The WPRA requests that the City delay implementation of the current options for suicide-deterring Vertical Barrier Enhancements to the Colorado Street Bridge, and continue to conduct an in-depth review of alternatives, including any technologies that could replace the physical barriers, or enhance a reduced height of those barriers.
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Pertaining to the historic bridge, its history and restoration
WPRA News Spring 2021
2021-B-Spring-WPRA-News
In this issue
2021 WPRA annual meeting: Can Pasadena increase affordable housing without losing identity, self-determination?
President’s comments: The worst laid plans …
What do we spend your membership/donations on?
Q&A: with Ken McCormick, CEO, Mill Creek Development
New design unveiled for mixed-use Castle Green project
Women’s City Club transfers Blinn House to Pasadena Heritage
A thank-you to our members and a reminder! Donor listing
One Arroyo launches trail demonstration projects
How Everett House came to be home for The Shakespeare Club
Colorado Street Bridge mockups now installed for public viewing
Juliette’s adventures at the Pasadena Senior Center
Advertising Pasadena early in 20th Century
Officers
| President | Dan Beal |
| Vice President, Administration | Evan Davis |
| Vice President, Communications | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Kenyon Harbison |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
| President | Dan Beal |
| Vice President, Administration | Evan Davis |
| Vice President, Communications | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Kenyon Harbison |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
WPRA News Summer 2020
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In this issue
Former Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard assesses our city’s dealing with COVID-19 and economic challenges
President’s message – WPRA collaborates with LVAA and MHNA and shows hope for the future
Cheryl Moody is the police department’s first female Deputy Chief
Claire Bogaard among Adam Schiff’s 2020 Women of the Year
Q&A with Bryan Frieders, Pasadena’s interim fire chief
Associations close ranks for greater city transparency, timeliness – joint letter to Planning Department & Commission
Report from Pasadena Heritage – a virtual Colorado Street Bridge celebration
Arborist Rebecca Latta gives advice about Pasadena tree maintenance
Projected further development of Brookside Golf Course with an added arcade
Big Dig suit settlement imminent
WPRA’s first president helps city set Arroyo Seco natural policy through ‘visionary proposal’
Colorado Bridge suicide mitigation mockups near completion
City to host virtual open houses for all eight specific plans
A letter from Huntington Hospital – from Dr. Lori Morgan, President and CEO A city of masks in 1919
| President | Dan Beal |
| Vice President, Administration | Evan Davis |
| Vice President, Communications | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Kenyon Harbison |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
WPRA News Winter 2020
2020-A-WPRA-Winter
In this issue
WPRA will host public forum for all candidates for mayor and District 6 council seats
Governor’s ink seals shut the 710 tunnel project & related articles
President’s message – In praise of activism and civic engagement
New state laws undermine Pasadena’s Accessory Dwelling Unit ordinance
Briefs: City elections to align with statewide primary, Caltech, city team up to build seismic-sensing network, PFAs not detected in Pasadena’s water sources, Pasadena again earns Section 8 ‘high performer’ rating
City studies designs and seeks input to discourage bridge suicides
Opinion: Historic Civic Center may still be threatened
Clock ticking for soft-story retrofits
Opinion: Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco belongs to us all
Opinion: Balancing water needs in the Arroyo Seco
History: The boom that blew the petals off the Rose City
History: The 1908 Rose parade – a whale of a time
Officers
| President | Dan Beal |
| Vice President, Administration | Evan Davis |
| Vice President, Communications | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Kenyon Harbison |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
| President | Dan Beal |
| Vice President | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Evan Davis |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
WPRA News Winter 2019
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In this issue
Officials declare victory over the proposed 710 tunnel project
As 710 tunnel is put to rest, historic homes need protection
MET continues to upgrade water resources and the system
Voters support ballot measures to help fund city and Pasadena Unified School District
New building on Castle Green/Hotel Green block redesigned
City seeks designs for suicide prevention barriers on the Colorado Street bridge
Plans call for replacing the “Darth Vader” building
Pasadena says good-bye to Fuller Seminary and looks to future
County begins destructive four-year sediment removal project
Big Dig mitigation plan is defective on all counts
Check soil moisture, mulch, adjust watering schedule for shorter and cooler winter days
A personal point of view: Going ‘public school’ in Pasadena
Promoting Pasadena as a paradise in the past
Officers
| President | Dan Beal |
| Vice President, Administration | Evan Davis |
| Vice President, Communications | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Kenyon Harbison |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
| President | Dan Beal |
| Vice President | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Justin Chapman |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
WPRA News Spring 2018
2018-B-Spring-WPRA
In this issue
PUSD struggles as revenues decline and expenses rise and unique services expand
