April 2, 2024
Mission Beautification Community Meeting
On April 2, 2024, City staff held a community meeting to present the options available for Mission District Beautification and gather feedback from attendees. The meeting was promoted on the City’s website, weekly e-newsletter, social media, targeted emails to community stakeholders, and direct mailers to 400+ households and businesses in the Mission District area.
The meeting had 33 resident attendees who signed in and 4 business-owner attendees who signed in. The attached report is the summary of voting and discussion comments submitted by those attendees.
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6 18
1 6
7 2
5 5
1 2
2 7
6 5
1 3
3 2
9 6
1 0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Street Pole Banners
Entry Monuments
Sidewalk Replacement
Street Furniture
Planter/Plant Pots
Tree Lighting
Curb Bulb-Outs
Vote Tallys
4 Point Votes 3 Point Votes 2 Point Votes 1 Point Votes 1 3
1 1
2 1
1 1
1 1
3 0 1 2 3 4 5
Street Pole Banners
Entry Monuments
Sidewalk Replacement
Street Furniture
Planter/Plant Pots
Tree Lighting
Curb Bulb-Outs
Business Vote Tallys
4 Point Votes 3 Point Votes 2 Point Votes 1 Point Votes Point Value Summary
Item Total Points from Votes Non-Support Votes
Curb Bulb-Outs 90 1
Tree Lighting 55 1
Street Furniture 41 0
Planter/Plant Pots 35 0
Sidewalk Replacement 25 0
Entry Monuments 8 9
Street Pole Banners 2 4
Comments (all comments are transposed exactly the way it was written):
Patricia Davis - Resident
• Pedestrian Safey
o Sidewalks
o Ways to “slow” traffic feel
o Streetlight – Los Robles/Mission – Possible to start pedestrian green before cars? Works in downtown LA
o Allys – please install stop signs/speed pumps, etc.
Unnamed Resident
• Palisades Village
• Lido Marina Village (Newport Beach)
Unnamed Resident
• Enforce no turn on red at Los Robles & Mission
Linda Wah – Resident
• Bike friendly corridor. Right now it’s dangerous to ride bikes in City and on Mission. No place to park bikes.
Linda Wah – Resident
• Traffic control – Mission is getting business. Cars often don’t stop at signs. Mission is now a shortcut to Fair Oaks & Fwy.
Steve Domier – Resident
• Banners not needed, since trees obstruct them.
• Entry monuments are unnecessary.
Karen Harrigan – Resident
• Please support businesses in whatever way you can. I’ve lived in the Mission District for 25 years and remember a wonderful Italian Restaurant being closed off od Mission. So excited about how vibrant Mission has recently become. I believe young families want to be able to walk to local businesses. Younger families with children are what our city needs for many (obvious?) reasons.
Carole Hasbun – Resident
• Can the area of the bike shop be made into a mini-park setting? • Can some of the office businesses on the southside west of Euclid open their lots for parking?
Howard Brody – Resident
• The objective IMO is an open, easily visible, & aesthetically improved walkways.
Accordingly, curb bulbouts, widening sidewalks, & lighting would improve visibility, walkability & ease of access.
• Street banners, steel furniture, entry monuments are not necessary.
Peter Brassard – Resident
• I love the idea of curb-bulbs, lighting, and improvements to the wonderful shops on Mission. Consider adding more bike amenities (active transportation) such as bike crossing buttons (like South Pasadena). Lots of people bike/walk in the area to visit the shops, go to bike events, and to access the Metro Rail South Pasadena Station.
Unnamed Resident
• RE: Benches
o What’s to stop homeless from using these to sleep on? Jamal Hammadi – Business Owner
• We need this change.
• We need new incentives for new businesses.
Paul Brassard – Resident
• Excellent Meeting. Good process. Well done.
Sally B. – Resident
• Make it like Carmel
• Do as much as possible. Offer new planters, trees, etc for sale to raise money (donations) John Dustin - Resident
• Bulbouts are critical to calm traffic and provide additional outdoor seating for restaurants customers.
• The Arroyo Group identified that the Chinese Pistache trees are not thriving. I agree with that conclusion. Large thriving shade trees are needed! Better tree selection and management is necessary.
Unnamed Resident
• You may consider installing some police emergency buttons somewhere along mission st.
The ones with the blue light I.D.
Shelley Boyle – Resident
• Directionals to parking lots
• Improving Mission improves real estate
Therioult – Resident
• Bring in more resident friendly businesses.
• Mission should not receive all the funds which was voted to be split between Huntington & Mission.
Gail James on behalf of Carolyn Chapman – Resident
• Los Robles Resident Carolyn Chapaman was unable to attend tonight’s meeting & has asked me to deliver the attached comments. (Comments attached to end of this report)