Monterey Park, California City of Monterey Park Official seal of Monterey Park, California Location of Monterey Park in Los Angeles County, California Location of Monterey Park in Los Angeles County, California Monterey Park, California is positioned in the US Monterey Park, California - Monterey Park, California Monterey Park is a hillside suburban town/city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, 7 miles (11 km) east of Downtown Los Angeles. The city's motto is "Pride in the past, Faith in the future". Monterey Park is part of a cluster of metros/cities (Alhambra, Arcadia, Temple City, Rosemead, San Marino, and San Gabriel in the west San Gabriel Valley) with a burgeoning Asian American population, making up 66.9% of its resident populace at 2010; 47.7% of its inhabitants are of Chinese descent, the biggest concentration of Chinese Americans of any municipality in the United States. According to the 2010 Census, the town/city had a total populace of 60,269. 8.2.1.3 Los Angeles Unified School District Garvey began developing the territory by bringing in spring water from near the Hondo River and by constructing a 54-foot-high (16 m) dam to form Garvey Lake positioned where Garvey Ranch Park is now.
In 1916, the new inhabitants of the region initiated action to turn into a town/city when the metros/cities of Pasadena, South Pasadena, and Alhambra proposed to put a large sewage treatment facility in the area.
The City's new Board of Directors immediately outlawed sewage plants inside town/city boundaries and titled the new town/city Monterey Park.
In 1920, a large region on the south edge of the town/city broke away and the separate town/city of Montebello was established. By 1920, the white and Spanish-surname pioneer were joined by Asian inhabitants who began farming potatoes and flowers and developing nurseries in the Monterey Highlands area.
They improved the Monterey Pass Trail with a road to aid in shipping their produce to Los Angeles.
Snyder was a key player in the vast comprehensive in the 1920s of developing the East Side as part of the industrialized base of Los Angeles.
Until this time, the populace was concentrated in the northern and southern portions of the city, with the Garvey and Monterey Hills forming a natural barrier.
Beginning in the 1970s, well-educated and well-to-do Asian Americans began settling in the west San Gabriel Valley, primarily to Monterey Park. The town/city council later tried and floundered to pass English-only ordinances. In 1985 the City Council of Monterey Park allowed drafting of a proposal that would require all businesses in Monterey Park to display English language identification on company signs. In the 1980s, Monterey Park was also referred to as "Little Taipei" or affectionately, "The Chinese Beverly Hills" by a small-town Chinese-language newspaper, "Asian Week". Frederic Hsieh, a small-town realtor who bought territory in Monterey Park and sold it to newly appeared immigrants, is credited with engendering Monterey Park's Chinese American community. Many businesses from the Chinatown in downtown LA began to open up stores in Monterey Park.
In the 1970s and 1980s, many well-to-do waisheng ren Taiwanese immigrants moved abroad from Taiwan and began settling into Monterey Park.
Mandarin Chinese dialect was dominant in the town/city during that time. In 1983, Lily Lee Chen became the first Chinese American woman to be propel mayor of a U.S.
City. By the late 1980s, immigrants from Mainland China and Vietnam began moving into Monterey Park.
By the 1990 census, Monterey Park became the first town/city with an Asian descent majority populace in the continental United States. Timothy P.
Fong, a professor and director of Asian American studies at California State University, Sacramento, describes Monterey Park as the "First Suburban Chinatown". In the 1980s, the second generation Chinese Americans generally moved out of the old Chinatown and into the San Gabriel Valley suburbs, joining the new immigrants from Taiwan and Mainland China. From that time, with a combined influx of Vietnamese, Taiwanese and Hong Kong immigrant students at the time, Mark Keppel High School, constructed amid the New Deal era and positioned in Alhambra, but also serving most of Monterey Park and portions of Rosemead, felt the impact of this new immigration as the student populace increased dramatically, dominant to overcrowding. Today, many students are second- or third-generation Asian Americans. In the Japanese improve called: Nisei, (second-generation), Sansei, (third-generation). In 1988, the City of Monterey Park passed an ordinance declaring a moratorium on new building, in an attempt to regulate the rapid expansion the town/city experienced as a result of the influx of Asian immigrants. This moratorium was challenged and defeated in 1989 This controversial move caused many Asian inhabitants and businesses to shift focus, establishing themselves in the neighboring town/city of Alhambra.
When the potential loss of company revenue was recognized, "Monterey Park went through a lot of upheaval that a lot of citizens regret." and relocation back to Monterey Park was highly encouraged in the Asian American community. Since early 1990s, the Taiwanese are no longer the majority in the city, and Mandarin, the nationwide language of China, is now quickly displacing Cantonese as the most widely spoken dialect in many Chinese businesses of Monterey Park.
High property values and overcrowding in Monterey Park have contributed to a secondary boss away from Monterey Park.
Monterey Park Village is a 40,000 sq.
Downtown Monterey Park, California The Chinese-dominated company district, near the intersection of Garfield Avenue and Garvey Avenue, is called "Downtown Monterey Park". In the mid-1980s, Lincoln Plaza Hotel was assembled to predominately service tourists from Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Monterey Park has many choices of Hong Kong fusion cafes, there are a several Cantonese seafood restaurants, as well as restaurants offering Mainland Chinese fare.
