WPRA asks Steve Mermell to reconsider building the Goldline overpass at California and Arroyo and instead use funding for other projects like 710 ditch development
Connecting Pasadena Project (CPP)
Pertaining to the land taken to create the 710 north “stub” where the freeway construction stopped and is now vacant in a wide ditch
WPRA letter to CA Senator Portantino regarding AB29
West Pasadena Residents’ Association Requests Approval of AB 29 and the removal of State Route 710 from the Streets and Highways Code
WPRA News Spring 2019
In this issue
Council streamlines pre-sale home inspection program
Waiting for mansionization redux
“Urban Edge” can deliver death sentence to street trees
Pasadena strives to permit multi-unit developments and encourage affordable housing and preserve city character
Definitions of key Pasadena and state housing laws and rules
Is Caltrans finally shutting down the 710-stub batch plant?
The (really) ‘Big Dig’ is underway
A ‘sunny spot’ in west Pasadena: the La Solana Inn
| President | Dan Beal |
| Vice President | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Justin Chapman |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
WPRA News Fall 2018
In this issue
710 tunnel opponents hope for the best, but prepare for the worst
Pasadena city sales tax proposal on the ballot
Transparency and trust in City Hall? It is our Desiderio.
Desiderio Park restroom project marches on
‘Big Dig’ likely to start this November
Anti-mansionization plans shift gears
Opinion: WPRA urges tighter mansionization rules
Opinion: WPRA opposes zoning change for Art Center’s external jumbotron
Urban Land Institute study: More ideas about managing the arroyo
Pasadena needs to rethink its priorities for the Arroyo
Extraordinary heat wave damages plants in the San Gabriel Valley
Rose Bowl explains the Ed Sheeran concert traffic gridlock
Major infrastructure projects planned for the upper Arroyo Seco
The controversial 710 Freeway in Pasadena 54 years ago
| President | Dan Beal |
| Vice President | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Justin Chapman |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
WPRA News Fall 2017
In this issue
Reclaim the stubland, re-establish lost social, economic, transportation benefits
Opinion: Caltrans tenants, our neighbors, deserve protection and consideration
City sales, use tax revenue rising slightly
The Playhouse District Association forms Specific Plan advisory committee
Arroyo Advisory Group outreach is underway
Paseo undergoes transformation and gets new owner, name
City Council appoints task force to envision Civic Center future
The Los Angeles County Flood Control District refuses to reduce scale or timing of “Big Dig”
Public Works recommends replacing purple leaf plum street trees
Stand up for San Rafael Elementary’s renovation
South Orange Grove Avenue: “Millionaires’ Row”
| President | Kenyon Harbison |
| Vice President | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Justin Chapman |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
WPRA News Spring 2016
In this issue
Transforming the 710 ditch; making our neighborhoods safer
SR-710 tunnel project DEIR is a dry hole for water data
CPP presses forward in grassroots effort to redesign the 710 ditch
City Ventures nears completion at Ambassador Gardens
Briefs: Q&A’s about the PWP’s Glenarm Repowering Project – 710 Tunnel makes national list of highway boondoggles – City Council approves non-potable water project – Mayor focuses on economics in State of the City address
La Loma Bridge work continues
Hahamongna co-op nursery thrives
WPRA pleased and disappointed by potential Arroyo Seco music festival’s final EIR
An overview of the proposed Arroyo Seco festival
The Italian Sunken Garden of Hulett C. Merritt
| President | Geoffrey Baum |
| Vice President | Sarah Gavit |
| Secretary | Justin Chapman |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
WPRA News Winter 2015
In this issue
WPRA launches effort to protect our neighborhoods from SR-710 North tunnel option
Five cities form new coalition to consider regional traffic plan
Briefs: Working Group seeks preferred 710 Alternative – City has new fire chief Bertral Washington – Tips on how to deter home burglaries
City studies “mansionization”
Arroyo Seco Foundation and the Pasadena Audubon Society sue over the County’s “Big Dig” sediment plan
Stand up and pitch in for Arroyo Seco restoration
Questions remain as tree infestation inventory continues
PUSD Boar declares San Rafael Elementary “Surplus Property”
News nuggets from Rose Bowl community meetings
The Hurlbut home: The first Orange Grove mansion
| President | Geoffrey Baum |
| Vice President | Sarah Gavit |
| Secretary | Justin Chapman |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
WPRA News Fall 2014
In this issue
Pasadena’s urban forest threatened by tiny beetle
The Connecting Pasadena Plan
Community deliberates new capital improvement funds and a music festival
Ambassador Gardens’ construction proceeds
Maranatha’s 20-year Master Plan nearing final stage
Briefs: City establishes SR-710 alternatives working group – Japanese garden forms board, non-profit organization – Art Center buys building at Gateway to Pasadena
Preparing for historic drought takes years of planning and water banking
Working group and the City continue to seek ways to make Avenue 64 safer
First WPRA president, Richard Jencks, dies at 93
La Casita reopens after massive upgrade and renovation
Glen Rosa: “One of the choicest planes in Pasadena”
| President | Geoffrey Baum |
| Vice President | Sarah Gavit |
| Secretary | Robert Holmes |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
WPRA News Spring 2008
In this issue
Mayor Bogaard visits San Rafael School
A plan to improve Pasadena’s schools by Superintendent Edwin Diaz
Profile: Bernard Melekian, Interim City Manager
Cell tower placement: private and public property
Development and design – the Pasadena process
A vision of beauty – Arlington Garden
The “Pasadena Great Park” project, a proposal to deck over a 1 ? mile-long 210 Freeway section
Central District residents are well educated and well paid
Easier walking in the Central District
Desiderio update
Ambassador West Housing Project is in receivership
| President | Fred Zepeda |
| Vice President | James Hawkes |
| Secretary | Dorothy Lindsey |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
