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Subject: Re: ZIP code -> city name blues(repost)
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Date: Sat, 10-Mar-84 09:42:10 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 10 09:42:10 1984
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Raid   
This is a reposting because I was told the bug ate my last article.
I have added another paragraph to this posting.



     In Beverly Hills there are a number of residents who constantly
complain that even though they live within the city limits of Beverly
Hills and pay Beverly Hills taxes and live in Beverly Hill style
mansions they are degraded with a Los Angeles zip code address.   While
some people who live in the "slums" of Los Angeles City have a Beverly
Hills postal address.

     The Los Angeles Times told of another victim of the disagreement
between the post office boundaries of Beverly Hills and the actual
boundaries of Beverly Hills.  This poor fellow lived within the city
limits of Beverly Hills but when he went to the Beverly Hills public
library he was denied a card because his drivers license with his
postal address showed the city he lived in as Los Angeles.  He then
went to the Los Angeles public libary to apply for a card.  The
librarian looked up his address on a chart and sent him to Beverly
Hills.  What eventually happened was he went to a Los Angeles County
(not city) public library and got a county library card.  Drove to
Burbank which has reciprocal priviledges and got a Burbank card and
then went to the Beverly Hills library since because of a second set
of reciprocal priviledges a Burbank card is good at the Beverly
Hills library.

New material here:

     I was told by another reader that the boundaries for the zip
code zone that I live in, (La Jolla), which is in the incorporated
in the City of San Diego, has been changed 3 times.  Apparently
there were a lot of condominium developers who had the influence to
move the La Jolla boundaries so there complex would be in La Jolla.
According to the assessor having La Jolla as a postal address adds
a minimum of 10% to the property value all other things being equal.
In additions 7 streets had their name changed so they would be some
variation of La Jolla Dr.; this also raised property values
overnight.


-- 
David Whiteman sdcsvax!sdccs6!whiteman
UCSD Medical School, La Jolla CA
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