Pasadena Groups Tell NFL Raiders Aren’t Welcome : Pro football: City official says league requested meeting to determine Rose Bowl’s availability if Coliseum isn’t repaired, but residents voice opposition.

If the reaction of several Pasadena residents and community groups was any indication Thursday night, the Raiders will not play their home games at the Rose Bowl this fall despite the possible wishes of the NFL.

In a special joint meeting of the Pasadena City Council and the Rose Bowl Operating Co., seven Pasadena area residents voiced their opposition to a potential proposal generated neither by the Raiders nor the city.

The NFL, concerned about where the Raiders will play if the earthquake-damaged Coliseum is not ready for the 1994 season, asked the city of Pasadena to consider whether the Rose Bowl could be made available for the team’s home games.

“The NFL made a direct request to look into what it will take for the Raiders to play at the Rose Bowl,” assistant city manager Edmund Sotelo said. “An NFL official said that a series of meetings will be held this week to determine if the Coliseum will be ready or not.

“If (the NFL) then decides that an optional field should be made available, they would prepare a letter of agreement with a non-refundable stipend to reserve (eight home) dates to play at the Rose Bowl.”

Nina Chomsky, vice president of the Linda Vista Annandale Assn., said Pasadena residents who live near the Rose Bowl are willing to go to court to fight against having the Raiders as temporary neighbors.

“We need to have a study done on what the economic effect would be on land value in the city if we allowed the Raiders to move into the Rose Bowl,” Chomsky said. “I’m sure that there would be an erosion on the quality of life in the community.”

The residents who spoke against the move claim that the Raiders would create more traffic, noise and crime problems around the city. They also said the 24 events scheduled for the Rose Bowl this year, including this summer’s World Cup, is more than the allowed 12 under the Arroyo Seco Ordinance.

In New York, NFL spokesman Joe Browne said he knew nothing about the Pasadena meeting but added: “We have said that we would explore what the options might be for the Raiders in the Greater Los Angeles area.”

Al Davis, the Raiders’ managing partner, has repeatedly said the Rose Bowl would not be suitable for his team. The team had no comment on the NFL’s overture to Pasadena.

Meanwhile, a source at the Coliseum said NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue plans to inspect the Coliseum next week while in Los Angeles for a meeting, to see for himself how stadium repairs are progressing.

Coliseum officials and the head of the Tutor-Saliba Co., the prime contractor on the repair job now estimated at $42 million, expressed confidence at a Coliseum Commission meeting this week that the stadium would be substantially ready for the first USC and Raider home games, Sept. 3 and 11, respectively.

At the same time, however, they said the Coliseum press box might have to be demolished and temporary press seating installed before fall, and they said repairs on the historic peristyle end of the stadium might not be complete by September.

Davis has been skeptical of the Coliseum’s readiness, and the Raiders have talked with Oakland officials about moving the team back to its original home, the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.

That possibility was the subject of a sharp exchange between Davis and Carmen Policy, president of the San Francisco 49ers, at a recent NFL meeting in Florida. Policy said the 49ers would view the Raiders’ return to the Bay Area as an intrusion.