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Arcadia City Council members voted to place a 45-day moratorium on all new license applications for businesses that supply massages as a secondary service such as spas, acupuncturists and chiropractors. Arcadia will also stop issuing new licenses to massage therapists. Arcadia is overwhelmed by the surge in license applications and concerned about the possibility of prostitution. The ban could be extended for up to one year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31264
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 24, 2008
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 24, 2008
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p. A1
Subjects
Business licenses
Massage therapists
Zhang, Amanda
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31459AN
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The Massage Therapist Regulations ordinance, approved November 5 by City Council, places regulations on the licensing of massage therapists and the activities of businesses offering massage services. It regulates business hours, uniforms, customers' bodily coverings and suggestive ads.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30692
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 21, 2002
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 21, 2002
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p. 1
Subjects
Business and Industry
Massage therapy
Ordinances
Item ID
30880AN
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Arcadia City Council adjusts an ordinance pertaining to massage therapists. The ordinance originally required 500 hours of training for a massage therapist to have a license in the city. The council decided to let currently employed therapists substitute on the job hours for any shortage in training under 500 hours. The Council also dropped a requirement for windows in rooms where therapy is provided and decided therapists will not be required to wear white. The therapist will be required to have an identification card in his/her possession but will not be required to display it.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 10, 2003
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p. 19
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 10, 2003
Pages
p. 19
Subjects
Business licenses
Massage therapists
Ordinances
Spas
Item ID
31414AN
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The Arcadia City Council will decide on an ordinance to regulate massage therapy. Provisions will regulate massage therapists, practitioners or technicians, and require them to have identification cards from the police and a business license. The ordinance contains other restrictions.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30636
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 31, 2002
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 31, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
City Council Meetings - 2001-2010
Massage - regulations
Item ID
30824AN
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State officials have shut down 5 Arcadia massage parlors and fined one business $1.83 million for alleged labor code violations. Inspectors discovered that employees were not being paid hourly wages but got paid every time a massage was given. New Life Acupuncture at 610 E. Live Oak was fined $1.83 million for allegedly violating laws requiring employers to provide pay stubs and workers' compensation insurance. The four other locations fined were Ocean Health Center, C.H. Health Center, Arcadia Spa, and Best Health Center. The fines and closures continued a crackdown on massage-related businesses in Arcadia.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 5, 2009
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 5, 2009
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p. A1
Subjects
California Department of Industrial Relations
California Employment Development Department (EDD)
Labor laws
Massage parlors
New Life Acupuncture
Item ID
31549AN
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Massage therapists will have to pay a $265 fee to be licensed in Arcadia under a new city ordinance. A background check will be done on applicants and they will be fingerprinted.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 12, 2002
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p. 20
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 12, 2002
Pages
p. 20
Subjects
Business and Industry
Fees
Licenses
Massage therapy
Item ID
30957AN
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The Arcadia City Council voted unanimously to impose a 45-day moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries, known as pot clubs. There are no such dispensaries in the city nor have there been any applications. The moratorium will give the city time to study the issue and see what type of regulation would be appropriate to put in place in Arcadia. The concern is that pot clubs could draw an element to the community that increases crime. The Compassionate Use Act (Proposition 215) legalized medical marijuana in California in 1996.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 25, 2008
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p. A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 25, 2008
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Compassionate Use Act (Proposition 215)
Medical marijuana
Item ID
31419AN
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A state law scheduled to take effect in September is expected to set standards in the massage industry. Arcadia City Manager Don Penman commented that the new law may not stop people who want to commit a crime and do illegal acts. In the last few months of 2008, Arcadia shut down seven massage busineses for illegal activities.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 3, 2009
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 3, 2009
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p. A1
Subjects
Business and Industry
Massage
Item ID
31784AN
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The Arcadia City Council approved a 45-day moratorium on the processing of multi-family housing projects until new city controls are in place.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30585
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 3, 2002
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 3, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Multi-family housing
Item ID
30773AN
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Governor Gray Davis issued an order requiring retail businesses to reduce unnecessary outdoor lighting wattage during non-business hours. The Arcadia Police Department seeks compliance from local businesses.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29213
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 12, 2001
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 12, 2001
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Energy crisis
Electricity
Businesses
Conservation
Item ID
29399AN
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Owners Larry and Peggy Lachner and Bruce and Lilly Sikora reopened their business Arcadia All-Pro Athletic Club after a 2-year remodeling project.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 27, 2002
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p. 9
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 27, 2002
Pages
p. 9
Subjects
Arcadia All-Pro Athletic Club
Business and Industry
Fitness
Health clubs
Item ID
30651AN
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Arcadia's Paramedic Membership Program continues to accept enrollments from both Arcadia residents and businesses. For $42/year ($40 if paid in lump sum), all permanent residents of a member's household or permanent employees of a business in the city will receive emergency paramedic ambulance transportation without direct cost. The subscription program was first offered to Arcadia residents and businesses on December 1, 1994.

