The City of Industry does not currently have a historic preservation ordinance. This largely industrial city owns and funds the operation of the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum, which consists of the Workman House, a nineteenth century adobe; Casa Nueva, a Spanish Colonial Revival residence; and El Campo Santo, one of the oldest cemeteries […]

Cudahy does not currently have a historic preservation ordinance. This 1.2 square mile city located in southeast Los Angeles County conducted a citywide residential survey in 1984 that identified 21 structures.  While no survey updates have been completed since that time, the City has expressed interest in conducting an update in the near future.  Working […]

Diamond Bar does not currently have a historic preservation ordinance. Though Diamond Bar has not yet enacted policies aimed at protecting privately owned historic resources, the topic is a point of discussion as the City contemplates ways to protect the historically significant, yet privately owned windmill that is one of the last vestiges of the original Diamond […]

Duarte does not currently have a historic preservation ordinance.  Though the City was working toward that goal in 2008 and such an ordinance was discussed in a study session, the City Council did not give direction to pursue the topic further. The City has made progress with historic preservation with its first citywide survey of […]

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Hawaiian Gardens does not currently have a historic preservation ordinance. At 0.9 square miles in area, Hawaiian Gardens is the smallest municipality in Los Angeles County.  While the City currently has no plans to establish a historic preservation ordinance at this time, its small size could make a citywide survey of historic resources an approachable […]

Maywood adopted a historic preservation ordinance in 2010 as an “Urgency Ordinance” as a result of concerns that the Los Angeles Unified School District was purchasing several parcels with single family residences to clear for a school expansion. The ordinance does not establish the ability to designate historic districts, and the designation of individual landmarks […]