A Brief History of Water Development in the Arroyo Seco
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1 MICROPILE FOUNDATIONS for RECONSTRUCTION of HISTORIC LA LOMA BRIDGE in PASADENA, CALIFORNIA Casey Garneau1 ABSTRACT
MICROPILE FOUNDATIONS FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF HISTORIC LA LOMA BRIDGE IN PASADENA, CALIFORNIA Casey Garneau1 ABSTRACT: The historic La Loma Bridge, which crosses the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, California, was built in 1914 to replace the 1898 California Street Bridge. The bridge is an open spandrel concrete arch bridge with a neoclassical design, which draws inspiration from Greek and Roman architectural design features with Renaissance interpretations of the classical forms. Inspired by the City Beautiful Movement, the bridge was built in response to the advent of the automobile and the increase in population in the surrounding areas. Built just a year after, the La Loma Bridge, pictured in Figure 1, displays similarities of its “big sister”, Pasadena’s famous Colorado Street Bridge, nicknamed “Suicide Bridge”, which spans the Arroyo Seco less than a mile away. While the Colorado Street bridge connected Pasadena to Los Angeles, the La Loma Bridge played a substantial part in Pasadena’s development of the west side of the Arroyo, largely called San Rafael Heights, which was annexed by the City of Pasadena by the completion of this bridge. For several years, the two bridges were the only crossings over the Lower Arroyo and represent the city’s economic and physical need to facilitate automobile traffic over the Arroyo, while also providing impressive picturesque structures for the nearby communities. Figure 1 – Original La Loma Bridge 1 Project Manager, Malcolm Drilling Co., Inc., 4926 North Azusa Canyon Rd., Irwindale, CA 91706 USA, phone (626) 338-0035, fax (626) 338-7113, [email protected] 1 On July 14, 2004, the bridge was added to the National Register for Historic Places under both Criterion A and C for its significance in transportation history and embodiment of distinguishing features of a Neoclassical bridge design and reflection of the City Beautiful movement in Pasadena. -
Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM) List City Declared Monuments
Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM) List City Declared Monuments No. Name Address CHC No. CF No. Adopted Community Plan Area CD Notes 1 Leonis Adobe 23537 Calabasas Road 08/06/1962 Canoga Park - Winnetka - 3 Woodland Hills - West Hills 2 Bolton Hall 10116 Commerce Avenue & 7157 08/06/1962 Sunland - Tujunga - Lake View 7 Valmont Street Terrace - Shadow Hills - East La Tuna Canyon 3 Plaza Church 535 North Main Street and 100-110 08/06/1962 Central City 14 La Iglesia de Nuestra Cesar Chavez Avenue Señora la Reina de Los Angeles (The Church of Our Lady the Queen of Angels) 4 Angel's Flight 4th Street & Hill Street 08/06/1962 Central City 14 Dismantled May 1969; Moved to Hill Street between 3rd Street and 4th Street, February 1996 5 The Salt Box 339 South Bunker Hill Avenue (Now 08/06/1962 Central City 14 Moved from 339 Hope Street) South Bunker Hill Avenue (now Hope Street) to Heritage Square; destroyed by fire 1969 6 Bradbury Building 300-310 South Broadway and 216- 09/21/1962 Central City 14 224 West 3rd Street 7 Romulo Pico Adobe (Rancho 10940 North Sepulveda Boulevard 09/21/1962 Mission Hills - Panorama City - 7 Romulo) North Hills 8 Foy House 1335-1341 1/2 Carroll Avenue 09/21/1962 Silver Lake - Echo Park - 1 Elysian Valley 9 Shadow Ranch House 22633 Vanowen Street 11/02/1962 Canoga Park - Winnetka - 12 Woodland Hills - West Hills 10 Eagle Rock Eagle Rock View Drive, North 11/16/1962 Northeast Los Angeles 14 Figueroa (Terminus), 72-77 Patrician Way, and 7650-7694 Scholl Canyon Road 11 The Rochester (West Temple 1012 West Temple Street 01/04/1963 Westlake 1 Demolished February Apartments) 14, 1979 12 Hollyhock House 4800 Hollywood Boulevard 01/04/1963 Hollywood 13 13 Rocha House 2400 Shenandoah Street 01/28/1963 West Adams - Baldwin Hills - 10 Leimert City of Los Angeles May 5, 2021 Page 1 of 60 Department of City Planning No. -
Attachment E Part 2
Response to Correspondence from Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy Regarding the ArtCenter Master Plan Note that the emails (Attachment A) dated after April 25, 2018, were provided to the City after the end of the CEQA comment period, and, therefore, the emails and the responses below are not included in the EIR, and no response is required under CEQA. However, for sake of complete analysis and consideration of all comments submitted, the City responds herein and this document is made part of the project staff report. Response to Correspondence This correspondence with the Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy occurred in the context of the preparation of the EIR for the ArtCenter Master Plan. The formal comment letter from Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy included in this correspondence was responded to as Letter No. 6 in Section III, Response to Comments, of the April 2018 Final