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SIERRA 
MADRE CITY 
COUNCIL 
MEETING 

APRIL 11, 2026 5:30 pm 

THIS MEETING WILL BE HELD 
IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS! 

As part of the City of Sierra Madre’s 
COVID-19 transparency efforts and The Brown 
Act provides the public with an opportunity to 
make public comments at any public meeting. 
Public comment may also be made by e-mail to 
PublicComment@CityofSierraMadre.com by

3:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting. 
Emails will be acknowledged at the Council 
meeting and filed into public record. The public 
may also comment in person at the meeting. 

The meetings will be streamed live on Foothills 
Media website at foothillsmedia.org/sierramadre 
and broadcast on Government Access 
Channel 3 (Spectrum).. 

1630 AM EMERGENCY RADIO & 
Free on-air publicity for local events 
Sierra Madre’s EMERGENCY radio station is now accepting scripts for 
Public Service Announcements (PSAs) about community events. PSAs 
will be broadcast on the air at no charge. The station operates 24/7 and can 
be heard at 1630 on the AM dial. 
Any local non-profit or non-commercial organization can have their 
event information broadcast to the public on Sierra Madre CommunityInformation Radio. The station covers the city of Sierra Madre, plus 
surrounding areas of Pasadena, Arcadia, and Monrovia. 
Your event must: 
• Benefit a non-commercial or non-profit entity• Be open to the public 
• Be of general interest to local citizens 
Just write a Public Service Announcement that describes your event and 
e-mail it to radio@cityofsierramadre.com. 
CITY OF SIERRA MADRE PLANNING COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING 
DATE AND TIME OF HEARING 
PLACE OF HEARING 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 
City of Sierra Madre City Council Chambers 
(Hearing begins at 5:30 p.m.) 
232 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre, CA 
CITY OF SIERRA MADRE CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING 
DATE AND TIME OF HEARING 
PLACE OF HEARING 
Tuesday, May 26, 2026 
City of Sierra Madre City Council Chambers 
(Hearing begins at 4:30 p.m.) 
232 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre, CA 

WALKING SIERRA MADRE: 

The Social Side by Deanne Davis 

“Do not abandon yourself to despair. We are the Easter people and 
Hallelujah is our song.” Pope John Paul II 

“The great gift of Easter is Hope – Hope that makes us have that 
confidence in God, in His ultimate triumph, and in His goodness and 
love, which nothing can shake.” Basil Hume 

Tomorrow is Easter, friends and neighbors, a time of celebration 
and joy. What Easter is really about is the fact that the stone was 
rolled away and there was an empty tomb. As the angel said, “He 
is not here. He is risen!” This is the amazing concept upon which 
many of us base our lives. A lot of us, including me, will still be 
live-streaming our Easter service, but, as always, it will be the most 
meaningful day ever. 

Yes, we might have brunch reservations and be thinking thoughts of 
eggs benedict and a mimosa. But we might also still be remembering 
the Good Friday service that made us think long and hard about 
what actually happened the three days before Easter. 

I’ve been remembering a wonderful, peaceful, reflective time 
walking through the stations of the cross with John up at Mater 
Dolorosa on a foggy morning and seeing deer wandering through 
the trees, sitting down for a few minutes on one of the benches and 
just ‘being still and knowing that He is God.’ 

The stores are filled with Easter lilies, Peeps abound, enormous 
chocolate bunnies fill the shelves of the candy aisle at our supermarket; I’ve been given several chocolate caramel eggs 


– my Easter guilty pleasure. There are Easter egg hunts all over the San Gabriel Valley and, as always, the Sierra Madre 
Professional Firefighter’s Association is hosting the annual Easter Egg Hunt today in Memorial Park. Be prepared to hunt 
for golden eggs and egg-stra special prizes The Easter Bunny will be there, too, so bring your camera. 
Let me say it again, tomorrow is Easter! He is risen! He is risen, indeed! I hope this poem will help you see that first Easter 
through the eyes of Jesus’ friends. Their world had just been completely upended, but joy was on the way! 
. 

Before dawn…Easter Sunday…The sky was gray…The world was hushed…

The women walked toward a tomb,

Jars of spices in their hands,

To tend the One, the One Who died, crucified that Friday. 

The women walked, Mary Magdalene and another.
They walked and wondered, who would roll away the stone.
They stopped to rest, await the day, sad eyes filled with tears.
Sorrow for the One Who died, crucified that Friday. 

