The neighborhood
The Garden Grove move, in practice
Most of the city went up between 1950 and 1970: single-story ranch houses, about three bedrooms, sitting on lots wider than most of what has been built around them since. That shape sets the day. The front door is one step off the walk instead of three flights up, which is the easy part, and the garage, the side yard and the patio are all part of the move, which is the part most crews underestimate.
The street is the other half. Garden Grove requires a city-issued permit for any vehicle over 22 feet parked on a public street. Permits are free to residents and their visitors, they run up to 72 consecutive hours, each household gets twelve a year, and street sweeping day still applies. We check your block before the date and tell you where the truck will sit. The city is not one housing type either: the Korean business district along Garden Grove Boulevard, the Vietnamese blocks toward the Westminster line, the historic streets around Main Street, the West Garden Grove tracts at the western end, the mid-2000s condo buildings with elevators and the 55-plus mobile home parks each move differently. Elevator reservations and park gate check-ins get handled before the truck rolls, not on arrival.
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