Oakmont

Marshall Allen LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE -- The battle being waged in Glendale over the Oakmont V development is spilling into La Canada Flintridge, with potentially drastic implications. If Oakmont V, a proposed 572-home subdivision in the Verdugo Mountains, is approved by the Glendale City Council, some La Canada Flintridge residents might never have sewers, La Canada Flintridge city officials said. Oakmont V developers and opponents will speak before the La Canada Flintridge City Council at its meeting Tuesday night.

Alex Coolman GLENDALE -- Tonight's hearing on on the revised environmental impact report for the Oakmont View V project will be televised live on Charter Communications Channel 6. Ritch Wells, a spokesman for the city, said the broadcast will mark only the second time since 1995 that a meeting outside of City Hall has been cablecast on the city's channel. The meeting is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. In addition to being cablecast live, the hearing will be replayed at 10 p.m. Saturday, and at 11 a.m. and 10 p.m. Sunday.

Marc Stirdivant The war of words on Oakmont View V has started to heat up. Facts have been replaced by spin. Objective analysis has given way to personal attacks. It's time to bring facts and objective analysis back into the discussion. The question, in the midst of all this passion, is how. The California Environmental Quality Act provides a large part of the answer. CEQA is the law that requires state and local agencies to identify the significant environmental impacts of their actions and, if possible, avoid or reduce them.

Claudia Peschiutta GLENDALE -- Some things in the draft environmental impact report of the proposed Oakmont View V project may not be as they seem. The projected effects of the 572-home development on the Glendale Unified School District are based on information from the 1997-98 and 1998-99 school years and the report needs to be updated, Steve Hodgson, assistant superintendent of business services for the district, said Thursday. Information provided by the district in 1997 had the project bringing 181 additional students into city schools.

Tim Willert GLENDALE CITY HALL -- Like the Planning Commission before it, the City Council will get quite an earful from homeowners, environmentalists and politicians when it meets at 6 tonight to vote on the proposed Oakmont View V development and environmental impact report. City Clerk Doris Twedt said Monday that representatives from more than 100 community groups have indicated they will speak -- most of them against the project. Oakmont View V calls for a 572-lot, single-family housing development on 238 acres in the Verdugo Mountains above Oakmont Country Club.

Alex Coolman GLENDALE -- The developer hoping to build the Oakmont V subdivision has put up $490,000 to revise an environmental impact report on the project. Gregg's Artistic Homes, Inc. paid for the Sacramento firm Jones and Stokes to start fixing another company's widely criticized environmental report on the 572-home subdivision. Lee Gregg, vice president of the company, said the money was paid "under protest" strictly to keep the development process moving.

Tim Willert NORTHEAST GLENDALE -- Gregg Development recently completed an appraisal of the Oakmont View V property, and is waiting on a separate appraisal from an interested buyer, a Gregg spokesman said Friday. American Land Conservancy has expressed interest in purchasing 238 acres in the Verdugo Mountains, but has yet to make an offer. "We're not negotiating with them or anybody else," spokesman Allen Brandstater said. "We authorized them to do an appraisal."

Robert Shaffer Run as pull out box. EDITORS NOTE: This is the first of six stories that will give candidates in the 43rd and 44th Assembly districts and 21st state Senate District a chance to explain their views on locally vital issues. Today, we start with the Republican candidates in the 43rd Assembly District and their views on the proposed 238-acre Oakmont V development. GLENDALE -- If elected to the state Assembly in November, three 43rd District Republican candidates have distinctly different views on how they can help solve the riddle of Oakmont View V. Craig Missakian thinks GOP blood could get all sides, including the developer, to sit once again at the bargaining table.

Tim Willert GLENDALE CITY HALL -- Nearly 11 hours after sitting down to decide the fate of Oakmont View V, the City Council voted unanimously early Wednesday to deny the proposed hillside subdivision. The move set the stage for yet another court challenge by project developers. "There were just too many negative impacts on the hillside and the environment," Mayor Gus Gomez said in an interview Wednesday. "I think it was the right decision and I don't have any regrets about it."

John Gregg must have finally finished counting his $25 million because he is once more writing letters -- ("Is this a property-rights epiphany?" April 30). He says that contrary to my Oakmont V development opposition, my anti-rent control stance tells him that I have experienced an epiphany about government interference in property matters now that it is my "ox being gored." There is no truth to this. John proves again that he is a master of superficiality and obfuscation, and here's why: 1. John's ox was a mere gleam in the eye of the daddy bull.

GLENDALE - After recording a third-place finish Monday in a Western State Conference home match, the members of the Glendale Community College men's golf team immediately began to look ahead to the conference final. Glendale college had four players crack the 70s to finish with a 385 on Monday at fabled Oakmont Country Club. PHOTOS: Glendale Community College men's golf in Western State Conference match While Glendale Coach Greg Osbourne would have liked to have seen the Vaqueros win on their home course for the third season in a row, Monday's placement left the Vaqueros knowing what they will need to accomplish at the 36-hole conference tournament on Monday at Soule Park Golf Course in Ojai.

