Walkable neighborhoods offer incredible benefits to the environment, our health, and our communities. Cars are a leading cause of climate change according to walkscore.com, but your feet are zero pollution transportation machines. Calabasas is not exactly the city that pops to mind when you think of a walkable community. With its sprawling neighborhoods and gated communities, it seems that more people get around by car than on foot.
Fortunately there is an area of Calabasas that is wonderfully walkable. Mulwood is located in eastern Calabasas near the Woodland Hills border. Mulwood includes two areas; Greater Mulwood and Mulholland Heights. Greater Mulwood includes the area bounded by Old Topanga Canyon Road on the East, extending to Gelson’s on the West, then continuing across Mulholland Highway up the hill almost to Topanga Canyon.
Encompassing about 1,500 homes, this is the largest non-gated community in Calabasas. This neighborhood is ideal for children because Chaparral Elementary School, Alice C Stelle Middle School and Calabasas High School are walkable from every Mulwood home in fifteen minutes or less. Before school starts middle school students can be seen riding their bikes and skateboards down Dardenne Street to Dagueere Avenue, and then racing the rest of the way down Mulholland Highway to school. A quick cruise around the parking lot and the bike racks fill up quickly.
Just a few more blocks from the middle school is Gelson’s grocery store, which includes an indoor and outdoor dining area, a bakery and deli. This is a favorite after school gathering place for students to grab a slice of pizza or some ice cream. The virtually zero pollution Calabasas Trolley, runs on natural gas, and has four stops in Mulwood while making its loop through Calabasas. From Mulwood, the trolley continues to the Calabasas Tennis and Swim Center, then to The Commons at Calabasas and stops at the Library before it continues to Las Virgenes Road.
Home prices in this kid friendly neighborhood range from $600,000 to $1,400,000. For more information about homes for sale in the Mulwood neighborhood of Calabasas or to find the value of your Mulwood home please call Tracey Thomas at 818-652-2937.
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