Photo: Cedros Avenue resident, April 2007

Last year, I wrote about a Van Nuys street where well kept, single family houses, lived in by generations of families, was slated to be bulldozed by the LAUSD.

Now today’s LA TIMES, which sometimes reports on stories affecting Los Angeles, reports that many school building projects are being scrapped due to declining enrollment. This includes the ill willed Cedros Avenue project which brought neighborhood activists together to fight the impending demolition of dozens of homes.

Building costs have tripled since 2001, when student enrollment was at its peak, so despite the cutback, the LAUSD is still in the red.

But a decent Van Nuys neighborhood has been saved due to an accident of demographics.