Thursday, May 12, 2016

Double espresso anyone?

Can we tell you about the week we've had? It's been a doozy! 

A three agendas, two late night meetings, one tired Planning Division kind of week! We LOVE those kinds of weeks around here! We're jazzed!  Does anyone still say that?

Call us crazy if you want, but we get excited to see applications come forward for review. And we love it when we see good projects get approved. And we really really love it when we get to be involved in projects that are going to make Monrovia residents proud of their city!

Monday night, a special meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission was held, and a project that is near and dear to the hearts of many Monrovians was reviewed and approved. It's a pretty special project that we think will be another jewel in the crown of the Gem City. We've placed and extremely subtle and subliminal hint about what that mystery item might be right here in this blog post.  

Keep looking...OK, here's a hint: "Riding on the Atchison, Topeka and the...

So, now that we've piqued your interest, we are going to encourage you to click here to get more details about the special meeting.

This week, we also had a Development Review Committee meeting/Planning Commission meeting double header on Wednesday. So now we totally understand what professional athletes feel like when they play two games in one day! Planning is a contact sport! For more information about the DRC meeting, click here and for more information about the Planning Commission meeting, click here. Hopefully you'll excuse the brevity of this post...we're going to go take a nap.