District 1 › Area D
DSouth of Main St
Almansor Park and East Beacon Street
The blocks south of Main St east of Garfield, down to about Commonwealth Ave. The part of the district with the most Spanish spoken at home, at nearly one in three residents, and the largest share of residents age 18 to 34. Two in three households rent, and the housing is a mix of single-family houses and buildings of ten or more units, half of it built since 1980.
AAtlantic to Garfield BNorth of Alhambra Rd CMain St to Alhambra Rd DSouth of Main St
*This Census tract runs past the district line to the south. Of its 5,878 people and 2,389 homes, about 5,878 people and 2,389 homes are inside District 1, counted by Census block. Every percentage below is for the whole tract. Registered voters and ballots, further down, count only the blocks inside the district.
A short history
Drawn from two City of Alhambra documents prepared by Historic Resources Group: the Historic Context Statement (April 2022) and the Citywide Historic Resources Survey Report (November 2023). Bracketed page numbers are PDF pages. More on these sources.
Alhambra's first school stood near Chapel Avenue and Main Street, opened after residents petitioned to split from the San Gabriel school district. A few years later a bond measure paid for the Garfield School that replaced it in 1887. [Context p.74] The Alhambra Tract of the 1870s ran south of Main all the way to Mission Road, so the blocks here east of Almansor Street were in the original town, and the ones west of it were in the Alhambra Addition. [Context p.63] [Context p.64]
Almansor Park, whose name Nextdoor's label for this area borrows, began as something else. In 1887 the City of Pasadena bought 320 acres just south of here for a sewer farm, treating its sewage by irrigating walnut and orange groves, and later added 200 acres more. [Context p.73] The land became the Crown City Ranch, and the City of Alhambra opened Almansor Park on part of it in 1947, bought another 104 acres in 1951, and built the recreation building. [Context p.189] The Alhambra Wash on the district's east edge was channelized in stages between 1921 and 1938, and the Main Street bridge over it dates to about 1937. [Survey p.392] [Survey p.393] In the 1950s the shopping center of Main Street shifted east toward Chapel. [Context p.192]
Who lives here67% rent · 41% born outside the U.S. · median age 39 · 26% limited English
Each row compares this area with all of District 1 and with the whole city. Source and margins of error.
Languages at home
The homes35% single-family · 24% built before 1950 · median rent $2,090 · median value $755,000
Getting to work64% drive alone · 3% bus or train · 15% work from home · 11% of households have no car
On the City's docket
Copied from the City of Alhambra's Development Projects pages, which sort projects as Proposed, Under Appeal, Approved, Under Construction, and Completed. Only projects inside this area are shown, in the City's own terms, with no commentary. Checked September 23, 2026. If the City's page has changed since, the City's page wins.
A 6-story, 60-unit condominium building on a 40,476-square-foot site zoned RH (Residential High Density). The eight detached bungalows and one duplex on the site would be demolished. Nine of the 60 units are for-sale affordable units (six very-low-income, three extremely-low-income) under State Density Bonus Law, which also allows deviations from some City development standards. 80,113 square feet of floor area, 20,575 square feet of open space, and 80 parking spaces in an enclosed garage.
Applications PD-2025-00002, TTM-2025-00003, DRB-2025-00087. Design Review Board, December 9, 2025. Planning Commission public hearing, December 15, 2025. The City's page for this project.
The last time this seat was on the ballot
Registered voters and ballots cast are counted from the voter file, by Census block, for the blocks inside District 1. Ballots include every voter who returned one, whether or not they marked the council race, which is why the four areas together add up to more than the 3,636 council votes.
The County ran District 1 on three precincts in 2022, and none of them lines up with these four areas, so the candidate results are shown by precinct, exactly as certified, with an estimate of how much of each precinct falls in each area.
| Precinct | Where its voters live | Council votes, as certified | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0150032A | Area D 100% | Katherine Lee 446 · Ari Gutiérrez Arámbula 317 · Stephen Sham 291 | 1,054 |
Precinct shares are by ballots cast per block. Method and source.
Places
- Granada Elementary School. 100 S Granada Ave. Alhambra Unified, kindergarten through eighth grade.
Where the numbers come from
People, homes, and density are 2020 Census counts for tract 4810.02. Every percentage and median is from the ACS 2024 five-year estimates (2020 to 2024), pulled September 23, 2026. Tract-level estimates carry real margins of error, so read a few points of difference as "about the same." The full list of sources, with table numbers.
The four areas
AAtlantic to Garfield BNorth of Alhambra Rd CMain St to Alhambra Rd DSouth of Main St