Alhambra City Hall — Local services in Alhambra

They are nice and strict. They are not good at making people obey yielding. There are only 2 or 3 police units at any given time patrolling the city. Specifically, we that live in the Midwick Tract, I rarely or never see a police car drive by. Someone runs a yellow light: No ticket. U-Turn where "no U-turn appears in the intersection: No ticket.. No one is there to give out tickets. As far as Auto accidents go. I had a light fender bender. The man wanted me to exchange insurance info and leave. I said "NO" You need to stay, my husband and son-in-law are coming to assist me. I called the police to arrive. The man wanted money to replace a bumper that already had 30-40 dents in it. I showed the policeman the man's back bumper and my front bumper. The only thing that could be seen was 2 tiny spots that weren't even dents. I even matched the 2 screws on my license plate the 2 perfectly matched. The paint was barely sloughed off. I told the officer Thank You. He told me that in the future I need to know that officers do not come and visually see an accident or make a notation about the accident. If I hadn't called the officer the man would try to make me pay for 2 dots on his bumper when there were already bumps and...

The city of Alhambra needs to put more visible parking signs in the streets for when to park because of Street sweeping. No proper signage on the streets and expects everyone to know the parking restrictions on my street. This city needs to do a better job with signs. Expects people to clear the whole road just for repairs on sidewalks when they brought a whole truck and trailer and they expected to park on the street with it. I parked on the street and I wasn’t interfering with the construction job police came to my house and made me move my car. The sign wasn’t even next to my car. Well anyways my street has some ugly ass trees that dirty my cars all the time city needs to replace them for better trees and chop them off already. I called to ask about the parking sign they say it’s only required at the beginning of the street which is a bad. Because not everyone can see the sign at the stop sign. Since we are concern with the cross traffic and not looking at small little signs. They have to...

Historical plaque inscription: Founder - Benjamin D. "Don Benito" Wilson. First house erected - 1873. Incorporated - July 11, 1903, population 600. Charter City - January 30, 1915.

"Don Benito" Wilson was the owner of Rancho San Pascual, he was Alhambra's founder, and the first mayor of Los Angeles. The ranch land was named after a book, Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving, which he was inspired to write by his extended visit to the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain. Alhambra was founded as a suburb of Los Angeles that remained an unincorporated area during the mid-19th century. The city of Alhambra has an area of 7.63 square miles, and a population of...