Chevy Chase Estates Association

UTILITIES

Glendale Water & Power will not disconnect electric or water services or charge late fees through April 2020 to customers due to their inability to pay utility bills. Customers are encouraged to contact GWP to arrange alternate payment options. The Southern California Gas Company has also indicated that they have temporarily suspended service disconnects for residential customers. They are also offering assistance with bill payments and are waiving late payment fees for small business customers. MORE INFORMATION

SENIORS

The City is also offering food and grocery shopping services for seniors and vulnerable populations through the Community Services & Parks and Glendale Fire Departments. For more information on senior meals, call (818) 548-3775. For more information on grocery shopping services, call (818) 548-4814. Both lines are in service Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm. More about help for seniors, including a meal distribution service. MORE INFORMATION

BUSINESS SUPPORT

The City of Glendale’s Economic Development Division and Community Development Department are exploring and sharing ways to temporarily relieve the impact on the business community. MORE INFORMATION

FAMILIES WITH SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN

Glendale Unified School District is providing updates and resources on their Remote Learning page. The resources cover distance learning and independent study, school meal delivery, accommodations for students with disabilities, and more. MORE INFORMATION

SUPPORT THE COUNTRY CLUB!
TAKE-OUT OR DELIVERY
AND THE FOOD IS SUPER TASTY!

The Country Club kitchen is OPEN for pick-up & delivery orders only, from 11-7, Tuesday-Sunday.

Take Out (Pick-up) Menu. Call (818) 246-5566 to place your order.

Delivery (Uber Eats) Menu. Uber Eats is now offering a $10-OFF promotion for all new users who sign up & place their first order. Use this promo code for your discount: eatstogether6j3f9jh

The Country Club also offers family-style food packages for pick-up. See their website for details! You can also subscribe to their mailing list for ongoing specials and other updates at the bottom of their website. MORE INFORMATION

Tomorrow’s Wed. 2/19/20 2508 St Andrews Hearing Canceled

“As of this afternoon, the owner has requested that the case not be heard tomorrow and that it be continued to an unspecified date in the future.

The matter will be re-noticed once the case is rescheduled.

Any and all comments submitted for tomorrow’s hearing will be forwarded to the Hearing Officer for his/her consideration at the new hearing.

If you have any questions, I may be reached directly at 818-937-8154 or via email.

Best regards,

Vilia

Vilia Zemaitaitis, AICP, Principal Planner ● City of Glendale ● Community Development Department

633 East Broadway, Room 103 ● Glendale, CA 91206 ● (818) 937-8154 ●  vzemaitaitis@glendaleca.gov

A letter submitted to the Chevy Chase Estates Association by concerned property owner and former CCEA director, Jean Simone.

Hello neighbors,

Sometimes certain projects don’t pass the smell test. We have one on St. Andrews Drive.

A few years ago, we caught the owners of the property at 2508 St. Andrews Drive chopping down a beautiful oak tree. We contacted the Glendale arborist at the time. She confirmed it.

Not long after, a woman claiming to be the property owner knocked on my front door…..weeping…and asked if my husband and I would sell some of our land so they could build on the property. Not a chance. We actually like green space….and so do our neighbors.

And then a phone call from her attorney asking to purchase part of our property so they could build…. nope. From the very beginning, this lot was not suitable for building. The property owners knew it. They knew the oak tree was in the way and cut it down. Getting caught destroying the oak tree caused them to wait a few years. But now they’re back. Hoping that time has passed and they can move forward and make a profit building on this unsuitable lot.

The property at 2508 St. Andrews is too steep (they are saying the slope is 60%, but it appears much steeper) It is too small to build on- hence the effort to buy land from us. it had a beautiful oak tree in the middle. The owners knew the lot was too small. They knew it was too steep. And they knew the protected oak tree in the middle would have prohibited any building at all. So they chopped it down. They tried to make the lot fit the standard size required by trying to buy land from us. They bought a lot that is unbuildable and hope to defy every rule and build
anyway.

The Hillside Ordinance was crafted to prevent this type of building. It was crafted to protect our Canyon from anyone trying to make a fast buck while ignoring the rules and regulations. It was crafted to protect us from anyone buying a cheap, unsuitable lot and profiting. This is an attempt to completely circumvent the Hillside Ordinance and make a buck.

Planning Hearing THIS Wednesday FEBRUARY 19, 2020 at 9:30 am
633 East Broadway, Room105
Case #PVAR 1726875

Please join us in expressing our concerns that this project is even being considered. The more voices the better!

If you cannot be there in person, please send an email to the planner:
Vilia Zemaitaitis email: VZemaitaitis@glendaleca.gov  tel: 818937-8154

Did you know there is a collection of historic photos of Chevy Chase Canyon on our website?

Check out our History & Photos page for a look back in time, including photos, newspaper clippings, and more!

You can also view some of the photos on the map below. Admire our neighborhood Lloyd Wright house from when it was originally constructed! Shudder at the location of the discovery of the third victim of the Hillside Strangler! Marvel at the historic sinkhole of ’69!

Do you have historic photos of your home or the canyon? Please send them to us at sarahb@chevychaseestates.us and we will add to the map!

Note: click on the marker, which will bring up a thumbnail of the photo – if you’d like to see the photo full sized, click again for full screen!

The Gingerbread house making bash at our Chevy Chase Library was a huge success. It may have been the best-attended library event ever. And so many creative and wonderful gingerbread houses were lovingly crafted, everybody had a blast. But wait, there was more besides gingerbread houses, there was a 3D printer printing red things, there was a whole lot of reading and checking out of books, lots of families, a raffle, free refreshments, and The Chevy Chase Knitting Club got their yarn on! The knitting club meets monthly at the library every 2nd Saturday from 1 pm to 4 pm. Our canyon library was a beehive of fun on Gingerbread House Day.  Check out the photos. Click on the little arrows upper right to see the full photos.

YOUR Chevy Chase Estates Association sponsored this event with a lot of help from CCEA volunteer directors who have given freely their time and resources to protect and preserve our canyon since 1937.  Can you give back to protect our canyon?   Household memberships $35 per year.    Read about the history of our canyon here: https://www.chevychaseestates.us/history-of-the-chevy-chase-estates-association/ 

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