Welcome Residents ! Welcome to our Community! The City of Thousand Oaks, population 127,000, lies within the Conejo Valley, a picturesque, mountain-rimmed plateau, 900 feet above sea level in Ventura County. This family-friendly community continually ranks as one of the safest cities for its size in the nation by FBI reporting standards.
Things to Do Thousand Oaks is located in beautiful Ventura County, with miles of coastline and the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. The City is only 45 miles from downtown Los Angeles and about an hour from Santa Barbara. Fun places like Disneyland, Universal Studios, Knotts Berry Farm, Six Flags Magic Mountain, and the Getty Museum are within about an hour to an hour and a half driving distance.
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You can find great entertainment right in the heart of Thousand Oaks at the . You will discover wonderful restaurants, shopping, delightful gathering places, such as the Westlake Promenade and the new Lakes Shopping Center Thousand Oaks and Gardens of the World. To everyone's amazement, a pond is frozen in the winter time for ice skating at The Lakes Shopping Center, just down the street from the Civic Arts Plaza. You will notice how family oriented the community is with the beautiful public library, Thousand Oaks teen center, The Goebel Senior Citizens Center, California Lutheran University and many excellent schools. Hiking is a favorite past-time at parks such as Wildwood Park and Sycamore Canyon. There are many horse trails for the equestrians. Amgen, Inc. chose this wonderful community as it's home too.
What a great place to live! ________________________________
(As represented in Wikipedia) Politics Thousand Oaks is one of the few cities of over 100,000 which does not directly elect its mayor; rather the council members take turns rotating into the position.
Today the city boasts a very active, and historically "slow growth"-minded city council. Along with the ordinances protecting the numerous oak trees, the city's leaders and residents alike boast of the ring of protected land, free from development, that surrounds the city's borders and which may account for the accelerating land values in recent years. More than 14,000 acres (57 km²) have been designated as "Open Space" containing more than 75 miles of trails. Ironically, the most recent development in the community that adjoins the Civic Arts Center, known as "the Lakes" destroyed a grove of old growth oaks, although great pains were taken to relocate the larger specimens. The continued existence of the well known "open space" around Thousand Oaks will be at issue in the future as scarce land comes under development pressure that accompanies rising population and general demographic trends in the area. Education Thousand Oaks is serviced by the Conejo Valley Unified School District. It includes numerous elementary schools, Colina Middle School, Redwood Middle School, Los Cerritos Middle School, Thousand Oaks High School, Newbury Park High School, and Westlake High School. Oaks Christian High School, while located immediately outside of Ventura County, matriculates numerous students from the county. California Lutheran University is located in Thousand Oaks.
In August of 1994, a team from Thousand Oaks Little League became the first Little League team in Ventura County to win a World Championship winning the Championship game 20-3. Two years later in 1996, a Senior Division (ages 14-16) Thousand Oaks Little League team won a National Championship. In 2006, Thousand Oaks won the World Championship in the Big League Division(ages 16-18) of Little League by defeating a team from Puerto Rico 10-0. The Thousand Oaks Big League team were also World Series runner-ups in 2003 and 2005. In the summer of 2004, the Little League National Championship team hailed from Thousand Oaks. The "Conejo Valley East" team of 11 and 12-year olds went 22-0 in local, regional, and World Series tournaments play claiming the national title at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania before losing in the international title game to the team from Curaçao, Caribbean.
In the 1970s California Lutheran University served as the training camp location for the Dallas Cowboys. The CLU football practice field used by the Cowboys as well as the CLU Kingsmen football team, was replaced by a large sports complex in 2006. The Cowboys Clubhouse in Thousand Oaks still stands, across from the complex, and is currently a family residence.
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