LAUSD OKS SCHOOL ON OLD HOSPITAL SITE GRANADA HILLS GROUPS SAY CARE FACILITY NEEDED MORE.Byline: NAUSH BOGHOSSIAN Staff Writer Citing an overwhelming need to alleviate crowding at San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. campuses, the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Unified board voted unanimously Tuesday to build an $89 million high school at the site of the defunct Granada Hills Community Hospital. The 5-0 vote came despite vocal opposition from civic groups who said the community's aging population needed a hospital more than a high school. But school board members noted that no other health care provider has expressed interest in operating the bankrupt hospital, while three neighboring high schools are having to cope with 3,000 to 4,000 students each. ``This hospital was vacant. ... No one else has chosen to take over this hospital ... and the community gets a brand new, state-of-the-art high school,'' board member Julie Korenstein said. She added that if the district hadn't purchased the site, it would have had to acquire dozens of homes through eminent domain eminent domain, the right of a government to force the owner of private property sell it if it is needed for a public use. The right is based on the doctrine that a sovereign state has dominion over all lands and buildings within its borders, which has its origins in in order to build a high school. And without a new Granada New Granada (grənä`də), former Spanish colony, N South America. It included at its greatest extent present Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela. Hills high school, district officials project they would be unable to meet their goal of putting local students on a traditional two-semester calendar at a neighborhood school. With the school board's vote, Granada Hills residents said they will meet with City Councilman Greig Smith to discuss their options. Smith and residents have discussed filing suit to challenge the project's environmental impact report or the use of bond money for a school they believe is unnecessary. ``I think our options are quite limited,'' said Dave Beauvais, president of the old Granada Hills residents' group and a member of the Granada Hills Neighborhood Council. ``I got the sense that once LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) and especially this board makes up their mind, they get information from the facilities and demographics people and they don't really think about it that much. They take it for face value. ``It's not that we're against schools. I always said, if I can be convinced this was the right project, I would acquiesce.'' The Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. bought the 11-acre property at Balboa Boulevard and San Jose Street for $22.5 million in 2004. It will be the site of a 1,215-seat, $89 million high school designed to relieve overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. at Monroe, Polytechnic and San Fernando high schools. naush.boghossian@dailynews.com (818) 713-3722 |
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