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Providing Services for Mixed-Use Buildings "Expensive"

Posted by: Tim Halbur

21 July 2010 - 9:00am

Former Mayor of South Pasadena, CA Mike Montgomery is fighting new mixed-use development because he says "The cost of public safety and services exceeds the revenue generated."

Three recent projects in South Pasadena have been built with residential housing in the mix. The latest proposal is part of a redevelopment plan around the City Hall.

Montgomery's other concerns are "that the newest proposed development will overcrowd schools, bring too much traffic to the area and increase demand for services, causing the size of city government to swell."

City planners say the new development will bring in much-needed tax income.

Full Story: Former mayor, others oppose city's plans for more mixed-use development for downtown South Pasadena
Source: Pasadena Star News, July 18, 2010
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Cookie-cutter Mixed Use

Submitted by idm104 on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 09:50.

We've turned mixed-use into just as cookie-cutter a development type as the strip mall. Promoting mixed-use shouldn't be about pushing through big projects that follow the ground floor retail with residential or office above formula. It should be about relaxing restrictions to allow a neighborhood to develop a mix of uses appropriate to the area.

Its not the mixed use, its

Submitted by Scott Dadson on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 09:01.

Its not the mixed use, its your cost structure mayor!!!!

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