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Mark - Please provide the Mayor and City Council members with the attached submittal from the Appellants for Agenda Item #5 on Monday's Agenda. Please also let me know if it will be first on the Agenda after the SBA presentation as stated on February 10, and the order for the proceedings on it. Thank you. Have a good weekend.
Richard A. McDonald, Esq.
StonerCarlson LLP
301 E. Colorado Blvd, Suite 320
Pasadena, CA 91101
Telephone: (626) 356-4801
Cell: (626) 487-6713
E-mail: [email protected]
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Subject: FW: Emaiting: Appellants' Letter to CC dtd 02.10.2025 (Agenda Item #7) Mark - Attached are Appellant's Letters to the City for tonight's hearing on their appeal, which is Agenda Item #7. Please provide it to all City Council members so that they can review them before the meeting. Please also contact me should you have any questions. Thank you.
Richard A. McDonald, Esq.
StonerCarlson LLP
301 E. Colorado Blvd., Suite 320
Pasadena, CA 91101 3/3/2025
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Subject: Emailing: Appelants' Letter to CC dtd 02.10.2025 Your message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:
Appelants' Letter to CC dtd 02.10.2025
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package details...
SatLll·da^ or Sunday rental onlv no
weekday \\eddings
Saturday weddings have access to
the \cnuc from 9:<)()am to ti:()()pm
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venue from l():()oam to l():oopm
with music off at 9:oopm. This
time includes setup and breakdown.
\\cddings may use the rental time
for ceremonies, rcccptions, or both.
No cliangcs in pricing can be made.
Our rates appl) regardless of usa^c,
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large garden patio for your
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Setup & breakdown of furniture
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Security 1'crsonnel
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Access to nearby designated
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I Dance floor - Required for all
events where dancing will take
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dining area and cannot be moved.)
loo wood folding chairs with ivory
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Indoor A/C & lleat
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WiFi access
Trash bins & bags
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c\cnts ^ ith more than 30 people.
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REQUIRED: l)rofcssional
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alcohol will be provided for guests.
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meeting room rentals
monday-thursday 9am-5pm
Indi\-idual rooms or the entire first floor can be rented for meetings, trainings, seminars, etc.
Rentals must take place M-Th between 9am-5pm.
l.ibrary 890 hr 6-10
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available
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cables and chairs
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C^onM'nicnt with \aultcd ceilings, large rooms, small rooms, outdoor patios, rcstrooms, load-in ramp, storage, parking, full kitclicn, and convenient location.
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Mayor Victor M. Gordo
Vice-Mayor Jess Rivas,
Honorable Councilmembers Cole, Hampton, Jones, Lyon, Madison, and Masuda c/o City Clerk
City of Pasadena
100 N. Garfield Avenue, 2d Floor
Pasadena, CA 91101
Re: Agenda Item #5: 55-85 S. Grand Avenue - Western Justice Center CUP #7114 Dear Mayor Gordo, Vice-Mayor Rivas, and Honorable Councilmembers:
This letter is submitted on behalf of Anita Yagjian and her neighbors on South Grand Avenue (collectively, "Appellants") who oppose the issuance of Conditional Use Permit No. 7114 ("CUP #7114") to the Western Justice Center ("WJC") and the commercialization of their neighborhood.
As you will recall, on February 10, the City Council voted to continue this matter so that the City could investigate and explore additional funding options for the WJC in hopes of lowering the number of potential "life cycle events" it wanted to hold. Whether as a lease amendment or otherwise, as Councilmember Madison explained, he thought it would be simpler for the parties to reach an agreement on a lower number of events and begin to mend their relationship if the City stepped up to the plate like it does for so many other non-profits.
Contrary to the City Council's vote and instructions, however, staff did no such thing.
Instead, they asked the parties to meet in hopes of reaching an agreement, which then might be the basis for the City to consider its options. A true and correct copy of staff s February 19, 2025 email explaining that it would not do as instmcted and Appellant's reply is attached hereto as Exhibit "A" and incorporated herein by this reference. 3/3/2025
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Although the WJC was fine with staffs approach. Appellant's objected and continued to request WJC's financial data and what the City could do as the City Council instmcted. WJC did not provide anything. It would not even explain how it calculated the $300,000 stated in its February 10 letter to the City Council.
The parties then met on February 28 with an attorney mediator from the City Attorney's office who made it explicitly clear that he had been told by the City Attorney and "others on high" that the lease agreement was not at issue and that the mediation was only to see if the parties could reach an agreement on the conditions of approval attached to the BZA decision letter.