Another dawn, another day, what did it matter anyway?
The one who loved her as she was, who changed her life, was gone.
They raised their eyes to see the sky, streaks of pink and gold.
And then they saw the guards were gone.
The stone was rolled away! 

The grief they’d felt since Friday, like the stone, was rolled away.
They grabbed those jars of spices and running like a child,
Climbed that hill to tend their Lord. 
Before dawn on Sunday. 

They looked inside that borrowed tomb, petrified with fright.
An angel sat there on the stone, clothed in brilliant white.
“I know the One you seek,” he said, “Jesus, crucified.
He is not here, he’s risen! He’s risen, as he said. 
Now go! And tell the others, He’s risen as he said. 

Look not for the living, here among the dead!
He is not here, He’s risen, risen as He said.” 
Joy broke free and hope broke free, 
Before dawn that first Easter Sunday. 

May this Easter bring you closer to the Risen Lord than ever before and may joy and hope break free within you, too, as 
you celebrate the One Who is risen. 

My book page: Amazon.com: Deanne Davis 
Easter is here and “The Crown,” 
My story about what happened to that crown of thornsIs now a real book in addition to a Kindle! 

City of Sierra Madre 
NOTICE OF MULTIPLE PUBLIC HEARINGS 
From: The City of Sierra Madre 
Subject: MUNICIPAL CODE TEXT AMENDMENT (MCTA 26-02) ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE CITY OF SIERRA 
MADRE OBJECTIVE DESIGN STANDARDS BY ADDING CHAPTER 17.50 (OBJECTIVE DESIGN 
STANDARDS) TO TITLE 17 (ZONING) OF THE SIERRA MADRE MUNICIPAL CODE 
Applicant: City of Sierra Madre 
Project Location: Properties in the City of Sierra Madre, County of Los Angeles, State of California 

The City of Sierra Madre gives notice, pursuant to State of California law, that the Planning Commission and City Council will conduct separate 
public hearings at the dates and times listed below to consider a Municipal Code Text Amendment (MCTA 26-02) adding Chapter 17.50 (Objective 
Design Standards) to Title 17 (Zoning) of the Sierra Madre Municipal Code and amending various sections therein applicable to multifamily 
residential and mixed-use developments. The Planning Commission will be conducting a hearing to provide a recommendation to the City Council. 

The purpose of the amendment is to adopt the City of Sierra Madre Objective Design Standards. Several state housing laws, including SB 167, SB 423,
SB 330, SB 4, and AB 2011, strongly incentivize cities to develop objective design standards for multifamily residential uses and mixed (residential 
and commercial) uses. By adopting Objective Design Standards, the City of Sierra Madre maintains the ability to impose design standards on 
multifamily residential and mixed-use developments. These Objective Design Standards are intended to streamline the approval process for housingunits while maintaining good design. 

The Brown Act provides the public with an opportunity to make public comments at any public meeting. Public comment may also be made by 
e-mail to PublicComment@SierraMadreCA.gov by 3:00PM on the day of the meeting. Receipt of emails will be acknowledged at the public hearing,
filed into public record and scanned onto the City website for public review. The meeting will be streamed live on the City’s website at www. 
SierraMadreCA.gov, on Foothills Media website at https://www.foothillsmedia.org/sierramadre and broadcast on Government Access Channel 3 
(Spectrum). 

ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: This project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to CEQA Guidelines 
Section 15061(b)(3) because there is no possibility that the proposed project could have a significant impact on the environment. The project itself 
does not allow construction of any building or structure but sets forth design regulations that shall be followed. Therefore, it can be seen with 
certainty that there is no possibility that the project may have a significant effect on the environment and thus is not subject to CEQA review. 

APPEAL: The decision of the Planning Commission is subject to a 10-day appeal period to the City Council. If in the future anyone wishes to 
challenge the decision of the Planning Commission in court, one may be limited to raising the issues that were raised or presented in written 
correspondence delivered to the Planning Commission at, or before, the scheduled public hearing. If in the future anyone wishes to challenge the 
decision of the City Council in court, one may be limited to raising the issues that were raised or presented in written correspondence delivered to 
the City Council at, or before, the scheduled public hearing. For further information on this subject, please contact the Planning and CommunityPreservation Department at (626) 355-7138. 

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