A new state law may create unforeseen consequences for the city of Pasadena’s long-awaited project to connect neighborhoods displaced by the now defunct 710 freeway project to the rest of the city, says the city’s mayor.

For more than three years now, the land known as the 710 Stub – couched between Union Street on the north, Columbia Street on the south, St. John Avenue on the west and Pasadena Avenue on the east – has been the focus of city committees and consultants, who have studied its history and garnered input on what to do with it.

Possibilities include plans that incorporate civic, commercial, urban, residential and mixed use areas.

But on Monday, Mayor Victor Gordo asked city officials to study the implications of a recently signed state law SB 79, which allows mid-rise apa

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