Although Appellants appeared in good faith to try and resolve what they could, the February 28 mediation was a waste of time. Appellants were asked to negotiate against themselves, the WJC refused to agree to any long-term solutions and offered nothing but narcissistic drama that was delusional, to say the least. As a result, nothing was resolved.
On March 1, therefore, we provided you with several photographs from the WJC websites that show it has completely and totally commercialized the use of the Maxwell House.
Whether it be renting meeting rooms on a daily basis, wedding events, filming or otherwise, the WJC pays one dollar a month for the facility and then rents it out seven days a week for a profit.
Regardless of how it spends that profit, it is generating a profit in violation of its Lease, the tenns under which the City purchased the property from the federal government, CUP#2423, and the Zoning Code. Indeed, CUP #2423 was granted under section 17.26.030 of the Zoning Code, which provides for administrative, business, professional, government, medical and research and development office uses. Nowhere does it provide for office rentals.
Further, the photographs show how the outdoor weddings directly impact the neighbors, whose wall is adjacent to the outdoor patio, and how the WJC's current list of tenants and its 2024 Strategic Plan have nothing to do with its original purpose.
Specifically, as stated before, according to the City's July 20, 1993 Agenda regarding the second amendment to the Lease, the Pasadena Surplus Property Authority acquired title to the Maxwell House property from the GSA on September 17,1989 "for the expressed purpose of leasing it to the Western Justice Center." See Exhibit "C" to Appellant's Febmary 10, 2025 Letter. The City's Executive Director stated that the WJC would "provide an institutional center of national repute for study and research in the areas of law reform, improvements to judicial administration and lawyer competency, law-related education and service to the community with respect to improvement in legal processes and the use of alternative processes to litigation." Id.
In short, the GSA sold the property to the Pasadena Surplus Property Authority so that it could lease it to the WJC for law-related public functions.
As farther noted in the March 31, 1989 staff report to the City Council, the use of the property is "restricted to the purposes described in the Plan of Public Purpose for Surplus I
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Property," which requires the WJC to be operated for "non-profit law-related functions." See Exhibit "D" at 3 to Appellant's Febmary 10, 2025 Letter. According to the City's Lease with WJC, WJC is bound by the Plan of Public Use for Surplus Property ("Plan of Public Use") that dedicated the property to the public purposes of the City, namely, to assist in the City's goal to "provide increased and improved legal services to the citizens of Pasadena" and to "provide a forum for educational research." See Exhibit "F," Section 5.1 to Appellant's Febmary 10, 2025 Letter.
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The language in the Lease is consistent with the City Manager's statements and the parties' intent to prohibit for profit activities on the Premises. Specifically, Section 1.2 states:
This Lease is not entered into as a commercial transaction by either party, but Landlord wants to ensure that its goals are met, that the operations of Tenant do not constitute a nuisance or otherwise disturb the neighborhood, and that the Premises are properly maintained and protected.
Id. (emphasis added). Similarly, Section 5.1 expressly states:
The Premises shall be used and occupied by Tenant and its sublessees only for the purposes described in the Plan of Public Use for Surplus Property, including but not limited to the following non-profit law related functions, . .. and for no other purposes whatsoever. Tenant is expressly prohibited from leasing the Premises or any portion thereof to lawyers offering legal services for profit or allowing the Premises or any portion thereof to be used for any for profit activities.
Id. (emphasis added). Neither the City nor the WJC ever negotiated or contemplated the use of the historic Maxwell House as a for-profit venue that was rented out seven days a week.
To the contrary, the Lease and City records are direct evidence that the Maxwell House may not be used for profit and that their daily rentals evidenced by the documents produced from its website show it to be violating the Lease, CUP #2423, all TUPs issued by the City, and now threatening even more violations. Despite that fact, until the recent car accident, the City had no idea what was going on and did nothing to enforce the code or law.
In addition, the WJC's current list of tenants shown in the photographs, its commercialization of the WJC campus, the described use of it in their 2024 Strategic Plan and the expanded use of it in the CUP application before you are significantly and materially different from that stated in the Plan of Public Use for Surplus Property.
Under the Plan of Public Use which fhe City agreed to, the WJC campus must be used to encourage research and development in judicial administration and education, used by visiting scholars who engage in research, run pilot projects and test methods of dispute resolution, and serve as the home of the Community Dispute Resolution Center to provide alternatives to the use of our over-burdened court system to mediate, among other things, disputes between landlords i
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and tenants. The WJC campus is not currently in compliance with any of these use restrictions and its application for CUP #7114 is simply another violation of it. The City has a legal obligation and duty to enforce the temis of its Lease and its Code to put WJC in conipliance.
