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Monrovia Weekly Temple Tribune ArcAdiA Weekly Monday, JANUARY 30 - FEBRUARY 5, 2012 Volume xVIi, No. V
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Temple City’s Gateway Project May Break Ground Late February According to the Temple City Manager’s report, Steve Masura, Community Development Director says that The Gateway project (at the northeast corner of Las Tunas and Rosemead Boulevard)formely known as the Piazza project - plans are in “plan check with the city, and the developer is on schedule to have a ground breaking ceremony in late February or early March of this year.” We’ll keep you posted over on our website at www.thegatewaytemplecity.com with the latest breaking news on the project.
A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy calms a resident down who was upset with the PUC on Thursday evening. - Photo by Terry Miller
by terry miller The December 1st windstorm may have seemed mild by comparison to some of the anger expressed by San Gabriel Valley residents in Temple City Thursday night. 250 people attended the Public Utilities Commision hearing at Temple City High School hall Thursday night
as part of the agency’s investigation into SC Edison’s response to the Nov.30 and Dec.1 major windstorms which wreaked havock to the San Gabriel Valley. At one point, a resident so distraught over the lack of information and the time involved, refused to accept thje PUC’s decision to take a break and demanded that they get on with the busi-
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Area Residents Outraged with PUC and Southern California Edison - Power Poles Overloaded with Cables
El Monte Must Decide on Halfway House This Week El Monte City Council is taking all the time available to decide whether or not to allow GEO/Cornell to increase the capacity of its rehabilitation center in the city. The court ordered the Council to make a decision by the end of January. At last week’s meeting it was agreed that final deliberations would take place during this week’s City Council meeting, on January 31. The issue at hand is
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The GEO/Cornell halfway house at 11750 Ramona Blvd, El Monte. -Photo by Dena Burroughs
ness at hand. The unnamed resident was asked by Marcis Nixon , a PUC employee, to settle down and eventually the Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputies were called to control the situation. The resident said “ am I under arrest for being upset about this?” To which the officer said “ no sir.” The tense moment Please see page 7
Disabled Veteran William Maclean was also angry at PUC. - Photo by Terry Miller
State’s Elimination of Redevelopment Diminishes Opportunities for Continued Duarte Revitalization In the classic film, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” a man gets a glimpse of what his beloved town might have been like if he had never been born. In the same way, Duarte can look back on the past three-plus decades and count the ways that the city has transformed, grown and prospered thanks to redevelopment. With the state’s decision to abolish redevelopment upheld by the California State Supreme Court and a set Feb. 1 deadline for agencies
to shut down operations and begin liquidating assets, Duarte, along with the approximately 400 other redevelopment agencies throughout the state are getting a startling glimpse of what the future may hold for their communities. The financial impact and loss of the redevelopment tool will put a chokehold on many already strained city budgets. “While we fought hard to preserve Redevelopment, unraveling an over 50-year program in less than 30 days
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is simply unrealistic and will create more harm than necessary, said Duarte Mayor John Fasana. “The effects on a community like ours will be long lasting especially in terms of allowing us to create jobs and revitalize blighted neighborhoods or shopping centers. ”Two local State Senators Ed Hernandez and Alex Padilla are supporting a bill that would extend the deadline to mid-April to give Please see page 3