Where the capital money goes
Arcadia's Capital Improvement & Equipment Replacement Plan FY2025-2030 programmes $2,154,500 across 4 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.
2 projects with a location we could place
Shade — combined cost at the site
- under $380,000 (0 sites)
- $380,000 to $750,000 (0 sites)
- $750,000 to $2,120,000 (2 sites)
- $2,120,000 to $3,850,000 (0 sites)
- $3,850,000 and over (0 sites)
Darker is more. The bands are quantiles — chosen so each holds roughly the same number of sites — not equal steps of money, which is why each one prints its own range. They are computed over every site in the whole plan, so a site keeps its shade when you change the year or the funding source.
Shape — what is there
- The assessor's lot at that location
- A street, where the plan names one
- A dashed marker — nothing is mapped there
- A lot outside Arcadia — our matching error
Size is the size of the place and means nothing about money. A dashed marker circle is the same size at every site and says only "somewhere here". Every outline is where One Public Budget believes the project is, matched from the words the plan prints — not a location the city published. The lot itself is a county record; which lot is our guess.
A hollow, finely dashed lot is one we placed outside Arcadia. Every project in this plan is Arcadia's, so those are our matching errors — the figure and the city's words are right, the position is not. They are drawn rather than hidden. Being inside the city is not proof of correctness either: a project can be matched to the wrong lot two streets away and nothing here will catch it.
A site's figure is the sum of the projects that landed there, which is arithmetic by One Public Budget — the city publishes a figure per project, not per place. Hover any site for that sum and the projects behind it, or open the site for the full breakdown.
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 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Anita Avenue | $1,000,000 | 1 | band 3 of 5 ($750,000–$2,120,000) |
| Santa Anita Avenue | $1,000,000 | 1 | band 3 of 5 ($750,000–$2,120,000) |
| Total across these sites | $2,000,000 | 2 |
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 2 projects, as a table. Sorted by amount.
| Project | Amount | Location, as the city wrote it | How we placed it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sewer Main Replacement Program | $1,000,000 | 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 |
| Sewer Main Replacement Program | $1,000,000 | Santa Anita Avenue between Huntington Drive and El Dorado Street | high confidence matched Santa Anita Avenue between its two named cross streets in the Census street network |
1 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous Sewer Main Repair | $150,000 | Various Locations |
1 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Public Works Facility Improvements | $4,500 | Public Works Service Center |