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COMPLIMENTARY COPY VOLUME 20, NO. 39

SAVING ARCADIA SUES CITY OVER CONTROVERSIAL TWO-STORY HOME PROPOSAL

BY KATTA HULES Saving Arcadia, the anti-mansionization group, is suing the City of Arcadia. The suit, which is over the controversial proposed two-story house at 1101 S. Fifth Ave., alleges the project is in violation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the city’s General Plan. “Our main concern … about the environmental impact of this project is that the city wants to ignore the cumulative impact that all this over-development is having throughout the city,” says Saving Arcadia President David Arvizu. “This particular technique of suing the landowner and the city has worked before,” says Council Member Roger Chandler. Early last year, Save the Arcadia Highlands, a smaller anti-mansionization coalition that would later give rise to Saving Arcadia, sued over proposed projects at 1600 Highland Oaks Drive and 29 E. Orange Grove Ave. According to Mayor SEE PAGE 10

This is not the first time mansionization has been challenged by a lawsuit, early last year the group Save the Arcadia Highlands sued over two proposed projects.

California Horse Racing Board Suspends Trainer’s License After Battery on Jockey Alex Solis

Jockey Alex Solis. - Courtesy photo

At about 6:39 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 23, Arcadia officers responded to a battery call at the Santa Anita Race Track. Both parties were still there. The victim, Jockey

Alex Solis, advised he was pushed to the ground by the suspect, who is a local trainer. The victim made a private person’s arrest of SEE PAGE 10

- Photo by Terry Miller

Triple Digit Heat Prompts Red Flag Alerts Throughout SGV CAL FIRE has increased firefighter staffing in preparation for several days of Santa Ana winds and extreme fire conditions in Southern California. The National Weather

Service has issued several “Red Flag Warnings” and “Fire Weather Watches” due to low humidity and gusty winds that could reach up to 55 miles per hour. The warnings went

into effect Monday and are expected to last through Sunday, Oct. 2. Warnings pertain to the mountains and valleys of Ventura, Los SEE PAGE 11


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