STUDY AIMED AT BRIGHTENING BLIGHTED SUN VALLEY.Byline: DANA BARTHOLOMEW Staff Writer SUN VALLEY -- A coalition of architects, urban planners List of urban planners chronological by initial year of plan.
The American Institute of Architects The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Organized in 1857, the Institute conducts various activities and programs to support the profession and enhance its public image, including periodically awarding the AIA has linked up with the Economic Alliance of 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. to study how to transform the grimy grim·y adj. grim·i·er, grim·i·est Covered or smudged with grime. See Synonyms at dirty. grim  i·ly adv. region south of Hansen Dam Hansen Dam in Los Angeles County, California was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District in 1939 and 1940. The project is located near the northern edge of the San Fernando Valley on Tujunga Wash, about one mile below the confluence of the Big Tujunga Wash . ``When you look at the existing conditions, it's ripe for redevelopment,'' said Jerry Pollak of the AIA-San Fernando Valley, which helped draw up a municipal blueprint for the turnaround of Panorama City. ``The whole aim of our project is to make (Sun Valley) into a vital area -- to increase job opportunities, to make it more aesthetically pleasing.'' Residents of the northeast San Fernando Valley community have long been victims of industrial blight. Because of a glut of polluting industries, 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. has declared Sun Valley the city's first Environmental Justice Improvement Area. Sun Valley students suffer asthma at twice the national average. Following the most intense study of its kind in the state, air regulators will soon publish the results of five air monitoring stations in Sun Valley. The group hopes to construct a cohesive plan for 1,500 acres that now include trash and recycling centers, auto dismantlers, parts yards, granite and rock suppliers, industrial painting and chrome-plating shops. In their place, planners hope to draw high-paying industries, a movie and TV sound studio, a retail village, apartments, a high-tech high school, Metrolink station and a park with lakes atop the old gravel pits. ``The area doesn't have to be a wasteland,'' said Bruce Ackerman, chairman and chief executive officer of the Economic Alliance, and a member of the study team. ``Somebody's got to go in there with a plan to rebuild the area so it has some sense of environmental (purpose), generates good jobs and provides decent housing.'' The study is expected to take three to six months. The 20-member volunteer study team, led by Pollak, will include architects, attorneys, economic development specialists and an engineer, city planner and real estate agent. About 150 students at the California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , Pierce College and Woodbury University will also contribute plans for the Sun Valley face-lift. ``It's about time It's About Time may refer to:
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