- Commissioners
- Pat Ford, Chairperson
- Odom Stamps, Vice-Chair
David Adelstein
Ernest Arnold
Karen Bachand
Peter Kwong
- John Vandercook
- Council Liaison
Richard Schneider, - Councilmember
- Staff Liaison
Andre Dupret,
Assistant City Manager
On November 8, 2006, DECOMA and its architect, Kaplan McLaughlin Diaz (KMD), presented conceptual plans for the Downtown Revitalization Project to the Community Redevelopment Commission. The conceptual plans were the result of an exhaustive community outreach effort spanning several years by the Community Redevelopment Commission (read the Framework for Downtown Development), the City of South Pasadena (read the results of the Staying Small Successfully Survey), and DECOMA (read the summaries of TownTalks and ArchitectTalks).
The Vision for Downtown as described by the Community Redevelopment Commission in the Framework for Downtown Development is as follows:
“Downtown will be a place for the community that builds upon the existing historic fabric and is recognizable as uniquely South Pasadena. It will be a place where business thrives, people can meet, eat, shop, live, walk around, and enjoy the atmosphere. The place is an open public courtyard or plaza defined by buildings that open onto the courtyard as well as onto the streets. The height and scale of buildings is complementary to what exists now. Inside the courtyard people are seated on benches, and dining outdoors, surrounded by shade trees and greenery. The surrounding buildings may have balconies on upper floors that look out onto the courtyard. Pedestrian pathways and openings from streets to the courtyards, as well as the streets themselves, allow this place to be both open and contained. People are walking and strolling.”
