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View MorePasadena landlord group delivers 29,000 signatures to repeal rent control
Pasadena Housing Providers delivered more than 29,000 petition signatures to the City Clerk's office on Sept. 10, more than double the 13,745 needed to qualify a March 2028 ballot measure that would repeal and replace Measure H, the city's rent control charter amendment.
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View MorePasadena opens 2026 rental registration with Oct. 31 deadline
Pasadena's 2026 rental registration is open with a $236.54-per-unit fee and an Oct. 31 deadline; the Rent Stabilization Department is hosting walk-in help sessions at Robinson Park, Victory Park and its own office through October.
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View MorePasadena residents oppose affordable housing rule for small buildings
Pasadena residents and Abundant Housing LA urged the Planning Commission to reject a proposal lowering the city's affordable-housing mandate threshold from 10 units to five, warning it could halt already-scarce small apartment construction.
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View MorePasadena commission hears 3D-printed housing pitch
Pasadena's Human Services Commission hears a pitch Wednesday, Sept. 9, from Azure Printed Homes on 3D-printed transitional housing, one month after unanimously recommending a motel master-leasing strategy to the City Council.
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View MorePasadena Rose Bowl opens $20M Field Club amid UCLA lease fight
The Rose Bowl cuts the ribbon Thursday on its new $20 million-plus South End Zone Field Club, the stadium's first field-level premium seating, even as the city's billion-dollar lawsuit against UCLA over its lease remains unresolved.
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View MoreRose Bowl CEO bets on events strategy to fund stadium upgrades
Rose Bowl Operating Company CEO Jens Weiden told a Sept. 2 webinar that the stadium faces hundreds of millions in capital needs over 20 years and is leaning on 150 annual enterprise events and a new $30 million Field Club to close the gap.
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View MorePasadena Rose Bowl lawsuit lands on UC Regents agenda
The UC Regents will discuss Pasadena's Rose Bowl breach-of-contract lawsuit in closed session at their Sept. 14-16 UCLA meeting, as the informally stayed case over UCLA football's future at the stadium remains unresolved.
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View MorePasadena council advances Tuesday meetings ordinance
The Pasadena City Council took the first reading of an ordinance on Sept. 1 to permanently move its regular meetings from Mondays to Tuesdays, a change that would affect ten city commissions and boards.
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View MorePasadena lawmaker's smoke-damage bills clear Legislature, await Newsom
Two bills by Pasadena Assemblymember John Harabedian establishing the nation's first scientific testing standards for smoke-damaged homes passed the California Legislature on Sept. 1 and now await Gov. Newsom's signature by Sept. 30.
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View MoreAltadena anti-speculation bill passes Legislature, awaits Newsom
SB 1090, co-authored by Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez and Assemblymember John Harabedian, passed the California Legislature unanimously on Aug. 30 and would suspend a state lot-splitting law in Altadena's Eaton fire zone until 2030 if Gov. Newsom signs it by Oct. 13.
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View MoreSB 492 dies without vote, killing Eaton Fire fast-pay plan
Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas declined to bring SB 492 to a vote on the final day of the California legislative session, killing a wildfire liability compromise that would have created a fast-pay program for Eaton Fire survivors and barred utility CEO bonuses after deadly fires.
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View MorePasadena City College becomes terminus for new Metro bus line
Pasadena City College will be the eastern terminus of Metro's new 19-mile all-electric Bus Rapid Transit line from North Hollywood, with a station under construction on the Colorado Boulevard campus and revenue service planned for February 2028.
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