If anyone asked you what the smallest neighborhoods in Los Angeles are, you’d likely respond with the .49-square-mile rectangle Larchmont or the half-square-mile Carthay. Now you can add Hermon to the list: The 0.56-square-mile community in Northeast Los Angeles has won the right to form its own neighborhood council.

Per Eastsider, residents represented by the Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council voted in favor of allowing the 3,500-resident enclave to break off on its own by a vote of 360-186. As Curbed LA points out, the fact that the only polling station available was located in Hermon may have had an effect on that.

Such a move would have been impossible just a couple years ago. Back then, LA’s Department of Neighborhood Empowerment required neighborhood councils to have a minimum of 20,000 stakeholders. However, a change to the Neighborhood Council subdivision process by the City Council last year took away that requirement, clearing the way for places like Hermon to form their own councils.

Along with more focus on the specific neighborhood, having a council also brings with it $37,000 in annual funding from LA.

Hermon doesn’t represent the first attempt to form a new council under the new rules. Downtown Los Angeles’ Skid Row tried and failed to earn its own neighborhood council designation in a close vote the week prior.