The neighborhood
What a Buena Park move actually involves
Buena Park is flat, which removes one problem and creates another. There are no canyon roads or hillside driveways here, but the core of the city is a block grid of 1950s and 1960s tract housing where the driveway was sized for one car of that era and the street parks tight by evening. Most of these are single story ranch homes, so there is no stair carry, but there is a long low run from the front door to the curb, a side gate that rarely takes a wardrobe box straight through, and a garage that has been filling since the house was new. We walk the carry route before anything is loaded.
The rest of the city asks for different planning. Condos and townhomes line Beach Boulevard and the Metrolink corridor, and the association behind Los Coyotes Country Club, north of Malvern Avenue, wants paperwork on file before a truck parks. The 55+ mobile home communities are tighter still: the interior lane is narrower than the truck, the carports are low, and the manager signs the vehicle in at the gate. Add the Beach Boulevard entertainment corridor, which backs up around Knott's Berry Farm on summer weekends and right through the holidays, and the whole job comes down to when we arrive and where we stage. That gets decided before the day, not on it.
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