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CITY OF LAGUNA HILLS
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DATE:
TO:
FROM:
May 9, 2023
City Council
City Staff
Jennifer Lee, City Clerk
SUBJECT: Regular Meeting Agenda Item No. 1.4 – Presentation of Proclamation for "Drowning Prevention Awareness"
Please see the attached supplemental materials for Agenda Item No. 1.4
1. 2023 OC Drowning Prevention Coalition Presentation - Data Orange County Drowning Statistics - 2022 Not Final
53 37
43 52
41 43 46 43
38 46 44
40 38
44 70 70
58 61
70 59 57
67 93
75 87
122
111
101
107
113
97 103
111
0 20
40 60
80 100
120
140
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Orange County Drowning Statistics 2012-2022*
*2022 Data Not Final
Fatal Incidents Non-Fatal Incidents Total Incidents
7 6
3 5
4 5 5
3 3 3
6 19
18 28
36 26
34 31
30 24
32 29
26 24
31 41
30 39
36 33
27 35 35
0 5
10 15
20 25
30 35
40 45
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Incidents Involving Children Under Age 5*
*2022 Data Not Final
Fatal Incidents Non-Fatal Incidents Total Incidents
27 19
20 22
20 22
29 23
18 24
21 3
4 4
8 5
8 9
10 8
6 5
30 23
24 30
25 30
38 33
26 30
26 0
5 10
15 20
25 30
35 40
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Incidents Involving Adults 50 & Older*
*2022 Data Not Final
Fatal Incidents Non-Fatal Incidents Total Incidents
2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Backyard Pools/Spas 29 27 28 30 31
Community Pools/Spas 41 30 19 35 36
Ocean/Bay 25 37 38 20 31
Lake/Lagoon/Pond 0 1 1 2 1
River/Channel/Canal 0 3 1 2 1
Bucket/Fountain/Puddle 1 3 0 0 0
Bathtub 11 12 10 14 11
Other 0 0 0 0 0
Unknown 0 0 0 0 0
0 5
10 15
20 25
30 35
40 45
Water Source Breakdown 2018-2022*
*2022 Data Not Final
Drowning Incidents by City 2022*
*2022 Data Not Final
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CITY OF LAGUNA HILLS
Supplemental Agenda Material Memo
Supplemental Agenda Materials related to an item on a City Council Agenda, submitted to the City Council after distribution of the agenda packet, will be available for public inspection at the same time the materials are distributed to the City Council. Supplemental Agenda Materials are available for inspection during normal business hours in the City Clerk’s office located at 24035 El Toro Road, Laguna Hills, California. In addition, such materials will be made available for public review at the same time the materials are distributed to the City Council on the City’s website at: https://www.lagunahillsca.gov/supplementalagenda and at the respective public meeting.
DATE: May 8, 2023
TO: City Council
City Staff
FROM: Jennifer Lee, City Clerk
SUBJECT: Regular Meeting Agenda Item No. 8.1.1. – Condemning the Action of the Government of Iran
Please see the attached supplemental materials for Agenda Item No. 8.1.1
1. City of Irvine Resolution No. 22-95, approved on November 15, 2022
2. City of Rancho Santa Margarita Letter of Support, dated January 31, 2023
3. Poll of action taken by other OC cities
CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION NO. 22-95
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, DECLARING SUPPORT OF THE
IRANIAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND CONDEMNING
THE VIOLENCE PERPETRATED BY THE GOVERNMENT
OF IRAN AGAINST ITS PEOPLE
WHEREAS, on September 28th United States Representative Young Kim (CA-39) introduced House Resolution 1397, cosponsored by Representative Katie Porter (CA45), condemning the Government of Iran's murder of Mahsa Zhina Amini and its crackdown on protesters seeking basic human rights, and supporting the protesters in their demands for freedom; and
WHEREAS, the circumstances surrounding the September 16th death of Mahsa Amini are inexcusable, as she was arrested and taken into custody by Iran's Guidance Patrol, i.e., morality police, for allegedly not properly wearing her state-mandated hijab; and
WHEREAS, the tragic death of Mahsa Zhina Amini has inspired numerous and ongoing protests throughout Iran resulting in thousands of arrests to extinguish the voices of journalists, media figures, and members of the public who seek to amplify Iranian's desire for personal freedoms, which the government of Iran has now blamed on the United States; and
