Rangwala Associates led a multidisciplinary team for a comprehensive revision of the General Plan and the Downtown Specific Plan. The General Plan builds on guiding principles to conserve stable neighborhoods and target infill in the downtown and neighborhood centers. It reinforces transformations that have occurred during the past decade with infill mixed-use and housing development, walkable streets, and resilient development practices.

The General Plan focuses on maintaining the small town ambience with stable historic neighborhoods and downtown core; and promoting context sensitive growth that aligns market opportunities with community aspirations for a vibrant and walkable downtown with affordable housing.

Besides public parks and streets, the Green Infrastructure framework identifies opportunities to partner with school for limited public use of their grounds, and the use of Edison easement as a green corridor. A longer term project is to study the feasibility of a future capping 110 with public parks.

The Our Creative Community section lays out a roadmap to leverage the collective resources to elevate South Pasadena’s profile as a creative, innovative community, and to strengthen and expand its cultural ecosystem. The Plan addresses creative prosperity, cultural tourism, education for creativity, cultural equity, public art, historic preservation, and capacity and leadership.