Photographer: George Brich

The San Fernando Valley:

arterial street matrix
half-mile intervals

Valley Girls and Valley Dudes, we are on the grid!

There are areas of Los Angeles metropolitan where a handful of main streets are at half mile and mile one intervals (example La Brea > Crenshaw > Fairfax), but not to the extent a routine pattern evolved in the San Fernando Valley suburb.

The west-to-east San Fernando Valley sequence of Fallbrook to Cahuenga is comprised of thirty-one consecutive boulevards at half mile distances.
The center-lines of these chief streets are exactly 880 yards apart. Thus from Fallbrook Avenue to Cahuenga Boulevard it is exactly fifteen miles:

Fallbrook	Shoup	Topanga	Canoga	De Soto	Mason	Winnetka	Corbin
Tampa	Wilbur	Reseda	Lindley	White Oak	Louise	Balboa	Hayvenhurst
Woodley	Haskell	Sepulveda	Kester	Van Nuys Bl	Hazeltine	Woodman	Fulton
Coldwater	Whitsett	Laurel Cyn	Colfax = Lankersheim	Tujunga	Vineland	Cahuenga	31 streets

Fallbrook > Shoup > Topanga > Canoga > De Soto > Mason > Winnetka > Corbin > Tampa > Wilbur > Reseda > Lindley > White Oak > Louise > Balboa > Hayvenhurst > Woodley > Haskell > Sepulveda > Kester > Van Nuys Bl > Hazeltine > Woodman > Fulton > Coldwater > Whitsett > Laurel Cyn > Colfax = Lankersheim > Tujunga > Vineland > Cahuenga

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The north-to-south arterial sequence is similar but with fewer streets, given the Valley is wider than it is tall:

Rinaldi

San Fernando Mission

Chatsworth

Devonshire

Lassen

Plummer

Nordhoff

Parthenia

Therefore from Rinaldi to Parthenia = 3.5 miles

The north-to south half-mile grid's only sequence aberration is from Parthenia to Strathern which lie 0.86 miles apart. This is due to the west-east railroad tracks in that corridor, which also are the cause of Roscoe not fitting the overall SFV pattern. As Roscoe courses westward, it angles southward, becoming slightly closer to Strathern at Fallbrook than it was at Laurel Cyn.

Resuming the pattern towards the south:

Strathern

Saticoy

Sherman

Van Owen

Victory

Oxnard

Burbank

Magnolia

Riverside

Moorpark

Therefore from Strathern to Moorpark = 4.5 miles

Reseda High School return

St Bridget of Sweden Elementary School return

Photographer: George Brich

The San Fernando Valley:

arterial street matrix half-mile intervals

Valley Girls and Valley Dudes, we are on the grid!

The north-to-south arterial sequence is similar but with fewer streets, given the Valley is wider than it is tall:

arterial street matrix
half-mile intervals