Professional Movers in Arcadia, CA

Arcadia sets its own overnight parking hours, recognizes five homeowners associations and has a racetrack on Huntington Drive. Here is how each of those shapes a moving day, and what our crew does about it.

The 2:30 a.m. parking ban and your cars

Arcadia Municipal Code 3214.3 bars parking on public streets from 2:30 to 5:30 a.m., and a vehicle left on the roadway for more than 72 hours can be towed at the owner's expense. Annual overnight permits go only to homes that lack parking and cannot add it. On moving week, decide early where your cars will spend the night once the garage and driveway fill up.

For short stays the city sells temporary overnight permits, priced per night for up to five consecutive days, online or at the 24-hour machine at 250 W. Huntington Drive, up to three days ahead. They cover passenger vehicles and trucks under 6,000 lbs no more than 7 feet high or wide; commercial vehicles are excluded, so a moving truck cannot use one. We plan loading so the truck is not left on the street during the ban.

Five HOA areas and buildings with their own rules

The city recognizes five homeowners associations: Arcadia Highlands Home Owners Association, Rancho Santa Anita Property Owners Association, Santa Anita Oaks Association, Rancho Santa Anita Residents Association and Santa Anita Village Association. Each has an Architectural Review Board, and City Resolution 7272 sets the rules for properties in these areas. In Upper Rancho, new homes and most additions, alterations and exterior improvements go through the board's design review.

If either address is in one of these areas, or in a condo or townhouse building, ask the association or manager whether they set hours or paperwork for moving day. When a building wants a certificate of insurance, we provide one for $50 per building, as listed on our pricing page.

Highlands ranch houses, Upper Rancho and the Downtown grid

The Highlands is the city's northernmost section: about 850 homes in the northeast, set against the foothills north of Foothill Boulevard and east of Santa Anita, up to the Whispering Pines ridge. Its houses are typically California ranch style, and the neighborhood dates from 1953. A ranch plan usually keeps the rooms on one floor, so the carry is long rather than steep: we lay runners from the back bedrooms to the door and pad the frames.

Upper Rancho, the Rancho Santa Anita Property Owners Association area, runs from Foothill Boulevard north to the city limits, between Michillinda Avenue and Baldwin Avenue. Baldwin Avenue, its eastern edge, is a principal corridor with its own I-210 interchange, so we bring the truck in that way and keep side streets to the last few blocks. For a house of three bedrooms or more, our residential moving crews run four to six movers.

Downtown works differently. Arcadia began as a railroad town: founder Elias 'Lucky' Baldwin got the Santa Fe Railroad to run a line through his rancho, and the rail alignment and street grid that grew around the station are still visible. The Metro A Line station, open since March 5, 2016, stands at First Avenue and Santa Clara Street, a short block from Huntington Drive. For offices and shops there, we choose the loading curb in advance and circle the block on the grid if it is taken.

Race days, Huntington Drive and the 210 at rush hour

Arcadia's 2010 General Plan describes chronic congestion on I-210 during commute hours, with heavier traffic on Foothill Boulevard and Huntington Drive when the freeway backs up. Huntington Drive has eight lanes; the other principal corridors, such as Baldwin Avenue and Santa Anita Avenue, typically have four. Truck routes, set by City Council resolution to limit truck traffic in residential areas and near parks and schools, keep to major and secondary arterials.

The same plan notes that Santa Anita Park, at 285 W. Huntington Drive, and the nearby regional mall share access roads and generate substantial traffic, usually on weekends, at peak shopping times and on large race days, when City Police direct intersections by hand. It singles out December 26 and the track's opening day. Because the clock runs by the hour, we keep long drives out of commute peaks and check race dates for addresses near the track.

Moves from Arcadia to Pasadena, San Marino or elsewhere in Los Angeles County are billed the same way as moves inside the city, by the hour with a 3-hour minimum. The minimum rises to 4 hours when an address is 30 or more miles from our service area.

Leaving Arcadia for another state

I-210, the Foothill Freeway, runs east-west through the northern part of Arcadia, with interchanges at Baldwin Avenue and Santa Anita Avenue and two more just outside the city: Michillinda Avenue/Rosemead Boulevard to the west and Huntington Drive to the east. A loaded truck takes whichever ramp suits your side of town and direction of travel. Long-distance moves go to all 50 states on a binding estimate built on distance, weight and the services you choose.