58-Unit Residential Project Planned for 1-Acre, 4-Lot Site on Walnut Street

Pasadena’s Design Commission will further examine on Tuesday a project to build a new one-to-four-story, 58-unit residential project at 1870-1890 E. Walnut Street, 175 N. Greenwood Ave. and 170 N. Parkwood Ave. that’s now in the Concept Design Review phase of the City’s approval process.

The site comprises four adjoining lots totaling about one acre in size on the south side of E. Walnut Street, the entire block between N. Parkwood Avenue and N. Greenwood Avenue. Rectangular in shape, the site is currently developed with one- and two-story commercial and automotive buildings as well as a non-historic single-family residence on the Parkwood Avenue property.

A tree inventory submitted with the application identifies eight trees on site, one of which is a protected specimen tree, and two street trees along the property’s frontages.

Properties surrounding the site include one- and two-story commercial and industrial buildings along Walnut Street, one- and one-and-one-half-story single-family residences along Greenwood Avenue, and one- and two-story single- and multi-family residences along Parkwood Avenue.

A new four-story mixed-use building is located about 500 feet to the east of the site’s eastern boundary at the northwest corner of Walnut Street and Allen Avenue.

Nearby designated historic resources include the Woodbury Well, constructed in 1930 and is directly across Walnut Street from the project site, historic signs at 2114 E. Foothill Blvd., including the In N Out Burger signage put up in 1952, the Bells and Vaughn Frame and

Wheel Aligning Center built in 1946 at 1821 E. Walnut Street, and two houses at 116 and 119 N. Meridith Avenue constructed in 1911 and 1912.

The Design Commission reviewed an application for Preliminary Consultation for this project on October 13, 2020 and provided comments as input for further refining the project design.

Staff from the Department of Planning and Community Development will provide details of those comments and responses by the project’s design team at the meeting on Tuesday, which begins at 4:30 p.m. on Zoom, accessible through https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86892562506.