Montecito Heights is a neighborhood in the

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region of

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. The population in 2000 was estimated at 16,768.

Geography and transportation

Montecito Heights' boundaries are roughly the

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( SR 110) or the Arroyo Seco on the northwest, Pasadena Avenue on the west, Avenue 35 to the south, Huntington Drive to the southeast, and Monterey Road to the east. Neighboring districts include Monterey Hills on the northeast, El Sereno on the southeast, Lincoln Heights on the southwest,

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on the northwest, and Highland Park on the north. Owing to the rugged terrain, no major thoroughfares run through the area, besides Griffin Avenue (Los Angeles). The district is largely in ZIP code 90031. Most of the homes on the hills were built after the 1950s when engineering technology enabled builders to construct on the steep hillsides.

Neighborhood

Annexed to the City of Los Angeles in 1912, Montecito Heights is known by the residents as the 'Wilderness in the City'. Montecito Heights sits on the Monterey Hills that divide the

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from the

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. Montecito Heights is a relatively isolated area of greenery and trendy resident home restorers. City views are available on the district's hills. Along with neighboring Highland Park and

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, it is one of the historic centers of the

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Landmarks

* Ernest E. Debs Regional Park * Heritage Square Museum
Audubon Center

Notable residents

* Alana Cordy-Collins, anthropologist and archaeologist *

Napoleon Cordy Hannibal Napoleon David Alfred Thomas ("Nap") Cordy (July 29, 1902 — January 30, 1977) was an amateur scholar in the field of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, who made some notable contributions in the 1930s and 1940s to the early study a ...

, Mayanist * Bricia Lopez, author and restaurateur * Tala Madani, artist *

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, artist

References

External links

Arroyo Seco Neighborhood CouncilMontecito Heights Improvement Association
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