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West Hills is a suburban / residential community in the western San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California. The percentage of residents aged 35 and older is among the highest in Los Angeles County.

The neighborhood was formerly the house of many Native American tribes, and during the beforehand Spanish and Mexican get older was part of the Mission San Fernando Rey de España. In the American era, West Hills was part of Owensmouth, which was renamed Canoga Park in 1930. West Hills was standard in western Canoga Park and retained its present name in 1987.

Historic landmarks and many city parks are to be found within the community, as are announcement districts, a business district, and religious establishments. Two private high schools are in the midst of the 13 schools within West Hills.

Geography

Location

West Hills (formerly associated with Canoga Park) is located in the western San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County and nearly 45 minutes (depending upon traffic) from downtown Los Angeles. It is off of U.S. 101 (the Ventura Freeway) via the Valley Circle Boulevard/Mullholland Highway off-ramp.

Mapping L.A.

According to the 2008 Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times, West Hills is flanked upon the north by the Chatsworth Reservoir, on the east by Canoga Park, on the south by Woodland Hills, on the southwest by Hidden Hills and upon the west by Bell Canyon in Ventura County.

Neighborhood Council boundaries

In 1987, Los Angeles official the following tally of the boundaries of West Hills Neighborhood Council:

Nearby areas

Nearby areas, not necessarily adjacent:

Water resources

Bell and Dayton creeks in West Hills are several of the headwaters of the Los Angeles River that originate in the Northwest San Fernando Valley. The Los Angeles River itself begins at the confluence of Arroyo Calabasas (Calabasas Creek) and Bell Creek in Canoga Park. These and other little creeks supply stormwater and suburban runoff water to the Los Angeles River, and several are considered year-round creeks. Although the creeks are now channeled and run within concrete walls, they do form a significant urban wildlife landscape and contribute to the population of indigenous wildlife left within the San Fernando Valley.

Both Bell Creek and Dayton Creek in particular have received attention due to their headwaters origins inside the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in the Simi Hills. The SSFL is mandated for an environmental cleanup due to its uses as a testing center for rocket and missile engines, nuclear reactor research and fuel reprocessing, and tall technology defense systems. It was afterward the site of a partial nuclear core meltdown in 1959. Prominent contaminants complement radionuclides, VOCs-volatile organic compounds, Chromium, Lead, Benzene, and supplementary components of rocket engine fuel and cleaning compounds.

This region experiences hot and ascetic summers subsequently average temperatures peaking at 96 degree highs throughout August. West Hills has a climate similar to additional locations in the west San Fernando Valley, such as simple Woodland Hills bearing in mind a long customary weather station at Pierce College. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, West Hills has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated “Csa” on climate maps.

Demographics

2010

As of the 2010 census, and according to the Los Angeles Almanac, there were 38,814 people and 10,626 households residing in West Hills. The ethnic-racial medley of the neighborhood was 78.89% White, 11.97% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 2.11% African American, 0.36% Native American, 2.80% from further races, and 3.82% from two or more races. 9.26% of the population were Hispanic of any race.

2000

The Los Angeles Times reported that the 2000 U.S. census counted 30,814 residents in the 8.53-square-mile (22.1 km) West Hills neighborhood,—or 4,551 people per square mile, among the lowest population densities for the city. In 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 41,426.

In 2000, the median age for residents was 39, considered archaic for city and county neighborhoods; the percentages of residents aged 35 and older were in the middle of the county’s highest.

The neighborhood was considered “moderately diverse” ethnically within Los Angeles, with a tall percentage of white residents. The scrutiny was whites, 70.9%; Latinos, 11%; Asians, 11.3%; blacks, 2.5%; and others, 4.3%. Iran (13.8%) and the Philippines (8.4%) were the most common places of birth for the 22.7% of the residents who were born abroad—a low percentage for Los Angeles.

The median once a year household allowance in 2008 dollars was $103,008, considered high for the city and county. The percentage of households that earned $125,000 and happening was tall for Los Angeles County. Renters occupied 12.6% of the housing stock, and house and condominium-owners occupied 87.4%.

The percentages of married people were in the midst of the county’s highest. In 2000, there were 785 families headed by single parents, a low percentage for both the city and the county.

