Daily Archives: June 3, 2019

Clash of Visions for Future of Pasadena’s Historic YWCA Building Pulls Into Sharper Focus

The future of Pasadena’s historic YWCA building one block from City Hall is front and center again Monday as officials polish a new Request for Proposals and Councilmembers consider extending by one year the site’s zoning entitlements from an earlier failed hotel plan. The new call for ideas for use of the empty landmark designed…

What’s the Matter with California?

It was a bill that, depending on what side you were on, either held the promise of easing the crushing lack of affordable housing in the state of California, or was the mechanism by which local, single-family neighborhoods would be compromised irrevocably by large-scale development. Senate Bill 50, an ambitious proposal authored by Sen. Scott Wiener,…