Santa Anita Realty Enterprises won a long-awaited victory late Wednesday as the City Council tentatively granted a commercial land-use designation for an area that could serve as the site of a major entertainment center.
The Arcadia Community Center now offers a meal program with a charge of $3, as there in no federal funding for this program. The Center offers a variety of programs, from skilled nursing care to government benefits counseling to recreation programs to dances and free movies.
The City Council approved final architectural plans for a new $2.6 million fire station to be built by March 1994 at the corner of Baldwin Avenue and Huntington Drive.
The list of groups allowed to use the community center was expanded recently, but the revised policy still limits events to those with community wide appeal.
A policy on when groups can use Arcadia's new Community Center was approved Tuesday by the City Council, limiting events to those with community-wide appeal.
Upland-based Lewis Homes is in escrow to buy the old Foulger Ford site on Huntington Drive. Preliminary plans include a supermarket and two smaller retail spaces.
The windmill will stay as part of the redesign of Denny's at the corner of Santa Anita Avenue and Huntington Drive. The windmill was originally built for a Van de Kamp's coffee shop in 1967.
About 400 people joined City officials in the spacious main room of the new Arcadia Community Center on Friday to dedicate the $4.5 million structure that will house the City's Senior Citizens Services and Recreation Department.
Dick Closson and Gail Jensen, co-chairs of Arcadia Tomorrow, addressed a recent City Council Meeting to express their support of the proposed Santa Anita Arts and Entertainment Center.
Members of Neighbors for Arcadia, the grass roots organization opposed to Santa Anita's proposed Arts and Entertainment Center, appeared at City Hall to file over 5000 signed initiatives with the city clerk's office.
The City's Redevelopment Agency has launched a massive marketing plan for two sites located at the NW and SW corners of Second Avenue and Huntington Drive.
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Ellison hosted an open meeting in their home of a recently formed group called Neighbors for Arcadia. The group has met several times recently and was formed in a effort to unite residents in opposition to the proposed Santa Anita Entertainment Center.
More than 100 tiles displaying donors' names have been set in the windows at the Arcadia Historical Museum. A dedication ceremony is scheduled for Sunday.
The Arcadia City Council voted to request an analysis of the initiative petition submitted by the citizens group Neighbors for Arcadia. The measure would keep the Santa Anita Park race track property zoned for horse racing unless Arcadia residents voted for a change.