Eighty signed petitions urging construction of a sound wall barrier from Santa Anita Avenue east to Fifth Avenue were presented at a recent Arcadia City Council meeting.
Deed restrictions designed to maintain architectural and landscaping standards for the Santa Anita Oaks area have been replaced by the Arcadia City Council with a special zone designed to accomplish the same end.
Between August 11 and September 30, the city will install brick sidewalks on Huntington Drive between 2nd Avenue and Santa Clara Street as the first major phase of Arcadia's downtown revitalization project.
The Arcadia Planning Commission approved the development of a retail shopping center at the corner of Santa Anita Avenue and Duarte Road. The approval was made after determining that such a project would not cause adverse traffic congestion.
Among the many maintenance projects scheduled for the schools during the summer is a project to relocate the District's central library from the Administration Building to Holly Avenue Elementary School.
City Council has approved a zone change for the area bounded by the 210 Freeway, Fifth Avenue, the Santa Fe Tracks and Second Avenue. The area is now CPD (Commercial Planned Development).
The Arcadia Planning Commission gave permission to G. Barton Payne to open a Sunshine Yogurt & Bakery at the shopping center at Duarte Road and Santa Anita Avenue, but other eating places at the same corner could be vetoed. The Commission is concerned about the impact of extra traffic at that intersection.
A popular fishing lake in Arcadia (Peck Road Water Conservation Park) was closed Thursday when 1,000 gallons of a gooey asphalt and water mixture oozed into it after 15,000 gallons of the substance leaked from a nearby Irwindale Plant.
Article reports on progress with two parcels involving a proposed Hometel 300-room hotel at the northeast corner of Second Avenue and Huntington Drive and a proposed office building at the southwest corner of Huntington Drive and Fifth Avenue.
One robbery was foiled at Arcadia's Southland Bank, but earlier the same day another man got away with just over $1,000 from the First Interstate Bank on South Baldwin Ave.
The newly installed railroad crossing at First Avenue and Santa Clara Street was dedicated. To celebrate the occasion, the Goodyear blimp (Goodyear supplied the rubber crossing pads) hovered overhead. Arcadia is the first city in the Los Angeles area to install rubber crossings. The city is paying $93,000 of the nearly $200,000 cost of the project.
Construction of a Vons Market west of Baldwin Avenue between Duarte Road and Naomi Avenue may depend on whether the East Pasadena Water Company accepts the City Council's proposal allowing the city to extend its line into the water company's territory at the western end of the Vons development. The East Pasadena Water Company's lines are too small to be effective in case of fire.
If the Arcadia Planning Commission's Tuesday night meeting vote stands up on appeal to the city council, Arcadia will get a 97-room retirement hotel at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Michillinda Avenue.
Hedrick Enterprises has shelved a proposed $2.6 million office building for its corporate headquarters at Huntington Drive and Fifth Avenue. A downturn in the economy was the reason for the decision.
The City Council in its role as Arcadia Redevelopment Agency hears plan by local developers to buy city property at the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Huntington Drive.
Arcadia City Council members, acting as the Arcadia Redevelopment Agency, will be asked Tuesday night to approve purchase of two properties at Fifth Avenue and Huntington Drive (the Larmor development).
Plans for a series of office buildings and a high-rise hotel in the Arcadia redevelopment area require general plan and zone changes. The first move is an environmental impact report for the area bounded by the 210 Freeway on the north, the railroad tracks on the south, Fifth Avenue on the east and Second Avenue on the west.