Home Depot to Present Scaled-Down Plan for New Van Nuys Store

In response to criticism from residents, Home Depot has scaled back plans for a new Van Nuys store to be built on Roscoe Boulevard at Woodley Avenue.

At a meeting of the Los Angeles Planning Department to be held Monday in Sherman Oaks, company officials will present a more modest plan, said spokeswoman Amy Friend.

Revised plans call for the store’s proposed square footage to be reduced to 105,000 from 121,000.

Developers also said they have dropped plans to invite other retail businesses, such as gas stations and fast-food restaurants, to occupy adjacent storefronts.

The company still intends to relocate its store at Roscoe and Balboa boulevards to the new site, which it says will offer more parking and amenities than the present 8-year-old location.

Many residents have voiced opposition to the development, saying a larger store with adjoining retail services will snarl traffic and attract crowds of day laborers soliciting work from customers and contractors.