Eleven percent of the population were military veterans, a tall rate for the city and the county, and the percentages of veterans who served during World War II or the Korean War were in the course of the county’s highest.

1980

The 1980 census showed 32,370 people flourishing in the Place that difficult became West Hills, of whom 92% were white, 7% Hispanic, 1% black, 4% Asian and 3% other. Families constituted 90% of the population, and 72% of the residents owned or were buying their own homes. Fifty-three percent had attended college.

History

Pre-Spanish admittance history

The present day West Hills Place was the homeland of Native Americans in the Tongva-Fernandeño and Chumash-Venturaño tribes, that lived in the Simi Hills and close to Bell Creek and supplementary local tributaries to the Los Angeles River. Native American civilizations had inhabited the San Fernando Valley for an estimated 8,000 years. The village, Hu’wam, of the Chumash-Venturaños, was located at the base of Escorpión Peak (Castle Peak) near present-day Bell Canyon Park. It was a meeting and trading lessening for them afterward the Tongva-Fernandeño and Tataviam-Fernandeño people. A cave close Hu’wam, known as the Cave of Munits, is the believed home of a mythical Chumash shaman named Munits, who was killed by an eagle after murdering the son of a Chumash chief. Escorpión Peak is one of nine alignment points in the ancestral Chumash homelands, believed vital to maintaining the description of the natural world.

Spanish and Mexican history

From 1797 to 1846, the area (future West Hills) was ration of Mission San Fernando Rey de España (Mission San Fernando). After Mexico won independence from Spain, it innovative became portion of Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando in Alta California. In 1845, a remove land grant for Rancho El Escorpión was issued by Governor Pío Pico to three Chumash people: Odón Eusebia, Urbano, and Urbano’s son Mañuel. It encompassed the home west of present-day Woodlake Avenue in West Hills, with its adobe ranch buildings (present 1840s—1960s) sited opposed to Bell Creek near present-day Bell Canyon Park.

American history

Land grants

California was admitted to the United States in 1850, with Spanish and Mexican house grants requiring a federal estate patent to retain ownership. The United States Public Land Commission patented the Rancho to indigenous grantees Odón Eusebia, Urbano, and Mañuel in 1876. In 1912 the Chumash heirs sold Rancho El Escorpión to George Platt. He usual a dairy operation on renamed Platt Ranch variously called Ferndale, ‘escorpion,’ or Cloverdale Dairy. The Rancho El Escorpión-Platt Ranch was not incorporated into Los Angeles and its water system until 1958 and was left undeveloped until 1961.

Separation from Canoga Park

West Hills was originally share of Owensmouth (founded 1912) and renamed Canoga Park (1931).

Under the leadership of Joel Schiffman, residents of a three-square-mile Place in western Canoga Park began a petition excite in 1987 to separate from the larger community and avow a neighborhood of their own to be called West Hills, the similar name that a 303-home subdivision in a straightforward unincorporated area had carried for years. The Los Angeles city district of 4,700 single-family homes and 35 businesses would be bounded by Roscoe Boulevard upon the north, Woodlake Avenue, Sherman Way and Platt Avenue upon the east, Victory Boulevard on the south and the county line upon the west. Proponents said the tweak would meet the expense of the area “political clout” and accrual property values. The drive, which was opposed by the Canoga Park Chamber of Commerce, was partially financed by a genuine estate firm, whose owner, Lynn Garvanian, said the name alter would “add 5% to the value of homes.” The demonstrate was speedily criticized as “snobby and greedy” by members of the Canoga Park Chamber of Commerce but defended by supporters who said it would permit the neighborhood to maintain its residential character. Petition leaders said they hoped a extra name would separate the more flourishing West Hills Place from Canoga Park’s “fading factories, aging subdivisions and X-rated bars and theaters.”

As the petition aspiration expanded to intensify three more areas – two upon the edge of the Chatsworth Reservoir and one upon the western edge of Canoga Park – the Canoga Park Chamber of Commerce took an attributed stand adjoining the separation, with president William Vietinghoff calling it “a source of distancing and disharmony . . . an extremely risky precedent for the combination San Fernando Valley.” Council fanatic Hal Bernson, however, said he did not “look at it as a slam neighboring Canoga Park – just as a outfit of people wanting identity.”

