Where the capital money goes
Arcadia's Capital Improvement & Equipment Replacement Plan FY2025-2030 programmes $13,862,400 across 42 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.
13 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 8 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) |
| Arcadia Public Library | $510,000 | 3 | band 2 of 5 ($380,000–$750,000) |
| Volante Drive | $400,000 | 1 | band 2 of 5 ($380,000–$750,000) |
| Arboretum Library; Arcadia Community Center | $215,000 | 2 | band 1 of 5 (under $380,000) |
| Arboretum Library; Arcadia Community Center | $180,000 | 1 | band 1 of 5 (under $380,000) |
| Arcadia City Hall | $120,000 | 4 | band 1 of 5 (under $380,000) |
| Arcadia Par 3 Golf Course | $20,000 | 1 | band 1 of 5 (under $380,000) |
| Total across these sites | $3,445,000 | 13 |
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 13 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 |
| City Parking Lot Rehabilitation Program | $450,000 | Arcadia Public Library | high confidence matched to Arcadia Public Library in OpenStreetMap |
| Water Main Replacement Program | $400,000 | Volante Drive between Altura Road and Monte Vista Road | high confidence matched Volante Drive between its two named cross streets in the Census street network |
| Annual Replacement of HVAC Rooftop Units | $180,000 | Library, Public Works Service Center, and Community Center | medium confidence the form names several sites; 2 of 3 were matched in OpenStreetMap (Arboretum Library, Arcadia Community Center) |
| Community Center Facility Improvements | $35,000 | Community Center | high confidence matched to Arcadia Community Center in OpenStreetMap |
| Library Facility Improvements | $30,000 | Arcadia Public Library | high confidence matched to Arcadia Public Library in OpenStreetMap |
| Police Department Facility Improvements | $30,000 | Police Department | high confidence matched to Arcadia Police Department in OpenStreetMap |
| City Hall Facility Improvements | $30,000 | City Hall | high confidence matched to Arcadia City Hall in OpenStreetMap |
| Library Facility Improvements | $30,000 | Arcadia Public Library | high confidence matched to Arcadia Public Library in OpenStreetMap |
| Police Department Facility Improvements | $30,000 | Police Department | high confidence matched to Arcadia Police Department in OpenStreetMap |
| City Hall Facility Improvements | $30,000 | City Hall | high confidence matched to Arcadia City Hall in OpenStreetMap |
| Par 3 Facility Maintenance | $20,000 | Par 3 Golf Course | high confidence matched to Arcadia Par 3 Golf Course in OpenStreetMap |
19 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 | $2,050,000 | Various Street Locations within the City |
| Pavement Rehabilitation Program | $2,050,000 | Various Street Locations within the City |
| Annual Slurry Seal Program | $1,400,000 | Various Street Locations Within the City |
| Annual Slurry Seal Program | $1,400,000 | Various Street Locations Within the City |
| Coordinated Integrated Monitoring Plan (CIMP) | $262,200 | Various Locations |
| Coordinated Integrated Monitoring Plan (CIMP) | $262,200 | Various Locations |
| Arcadia Wash Bridge Guard Railing Improvement Program | $200,000 | Various Locations |
| Miscellaneous Traffic Signal Improvements | $150,000 | Various Locations |
| Valve Replacement Program | $150,000 | Various Locations |
| Miscellaneous Sewer Main Repair | $150,000 | Various Locations |
| Miscellaneous Traffic Signal Improvements | $150,000 | Various Locations |
| Annual Tree Removal and Replacement Program | $50,000 | Various Locations |
| Annual Tree Removal and Replacement Program | $50,000 | Various Locations |
| ADA Sidewalk and Ramp Improvements | $40,000 | Various Locations |
| ADA Sidewalk and Ramp Improvements | $40,000 | Various Locations |
| Fire Station Maintenance Program | $25,000 | All Fire Stations |
| Fire Station Maintenance Program | $25,000 | All Fire Stations |
| Citywide Art Preservation | $4,000 | Various Locations throughout the City of Arcadia |
| Citywide Art Preservation | $4,000 | Various Locations throughout the City of Arcadia |
10 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Well Inspection and Rehabilitation Program | $350,000 | Orange Grove Well 6 |
| Well Inspection and Rehabilitation Program | $350,000 | Camino Real Well 3 |
| Green Alley Improvement Project | $300,000 | Alley 1100' West of Santa Anita Ave from Magna Vista Ave to Naomi Ave. |
| Fire Stations Facility Improvements | $30,000 | Fire Station 105, Fire Station 106, and Fire Station 107 |
| Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage Facility Improvements | $30,000 | Gild Museum of Arcadia |
| Fire Stations Facility Improvements | $30,000 | Fire Station 105, Fire Station 106, and Fire Station 107 |
| Museum Education Center Facility Improvements | $30,000 | Museum Education Center |
| Public Works Facility Improvements | $15,000 | Public Works Service Center |