The Warner Center 2035 Plan

of the school. This means that the multitude of Pierce attendee’s who have to resort to parking illegally in the orange line station’s parking lot will now have a place to park without having to worry about getting towed.

Economically, the “College District” will include opportunities for people with the making, servicing, or selling of goods, or provision of services.

Over the past couple of years, Pierce College has attempted to reinvent itself by adding a few choice structures with the intention of brightening up the campus, but you can’t necessarily light one or two candles in a chandelier and expect all the prisms to illuminate.

It’s time for a dramatic change in scenery and presentation and the newly approved Warner Center 2035 Plan is all that and more. The 22-year blueprint intends to merge Pierce College with Warner Center as well as other major parts of Woodland Hills.

Pierce may outside the Plan’s boundaries, but it will both benefit from and contribute to the community the Plan seeks to foster.

Areas and facilities in compliance with the Plan will make Woodland Hills one of the most attractive hotspots in Greater Los Angeles.

New transit options and added streets will ease navigation, as well as new parking structures will also be built around the perimeter

“Pierce has a very mature environment. In terms of campus security and maybe a closed door policy if you are worried about people coming and doing that things there needs to be more security on the outskirts of the campus. Near the Farm Center or even more security by the library.”

New public entertainment options will available in close proximity to the school, including but not limited to billiard halls, taverns, bars, theaters, dance clubs, comedy clubs, karaoke clubs, live performances, and live music.

The idea of seeing skyscrapers from the Pierce campus may seem unnerving, but when it’s finished, the San Fernando Valley will be a much different place. Accommodations must be made in order to expand the future development of our community.

If the Plan goes as intended, Woodland Hills will be at the forefront of transit-oriented cities, competing with cities as diverse as San Francisco and New York’s Manhattan.

People often say there is nothing to do in the Valley, but with the Warner Center 2035 Plan it will become a flourishing destination and something our community could use to unite each other.

Fear of the night

campus where anyone could follow you or attack you simply feels dangerous. Especially as a woman.

I try to avoid evening classes as much as possible, partially because a three-hour-long class is unappealing, but more so because I hate the uneasy feeling of walking to my car in the dark.

If I come for only that class, I can park nearby and in well-lit areas with populated paths to class, but if I happen to be at school all day and don’t get out until it’s dark, I don’t always have that option. Students must park where they can find a spot during the day, and it is not always ideal.

“I feel safe on campus because there is not a lot of crime that happens in the area. I definitely think that we should have a closed door policy with ID checks. If we don’t, then crazy people can come on campus and shoot people. I don’t see the campus police enough. I don’t see them walking around and securing areas enough.”

“I feel safe on campus. I’m usually here in the mornings. I personally wouldn’t want to be here at night. I’ve heard stories of things happening at night. This guy got his phone stolen I heard and I got a security message on my phone. I would like to see more officers at night for security reasons.”

“I don’t think that there should be security checks because it’d be very annoying. I do think that there should be security cameras in designated areas to monitor in and around campus. I think that could help improve campus security.”

With the onset of daylight savings time, darkness sets in early these days, leaving a certain feeling of safety to be desired on campus.

As a female who has taken many evening classes in past semesters, I know the fear of darkness all too well.

I’m not afraid of the dark. I’m not afraid of being alone. But combine those two forces and place them in a wide open setting with a sparse evening population and you better believe that my imagination starts to get the better of me.

The fake cemetery by the Equestrian Center doesn’t help either. Not that I think ghosts are waiting around the corner, but it adds a creepy feeling and eggs on that already-overactive imagination.

Supernatural musings aside, I am fully aware that horrible things happen to people on a daily basis, and being alone at night on a dark

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The Warner Center 2035 Plan will ruin the communal and agronomic culture that Pierce College has prided itself with and preserved since 1947.

As seen by historical accounts of cities like Phoenix, Austin, and San Jose, which became urbanized after the Second World War, there is no hiding from this undeniable truth: the higher the population, the higher the crime rate.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports showed in a 2011 report that urban violent crime rates were on average about three and a half times that of suburban ones.

In reporting crime rates, the L.A. Times uses the amount of crimes per 10,000 people. Currently, Woodland Hills has on average five crimes per week per that amount. Adding 50,000 people for work and then an even higher sum for housing developments will bring more danger to the community.

Furthermore, traffic in the surrounding area of the Pierce campus is already dense. While the plan promises more transit, it does not guarantee that all residents or workers will use the proposed methods of less car-oriented ways of transport.

The plan explains that there will be a loss of streets to make room for pedestrians, but this will only mean more traffic for students encompassing the college and there could very well be future taxes to create such infrastructure. This is all not to mention the inexorable increase in traffic and resulting pollution from the 101 Freeway.

According to the EPA, “building construction, renovation, use and demolition together constitute about two-thirds of non-industrial solid waste generation in the US,” with 160 million tons of construction and demolition debris per year. Over the next 22 years Warner Center will be a heavy contributor to the gross total of about 3520 million tons of waste to be sent to landfills.

The families who once sought to settle down away from the busy cities to the slow-paced, peaceful suburbia of the San Fernando Valley will be forced to find new homes in hopes of finding that bliss yet again, and students will attend a Pierce College that will have lost its historical marvels, both physical and conceptual.