Glendora Ca Development And Redevelopment

Off a path that meanders through a vast sea of potted plants, some bursting with the smell of citrus, sits a tiny, forgotten cemetery--an island of consecrated tranquillity in the San Gabriel Valley. Hidden from view, surrounded by a commercial nursery, the 118-year-old Fairmount Cemetery, the area's first Protestant graveyard, still survives. It is a remnant of a sometimes violent pioneer past that will soon be surrounded by California's future: development.

Voters may soon decide the fate of the controversial Glendora Marketplace development, which would bring a Home Depot, Sam's Club and other stores to an area known as the old strawberry patch. City Council members voted 4 to 0 to have the city attorney draft a ballot initiative to allow developers to build a 400,000-square-foot retail center on Lone Hill Avenue. The council will decide Oct. 26 on the final wording of the measure and the election date.

It may be Darwin Paulson's dream mansion, but city officials in Glendora say the dream has soared two feet above local height limits and the roof must be cut back to size. Paulson, who said he already has invested $230,000 in the 7,000-square-foot, two-story Colonial-style house, contends that redesigning the roof will cost more than $60,000 while forcing him to scrap the wood from the rafters.

Off a path that meanders through a vast sea of potted plants, some bursting with the smell of citrus, sits a tiny, forgotten cemetery--an island of consecrated tranquillity in the San Gabriel Valley. Hidden from view, surrounded by a commercial nursery, the 118-year-old Fairmount Cemetery, the area's first Protestant graveyard, still survives. It is a remnant of a sometimes violent pioneer past that will soon be surrounded by California's future: development.

Voters may soon decide the fate of the controversial Glendora Marketplace development, which would bring a Home Depot, Sam's Club and other stores to an area known as the old strawberry patch. City Council members voted 4 to 0 to have the city attorney draft a ballot initiative to allow developers to build a 400,000-square-foot retail center on Lone Hill Avenue. The council will decide Oct. 26 on the final wording of the measure and the election date.

It may be Darwin Paulson's dream mansion, but city officials in Glendora say the dream has soared two feet above local height limits and the roof must be cut back to size. Paulson, who said he already has invested $230,000 in the 7,000-square-foot, two-story Colonial-style house, contends that redesigning the roof will cost more than $60,000 while forcing him to scrap the wood from the rafters.