Shadow Hills, Los Angeles, California

Shadow Hills is a semi-rural neighborhood in northern Los Angeles, California, USA.

History

Shadow Hills is entirely contained within the community of Sunland.

The City of Los Angeles first annexed Sunland in June of 1926. For many years, Shadow Hills remained rural and largely undeveloped because its hills and rock-hard soil made it difficult to build. [http://web.archive.org/web/20051111031000/http://www.lacity.org/council/cd2/doc/Community_Descriptions.pdf]

The area is primarily equestrian zoned, one of the last remaining such sections within Los Angeles County.

Geography

The community is located in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.

Shadow Hills is north of the independent city of Burbank near the western-most portion of the Tujunga Valley, a part of the larger San Fernando Valley which begins just southeast of the Hansen Dam reservoir.

Shadow Hills is adjacent to the communities of Lake View Terrace to the north, [Sunland and Tujunga, Los Angeles, California, Sunland and Tujunga to the east, Sun Valley to the south, and Pacoima to the west.

Shadow Hills is an acceptable city name for ZIP Code 91040. Sunland is the default city name assigned to ZIP Code 91040. The only ZIP Code associated with Shadow Hills is 91040. [http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp]

Demographics

As of the 2000 census, Shadow Hills has a population of 3,739 people. The racial breakdown includes 79% Caucasian, 14% Latino, 3% Asian American, and 1% African American. [http://www.laalmanac.com/population/po24la.htm]

Shadow Hills falls within Census Tract 103300.

Government

Shadow Hills is part of the city of Los Angeles and is represented by:
*Los Angeles City Council: District 2, Wendy Greuel
*Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors: District 5, Michael D. Antonovich
*California State Senate: District 17, George C. Runner, Jr.
*California State Assembly: District 38, Cameron Smyth
*United State Congress: District 27, Brad Sherman

Public safety

Los Angeles Fire Department [http://www.lafd.org/fs24.htm Station 24] (Sunland/Shadow Hills) is in the area.

Shadow Hills is served by the Los Angeles Police Department [http://www.lapdonline.org/foothill_community_police_station Foothill Community Police Station] .

Education

Los Angeles Unified School District serves Shadow Hills.

Protection efforts

The neighborhood's residents formed the Shadow Hills Property Owners Association in the mid-1960s to fight the planned routing of a Foothill Freeway offramp through the heart of the neighborhood. This would have run along McBroom Street and two segments of Wheatland Avenue, from Wentworth Avenue to Sunland Boulevard. This grassroots organization persuaded the Los Angeles Planning Commission to abandon the proposed route for the offramp, and so preserved the neighborhood's semi-rural character. The Association continues to function today with a slightly different name.

Trivia

A hunting lodge once owned by actor Clark Gable still stands in Shadow Hills overlooking the lake.

This is the hometown of LoveHateHero singer, Pierrick Berube

References

External links

* [http://www.shadowhillspoa.com Shadow Hills Property Owners Association]
* [http://www.stchamber.com Sunland-Tujunga Chamber of Commerce]
* [http://www.stnc.org Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council]