Striking the Right Balance

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IT'S simply untrue that there's no middle ground in the preservation-vs.-development battle at the California Domestic Water Company site in East Whittier.

It's equally untrue that proper preservation has a deleterious effect on a community's economy. The reverse is the case. Southland cities need look no further than the booming successes of Monrovia and Pasadena, both formerly develop-at-all-costs and both now preservation-minded, to see the economic value of preserving the historic architecture of the past.

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Striking the Right Balance

Pasadena, which in the 1970s tried to raze its downtown in the name of redevelopment, was just named by a planning group the No. 1 downtown in all of California. That's a...

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