Mulholland Estates is a guard gated community in the

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, US. It is named after pioneering Los Angeles civil engineer

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. Although properties in the estate have a 90210 ZIP code and thus a

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address, it is actually part of the

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area in the

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, with much of the land located inside the

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district. The community's main entrance is located at Beverly Glen Boulevard and

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, next to

Fossil Ridge Park Fossil Ridge Park is a public property in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles County, California. It is owned by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, which is a California state agency. Location It is located on the corner of Mulholland Drive and Bev ...

, and it looks out to the

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. Access to Fossil Ridge Park on the community's west side used to be blocked by Mulholland Estates security guards.Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area: Paleontological Survey, 2004
p. 18 However, since 2011, members of the public are allowed to drive or walk on Westpark Road, which is inside Mulholland Estates, to have access to the park. However, parking on Westpark Road is not allowed. The community was developed by

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, with Chang,

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and Robert A. Sandler as the "primary investors". Chang had planned to build a "luxury restaurant" on Mulholland Drive as well as "100 condominiums and 29 single-family homes", but decided to build 95 luxury homes instead.

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acted as the original real estate agent. When it was under construction in 1988, it was described as "one of the Valley's biggest and most brash housing developments" by ''The Los Angeles Times''. It is or has been home to many celebrities such as

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and

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* Gated communities in California Neighborhoods in Los Angeles {{LosAngeles-stub