“The Golf Course has added significantly to the quality of life for local residents. It is unique in its affordability and accessibility to the public for leisure and educational purposes. I am hopeful we can all work together to preserve park, recreational and open spaces for future generations."
- United States Congressman Adam Schiff
The following officials and organizations have written letters on behalf of saving the Verdugo Hills Golf Course. Their letters and support are greatly appreciated. They understand this is a rare opportunity to preserve recreational land at time when our communities are facing a shortage of parks and recreational opportunities.
“In its current form the Verdugo Hills Golf Course is a community asset that golfers have enjoyed for decades. It is also one of the few remaining privately-owned golf courses that is affordable and accessible to the public. The loss of this recreational opportunity, as well as precious open space, would have a detrimental effect on the surrounding community.”
- Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich
"I am proud to join with the countless community groups and local officials who have joined together in an effort to save this recreational, historic, and environmental treasure."
- California Assemblymember Anthony J. Portantino, 44th District
"Every effort must be taken by the City of Los Angeles to preserve this property for open space and recreation for all in perpetuity. this area is one of the fastest growing communities in Los Angeles and we are rapidly depleting our oak trees, flora and fauna, watershed and open space for parks in our already park poor community."
- Cindy Cleghorn, Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council
"The proposed development will produce all of the significant and unavoidable adverse impacts that projects of this size inevitably have on traffic, noise, air quality, biological resources, recreational resources, visual resources, schools, and public services."
- Richard Toyon, V.O.I.C.E.
"Paving over the Verdugo Hills Golf Course would have many detrimental impacts on the environment and would also represent a tremendous loss in terms of developed parkland. In addition to the golf course, the property also has potential for other forms of recreation and exercise."
- Helen Frawley, The Verdugo Hills Golf Course Womens Golf Clubs
“We are looking to you for the leadership that will bring the City of Glendale, the County of Los Angeles, the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, and any other sources for funding, together, to preserve the golf course. A joint purchase of the golf course would be a great investment in our future and the future of our children.”
- Abby Diamond & Joe Barrett, Sunland-Tujunga Alliance
"The EIR must survey the existing infrastructure and whether the CUMULATIVE development within the Verdugo Hills radius will strain it beyond capacity. We already experience frequent brown-outs throughout the City and have been asked to conserve water. The EIR must balance the request for high density zoning with addition of small-lot –subdivision ordinance rights against the status of the City’s infrastructure."
- William E. Eick, Shadow Hills Property Owners Assoc.
“The Verdugo Hills Golf Course has provided generations of Glendale golfers with an affordable, accessible and family oriented golf and recreational experience. In addition the golf course provides open space, recreational space, and functions as a quasi-park in our City. Because the developer is a willing seller, the opportunity to add significantly to our park space is golden.”
- Margaret Hammond, Glendale Homeowners Coordinating Council
“We ‘talk’ about thinking green. If we are serious about what we will leave our children and grandchildren, we can not turn our backs on over 60 acres that at this moment is pure green. This site is essentially a green park as I write. Mayor Villaraigosa talks about 35 news parks in the next several years in Los Angeles. The most difficult part of establishing a new park is finding suitable property that is for sale.”
- Lloyd Hitt, The Little Landers Historical Society
“If we won’t take care of the resources we have now, no amount of tax dollars in the future will make up for the loss of useable public open space. The monetary cost of development will extend to the public with increased education, fire, police, and utility services needed. Has the city calculated the cost of a new fire station or school into the final price of this development? ”
- Board of Directors, Friends of Mountain Oaks
“An Interim Control Ordinance has been placed on this area because of Cumulative effects on Traffic, and the other end of La Tuna Canyon empties onto the only other surface route out of the area - Sunland Boulevard. Sun Valley is doubly impacted by commuter traffic that already transverse La Tuna Canyon Road and Sunland Boulevard every day.”
- Jon Eshbach, Sun Valley Area Neighborhood Council
“We also ask that [Glendale City] Council provide a letter of support calling for the preservation of the Verdugo Hills Golf Course, and work with the other jurisdictions in an effort to secure its purchase. Only one block from the western border of our city, the golf course provides many Glendale residents with an important recreational venue and precious open space, including almost four hundred native oak and sycamore trees.”
- Arlene Vidor, The Glendale Historical Society
