Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Woodland Hills

Everybody is Looking for Their Own Great Streets

By Damien Newton | Aug 18, 2008 | No Comments

Residents Discuss What Is a Great Street at a Breakout Session Last Saturday From the AARP to the Sacramento Bee, it seems that everyone is talking about the problems with designing roadways with the singular goal of moving automobile traffic. Locally, a vote on complete streets legislation is expected in the California State Senate soon […]

Hundreds Show Up to Discuss “Destiny of the Valley”

By Damien Newton | Jun 23, 2008 | No Comments

Zev Yaraslavsky, Joyce Pearson, Stephen Box Stephen Box reports that last weekend’s "Destiny in the Valley" conference, hosted by the Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood Council, was a success. When a community comes out in force to discuss fixing their neighborhood through an improved and integrated transportation network, government agencies and elected officials take notice. […]

Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood Council Hosts “Density in the Valley”

By Damien Newton | Jun 19, 2008 | 2 Comments

The Woodland Hills Warner Center Community faces a tsunami of development. The Westfield Village bulldozers are revving, the Warner Center Specific Plan update is underway and the 3rd densest employment center in the City is besieged with gridlock. The community needs a plan to fight back and reclaim their streets. To that end the Woodland […]

Metro Picks Locally Preferred Alternative for Orange Line Extension

By Damien Newton | Jun 12, 2008 | 3 Comments

Metro moved a step closer to extending the Orange Line today when it released a Locally Preferred Alternative for an extension from Canoga Park to Chatsworth. As Metro notes in its press release, the Metro Board still needs to approve the staff’s recommendation and then go into the final environmental review before the project […]

Update: for a shopping center with 3.8 million gross square feet of leasable area

By Damien Newton | Dec 18, 2007 | No Comments

For anyone working on comments for the Warner Center Mall, I got some sobering numbers for the amount of trips that will be generated by the addition to your local mega-mall. The following chart is from the ITE trip generation manual, for a shopping center with 3.8 million gross square feet of leasable area: Original […]

Mega Mall Wants Your Comments (Well, maybe not your comments…but it does want someones comments.)

By Damien Newton | Dec 14, 2007 | 1 Comment

The Woodland Hills/Warner Center Neighborhood Council wants your feedback on the expansion of its mega-mall in the valley. Paradox Unbound has the best description of the Warner Center Deverlopment Project I could find online: The project will link the adjacent Westfield Topanga and Westfield Promenade malls, creating a massive shopping and entertainment district that will […]