Top 10 developments in the San Gabriel Valley

Montebello · 1200 units

A gated master-planned community of up to 1,200 homes on 488 acres of the former Montebello Oil Field, built by a Toll Brothers and Lennar joint venture. Seventeen years passed between the start of environmental review and the opening of models in 2025 — and more than half the site is conserved in perpetuity as habitat.

West Covina · 232 units

232 homes on roughly 13.62 acres — 34 two-story single-family detached plus 198 three-story attached townhomes — approved with a street extension and the existing baseball field dedicated to the City.

Pasadena · 169 units

A seven-story, 169-unit apartment building approved without a public hearing — entitled ministerially by Los Angeles County in 2022 at 193 units, upheld on appeal, and redesigned downward in 2026 under the same permit.

San Gabriel · 80 units

Eighty for-sale condominiums approved across the street from a 243-unit project already under construction, using one of the San Gabriel Valley's first AB 130 statutory CEQA exemptions to skip environmental review entirely.

Duarte · 11 units

Eleven for-sale townhomes on Royal Oaks Drive, the smallest project on this board to need a General Plan Amendment and rezoning to get built — approved after a Mitigated Negative Declaration to protect two mature Coast Live Oaks on site.