Thousand Oaks, California
Thousand Oaks, California City of Thousand Oaks City of Thousand Oaks sign and oak tree City of Thousand Oaks sign and oak tree Official seal of Thousand Oaks, California Thousand Oaks, California is positioned in the US Thousand Oaks, California - Thousand Oaks, California Thousand Oaks is a town/city in southeastern Ventura County, California, United States.
It is in the northwestern part of the Greater Los Angeles Area, approximately 35 miles (56 km) from Downtown Los Angeles and is less than 15 mi (24 km) from the Los Angeles town/city neighborhood of Woodland Hills.
It was titled after the many oak trees that expanded in the area, and the town/city seal is adorned with an oak.
The town/city forms the populated core of the Conejo Valley, which includes Thousand Oaks proper, Newbury Park, Westlake Village, Agoura Hills, and Oak Park.
The Los Angeles County Ventura County line crosses at the city's easterly border with Westlake Village.
Thousand Oaks and Newbury Park were part of a master-planned city, created by the Janss Investment Company in the mid-1950s.
The median home price is around $669,500. Thousand Oaks was ranked the fourth-safest among metros/cities with a populace greater than 100,000 in the United States by the FBI's 2013 Uniform Crime Reports. Majestic old oak tree in Thousand Oaks The Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Center today stands on the site of the park.
The City of Thousand Oaks was incorporated on October 7, 1964, the first incorporated town/city in the Conejo Valley. Some sources mistakenly state that Thousand Oaks was incorporated on September 29, 1964, which was the date that voters allowed the incorporation and chose the name.
However, the incorporation only became official once the certificates of election were filed with the California Secretary of State, and then the record of affidavit was filed with the Ventura County Clerk. It is known for being a prepared community, as the town/city is one of several that have actually stayed with the master plan.
The Newbury Park region of Thousand Oaks This unincorporated region was took in by the town/city of Thousand Oaks through votes by Newbury Park communities.
The only communities that chose to remain county areas are Casa Conejo, which was assembled from 1960 to about 1965, and Lynn Ranch, an old neighborhood in the portion of the city.
Thousand Oaks also took in the parts of neighboring Westlake Village (then simply known as "Westlake") that were positioned in Ventura County, in two portions in 1968 and 1972. Thousand Oaks is encouraging mixed-use retail and housing evolution along the downtown portion of Thousand Oaks Boulevard. The town/city is "built-out" inside the confines of the Conejo Valley and has adopted a smart expansion strategy as there is no room for the widespread suburban expansion the town/city is known for. Thousand Oaks is positioned at 34 11 22 N 118 52 30 W (34.189489, -118.875053). It is situated in the Conejo Valley.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 55.2 square miles (143 km2).
Although Thousand Oaks has a downtown region (focused around the Janss Marketplace mall, The Oaks mall, and W.
Thousand Oaks Blvd.), a large portion of the city's inhabitants live in suburban communities a distance from the commercial centers of the city.
Destinations from Thousand Oaks Newbury Park Oak Park Thousand Oaks Vegetation is typical of Mediterranean surroundings, with chaparral and grasses on the hillsides and various valley oaks.
Climate data for Thousand Oaks, California (91360) A road in the Newbury Park region of Thousand Oaks The Casa Conejo region of Thousand Oaks The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Thousand Oaks had a populace of 126,683.
The ethnic makeup of Thousand Oaks was 101,702 (80.3%) White, 1,674 (1.3%) African American, 497 (0.4%) Native American, 11,043 (8.7%) Asian, 146 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 6,869 (5.4%) from other competitions, and 4,752 (3.8%) from two or more competitions.
Thousand Oaks does not directly elect its mayor; instead, council members take turns rotating into the position. According to the city's most recent (2009) Comprehensive Annual Financial Report Fund financial statements, the city's various funds had $118.1 million in revenues, $113.5 million in expenditures, $245.0 million in total assets, $63.4 million in total liabilities, and $214.2 million in investments: Assistant City Manager (Interim City Manager) Andrew Powers All new evolution is described as slow-growth in order to be accepted by the community. Ordinances protect oak trees and the town/city before itizes planting more in street medians and other enhance land. More than 15,000 acres (61 km2) have been preserved as open space, including more than 75 miles (121 km) of trails.
