No

7

31.81

Uncertain

3

13.63

Yes

12

54.54

Comments

What a bad idea! There are already too many events in the Rose Bowl area.

I love the circus, and Cirque de Soleil is the best! It would be great to have them come to Pasadena.

How many events? How many people? How much noise?

No more events.

The reason Cirque decided against coming to the Arroyo is they could not comply with the City Noise Ordinance. The City Council would have to suspend the Ordinance for six weeks and I doubt that the residents along the Arroyo would allow that.

I would not object to the Cirque if it operated "inside" the Rose Bowl Stadium. I am opposed to the Cirque operating on any parkland and am also opposed to its crews camping on parkland or on parking lots.

What nobody seems to notice is that while the Cirque doesn't have a large attendance, (per show) it lasts ten long weeks. If it can be done without restricting the everyday athletic activities around the Bowl Loop, I'm all for it; but the day to dat athletic uses are far more important than another sit-on-your-butt entertainment. At least Cirque's 10 weeks is better than Kidspace's permanent.

"Let them eat circuses!"

It's time to distinguish between special occasions that benefit the community in its very spirit and the regular, slippery slope to noisy, neighborhood degrading type of activities.

Positive cultural impact far outweighs the few negatives. Insignificant compared to Kidspace.

It's disconcerting that all those supporting the Cirque-including Larry Wilsom who lives the very farthest from the spot-are willing to sell out their neighbors so that the one time that they go to this show they only have to drive 5 minutes. In the meantime the community surrounding the park will suffer not only the Rose Bowl events, Brookside events, and Kidspace construction, but also 12 performances a week of Cirque. I live at the edge of the park and can tell you that all the noise, including the relative quiet of people cheering at Jackie Robinson field, bleeds up into our neighborhood almost every single weekend of the year. Winter is better in terms of less events but the sound is worse because many of the trees which absorb sound are bare. Oh- that's right, the City's in the process of cutting down many of those trees for Kidspace right now. You know what that means? More noise more of the time. The idea that Pasadena needs this event to raise it's image is ridiculous when it has the Norton Simon, JPL and Cal Tech, to name a few. Let's face it--Pasadenans are selfish and self-interested. They vilify the neighbors who, guess what, just want to preserve the little bit of peace left in the neighborhood. And the City's assurances that the sound won't be heard in the neighborhood is downright wrong. We hear everything from the park (including boom boxes). Do you really think that the sound from Cirque (a major aspect of the production) is magically going to stay within the perimeter of the park? How about everyone in favor of Cirque plays loud amplified music in their neighborhood every time there's a performance? If that's agreed to I'll drop my objections to Cirque. Or how about we bring Cirque to an appropriate place in Pasadena, not in the middle of a neighborhood.

Thank you for allowing me to vote. Yes, I think it would be a good thing for the Arroyo Seco/Rose Bowl area. Cirque de Soleil is a wonderful experience ~ Cindy Goss

I'd vote yes on this issue if the tents are not put in Brookside Park. Larry Wilson's first editorial on this issue said Cirque would be in Brookside Park. This language continues the long lasting confusion of equating Brookside Park with the entire Central Arroyo. Brookside Park is the only green and open space remaining in the Central Arroyo. It is that area east of the huge parking lot and south of Rosemont. It has been reduced by the City's previous give-aways to the Tournament of Roses who in 1972 built the ugly float-construction building on the Corner of Rosemont and Seco, taking almost 4 acres away from the Park; the Aquatic Center, which replaced the open-air plunge with a poorly contructed permaent building, and most recently another 3+ acres of open park land to Kidspace for another permanent building. I ask all members of this news group to understand and publicize this distinvtion. We seem powerless to stop expanded use of the Central Arroyo for revenue production. See today's LATimes article on plans to expand use of the Rose Bowl. Perhaps we could be more successful if we contrated on saving the only open-access green serene park area left in the Central Arroyo. In that effort, we should work join forces and ask that the City demolish the Rosemont Pavilion and restore that space to park use, replacing the deodar and other mature trees that have been removed to make space for permanent buildings in the park. If the Cirque tents are on already paved land, and no trees planred there are removed, then I'm OK with this proposal, again provided that we emphasize to City decision-makers that we will not allow further reduction of Brookside Park.

Cirqu de Soleil is a fantastic event. Pasadena is equipped to handel 1 million guests during the Rose Parade, we are equipped to handle the fans of CDS