9072 Arcadia Avenue
A half-acre R-1 lot in the unincorporated county pocket next to Temple City is approved for five detached condominiums, one price-restricted — five years after the map was first filed with LA County Regional Planning.
Units
5
Affordable units
1 moderate-income (≤135% AMI average), required under the county Inclusionary Housing Ordinance
Zoning
R-1 (Single-Family Residence); land use H9 (0–9 du/net acre)
Site area
0.61 acres / 26,579 sq ft
Details
- Address
- 9072 Arcadia Avenue, unincorporated Los Angeles County, CA 91775
- Case number
- Vesting Tentative Tract Map 83480 (RPPL2021007371 / PRJ2021-002634)
- APN
- 5379-024-021
- Jurisdiction
- Unincorporated LA County, South Santa Anita–Temple City Zone District (Supervisorial District 5); East Pasadena–East San Gabriel community standards district
- Housing permit
- Administrative Housing Permit RPPL2021007371, filed 2023-08-16, concurrent with the map
- Other permits
- Oak Tree Permit (Administrative) — involves protected-tree removal
- Approval vote
- 5-0, LA County Regional Planning Commission, June 3, 2026
Five condos on a half-acre R-1 lot
A half-acre lot on Arcadia Avenue, in the unincorporated county pocket next to Temple City, would be subdivided for five detached condominiums. The map has been working through Los Angeles County's review since 2021, and it reached the county planning commission in June 2026.
What's proposed
Five detached condominium units on one multi-family lot of about 0.61 acres — roughly 26,600 square feet. One of the five would be set aside for a moderate-income buyer, a requirement of the county's Inclusionary Housing Ordinance for small for-sale projects in this submarket. The site is zoned R-1, single-family, with a land-use designation (H9) that allows up to nine units an acre — five units on 0.61 acres is about eight an acre, near the top of what the designation permits.
The county pocket next to the city
The parcel sits in the South Santa Anita–Temple City zone district, an unincorporated piece of Los Angeles County that carries a Temple City mailing address but is governed by the county, not the city. The project answers to the county's Regional Planning Commission and its East Pasadena–East San Gabriel community standards district, not to Temple City's own planning department — those community standards are part of what slowed the map down, with holds on street frontage and average lot width across two rounds of committee review.
The county planning commission approved the map on June 3, 2026 by a 5-0 roll call, after finding the project categorically exempt under CEQA. The appeal window closed June 15, 2026 with no appeal on record. Filed in 2021, approved five years later — a reminder of how long county review can run on even a small subdivision.
What this means if you live nearby
The map is approved: a vacant or underused half-acre lot becomes five detached for-sale homes, one of them price-restricted. No construction timeline has been announced. If you own a similar R-1 lot in this county pocket, the long holds on frontage and lot width here show what county community standards will scrutinize.
Source (staff-report): https://case.planning.lacounty.gov/assets/upl/case/prj2021-002634_ist-report-20221208.pdf · retrieved 2026-08-20 · last verified 2026-08-29