On January 16, 1987, Councilwoman Joy Picus trendy petitions representing 3,364, or 77% of the 4,333 households in the Place within her councilmanic district, and she shortly said she would deliver the city’s transportation department to put stirring boundary signs as the residents requested. Many of the latter time-honored the name bend to grow thousands of dollars of value to their properties. Two weeks well along Picus extra another two-mile-wide section of Canoga Park that gave West Hills the Fallbrook Mall and Platt Village shopping centers, along in the tell of several smaller retail strips and some older residential tracts built in flatland areas. This supplement was denounced by Schiffman, who said it did “a lot to erode the community identity we sought.”

In what was called a “stampede,” other areas sought right of entry into West Hills, one homeowner upon Santa Susana Place saying residents there wanted to “divorce ourselves from Canoga Park’s element.” Council zealot Hal Bernson agreed to be credited with a square-mile area with 423 households bounded by Roscoe Boulevard on the south, Parthenia Street on the north, Shoup Avenue on the west and Topanga Canyon Boulevard upon the east, although the advertisement northwest corner of Roscoe and Topanga Canyon boulevards was to remain in Canoga Park. Those additions designed that from nearly a third to nearly half of the former Canoga Park was to be part of the new West Hills.

Still, a request continued for right of entry to West Hills. A community meeting scheduled for August 31, 1987, had to be repeated difficult the similar evening taking into account some four hundred people packed a meeting room at the Fallbrook Mall to wrestle in the same way as the decision on where the utter boundary should be. The difficult event drew three hundred. A poll was taken among not quite 8,500 residents in an Place between Topanga Canyon Boulevard and the recently adopted West Hills be bordering to at Woodlake and Platt avenues to choose an eastern border. More than a hundred protestors gathered in tummy of Ficus’s office to argument any addition of West Hills, chanting “Hell, no, we won’t grow!” But additional residents wound through the area in car caravans, shouting from megaphones and waving signs urging “Vote to Fallbrook.” In the end, Picus made a controversial decision to disturb the eastern boundary of West Hills from Platt and Woodlake avenues to Shoup Avenue, a decision that did not charm everybody.

In 1994, the Canoga Park and West Hills communities achieved a “partial rapprochement” when situation leaders voted to form a joined Canoga Park/West Hills Chamber of Commerce, which is nevertheless in existence.

Parks and landmarks

Three ranches and a Quiet film star’s home in West Hills have been awarded Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument status reaction and protection, and two are city parks. In addition, on the western edge of West Hills big open manner preserves give an undeveloped greenbelt and available recreation opportunities. The high number of neighborhood parks here allow sports fields and courts, play areas for children, and community rooms.

Landmarks

Orcutt Ranch

Shadow Ranch

Open-space parks

All of these large Parks are entry for walks, hiking, mountain biking, and equestrian riding; sunrise to sunset.

Neighborhood parks

Other historic-cultural landmarks

Francis Lederer Estate

The Lederer Estate, of stage actor and to the fore film star Francis Lederer (1899–2000), has two sever structures and their settings that are each a registered Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument—LAHCM. These are: the former quarters and its outside patio rooms, gardens, and grounds; and the equestrian stables and its patios. Lederer was the honorary Mayor of Canoga Park (pre-West Hills) for many years. In retirement he taught theatre classes, and was a member of the L.A. City Parks Board of Directors. The landmark buildings are located west of and near the West Hills Post Office and West Hills Hospital.

Peppergate Ranch

The 29-acre (120,000 m) Peppergate Ranch was located in the midst of Orcutt Ranch and Chatsworth Reservoir. The ranch’s domicile was meant by master architect Paul R. Williams (1894–1980) in the Ranch Style. It was built in 1939 for Talton R. Craig, founder of the Craig Movie Supply Company. The T.R. Craig Residence is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (#992) (in 2011), located on Pinelake Drive. Peppergate Ranch was subdivided, as Woodlake Estates and Pinelake Estates, in the 1960s.

