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WPRA Newsletter Winter 2021

7 Jan 2021

In this issue

WPRA streams 2020 annual meeting to elect, reflect, protect

Are you prepared for the next natural disaster?

President’s column: Pandemic or not, WPRA continues to be engaged on your behalf

Gordo rallies community to meet collective challenges

Q&A with John Perez, Chief, Pasadena Police Department

City staff preparing final mansionization code

Pasadena Heritage: Accommodating a new reality

City appeals RHNA allocation

Council revises ordinance to further preserve heritage

Pasadena Senior Center turns 60

History: 1895: The streets of west Pasadena

President	Dan Beal
Vice President, Administration	Evan Davis
Vice President, Communications	Avram Gold
Secretary	Kenyon Harbison
Treasurer	Blaine Cavena

WPRA News Winter 2019

9 Jan 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

WPRA News Fall 2018

27 Sep 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 Spring 2018

27 Mar 2018

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

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

WPRA News Fall 2017

28 Sep 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 Summer 2016

7 Jul 2016

In this issue

Mayor warns of SR-710 tunnel threat to region

Progress in the fight against the SR-710 tunnel: Measure M taxes will not fund SR-710 freeway tunnel – PUSD joins opponents to SR-710 freeway tunnel – City Council defers ballot measure to repeal Measure A. – WPRA receives ‘consulting party’ status

La Loma Bridge update

$182.7 million Rose Bowl renovation – project enters final phase

YWCA/Kimpton Hotel Final EIR released; Planning Commission to consider

Briefs: Update on General Plan implementation – Kim Kenne elected president of PUSD Board of Education – Refinancing of PCC bonds will reduce taxes for property owners – City prepares ordinance to restrict use of styrofoam containers

City, Habitat break ground for new Desiderio development and park

San Rafael Elementary issues and outlook

Pasadena receives $100K grant, publishes water quality report

Citywide crime down 15%, but theft, burglary up

Pasadena Transit connects riders with high-tech convenience

Arroyo Seco and Devil’s Gate for early picnics in west Pasadena

President	Kenyon Harbison
Vice President	Sarah Gavit
Secretary	Justin Chapman
Treasurer	Blaine Cavena

WPRA wants PUSD to oppose the SR-710 Tunnel alternative

25 May 2016

The WPRA asks that PUSD reconsider its position to abstain from voting on the Five Star Coalition’s resolution to oppose the SR-710 Tunnel alternative

WPRA News Winter 2016

4 Jan 2016

In this issue

LA Metro/Caltran’s 710 tunnel plan will take your breath away. Literally.

PUSD saves San Rafael Elementary

Briefs: City Manager resign sand heads to UCLA – City appoints new department directors – Fire Department receives international accreditation

La Loma bridge retrofit, rehabilitation progresses

New law reduces minimum parking requirements for affordable housing

West Pasadena in 1886

City prepares second draft of new urban forest management plan

Neighbors group gathers to mitigate Rose Bowl event challenges

Architectural historian, Robert Winter, donates Batchelder tiles to Pasadena Museum of History

John Van de Kamp fires up the way-back machine

President	Geoffrey Baum
Vice President	Sarah Gavit
Secretary	Justin Chapman
Treasurer	Blaine Cavena

WPRA News Fall 2015

9 Oct 2015

In this issue

Trenching at San Rafael Elementary reveals no evidence of active faults

WPRA analysis finds SR-710 DEIR grossly inadequate

The view from City Hall by Steve Madison

Council adopts General Plan with “hybrid” density levels

Briefs: Paseo Colorado embarks on major redevelopment – Pasadena appoints Selvidge to airport authority – Water update – RPOC says “no” to NFL

The City plans to manage our arboreal wealth and burdens

The Emery home: from South Orange Grove to West Green Street

President	Geoffrey Baum
Vice President	Sarah Gavit
Secretary	Justin Chapman
Treasurer	Blaine Cavena

WPRA News Summer 2015

1 Jul 2015

In this issue

Historic votes and new voices opposing tunnels point to new transportation models

2015 elections usher in a new era at City Hall

La Loma Bridge will soon close for retrofit

Appeals court rejects Rose Bowl/NFL EIR suit

Briefs: Pedestrian improvements at Colorado and Fair Oaks – Drought, water-restrictions will impact public lands and trees – City adopts Level 2water shortage plan

City seeks “mansionization” answers and standards

Critical canyon water, Hahamongna sediment and Arroyo restoration projects move forward

The tide has turned for San Rafael Elementary

Arroyo Seco Arts & Music Festival at the Rose Bowl

The history of mustaches, cigars and pulpits: Robert Burdette in Pasadena

President	Geoffrey Baum
Vice President	Sarah Gavit
Secretary	Justin Chapman
Treasurer	Blaine Cavena

WPRA wants PUSD to oppose the SR-710 Tunnel alternative

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