Lakewood California Real Estate – Info You Need
Lakewood CA is a planned, post-World War II community. One of the famous developers is Louis Boyar, Mark Taper and Ben Weingart are credited with “altering forever the map of Southern California”.
Lakewood was the first city in the nation to contract for all of its municipal services when Lakewood incorporated as a municipality in 1954, making it the nation’s first “contract city.” Other suburbs in Los Angeles, such as Cerritos and Diamond Bar have adopted the “Lakewood Plan.”
Lakewood’s primary thoroughfares are mostly boulevards with landscaped medians, with frontage roads on either side in residential districts. Unlike in most similar configurations, however, access to the main road from the frontage road is only possible from infrequently spaced collector streets.
[The completion of the developers’ plan helped in the transformation of mass middle class housing from its early phases in the 1930s and 1940s to the reality of the 1950s.
This arrangement, hailed by urban planners of the day, is a compromise between the traditional urban grid and the arrangement of winding “drives” and culs-de-sac that dominates contemporary suburban and exurban design. For this reason http://www.squidoo.com/lakewood_ca_homes_for_sale are always in demand.
Lakewood is credited as a pioneer among California cities in services provision. Although it is an incorporated city, it contracts for most municipal services, with most of these provided by Los Angeles County and, to a lesser extent, by other public agencies and private industry.
Lakewood is a general law city. The five city council members are elected for overlapping four-year terms. The mayor is selected by the council from among its members and serves for a one-year term. The city council appoints a city manager and a city attorney. In addition, the council appoints the Community Safety Commission, the Planning Environment Commission, and the Recreation and Community Services Commission. The city council also sits as the Board of Directors of the Lakewood Redevelopment Agency and the Lakewood Housing Authority. To find Lakewood CA homes for sale call 800-409-3583.
Lakewood is predominantly owner-occupied (about 65 percent in 2000). In Los Angeles County, less than half of the total housing units were owner-occupied in 2000. Lakewood is predominantly a single-family community with 85 percent of its housing units being single-family detached structures.
Lakewood has about 150 miles of streets and 300 miles of sidewalks. More than 36,000 trees line city streets and shade city parks. About 150 acres of the city are devoted to parks and other landscaped open space.
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Posted by Carlos Sagastume on August 20, 2009. Filed under HUD Homes.
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