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City Council Meeting
11/21/2022
555 S. ARROYO PARKWAY
PASADENA,CA
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Affinity Elder Care Development
General Plan Guiding Principles
General Plan Guiding Principles Affinity
Growth targeted towards community needs
and quality of life. Higher density directed
into Central District.
Affinity’s mix of uses are driven by the community’s needs and enhancing quality of life.
Pasadena’s historic resources will be
preserved.
Affinity retains and adaptively reuses two historic resources as the social heart of the project.
Pasadena will be an economically vital city by
providing jobs, services, revenues, and
opportunities.
Affinity will attract businesses, bring jobs and provide vital services for the community.
Safe, well-designed, accessible, and human-
scale areas will be provided where people of
all ages can live, work and play.
Affinity is a multigenerational community that provides live, work, and play opportunities.
Specific plans in targeted development areas
will emphasize a mix of uses, pedestrian
activity, and transit.
Affinity provides balanced mix of uses, activates the pedestrian experience along Arroyo Parkway, and sits between two Metro L Line stations.
Pasadena will be a cultural, scientific,
corporate, entertainment, and education
center for the region.
Community participation will be a permanent
part of achieving a greater city.
Met with hundreds of community members and their respective organizations.
Affinity reinforces Pasadena’s position as a regional and national leader in medicine and research. The Affinity contributes in keeping Pasadena’s intellectual capital in Pasadena.
Pasadena is committed to public education
and a diverse educational system.
Affinity will generate substantial fees and taxes to PUSD, likely without requiring any educational services for its residents or users.
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EXHAUSTIVELY STUDIED, INCOPRORATES
NUMEROUS COMMUNITY SUGGESTIONS OVER
2 ½ YEARS
SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC BENEFITS
• STREETLIGHT REPLACEMENTS
• REPAVING ARROYO PARKWAY
• PUBLIC BENCHES, WIDER SIDEWALKS,
WAYFINDING SIGNAGE, AND OTHER
STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS
• COMPLETE STREETS PROGRAM
• JOBS AND HOMES NEAR TRANSIT
• $91 MILLION IN PASADENA JOBS
• $1 MILLION/YR IN GENERAL FUND REVENUES
HIGHTST QUALITY , COHESIVE PROJECT
• NOT FRAGMENTED, ALL-
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS THAT
COULD BE DENSER AND TALLER
THAN AFFINITY
SENIOR CARE IS CRITICALLY NEEDED WITH
LOW ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
• COMPLEMENTARY TO OTHER USES
• MAKES OVERALL PROJECT
ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY
Benefits of Affinity Project PD
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03 ELDER CARE
Accepting 135 conditions of approval
We are requesting modifications to 2 conditions
Accepted PD Conditions
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Affinity
1 Building A Height
2 New Local Mobility Analysis
Discussion Items
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Building A Height
• Building Design
o 1st Level: 15 ft
o 2nd - 6th Levels: 13 ft
• Limit Building A max height to 80 ft
• 13 ft required minimum for modern Medical/Research users • Proposed Condition:
o The maximum allowed height of Building A shall be 75 80 feet. For purposes of this condition, maximum height shall be measured from the lowest elevation at the existing grade of an exterior wall at South Arroyo Parkway to the top plate of the structure, as defined at Pasadena Municipal Code Section 17.80.020.
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New Local Mobility Analysis
• We comply with the traffic analysis specified by City requirements, and are obligated to comply with that
• The addition of an additional traffic analysis is new, and was not part of our process and design over past 2 ½ years
• We are willing to add the new Local Mobility Analysis, but request that cost of those incremental improvements be limited to $75,000
• Proposed Condition:
o At the applicant's expense, a Local Mobility Analysis shall be conducted for the Approved Project to consider the effect of the new development on the street network using the new analysis methodology. The analysis will apply new assessment criteria, existing and future transportation network context, operational analyses, residential neighborhood cut-through/intrusion analysis, net project trip generation based on the current land uses, and new traffic data collection. Based on the outcome of the Local Mobility Analysis, the applicant may be required to implement improvements in the public right-of-way in an amount not to exceed $75,000.
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• Fulfills a need that touches everyone - providing quality of life for mom and dad • Provide attractive and beautifully landscaped areas that welcome visitors and friends • Medical care, groceries, restaurants, and shopping uses are across the courtyard • Preserves history and enhances pedestrian experience
• Built to embrace convenient public transportation
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THANK YOU
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APPENDIX
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First meet Tier 1
Include and Define Targeted Workers
Designate a Job Coordinator
Incorporate local sourcing and
subcontracting
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3 4
Local Hire
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Building A Sidewalks + Setbacks
• We are expanding our sidewalks from 10 feet to 13
feet on Arroyo and 12 feet on California
• Our big challenge here is structural
o Meet minimum drive isle width and other spacing
requirements
o Avoid excavating another parking level beyond what the EIR has studied
• We request using the sidewalk and setback
condition recommended by Planning Commission
and approved by DOT