Planning in Pasadena
Here's a link to a reproduction of the resignation letter from his former post with the city of Los Angeles by Vince Bertoni, the newly named planning director of Pasadena -- courtesy Curbed LA.
Pasadenans who care about such things seem a little bit taken aback by the timing of the announcement, though it has been a year since former Planning Director Richard Bruckner left to take over planning for Los Angeles County.
But people who have worked with Bertoni in the Windsor Square neighborhood -- near Hancock Park -- in which he lives have nothing but good things to say about his work there and his good match for Pasadena preservation, development and zoning controversies. We'll see how he works out in what is a seriously challenging job, with a lot of competing pressures from many people with radically different visions of what Pasadena should look and feel like.