According to the City's 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 5 City of Monterey Park 440 6 Monterey Park Hospital 362 Monterey Park is home to the Garvey Ranch Observatory, positioned in Garvey Ranch Park, which is directed by the Los Angeles Astronomical Society (LAAS).
East Los Angeles College is positioned along the southern boundary of the City.
Monterey Park is served by the Long Beach Freeway, (I-710), the San Bernardino Freeway (I-10), and the Pomona Freeway, SR 60.
Public transit is provided by the town/city government, Spirit bus service and Metrolink feeder bus, the City of Montebello and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Monterey Park is positioned at 34 02 57 N 118 08 08 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 7.7 square miles (20 km2), of which, 7.6 square miles (20 km2) is land, and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (0.39%) is water.
The town/city boundaries include Los Angeles to the west, unincorporated East Los Angeles to the south and west, Alhambra to the north, Rosemead to the northeast, Montebello to the south, and unincorporated South San Gabriel to the southeast.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Monterey Park had a populace of 60,269.
The ethnic makeup of Monterey Park was 40,301 (66.9%) Asian (47.7% Chinese, 5.8% Japanese, 4.4% Vietnamese, 1.9% Filipino, 1.3% Korean, 0.9% Thai, 0.8% Cambodian, 0.4% Burmese, 0.4% Indonesian, 0.3% Indian), 28 (0.05%) Pacific Islander, 11,680 (19.4%) White (5.0% Non-Hispanic White), 252 (0.4%) African American, 242 (0.4%) Native American, 6,022 (10.0%) from other competitions, and 1,744 (2.9%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 10,932 citizens (18.1%) under the age of 18, 5,180 citizens (8.6%) aged 18 to 24, 15,597 citizens (25.9%) aged 25 to 44, 16,904 citizens (28.0%) aged 45 to 64, and 11,656 citizens (19.3%) who were 65 years of age or older.
According to the 2010 United States Census, Monterey Park had a median homehold income of $56,014, with 15.2% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. According to the 2009 American Community Survey, Monterey Park is 43.7% Chinese American, and is the town/city in the United States with the biggest concentration of citizens of Chinese descent. The Chinese American populace in Monterey Park and San Gabriel Valley is mostly diverse in socio-economics and region of origin.
There are also momentous Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Filipino communities living inside Monterey Park.
While the multi-generational American-born Latino populace was generally declining in Monterey Park, there has been a small new influx of Mexican immigrants (about one percent increase in the population). In the city, the populace was spread out with 21.3% under the age of 18, 8.4% from 18 to 24, 30.2% from 25 to 44, 22.2% from 45 to 64, and 17.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
These were the ten neighborhoods in Los Angeles County with the biggest percentage of Asian residents, as stated to the 2000 census: Monterey Park, 61.1% The Monterey Park Civic Center In the state council Monterey Park is positioned in the 22nd Senate District, represented by Democrat Ed Hernandez, and in the 49th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Ed Chau.
In the United States House of Representatives, Monterey Park is in California's 27th congressional district, represented by Democrat Judy Chu. Chu previously served as mayor and town/city council member of Monterey Park.
The town/city of Monterey Park has its own police and fire departments serving the city.
Monterey Park City Municipal Elections are held every two years in odd numbered years, on the first Tuesday in March.
Five Council Members serve four year terms with overlapping terms in bi-annual elections: the three seats propel in one election and two seats in the next election, at which time the City Clerk and City Treasurer are also elected. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department had its central command posts in Monterey Park. The Edmund D.
Edelman Children's Court, Sybil Brand Institute, Central Juvenile District, (Dependency) is positioned in Monterey Park. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services operates the Monrovia Health Center in Monrovia, serving Monterey Park. East Los Angeles College is a improve college that is positioned in Monterey Park in an region that was once part of East Los Angeles (unincorporated).
In addition California State University, Los Angeles is in proximity. Four school districts all serve different areas of Monterey Park.
They include Alhambra Unified School District, Garvey School District, Los Angeles Unified School District, and Montebello Unified School District. Monterey Highlands School K-8 schools serving AUSD in Monterey Park include: Monterey Highlands School Mark Keppel High School serves Monterey Park. Two elementary schools, Hillcrest and Monterey Vista (both are in Monterey Park), serve this part of the city. Monterey Vista is a Blue Ribbon School.
Los Angeles Unified School District Robert Hill Lane Elementary School (Monterey Park), Griffith Middle School (Unincorporated Los Angeles County), and Garfield High School (Unincorporated Los Angeles County) serve the LAUSD part of the city.
Bella Vista Elementary School, Monterey Park; Potrero Heights Elementary School, South San Gabriel; Macy Intermediate School, Monterey Park, and Schurr High School, Montebello, serve the Montebello MUSD portion. Saint Stephen Martyr School: opened in 1926 to furnish the families of Monterey Park with an opportunity for their kids to receive a Catholic School education.
St Thomas Aquinas School: A Catholic church school, serving economically and ethnically diverse students in grades Kindergarten through eighth.
Monterey Park Christian School Pre-Kindergarten Kindergarten The Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library serves Monterey Park. Monterey Park improve news is veiled by the city's official news publication, the Cascades Newspaper, as well as the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. William Hung, rejected American Idol contestant, current statistical analyst for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Michael Woo, former Los Angeles City Councilman (1985 1994) and Dean of the Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design History of the Chinese Americans in Los Angeles Monterey Park, CA.
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