WHEREAS, over the last 43 years, the Government of Iran has committed numerous acts of violence and human rights violations against its own people, particularly against women and students; and
WHEREAS, since Mahsa Zhina Amini's death alone, the government of Iran has been responsible for: the killing of more than 250 civilians, mostly children, young adults, and ethnic minorities from Kurdistan and Baluchistan; the gassing of those protesting for women, life, and freedom; the brutal crackdown of university students' protests including at Sharif University of Technology; the threatening of sexual violence as a means of silencing opposition; and the burning of Evin Prison that holds political prisoners, intellectuals, reporters, and journalists; and
WHEREAS, the government of Iran has restricted the people's access to internet, phone, and other forms of communication.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Irvine DOES HEREBY RESOLVE as follows:
1 CC RESOLUTION NO. 22-95
SECTION 1. The City Council hereby finds and declares:
A. That the City of Irvine stands with its Iranian-American community members, particularly Iranian-American women, as their relatives and associates are suffering through the current human rights injustices in Iran.
B. That the City of Irvine supports the passage of House Resolution 1397 to condemn the Government of Iran.
C. That the City of Irvine advocates for a special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council regarding the atrocities being committed in Iran.
D. That the City of Irvine puts pressure on United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls to create a report on the crisis in Iran.
E. That the City of Irvine urges the United Nations Member States to heed the call of Iranian women and remove the Islamic Republic of Iran from the U.N.
Commission on the Status of women.
F. That the City of Irvine calls upon the United States government to provide all possible infrastructure supporting free internet access for the people in Iran.
G. That the City of Irvine condemns the violent acts that are being perpetrated against the Iranian people.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Irvine at an adjourned regular meeting held on the 22nd day of November 2022.
Or nE CIT OF IRVINE
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF IRVINE
2 CC RESOLUTION NO. 22-95
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF IRVINE )
I, CARL PETERSEN, City Clerk of the City of Irvine, HEREBY DO CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was duly adopted at an adjourned regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Irvine, held on the 22nd day of November 2022.
AYES: 4 COUNCILMEMBERS: Agran, Kim, Kuo and Khan
NOES: 0 COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSENT: 1 COUNCILMEMBERS: Carroll
ABSTAIN: 0 COUNCILMEMBERS: None
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF IRVINE
3 CC RESOLUTION NO. 22-95
City Taken Action? Date Action
Aliso Viejo Yes 3/1/2023 Resolution
Anaheim Yes 2/7/2023 Resolution
Costa Mesa Yes 11/15/2022 Resolution
Irvine Yes 11/10/2022 Resolution
Laguna Beach Yes 1/10/2023 Resolution
Laguna Niguel Yes 12/20/2022 Proclamation
Lake Forest Yes 1/3/2023 Resolution
Mission Viejo Yes 10/25/2022 Proclamation
Newport Beach Yes 1/10/2023 Resolution
Orange Yes 12/13/2022 Resolution
Rancho Santa Margarita Yes 1/31/2023 Letter of Support
Seal Beach Yes 3/13/2023 Resolution
Stanton Yes 3/28/2023 Proclamation
Tustin Yes 12/6/2023 Proclamation
Westminster Yes 3/22/2023 Resolution
Yorba Linda Yes 2/7/2023 Resolution
Buena Park Preparing TBD Proclamation
Brea No
Cypress No
Dana Point No
Fountain Valley No
Fullerton No
Garden Grove No
Huntington Beach No
La Habra No
La Palma No
Laguna Woods No
Los Alamitos No
Placentia No
San Clemente No
San Juan Capistrano No
Santa Ana No
Villa Park No
1 Subject: FW: Ronald Distor, Item 7.2.1
From: Ronald Distor <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 4:51 PM
To: Public Comments
Subject: Ronald Distor, Item 7.2.1
Hello, my name is Ronald Distor. I'm a resident at Nellie Gail in Laguna Hills. I'm fairly new to biking, but I've learned that many people in the United States see bicycling as a recreational activity or for sport. I don't see bicycling as that, but a mode of transportation.
