PANORAMA CITY SCHOOL SITE STIRS CONCERNS; RESIDENTS FEAR TRAFFIC, TRUANTS.Byline: Robert Monroe Staff Writer Alarmed by the potential location of a high school on a parcel occupied by 22 businesses and several homes, merchants and residents predicted Thursday the neighborhood would be overrun 1. overrun - A frequent consequence of data arriving faster than it can be consumed, especially in serial line communications. For example, at 9600 baud there is almost exactly one character per millisecond, so if a silo can hold only two characters and the machine takes by traffic and truant students if the school were built. Opponents speaking at a community meeting said they might be forced to move from Panorama City, despite a possibility that their homes could be spared from school district acquisition. ``A lot of us did get good deals on these homes. We're finally gaining some appreciation,'' said Martha Garcia, whose home is threatened by the proposed school at Van Nuys Boulevard and Parthenia Street. ``It's not like we could just pick up and go.'' About 75 people attended the meeting. The dispute over the Van Nuys-Parthenia site is one of several taking place across the 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. , as residents react to the school district's plans for new schools. 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. is looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. 100 sites to place new schools, while hoping to meet a June deadline to get state funding. District officials anticipate that by the middle of the next decade, existing high schools will each be several hundred students over capacity without relief. Board members have identified several sites throughout the Valley, including a Robinsons-May department store at Laurel Canyon Boulevard Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a major street in the city of Los Angeles, California. It starts off at Polk Street in Sylmar in the northern San Fernando Valley near the junction of the San Diego (Interstate 405) and the Golden State Freeways (Interstate 5). and Oxnard Street in North Hollywood. The board chose to study the possibility of acquiring the site at Van Nuys Boulevard and Parthenia Street at its Sept. 14 meeting, along with an elementary school elementary school: see school. site in North Hills and a middle school site in Arleta. Several residents said the Van Nuys-Parthenia parcel was meant to be part of a business district revitalization re·vi·tal·ize tr.v. re·vi·tal·ized, re·vi·tal·iz·ing, re·vi·tal·iz·es To impart new life or vigor to: plans to revitalize inner-city neighborhoods; tried to revitalize a flagging economy. effort. Some expressed worry that because the district is already appraising the site, it will choose the location in spite of assurances that several other locations favored by residents are being considered. ``What it sounds like is that this is the easiest one to take,'' said Doris Rojas, who lives nearby. Business owners said they have already felt the effect of the district's consideration of the site. Some have said their employees have quit their jobs rather than wait to lose them. School board member Julie Korenstein attended the meeting, saying she has suggested cutting down the acreage that a high school at the Van Nuys Boulevard site would need. That, she said, could spare duplex (communications) duplex - Used to describe a communications channel that can carry signals in both directions, in contrast to a simplex channel which only ever carries a signal in one direction. homes at the site now. ``Obviously it's a very difficult situation. People don't want their homes taken. People don't want their businesses taken,'' Korenstein said. ``I'm very open to suggestions.'' CAPTION(S): map Map: Proposed new school |
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