A transit village for Tarzana?

When Los Angeles civic leaders talk about building taller structures and more multifamily homes along transit lines, they're probably not envisioning projects in placid, suburban Tarzana. Daily News staff writer Kerry Cavanaugh explores the proposal.

But that's just what the Tarzana Neighborhood Council has proposed for the area around the Orange Line station on Reseda Boulevard.

Tarzana Crossing would be what some call a transit village or an urban village - with shops, restaurants, offices and apartments or condos within one-quarter mile of the station.

It would be an environment ideal for walking. Buildings could reach up to six stories in the core, with shops on the ground floor attracting those on foot to window-shop and people-watch.