Luxury Remodeling in West Covina

West Covina's first housing tract, Sunkist Village, replaced farmland in 1941 near today's Orange and Cameron avenues, and between 1950 and 1962 the population climbed from about 4,500 to nearly 55,000, in an era when single-story ranch-style homes filled the city. The next chapter came in the San Jose Hills on the southeast side, where subdivisions along Hillside Drive in the 1970s and 1980s clustered homes on large lots and left steep slopes and valleys as city-owned open space. Those two eras still frame a backyard plan here: on the flatter tract lots, five-foot pool setbacks and rear yard coverage limits set the layout, while hillside pads bring slope rules, separate grading and retaining wall permits and, in parts of the hills, a mapped fire hazard zone. In Woodside Village, a network of paseos links homes to nearby parks, shops and transit.

The zoning code sets single-family minimum lot areas from 6,000 square feet under the R-1-6,000 designation up to 40,000 square feet under R-1-40,000, and caps total building coverage and floor area on a sliding scale tied to lot size. The Hillside Overlay, which the General Plan places in the San Jose Hills on the city's southeast side and describes as mostly developed, allows one home per gross acre. Subdivisions generally along Hillside Drive in the 1970s and 1980s used its density transfer, clustering homes on lots of at least 20,000 square feet and creating city-owned Landscape Maintenance District open space, generally steep slopes and valleys, that totals 207 acres in the San Jose Hills.

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