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WPRA Newsletter Spring 2020

20 Mar 2020

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COVID-19 hits home – WPRA postpones 2020 annual membership meeting

President’s message – We’re making changes to improve communications and engagement

Mayoral, District 6 council candidates debate the issues – Candidate Forum

Q&A with David Reyes, Director of Pasadena Planning & Community Development

Voters go to the polls to select candidates in party primaries and local races

A major project proposed at Arroyo and California

Huntington Hospital and Cedars-Sinai sign a letter of intent to merge

Will city’s new vision for parks raise or raze the bar?

LA and local cities changing single-use plastic recycling rules

A summary of Arroyo Seco news

Little-known facts about America’s first Busch Gardens

Former Fenyes home destroyed by fire! Was it arson?

President	Dan Beal
Vice President	Avram Gold
Secretary	Evan Davis
Treasurer	Blaine Cavena

Letter to City Council endorsing Staff's IHO changes

16 Aug 2019

Regarding Public Hearing item #11: Zoning Code Amendments relating to Inclusionary Housing and Affordable Housing Concession Menu and Adjustments to Inclusionary In-lieu Fee Rates

WPRA letter zoning amendments for IHR & affordable housing

7 Aug 2019

WPRA letter to Planning Department supporting staff’s proposals for zoning code amendments to update inclusionary housing requirements and establish an affordable housing concession menu

WPRA News Spring 2019

21 Mar 2019

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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

27 Sep 2018

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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 supports Council’s review of the Desiderio Park design and restroom

12 Sep 2018

WPRA supports efforts to call for Council review the Desiderio Park design, restroom and funding issues

WPRA wants the Desiderio public toilet’s location be carefully evaluated

19 Jul 2018

WPRA requests that the Desiderio public toilet’s location be carefully evaluated and the final placement be the least intrusive and most safe for its neighbors and users alike

WPRA accepts the Art Center Master Plan with the exception of the digital sign

15 Jul 2018

WPRA accepts the Art Center Master Plan and the certification of the EIR, with the exception of the proposed digital sign and opposes any zoning signage amendments that allow the sign

WPRA opposes the proposed Art Center digital display

4 Apr 2018

To the Planning Dept. – WPRA believes that the proposed Art Center digital display would adversely affect public safety, would be aesthetically inappropriate and corrupt signage codes for the rest of Pasadena

WPRA News Spring 2018

27 Mar 2018

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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

President	Kenyon Harbison
Vice President	Avram Gold
Secretary	Justin Chapman
Treasurer	Blaine Cavena

Letter to City Council endorsing Staff's IHO changes

WPRA letter zoning amendments for IHR & affordable housing

WPRA supports Council’s review of the Desiderio Park design and restroom

WPRA wants the Desiderio public toilet’s location be carefully evaluated

WPRA accepts the Art Center Master Plan with the exception of the digital sign

WPRA opposes the proposed Art Center digital display

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