Paul Gann and his People's Advocate have withdrawn from the lawsuit pending against the city of Arcadia. The Arcadia Tax Reform Committee has not yet decided whether to file an amended complaint.
The City Council denied, for the present, an application for a religious solicitation permit by the Society for Krishna Consciousness. Public hearings on the matter will be continued to January 2, 1979.
The Arcadia City Council denied the application of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness for a religious solicitation certificate. The application has been before the Council for 18 months. Public hearings were held, and the council requested financial statements which were never produced.
City Council approved introduction of an ordinance allowing the city to sell industrial development bonds for the Chicago Park industrial area. The area's history is discussed.
Both the Board of Education and the City Council have denied $1.5 million in claims against them filed by Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. O'Brien, parents of Timothy Sean O'Brien who was struck and killed by an automobile as he was crossing Campus Drive last November 6th.
Pending approval of the Arcadia City Council, guest houses on Arcadia properties will be limited to 600 square feet and will not be allowed to be combined with other accessory buildings.
Following a 2-year study period and moratorium on adult book stores, the Arcadia Planning Commission accepted a text amendment which zones such business to a narrow slip of land in a bit of industrial area in southeast Arcadia known as Chicago Park.
Sex shops, theaters and other forms of "adult entertainment" in Arcadia will be limited to industrial zones, according to an ordinance the City Council passed at its January 5 meeting.
Although two of Arcadia's 14 water wells have been contaminated by industrial solvents for years, a purification system installed by the city last December is reportedly working well, allowing the water from these wills to be used.
The Arcadia Rotary Club has announced a major building program at the Casa Hogar Lazaro Cardenas, an orphan's home in Tijuana, Mexico for 100 children. Members of the Tijuana Rotary Club have agreed to provide one-third of the costs of the project.
Three offices of the Automobile Club of Southern California will be combined when a new Arcadia district office opens in 1989 on Huntington Drive between Second and Fifth Streets.
Arcadia is going to have to pay more money to fight a continuing legal challenge to its ordinance forbidding two-story newsracks commonly used by purveyors of sexually-oriented publications.
Article discusses the sentencing of one of the eight adults arrested in December's drug bust at the high school. Regarding the other adults involved: charges against one have been dropped; three have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing; three are awaiting trial.
City Attorney Phillips warned residents that raising worms in their backyards would violate two city ordinances: 1. Operating a business in a residential area. 2. Keeping manure in quantities would constitute a nuisance and is prohibited.