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WPRA News Spring 2021

1 Apr 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

WPRA opposes Cal. Blvd. Goldline overpass

18 Jun 2020

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

2020-06-18-WPRA-opposes-Cal.-Blvd.-Goldline-overpass

WPRA News Spring 2020

20 Mar 2020

2020-B-WPRA-Spring

In this issue

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?

Officers

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

WPRA letter to CA Senator Portantino regarding AB29

24 Aug 2019

West Pasadena Residents’ Association Requests Approval of AB 29 and the removal of State Route 710 from the Streets and Highways Code

2019_08_24_WPRA-letter-to-Portantino_AB29

WPRA News Summer 2019

28 Jun 2019

2019-C-WPRA-Summer

In this issue

WPRA’s Annual meeting – Homelessness in Pasadena

Keeping the Civic Center civic and green

City rewards positive contributions to historic preservation

Caltrans houses could be in danger

City signs contract for Colorado Bridge safety fence design

Senate Bill 50 is tabled in Senate Appropriations Committee

More traffic control for Rose Bowl events

“Big Did” sediment removal begins – protecting air quality

Striving to ban one-time use plastics

John D. Gaylord’s horse and the elixir of life

Officers

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

WPRA News Spring 2019

21 Mar 2019

2019-B-Spring-WPRA

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

Officers

President	Dan Beal
Vice President	Avram Gold
Secretary	Justin Chapman
Treasurer	Blaine Cavena

WPRA News Winter 2019

9 Jan 2019

wpra2019WinNL

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	Avram Gold
Secretary	Justin Chapman
Treasurer	Blaine Cavena

To Darth Damrath, WPRA response to the SR-710 FEIR/FEIS

20 Dec 2018

2018-12-20-SR-710-Final-EIR_EIS-Comments

To Darth Damrath, Chief Environmental Planner at LA Dept. of Transportation – WPRA response to the SR-710 FEIR/FEIS

WPRA News Fall 2018

27 Sep 2018

2018-D-Fall-WPRA

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

Officers

President	Dan Beal
Vice President	Avram Gold
Secretary	Justin Chapman
Treasurer	Blaine Cavena

710 FEIR/FEIS – no tunnel alternative

22 Aug 2018

To CA State Transportation Agency, CA Dept. of Transportation, CA Dept. of Transportation District 7 – the 710 North project FEIR/FEIS should not include discussion of the tunnel alternative in any way

2018-08-22-SR-710-Tunnel-Strikeout-Letter

WPRA opposes Cal. Blvd. Goldline overpass

WPRA letter to CA Senator Portantino regarding AB29

To Darth Damrath, WPRA response to the SR-710 FEIR/FEIS

710 FEIR/FEIS – no tunnel alternative

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