Cerritos, California For other uses of the Spanish word "Cerrito" or "Cerritos", see Cerrito .
Cerritos, California City of Cerritos Official seal of Cerritos, California Location of Cerritos in Los Angeles County, California Location of Cerritos in Los Angeles County, California Cerritos, California is positioned in the US Cerritos, California - Cerritos, California Cerritos (Spanish for little hills, formerly known as Dairy Valley because of the preponderance of dairy farms in the area) is an well-to-do suburban town/city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, and is one of a several cities that constitute the Gateway Cities of southeast Los Angeles County.
4.2 Los Cerritos Center 4.3 Cerritos Towne Center 5.2 Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts 6.1 Cerritos Olympic Swim & Fitness Center It veiled 300,000 acres (1,200 km2) of what are today the metros/cities of Cerritos, Long Beach, Lakewood, Downey, Norwalk, Santa Fe Springs, part of Whittier, Huntington Beach, Buena Park, and Garden Grove. Nieto called the region of Rancho Los Coyotes, where Cerritos is positioned today, "cerritos" or "little hills" although no natural hills exist in modern-day Cerritos.
It was through rapid development, combined with improved transit systems, that the modern-day town/city of Artesia was formed in Rancho Los Coyotes in 1875, and from it, the City of Dairy Valley.
As a reflection of its newly prepared suburban orientation, the City's name formally changed to "Cerritos" on January 10, 1967, after the close-by Spanish territory grant Rancho Los Cerritos, which figured prominently in the region and after Cerritos College in neighboring Norwalk.
Cerritos is a prime example of the "fiscalization" of California politics after the tax revolt of the 1970s and the passage of Proposition 13.
Cerritos was one of the first metros/cities in Los Angeles County to precarious large-scale retail zones, such as the Los Cerritos Center and Cerritos Auto Square, and accomplished stunning success.
In 1978, Cerritos dedicated the nation's first solar-heated City Hall complex.
In 1993, the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts opened its doors.
In 1994, the City unveiled the Cerritos Towne Center universal that combines office, retail, lodging, fine arts and dining in an open-air location.
In 1997, the City opened the Cerritos Sheriff's Station/Community Safety Center to furnish enhance safety services.
The assessed valuation of the City of Cerritos is $7,177,428,066. Between 1970 and 1972, Cerritos was the quickest burgeoning city in California. The populace exploded from 16,000 to 38,000.
Cerritos lies along the Los Angeles County and Orange County border.
The metros/cities bordering Cerritos on the Los Angeles County side include Artesia in the center, Bellflower, Lakewood, Norwalk, Santa Fe Springs, and La Mirada.
Other metros/cities in the region include Cypress in Orange County, and Hawaiian Gardens, Long Beach in Los Angeles County.
The former postal ZIP code of Cerritos was 90701 and was shared with the town/city of Artesia; however, it was later changed to an exclusive 90703 to accommodate the increasing number of new addresses in the City amid the mid-1990s.
Cerritos, California The City of Cerritos, as well as most of coastal Southern California, generally has a Mediterranean climate and shares the climate of areas along the Mediterranean Sea.
Cerritos also has a unique "semi-marine" climate pattern inside Los Angeles County.
The fog that typically covers the beach metros/cities rarely reaches Cerritos, but the breeze that comes along the San Gabriel River from the Pacific Ocean has a momentous cooling effect.
As a result, Cerritos is rarely affected by the smog, Santa Ana winds, and smothering heat of the Los Angeles Basin. The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Cerritos had a populace of 49,041.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Cerritos has a median homehold income of $91,487 with 5.5% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. Employment inside Cerritos is primarily positioned in two districts, Los Cerritos Shopping Center and Cerritos Industrial Park.
United Parcel Service, the city's biggest employer with a staff of 6,000, is positioned in the Industrial Park. In 2010, Los Cerritos Center provided for 4,450 full and part-time positions and the Cerritos Auto Square employs 2,160 citizens . Retail and industrialized trades are responsible for Cerritos' $2 billion taxable retail revenue and the $7.2 billion assessed property valuation.
According to the California State Board of Equalization, Cerritos inhabitants are the second highest retail spenders in California (second to Beverly Hills) averaging $36,544 per resident.
Applied Development Economics, in a presentation for the Cerritos Economic Commission on February 14, 2006 states that total annual homehold spending on retail is about $365 million a year with new car dealerships, grocery stores, department stores, service stations and eating places having the strongest demands. A company survey conducted by Applied Development Economics in February 2006 revealed that the total consumer breakdown in Cerritos is: 25% from inhabitants from other parts of Southern California, about 21.9% from Cerritos residents, 18% from commuters, 16% from neighboring communities, 13% from company to business/employee transactions, 10% from inhabitants of Orange County, 5% from homeholds from outside of Southern California, mainly to purchase vehicles from the Auto Square.
The Cerritos Auto Square is a prepared auto mall combining all auto dealers inside Cerritos into one, large three-block center accessible through two freeways.
Los Cerritos Center Main article: Los Cerritos Center Since September 1971, the Los Cerritos Center has been an integral origin of retail tax revenue.
Main article: Cerritos Towne Center The Cerritos Towne Center is a power center which combines offices, retail, hotel, and entertainment facilities in one master prepared project.
