Westside Village is a neighborhood that was originally part of Rancho La Ballona, Los Angeles County, California, United States . The area that later became Westside Village was one of the first housing tracts created in the late 1930s and early 1940s by developer Fritz B. Burns. Known for his efficiently-designed and planned housing developments, he included about 1,100 single-family houses on cozy curvilinear streets amid schools, parks, stores and places of worship.
The houses, with single-car garages, were crafted with affordability in mind. Averaging 900 square feet (84 m2) on lots of about 50 by 135 feet (15 by 41 m), the original homes sold for around US$4,000.
Burns bought out a local nursery, providing trees and shrubs at a discount—from 25 to 50 cents each—to homeowners. Today, tall tress Westside Village is bounded by National Boulevard to the north, Charnock Road to the south, Overland Avenue to the east and Sepulveda Boulevard to the west. Jacaranda and pine trees are especially prevalent in the neighborhood. It has a population of about 12,000, of which 70% are renters and 30% are homeowners.
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