The neighborhood
What Santa Ana asks of a crew
Floral Park is the largest historic district in the city, roughly 600 homes with about 200 of them on the National Register, and French Park's twenty-block district northeast of downtown is older still, Victorians and Colonial Revivals from around 1900. These are deep lots with mature street trees and driveways cut for a 1925 sedan, so a full-size truck often parks at the curb and the crew walks the distance, or works the alley behind the house instead of the frontage. Parts of these older neighborhoods sit inside city permit parking districts, so we confirm the parking rules while we are quoting rather than on the morning of the move.
Downtown is the opposite problem. The Santiago Street and Artist Village lofts are stacked over three levels, with the work space and its roll-up door on the ground floor, the kitchen and living space above it and the bedroom at the top, which makes almost every piece a stair carry no matter what the inventory says. At MacArthur Place, near where the 405 and the 55 meet and under two miles from South Coast Plaza, the towers run 25 floors and the building sets the terms: a reserved elevator, a protected lobby route and insurance paperwork on file. We charge no stair fee on any of it, and the certificate of insurance goes out on request.
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