In a rather brief (two hour) monthly meeting, a rump Altadena Town Council kicked back the proposed T-Mobile cell tower to the land use committee.
Representatives of two groups (Altadenans for St. Elizabeth's, and the Altadena Neighborhod Alliance) urged the council to reconsider its approval of a cell phone tower to be located at St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church at Lake and Woodbury. Steve Escobar of Altadenans for St. Elizabeth's presented the council with the signatures of 385 neighbors who were opposed to the tower.
After some discussion, the council voted to ask the land use committee to readdress the tower in light of the strong community opposition.
In other action:
- CT 4601 rep TIm Kelly said that he looked into constituent complaints about rather aggressive curb address painters. Curb painters need county permits, and one of the companies working the neighborhood (Curbs USA) does not have a permit, Kelly said. If you see curb address painters in your neighborhood, contact the L.A. County Dept. of Public Works, 626-338-9515; if they are too aggressive in demanding payment, call the sheriff's department.
- Set the deadline for applying for the town council election at 5 p.m. May 13 at the community center.
- Heard from representatives from the Sahag-Mesrob Armenian School about the acquisition of their new school property at 183 E. Palm. The school, which presently has a preschool-grade school campus at 2501 Maiden Lane and rents space at the Pasadena First Church of the Nazarene, plans to consolidate at the new property. Principal Shahe Garabedian said that they hope to grow from their present 300 students to 450 or 500.
