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Margaret McAustin Biography
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April 2007, Margaret McAustin was elected Pasadena City Council member for District 2, located in north-central Pasadena.
Ms. McAustin has been actively involved in civic activities for over 25 years. She served as Pasadena City Planning Commissioner from 1993-1997 and was appointed again to the Planning Commission in 2005 by Mayor Bill Bogaard. She served as a member of the City's l998 Charter Reform Task Force, was Co-Chair of the North Lake Specific Plan Coordinating Committee and a member of the Light Rail Station Design Review Committee.
Committed to community service, Margaret served as co-president of the Historic
Highlands Neighborhood Association and was a founding member of both the Victory
Rose and the Washington Square Neighborhood Associations. Margaret was a
Pasadena Library Commissioner, a volunteer (with Sasha and John) in the Pet
Assisted Therapy program at Huntington Memorial Hospital, a tutor in the
Pasadena Library's adult literacy program, and currently participates in their
program to bring books to homebound library patrons.
Ms. McAustin is employed as an asset manager with the Esteve Commodities Group,
managing their portfolio of commercial real estate in California, where she has
worked for over 20 years. Prior to her election, Margaret assembled and led a
community study group to advocate for neighborhood issues on the former
Ambassador West campus project. Reflecting the community's vision for both
preservation and smart growth, this project transformed a 20-acre resource into
a combination of market and senior housing, assisted-living residences, and
low-income multi-family units and included the preservation of the historic
mansions, apartment buildings, gardens and trees on the site as well as the
creation of a permanent open space with nearly four acres of grounds open to the
public.
Margaret holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from
California State University, Los Angeles.
Margaret McAustin fell in love with the city and its neighborhoods after moving
to Pasadena more than 30 years ago. She lives with her husband, John, and their
superdog, Wrigley, in the Historic Highlands neighborhood.
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