An elder-care facility proposal for a property in the midst of a single-family residential Sherwood Forest neighborhood will be discussed Thursday night at the Northridge South Neighborhood Council Board meeting, 7 p.m., at Northridge Middle School, 17960 Chase St.
The 140-unit elder-care facility slated for the corner of Parthenia Street and Shoshone Avenue failed to win the support of the Neighborhood Council's land use committee. A mass meeting of the Sherwood Forest Homeowners Association voted unanimously to oppose the project.
The Chatsworth Neighborhood Council's land use committee last week voted to support the Homeowners Association. A similar project has been proposed in Chatsworth.
Councilman Mitch Englander joined with the Chatsworth land use committee to oppose the proposed 99-bed elder-care facility on DeSoto Avenue. He said that project didn't fit the surrounding neighborhood of horse-keeping properties. However, he has declined to take a stand on the Sherwood Forest project, saying it is a "long-standing policy of our office to respect and support this process, and to allow projects to proceed along their prescribed course without being influenced by our presence."
Read more about elder-care in Northridge and Chatsworth:
- Neighbors Protest Proposed 99-Bed Elder-Care Facility in Chatsworth
- Sherwood Forest Homeowners Vote Down Plans for Elder-Care Facility
- Englander Joins Neighbors to Oppose DeSoto Ave. Elder-Care Facility [Video]
- Sherwood Forest Elder-Care Facility Fails to Win Support of Land Use Committee
- Why Englander Declines to Take a Stand on Sherwood Forest Elder-Care Proposal
We have ENOUGH traffic congestion in Northridge without adding 140 more beds on one lot, with a potential of 140 more sirens screaming to their occupants' rescue. Today, I witnessed a traffic accident on Lindley at Saticoy. The paramedics entered the intersection and stopped, with their sirens blaring. The cars heading north on Lindley stopped to let them go through, and a pick-up truck slammed into the rear end of one of the stopped cars. That pick-up truck had plenty of time to stop. The driver acted like he had no idea what to do in the presence of emergency vehicles. (Another injury resulting from our legislature's failure to enforce the CA driver's license policy.) I was stopped in traffic 3 years ago, and hit from behind by an SUV. My back still isn't mended-- I have to keep going to the chiropractor, using heat and pain meds. Why, oh why, can't anyone see that adding 140 more residents to this area is a recipe for disaster? Property values will plummet, and with them, TAXES, Mr. Politician. Businesses will leave the area, and you'll be setting Northridge on the course to be a slum.
The few people who might be for this proposal, either do not live in the area, or might benefit monetarily from the building of this structure in some way, or perhaps were told their properties would now be worth more, because this structure might open doors to other developers that will pay premium dollars for their properties. This is completely against what this Ordinance was designed to do. We will wait for Fernando Tovar, the zoning assessor, to determine his findings, and for our Councilman to make his recommendation, hopefully against this. I don't see how the assessor can say that this structure will not affect our neighborhood after hearing all the testimonies of all the neighbors today, and the city council's unanimous vote against it last week.