Luxury Remodeling in Monterey Park

The Repetto Hills give Monterey Park its shape, forming part of the San Gabriel Valley's southern boundary and dividing the city into distinct neighborhoods, some of them looking out over downtown Los Angeles and the valley. In the 1920s Peter N. Snyder planned Midwick View Estates here as a garden community meant to rival Bel-Air and Beverly Hills, but the Depression ended the venture, leaving the observation terrace and the stepped-pool fountain now called Heritage Falls Park, or the Cascades. Many of the city's single-family homes date from the 1950s and 1960s, so a new pool or ADU is often planned around a house and yard that have been in place for decades. The ground matters as much as the house: soils that swell when wet are present in many parts of the city, and on the hillsides drainage and slope stability need answers before a pool or an addition is drawn.

Single-family homes account for about three-quarters of the city's residences, and they range from level ground in the northeast to hillside streets, some with panoramic views of downtown Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley. The R-1 standards set a 25-foot front setback, reduced to 10 feet for a house or garage on a hillside lot, cap homes at two stories or 30 feet, and step the floor area ratio down from 0.50 on lots under 6,000 square feet to 0.40 on lots of 6,000 to 10,000 and 0.35 on lots over 10,000.

One team designs, permits and builds every project, and our own crews self-perform the work, so the people who plan your Monterey Park project are the people on site building it.