A new eldercare proposal at 10963 North Old Santa Susana Pass Road would bring a 215,000-square-foot senior-living complex to Chatsworth, according to the September 15 City Planning filing summary. The proposed mix includes independent living, assisted living and memory care. Beyond the development itself, the address offers a reason to revisit the history of this stretch of Old Santa Susana Pass Road, while keeping nearby historic properties distinct from the proposed project site.
Chatsworth · Development & Senior Housing · Updated September 24, 2026
The proposal at a glance
- Location
- 10963 N. Old Santa Susana Pass Road, Chatsworth
- Status
- Proposed; an application filing is not an approval
- Filed
- September 15, 2026
- Building size
- 215,000 square feet
- Maximum height
- 54 feet 6 inches
- Independent living
- 101 units
- Assisted living
- 61 units
- Memory care
- 20 guest rooms containing 22 beds
- Parking
- 145 spaces
- Planning case
- ZA-2026-4755-ELD-PR-VHCA
- Environmental case
- ENV-2026-4756-EAF
Project quantities, maximum height, filing date and case numbers are from the City notification summary.
Independent living, assisted living and memory care
The filing summary describes a combination of 101 independent-living units, 61 assisted-living units and 20 memory-care guest rooms with 22 beds. The distinction matters: these are different accommodation categories, not an interchangeable count of conventional apartments.
Together, the independent- and assisted-living components account for 162 units, with the memory-care rooms listed separately. The 22-bed figure applies only to memory care; it should not be read as the capacity of the entire development.
The former United Cerebral Palsy center
The property shown in the Street View image was previously home to a United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) center. The center appears to have been in operation since at least the 1980s; Los Angeles Times coverage from 1986 mentions UCP’s Chatsworth facility. Its exact opening date and the property’s use before UCP have not yet been established.
The UCP center appears to have stopped operating at this location sometime in 2025, although the closure and its timing remain unconfirmed.
Historical reporting lists UCP at 11051 Old Santa Susana Pass Road, matching the entrance number in the image. The new application uses 10963, so the campus history should not be taken as confirmation of the proposal’s parcel boundaries.
Listed ownership of the former campus
The property-data listing supplied for this article names Childrens Fdn Of La County as the owner of 11051 Old Santa Susana Pass Road, Chatsworth. The owner’s name is reproduced as it appears in the listing, which gives a mailing address of 6430 Independence Ave, Woodland Hills, CA 91367.
The same entry lists a 225,789-square-foot lot, or approximately 5.18 acres, and 1973 in its year-built field. That construction date does not establish when the UCP center opened, and the lot area should not be treated as the acreage of the proposed eldercare development.
This is a third-party ownership listing, not an independently verified recorded deed. It concerns 11051, while the Planning application uses 10963. The foundation’s relationship to UCP, its role in the proposal and the connection between the two addresses’ parcel boundaries have not been established.
A nearby reminder of Chatsworth’s ranching past
The road also provides a connection to an earlier chapter of Chatsworth history: the Wilson House at 10921 Old Santa Susana Pass Road. The Chatsworth Historical Society’s November 2016 newsletter dates the house to 1918 and identifies Henry and Georgia Wilson as the couple who built it.
The Society’s account documents the family’s lemon ranch, illustrated by historical photographs of the house, orchard and farm structures. These images offer a view of a landscape organized around agriculture rather than the housing developments now associated with the road.
Earlier approvals tied new homes to preservation
City records document a separate subdivision at 10811–10921 North Old Santa Susana Pass Road. Its 2019 conditions of approval allowed 18 new dwelling units plus the existing Wilson House, rather than 19 newly constructed houses.
Those conditions required restoration of the historic house before the first occupancy certificates for the new homes. They also required an ornamental iron view fence that would preserve views of the house from Old Santa Susana Pass Road, with pedestrian access near its entry.
Horsekeeping was addressed explicitly. The conditions reserved equine-keeping areas on residential lots and provided for maintenance of equestrian trails. For that earlier development, preserving elements of the area’s rural character was written into the approval requirements.
What remains to be confirmed
The proposal’s scale makes the site plan especially important. The key questions include how the building would sit on the property, where vehicles would enter, how the parking would be arranged, what would face the street and how the development would relate to surrounding properties.
The property images reproduced below are from the Planning filing. The full September 2026 application package, site plan and architectural drawings have not been reviewed for this article. For the proposed 10963 project, the applicant, recorded ownership, architect, senior-living operator, site acreage, demolition scope, proposed architectural appearance and construction schedule remain unverified here.
For now, this is a proposal to watch, not an approved construction announcement. The next useful step is to compare the Planning case documents with the filing summary, particularly the accommodation schedule and parcel boundaries. That is where the broader neighborhood story can become a more precise account of what is actually proposed for 10963.
Property images from the Planning filing
The following eight property images are reproduced from the City Planning filing for ZA-2026-4755-ELD-PR-VHCA. Select an image to open the original in a new tab, or use the button below to browse the article’s images on this page.
Google satellite view
Locate the reported address
Explore the road using the Google Street View embed above. The panorama is supplied for location context; it is not a parcel-boundary map or an approved site plan. Open this Street View in a new tab.
Sources & records
- Property ownership database screenshot supplied for this article — The entry for 11051 Old Santa Susana Pass Rd lists Childrens Fdn Of La County, its mailing address, a 225,789-square-foot lot and a 1973 year-built date. These are the listing’s reported fields, not independently verified deed or building-permit information; they do not establish ownership or site acreage for the 10963 application.
- Los Angeles Times — October 5, 1986.
- Los Angeles Times — November 15, 1998.
- Los Angeles City Planning: current case and filing images — ZA-2026-4755-ELD-PR-VHCA. The property gallery above reproduces images from this filing. The full application, site plan and architectural drawings have not been reviewed for this article.
- City Planning notification summary — ENS_cncRept_20260920_072617PM.pdf, supplied for this article. Source for project dimensions, care categories, parking, maximum height, filing date and case numbers.
- Los Angeles City Planning: environmental case — ENV-2026-4756-EAF. Companion reference link; environmental application materials were not reviewed.
- City Clerk: 2019 approval conditions — Council File 19-0870; CPC-2016-3174-ZC. Pages 1–3 concern the separate 10811–10921 subdivision, Wilson House preservation and horsekeeping provisions.
- Chatsworth Historical Society: Wilson House — Smoke Signal, November 2016, page 5. Source of the historical PDF-page image, family history, attributed 1918 date and ranch photographs.
- Google Maps: Street View — Source of the street-level imagery and interactive panorama. The separate satellite image is also credited to Google Maps; neither view establishes parcel boundaries.
Reporting note: Project figures are transcribed from the City notification summary. The author identified the property-gallery images as material from the Planning filing. Ownership details for 11051 are attributed to the supplied property-data screenshot, not a verified deed or confirmation of ownership at 10963. The hero is an illustrative rendering, not submitted project plans; the Google views and Wilson House historical page are separately credited. The Wilson House records concern nearby 10921 and the earlier 10811–10921 subdivision, not a verified component of the new 10963 proposal. A filing is not an approval, and details may change.
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