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Real Estate Appraisers and Appraisals In
Los Angeles County, City of Cudahy
| Named after the meatpacking
baron Michael Cudahy these "Cudahy lots" were notable for their
dimensions in most cases, 50 to 100 feet in width and 600 to 800 feet in depth,
a length equivalent to a city block or more in most American towns. Such
parcels, often referred to as "railroad lots," were intended to allow
the town's residents to keep a large vegetable garden, a grove of fruit trees,
and a chicken coop or horse stable. This arrangement, which proved popular in
the booming towns along the lower reaches of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel
rivers, proved particularly attractive to the Southerners and Midwesterners who
were leaving their struggling farms in droves in the 1910s and 1920s to start
new lives in Southern California. By the early 1960s, increasing property
values, as well as changes in zoning permits and property tax assessment
appraisal formulas, led many Cudahy residents to sell off their homes to real estate
developers who radically developed the once lowly-populated town. Where the
typical Cudahy lot originally contained only a small one- or two-story house,
most parcels today contain at least two duplex or triplex apartment buildings,
and oftentimes a two- or three-story apartment building that stretches the
length of the property, containing dozens of units. From the 1970s onward,
these housing units have been filled almost entirely with working-class
Latinos, and today Cudahy boasts one of the highest population densities of any
incorporated city in the United States. |
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