Where the capital money goes
Arcadia's Capital Improvement & Equipment Replacement Plan FY2025-2030 programmes $24,079,700 across 32 projects — new buildings, repaved streets, replaced water mains. This is the part of a budget you can see out of a window, so it is shown on a map.
Read the shapes carefully
The city's plan describes where each project is in words — "City Hall", "Baldwin Ave from Camino Real Ave to Longden Ave", "Various Locations". It contains no coordinates at all. Every shape below was placed by One Public Budget by matching that text against public street and place data. The locations are our inference, not the city's data. Each one tells you how it was placed and how confident we are. Where we could not place a project, it is listed below the map rather than dropped or guessed at.
On the flat map, size is the place and shade is the money. Each site is drawn as the shape that is really there — the buildings, the park, the street — so a big shape is a big place, not a big number. How dark it is shaded is the site's combined cost. Where several projects landed at one place they are shown once, with the combined figure; the site's own page lists them separately.
15 projects with a location we could place
Starting the 3D view…
Buildings, by use
- Homes
- Shops, offices, hotels
- Industrial, warehouses
- Schools
- Civic and public buildings
- Use not recorded
Ground, by land use
- Parks and green space
- Sports and recreation
- School grounds
- Commercial areas
- Industrial areas
- Water
Capital projects
- A project, its height its cost
- Several at one site, stacked largest first
The ground itself
- Slopes facing away from the light
- Level ground
- Slopes facing the light
The ground is Arcadia's real elevation, from 68 m at the south end to 1,260 m in the San Gabriel foothills at the north. Vertical scale is true — the hills are not exaggerated. Shading is a hillshade lit from the north‑west by map convention, so it shows which way a slope faces; it does not mean anything about the budget. Ground height is metres; column height is money. The two are different things in the same picture, which is why the columns are the only green and every one of them states its figure on hover.
Land use comes from OpenStreetMap and describes how land is observed to be used, not the city's legal zoning. Residential land is not shaded — it is most of Arcadia, and colouring it would drown everything else. Homes are still shown as buildings.
Buildings are drawn at heights from OpenStreetMap — 19,298 of Arcadia's 19,585 are tagged with a real height; the rest are drawn at one storey and say so when you hover. Each project is a green column, and its height is its cost — drawn as a share of the largest mapped project in the plan, so a column half as tall is a project costing about half as much. Hover any column for the exact figure and its percentage. Heights compare reliably only from a level or overhead angle: in a tilted view a nearer column looks taller than an equal one further away, and a tall one can hide a short one behind it. The figure floating above each column is rounded to two digits — $6M, $4.5M, $13K — as a signpost, not a source; hover for the exact amount. Where several projects share a site — the Library has three, City Hall has three — their columns are stacked, largest at the bottom, so the height of the whole stack is that site's combined cost and the label above it is that total. Each segment is one project: hover it for its own exact figure. The combined total is arithmetic by One Public Budget, which is why the label also says how many projects it covers. The table carries every figure in full, with no perspective at all.
Basemap: US Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2023 (public domain), © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), and elevation from the USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP, public domain). Served from this site; no map tiles are fetched from anyone else.
Every site on the map
The same 12 places the map shades, as a table — so the combined figures the map shows exist in readable form and not only as colour. Sorted by combined cost, highest first.
| Site | Combined cost | Projects | Shading band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orange Grove Park | $6,000,000 | 1 | band 5 of 5 ($3,850,000 and over) |
| Colorado Place | $4,500,000 | 1 | band 5 of 5 ($3,850,000 and over) |
| Santa Anita Avenue | $1,350,000 | 1 | band 3 of 5 ($750,000–$2,120,000) |
| Baldwin Ave | $900,000 | 1 | band 3 of 5 ($750,000–$2,120,000) |
| Arcadia Public Library | $700,000 | 1 | band 2 of 5 ($380,000–$750,000) |
| Duarte Park | $600,000 | 1 | band 2 of 5 ($380,000–$750,000) |
| Arcadia Wilderness Park | $550,000 | 2 | band 2 of 5 ($380,000–$750,000) |
| Arcadia Police Department | $460,000 | 3 | band 2 of 5 ($380,000–$750,000) |
| Los Angeles County Public Works | $350,000 | 1 | band 1 of 5 (under $380,000) |
| Fallen Leaf Road | $100,000 | 1 | band 1 of 5 (under $380,000) |
| Eisenhower Memorial Park | $30,000 | 1 | band 1 of 5 (under $380,000) |
| Arcadia High School | $13,000 | 1 | band 1 of 5 (under $380,000) |
| Total across these sites | $15,553,000 | 15 |
Site totals are arithmetic by One Public Budget over the figures the plan printed per project. A project that covers several locations is counted in full at each of them, never divided between them, so this total can exceed the sum of those projects.
