concord services.

As of April 2022 the Agoura Hills City Council consists of Deborah Klein Lopez (Mayor), Chris Anstead (Mayor Pro Tem), Linda Northrup, Illece Buckley Weber and Denis Weber. The City Manager is Nathan Hamburger and the city attorney is arranged through RWG Law.

State and federal representation

In the California State Legislature, Agoura Hills is in the 27th Senate District, represented by Democrat Henry Stern, and in the 50th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Eloise Reyes.

In the United States House of Representatives, Agoura Hills is in California’s 26th congressional district, represented by Democrat Julia Brownley.

Infrastructure

Las Virgenes Water District serves Agoura Hills along subsequently Westlake Village and further parts of western Los Angeles County. State water provided by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is the sole source used by the district.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) operates the Malibu/Lost Hills Station in Calabasas, serving Agoura Hills.

The United States Postal Service Agoura Hills Post Office is located at 5158 Clareton Drive.

Education

The Las Virgenes Unified School District serves Agoura Hills.

Sports

Agoura Hills is the corporate headquarters of the Los Angeles Rams since 2016.

Events

Agoura Hills is home to the Great Race of Agoura Hills, an annual supervision event held at Chumash Park in Agoura Hills in March of every year. The Great Race was standard in 1986 and features six races including Pacific Half (half-marathon), Chesebro Half (half-marathon), Old Agoura 10K, Deena Kastor (5 kilometers), Kids 1 Mile, and the Family Fun Run (1 mile). The Chesebro Half was voted best half-marathon in the U.S. in 2011.

Notable people

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