EIR for the ArtCenter Master Plan. The primary correspondence herein is comprised of emails between John Howell and Mickey Long discussing whether there is a wildlife corridor within the Hillside Campus, as well as emails between John Howell and CDFW regarding whether there is a wildlife corridor and whether CDFW will provide a comment letter regarding the ArtCenter Project for the Planning Commission hearing on May 9, 2018. Note that CDFW submitted a comment letter on May 9, 2018, after completion of the Draft EIR and Final EIR. The City has also provided a separate response to this late comment letter. This correspondence centers around the potential for the Hillside Campus to contribute to a wildlife corridor. The CDFW was contacted during preparation of the Final EIR to obtain specific mapping information to provide a more comprehensive description of the potential for wildlife movement within the Hillside Campus within the Final EIR. -
Water Resources
Preliminary Investigation B: Water Resources Prepared by: Tim Brick, Arroyo Seco Foundation The Arroyo Seco watershed is a major source of local water supply. The Arroyo Seco and its mountain watershed contribute about 40% of the water supply for Pasadena and neighboring communities. The Raymond Basin The Arroyo Seco watershed feeds the Raymond Basin aquifer, a 40 square mile groundwater basin that extends from La Canada and the San Rafael hills on the west to Santa Anita Canyon on the east, from the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains to the Raymond fault, a seven mile seismic feature, which runs along the boundary between Pasadena and South Pasadena and then extends out through San Marino and Arcadia to Santa Anita Canyon on the east. The groundwater basin is recharged by the Arroyo Seco, a tributary of the Los Angeles River, and by Eaton Canyon, Santa Anita Canyon and other streams in the watershed of the San Gabriel River. The Arroyo Seco stream contributes approximately one third of the natural replenishment of the aquifer. The long-term average yield of the Raymond Basin is about 30,000 acre-feet per year. Pumping rights in the Raymond Basin are adjudicated, i.e. determined by a court order, and managed by the Raymond Basin Management Board. The goal of the basin management program is to ensure a safe yield which will balance extraction with natural replenishment. Sixteen pumpers have rights to pump from the Raymond Basin. Three major subareas make up the aquifer: the Monk Hill subarea, which underlies La Canada and Northwest Pasadena, the larger Pasadena subarea, which underlies Pasadena and Altadena, and the Santa Anita subarea, which underlies Arcadia and Sierra Madre. -
Glendale Narrows
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Bow Tie Yard Lofts Project Initial Study
City of Los Angeles Department of City Planning Major Projects & Environmental Analysis Section City Hall 200 N. Spring Street, Room 750 Los Angeles, CA 90012 INITIAL STUDY Northeast Los Angeles Community Plan Area Bow Tie Yard Lofts Project Case Number: ENV-2016-2862-EIR Project Location: 2750-2800 W. Casitas Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90039 Council District: 1, Gilbert A. Cedillo Project Description: The Applicant proposes the development of a mixed-use project in the Northeast Los Angeles Community Plan area that would consist of five buildings with a total of 419 multi-family residential units (approximately 423,872 square feet) and approximately 64,000 square feet of commercial space. The 5.7-acre Project Site is located at the terminus of Casitas Avenue in Glassell Park in Northeast Los Angeles. The Los Angeles River is adjacent to the Project Site’s southern boundary line, and the Glendale Freeway (SR-2) is located to the north and west of the Project Site. The existing zoning designation of the Project Site is [Q]PF-1-CDO-RIO. Existing on-site uses, including a light manufacturing/warehouse/film production building (approximately 117,000 square feet) and its associated surface parking, would be demolished as part of the Proposed Project. The proposed residential units would include a combination of 119 studios, 220 one-bedroom, and 80 two-bedroom units in four buildings ranging from five to six stories (60 to 81 feet above grade). Eleven percent of the base-density residential units (approximately 35 units) would be reserved as Very Low Income Units. -
4.8 Hydrology and Water Quality
