Sneaking in a road and parking

Houston? My stomach’s in knots.

When JPL made its plan to remove its employee parking lot from the upper Arroyo Seco watershed aka Hahamongna, it didn’t know (and maybe it didn’t care) that some officials in the City of Pasadena would want to build new roads and add new recreational parking on the same spot. Looking down on the JPL parking lot from space, it looks glaringly out of place in a riverbed. A polluting concession made to the internal combustion engine at the headwaters of the Arroyo Seco, Los Angeles River and the sea, is not befitting a world renown institution for advanced science.

Captain’s Log, stardate 1306.o5. The wrath of the Haha Watershed Park master planners invade.

I never realized the “Park” stood for parking. Of course it does. There must be a road built to get to the parking, and bathrooms for all the people arriving by car, and helicopters and ambulances standing by for all the people who didn’t have the strength to get to the delicately re-wilding ecosystem headwaters on foot or on bike or in wheelchair, that will need rescuing. It’s very disappointing that Pasadena Water and Power in partnership with the Arroyo Seco Foundation has decided it’s prudent to invite traffic into the most precious resource area we have. It puts an acid cloud over all the good they do.

http://www.ci.pasadena.ca.us/PublicWorks/arroyo_plans_and_projects/

For questions or comments please contact
Jonathan Frame:
jonathan@arroyoseco.org
or
Natalie Ouwersloot:
nouwersloot@cityofpasadena.net

What makes you think you’re a man? You’re an overgrown jackrabbit. An elf with a hyperactive thyroid. -Kirk out.

The next meeting of the Hahamongna Watershed Park Advisory Committee has been canceled. This is the audio recording from the last meeting.

Let’s think positive

2013 Doo Dah Parade has just happened!

Result of Meeting Up At The Headwaters Tonight

SHENANDIGANS! Stay tuned.

Community Involvement Meeting for the Arroyo Seco Canyon Project on Monday

Community Involvement Meeting for the Arroyo Seco Canyon Project on Monday

The meeting will take place
April 29th at 6:30 PM
in the
Large Meeting Room
at
Fire Camp #2
in
Hahamongna Watershed Park.

The Arroyo Seco Foundation (ASF) and Pasadena Water and Power Department (PWP) will present conceptual designs for the project and ask for public input.

Directions: The Los Angeles County Fire Camp #2 is off of Oak Grove Drive north of the Hahamongna Park entrance. As you drive north on Oak Grove Drive, you will come to a fork in the road at the JPL entrance. You may have to check in with the JPL guards. Keep right at the fork and continue onto Forestry Camp Road. The Fire Camp entrance will be on your right just after the fork at the JPL entrance. The parking lot will be on your left once you enter the camp. Look for the signs directing you to the meeting room in front of the memorial. See you on Monday!

Please tell your friends and neighbors of this important public review process for the project preserving and enhancing Hahamongna, the park we cherish so much.

For more information email Jonathan Frame: jonathan@arroyoseco.org

Map:

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=206968514169336942871.0004dab9cf9aece967fee&msa=0&ll=34.206443,-118.168559&spn=0.029352,0.033388

Arroyo Seco Foundation
PO Box 91622, Pasadena, CA 91109-1622
(323) 405-7326 info@arroyoseco.org

SAMPLE LETTER…

If you don’t know what this is all about, find out why your letter is needed now. Click here to go to the Arroyo Seco Foundation Muir HS Page

BIG THANK YOU!

SAMPLE LETTER OF SUPPORT
FOR MUIR FIELD IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT
Letters of support should be received no later than 5:00 pm on April 2, 2013
Letters can also be emailed to lpluth@cityofpasadena.net

(DATE)

California Dept. of Parks and Recreation
Office of Grants and Local Services

c/o Mr. Loren Pluth, Project Manager for Parks and Landscape
City of Pasadena
Department of Public Works – Engineering Division
100 N. Garfield Avenue, 3rd Floor
Pasadena, CA 91109

Subject:​FIELD IMPROVEMENTS at MUIR HIGH SCHOOL FIELD
2002 Resources Bond Act ~ Youth Soccer and Recreation Development Program
Letter of Project Support

Please add my name in support of the City of Pasadena’s proposal to secure funding from the 2002 Resources Bond Act ~ Youth Soccer and Recreation Development Program for the Field Improvement Project at the Muir High School Field.

This collaborative project between the City and Pasadena Unified School District would provide the following enhancements and benefits to the community:

• Full-size soccer and softball field improvements;
• New sports lighting for evening use
• New restroom building
• Site furnishings – soccer goals, bleachers, benches, drinking fountains, trash receptacles
• Landscape improvements such as additional shade trees

Muir High School would gain improved facilities for school sports programs and the City​would gain full-size softball and soccer fields for evening and weekend community use. The Muir High School Field Improvements project is an ideal candidate for funding because it strongly meets the following criteria outlined by the Youth Soccer and Recreation Development funding program:

• The project strongly addresses the grant program’s most important criteria of providing and improving facilities in underserved areas of greatest need;
• The project will foster an increase in the number of new opportunities for both youth soccer and softball;
• The project is in a densely populated area and will serve a large number of youth, considering the size and scope of the project;
• The project will have long daily operating hours and will be open on weekends;
• The project has strong community support and collaboration with community based organizations and the Pasadena Unified School District; and
• The funding sources and resources to maintain and operate the project after its completion are evident.

This project has already received positive remarks from both Pasadena City Council and the Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education at their February 19th joint meeting, unanimous support from the City’s Recreation and Parks Commission at their March 12th meeting, and has been included in the proposed fiscal year 2014 Capital Improvement Program budget.

This is an exciting opportunity for the City and School District that would have lasting benefits and I am pleased to support this effort.

Sincerely,

(Signature)

Name
Affiliation/Organization (if any)
Complete address

Sample letter in support of improvements to Muir HS campus.

Tim & Mary on the trail… or about to be

Contact Mary Barrie with your questions and comments: meb787@aol.com

Beat the drums!