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Serving Altadena, CA and surrounding areas. (323) 329-3072
Altadena Asphalt Paving serves Temple City, CA with parking lot paving, driveway repair, and asphalt sealcoating for mid-century properties throughout the city, and has been working across the San Gabriel Valley since 2017 - with free on-site estimates and responses within one business day.
Small commercial properties along Las Tunas Drive and the surrounding retail corridors in Temple City have parking lots that were often installed when those buildings went up in the 1960s and 1970s - surfaces that are now overdue for full replacement. Professional parking lot paving on Temple City's clay-heavy soils requires proper base preparation and drainage to avoid the same cracking and settling that took down the original surface.
Temple City's mid-century single-family homes typically have smaller, shorter driveways than neighboring San Marino, but many have rear-yard or alley-access paved areas that need the same attention. After 60-plus years, the concrete or asphalt on those surfaces has been beaten by sun, seasonal soil movement, and daily vehicle loads - and patching only gets you so far.
Temple City gets the full force of San Gabriel Valley summer heat, and unprotected asphalt oxidizes quickly under that sun. Sealcoating a driveway or parking lot every three to five years replaces the surface binder that UV exposure strips away, keeping the pavement flexible and water-resistant through the winter rain season.
Clay soil in Temple City expands and contracts with the seasons, and that movement opens cracks in asphalt surfaces every year. Sealing those cracks before winter rains arrive blocks water from reaching the base layer - the point at which a small crack turns into a pothole or a failed section that needs expensive repair.
Potholes in Temple City parking lots and driveways are almost always the result of water infiltrating through unsealed cracks and weakening the base, with vehicle traffic finishing the job. We remove all deteriorated material before patching so the repair bonds properly rather than popping out again with the next rain cycle.
Commercial properties in Temple City need legible, ADA-compliant striping to manage traffic and meet accessibility requirements. Sun bleaches parking lot stripes quickly in this climate, and faded markings are both a safety issue and a code compliance issue for businesses along the city's commercial corridors.
Temple City is a dense, fully built-out city where almost all construction work is repair or replacement on existing properties. The city covers roughly 4 square miles and was almost entirely developed during the 1950s through 1970s - which means the driveways, parking lots, and concrete flatwork throughout Temple City are now 50 to 70-plus years old. The clay-heavy soils common across the San Gabriel Valley have been working against those surfaces for decades, swelling in winter rains and shrinking in dry summers, cracking and heaving pavement from below. This is not a problem that improves on its own, and surface patching without addressing the base conditions only delays the bigger repair.
Temple City also sits in a seismically active part of Southern California. The USGS has documented several active fault systems running through and near the San Gabriel Valley, including the Sierra Madre and Raymond faults. Even moderate shaking can open new cracks in pavement that was already stressed by age and soil movement. Business owners and homeowners in Temple City who notice new cracking after any seismic event should get an assessment before the damage spreads.
Our crew works throughout Temple City regularly, and we understand the local conditions that affect asphalt paving work here. The city's residential neighborhoods are compact and tightly packed - lots are modest in size, and many homes have rear-yard paved areas accessed from alleys or side driveways, which requires smaller equipment and careful maneuvering. Las Tunas Drive runs east-west through the center of the city and is the main commercial corridor we work along, where small retail properties and restaurants have parking lots that face the same UV and soil challenges as residential driveways but at a commercial scale.
Baldwin Avenue and Rosemead Boulevard are the main north-south routes through and around Temple City, and the San Gabriel Mountains rise directly to the north, shaping the city's wind patterns and making Santa Ana wind events a real factor for anyone with fencing or roofing that takes the brunt. We also serve nearby San Gabriel to the west and Arcadia to the north, and we can handle projects across all three cities without any lag in scheduling.
Call us or submit your details through the estimate form and we will get back to you within one business day. You do not need to be on-site when we come by - we work around your schedule.
We inspect the base condition and surface, check for drainage issues, and give you a written estimate with a clear price. We tell you honestly whether resurfacing will hold or whether the base needs to come out and be rebuilt - so you are not surprised later.
We schedule the work at a time that limits disruption to your business or daily routine. For commercial projects along Las Tunas Drive, we can coordinate early-morning start times to minimize impact on customers. Most jobs in Temple City are completed within one to three days.
When work is done, we clean the site and walk you through the cure timeline - typically 24 to 48 hours before vehicle traffic. For parking lots, we handle any required striping and ADA markings as part of the same project so the lot is ready to use when the asphalt cures.
We serve Temple City and the surrounding San Gabriel Valley. Written price before work begins, responses within one business day.
(323) 329-3072Temple City is a small, dense city of roughly 4 square miles in the western San Gabriel Valley, northeast of downtown Los Angeles. The city was incorporated in 1960 but its roots go back to 1923, when Walter P. Temple developed the area on land that had been part of Rancho Santa Anita. The population of around 36,000 is concentrated in a predominantly single-family residential community with a strong homeownership rate. Most homes were built during the post-war construction boom of the 1950s through 1970s - single-story ranch houses and modest two-story homes on lots of roughly 6,000 to 8,000 square feet, with stucco exteriors that are standard across this part of the San Gabriel Valley. The city is fully built out, and almost all construction activity here is repair and renovation on existing structures rather than new ground-up development.
Las Tunas Drive is the heart of the city, running east-west through the commercial district and passing City Hall at 9701 Las Tunas Drive. Live Oak Park is the main community gathering space, and the city has hosted its Camellia Festival as a long-running community tradition. The San Gabriel Mountains rise directly to the north, giving the city its backdrop and shaping the Santa Ana wind patterns that hit this corridor each fall. Neighboring San Marino lies to the southwest, and Rosemead borders the city to the south, and we serve both communities as part of our regular San Gabriel Valley route.
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