Ballot Initiative Falls Short 63 Votes After City Recount

An initiative targeting larger scale homes in Arcadia (often referred to as McMansions) will not make it on the ballot after all. The city clerk’s office discovered a discrepancy in the number of qualifying signatures Tuesday.

Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder had approved the initiative last week, qualifying it for a future ballot with only one more signature than required to get on the next election’s ballot.

Saving Arcadia, a local activist group is behind the initiative which started collecting signatures last July to take a measure to the voters that would set limits on theses so called McMansions.

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