Homeowners Rally Against Warner Ridge
About 275 Woodland Hills homeowners rallied Thursday night in an attempt to block a $150-million high-rise office project they claim will extend Warner Center congestion to their doorsteps.
Residents were urged to flood Los Angeles city officials with complaints about the effect that the Warner Ridge project will have on their 1,300-home neighborhood. The project envisions nine office buildings, some seven stories high.
The city will decide on long-range zoning and environmental impacts of the project at hearings next week and in September.
Homeowners met at Parkman Junior High School, about half a mile from the proposed 21.5-acre development site at the northeast corner of De Soto Avenue and Oxnard Street.
Robert Gross, a neighborhood leader and vice president of the Woodland Hills Homeowners Organization, said the proposed development would generate 8,829 vehicle trips a day, strangling the 26-year-old neighborhood.
“They didn’t consult with the community before they came up with a development plan,” Gross said of the project’s planners, a partnership of the Spound Co. of Los Angeles and the Johnson Wax Development Corp. of Racine, Wis.
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