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'Valencia' is a planned community located in Los Angeles County, California in the northwestern corner of the Santa Clarita Valley, adjacent to Interstate 5. In 1987, it was one of the four unincorporated communities (along with Saugus, Newhall, and Canyon Country) that merged to create the city of Santa Clarita, California. Santa Clarita is ranked as one of the top 100 places to live by ''Money''.
Valencia was first planned in the 1960s by the Newhall Land and Farming Company. Development began in the 1960s and continues to the present day. Valencia is notable for its well-landscaped boulevards connecting a balanced mix of apartment buildings, single-family detached homes, shopping centers, office parks and industrial warehouses.
Valencia also has an extensive system of paved pathways with grade separations over and under the boulevards. The pathways are called ''paseos''. These paseos connect the entire community together making it possible to travel around Valencia without having to cross streets at grade. The paseo network is connected to the Santa Clara River Trail which runs east along the Santa Clara River to Canyon Country. Landowners in the Valencia area pay special taxes to maintain landscaping and the paseo system.
Valencia's residential areas are separated into villages. Each village is different from each other, in the ways of lifestyle (see List of Valencia, California's Residential Villages). Almost all of Valencia's villages are close to schools, shopping, etc. In many of the villages, homeowner's associations oversee the quality and upkeep of housing developments ranging in size from a few dozen homes to over a thousand. Many villages also have a Neighborhood Watch program in force.
Valencia is home to the Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park and the adjacent Hurricane Harbor water park. It is also the birthplace of major league baseball player Jon Garland, who plays for the Chicago White Sox. Actress Ashley Tisdale (High School Musical) attended Valencia High School in the class of '03. Valencia was also a filming place for the Power Rangers series for eight seasons, from 1993 to 2001.
Major schools in Valencia and its surrounding areas include:

★ California Institute of the Arts

★ College of the Canyons

★ Canyon High School

★ Golden Valley High School

★ Wm. S. Hart High School

★ Saugus High School

★ Valencia High School

★ West Ranch High School

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Valencia in fiction

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Valencia in fiction

★ In the sixth season of the television show ''24'', Valencia was ground zero for the terrorist detonation of a nuclear suitcase bomb.

★ The Showtime Networks television show ''Weeds (television)'' is set in the town of 'Agrestic', which is actually ''Stevenson Ranch'' (next to Valencia).

★ In Walt Disney's ''The Brave Little Toaster'', Toaster and his friends ask a street light for directions to the master's college.

★ Valencia is the setting for the opening scene of the 2007 film, ''Oceans 13''.

★ Fat Albert used College of the Canyons for many of its school sets.

★ College of the Canyons was the school used in the filming of ''The Girl Next Door''.

★ The cancelled television show ''Bobby'' was also filmed at College of the Canyons.

★ The popular television show Heroes is filmed at Golden Valley High School.

★ William S. Hart High School was the school used for many of the shots in ''Never Been Kissed''.

External links

★ Valencia at a Glance - Newhall Land's profile of the community

★ Santa Clarita Guide - Online Magazine/Resource to Valencia