Sherman Oaks Ca Development And Redevelopment

In an often heated debate, homeowners and city officials clashed on plans for a low-income senior housing complex on the corner of Noble Avenue and Moorpark Street, the site of an excavated hole that has gobbled up past development schemes. The complex, proposed for land owned by Danny Alpert, would be built by the nonsectarian Menorah Housing Foundation and include 85 units and 85 parking spaces at a four-story building at 15126 Moorpark St.

A new low-income senior housing complex may be coming to the corner of Noble Avenue and Moorpark Street. A representative for developer Danny Alpert recently began discussing the possibility with city officials and area residents. "It's in the earliest possible stages, but we have talked about it," said Sharon Mayer, chief field deputy for Councilman Mike Feuer, adding that the developer has yet to file an application for the project.

The Sherman Oaks Galleria, the shopping mall enshrined in San Fernando Valley lore as the hangout of Valley Girls seeking the perfect miniskirt, is headed for a make-over that will convert most of the flagging retail center into office space.

Shortly after city planning commissioners Thursday approved an 85-unit, low-cost senior housing facility for a site that is now a large hole in the ground, area residents promised to appeal the decision, and if that fails, to look into taking legal action to stop the project. "We will most definitely be appealing to the City Council," said Richard Close, president of the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Assn.

City planning commissioners will meet Thursday to decide the fate of a low-income senior housing complex proposed for the corner of Noble Avenue and Moorpark Street, where only a large, fenced-in hole in the ground has been since the late 1980s. The complex, to be built by the nonsectarian Menorah Housing Foundation, would include 85 units and 85 parking spaces at a four-story building at 15126 Moorpark St.

The Los Angeles City Council gave the go-ahead Wednesday for a controversial senior housing project in Sherman Oaks that supporters said had encountered trouble because of intolerance toward senior citizens. Opponents of the 85-unit project proposed near Moorpark Street and Noble Avenue hotly denied they were motivated by prejudice against low-income elderly people who would live in the housing.

Worried about traffic, area residents gave their conditional support to plans for renovating the Sherman Oaks Galleria--now more than 60% vacant--at a Friday public hearing. The only outright rejection to the project--which would add restaurants, movie theaters and a large amount of office space--was from Robinsons-May. For the desired renovation to occur, the department store would have to move out.

A city plan to acquire the controversial Deervale-Stone Canyon land long targeted by developers has gained enough momentum that development opponents now predict the owner will sell off the property for use as open space. City officials recently gave Deervale-Stone Canyon high priority on a list of projects eligible for funds from Proposition K, a county parks measure passed by voters in November. A total of $2.

The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy and the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Assn. are looking to the November election as a possible boost to their effort to prevent the development of 79 acres of canyon land near Mulholland Drive. The groups say passage of a city ballot measure, Proposition K, would provide funding for the conservancy to declare the site of the proposed Deervale-Stone Canyon residential development as open space.