When the Courier first met Jakob Vanderaa in 2013 he was an aspiring 12-year-old mountaineer who had conquered all of the tallest peaks in Southern California and set his sights on Mount Whitney, which at 14,505 feet, is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States.
When the Claremont City Council approved its housing element last week, it also hit the pause button on a state law that can preempt local control over housing production. However, a Los Angeles County judge threw some uncertainty into the mix with a ruling last week that La Cañada Flintridge missed an important deadline to rezone land in its jurisdiction and as a result, was not in “substantial compliance” with housing element law. The finding was a core part of a lawsuit filed by Californians for Homeownership against the wealthy Los Angeles County city.
It’s fitting in a way that it took nearly eight hours to get the job done, but early Wednesday morning the Claremont City Council finally approved an update to the city’s housing element, ending a 20-month saga to bring the city back into compliance with state law.
Felicia Williams is running to represent the 41st California State Assembly District, which includes Claremont, Williams’ hometown of Pasadena, and the foothill communities and portions of the high desert, against fellow Pasadena resident Phlunté Riddle and Claremont City Council member Jed Leano.
On Easter Sunday, Ken Larsen first noticed water collecting on his pool deck and assumed he had a burst pipe, which is never good. But the water kept pooling, literally coming straight out of the ground, and before long it was flowing into his pool and flooding the lawn. It was then that he realized the problem was much bigger than faulty plumbing.