Directors Put Growth Issues on June Ballot

The Board of Directors has decided to wait until June, 1990, to ask voters to amend the growth management initiative approved six months ago.

Directors cited the likelihood of a low turnout if a special election were called in November, because city measures would have been alone on the ballot or with a Pasadena Community College District trustee election. The special election would have cost the city at least $75,000.

One of the issues to be submitted to voters in June would resolve an apparent conflict between the growth management initiative and the City Charter. The initiative says major construction projects must be approved by five of the seven board members, but the City Charter says that a simple majority is sufficient in almost all city matters.

Other measures to be submitted to voters would make it clear that projects in the Civic Center Master Plan, scheduled for adoption next week, are exempt from the initiative’s growth limits and would clarify the application of building exemptions in northwest Pasadena.