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Real Estate Appraisers and Appraisals In
Ventura County, City of Simi Valley
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home of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley ranks as the 22nd
"safest city in America" in the most recent annual survey (among all
cities with populations above 100,000), and gained notoriety as the location of
the infamous 1992 trial of Los Angeles Police Officers accused of beating
Rodney King that sparked riots in Los Angeles on April 29, 1992. The hills
surrounding Simi Valley, because of their remote locations, have also been
chosen as locations for religious and communal cults such as Pisgah Grande
(1914-1920), the Blackburn Cult (1925-1929) and the WKFL Fountain of the World
(1949-1958) led by Krishna Venta. Charles Manson and his 'family' lived at the
Spahn Movie Ranch on the east side of the Santa Susana pass road near
Chatsworth, an adjacent neighborhood within the city limits of Los Angeles.
Simi Valley Station is used by Amtrak and Metrolink and is located at 5000 Los
Angeles Avenue, west of Stearns Street. Simi Valley Transit buses stop on Los
Angeles Avenue in front of the station. There are connections from Simi Valley
north to Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo, and south to Los Angeles, Orange,
and San Diego Counties. These trains, as well as the buses, run 7 days a week
and stop in Simi Valley several times each day. The Simi Valley station is
unstaffed; however, tickets are available from automated ticket dispensers,
conductors onboard the trains, travel agents, by telephone, or from the Amtrak
and Metrolink websites. In Simi Valley there are two main areas of
industry--one in the eastern part of the city and the other one in the west.
The primary industry is machinery and tools with 69 firms, and the secondary is
the metal Industry with 51 firms, both situated in the eastern and western
industrial areas. Other industries such as Lumber/Wood Products, Food, Plastic
Products, Apparel/Textiles and Minerals, are also largely concentrated in these
industrial areas. The Volkswagen of America Design Center is in an industrial
complex across from the Costco wholesale club near Madera and Cochran. The
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is the main attraction of the city and has
been visited by more than 800,000 people since it opened. The body of Ronald
Reagan was buried there in June 2004. |
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