by Timothy Rutt
Mina Brown of RBF Consulting told the Altadena Town Council Tuesday night about the visioning workshops that will be part of the plan to update Altadena’s Community Standards District (CSD). The workshops will be held on Wednesdays, April 4 and 25 at the gymnasium at Loma Alta Park, with a final workshop on June 6. All workshops are from 7 to 9 PM.
Brown said that a postcard announcing the workshops will be mailed to every property in Altadena within the next few days.
In response to councilmember Gino Sund’s comment that the meetings should take place in other locations to allow more participation, Brown said that the visioning process would involve people working in groups around tables, and the park gym was “the biggest room in Altadena.”
Brown said that RBF, which is holding the workshops for the county Community Development Commission, had already met with the council’s Land Use Committee and Altadena Heritage, and was looking to meet with other organizations that ‘have a large representation in the community.”
In a related move, Mark Goldschmidt, president of Altadena Heritage and chair of the council’s Land Use Committee, talked about the committee’s efforts to create two committees in 2010, looking at residential and commercial properties. While the commercial committee hadn’t accomplished anything, Goldschmidt said that the residential committee came up with ideas on how to handle such planning issues as setback rules and building swimming pools and spas.
Councilman Doug Colliflower said that one of the Land Use Committee’s suggests was to form a new commercial area subcommittee that would divide into teams, with each team looking at specific commercial areas. Colliflower said that they were looking for members of the community who could make a commitment to look into a specific area, walk through it, and commit to five evening meetings over the next two months. If interested in the committee, contact Goldschmidt at 798-8682 or mgdesign@sbcglobal.net or Colliflower at 626-797-8441 ext 205 or doug.colliflower@altadenatowncouncil.org.
