Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles Sherman Oaks is positioned in the Los Angeles urbane region Sherman Oaks - Sherman Oaks Show map of the Los Angeles urbane region Location inside Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley Sherman Oaks is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, established in 1927 with boundary shifts afterward.

The neighborhood includes a portion of the Santa Monica Mountains, which gives Sherman Oaks a lower populace density than some other areas in Los Angeles.

Moses Hazeltine Sherman, advanced Sherman Oaks.

In 1927 each acre was sold for $780. Sherman's other primary venture was the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad.

In 1991, a group of homeowners living in the Chandler Estates region successfully petitioned former Los Angeles City Councilmember Zev Yaroslavsky to re-draw the boundaries of Sherman Oaks from Magnolia to Burbank Blvd to the north, and from Coldwater Canyon to Van Nuys Blvd to the west, with the goal of including their neighborhood.

This request was not anything new to the San Fernando Valley; other neighborhoods had either sought to change their names, or sought to attach themselves onto more well-to-do neighborhoods to escape from what they saw as burgeoning urban blight and the collapse of their civil status. Residents in the region argued, however, that the region was originally part of Sherman Oaks, but was labeled Van Nuys instead through the creation of ZIP codes in 1962; some inhabitants were able to produce a several property deeds to present their case. Just a several weeks after the Chandler Estates region successfully seceded from Van Nuys, Magnolia Woods, a 45 block region bordered by Van Nuys Boulevard on the east and the San Diego Freeway on the west, and between Burbank and Magnolia Boulevards, also successfully petitioned Los Angeles City council member Marvin Braude to secede from Van Nuys and join Sherman Oaks.

Petitioners in the region argued that their neighborhood was also part of Sherman Oaks, though they were only able to produce 22 deeds showing so.

Finally, in 2009, the Los Angeles City council voted to redraw neighborhood boundaries again to allow an region of about 1,800 homes in Van Nuys to be included.

The homeowners in the Sherman Oaks region later won a lawsuit to prevent the agency from managing accomplishments. Van Nuys Boulevard at Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks As of the 2010 census, as stated to the San Fernando Valley Almanac, Sherman Oaks had a populace of 52,677 citizens and 25,255 homeholds.

Enumeration counted 61,166 inhabitants in the 9.15-square-mile Sherman Oaks neighborhood, including a wide swath of the Santa Monica Mountains or 6,687 citizens per square mile, among the lowest populace densities for the city.

The neighborhood was considered "not especially diverse " ethnically inside Los Angeles, with a high percentage of white residents.

The neighborhood had a median homehold income of $69,651 in 2008, which was high for the town/city of Los Angeles but about average for the county as a whole.

(Median homehold income reports the amount of cash earned by the homehold that falls exactly in the middle of the pack.) The percentage of homeholds that earned $125,000 and up was high for Los Angeles County. Reseda, Sepulveda Dam & Van Nuys Airport Van Nuys & Valley Glen North Hollywood Los Angeles Fire Department operates Station 88 Sherman Oaks and Station 102 South Van Nuys/Valley Glen in Sherman Oaks. In addition the department operates Fire Station 78, which serves Sherman Oaks, in Studio City. The Los Angeles Police Department operates the close-by Van Nuys Community Police Station at 6240 Sylmar Avenue, 91401, serving the community. Richard Close, the president of the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association (SOHA), stated that, as paraphrased by Dinah Eng of the Los Angeles Times, in 1978 Sherman Oaks "played a major part in the drive for Proposition 13" and in 2002 "was the epicenter of the ill-fated San Fernando Valley secession movement". Sherman Oaks Elementary School Forty-five percent of Sherman Oaks inhabitants aged 25 and older had earned a four-year degree by 2000, a high percentage for both the town/city and the county.

LAUSD schools inside the Sherman Oaks boundary include: The school was in the Van Nuys improve until 1991, when City Council member Marvin Braude directed that a 45-block region that encompassed the school be retitled as part of Sherman Oaks.

Charter schools inside the Sherman Oaks boundary include: Portions of Sherman Oaks, including Magnolia Woods, are zoned to Van Nuys High School in Van Nuys. Other portions are zoned to Grant High School in Valley Glen. Scott Glover of the Los Angeles Times stated in 1993 "many Sherman Oaks inhabitants do not have school-age children, and many the rest send their kids to private schools". Los Angeles Public Library operates the Sherman Oaks Branch. The Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Park is in Sherman Oaks.

Dinah Eng of the Los Angeles Times wrote in 2002 that the park "is a prominent site for family gatherings." The park has an auditorium, two lighted baseball diamonds, six unlighted baseball diamonds, lighted indoor basketball courts, lighted outside basketball courts, a children's play area, a 60-person improve room, a lighted American football field, an indoor gymnasium without weights, picnic tables, a lighted soccer (football) field, and lighted tennis courts. Located in the same place as the park, the Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Pool is a cyclic outside heated swimming pool. The Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Senior Citizen Center (also known as Bernardi Center), also on the park grounds, has an auditorium and multi-purpose room; its banquet capacity is 200 and its assembly capacity is 300.

The senior center has two kitchens, a play area, a shuffle board place, a stage, and two storage rooms. The Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Tennis Courts facility in the Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Park has eight courts. In addition the town/city operates the Sherman Oaks Castle Park, with arcade, batting cages, and miniature golf facilities, in Sherman Oaks. Flag of Los Angeles County, California.svg Greater Los Angeles portal Los Angeles Times.

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