Sylmar, as delineated by the Los Angeles Times Sylmar, as delineated by the Los Angeles Times Sylmar is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California.

In 1980 Sylmar was dominantly white, the ethnic breakdown being 58% white and 36% Latino. Twenty years later, in 2000, the neighborhood was considered "moderately diverse " ethnically inside Los Angeles, with a mostly high percentage of Latinos.

The foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains at the north slope of the San Fernando Valley were seen as "an unattractive and apparently worthless waste" before 2,000 acres of them were transformed in the late 1890s by the Los Angeles Olive Growers Association. One observer recalled that the territory had been "a mass of ill-looking chapparal and chemisal" before it was planted with olives. In 1893, a group of Illinois businessmen purchased from the trustees of the Maclay ranch either 1,000 or 2,000 acres (the sources differ) east of the barns tracks on San Fernando Road just south of Roxford Street and in 1894 began planting olives trees on up to 1,700 acres. Experts were brought from France to supervise the work. Calling themselves the Los Angeles Olive Growers Association (in 1898 C.O.

Some of the olive trees were still burgeoning in Sylmar decades after they were planted. In 1963 twenty-five mature olive trees were removed from the site of the Sylmar Juvenile Hall, then under assembly (below), to be planted at Busch Gardens, an entertainment center in Van Nuys. The Sayre Fire, also known as the Sylmar Fire, was a November 2008 wildfire that resulted in the loss of 489 residences in or near Sylmar, the "worst loss of homes due to fire" in Los Angeles's history. The fire was first reported at 10:29 p.m.

Although Sylmar is only 20 miles (32 km) from the Pacific Ocean, the Valley can be considerably hotter than the Los Angeles Basin amid the summer months and cooler amid the winter months.

Angeles National Forest & Santa Clarita Angeles National Forest & Big Tujunga Creek Angeles National Forest A proposal in 1980 to build an 80-unit low-income housing universal near Sylmar High School at 13080-90 Dronfield Avenue was rejected by the Los Angeles City Housing Commission after eight thousand signatures were gathered against the plan and protesters filled a hearing in the high school auditorium. In 1984 Sylmar was still largely rural, but there was an region of industrialized evolution in its southeastern portion. In 1986, when its populace was given 53,392, it still had some of the last large tracts of undeveloped territory in the city, and the opening of the Foothill Freeway had placed it inside a 45-minute drive of Downtown Los Angeles.

Resident Bart Reed noted that Sylmar was the last place in Los Angeles "where a builder can find a single-family home on half an acre.

Olive View Hospital was directed as a branch of the Los Angeles County Hospital, and the sanitorium was assembled at an altitude of 1,700 feet; its property encompassed not only "some picturesque canyons" but also sixty acres of level territory "that will be well adapted for fruits, gardening and extensive chicken-raising," whose purpose would be "to give some employment to patients who are able to work, this being considered a beneficial factor in their treatment." In 1960, the Los Angeles County Probation Department's proposal to build a branch juvenile hall on the north side of San Fernando Road between Filbert and Yarnell streets brought opposition from more than a thousand Sylmar residents, who were supported by the Sylmar Civic Association. The county purchased three acres of the property needed but had to resort to a condemnation suit against landowners Samuel and Eva De - Rose for an additional 27.5 acres of a former olive grove before a settlement was reached in August 1962. Ground was broken for the universal on June 5, 1963. The first inmate was homed in the instead of $5 million universal at 15900 Filbert Street on July 6, 1965. Today, the Los Angeles Fire Department operates Fire Station 91 in Sylmar. The Los Angeles Police Department operates the Mission Community Police Station in Mission Hills, serving Sylmar. Fire protection for the mountain peaks around and above Sylmar is provided by the Los Angeles Fire Department and the United States Forest Service.

The school was formed by the consolidation of Los Angeles Lutheran High School and First Lutheran San Fernando.

