Luxury Movers in San Marino, CA

A move in San Marino depends less on elevators and loading docks than on city parking rules, deep front yards and Huntington Drive. Below, each topic comes with what we check ahead of the date and how the crew handles it.

Parking hours and where a truck can wait

San Marino bans stopping, standing and parking on city streets between 2:00 and 5:00 a.m. every day, except on Huntington Drive and San Gabriel Boulevard; an overnight exception needs a permit approved by the Chief of Police. We schedule the work so our truck is never left at your curb overnight.

Two more rules limit where a truck can wait. Vehicles over 6,000 pounds may not park in the city's public lots, so we don't stage a truck in one. No vehicle may stay on a driveway visible from the street for more than 48 hours, which matters if you plan to load a rented trailer yourself.

Whether a truck needs city approval to stand at your curb is a question for the City of San Marino, so ask early. We'll tell you which stretch of curb the truck will use and for how many hours.

Garage sales, front yards and condo buildings

A garage sale in San Marino needs a city permit, has to be held in the backyard and may have only one sign, placed in the front yard. Hold it before packing begins, and the crew will pack only what's going with you.

Front yards have rules of their own. The city's property nuisance rules list broken or discarded furniture and household equipment left in front yard areas, and trash must be kept in side or rear yards, out of sight from the street. We stage furniture in the driveway or garage, not on the lawn. Anything you're not taking should have a pickup or donation date before moving day.

Most of the city is single-family houses, but condominium and multi-family units are allowed in the Huntington commercial corridor and in two special zones. In those buildings, ask the manager about move hours, elevator use and insurance paperwork. If a certificate of insurance is required, it costs $50 per building (see pricing), and we send it to the manager before the date.

Deep lots and period houses

The city's single-family zone is split into eight districts with minimum lot sizes from 9,000 to 60,000 square feet. Required front yards run from 25 feet in the smaller-lot districts to 40 feet in the larger ones, and a curving driveway or porch steps add to that. Tell us how far the door is from where the truck will stand and how many steps there are, and we'll size the crew so the carrying doesn't stretch the day.

Houses built between the 1920s and the 1960s come with original floors, staircases and doorways worth protecting. The crew covers floors and stair rails, measures tight openings before carrying, and takes apart anything that won't pass. Our packing crew can handle the whole house or only the china, glass, mirrors and framed art.

Huntington Drive, school hours and freeway access

Huntington Drive crosses the city from west to east: it enters from South Pasadena and continues through East San Gabriel to Arcadia, and its wide median was once a Pacific Electric rail line. City Hall and the police and fire departments share 2200 Huntington Drive, with the Crowell Public Library at 1890 and the community center at 1800.

Four schools also have Huntington Drive addresses: Valentine Elementary at 1650, Huntington Middle School at 1700, San Marino High School at 2701 and K.L. Carver Elementary at 3100. We try to keep a loaded truck off that stretch at drop-off and pick-up times, because time in traffic adds to an hourly bill. The minimum is three hours, or four when the job is at least 30 miles outside our service area.

San Gabriel Boulevard reaches I-210 at exit 29A and I-10 at exit 25B, and Rosemead Boulevard (SR-19) meets the same freeways at exits 30 and 26B. Sierra Madre Boulevard runs 6.6 miles from Huntington Drive to Elvado Avenue in Pasadena. Trucks over 3 tons have been barred from the Arroyo Seco Parkway (SR-110) since 1943, so we route loads bound for downtown Los Angeles by I-10.

Long-distance moves: which way the truck heads out

A move to another state is priced by a binding estimate that reflects the distance, the weight of the shipment and any services you add, not by the hour; our long-distance moving page covers the service. We pick the route by destination and time of day.

For trips up the state, I-210 runs west to I-5 near Sylmar. Heading east, Huntington Drive itself meets I-210 at exit 33 in Monrovia, and at SR-57 in Glendora the freeway becomes SR-210, crossing I-15, the artery between Southern California and Nevada, before it ends at I-10 in Redlands. For moves to nearby cities rather than other states, see our Los Angeles County page.