Arcadia

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Located northeast of downtown Los Angeles, Arcadia is bordered by six other communities: Pasadena, Sierra Madre, El Monte, Irwindale, Monrovia, and Temple City. It is the site of the Santa Anita Park racetrack and home to the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens.

     
Arcadia is known for having a really good schools. Arcadia Unified School District consistently ranks among the top school districts in Los Angeles County and in California. In 2006, along with San Marino and La Canada School Districts, Arcadia Unified was included as an Out-Performer, ranking in the top 8.3% of all schools in California based on Reading and Math Proficiency tests.    
     
    Peacock Village is one of the older communities in Aracadia. Here  you will find well maintained homes with clean-cut, landscaped yards. The were many traditional ranch homes as well as several contemporary and colonial style homes. Most of the homes were sized to fit the lot and I was happy to see only a handful of newer McMansions.

The Highlands, named because it is located up the hill to the north end of the city, rests against the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. It’s located north of Foothill Blvd and runs along Santa Anita Avenue bordering the Santa Anita Oaks community. It stretches east to the Whispering Pines gated estates and all the way up the mountain.

Santa Anita Oaks area, also known as the Upper Rancho Estates, is bounded by Michillinda Avenue to the west, Santa Anita Avenue to the east, Foothill Blvd. to the south and Orange Grove Avenue & Sierra Madre Blvd. to the north. 

 

The properties here have some of the largest lot sizes in Arcadia.  These lots are big enough such that even large sized homes and McMansions are set-back from the street. This creates the feeling that the homes are built proportional to the land on which it sits. It also makes the street seem wider than it is.

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