Los Angeles Public Library operates the Sylmar Branch Library on the corner of Polk Street and Glenoaks Boulevard. The City of Los Angeles Sylmar Recreation Center, which also functions as a Los Angeles Police Department stop-in center, includes auditoriums, a lighted baseball diamond, lighted outside basketball courts, a children's play area, a improve room, an indoor gymnasium without weights, picnic tables, an unlighted soccer field, and lighted tennis courts. The town/city also operates the Stetson Ranch Park. Flag of Los Angeles County, California.svg - Los Angeles portal "Sylmar to Weigh Land Use Plan," Los Angeles Times, May 6, 1962, page SF-1 Irv Burleigh, "Sylmar Land Owners Gain Higher Densities," Los Angeles Times, June 21, 1972, page SF-6 a b Amy Pyle, "Sylmar Reaching the End of Happy Trails," Los Angeles Times, February 11, 1990 a b c Richard Simon, "Sylmar Retains Title of Fastest-Growing Area," Los Angeles Times, April 17, 1988, page AV-6 Mac - Gregor, "Housing Crisis Hits Valley's Poor Hardest," Los Angeles Times, August 28, 2000, page 1 a b c d e "Sylmar" Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times a b c d Penelope Mc - Millan, "Open Spaces Draw First-Time Buyers," Los Angeles Times, February 10, 1991, pages K-2 and K-16 a b Amanda Covarrubias, "Horse Owners Are Bridling at Changes," Los Angeles Times, March 17, 2006, page B-1 "San Fernando, 'at Mouth of Owens River,' Los Angeles Times, October 20, page V-13 a b c d e f Ira Gribin, "Northernmost Town Integrally Tied to Development of Valley," Los Angeles Times, June 20, 1981, page WS-B-17 Rick, Orlov (November 30, 2000), "Compromise Urged in Clash Over Renaming Sylmar Area", The Daily News of Los Angeles, Supporters and opponents of the plan to rename the community's northwest region Rancho Cascades were told by Bernson that he believed they could work out a compromise in the next month.

Geoffrey Mohan and Rebecca Bryant, "Earthquake: The Long Road Back: Pride Bottoms Out in 'Top of Los Angeles,'" Los Angeles Times, January 23, 1994 a b c d "Los Angeles Olive Growers' Association," Los Angeles Times, January 9, 1898, page 19 a b "Largest Olive Grove Is Sold," Los Angeles Times, January 28, 1922, page B-1 a b M.E.C., "How the Golden Oil Is Produced on the Largest Olive Grove in the World," Los Angeles Times, July 8, 1906, page VI-11 a b c "Mammoth Grove Keeps Olive Plant Busy," Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1927, page J-5 "Gold-Medal Olive Oil," Los Angeles Times, October 18, 1905, page II-6 "For Best Olive Oil,' Los Angeles Times, June 11, 1915, page I-10 Mayerene Barker, "Flora of the Valley," Los Angeles Times, March 1, 1987, page 9 Joshua Siskin, "In the Garden: Olive, Fig Trees Perfect for Valley Climate," Los Angeles Times, June 18, 2005, page U-14 Eric Leach, "Olive Oil: Golden State's Cash Crop Returns to Its Roots," Los Angeles Times, December 17, 2006, page N-4 "Olive Trees Moved to Busch Gardens," Los Angeles Times, March 24, 1963, page 4 Meyer, "Sylmar Jolted by Ghosts of Horror Past," Los Angeles Times, January 18, 1994 Stephanie Chavez, "Echoes of 1971 Reverberate for Veterans of Sylmar Quake," Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1987, page V-B-8 a b Ken Lubas, "Search Continues for 96 Youths Who Fled Juvenile Hall," Los Angeles Times, February 11, 1971, page SF-1 Dana Bartholomew, "Sylmar Tunnel Blast Victims Get a Memorial After 42 years," Los Angeles Daily News, December 9, 2013 William Farr, "No Contest Plea Ends Sylmar Tunnel Case: Lockheed Move Averts 2nd Long Municipal Trial," Los Angeles Times, October 23, 1975, page 3 "4 Injured in Sylmar Tunnel Blast and Fire," Los Angeles Times, June 24, 1971, page A-3 Willman and Evelyn Larrubia, "2 Light Planes Collide, Killing All 4 Aboard," Los Angeles Times, San Fernando Valley edition, page A-1 Jeffrey Gettleman and David Colker, "4 Victims of Midair Collision Loved to Fly," Los Angeles Times, February 9, 2000, page B-1 Los Angeles Times.

