Panel to Discuss Plan for Police Station
Simi Valley’s plans to replace its aging, earthquake-damaged police headquarters come before the city’s Planning Commission tonight.
Commissioners will discuss a proposal to build a new, 54,691-square-foot police station next to City Hall, at the corner of Tapo Canyon Road and Alamo Street. The station would include a dispatch center, eight holding cells and an underground parking lot for patrol cars. It would cost an estimated $12.5 million.
Efforts to build the new station took on a new urgency after the Northridge earthquake, which cracked walls and broke water lines in the current police headquarters on Cochran Street.
With City Council approval, construction could begin late this year and finish in 1997.
The current headquarters would be demolished.
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