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The city is asking residents to vote by mail by July 15 on a plan that would change the way the city splits the cost of street lighting. The city expects street lighting to cost about $1.15 million next year. Single-family homes on lighted streets would pay the most, $25.70 a year. Under the proposal, the assessments would no longer be tied to the value of a home but rather to the benefits that residents receive from street lights. If voters reject the plan, the current lighting assessment districts will expire in 2010. If that happens, the city will be responsible for paying the entire costs of street lighting.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31007
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 11, 2008
Pages
p. News 16
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 11, 2008
Pages
p. News 16
Subjects
Lighting assessment districts
Lighting districts
Street lighting
Street lights
Item ID
31202AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The City Council will postpone a mail-in ballot vote on reallocating street lighting assessment fees from July 15 to November.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31010
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 22, 2008
Pages
p. Local 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 22, 2008
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Lighting assessment districts
Lighting districts
Street lighting
Street lights
Item ID
31205AN
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Newspaper Index
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City officials have authorized for the first week of October a previously postponed mail-in vote on whether to reallocate street lighting assessment fees. Residents will vote on a reorganization that would make the payments correspond fairly to the benefits received.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31192
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 9, 2008
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 9, 2008
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Lighting assessment districts
Lighting districts
Street lighting
Street lights
Item ID
31387AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The City Council has created three new lighting assessment zones to replace lighting districts established in the 1970s. Residents will be sent mail-in ballots later this year to decide whether or not to approve changes to fees for street lighting. Lighting costs about $1.15 million a year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30904
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 24, 2008
Pages
p. Local 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 24, 2008
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Lighting assessment districts
Lighting districts
Street lighting
Street lights
Item ID
31092AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia mail-in voters reject proposal for new lighting assessment districts. Under the proposal, the single-family homes on well-lit streets would pay up for $24 a year. Those with "sporadic" lighting would pay up to $10.12 a year, while homes on streets without lights would pay nothing. The current lighting assessment districts expire in 2010. Out of 14,600 ballots sent out, about 1/3 were returned. The proposal failed by 70 votes. 2,457 ballots voted yes and 2,530 voted no.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31313
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 10, 2008
Pages
p. A1, A10
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 10, 2008
Pages
p. A1, A10
Subjects
Ballots
Street lighting assessment districts
Item ID
31508AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia property owners voted to continue paying for a portion of their street lights under a new formula after lighting district funds expired in June. 66% of the vote was cast in favor of extending about $428,600 of annual funding to maintain and repair street lights. A similar proposal on the ballot failed less than 2 years ago.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32113
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 22, 2010
Pages
p. A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 22, 2010
Pages
p. A6
Subjects
Lighting districts
Street lights
Street lighting
Item ID
32310AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia residents may vote again on street lighting fees. Under the new proposal, single family homes on arterial streets would pay about $17 a year, while those not on arterial streets would pay about $27 a year, making the assessments more fair. Voters in 2008 rejected a proposal to fund the lighting and now the city is considering another mail-in vote.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31898
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 12, 2010
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 12, 2010
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Mail-in ballots
Street lights
Street lighting assessment districts
Item ID
32095AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia property owners will be asked to renew a street lighting fee schedule and assessment in June, when funding is set to expire. Officials warned that without an extension of the lighting assessment district, the city would lose about $420,000 a year. Unless the assessment is renewed, the city might have to cut services such as police protection, fire and emergency medical response services, library services, and recreation programs. Arcadia property owners currently pay 40% of street lighting repair and maintenance costs, while the city covers the other 60%. That would remain unchanged in the new assessment district, but the amounts each household pays will be different. Family households in residential neighborhoods will be charged $28.44 a year, while single-family homes along major thoroughfares will pay $16.73 a year.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 27, 2010
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 27, 2010
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Street lights
Street lighting assessment districts
Item ID
32180AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia's energy efficient street lighting program to start next month. Southern California Edison (SCE) is replacing SCE-owned inefficient High Pressure Sodium (HPS) street lights with energy efficient Light Emitting Diode (LED) lights. Conversion to LED technology will help reduce energy usage and cost by approximately $11,500 annually.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35565
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 19, 2019
Pages
p. 10
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 19, 2019
Pages
p. 10
Subjects
Southern California Edison (SCE)
Street lighting
Utilities
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Traffic lights up close: three lights facing one direction, two lights facing another direction.

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Date
c. early 1950s
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Date
c. early 1950s
Subjects
Traffic Lights
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1643
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Several blocks of Live Oak Avenue will be closed through Thursday while Edison crews remove street lights, traffic signals and wooden power poles that snapped under powerful overnight wind gusts Monday from the Santa Ana winds.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24846
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 7, 2003
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 7, 2003
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Santa Ana Winds
Streets - Live Oak Avenue
Item ID
25042AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Property owners have until Tuesday to turn in their ballots on the vote-by-mail Fire Suppression District tax.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper10222
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 3, 1997
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 3, 1997
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Elections - Fire Suppression District
Item ID
10172AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A many as 60 of the trees on Orange Grove Ave., the "county road" running from Michillinda Blvd. to Santa Anita Ave., could be endangered by a proposed road-widening project currently under consideration by Arcadia and Sierra Madre. The street would be widened from 30 to 36 ft. since the street is considered too narrow for the trash bins that residents often leave in the road, constituting a hazard.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3396
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 28, 1990
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 28, 1990
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Streets - Orange Grove Avenue
Item ID
3286AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A traffic light is in the center of the photo. A street sign at the far left corner identifies the intersection as E. Villa St. and El Molino Avenue.

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Date
c. early 1950s
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  1 image

Date
c. early 1950s
Subjects
Streets - Villa Street
Streets - El Molino Avenue
Traffic Lights
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1642
Collection
Photographs
Images
thumbnail
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The Arcadia Board of Education will study the environmental impact of new uses and the addition of lights at Dana and First Avenue Middle schools and the Arcadia High School softball field.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26887
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 25, 1999
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 25, 1999
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
School Board
Lighting
Arcadia High School
Dana Middle School
First Avenue Middle School
Item ID
27087AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia residents will be asked to vote by mail this summer on a special $2 million fire assessment to keep the city's books balanced.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper9563
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 7, 1997
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 7, 1997
Pages
p. A1
Item ID
9518AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Three schools may switch to a year-round schedule under a new proposal presented this week.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper19470
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 25, 2000
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 25, 2000
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Arcadia Unified School District
Item ID
19710AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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How Measure A is expected to affect Arcadia. Arcadia City Council will put a sales tax increase of 3/4 percent on this year's June ballot. The added sales tax would be added to the city's income to benefit the current deficit.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35509
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 25, 2019
Pages
p. 3
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 25, 2019
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Ballot measures
Sales tax
Collection
Newspaper Index
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In an attempt to produce permanent revenue enhancement, the City Council has agreed to go to ballot with a Fire Suppression District assessment which would ask property owners to tax themselves to achieve a balanced budget.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25828
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 15, 1997
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 15, 1997
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
City Council - 1990-1999
Budget
Fire Suppression District
Item ID
26028AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Strong winds at 70+ mph caused 29 light poles to topple over on Live Oak Avenue. There was damage to six other poles between Santa Anita Avenue and Sixth Avenue.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30799
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 9, 2003
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 9, 2003
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Light poles
Weather
Winds
Item ID
30987AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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