Pat Mann was a loyal friend to many Glendale organizations. During the 1940s, she brought two groups together in a relationship that continues to this day. One group was the Foothill Club for the Blind, established in 1939 with support from the Glendale Lions Club. Its membership increased so rapidly that it outgrew three locations and the leadership began seeking a permanent home. By this time the local Lions had realized they couldn't support the very popular club alone. Fortunately, Lions clubs from Eagle Rock, Burbank and Griffith Park all became involved, as noted in a 1945 Glendale News-Press article.

The Glendale Area Alumnae Panhellenic will have its 65th annual Scholarship Luncheon on March 16 at the Oakmont Country Club. Each year, the group awards scholarship grants to college-bound high school senior women from more than 10 private and public high schools in the area, as well as to college sorority women who meet different eligibility requirements. In 2012, volunteers raised and granted more than $5,000 in scholarship awards. The 2012 high school scholarship recipients were Burbank residents Alyssa Ehredt and Elizabeth Pascual, both from John Burroughs High School; Valery Vasquez, Burbank High School; Allison Lipscomb, Glendale, Notre Dame High School; and La Crescenta residents Marisa Gonzales, Crescenta Valley High School; and Jessica Palacios, Clark Magnet High School.

A North Glendale home that has changed hands four times in the last three years is just one member of a cast of characters involved in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud Pasadena's Huntington Memorial Hospital. The home on Oakmont View Drive at one point belonged to David Hamedany, 56, a former director of construction at Huntington Hospital who is now serving a three-year sentence for his part in defrauding the institution of nearly $5 million in donor funds. He has also been ordered to repay the hospital $4.8 million.

NORTHEAST GLENDALE - Having played golf for more than 20 years, Jon Levitt understands the critical thinking aspect of the game. He recently wrote a book titled, "The Process: Mental Training and the Principles of Limitless Golfing Success," which examines the mental and psychological facets of the sport. Fortunately for Levitt, he managed to remember his own advice and kept his composure during the championship flight of the inaugural Glendale City Golf Championship on Monday at Oakmont Country Club.

When it was first formed, Oakmont League was firmly connected with the Oakmont Country Club. But it wasn't called the Oakmont League. It was called the Oakmont Junior Matrons. Here's the story behind the change. Early in 1938, the owner of the club approached a member, Sally McKnight, asking her to be social chairman for the club. “Sally was a dynamic, well-educated, beautiful and cultured person with an aristocratic air, and I'm sure that's what they had in mind when they approached her, as the beginnings of OL were also infused with these qualities," wrote Marian Burgoyne in an undated article on file in the Glendale Library's Special Collections Dept.

Living on the edges of a recently renovated 18-hole golf course might seem like the pinnacle of home ownership, but errant golf balls in one North Glendale neighborhood are sending some running for cover. Residents in the 3200 block of La Crescenta Avenue, which demarcates the northeast perimeter of the Oakmont County Club golf course, said they have been encountering the occasional golf ball for years. They also maintain that the incidents of wayward balls have increased dramatically since the course underwent a $4.7-million renovation in 2009, resulting in smashed car windows and near misses of students walking to and from nearby Fremont Elementary School.

Golfers - professionals and amateurs - from coast to coast have their hearts set on being a part of the field in the 112th United States Open Championship in June. At 32 venues Monday, 8,527 competitors will look to take the first step toward qualifying for the championship. One of the sites will be Glendale's Oakmont Country Club, which will host an 18-hole local qualifier for the second time in three years. Ninety participants will take to the Oakmont course, which opened in 1922 and has hosted its share of large attractions.

NORTHEAST GLENDALE - Glendale Community College's men's golf team accomplished two things Monday during its Western State Conference home match at Oakmont Country Club. First, the Vaqueros won by five strokes over College of the Canyons. Of greater significance, the victory allowed them to build upon their chances in their quest to qualify for the Southern California Regionals for a second season in a row. "With the win, we've been able to separate ourselves," said Glendale college Coach Greg Osbourne, whose team carded a 390 and leads third-place Santa Barbara City College by eight wins with three matches remaining.

Back in the '40s and '50s, one of the most popular activities at the Foothill Service Club for the Blind was the craft program, which began soon after the club was founded in 1940. The club grew very quickly and by the time this story begins, it had moved to a bigger place on North Glendale Avenue. At the time, two state teachers, plus a sightless instructor from the Braille Institute, were directing the craft work two days a month. Items were displayed and sold at the club's annual picnics, often held in the gardens of private homes.