Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdccs6.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdccs6!ix21 From: ix21@sdccs6.UUCP Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: ZIP code -> city name blues(repost) Message-ID: <1248@sdccs6.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Mar-84 09:42:10 EST Article-I.D.: sdccs6.1248 Posted: Sat Mar 10 09:42:10 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 19:47:34 EST Organization: U.C. San Diego, Computer Center Lines: 47 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 {insert boring .signature file here}