Stop Home Depot Development at North Hills Center

The Issue

Help STOP HOME DEPOT from building at the North Hills Shopping Center

Home Depot has submitted plans to the City of Los Angeles to build a new store at the North Hills Shopping Center at the Southeast corner of Devonshire and Balboa.  Home Depot will tear down all stores and the movie theatre East of Ralph’s, displacing all of the 13 small businesses.  This proposed Home Depot location will border residents and will be less than 1/2 mile from Mayall Elementary School and 2 high schools.  

If Home Depot is allowed to tear down this neighborhood shopping center it will negatively impact the local residents by increasing traffic, including large semi-trucks, to the already busy intersection of Balboa and Devonshire.  Currently, Balboa Blvd. is a through fare to the 118 freeway that is already gridlocked during morning and evening commutes. 

Another way the Home Depot will negatively impact the community residents is with their very early and late store hours interrupting the families living in the apartments and homes it will border.  

A huge big box construction store does not belong in a residential neighborhood. On April 12, 2022, a Home Depot store in San Jose caught fire resulting in a toxic environmental crisis, causing residents to evacuate. 

Don’t let Home Depot destroy our local neighborhood shopping center that has been in the heart of our community since 1960!

Please join us by signing our petition and show your disproval of the proposed HD and we will submit it to the City of Los Angeles Planning and Development and Councilmember John Lee CD12.

Thank you for your support and concern with the community we live in.

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Candice S.Petition Starter
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The Issue

Help STOP HOME DEPOT from building at the North Hills Shopping Center

Home Depot has submitted plans to the City of Los Angeles to build a new store at the North Hills Shopping Center at the Southeast corner of Devonshire and Balboa.  Home Depot will tear down all stores and the movie theatre East of Ralph’s, displacing all of the 13 small businesses.  This proposed Home Depot location will border residents and will be less than 1/2 mile from Mayall Elementary School and 2 high schools.  

If Home Depot is allowed to tear down this neighborhood shopping center it will negatively impact the local residents by increasing traffic, including large semi-trucks, to the already busy intersection of Balboa and Devonshire.  Currently, Balboa Blvd. is a through fare to the 118 freeway that is already gridlocked during morning and evening commutes. 

Another way the Home Depot will negatively impact the community residents is with their very early and late store hours interrupting the families living in the apartments and homes it will border.  

A huge big box construction store does not belong in a residential neighborhood. On April 12, 2022, a Home Depot store in San Jose caught fire resulting in a toxic environmental crisis, causing residents to evacuate. 

Don’t let Home Depot destroy our local neighborhood shopping center that has been in the heart of our community since 1960!

Please join us by signing our petition and show your disproval of the proposed HD and we will submit it to the City of Los Angeles Planning and Development and Councilmember John Lee CD12.

Thank you for your support and concern with the community we live in.

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Candice S.Petition Starter
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The Decision Makers

John Lee
John Lee
City of Los Angeles, Council District 12
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“Dear Petition Authors, I thank you for your continued advocacy on the matter of the proposed Home Depot project in the Granada Hills community. As the representative of Los Angeles’ Twelfth Council District, and a resident of the Northwest San Fernando Valley for well over 40 years, I believe deeply in community engagement when it comes to issues impacting the community and feel that outreach and input is a critical part of the City’s land use process. In this case, Home Depot is proposing to construct a prototype store in an established shopping center that is vastly out of scale, without regard to the impact that it would have on the surrounding community. This approach is counter to everything I have fought to preserve in this community. I attended the Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council at their February 2, 2023 meeting to discuss myriad subjects impacting the Granada Hills community including the potential Home Depot project. At this meeting, I expressed the very same sentiments and concerns that most petitioners have expressed in this petition and did so substantially before any ‘Community Working Group Presentation’ and notably before the Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council South (GHSNC) EIR recommendation vote on August 2nd 2023 (you can find the minutes of this meeting, linked here: https://ghsnc.org/wp-content/uploads/docs/Minutes_2023-02-02.pdf). As you may find within the attached minutes, I suggested to the neighborhood council that they request an Environmental Impact Report and reconfirmed my support for the community’s and its concerns by stating, “I'm asking for a complete [Environmental Impact Report] of this project". As your representative, it is critical to help guide residents toward effective advocacy, which is what I have done on this matter to date, and I will continue to fight to ensure that the concerned voices of the Granada Hills community are heard. JOHN S. LEE Councilmember, Twelfth District City of Los Angeles”

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Petition created on May 9, 2022