East San Gabriel Valley Area Plan

Our project team had the opportunity to work with UCLA Luskin, Masters in Urban Planning Candidate, Ernesto Gonzalez. For his capstone research, he analyzed annexation potential within the East San Gabriel Valley. His findings included a cost benefit analysis, a review of state and local annexation policies, and a land use analysis. We are very […]

Our project team had the great opportunity to work with Malavika Vinod on her Capstone research project as part of her Master of Urban and Regional Planning with the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Her project, titled “Hacienda Heights and Rowland Heights: Improving Public Realm and Promoting Growth” provides a case for placemaking, inclusivity,

Over the course of our work on the East San Gabriel Valley Area Plan, we have the opportunity to collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders and subject matter experts. One piece of this collaboration is our ongoing work with UCLA graduate students, and their capstone research projects. We recently had the opportunity to work

Thanks to our friends at the USC Price Center for Social Innovation and KCET – City Rising, the East San Gabriel Valley Area has been featured in an article on transportation! The article provides an overview of transit access in LA County and the East San Gabriel Valley and also discusses environmental health impacts and

As part of the Y-Plan collaboration with Rowland High, students from Mr. Fisler’s 11th grade US History classes walked around Rowland Heights and were asked to think about questions related to active transit, safety, and walkability. They were joined by planners from LA County Regional Planning, an engineer from Public Works, an Urban Planning professor

Day 2 of the Y-Plan Field Trip followed the same agenda from the previous day in which students toured the immediate area around Rowland High and then explored Downtown Monrovia in the afternoon. The second day included mostly freshman and a handful of sophomores from Ms. Smith’s classes, for a total of 65 students. The

A few weeks ago we launched our partnership with Y-Plan, a program in the Center for Cities and Schools at UC Berkeley. The partnership is being sponsored by the LA County Fourth Supervisor Janice Hahn’s Office. Y-Plan is an award-winning program that has worked with teachers in the United States and abroad. Through this process,

Notifications were sent to property owners in the East San Gabriel Valley Planning Area for parcels with proposed updates to their zoning and/or land use categories. To view proposed updates as part of the East San Gabriel Valley Area Plan, please use this mapping application: East San Gabriel Valley Proposed Changes App Enter your address