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About La Palma

The City of La Palma incorporated circa 1956, priding itself in city motto "Where Tradition and Vision Come Together." La Palma strives for achievement of "Family, Pride of Ownership, Opportunity and Security," for all residents and visitors.

The City of La Palma is served by five seperate school boards encouraging neighborhood involvement in community education. Locally attended primary schools include Cypress School District's "Steve Luther Elementary"; Centralia School District's "George Miller" and "Los Coyotes" Elementary Schools; and Buena Park School District's "Gilbert" and "Corey" Elementary Schools. All secondary students south of "Houston Avenue" attend Anaheim Union High School District's "Walker" middle school and "John F. Kennedy, Jr." High School while students north of Houston Ave. attend Fullerton Joint Union High School District's "Buena Park" High School.

The city's first redevelopment came with construction of the Civic Center and Central Park now boasting lighted soccer, softball, basketball & tennis courts as well children's playground equipment. The city's next large scale redevelopment came with the master planned mixed use commercial and light industrial business park west of Valley View Street and just north of Orangethorpe Avenue, "Centerpointe," was constructed by Birtcher Development of Laguna Niguel throughout the 1980's.

Called "Moo Valley" by locals in the late 1940's, a group of about fifty tough minded farmers decided to incorporate approximately two square miles of "Dairyland" c. 1955 thus "preserving" the "rural way of life" in the face of Buena Park's annexation desires. Rural preservation had unforeseen effects as more than one-tenth of Dairyland would be condemned by suburbanized school districts seeking less expensive nearby land for new school construction. A new local plan would be proposed and approved by voters finally changing this city's name to "La Palma" c. 1965.

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• 90623