Every mapped project
The same 15 projects, as a table. Sorted by amount.
| Project | Amount | Location, as the city wrote it | How we placed it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orange Grove Well Treatment - Design and Construction | $6,000,000 | Orange Grove Plant | medium confidence matched to Orange Grove Park in OpenStreetMap |
| Colorado Place Complete Streets Extension Project | $4,500,000 | Colorado Place from Colorado Boulevard to Huntington Drive | high confidence matched Colorado Place between its two named cross streets in the Census street network |
| Sewer Main Replacement Program | $1,350,000 | Santa Anita Avenue between El Dorado Street and Christina Street | high confidence matched Santa Anita Avenue between its two named cross streets in the Census street network |
| Arterial Rehabilitation Program - Baldwin Ave from Camino Real Ave to Longden Ave | $900,000 | Baldwin Ave from Camino Real Ave to Longden Ave | high confidence matched Baldwin Ave between its two named cross streets in the Census street network |
| Library Facility Improvements | $700,000 | Arcadia Public Library | high confidence matched to Arcadia Public Library in OpenStreetMap |
| Encanto Park Stormwater Capture Project | $600,000 | Encanto Park in the City of Duarte | medium confidence matched to Duarte Park in OpenStreetMap |
| Wilderness Park Debris Removal Design | $450,000 | Wilderness Park | high confidence matched to Arcadia Wilderness Park in OpenStreetMap |
| Water Master Plan Update | $350,000 | Public Works Services Department | medium confidence matched to Los Angeles County Public Works in OpenStreetMap |
| Police Department Facility Improvements | $300,000 | Police Department | high confidence matched to Arcadia Police Department in OpenStreetMap |
| Upgrades to City Hall Green Room and Human Resources Offices | $130,000 | City Hall | high confidence matched to Arcadia City Hall in OpenStreetMap |
| Stormdrain Repair Project | $100,000 | Fallen Leaf Road | medium confidence matched the whole of Fallen Leaf Road in the Census street network; the form does not say which part |
| Wilderness Park Debris Wall Project | $100,000 | Wilderness Park | high confidence matched to Arcadia Wilderness Park in OpenStreetMap |
| Eisenhower Park Basketball Court Resurfacing Project | $30,000 | Eisenhower Park | high confidence matched to Eisenhower Memorial Park in OpenStreetMap |
| City Hall Facility Improvements | $30,000 | City Hall | high confidence matched to Arcadia City Hall in OpenStreetMap |
| Arcadia High School Track Re-Striping | $13,000 | Arcadia High School | high confidence matched to Arcadia High School in OpenStreetMap |
9 projects the city describes as citywide
These are not missing from the map — they genuinely have no single place. Slurry sealing "various street locations", tree replacement "various locations". Putting a pin in the middle of town for these would invent a precision the city never claimed.
| Project | Amount | Location, as the city wrote it |
|---|---|---|
| Pavement Rehabilitation Program | $2,500,000 | Various Street Locations within the City |
| Annual Slurry Seal Program | $1,350,000 | Various Street Locations Within the City |
| SCADA System Replacement | $1,000,000 | All Water Facilities and Sewer Lift Station within the City |
| Coordinated Integrated Monitoring Plan (CIMP) | $263,000 | Various Locations |
| Miscellaneous Traffic Signal Improvements | $200,000 | Various Locations |
| ADA Sidewalk and Ramp Improvements | $200,000 | Various Locations |
| Annual Tree Removal and Replacement Program | $50,000 | Various Locations |
| Fire Station Maintenance Program | $25,000 | All Fire Stations |
| Citywide Art Preservation | $3,700 | Various Locations throughout the City of Arcadia |
8 projects we could not place
This is our shortfall, not the city's. These projects name a real place — a fire station, a water plant, a stretch of alley — that our matching could not pin down. They are listed here in full so that money is never quietly missing from the picture.
| Project | Amount | Location, as the city wrote it |
|---|---|---|
| Purchase and Install 800kw Generator at Live Oak Treatment Plant | $850,000 | Live Oak Water Treatment Facility |
| Fiber Network Extenson - Huntington Dr & Las Tunas Dr | $500,000 | Huntington Drive - 2nd Ave to 5th Ave & Las Tunas Dr - Baldwin Ave to El Monte Ave |
| Live Oak Avenue/Las Tunas Drive Corridor Traffic Signal Improvements | $500,000 | Las Tunas Drive Westerly City Limit to Live Oak Avenue Easterly City Limit |
| Fire Stations Facility Improvements | $450,000 | Fire Station 105, Fire Station 106, and Fire Station 107 |
| Well Inspection and Rehabilitation Program | $400,000 | Orange Grove Well 6 |
| Arterial Streets Miscellaneous Minor Repairs | $125,000 | S Baldwin Avenue near La Vida Lane |
| Veeder Root Project | $100,000 | Fire Station 105, Fire Station 107, Police Department, and PWSD Yard |
| Dana Gym Entrance Keypad | $10,000 | Dana Gym |