Valley Glen is a neighborhood in the southeastern section of the
San Fernando Valley
The San Fernando Valley, known locally as the Valley, is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, Los Angeles County, California. Situated to the north of the Los Angeles Basin, it comprises a large portion of Los Angeles, the Municipal corpo ...
in
Los Angeles, California
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. Once part of Van Nuys and North Hollywood, it became a separate neighborhood in 1998. Valley Glen is home to
Los Angeles Valley College
Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC, Valley College, or Valley) is a public community college in Los Angeles, California
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and the
Great Wall of Los Angeles
The ''Great Wall of Los Angeles'' is a 1978 mural designed by Judith Baca and executed with the help of over 400 community youth and artists coordinated by the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC). The mural, on the concrete banks of Tuju ...
, a half-mile-long California-history mural listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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.
History
Prior to 1998, Valley Glen was part of
Van Nuys
Van Nuys ( ) is a neighborhood in the central San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. Home to Van Nuys Airport and the Valley Municipal Building, it is the most populous neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.
History
In 1 ...
and
North Hollywood
North Hollywood is a neighborhood and district in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. The neighborhood contains the NoHo Arts District, El Portal Theater, several art galleries, and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Th ...
. In 1997, more than 70% of the area's homeowners signed a petition to change the name of a section of Van Nuys (between Burbank and Victory boulevards) to Valley Glen. The proposed Valley Glen neighborhood would encompass 1,200 homes.
In February 1998, some adjacent neighborhoods joined Valley Glen and City Councilman Mike Feuer endorsed the name change. Valley Glen became an official Los Angeles neighborhood in June 1998. The new neighborhood encompassed more than 3,000 homes between Hazeltine and Whitsett Avenues.
In 1998, the Department of Transportation installed 12 neighborhood signs.
In 2004, CalTrans agreed to erect a sign on the
Hollywood (170) Freeway identifying the location of Valley Glen. In 2008, the US Postal Service officially recognized the neighborhood by designating all or part of 91401 (Van Nuys), 91405 (Van Nuys) and 91606 (North Hollywood) to be Valley Glen. In 2013, the city approved the installation of a monument sign proposed by the Greater Valley Glen Council. It is located at the intersection of Burbank Boulevard and Coldwater Canyon Avenue.
Geography
In the "Mapping L.A." geographical section of the ''Los Angeles Times'' website, the 4.81 square miles of Valley Glen are bounded on the north by Raymer Street, Sherman Way or Vanowen Street, on the west by the
Tujunga Wash
Tujunga Wash is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 16, 2011 stream in Los Angeles County, California. It is a tributary of the Los Angeles River, providing about a f ...
, Woodman Avenue or Hazeltine Avenue, on the south by Burbank Boulevard and on the east by the
Hollywood Freeway
The Hollywood Freeway is one of the principal freeways of Los Angeles, California (the boundaries of which it does not leave) and one of the busiest in the United States. It is the principal route through the Cahuenga Pass, the primary shortc ...
. In most of its area it is bisected by the Tujunga Wash, which runs north to south.
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Population
In 2000, Valley Glen had a population of 59,230, according to the U.S. Census, and by 2008 its population was 62,846, according to the Los Angeles Department of City Planning.
Ethnically, Valley Glen is "highly diverse," with Latinos at 45.2%, whites at 39.5%, Asians at 5.4%, blacks at 3.9% and others at 6%. It is also high within the city for the percentage of foreign born (49%), with Mexico (26.9%) and Armenia (14.4%) being the most common foreign places of birth. In other respects — population density, income, university education, age, homeowners, military service, it is "about average" for the city of Los Angeles.
"Valley Glen," Mapping L.A., ''Los Angeles Times'' Twenty-one percent of Valley Glen residents aged 25 and older had earned a four-year degree
A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years (de ...
by 2000, an average figure for both the city and the county.[
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Arts and culture
''The Great Wall of Los Angeles
The ''Great Wall of Los Angeles'' is a 1978 mural designed by Judith Baca and executed with the help of over 400 community youth and artists coordinated by the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC). The mural, on the concrete banks of Tuj ...
'', a half mile-long mural portraying the history of California "as seen through the eyes of women and minorities," stretches along the concrete sides of the Tujunga Wash, and is credited with being one of the longest murals in the world. It was nominated for the National Register of Historic Places on May 10, 2017.
Emergency services
Fire service
Los Angeles Fire Department
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operate
Station 102
(South Van Nuys/Valley Glen), serving the community.
Police service
The Los Angeles Police Department
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operates the nearby Van Nuys Community Police Station located at 6420 Sylmar Avenue, 91401, which serves the neighborhood.
Parks and Recreation
Laurel Grove Park
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Improvements include:
* Walking and wheelchair trails and outdoor fitness stations
* New playground equipment with safe and clean resilient surfacing and shade
* New group picnic area with picnic tables, hydration station, pet fountain, shade canopy and game tables
* New butterfly garden
* New shrubs, ground cover and visually pleasing hedge plantings
* New LED lighting
* Valley Glen Community Park (formerly Erwin Park) is an unstaffed park located in Valley Glen. The park has a baseball diamond and picnic tables.
* Tujunga Wash Greenway
The Tujunga Wash Greenway and Bike Path is a trail and stormwater mitigation project in the Valley Village and Valley Glen neighborhoods of California’s San Fernando Valley.
Tujunga Wash is a tributary of the Los Angeles River; Tujunga has i ...
Education
Valley Glen is home to Los Angeles Valley College
Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC, Valley College, or Valley) is a public community college in Los Angeles, California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, ...
.
Schools within the Valley View boundaries are:
"Valley Glen: Schools," Mapping L.A., ''Los Angeles Times''
Public
* Grant High School (Los Angeles), Ulysses S. Grant High School, 13000 Oxnard Street
* James Madison
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Middle School, 13000 Hart Street
* Coldwater Canyon Elementary School, 6850 Coldwater Canyon Avenue
* Kittridge Street Elementary School, 13619 Kittridge Street
* Erwin Elementary School, 13400 Erwin Street
* John B. Monlux Elementary School, 6051 Bellaire Avenue
* Jack London
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Continuation School
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, 1294 Oxnard Street
References
External links
Greater Valley Glen website
Valley Glen Neighborhood Association
Valley Glen crime map and statistics
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Neighborhoods in Los Angeles
Communities in the San Fernando Valley