Nunez runs for Council 2012?

Local developer Henry Nunez is starting to spread the word that he is planning to run for Arcadia City Council — the election is April 2012.

He is expected to join at least three other candidates for two seats, including incumbent, Mayor Gary Kovacic, former Mayor John Wuo, and Sho Tay, who was a candidate two years ago when six candidates ran for three seats.

Nunez caused a stir during the last City Council campaign with his stunts such as a hunger strike and laying on railroad tracks to challenge incumbent candidates to make more changes and progress in Arcadia. But he decided just before the deadline not to file to run his own campaign. Nunez was on the recent General Plan Action Committee of volunteers tasked to lay out a growth strategy for Arcadia for the next 25 years and became disgruntled during the process when the City Council did not endorse all the initial mixed-use residential/retail building options the GPAC recommended. He returned to express some of that frustration last November when the Council unanimously approved the final proposal.

— By Scott Hettrick