Mayor sounds fiscal alarm
State mandates usurp City’s control over development
State launches flights of bills intended to fix housing shortage
City Council reacts negatively to Green Hotel project…again
City, school board approve ballot measures for city election changes
City approves new accessory dwelling unit regulations
Task force searches for ways to discourage bridge suicides
City OKs ballot measure for new sales tax
Marijuana regulation measure to be on June 5 municipal ballot
Civic Center Task Force moving toward recommendations
WPRA supports all but one proposed mobility improvement
San Rafael Elementary celebrates 100 years
West Pasadena in 1893: healthful prosperity
Officers
| President | Dan Beal |
| Vice President, Administration | Evan Davis |
| Vice President, Communications | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Kenyon Harbison |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
| President | Kenyon Harbison |
| Vice President | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Justin Chapman |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
WPRA News Winter 2018
2018-A-Winter-WPRA
In this issue
WPRA urges Council to Cite Caltrans for code violations and call out Caltrans’ unethical tactics
City wrestles with financial challenges
Briefs: Street Bridge task force addresses suicide uptick – Fire station assessment is mixed – Report proves cost of a well-maintained urban tree canopy is quite a bargain – City Council passes resolution to align elections with State cycle
Colorado Street Bridge task force gathers community suggestions and input
Green Hotel project preview at City Council in January
City approves amended ADU rules to conform to State law
Council settles on how to regulate the profit from short-term rentals
“One Arroyo Day” highlights advisory group’s efforts on behalf of Pasadena’s great city park
Community task force begins study of Civic Center’s future
Supervisors reduce scope, negative impacts of Big Dig
At long last the City begins to clear flammable brush from Lower Arroyo to reduce risk of fire
Arlington Garden rebrands and passes leadership to next-gen “constant gardeners”
Police report crime stats for Gold Line
The essentially domestic life at Mrs. Dexter’s tourist home
Officers
| President | Dan Beal |
| Vice President, Administration | Evan Davis |
| Vice President, Communications | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Kenyon Harbison |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
| President | Kenyon Harbison |
| Vice President | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Justin Chapman |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
WPRA News Fall 2002
2002-D-Fall-WPRA
In this issue
Citizens seek a “Natural” Arroyo Seco – the Arroyo Seco Master Plan
Planning Commission approves Pasadena’s 2000 – 2005 housing element and recommends changes in future planning process
Worldwide Church of God moves forward with Ambassador College development – an update
A brief history of Pasadena Heritage: Keeping the promise of preservation for 25 years
City staff revises Pasadena environmental policy guidelines
Annandale Canyon Estates Project update
Spotlight on La Casita del Arroyo
South Orange Grove could be “Re-Striped” as part of Pasadena’s General Plan – an update
Recap of the WPRA San Rafael Survey regarding natural wildlife
LVAA propose advisory committee to work with the City and ROCB on Rose Bowl NFL plan
An explanation of the Vista del Arroyo Bungalow project
Getting to know and understand the Metro Gold Line (originally the Blue Line)
Officers
| President | Dan Beal |
| Vice President, Administration | Evan Davis |
| Vice President, Communications | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Kenyon Harbison |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
| President | Vince Farhat |
| 1st Vice President | Charles “Kicker” McKenney |
| 2nd Vice President | James Hawks |
| Secretary | Joan Hearst |
| Treasurer | Dorothy Linsey |
WPRA News Fall 1993
1993-D-Fall-WPRA
In this issue
WPRA initiates the Southwest Pasadena traffic study
Colorado Bridge ready for another 80 years
Federal Highways and the National Trust for Historic Preservation are in conflict as to whether the 710 should be built at all
Parking meters installed in Old Pasadena
City asks residents’ input in planning for World Cup soccer in the Rose Bowl
The Janss Project, or “Holly Street Village Apartments,” is nearing completion
Update on the Blue Line potential negative impacts
Hahamongna Watershed Park dedicated – $1.86 million earmarked for restoration of the badly-silted old dam
Arroyo naturalization Update
Officers
| President | Dan Beal |
| Vice President, Administration | Evan Davis |
| Vice President, Communications | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Kenyon Harbison |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
| President | Pete Ewing |
| Vice President | Shahen Hairapetian |
| Secretary | Mary Prickett |
| Treasurer | Carolyn Nabor |
WPRA News Fall 1992
1992-C-WPRA-Fall
In this issue
The WPRA reaches out to the community to encourage more volunteers to help in the classrooms.
Colorado Bridge update
The Pasadena Neighborhood Coalition: an association of associations (PNC)
The 710 Mitigation Committee held its first meeting on September 9, 1992.
Memorandum from Assistant City Attorney to Katie Nack – Subject: 710 Freeway
draft General Plan and its mobility element
Arroyo update
Officers
| President | Dan Beal |
| Vice President, Administration | Evan Davis |
| Vice President, Communications | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Kenyon Harbison |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
| President | Robert Brina |
| Vice President | Mary Leader |
| Secretary | Mary Prickett |
| Treasurer | Carolyn Nabor |
