A Woodland Hills nursery is turning into a cemetery. Some locals are fighting it

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Boething Treeland Nursery, a 73-year-old Woodland Hills fixture, will become a cemetery after selling to Dignity Memorial for $3.96 million.

Affluent neighbors hired attorneys to challenge the project, citing religious objections, traffic concerns and fears of living near graves.

The cemetery can bypass public hearings because the 32-acre property is already zoned for burial use by right.

Groves will turn to graves in Woodland Hills, where a developer has plans to redevelop Boething Treeland Nursery into a cemetery.

The 32-acre nursery has grown trees and other plants for the San Fernando Valley for the last seven decades, but it sold last year for $3.96 million to Dignity Memor