The State Supreme Court ended a three-year battle between El Monte and Arcadia, dismissing a lawsuit filed against Arcadia for approving a proposed landfill along El Monte's border. Rodeffer Industries, Inc. must still get approval from several state and regional agencies before proceeding.
The Arcadia Police Department has been hit by 4 separate claims of racial and sexual discrimination and harassment in the last year. Those making accusations include Beverly Hayden, owner of the Burger Palace; Gus and Alicia Alfavo, who claim their son was harassed because he is Latino; Deborah Piere, a former probationary officer who filed a discrimination lawsuit; and a woman cadet who claimed sexual harassment and discrimination.
Backed by an appeals court decision allowing school districts to charge parents for student busing, the Arcadia school board decided Monday to reinstitute a fee-based transportation program for the coming year.
The City Council approved a plan for Rodeffer Investments to fill in an 85-acre quarry on the Arcadia-El Monte border with debris. El Monte has blocked this plan 3 times in the last 10 years and will continue to appeal the plan.
The State Court of Appeal recently reversed a trial court ruling in the El Monte vs Rodeffer and Arcadia litigation regarding Arcadia's 1994 certification of an Environmental Impact report and approval of a Conditional Use Permit to Rodeffer Investments, Inc. to fill an abandoned sand and gravel pit located at the southern tip of Arcadia.
Jimmy Palma, 22, of Arcadia received a death-penalty recommendation for the April 22, 1995 massacre of five people in El Monte. A final decision on the matter will be announced by the presiding judge on February 19, 1997.
Many of the local Chinese community, including members of the Arcadia Chinese Association, said they support the city council's decision to keep an ordinance requiring 2/3 of any business sign to be written in Roman letters.
The Arcadia City Council voted 4-0 in favor of the state-required plan submitted by Fountain Valley-based Rodeffer Investments that would create a landfill in an 85-acre gravel pit on the border between Arcadia and El Monte.
The Wilderness Park, now to be known as the Arcadia Wilderness Preserve, will be open to the general public on weekdays and to non-profit organizations and small groups that have reservations on weekends.
The Arcadia Police Department is considering using the old National Guard Armory as a storage area for seized cars and stolen property, among other things.
The Arcadia Business Association has requested a moratorium on beauty and nail shop in the downtown business district. There are reportedly 16 salons downtown and another 8 more on First Avenue south of California.
A city committee charged with creating design guidelines for residential architecture agreed to split south Arcadia neighborhoods into 2 or 3 areas to create neighborhood review boards for each area.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Stephen O'Neil has thrown out a lawsuit challenging the results of Sheng Chang's victory, saying he found insufficient evidence of voter fraud.