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John Johnson and Michael Connelly, with Amy Pyle, "Beneath Sylmar's Surface: Drug Menace," Los Angeles Times, September 30, 1989 Soble, "Ledgers Show Daily Profit of $3 Million for Cocaine," Los Angeles Times, September 24, 1990, page 1 Soble, "3 Convicted in Record Sylmar Raid," Los Angeles Times, November 7, 1990 Henry Weinstein, "Warehouse Manager Given Life Sentence in Record Cocaine Bust," Los Angeles Times, October 29, 1991, page 3 "Drug Trafficker Draws 35-Year Prison Sentence," Los Angeles Times, April 26, 1991, page 1 Jim Newton, "Key Figures in Record Cocaine Seizure Convicted," Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1992 Fred Shuster, City News Service, Los Angeles Daily News, February 5, 2016 "Local News in Brief: Drag Race Spectator With Spotlight Seized," Los Angeles Times, July 12, 1988 Michael Connelly, "Drag Racing Hot Spot Has History of Tragedy," Los Angeles Times, July 27, 1993 Andrew Blankstein, "Suspect in Fatal Drag Race Charged With Manslaughter," Los Angeles Times, March 8, 1997 "Driver Gets Probation in Fatal Drag Race," Los Angeles Times, July 31, 1997 Jeff Schnaufer and Ed Bond, "Crackdown: Shopping Center Draws Rowdy Crowds, Residents and Officials Say," Los Angeles Times, July 29, 1994 a b Colored map, Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times "Northwest County," Mapping L.A, Los Angeles Times "Angeles Forest," Mapping L.A, Los Angeles Times Advertisement, Los Angeles Times, February 11, 1923, page V-6 "Announce Valley Tract," Los Angeles Times, February 18, 1923, page V-6 "Large Valley Tract Opened," Los Angeles Times, October 9, 1938, page E-2 "Smaller-Lot Planned Rapped at Sylmar," Los Angeles Times, May 13, 1972, page SF-1 "Commission Denies Plea for Sylmar Plan Change," Los Angeles Times, March 1, 1963, page E-8 "City Goes Ahead With Sylmar Land-Use Plan," Los Angeles Times, May 11, 1971, page SF-7 Irv Burleigh, "Why Sylmar Housing Plan Was Plowed Under," Los Angeles Times, January 15, 1969, page SF-B-1] John Nielsen, "Panel Votes to Change Sylmar Plan," Los Angeles Times, July 1, 1984, page V-4 Area Population Growth," Los Angeles Times, January 18, 1990 Stephanie Chavez, "Fast-Growing Sylmar Bracing for the Boom From Its Hospital," Los Angeles Times, March 18, 1986, page V-A-6 "Tubercular Home May Be Located at Sylmar," Los Angeles Times, October 7, 1917, page V-12 "Three-in-One Hospital Plans Are Approved," Los Angeles Times, April 8, 1918, page II-3 a b "Great New Weapon Recently Forged by Los Angeles County for Use in Its Ceaseless War Upon the White Plague," Los Angeles Times, March 9, 1919, page II-7 "$20 Million Olive View Hospital Project Rushed," Los Angeles Times, January 26, 1965, page SF-8 "Olive View Hospital Will Have 800 Beds," Los Angeles Times, October 1, 1967, page 5 a b c Paul Houston, "Took 'Direct Hit': Olive View Facility Called Total Loss," Los Angeles Times, February 10, 1971, page B-2 Richard Simon, "Panel Backs Rebuilding of Olive View Hospital," Los Angeles Times, June 11, 1981, page V-1 Revkin, "New Quake-Proof Olive View Hospital Receives Its 1st Patients," Los Angeles Times, May 10, 1987, page VY-A-5 Amy Pyle, "Sylmar: Change in Medical Center Name OKd," Los Angeles Times, May 20, 1992 "Plan Bared for Valley Juvenile Hall," Los Angeles Times, August 11, 1960, page F-1 Dick Degnon, "Sylmar Residents to Protest Proposed Juvenile Hall Site," Los Angeles Times, page E-1 "Board to Force Sale of Juvenile Hall Acreage," Los Angeles Times, November 2, 1961, page E-1 "Price Fixed for Juvenile Hall Site," Los Angeles Times, August 28, 1962, page E=8 Ray Zeman, "Juvenile Hall Branch Given Top Priority," Los Angeles Times, September 19, 1962, page A-1 $5 Million Juvenile Hall Work Starts," Los Angeles Times, June 6, 1963, page H-1 "Juvenile Hall Dedication Scheduled," Los Angeles Times, September 19, 1965, page SF-C-1 "Doors Open at New $5 Million Juvenile Hall," Los Angeles Times, July 7, 1965, page SF-12 Gordon Grant, "New Juvenile Hall Jammed; 30 Children Sleep on Floor," Los Angeles Times, March 24, 1966, page SF-1 Juvenile Hall Is Held Prisoner by the Crowding of Young Inmates," Los Angeles Times, December 9, 1990, page OC-A-41 Gordon Grant, "Official Discounts Escape Menace," Los Angeles Times, April 7, 1965, page SF-8 Gordon Grant, "Juvenile Hall Acts to Plug Escape Routes," Los Angeles Times, April 27, 1966, page SF-8 "Sylmar Supports Own Volunteer Fire Department," Los Angeles Times, August 7, 1943, page A-3 "Group Aims for C of C in Sylmar," Los Angeles Times, March 30, 1958, page SF-9 "Sylmar C of C Again Being Reactivated,Los Angeles Times, December 27, 1959, page SF-6 "Porter Ranch: Schools," Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times "The Story of the Los Angeles Aqueduct".

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