Next month, the city of Pasadena will be hosting the latest community workshop for the ongoing Reconnecting Pasadena 710 Master Plan.
It will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Friendship Pasadena Church at West Dayton Street and South De Lacey Avenue.
The workshop will be the third held to gather feedback and input from the community. Included in this workshop will be a presentation of the latest project design options and a panel discussion featuring the project team.
“It is important to have a continued dialogue with the community at-large throughout the process so that we are all well informed to make key decisions about the future direction of the city’s growth in the 710 area,” Vaughan Davies, principal and urban planner with the firm Perkins Eastman said in an email.
The city has contracted with Perkins Eastman to develop the master plan. Davies said the team is looking for feedback on mobility options, land-use preferences that include commercial, residential, parks and open spaces.
“The team has been testing land-use capacity, refining the mobility plan, assessing high-level cost of roadway infrastructure, economic feasibility, Davies said in an email.
In April, Pasadena Convention Center hosted a community workshop as well as a screening of “Amplify,” an oral history documentary about the people displaced by the 710 freeway extension project.
Caltrans seized hundreds of properties in Pasadena, South Pasadena and El Sereno to complete the freeway extension that would have connected the northern stub of the 710 with the 210 freeway. The project never came to fruition and was eventually stopped in 2018.
A 50-acre stub left in the aftermath of the failed project is what the master plan aims to address by redeveloping the stub into a community space. In addition, the plan will include a restorative justice framework to respond to the harms caused to majority low-income and minority communities by the 710 freeway extension.
In June, Pasadena City Council authorized city officials to negotiate the sale of 17 properties that the city purchased from Caltrans.
Following the September meeting Davies said the team will work on further refinement in response to input from the public, executive staff, planning department and advisory council comments.
To RSVP, visit the project website.