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Arcadia City Councill will look at possible changes in the city code on floor area ratio (FAR), lot coverage, and design review for single-family homes. FAR refers to the combined floor area of buildings on a lot, compared to the size of the lot. Arcadia has a lot coverage rule that single-story homes can cover 45% of the lot and 2-story dwellings 35%. Arcadia currently has a citizen-run design review effort within homeowner associations in northern parts of Arcadia, but no citywide system.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31846
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 28, 2003
Pages
p. 17
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 28, 2003
Pages
p. 17
Subjects
Design review
Houses
Mansions
Item ID
32043AN
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Residents of Santa Anita Village will get a chance to register their opinions on limiting the size of new houses in their area. Homeowners are asking for a 35 percent floor area ratio rule to be in place.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30027
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 12, 2001
Pages
p. 10
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 12, 2001
Pages
p. 10
Subjects
Houses
Mansions
Mansionization
Design review process
Architecture
Item ID
30214AN
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Newspaper Index
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Most of the seven candidates competing for two seats for the City Council support adopting a floor-to-area ratio, or FAR, in an effort to halt "mansionization."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper18620
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 28, 2000
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 28, 2000
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
City Council - Elections, 2000
Item ID
18864AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Arcadia City Council debates home design controls.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30568
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 29, 2002
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 29, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Home design reviews
Houses
Mansionization
Item ID
30756AN
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The Arcadia City Council has approved a design review process for the upcoming addition to the Santa Anita Park race track. The procedure adopted requires review by the Planning Commission and the City Council of all preliminary site plans, floor plans, exterior architectural improvements, and new construction.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29813
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 14, 2001
Pages
p. 9
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 14, 2001
Pages
p. 9
Subjects
Santa Anita Park race track
Expansion
Development
Design review process
Zoning
Planning Commission
Item ID
29998AN
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The City Council voted unanimously to expand design review for single-family homes citywide. It is the latest effort in the fight against boxy mansions being built in Arcadia. The review board thinks Asian families like the big houses and the Asian families say they do want to fit in with the community.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29774
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 2005
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 2005
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Mansions
Developers
Architecture Design Review
Houses
Item ID
29959AN
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The Arcadia City Council introduced an ordinance on February 4 that targets over-sized houses and would reduce the scale, mass and bulk of single-family homes. The city wants to avoid the mansionization trend.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25094
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 11, 2003
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 11, 2003
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
City Council 2000 - 2009
Housing
Mansionization
Item ID
25289AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Pasadena Showcase House of Design features an Arcadia home designed for Lawrence and Josepine Garat Wilcox Barker and built over two years in 1941-1943.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27459
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 6, 2000
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 6, 2000
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Houses
Pasadena Showcase House of Design
Item ID
27656AN
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Local boy Todd Golper is on the All-Area Football Team.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31332
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 25, 2008
Pages
p. C6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 25, 2008
Pages
p. C6
Subjects
All-Area Football Team
Golper, Todd
Sports
Item ID
31527AN
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Residents fed up with the so-called "mansionization" of their neighborhood are proposing limits that would curb the proliferation of large houses on small lots.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper21155
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 23, 2001
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 23, 2001
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Real Estate
Mansionization
Item ID
21384AN
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All-area girls soccer team is pictured. One player is a senior from Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31424
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 1, 2009
Pages
p. C1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 1, 2009
Pages
p. C1
Subjects
All area girls soccer
Sports
Tangorra, Ann Marie
Item ID
31617AN
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Local boy Michael Langendoen is shown here as a member of the All-Area Boys Water Polo Team.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31330
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 24, 2008
Pages
p. C1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 24, 2008
Pages
p. C1
Subjects
All-Area Boys Water Polo
Langendoen, Michael
Sports
Item ID
31525AN
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A home built by the Barker family of Barker Brothers fame will be the Pasadena Showcase House of Design. Designed by architect Roland Coate in the early 1940's, the house sits on a large corner lot in the Upper Rancho area of Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper18745
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 2000
Pages
p. D1 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 2000
Pages
p. D1 w/photo
Subjects
Historic houses
Item ID
18989AN
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The parking lot at the Arcadia Community Center will be expanded by including the lot where the Arcadia Historical Museum was formerly located. New electrical equipment will be installed. Total cost will be $104,600.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30833
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 16, 2003
Pages
p. 17
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 16, 2003
Pages
p. 17
Subjects
Arcadia Community Center
Item ID
31021AN
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Gunnar Bundesmann and David Chen, both of Arcadia, are part of the 2005 Pasadena Star News All-Area Football Team.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29832
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 28, 2005
Pages
p. C6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 28, 2005
Pages
p. C6
Subjects
Bundesmann, Gunnar
Chen, David
Football
High school sports
Pasadena Star News All-Area Team - 2005
Item ID
30017AN
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Arcadia Planning Commission voted to support the Rancho Santa Anita Homeowners Association's Architecture Review Board (ARB) in its decision to reject changes in Ibraham Irawan's home under construction at 821 San Vicente Road.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31109
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 27, 2003
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 27, 2003
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia Planning Commission
Architecture Review Board (ARB)
Irawan, Ibraham
Rancho Santa Anita Homeowners Association
Item ID
31303AN
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Temple City will not try to annex an unincorporated area near Arcadia, bounded by Daines Drive on the north, Tyler Avenue on the east, West Hondo Parkway on the south and Santa Anita Avenue on the west. Temple City will continue efforts to expand the city's north and south boundaries but wanted to avoid a fight with Arcadia for this area.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30103
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 22, 2006
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 22, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Annexation
Temple City
Unincorporated areas - Los Angeles County
Item ID
30290AN
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The city of Arcadia has spent more than $300,00 so far in its efforts to protect the 260 homes beneath the hillsides ravaged by the December 27 fire.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27172
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 20, 2000
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 20, 2000
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Fires
Item ID
27370AN
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Arcadia considers joining Monrovia in reviving the Blue Star Program, in which families of men and women in the armed forces can display a symbol of that fact on their home. The matter will be put on a city council agenda in the future.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33223
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 4, 2002
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 4, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia City Council Meetings
Blue Star Program
Military
Item ID
33420AN
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Newspaper Index
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Firefighters have gained the upper hand on the Santa Anita Fire yesterday after it had burned a total of 584 acres. Officials lifted mandatory evacuations throughout the area. A timeline of the fire is on page 11.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 30, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 30, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Brush fires
Santa Anita Canyon
Santa Anita Fire
Item ID
31189AN
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Newspaper Index
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