Thousand Oaks and neighboring Simi Valley are strongholds for the Republican Party in Ventura County. As of 2007, Thousand Oaks had three registered Republican voters for every Democrat. Over 60 percent of voters were registered Republicans in 2008. However, by 2014, the party registrations for Thousand Oaks inhabitants were 40.6% Republican, 31.6% Democrat, 22.1% no preference, with the remainder split among other parties. The city's economy is based on a small range of businesses, with biotechnology, electronics, automotive, aerospace, telecommunications, healthcare, and financing occupying most of Thousand Oaks' employment sector.
Thousand Oaks also has large employers Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center, Conejo Valley Unified School District, City of Thousand Oaks, Hyatt Hotels, and California Lutheran University headquartered in the city.
Power began moving its employees from its former command posts in Agoura Hills, California, to its current command posts in the Westlake section of Thousand Oaks in the weekend after April 11, 2002. The communities of Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, and Agoura Hills are served by the Greater Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce, one of the several in California to receive four-star accreditation from the United States Chamber of Commerce. The small company improve in Thousand Oaks is especially strong; Fundera ranked the town/city the 5th best town/city in California for small company in a 2016 study. According to the City's 2015 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: The Ventura County Fire Department (VCFD) provides fire protection and emergency medical services for Thousand Oaks and the encircling areas.
The Ventura County Sheriff's Office provides law enforcement services for the city.
In October 2013, Thousand Oaks was ranked the fourth safest town/city with a populace over 100,000 in America, as stated to an annual report by the FBI. Thousand Oaks is served by the Conejo Valley Unified School District.
The high schools of the region include Thousand Oaks High School, Newbury Park High School, and Westlake High School.
Oaks Christian High School, while positioned immediately outside Ventura County, matriculates various students from the county.
California Lutheran University is positioned in Thousand Oaks.
The Thousand Oaks Library fitness is persistently ranked as one of the best enhance libraries in California. The library consists of the Grant R.
Brimhall Library in Thousand Oaks and the Newbury Park Branch Library in Newbury Park. A 22,000-square-foot (2,000 m2) children's library was added to the existing 62,000-square-foot (5,800 m2) chief building in June 2006.
AYSO soccer, Club Soccer such as Apex Soccer Club, Newbury Park Soccer Club and Conejo Valley United, Conejo Youth Basketball Association, also known as CYBA, Conejo Valley Thunder Wrestling, Pop Warner football, Little League baseball, CYFFA flag football, girls' softball, organized swim team leagues, ice hockey, and even organized lacrosse, rugby and field hockey have active programs.
In August 1994, a team from Thousand Oaks Little League became the first Little League team in Ventura County to win a World Championship, winning the Championship game 20-3. In 1996, a Senior Division (ages 14 16) Thousand Oaks Little League team won a National Championship.
In 2006, Thousand Oaks won the World Championship in the Big League Division(ages 16 18) of Little League by defeating a team from Puerto Rico 10-0. The Thousand Oaks Big League team were also World Series runners-up in 2003 and 2005.
In the summer of 2004, the Little League National Championship team hailed from Thousand Oaks.
Ventura County Fusion, a minor league soccer team playing in the USL Premier Development League, while based in close-by Ventura, has held home games at Newbury Park High School in Newbury Park.
The Conejo Oaks semi-pro collegiate baseball team play in Thousand Oaks at Sparky Anderson Field. The Ventura County Outlaws, a rugby union team competing in the Southern California Rugby Football Union, is based in Thousand Oaks.
The Cowboys Clubhouse in Thousand Oaks still stands athwart from the complex, and is presently a family residence.
