Northridge Vision 2025

When you have a minute, take a drive along Tampa Ave and check out the median which runs from Devonshire to the 118 Freeway.  You’ll see the results of a partnership between your Northridge West Neighborhood Council, the City of Los Angeles, and the Northridge Beautification Foundation, your local 501.c3 nonprofit. This partnership is multi-faceted, and one of the first steps in the renewal of the Tampa Medians, all seven of them, was to install a low water drip system for the mature growth on the medians.  The original watering system had been turned off by the City of LA because drought requirements.  However, the partnership of the Northridge West NC under the leadership of President Peter Lasky, LA Street Services Urban Forestry, and Don Larson representing the Northridge Beautification Foundation, your neighborhood nonprofit, resulted in the designing of a drip system for all seven medians.  This low water system allowed city services to commit to turning the ...

Horses Across the San Fernando Valley, a public art project developed by the Museum of the San Fernando Valley, has had the first successful placement of one of its painted horses, funded by the Northridge South Neighborhood Council, at the corner of Reseda and Rayen, in Northridge Village.HATV’s public art installations of painted fiberglass horses in various locales across the valley is intended to raise awareness of the historical, cultural & artistic heritage of the San Fernando Valley. >Like the decorative cows in Chicago, angels in LA for the city bicentennial, or pigs in Seattle, the first life-size horse painted by local artist Ingrid Elburg, member of the museum’s Public Art Initiative, has been placed in an idyllic garden corral setting in front of Stereo1, at 8901 Reseda Blvd. The soft opening on Sunday, March 19 th was celebrated with Champaign and cupcakes, lots of toasts and a special visit from some of our local fireman, shiny red firetruck and al...

CSUN's “Acasola A Cappella” group kicked off the second-annual Matador Day of Service as approximately 400 CSUN students and volunteers took to the streets on Sept. 10 in a school-wide effort to clean the campus and neighboring communities.   Matador volunteers spread out around campus and the surrounding community after gathering at Bayramian Lawn.   The event, which was designed to clean up campus and the neighboring Northridge community, was a huge success and much bigger than in 2015, said co-event organizer Don Larson. Students gathered at Bayramian Lawn at 8 a.m. for free breakfast and to meet their groups. The volunteers spent the rest of the morning doing beautification projects such as street sweeping, litter pick up and weed removal. After their projects, students returned for free lunch, games and a chance to win prizes. “Last year was primarily for freshman students, but this year everyone could join in,” Larson said. “This year we had about 400 p...

On any third Wednesday of the month, in the conference room at Council District Twelve in Chatsworth, your can find a group of like-minded individuals giving up their time, enthusiasm and unique skills to work to build a better Northridge.   Northridge Vision was founded to counter a series of negatives:   growing suburban blight, uncontrolled and unsustainable growth, outdated zoning models, and a growing sense of dissatisfaction by the citizen stakeholders with the institutions that surrounded them: economic, political and social.   Clearly, no one was engaged in a purposeful conversation about the problems that beset everyday life.   Several projects along the Northridge Corridor were built out of scale with the neighborhood, bringing questions about the development and planning processes, the participation of the local neighborhood councils, and the importance of citizen participation in every step of the planning process.   A turning point i...