Town Council Recap: Parking Ordinance, Shooting, Cell Phone Tower

Tuesday's Town Council meeting focused mainly on two important issues: discussion of the plan to begin hauling dirt out of the Devil's Gate Dam to clean it out and the possibility of endorsing a 9/11 monument project on New York Drive.

We've written about those issues in separate articles (Devil's Gate Dam , and New York Drive ) so here are some of the smaller highlights of Tuesday's meeting:

• Town Council chair Gino Sund told members they should review a county ordinance on parking cars with "for sale" signs on certain Altadena streets.  The ordinance would apply to certain streets in Altadena and Sund suggested everyone take a look to see if the list makes sense.  A vote on that ordinance in Tuesday's Board of County Supervisors meeting.
• A plan to install a will be discussed at next Tueday's Board of County Supervisors meeting.
• Sund's term as chair of the Town Council will end next meeting and after serving the last three years, he told the board he would like somebody else to step in as chair.
• Several speakers mentioned on Figueroa and mentioned that the area has been a consistent problem for years, with many people loitering around a liquor store at the corner of Lincoln and Figueroa.
• Capt. Steve McLean of the mentioned a done on June 11, and said 300 to 400 households in Altadena participated.  He said results will be made known to the public when they have all been tabulated.
• Officer Ming-Yang Hsu of the station discussed the , and said that officers believe they are likely the result of an unusually high amount of traffic on the road on account of the public's  interest in getting back into the Angeles National Forest since the road reopened earlier this month.