Government representation and services

City of Los Angeles

West Hills, made up of what was formerly a section of Canoga Park, is located within the City of Los Angeles — represented by Councilmember John Lee. It borders the cities of Hidden Hills, Woodland Hills, and Canoga Park all located within the San Fernando Valley in California.

Police and fire

Public library

The Los Angeles Public Library operates the Platt Branch Library at 23600 Victory Boulevard. In 2015, the Neighborhood Councils of West Hills and Woodland Hills-Warner Center unconditionally to allocation jurisdiction beyond the library and its grounds, making it a ration of both West Hills and Woodland Hills.

West Hills Neighborhood Council

The West Hills Neighborhood Council (WHNC) has a website, public meetings, and sponsors actions and activities. It is governed by a 25-member board of directors that is elected by West Hills stakeholders (residents and local situation owners). The council also is a resource as the city’s endorsed forum for individuals and the community to learn about, discuss and accept positions upon local and citywide issues.

Federal

Representation

U.S. Postal Service

The United States Postal Service: The West Hills Post Office is located at 23055 Sherman Way, West Hills, 91307 (where Platt turns into Sherman Way). The community’s postal zip code is 91307.

State

West Hills is within the:

Los Angeles County

West Hills is located in Los Angeles County and is represented by Lindsey Horvath.

Los Angeles Unified School District

Hospitals

The West Hills Hospital and Medical Center, located at Medical Center Drive and Sherman Way, serves the local community as capably as patients from several cities in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. The West Hills Hospital Surgical Center opened in 1996, and performs proceedings in specialties such as general and hand surgery (done by The Hand Center of Southern California), gynecology, gastroenterology, and orthopedics. The West Hills Hospital and Medical Center services also count a large maternity ward and an oncology unit. The Grossman Burn Centers, formerly based at Sherman Oaks Hospital, moved to West Hills Hospital in 2010. This hospital (originally opening in 1984) is not a trauma center so any trauma/emergency cases are routed easily reached to Northridge Hospital.

Education

Thirty-eight percent of West Hills residents aged 25 and older had earned a four-year degree by 2000, a high percentage for both the city and the county. The percentages of those residents past a master’s degree or far ahead was also high for the county.

Schools

Schools within the West Hills boundaries are:

Public

The Los Angeles Unified School District operates public schools in this area.

State charters:

Private

Adjacent public schools

Public center schools and high schools serving West Hills within their district boundary lines include:

Other community features

Among religious buildings, Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church, Saint Bernardine Parish and the Shomrei Torah Synagogue is located near Stone Gate Drive and Valley Circle Boulevard. Chabad of West Hills is located near the intersection of Hartland Street and Valley Circle Boulevard.

The Corporate Pointe concern park, on the largest research and roomy industry property in West Hills, is in planning for redevelopment. It is located at Fallbrook Avenue and Roscoe Boulevard, near Hidden Lake and the Chatsworth Reservoir. The property was originally developed in 1959 as the Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge aerospace corporation’s supplementary headquarters. It was forward-looking used by Atomics International, Hughes Aircraft, and Raytheon for aerospace loan advancements and nuclear research.

Public transport

Public transport within West Hills and the San Fernando Valley is provided by Metro Local bus routes, operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro). They connect to transfer points and hubs in neighboring Woodland Hills, Canoga Park, and Chatsworth for other public transport systems and destinations.

Metro Local routes serving West Hills include: 162/163 via Sherman Way, 164 via Victory Boulevard, 165 via Vanowen Street, 169 via Saticoy Street, and 152/353 via Fallbrook Avenue and Roscoe Boulevard.

Metro Local buses connect with the G Line at within reach stations to the east in Canoga Park, including the Canoga Station, Sherman Way Station, and Roscoe Station. The southeastbound Orange Line connects to the North Hollywood Metro Station for the B Line subway to Downtown Los Angeles and beyond. The northbound Orange Line connects to the Chatsworth Station Transportation Center, a hub for: the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner trains; the Metrolink Ventura County Line trains; and the buses of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) Downtown Commuter Express, Simi Valley Transit, and Santa Clarita Transit.

Notable residents

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References

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Coordinates: 34°12′23″N 118°38′20″W / 34.20639°N 118.638959°W / 34.20639; -118.638959