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We Get Letters: Let the Rose Bowl Flourish

Published on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 | 5:53 am
 

How is a business regulated into obscurity supposed to support itself?

We allow a small percent of adjacent households each purchased and occupied after the Rose Bowl Stadium was built one hundred years ago to hold our city budget and the majority of Pasadena households and businesses hostage. To curb their inconvenience for buying a house next to the Rose Bowl Stadium.

The Rose Bowl Stadium is limited by multiple antiquated city regulations. On the quantity of events it is allowed to host. On the types of events it is allowed to host. On the size of events it is allowed to host. On the variety of events it is allowed to host. How is any business limited in scope and creativity expected to thrive?

“Sorry, you can only seat more than 20,000 people fifteen times a year in a 90,000 person location to support a 50 million dollar budget. Ask ‘Mother May I’ to host more events. Do not ask to host new events.”

All to accommodate a handful of Pasadena residents. The rest of us pay for their convenience. Talk about “A Tale of Two Cities”. Thanks a lot.

My family did not want to live next to a fire station so we did not buy a house next to a fire station. My family did not want to live next to a railroad so we did not buy a house next to a railway. My family did not want to live next to a stadium so we did not buy a house next to a stadium.

If you do not want to live next to an iconic stadium don’t buy a house next to an iconic stadium. If you did buy a house next to an iconic stadium do not be shocked the iconic stadium hosts events where ninety thousand (or hopefully many more than ninety thousand) people show up to pay for the stadium upkeep, and are near your comparatively newer house.

How about we allow the Rose Bowl Stadium free reign to be a business, with no holds barred, with no neighbors holding its business model hostage, and see if it might be able to pay for itself? We could have had an NFL team. We could have had an MLS team. Instead we have an empty stadium.

The rest of us are tired of the Rose Bowl Neighborhoods holding Pasadena and our budget hostage.

Bob Brown,
Bungalow Heaven

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One thought on “We Get Letters: Let the Rose Bowl Flourish

  • Amen to that Bob. We’ve let this entire city be governed by neighborhood busybodies. Let private property owners do what they want with their property as long as it doesn’t physically hurt anyone. That means that a stadium should be allowed to host events, a developer should be allowed to build homes, a business should be allowed to sell goods.

    Destroy the vetocracy. Complainers and whiners who want to destroy the economy of this city should be made to leave.

 

 

 

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