author Angelo Gladding
name General Public Comment
published 2026-02-25T10:40:05.836352-08:00
type entry
updated 2026-03-04T12:02:19.645390-08:00
url /2026/02/25/n9
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## Climate Change  https://youtu.be/KJrPxdzBNKY -- Dr. Daniel Swain > Singularly the warmest winter on record in the western US. 12:46 > As a climate scientist who studies weather and Western weather impacts and wildfire and water I really just want to emphasize what a very big deal this is. Because this is a high bar. If it sounds like I've said similar things about recent winters it's because I have and this one eclipsed even those ones. 16:15 ## Results of Community Survey https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/southpasadena/d554bad1-02cb-11f1-bb28-005056a89546-0844c5d8-b078-4acf-867d-05904b5dd835-1771550115.pdf #### 5. What would you consider your top five priorities to **add** to the City's budget? In order of popularity: $ priorities = { $ "More public parking": 37, $ "More bike lanes": 71, $ "Affordable housing": 69, $ "More online city hall services": 29, $ "More police officers": 41, $ "More firefighters/EMTs": 44, $ "New pocket parks/dog parks": 48, $ "Enhance youth services": 70, $ "New pedestrian nature trails": 95, $ "More code and building enforcement": 39, $ "Add centralized customer service center": 32, $ "Plant more trees near sidewalks": 73, $ } <style>ul#budgetpriorities li { padding-left: .5em }</style> <ul id=budgetpriorities> $for priority, popularity in reversed(sorted(priorities.items(), key=lambda i: i[1])): <li style="border-left:$(popularity)px solid #39f">$priority</li> </ul>  #### 12. Rank your priorities to improve the quality of life in the City "Plant more trees and preserve existing trees" ranks 1st.  ## Results of Parks Comprehensive Plan Survey  https://youtu.be/HFpw26U8rH8 > Lack of shade has become very, very popular now. In the last ten years we've seen that go up quite a bit. Shade was never a big issue, it's getting hotter, so yes obviously people want more shade. 21:08 <style> img { max-width: 40em; } </style> |