Lahey St, Granada Hills

North of San Fernando Mission, Zelzah becomes a peaceful upper middle class neighborhood, complete with horse trails and a quiet park. Past the college, it stops. In the middle of that is a congested street that nonetheless tries to be a suburban neighborhood.

It succeeds in it's proximity to necessities, like groceries, good food, pharmacies, a post office and clothing stores (with the ubiquitous Starbucks down the street for good measure) and a choice of schools from pre-school to a Master's degree. However, all these things also make the street noisy with the sound of teenagers (when the high school lets out) or traffic (especially when the new Kohl's comes in where a quiet Ralphs used to be).

The houses are also older here and and the front yards are really not appropriate for children playing, at least not on the busier stretches of the street.