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Finding Aid for the Federation of Hillside and Canyon Associations Records, 1963-
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Title: Federation of Hillside and Canyon Associations Records
Date (inclusive): 1963-
Collection number: 1244
Creator:
Federation of Hillside and Canyon Associations
Extent:
24 boxes (12 linear ft.)
Abstract: The Federation of Hillside and Canyon Associations was founded by residents of the Santa Monica Mountains during the winter
storms of 1952 to protect, promote and further the interests and welfare of residents and property owners, to preserve and
enhance property values, to encourage architectural and horticultural improvement and development, and to maintain building
and zoning restrictions. The collection consists of alphabetical subject files of former Federation president, Betty Dearing.
Subjects include air pollution, billboards and signs, and Federation business records.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
- Gift of John D. Weaver, 1979.
- Gift of Harriett S. Weaver, 1986.
- Gift of Alan Kishbaugh, 1997- .
[Identification of item], Federation of Hillside and Canyon Associations Records (Collection 1244). UCLA Library Special Collections,
Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
1218065
The Federation of Hillside and Canyon Associations was founded by residents of the Santa Monica Mountains during the winter
storms of 1952 to protect, promote and further the interests and welfare of residents and property owners, to preserve and
enhance property values, to encourage architectural and horticultural improvement and development, and to maintain building
and zoning restrictions; by the mid-1980s the nonprofit umbrella organization had grown to more than 40 local homeowner organizations,
representing a constituency of some 200,000 households concerned with such mutual problems as fire, flood, landslides, traffic
congestion, noise, waste disposal and zoning abuses.
Collection consists of alphabetical subject files of former Federation president, Betty Dearing, as assembled by Nancy Pohl
and organized by Harriett S. Weaver. Subjects include air pollution, billboards and signs, and Federation business records.
Expanded Scope and Content Note
The Federation of Hillside and Canyon Associations was founded in the tempest-tossed winter of 1952 “to protect, promote and
further the interests and welfare of residents and property owners” in the Santa Monica Mountains. By the mid-1980s this nonprofit
umbrella organization had grown to more than forty local homeowner organizations, representing a constituency of some 200,000
households concerned with such mutual problems as fire, flood, landslides, traffic congestion, noise, waste disposal and zoning
abuses.
Collection no.1244, encompassing the files left by former Federation president Betty Dearing, covers the period, 1963-79.
The material was assembled by her Briarcliff friend and neighbor, Nancy Pohl, and organized by the Federation's Fire Committee
Chairman, Harriett S. Weaver. (
Cf. her collection, no.1447.)
Collection arranged alphabetically by subject.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Dearing, Betty, 1917-1977.
Federation of Hillside and Canyon Associations--Archives.
Homeowners' associations--California, Southern--Archival resources.
Harriett Weaver Collection about Residential Development and Fire, Flood, and Landslide Management in the Santa Monica Mountains
(Collection 1447).
Available at Library of Special Collections, UCLA.