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In the 1920s, the community was briefly known as Picture City, as Paramount Studios owned a
ranch in the area used for filming Westerns. To obtain a post office of its own the residents
were required to choose a one word name, Home Valuesand in 1927 chose a misspelling of the last name of
Pierre Agoure, a local Basque man and French immigrant who had settled in the area in 1871 to
live the lifestyle of the Mexican rancher and styled himself Don Pierre Agoure, accordingly.
Agoure was a successful sheep herder and had a reputation as a swashbuckler. His name
was chosen for the post office as it was the shortest name proposed.
An estate in Old Agoura Rapid
Los Angeles Home Values growth occurred in the Agoura Hills area starting in the late
1960s, in the wake of the construction of the Ventura Freeway through the city's heart, an action
that isolated the northern half of the city from the south. The first housing tracts started in
Agoura were Hillrise, Liberty Canyon and Lake Lindero. Growth continued at a rapid pace during
the 1970s. Schools were built and much of downtown was erected.
In 1978, residents of the Agoura Hills area morgage rates
banding together to lobby Sacramento to widen the
Kanan Bridge. Legislation was introduced and passed requiring the State Department of Transportation
to award contracts for widening of
the Kanan Road bridge overpass, over the Ventura Freeway, from
two lanes to four lanes.
In 1982, the residents of the City of Agoura Hills voted in favor of cityhood by a 68% majority.
Agoura Hills became the 83rd City in Los Angeles County. Elected to the first City Council were
Mayor Fran Pavley, Mayor Pro Tem Carol Sahm, Councilmembers Ernest Dynda, John Hood and Vicky Leary.
Incorporating a year after neighboring Westlake Village, the drive for cityhood in the region was
largely based on public discontent with the county's failure to limit residential development of
the area, motives that influenced Malibu and Calabasas to follow suit in 1991.
The 1980s was a period of tremendous growth, with large land areas being subdivided into housing
tracts and a great wave of migration Mortgage
of people into the city. In the 1990s numerous businesses
also set up shop in the city, and the downtown area was filled with shops and restaurants.
