Landscape shifting as big lots make way for multiple homes.(Spotlight On El Monte)

From: Los Angeles Business Journal | Date: December 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

OLD El Monte and its latest incarnation can be found side by side along McGirk Avenue.

On a three-quarter acre lot across from an Arco station sits a one-story home. Next door is a similar-sized parcel with a four-home development.

Instead of the spacious back yards that recall El Monte's roots as a farming town, the new homes have tiny ones and a shared driveway.

A combination of factors, including Asian immigrants coming into the San Gabriel Valley, the housing boom and loose building codes, have changed the city's landscape yet again, as smaller homes on large ...

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