Westlake Village Movers

Getting to Know Westlake Village

How Westlake Village Sits

Westlake Village is a city on the western edge of Los Angeles County, where it meets Ventura County, in the Conejo Valley about thirty-five miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. It covers roughly five and a half square miles and had about 8,000 people at the 2020 census, which makes it one of the smaller and lower-density cities in the region. It borders Thousand Oaks and the Ventura County line to the west, Agoura Hills to the east, the Simi Hills to the north, and the Santa Monica Mountains to the south. The 101, the Ventura Freeway, runs through the city.

The city is defined by its lake and its planning. Westlake Lake, a man-made reservoir created by damming Triunfo Creek, sits near the center, ringed by homes and used for boating and sailing. The city was laid out as a master-planned community, with twenty distinct neighborhoods, interconnected greenbelts, hundreds of preserved oak trees, and utilities run underground to keep the views clean. Median household incomes here are among the highest in the region, and the city is known for its safe streets, good schools, and golf courses.

Westlake Village is also a quiet business center. Around 850 commercial and light-industrial firms operate within the small city, many in the office and business parks near the 101, and corporate offices and country clubs are part of the landscape. The result is an affluent, low-density, lakeside city that pairs careful planning with hillside open space and a strong sense of community.

From a 12,000-Acre Ranch to a City Around a Lake

The land was home to the Chumash people, who lived in the Conejo Valley for thousands of years. A Spanish expedition camped near a Chumash village here in 1770, and the chaplain wrote of a plain of much beauty, forested with oaks and rich with water and pasture. Under Mexican rule, the area became ranch land, part of the large grants that covered the valley.

The land later formed part of a 12,000-acre ranch. In 1963 the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company bought the ranch for thirty-two million dollars and, with Prudential Insurance, commissioned a master plan for a city in the country, hiring the noted firm A. C. Martin and Associates to design it. The plan called for cohesive neighborhoods, greenbelts, an economic base of its own, and a lake at the center.

Development of the lakeside community began in 1966, and the lake was built by damming the creek. The original tract straddled the Los Angeles and Ventura County line. The Ventura County portion was annexed into the city of Thousand Oaks in 1968 and 1972, while the Los Angeles County portion, about 3,456 acres, voted to incorporate as the City of Westlake Village in 1981, becoming the eighty-second city in Los Angeles County. The planned community on the ranch became the lakeside city it is today.

What a Westlake Village Move Really Involves

Westlake Village is small, exclusive, and built around a lake, so most moves here turn on the neighborhood and the home rather than distance. The first thing we settle is the access. Nearly every neighborhood has its own association; many are gated, and lakefront homes sit on tight lots between the water and the street. We work out where the truck can park, how the crew reaches the door, and what clearance the association needs before the day.

The home is the next factor. A lakefront home has a tight waterside lot and a careful path between the water and the street. A hillside estate can stand at the top of a long, climbing drive. A home behind a gate needs the association cleared in advance. We confirm the gate, the slope, the lot, and the haul length beforehand, then bring the crew, the gear, and the protection the home needs.

The third factor is the handling. These are large, well-appointed homes, and careful handling is the standard here. We wrap and pad every piece, plan the handling for fine furniture, art, and other valuables in advance, and lay floor and door protection along the whole route. With the access, the home, and the handling settled before move day, the crew keeps moving once it arrives.