Northridge Ca Development And Redevelopment

A Los Angeles City Council panel voted against a proposed Northridge preschool and day-care center Tuesday and supported an appeal by neighbors who fear the school will create traffic problems in the residential area. The council's Planning and Land Use Committee voted 2 to 1 to support the appeal of neighbors who want to halt a proposal by Fernando and Sherri Segre to convert a home on Devonshire Street to a preschool for 36 children. Representatives of the North Valley Homeowners Assn.

University officials and a group of property owners want to transform Northridge into a college town. In an effort to give Cal State Northridge's 27,000 students a reason to stay in the area after classes, campus officials and local business owners are working with the city to create a business improvement district on the perimeter of the commuter campus.

Parents nearly everywhere worry about their children being exposed to alcohol, drugs and acts of random violence. In Northridge, they are panicked over pool. Homeowners, parents and business owners fear that the Billiard Connection, scheduled to open on Devonshire Street in three weeks, will attract the above-mentioned evils--and more. After all, as the Music Man sang in the Broadway show, trouble starts "with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for pool ."

In her last official appearance as Cal State Northridge's third president, Blenda J. Wilson oversaw a $361,000 lease payment Thursday from biomedical entrepreneur Alfred E. Mann at a groundbreaking ceremony for a planned $80-million on-campus biotech park. The development, expected to generate research opportunities for students and faculty and annual lease payments worth $800,000 to the university, is one of the largest private-public partnerships in the San Fernando Valley.

In her last official appearance as Cal State Northridge's third president, Blenda J. Wilson oversaw a $361,000 lease payment Thursday from biomedical entrepreneur Alfred E. Mann at a groundbreaking ceremony for a planned $80-million on-campus biotech park. The development, expected to generate research opportunities for students and faculty and annual lease payments worth $800,000 to the university, is one of the largest private-public partnerships in the San Fernando Valley.

Cal State Northridge will build a football and soccer stadium on its North Campus, President Blenda J. Wilson announced Thursday, despite strong opposition from neighboring homeowners who fear that noise and crowds will threaten their quality of life. In a carefully worded statement, Wilson acknowledged residents' concerns, but also cited a recent CSUN-sponsored survey that found that 67% of Valley residents support an on-campus stadium.

Plans to develop the North Campus biotechnology park at Cal State Northridge were approved in a 10-0 vote Wednesday by the Los Angeles City Council. The vote came on the heels of the Planning and Land Use Management Committee's recommendation to the council Tuesday to approve the Joint Powers Agreement between the city of Los Angeles and CSUN.

A proposed $1.5 million stadium for the Cal State Northridge softball team and youth baseball and softball leagues will be built on the site of the university's softball field, Steven Soboroff, senior advisor to Mayor Richard Riordan, said on Wednesday. Soboroff led a tour of the facility on Tuesday with Northridge President Blenda J. Wilson and representatives of the architectural and construction firms that have committed to the project.

The Cal State University Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved a Newport Beach-based firm to develop Cal State Northridge's so-called North Campus into an upscale retail center whose projected revenues could eventually help fund a new university football stadium, among other projects.

Cal State Northridge's plan to solicit private builders to develop the campus' 65-acre former Devonshire Downs property won approval Wednesday from the California State University system's Board of Trustees. The unanimous vote clears the way for campus officials in the coming months to issue an invitation to developers seeking a range of proposals. Campus officials said they are willing to consider commercial, housing and retail projects, but expect the most interest in retail.

In her last official appearance as Cal State Northridge's third president, Blenda J. Wilson accepted a $361,000 lease payment Thursday from biomedical entrepreneur Alfred E. Mann at a ground-breaking ceremony for the planned $80-million North Campus biotech park. Mann, whose Sylmar-based MiniMed has enjoyed rapid growth in the past few years, confirmed that he has asked to lease an additional 12 acres, which would boost the project to 40 acres. The development is expected to generate research opportunities for CSUN students and faculty, and annual lease payments worth $800,000 to the university.

Cal State Northridge will build a new football and soccer stadium on its North Campus, President Blenda J. Wilson has announced, despite strong opposition from neighboring homeowner groups who fear noise and crowds. Wilson acknowledged residents' concerns but also cited a recent CSUN-sponsored survey stating that 68% of Valley residents support an on-campus stadium. Critics of the survey called it a blatant attempt to manufacture consent. No timetable was set for the stadium's construction.

Cal State Northridge will build a football and soccer stadium on its North Campus, President Blenda J. Wilson announced Thursday, despite strong opposition from neighboring homeowners who fear that noise and crowds will threaten their quality of life. In a carefully worded statement, Wilson acknowledged residents' concerns, but also cited a recent CSUN-sponsored survey that found that 67% of Valley residents support an on-campus stadium.

Two-thirds of San Fernando Valley residents support construction of an 8,500-seat campus football stadium at Cal State Northridge, according to a survey commissioned by the university. Respondents initially backed the stadium, 36% to 10%. But when told details, and that it would be built without taxpayer or university funds, the approval rate jumped to 67% and opposition grew to 16%. The findings troubled some campus administrators, who said the $8.

Two-thirds of San Fernando Valley-area residents support construction of an 8,500-seat campus football stadium at Cal State Northridge, according to a university-commissioned survey released Tuesday. Respondents had initially backed the stadium by a 36% to 10% margin, with a majority saying they needed more information. But when told details of the project, and that it would be built without taxpayer or university funds, the approval rating jumped to 67% while opposition grew to 16%.

Over fierce opposition from neighbors, a Cal State Northridge committee voted Monday night to consider building an 8,000-seat stadium on the north end of the campus between Lindley and Zelzah avenues, or on a site off campus. Members of the 12-member Athletic Facilities Siting Advisory Committee--composed of residents, faculty and administrators--voted 7 to 3 to consider a 4- to 6-acre site on the campus, a block south of the current stadium.

If Cal State Northridge officials held any illusions that reducing the size of a shopping center planned for the north end of the campus would appease angry neighbors, those hopes were erased before a public hearing on the new proposal even got underway Monday. "There are going to be garbage trucks driving by my house at 5 a.m.," one woman grumbled as a crowd gathered around large artist's renderings of the proposed University MarketCenter, a third smaller than originally planned.

Cal State University officials will present a revised plan at a public meeting tonight for the University MarketCenter, a retail development proposed for the north side of the CSUN campus. The plan drew fire last year from residents and local business owners who opposed the project, saying it would bring noise and traffic into an area already full of retail businesses.

Ignore someone long enough and they'll go away. The strategy appears to have worked for Cal State Northridge in dealing with Mark Steele, an energetic home-grown entrepreneur. Steele rattled on loud and long about his $90 million proposal for athletic facilities only to have Northridge President Blenda J. Wilson dismiss him last week in a terse memo.

Dismayed by a lack of interest from Cal State Northridge administrators and coaches, would-be developer Mark Steele angrily pulled his $90 million arena and stadium proposal Tuesday night at a public forum attended by only nine people. Steele, rebuffed by Northridge two years ago in an attempt to develop a multiuse arena on the 65-acre North Campus, has tried for months to get administrators to take his new plan seriously.