The Los Angeles Rams' temporary command posts and practice facilities will also be positioned on the same ground beginning in 2016 until the team constructs their permanent training complex in Los Angeles (in a separate July 2016 agreement, the Rams signed a three-year deal with UC Irvine to use that university's Crawford Field for the team's training camp.) Thousand Oaks lies in the heart of the Conejo Valley, with the town/city of Los Angeles to the east and the town/city of Ventura to the west.
Highway 101 runs through the town/city and joins it with Los Angeles and Ventura.
CA Route 23 joins to the 101 near downtown Thousand Oaks, runs north toward Moorpark and Simi Valley, and essentially divides the town/city in two.
Thousand Oaks is also served by Thousand Oaks Transit (TOT), which provides enhance transit in the form of shuttles and buses.
TOT buses furnish service to Thousand Oaks as well as some neighboring communities.
In addition to being a transfer station from Los Angeles and other close-by cities, it also serves as the major station for Thousand Oaks Transit buses. Metrolink Ventura County and Pacific Surfliner services are available at the train stations in Moorpark and Camarillo.
Thousand Oaks offers enhance transit that runs to both airports, via the VISTA, Metro, and LADOT bus lines.
Los Angeles International Airport is approximately 40 miles (64 km) southeast of the city, while Burbank Airport is approximately 35 miles (56 km) east of the city.
General aviation airports include Camarillo Airport, approximately 15 miles (24 km) west of the city; Oxnard Airport, approximately 25 miles (40 km) west of the town/city in Oxnard, California; and Van Nuys Airport, 25 miles (40 km) east of the city.
The now-closed Conejo Valley Airport directed in Thousand Oaks from 1926 until 1962 with a 2,600-foot (792-metre) airstrip.
Currently,[when?] Thousand Oaks is undergoing various renovations and development.
Route 101 is being upgraded, The Oaks Shopping Center is being period by the Macerich Company, and the town/city has plans to renovate the old downtown, near the Civic Arts Plaza on Thousand Oaks Blvd. Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Center Thousand Oaks Library Conejo Valley High: earliest continuously used enhance landmark in Conejo Valley (aka Timber School) Thousand Oaks' fauna includes mammals such as mountain lions, bobcats, coyotes, grey fox and mule deer, as well as lesser mammals as the striped- and spotted skunk, California raccoon, Virginia opossum, Audubon's cottontail, long-tailed weasel, Botta's pocket gopher, ring-tailed cat, California vole, brush rabbit, gray squirrel, and a several species of rats and mice, where the most common are deer mouse and Merriam's kangaroo rat.
The dangerous lion often creates a hazard in suburban areas, but generally speaking is only found in the adjoining Simi Hills, Santa Monica Mountains, and the Santa Susana Mountains. Some of the amphibians and reptiles found in Thousand Oaks include lizards such as side-blotched lizards, southern alligator lizards and fence lizards, as well as the southwestern pond turtle and crawdads, and various species of snake, including southern Pacific rattlesnakes, San Diego gopher snakes, striped racers, California kingsnakes, common kingsnakes, ringneck snakes, and aquatic garter snakes.
Some amphibians found in Thousand Oaks include ensatina, slender salamander, toad, American bullfrog, California toad, Pacific tree frog, and the California red-legged frog.
Mule deer are among the most common mammals in Thousand Oaks.
There have been observed a total of 171 bird species inside the town/city limits. The most generally encountered avifauna include the home sparrow, home finch, Brewer's blackbird, California towhee, easterly towhee, oak titmouse, acorn woodpecker, and California quail.
Raptor populace densities in the Conejo Valley, which therefore has some of the highest quantities of raptors in the U.S. Some of the raptors found in the City of Thousand Oaks include the golden eagle, red-tailed hawk, Cooper's hawk, marsh hawk, sharp-shinned hawk, red-shouldered hawk, ferruginous hawk, pigeon hawk, prairie falcon, turkey vulture, barn owl, great horned owl, screech owl, American kestrel, and the white-tailed kite. Thousand Oaks.
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