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For your convenience you may read the City Council Agenda for Tuesday 27, 2011.

In particular the options being considered regarding the low-income housing project are listed.
The lack of vision is apparent even in the details. One of them is even increasing the Housing
Authority's subsidy by millions.

Please feel free to voice your opinions on this site we look forward to creating a dialogue
between the community. It is the sole reason for this websites existence. To give YOU
the community a voice on both sides of the issues.

The Duarte City Council has approved the construction of a 66 unit low-income housing project on Huntington Drive, our main thoroughfare and home to the Historic Route 66. This project will drive businesses out of our city and effectively kill the dream of a downtown Duarte. I need your support to help defend the vision of a Duarte where we can live, work AND play. I need your support to defend the vision of a downtown Duarte.

Join us this Wednesday to STOP this project and protect this vision!

Wednesday, September 19 @ 7:00 P.M.

Homeowners can learn how to receive up to $6,000 in rebates for energy efficiency improvements at a free Home Energy Upgrade workshop hosted by the City of Duarte and the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments on Wednesday, Sept. 28. The workshop will be held from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the City of Duarte Community Center, 1600 Huntington Dr.

CPUC Responds to Sen. Hernandez Letter on Duarte
Concerns Over Construction of Towers Near Homes

DUARTE, CA, August 25, 2011 – While the City of Duarte continues to pursue every avenue to secure relief and mitigation in regard to the impact on the community over Southern California Edison’s Tehachapi Transmission Project, the California Public Utilities Commission has once again dismissed Duarte concerns, this time in a response letter to State Senator Ed Hernandez (24th Senate District).

I approve of housing for the working class, there is a real need for affordable housing for the workforce. Especially this type of housing. I have been an advocate of affordable housing for years. Our local families and children continue to move to other areas, due to the cost of shelter. This type of housing is desperately needed. However, not at this location. This will make it even more difficult for us to ever develop a Town-Center. It will change the economics of any Town-Center project, and make it more expensive and possible unachievable or an unrealistic goal.

This item will be on the agenda for the Duarte City Council this Tuesday @ 7pm. We should get to this item apx 745-830. Please come out and support us!

We are organizing a committee related to forming a scholarship in Margaret's Legacy, and to ask the Duarte City Council to name Duarte Park (across where Margaret lived for 40 yrs) in her memory, and in honor of all her contributions that she made to so many of us over 2 generations. Please, if you have interest contact me. The time and location of our first meeting to follow. We hope to place this item on the City agenda within 60 days. Please forward this to whomever you feel will have interest.