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Arcadia Weekly,
Date
September 27, 2001
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly,
Date
September 27, 2001
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Ambulances
Arcadia Paramedic Membership
Item ID
33528AN
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has taken away $10 milion in funding for the Gold Line extension, but officials are determined to build it from Pasadena to Claremont.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 5, 2003
December 6, 2003
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 5, 2003
December 6, 2003
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Gold Line
Metro Rail
Metrolink Trains
Item ID
27181AN
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Thomas McKernan, a 60-year-old Arcadia resident, plans to help streamline the government bureaucracies that often bog down business ventures. He is the new chairman of California Business Roundtable.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 15, 2005
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 15, 2005
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p. A3
Subjects
McKernan, Thomas
California Business Roundtable
Automobile Club of Southern California
Item ID
29586AN
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Vandals who were refused entry to a private party at the Arcadia All-Pro Athletic Club allegedly used spray paint to damage several businesses and an apartment complex on Duarte Road.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
Dec. 27, 2002
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
Dec. 27, 2002
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p. A3
Subjects
Crime
Vandalism
Arcadia All-Pro Athletic Club
Item ID
25032AN
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About 95% of the more than 2,700 security alarms the Arcadia Police Department responded to last year turned out to be false alarms. Arcadia police Chief Bob Sanderson is asking the City Council to implement a $100 fine for a third false alarm issued in a 365-day period. A $200 fine for the fourth false alarm and $300 for the fifth and all subsequent false alarms would be part of the new ordinance that City Council will consider next month.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31012
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 27, 2008
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p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 27, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Fines
Home security alarms
Proposed ordinances
Item ID
31207AN
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Plans for a Blue Line rail depot to be built on Santa Clara St. near First Ave. disappoints city officials who hoped it would be closer to main tourist hubs.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 16, 2001
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 16, 2001
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Transportation
Blue line
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22432AN
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Next month Arcadia leaders will vote on an ordinance that takes Jessica's Law further by banning sex offenders from living within 2000 feet of certain locations, in addition to schools and parks, such as golf courses, day care centers, public libraries, and swimming pools. It would also create "child safety zones," banning sex offenders from loitering within 300 feet of the locations and it would prevent more than one sex offender from living in any single residence. Pasadena is considering a similar ordinance.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31439
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 20, 2009
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p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 20, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Jessica's Law
Sex offenders
Item ID
31632AN
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Katherine Matlock, 18, of Arcadia, was killed in a collision on the 10 freeway near Banning.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper21537
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 17, 2001
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p. A2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 17, 2001
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Auto Accident
Matlock, Katherine
Item ID
21758AN
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Westfield Group, owner of Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita, has proposed two ballot measures for the November election. Westfield is gathering signatures for the two initiatives: 1) to mandate free parking at all large retail projects and 2) to ban large billboards. A poll of 300 registered Arcadia voters in February showed 74% support the free parking initiative and 62% support the billboard measure.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29945
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 8, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 8, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Ballot measures
Polls
Westfield Group
Caruso, Rick
Malls
Mall war
Item ID
30131AN
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