Improvements at Youth Home OKd by Planners
Plans for a new classroom building and parking lot at the Optimist Youth Home in Highland Park were unanimously approved Thursday by the Los Angeles Planning Commission.
The 21,000-square-foot building will serve the at-risk youths who live and attend school at the facility, which opened in 1906.
Home officials hope to break ground in winter 2002. Overcrowding at the facility became an issue when the population doubled to 200 in 15 years with no corresponding space increase.
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