That it has failed to do so has and will continue to endanger the neighbors who are being directly impacted by WJC's repeated violations.
Last, as explained in our February 10,2025 letter, the Maxwell House is located within the PS-1 (Public and Semi-Public) zoning district. Under Zoning Code Section 17.26.030, "[c]lubs, lodges, private meeting halls" are listed as a "C(2)" land use, meaning it requires a CUP in accordance with Footnote 2, which states they are "[1]imited to accessory facilities of a principal use." Zoning Code § 17.26.030 (emphasis added).
The photographs from its website prove that the renting of the historic Maxwell House for weddings and other life cycle events as advertised on its website is not using it "primarily for use by members or guests." Just the opposite. It is opening it up to the public at large as a commercial venue for profit. In fact, the Febmary 10, 2025 staff report states on pages 4 and 8 that the proposed use as a wedding venue "would be accessory- to the primary administrative offices use," without telling you that the administrative offices are rented out on a daily basis for profit in violation of CUP #2423.
Worse, although we folly explained how "accessory facilities" are different from "accessory uses", staff insists they are interchangeable. They are not. Simply look up the definitions oflie-care facility, off-street loading facility, parking facility, public safety facility, recycling facility, religious facility, residential care facility, telecommunications facility, transportation dispatch facility, and other land-uses defined in the Zoning Code with the word "facility". Every one of them draws a clear distinction between the physical facility and fhe use(s) within it, which directly and expressly disproves staffs sophistry.
The proposed use, the current for-profit activities of the WJC, and the current tenants are not permitted under the Lease, the Zoning Code, the Plan for Public Use required and agreed upon to acquire the site, or any prior zoning entitlement. Appellants, therefore, are simply asking WJC and the City to live up to the deal they made with the Federal Government when they acquired the property so that the neighborhood is no longer detrimentally impacted as has- been demonstrated.
Thank you for your consideration and attention.
Sincerely,
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Richard A. McDonald, Esq.
Law Office of Richard A. McDonald,
Of Counsel, Stoner Carlson LLP
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EXHIBIT A
Richard McDonald
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Monday, March 3, 2025 6:58 AM
Richard McDonald
FW: WJC Appeal
Richard A. McDonald, Esq.
Stoner Carlson LLP
301 E. Colorado Blvd., Suite 320
Pasadena, CA 91101
Telephone: (626) 356-4801
cell:(626)487-6713
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Website: www.carlsonnicholas.com
From: Richard McDonatd <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2025 6:05 PM
To: Paige, Jennifer <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: WJC Appeal
Jemiifer - No offense, but I think that is the opposite of what CC Madison stated. I also think it would be very hard to agree on a reduced number of events without knowing the economic assistance being provided, i.e., a little or a lot. Relieving utility payments, building maintenance and other costs done for other non-profits in the city would be very different that some other fomis of assistance. Happy to discuss it if need be. Thank you.
Richard A. McDonald, Esq.
Stoner Carlson LLP
301 E. Colorado Blvd., Suite 320
Pasadena, CA 91101
Telephone: (626) 356-4801
ceu:(626)487-6713
E-mail: [email protected]
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From: Paige, Jennifer <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2025 5:26 PM
To: Richard McDonald <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: WJC Appeal
Hi Richard,
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1 This conversation is just the two parties to see if you can agree on anything related to the CUP. If for example the number of events is reduced to an agreed upon number then separately the lease will be looked at by economic development.
Thanks
Jennifer
From: Richard McDonald <rmcdonald@ston^
Sent: Tuesday,February 18,2025 2:34 PM
To: Paige, Jennifer <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: WJC Appeal
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Jennifer -1 forgot to ask, but is the City participating? What it is willing to do monetarily seems to me to be the key to breaking any impasses or compromises as CC Madison suggested, which is why I ask.
Richard A. McDonald, Esq.
Stoner Carlson LLP
301 E. Colorado Blvd., Suite 320
Pasadena, CA 91101
Telephone: (626) 356-4801
Cell: (626) 487-6713
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From: Paige, Jennifer <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2025 11:13 AM
To: Richard McDonald <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: WJC Appeal
Thank you Richard
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Sent: Tuesday, February 18,2025 11:10 AM
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Subject: RE: WJC Appeal
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Thank you. We can be available March 3 if you need a bit more time.
Richard A. McDonald, Esq.
Stoner Carlson LLP
301 E. Colorado Blvd, Suite 320
Pasadena.CA 91101
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