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City Council Public Hearings Address Mansionization and Infrastructure
COMPLIMENTARY COPY VOLUME 20, NO. 17
BY GUS HERRERA
Despite the objections of of Hastings Ranch residents who bemoaned the effects of “mansionization” in Pasadena neighborhoods, the Pasadena City Council voted by a 5-2 vote Monday evening to reject the recommendations of the City’s Planning Commission to ban two-story construction in the Lower Hastings Ranch community. - Photo by Terry Miller
Tetra Tech Receives $28M to Improve Water Management Pasadena’s Tetra Tech, Inc. announced Monday that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded the Company a $28 million, single-award contract to improve water sector management and governance in the country of Jordan.
Under the five-year project, Tetra Tech will support the government of Jordan to achieve measurable improvements and greater sustainability of the water sector. Tetra Tech will provide technical assistance SEE PAGE 15
Police Department Involved in Multi-Jurisdictional Raids In response to recent shootings in our community, the Pasadena Police Department coordinated a multi-jurisdictional enforcement effort, which was executed April 22. The Pasadena Police DepartSEE PAGE 14
The Pasadena City Council meeting on Monday, April 25, included three important public hearings. The first, Item 13 on the night’s agenda, concerned the approval of city staff’s recommendation to re-program unused Community Development Block Grant (CBDG) funds, originally appropriated for a public works LED street lighting upgrade project, towards sidewalk replacements and curb-cut improvements for northwest Pasadena. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) limits the amount of unspent CBDG funds that can be retained by the city. According to the staff report, “If the city exceeds this limit, the excess, unspent funds must be returned to HUD.” On Nov. 2, 2015, city council approved $530,000 of CBDG funds towards the aforementioned street lightSEE PAGE 15
LWV Hosting Supervisorial Candidate Forum BY SUSAN MOTANDER
Heavily armed Pasadena police as well as other agencies including Homeland Security executed raids on April 22 that netted 4 arrests. - Photo by Terry Miller
The Pasadena League of Women Voters (LWV) is holding a forum for the candidates running to replace Supervisor Mike Antonovich
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