Week in Review

More than 100 Sparr Heights residents packed a community room Monday night to pepper city planning officials with questions regarding the impact that an approved retail building would have on their neighborhood. And they did not like the answers.

The 3,980-square-foot building at Verdugo Road and Los Encinos Avenue — which obtained the needed building permit after successfully moving through the city’s design review and planning process — had residents frequently shouting over one another at planning officials as they disputed the project’s traffic plan, which they said would make the roads even less safe.

Residents took issue with plans to install a median on Verdugo Road in front of the proposed market’s driveway to a 16-space parking lot to prevent left turns in and out of the lot.

 A 35-unit, mixed affordable-housing project on Doran Street could add 20 moderate-income apartments and 27,500 square feet of open space after the Housing Authority on Tuesday approved negotiations to explore the expansion of the original site plan.

The original two-story, Craftsman-style housing project, which has yet to break ground at 339 through 343 W. Doran St., was approved in December 2005. It includes a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments for sale in the 35-unit complex — 24 of which will be set aside for moderate-income, first-time home buyers, according to the city’s Community Development and Housing Department.

For a family of four, that would mean earnings of less than $67,800, said Peter Zovak, deputy director of housing.

All of the other units would be priced at market value.

The Crescenta Valley High girls’ golf team saw its season conclude Monday following a seventh-place finish at the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Central Team Divisional in Riverside County. The Falcons — winners of the Pacific League championship for a second straight season — finished with a score of 447 in the 21-team tournament, which featured 126 players. Christine Cho of Crescenta Valley finished second in the tournament, as she carded a one-under-par 71. The Harvard University-bound Cho had four birdies, 11 pars and three bogeys on the 5,600-yard course.