ENCINO : Panel Approves Plan for Shopping Center
A plan to build a 93,000-square-foot shopping center on top of a site known by its Encino neighbors as Lake Hayvenhurst won final approval Thursday from the Los Angeles Planning Commission.
The shopping center will be built on top of a massive hole dug in 1990 to remove contaminated soil from the Ventura Boulevard site, which previously housed a gas station with leaking underground tanks.
Residents have embraced the plan not only because it would cover the eyesore, but because the project is much smaller than one previously approved for the site. That plan included office buildings, a theater complex and three levels of underground parking.
The planned 24-hour supermarket, bookstore and retail outlet were granted several exceptions to the Ventura Boulevard Specific Plan, including a reduction in the required buffer between the rear of the center and neighboring homes along Moorpark Street.
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