I understand the concern of biking on the sidewalks, but that's a side effect of bicyclists not feeling safe riding on the street next to cars. I hope the city will consider building more safe bicycle infrastructure. A painted bicycle lane does not provide protection from distracted drivers.
The future will see less gas vehicles and more electric vehicles, and that includes e‐bikes. They are not going away, so there should be infrastructure to accommodate those vehicles.
The following link is a brochure on how to quickly build safe bicycle infrastructure. https://www.calbike.org/wp‐content/uploads/2020/10/Quick‐Build_Brochure_CalBike.pdf Thank you for your consideration,
~Ronald Distor, Laguna Hills
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Public Comments
May 9, 2023
Item No. 7.2.1
Delivering Safer Streets
in Weeks or Months,
Instead of Years
How to Meet Public Demand for Safe
Bikeway Networks—Affordably, Quickly,
and Inclusively
WHY QUICK-BUILD? WHY NOW?
Biking is up in many communities in California,
including those that started with low rates of
bicycling, as people seek out healthy and safe
transportation and recreation. Californians are
discovering they can be healthier and happier simply
by getting out on two wheels.
Meanwhile, agency budgets are down. Plans to
spend millions on infrastructure may no longer
be realistic. More than ever, the public demands
that transportation projects are equitable and
responsive to the needs of neglected communities.
Quick-build is a method of building bike and
pedestrian safety improvements—protected bike
lanes, pedestrian crossings, slow streets, parklets,
and more—now, within your budget. In challenging
times, quick-build projects are crucial to building
trust in the government’s ability to deliver public
benefit. And quick-build infrastructure can engage
the public better than ever, and be more inclusive
and equitable than traditional infrastructure.
QUICK-BUILD BIKEWAY NETWORKS
FOR SAFER STREETS
“ We as transportation experts need
to be thinking strategically about
whether or not we need to spend
three years talking about doing
something important, or three
weeks to just try something.”
― Warren Logan
Transportation Policy Director of
Mobility and Interagency Relations at
Oakland Mayor’s Office
CASE STUDY
Adeline Street in Berkeley got protected bike lanes 20
years ahead of schedule, when Bike East Bay worked
closely with the city to incorporate planned lanes
into the repaving schedule, saving time and money
by simply adding bike infrastructure to an existing
project, one funded through a local infrastructure
bond measure. The City of Berkeley garnered
extensive public input on the Adeline Corridor,
making this a great example of quick-build speeding
up existing bike infrastructure planning, bringing bike lanes to Berkeley in 2019 instead of 2039.
Photo credit: Alta Planning + Design
WHAT IS QUICK-BUILD?
The Basics
• Quick-build projects use materials that can be
installed quickly and at low cost. Build projects
from posts, planters, and stripes of paint, not new
pavement or curb alignments.
• Quick-build projects are installed on a trial
basis. Temporary installations allow for adjusting
or removing elements in response to public
feedback. Successful projects may become
permanent, exactly as installed, or upgraded with
more durable materials.
• Quick-build should incorporate rigorous
community engagement. A project on the
ground can serve much more effectively than a
PowerPoint or rendering for trying something out
and allowing community residents to respond.
Gather feedback and input, and change designs
accordingly.
Materials
From paint, traffic cones, and A-boards to concrete
curb barriers, planters, and temporary raised
crosswalks, a wide variety of materials work well for
creating quick-build projects. The full Quick-Build
Toolkit provides thorough, detailed descriptions
of materials that can make for an effective and
inexpensive project to meet your community's needs.
