Ice
Rink & Edison land planning status
- No new public information regarding the ice rink since the Design
Commission meeting in early March.
- Weeds were cut down on Edison land and street frontage this past
week.
- Edison has said in writing that it will not extend the lease of
Perssons nursery any further, therefore Perssons is being forced out at
the end of June. Similarly, Present Perfect nursery has to be out
in August. This is in spite of the fact that the developer with
the option from Edison for that land does not currently have any
application pending or approved for other uses.
- Open space supporters packed the public comment period at last
Monday's City Council meeting. Speakers asked the council to stop
Edison from evicting the nurseries. The response from staff was
that the council cannot intervene in private matters between landowners
and lessees unless zoning or ordinances are being violated.
Speakers asked council members to publicly state they will not agree to
rezone open space or approve self storage facilities. City staff
said it would be inappropriate for council members to pre-judge
something which may eventually come before them. Discussion of
the topic by the council was shut down by the city attorney because it
was not on the agenda.
library grand re-opening
- Library renovation is to be complete and reportedly there will be
a Grand Re-Opening celebration on Saturday June 30.
Hazardous & E-waste collection, June 23, Rose Bowl parking
lot K
- Properly dispose of old paint,
oil, pesticides, computers, VCRs, cellphones, etc. by taking them to
this LA County collection event.
- Parking Lot K is southwest of
the Rose Bowl.
- Next collection event is
probably in Arcadia in August. (Looked it up since the
meeting. It will be in both Arcadia and Sierra Madre on August 18).
- http://ladpw.org/general/enotify/Calendar_Template/Calendar.aspx
Westfield parking plan
- Last week, the San Marino
Tribune carried an article by San Gabriel Valleywide News stating that
the Arcadia City Council had approved a further big expansion of the
Westfield shopping mall including plans to handle the shortage of
parking during the holiday season by having employees park in the Metro
Gold Line Station garage and take a shuttle to their job at the mall.
- This article was forwarded to
Councilman Haderlein and his field rep by one of our residents.
Apparently it was news to
them and to city staff. Haderlein responded that city staff
would be contacting
the MTA about this because Arcadia should not be using Pasadena parking
facilities to support their retailers.
curb number painting
- Recently somebody calling
themself "Curb Appeal" taped notices to our front doors soliciting
business painting street address numbers on the curb. The next
day, an e-mail came from the councilman's field rep warning that the
business was not contracted by the city and also didn't have a business
permit.
- Further inquiry of the city
discovered that the city is about to contract with a non-profit company
to provide that service to residences that request it. Details
are to appear soon in the city's In Focus news pamphlet.
- Some residents did have "Curb
Appeal" do the job and were satisfied with the result. General
consensus is that it is best to pay in cash after the job is done.
coyote surge
- Coyote packs are being
reported in our vicinity again along with probable cat eating in the
early morning hours. Do not leave food outside. If you must
feed animals in your care outside, take any leftovers/spillage
away. Aside from food directly attracting coyotes, increasing the
population and plumpness of the raccoons, possums, skunks, rats, mice,
etc is a big encouragement to the coyotes to make visiting our
neighborhood a habit. And the more comfortable they feel, the
bolder they'll get about when they come and what they do.
- An attendee also asked that
people put a collar with a bell on their cats so they won't catch the
song birds.
- If you do have cats or small
dogs you let outside, try hard to have them inside at night.
anything
else attendees wish to discuss
Next meeting is
July 14.
Adjourned at ?? (forgot to look
again, but meeting was fairly quick)