WPRA’s comments on the July 14, 2021 Draft Housing Element – WPRA considers this draft to be an overall good start to a difficult task, one that provides a platform for further engagement and revision. We list 7 key points of focus & 3 appendixes.
Pasadena traffic
Pertaining to traffic congestion and traffic studies
WPRA Newsletter Spring 2021
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
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
WPRA Newsletter Spring 2020
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?
| President | Dan Beal |
| Vice President | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Evan Davis |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
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 Summer 2019
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
| President | Dan Beal |
| Vice President | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Evan Davis |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
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 Winter 2019
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
| President | Dan Beal |
| Vice President | Avram Gold |
| Secretary | Justin Chapman |
| Treasurer | Blaine Cavena |
To Darth Damrath, WPRA response to the SR-710 FEIR/FEIS
To Darth Damrath, Chief Environmental Planner at LA Dept. of Transportation – WPRA response to the SR-710 FEIR/FEIS
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 |