January 2018 CHAPTER 4 Environmental Analysis SECTION 4.8 Hydrology and Water Quality 4.8 HYDROLOGY AND WATER QUALITY This section of the EIR analyzes the potential environmental effects on hydrology and water quality from implementation of the proposed project. Data for this section were taken from the Glendale Emergency Plan, Glendale General Plan Safety Element Technical Background Report, the EPA, and Upper Los Angeles River Watershed Watermaster. Full reference-list entries for all cited materials are provided in Section 4.8.5 (References). 4.8.1 Environmental Setting Surface Water The proposed SGCP area is within the Los Angeles River watershed, which includes 834 square miles of Los Angeles County. The eastern portion of the watershed spans from the Santa Monica Mountains to the Simi Hills and in the west from the Santa Susana Mountains to the San Gabriel Mountains. The watershed encompasses and is shaped by the Los Angeles River. The river flows adjacent to the western and southern borders of the proposed SGCP area in a concrete lined channel. The upper portion of the watershed (Upper Los Angeles River Watershed), where the proposed SGCP area is located, contains a network of flood control dams and debris basins that flow to the Los Angeles River (LACDPW 2016). The Upper Los Angeles River watershed is home to approximately 2.3 million people, mostly in high density development in the interior valleys and foothills. Precipitation within the Upper Los Angeles River watershed typically falls in a few major storm events between November and March to an average of 19 inches per year. -
Housing, Planning Experts React to State Threat to Local Control
Pasadena, California Celebrating 56 years of community service Summer 2018 LAND USE / PLANNING EDUCATION OPEN SPACE / CONSERVATION NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY GOVERNMENT PARKS / RECREATION Housing, planning experts react to state threat to local control By Justin Chapman Development Department; and Sue Mossman, which are impediments to housing. In Secretary, WPRA executive director of Pasadena Heritage. Pasadena we feel the brunt of that even At the May 2 West Pasadena Residents’ What follows are excerpts from the discussion. though we do a great job. We’re one of a few cities — and one of the first in the Association’s 56th annual meeting, a panel of Mic Hansen: Many cities, including local housing and planning experts expressed region — to have an inclusionary housing Pasadena, are concerned about the ordinance [which benefits medium- to concern that recent state laws have to a large recent spate of state housing legislation degree usurped local governments’ ability low-income families]. We plan and zone that takes away local control. Why for multifamily development in the city in to determine the character of their own is the state legislature doing this? communities. appropriate places. The state, however, is William Huang: State legislators have looking at it from a statewide issue. What “These housing issues are going to be with us determined that there is a severe housing we’re also seeing is development standards for a long, long time,” said Mayor Terry Tornek crisis in the state. One of the primary severely tipped in the favor of developers before the panel discussion began. “The reasons is there’s a supply-and-demand and property owners who are building difficulties facing us — the escalating rents, the imbalance. -
Theodore P. Lukens Collection of Negatives: Finding Aid
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt9w1029nk No online items Theodore P. Lukens Collection of Negatives: Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Sue Luftschein. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Photo Archives 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2191 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org © January 2007 The Huntington Library. All rights reserved. Theodore P. Lukens Collection of photCL 467 1 Negatives: Finding Aid Overview of the Collection Title: Theodore P. Lukens Collection of Negatives Dates (inclusive): 1882-1903, and undated Collection Number: photCL 467 Creator: Lukens, Theodore Parker, 1848-1918. Extent: 456 photographs (213 glass plate negatives and 243 film negatives) in 7 boxes (2.92 linear feet) Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Photo Archives 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2191 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org Abstract: This collection consists of 213 glass plate negatives and 243 film negatives created by Pasadena, California, conservationist and civic leader Theodore Lukens (1848-1918) that depict scenes in and around Los Angeles County, Central California, and the Southwest from the 1880s into the early 1900s. Language: English. Access Advance arrangements for viewing the negatives must be made with the Curator of Photographs. Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services. Publication Rights The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. -
5. Environmental Analysis