The Towne Center includes the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, a 203-room Sheraton Hotel and more than one million square feet (93,000 m ) of office space.
The uncertain state of availability of electricity in California prompted the City of Cerritos on February 13, 2003, in conjunction with the metros/cities of Anaheim, Burbank, Colton, Glendale and Pasadena, to participate in the Magnolia Power Project, which authorized the assembly of a 310-megawatt power plant in the City of Burbank. Cerritos receives 10 megawatts, or 4% of the total output, to power enhance facilities, park lighting, traffic signals and water wells.
5 City of Cerritos 667 The Cerritos Fine Arts and Historical Commission has an "Art in Public Places Program" whereby the City commissions artists to problematic sculptures and fountains to be displayed in enhance points of interest, commercial property, and gateways into the city.
Since 2002, the City of Cerritos has participated in the Tournament of Roses Parade that is held every New Year's Day in Pasadena.
Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts Main article: Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts The Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts (CCPA) features live performances in music, magic, comedy, dance and drama.
The Cerritos Library originally opened to the enhance on September 17, 1973 with a "First Ladies" infamous (in recognition of former First Lady Pat Nixon's home in the community).
In the late 1990s, Cerritos recognized the ever-changing innovation in knowledge technology and the Internet and plans for a second renovation were allowed. During the ongoing standard , all materials were moved off site to temporary trailers in the parking lot of the Cerritos Towne Center for two years.
The Cerritos Air Disaster Memorial in the Cerritos Sculpture Garden.
The Cerritos Sculpture Garden was dedicated on March 11, 2006 and encompassed a ribbon cutting ceremony attended by delegates from Cerritos' Sister City, Loreto, Baja California Sur.
The Cerritos Olympic Swim & Fitness Center provides year-round, indoor recreational, instructional and competing swimming and gym.
The City of Cerritos undertook the universal of building a Senior Center in 1993 to problematic a state-of-the-art enhance facility dedicated to its seniors with civil events, services, life enriching programs and clubs.
Cerritos Park East is the de facto "central park" of the City.
Heritage Park, a improve park in the center of the City, pays tribute to Revolutionary America and the beginning of the country.
Liberty Park, another improve park in the end of town, underwent massive renovation and re-opened to the enhance in February 2005 and features an updated improve center, public center, rubberized jogging track, and children's playground.
Cerritos Regional Park homes the Cerritos Sports Complex, the skate park, and outside swimming pools.
Los Angeles County maintains 75% of Regional Park and Cerritos oversees the remaining 25%.
The City also has 18 neighborhood parks positioned near residentiary tracts, an executive golf course, and two improve gymnasiums positioned on the Cerritos and Whitney High School (Cerritos, California) campuses.
Cerritos operates under a Council/Manager form of government, established by the Charter of the City of Cerritos in 1958.
The five-member City Council acts as the City's chief policy-making body and as members of the Cerritos Redevelopment Agency.
The City Council is directly responsible for the employment of only three individuals: the City Manager, Clerk/Treasurer, and the City Attorney. Management of the town/city and coordination of town/city services are provided by: The Cerritos Sheriff's Station/Community Safety Center provides 24-hour safety services to Cerritos residents.
Located in the Civic Center, the Station homes the City's Community Safety Division and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department personnel.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department operates the Cerritos Sheriff's Station and Community Safety Center in Cerritos, which was assembled into the Cerritos Civic Center.
The 28,000 square feet (2,600 m2) facility, assembled by the City of Cerritos, has a complaint/dispatch area, and 18 bed jail, administrative and detective personnel offices, and a improve meeting room. In addition the sheriff's department operates the Lakewood Station in Lakewood, serving Cerritos. The United States Postal Service operates the Cerritos Post Office at 18122 Carmenita Road. In the California State Legislature, Cerritos is in the 32nd Senate District, represented by Democrat Tony Mendoza, and in the 58th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Cristina Garcia. In the United States House of Representatives, Cerritos is in California's 38th congressional district, represented by Democrat Linda Sanchez. The majority of Cerritos is under the jurisdiction of the ABC Unified School District with a small portion on the west side of the City bounded by Palo Verde Avenue on the west, the San Gabriel River on the east, Artesia Boulevard on the north, and South Street on the south that is under the jurisdiction of the Bellflower Unified School District. Children in Cerritos attend a neighborhood elementary school (kindergarten to sixth grade) before going onto a middle school (seventh and eighth grade) and then a high school (ninth to twelfth grade) unless admitted to Whitney High School, which covers seventh to twelfth grade.
Cerritos is also serviced by Cerritos College and Fremont College.
The City of Cerritos owns a fleet of federally funded buses known as the Cerritos On Wheels (or COW), which has stops throughout town.
The propane fueled COW also joins to the Long Beach Transit, Orange County Transportation Authority, Norwalk Transit or Los Angeles MTA Buses at overlapping stops on the borders of the City.
Cerritos is directly served by three primary California freeways: Interstate 605 (the San Gabriel River Freeway) runs along the west side between the Los Cerritos Center and Auto Square.
Airports that serve Cerritos include: Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, Ontario International Airport, and the Long Beach Municipal Airport.
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