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"Connecting Pasadena"
A creative citizen's initiative to improve our city!
What would YOU do with the 710 stub?
The DPNA is a Coalition Partner with the CPP.
Join us Saturday, Oct 25 at 9am for a fun, imaginative workshop.
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CONNECTING PASADENA PROJECT - CPP
Metro’s SR 710 Tunnel, the 710 Stub and the Future of Pasadena
BACKGROUND
Fifty years ago, the state seized a large swath of valuable land in Pasadena, demolishing thousands of people's property in order to extend the 710 freeway and connect it to the 210.
Unsuccessful in realizing their goal, the State has left Pasadena with the 710 stub, a barren 35 acre area bounded by Union Street to the north, California Street to the south, St. John Avenue to the west and Pasadena Avenue to the east.
This empty freeway ditch needlessly divides our city, cutting off the Old Pasadena Business District on the east from the Ambassador Auditorium, Maranatha Campus and the rest of West Pasadena.
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ABOUT THE CPP INITIATIVE
The CPP, a citizen driven initiative, aims to develop a draft Master Plan for this 35 acre strip of land flanking the 710 stub from Union south to California. CPP’s goal is to engage our community to determine how best to revitalize and beautify this dead space.
The DPNA is participating and supporting the CPP as a coalition member.
The CPP would find a better, more attractive way to manage existing and future traffic than the underused highway stub, for example, an elegant Pasadena boulevard that could become a regular, usable street for Pasadena residents and businesses.
Ideas for re-envisioning the stub will come from Pasadena citizens who attend two sequential Visioning Workshops, to be held on Saturday, October 25 and Saturday, November 8.
 CPP Workshops will be led by architect and urbanist Stefanos Polyzoides as well as transportation, economic and land use experts who will solicit citizens’ ideas on two subjects: During workshop 1, participants will be asked to address the question of what uses could be introduced there to provide economic and social value to Pasadena. During workshop 2 participants will be asked to suggest ideas about what form that development should take in order to create a beautiful new place in the City.
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At the conclusion of this work, the CPP will deliver a master plan that will be delivered to the City.
This aesthetically and economically beneficial CPP Vision cannot be realized if Metro builds the SR 710 tunnel.
AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE 710 TUNNEL
As long as the 710 Stub has been in existence, the specter of a third surface freeway and now a tunnel has waxed and waned, with the prospects of 180,000 cars & trucks per day emerging from a hole in the ground, right next to the wonderful shops in Old Pasadena, and the arts institutions (the Ambassador Auditorium and the Norton Simon) on the other side of the ditch.
The CPP both assumes that the $10+ Billion tunnel will never come to be, and it offers an attractive alternative and a way forward. The 710 tunnel idea must be foreclosed not only because it is a terrible idea with a host of harmful impacts to Pasadena, but also because we can do better.
The CPP Vision contemplates various connectivity scenarios in the stub area to be worked out by Pasadena residents. For example, a healthful, walkable, mixed used neighborhood, bike and pedestrian paths, parks and ecologically sound buildings.
CPP proponents are seeking to create an area, with health, aesthetic, social and economic advantages for Pasadena.
CPP GOAL—REALIZING THE VISION
We seek support for CPP goal of revitalizing and beautifying this large swath of valuable land which could end the decades-long uncertainty for that part of our city.
Pasadena citizens attending two CPP Visioning Workshops, on October 25 and November 8, 2014, will provide their ideas to shape this important area of our city.
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Please Attend:
Workshop #1:
Saturday, Oct 25, 9am-noon
Maranatha High School
Student Union
169 S. Saint John Ave, Pasadena CA
Workshop #2:
Saturday, Nov 8th, 9am-noon
Maranatha High School
Student Union
169 S. Saint John Ave, Pasadena CA
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We also need volunteers to help set up and check people in, direct visitors around the campus, etc. Please let us know if you'd be willing to assist in the volunteer section of the RSVP form above.
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About the DPNA
The Downtown Pasadena Neighborhood Association is the voice of the residents of the Central District of Pasadena, California.
The DPNA promotes a walkable urban lifestyle in a city that is vibrant with thriving businesses, excellent arts, good government, and active public spaces.
The DPNA advocates for urban parks, wider sidewalks, pedestrian-biased street design, bike lanes, trees & shrubbery, mixed-use & transit-oriented development, enduring architecture, a streetcar, and other amenities that improve life for residents of an urban city center. |
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GET INVOLVED
JOIN ONE OF OUR COMMITTEES
The DPNA continues our work for a better neighborhood. Our committees are still open to all Downtown residents & DPNA members.
Join in!
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LAND USE and ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
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REGULAR MEETING TIME:
3rd TUESDAY of the month, 6:30PM
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For more info, contact us here.
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COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS COMMITTEE
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REGULAR MEETING TIME:
1ST SUNDAY of the month, 3PM
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For more info, contact us here.
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PUBLIC SPACES
COMMITTEE
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REGULAR MEETING TIME:
2nd TUESDAY of the month, 7PM
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