5. Environmental Analysis 5.1 CULTURAL RESOURCES Cultural resources include places, object, structures, and settlements that reflect group or individual religious, archaeological, architectural, or paleontological activities, or are considered important for their architectural or historical value. Such resources provide information on scientific progress, environmental adaptations, group ideology, or other human advancements. This section of the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) evaluates the potential for implementation of the San Marino High School Michael White Adobe project to impact cultural resources in the City of San Marino. The analysis in this section is based, in part, upon the following information: • Michael White Adobe Historic Resources Technical Report, Chattel Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, August 4, 2009. This study is included in Appendix D of this Draft EIR. 5.1.1 Regulatory Background National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 (Protection of Historic Properties) of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA) requires federal agencies to take into account the effects of their undertakings on historic properties. Section 106 Review refers to the federal review process designed to ensure that historic properties are considered during federal project planning and implementation. The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, an independent federal agency, administers the review process, with assistance from State Historic Preservation Offices. National Register of Historic Resources (National Register) The National Register is the nation’s official list of historic and cultural resources worthy of preservation. Authorized under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, the National Register is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect the country’s historic and archaeological resources. -
Los Angeles River Jurisdictional Determination Special Case Cover
UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY REGION IX 75 Hawthorne Street San Francisco, CA 94105·3901 JUL 6 2010 OFFICE OF THE REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR Colonel Mark Toy District Engineer, Los Angeles District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers P.O. Box 532711 Los Ange les, California 90053-2325 Dear Colonel Toy: This letter transmits the Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdictional determination for the Los Angeles River. On August 17, 2008, EPA's Assistant Administrator for Water designated the Los Angeles River as a "Special Case" as defined by the EPA-Corps 1989 Memorandum ofAgreement (MOA) regarding coordination on matters ofgeographic jurisdiction. Pursuant to the MOA, designation ofthe "Special Case" made EPA responsib le for determining the extent to which the Los Angeles River was protected as a "water ofthe United States." Specifically, EPA analyzed the river's status as a "Traditional Navigable Water," one ofseveral categories ofjurisdictional waters under the Act. We conclude that the mainstem ofthe Los Angeles River is a "Traditional Navigable Water" from its origins at the confluence of Arroyo Calabasas and Bell Creek to San Pedro Bay at the Pacific Ocean, a distance of approximately 51 miles . In reaching this conclusion, Region 9 and Headquarters staffconsidered a number offactors, including the ability ofthe Los Angeles River under current conditions offlow and depth to support navigation by watercraft; the history ofnavigation by watercraft on the river; the current commercial and recreational uses of the river; and plans for future -
Programmatic EA for Outdoor Tests
FINAL PROGRAMMATIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR JET PROPULSION LABORATORY PERIODIC SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING ACTIVITIES ON-SITE AND IN THE ARROYO SECO NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PREPARED BY Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure, Inc. 104 W. Anapamu Street, Suite 204A Santa Barbara, California 93101 MARCH 2018 FINAL FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT FOR JET PROPULSION LABORATORY PERIODIC SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING ACTIVITIES ON-SITE AND IN THE ARROYO SECO 1.0 INTRODUCTION Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended (42 U.S. Code [USC] 4321, et seq.), the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of NEPA (40 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] Parts 1500-1508), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) policy and procedures (14 CFR Part 1216, Subpart 1216.3), NASA has made a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) with respect to the proposed JPL Periodic Scientific Development and Testing Activities On-Site and in the Arroyo Seco. NASA has reviewed the Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) prepared for the proposed periodic scientific development and testing activities and determined that it presents an accurate and adequate analysis of the scope and level of associated environmental impacts. NASA hereby incorporates the PEA by reference in this FONSI. The PEA programmatically assesses environmental impacts associated with a suite of outdoor scientific development and testing activities at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on-site and within other appropriate landscapes in close proximity to NASA JPL, including the adjacent Arroyo Seco. These outdoor testing actions are small-scale, non-intrusive, short-duration outdoor testing, verification, and calibration activities, and are necessary to support and fulfill NASA scientific and technology demonstration missions as well as tasks conducted by NASA JPL under technology development agreement with other Federal agencies.