By Julie BUTCHER Longtime local resident Kurt Liewer was headed somewhere else when he saw the “Now open!” signs outside the new Ace Hardware on Foothill Boulevard. He pulled into the quickly filling parking lot. “I’m glad to see them here,” he said with a smile, heading in to check out the store on the […]
By Julie BUTCHER Mayor Ara Najarian opened what turned out to be a long Glendale City Council meeting on Tuesday night by explaining why the council is meeting in a different room rather than in council chambers. “We will not hold a meeting at a location where every single person is not accommodated,” he said […]
By Julie BUTCHER Glendale has always considered the 1929 subdivision of Mountain Oaks to be an illegal subdivision through the 1952 Glendale annexation of the 401 lots that make up the 44.7-acre property at the terminus of New York Avenue near Park Vista Drive. The city insisted that the original 1930 subdivision of Lot A […]
By Julie BUTCHER Glendale city officials will revisit the ordinance drafted over the summer to limit vacation and short-term rentals, such as those offered through companies like Airbnb and VRBO, in early December at the council meeting on either Dec. 3 or Dec. 10. The draft ordinance was introduced in July and would have banned […]
By Julie BUTCHER At a short and routine council meeting, held on the first floor of Glendale City Hall because an out-of-order elevator made the second floor – and the Council chambers – inaccessible, the body adopted a version of a sidewalk vending ordinance at issue for several meetings. It also voted to implement the […]
By Julie BUTCHER On Tuesday night the Glendale City Council moved forward on several pending issues, including reconsidering regulations to control sidewalk vending and adopting recommendations for upgrades and improvements to parking in both the downtown area and for the Montrose Shopping Park. First the council recognized police officer Ryan Insalaco for his passion for […]
By Julie BUTCHER On Tuesday evening, the members of the Glendale City Council and trustees of the Glendale Community College met for a joint session to highlight the partnership work of the college and the city and to discuss plans of mutual benefit and interest. At its afternoon meeting, the council deliberated at length over […]
By Julie BUTCHER Last Saturday afternoon, Glendale’s mayor, Ara Najarian, with other councilmembers, nearly a dozen corporate executives and managers, and 30 or so of the newly-hired servers, bartenders and other “team members,” officially opened the Studio Movie Grill, an upscale movie center at 128 Artsakh Ave., anchoring the city’s Arts & Entertainment District. “On […]
By Julie BUTCHER On Tuesday, the Glendale City Council acted to consider local regulations to control the activities of sidewalk vendors following the state’s adoption of statewide rules. SB 946, introduced by Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens, now California’s insurance commissioner) in 2017 and signed by former Governor Jerry Brown in September 2018, effective at the […]
By Julie BUTCHER “My concern is how it will affect zero period in high school,” said parent Leanne Levine, a parent of a senior in high school. Her concern is regarding SB 328, legislation adopted this week that will force schools to start later in the morning. SB 328, sponsored by State Senator Anthony Portantino, […]