Also, city officials have posted signs designating parts of some communities by their original subdivision names. There are hundreds of the old subdivisions such as Silver Lake, neighborhoods originally built with such names as Ivanhoe Hills, Manzanita Heights, Primrose Hill, Sunset Heights, Capitol Hill, Childs Heights and Crestmont -- the tract that advertised itself 80 years ago as "the Smiley Heights of Los Angeles."
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Lake Balboa finds that it isn't
A neighborhood that left Van Nuys learns that the divorce wasn't final. They say a freeway cuts them off from the rest of the city.
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The actual Lake Balboa, which is part of the city's Anthony C. Beilenson Park, is not located within the Lake Balboa area designated by Zine's signs. Leffert said his proposal would cure that by designating Sepulveda Flood Control Basin land between Victory Boulevard and the Los Angeles River "Lake Balboa." That nonresidential area is currently part of Encino.
Losing the lake doesn't sit well with Encino community leaders.
"We are vehemently opposed to anyone stealing part of Encino," said Sherman Gamson, secretary of the Encino Neighborhood Council.
bob.pool@latimes.com