CASE STUDY
In August of 2020, the City of San Luis Obispo
converted one of the three motor vehicle lanes of
downtown Higuera Street into a buffered bike lane,
as part of Open SLO, the city's pilot program to
expand the use of public spaces (with parklets and
bike/ped spaces) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The project was installed with paint, took less than
a week to install, and cost a mere $15K instead of
the more than $150K it would have taken to put in
a traditional bike lane by sealing and restriping the
whole street as the city would normally do.
Photo credit: Bike SLO County
Photo credits, top to bottom: Alta Planning + Design; Real Hartford; Alta Planning + Design; Street Plans Collaborative
WHO?
Your Quick-Build Project Team
Team leader. Quick-build projects
need a “chief” (usually city staff) tasked
with project facilitation, keeping the
momentum going, establishing lines
of communication, and accepting and
evaluating feedback.
Community leaders. Because
evaluation and adjustment are essential
for successful quick builds, make sure
community leaders are on board from
the beginning. Look to businesses,
residential associations, places of worship,
and nearby schools. Bring in bike/ped
advocacy organizations and other CBOs,
including those based in disadvantaged
communities and led by people of color.
Department liaisons. Your project
may impact transit, street sweeping,
parking enforcement, maintenance,
waste management and recycling, and
emergency response. Involve other
agencies as necessary to ensure you don’t
forget a critical aspect.
Elected Officials. They have the power to
marshal funding for quick-build projects.
They will hear from constituents, so
communication channels between the
project team and electeds must be open
for effective project evaluation.
Communications. Ideally, include a
dedicated communications person
on your team. Because this is a new
method, and people are used to years
of discussion, publicize quick-build's
temporary nature. Talk about the project's
intended benefits, and listen to feedback
about the actual impacts.
Community Engagement
Community engagement is essential and also very
effective, because it's easy to engage people in
providing feedback on real-world solutions that they
can see and use. Here are the keys:
• Start engaging with the community before you
install the project so that residents' opinions are
included from the get-go.
• Be inclusive in your outreach, including
perspectives from disadvantaged communities
and people of color.
• Emphasize the project’s temporary nature, and
the ability to change the project after it’s installed. • Implement effective feedback mechanisms during
the project, making sure to plan and budget for
project adjustments in response to input.
CASE STUDY
The El Cajon Boulevard Business Improvement
Association ("The Boulevard") got city
councilmembers and the mayor on board to fund
a pilot bus and bike lane along a 3-mile stretch
of San Diego's El Cajon Boulevard. The Boulevard
staff brought in diverse stakeholders and built
on longstanding relationships to push the city to
dedicate a lane for El Cajon Boulevard's new bus
rapid transit line, and got bikes included on this
Vision Zero corridor. The entire three-mile project,
which launched in January 2020, cost $100K, funded
by San Diego's general fund.
Photo credit: Holly Raines
WHERE?
Which Projects are Best for
Quick-Build?
Some projects are better than others for the quickbuild method. • Look to existing plans. Your community’s current
active transportation plan already identifies key
improvements and priorities. Most such plans
will take decades to complete with traditional
methods and funding. Quick-build can take those
plans to reality much sooner.
• Fill gaps in the bikeway network, especially
now when more people are bicycling. Look
to improve intersections that are dangerous to
navigate, short sections of crosstown routes
that use busy streets, or long sections of streets
that could become “slow streets” to connect
neighborhoods.
• Put disadvantaged communities first. If your
plan doesn’t already incorporate an equity
analysis to set priorities, this is your chance. Look
at a model plan like Oakland's "Let's Bike Oakland"
bicycle plan which incorporates a framework of
equity and a focus on improving well-being for the
city's most vulnerable groups.
If a project is funded and on schedule to be built
within a year or two, turn your attention to projects
that will take years without quick build. Projects that require expensive modifications—new traffic signals,
bridges, reconfigured curbs—are not good quickbuild candidates.
Funding for Quick-Build
POTENTIAL FUNDING SOURCES IN CALIFORNIA
Available funding for quick-build projects varies a lot from one municipality to the next. But here are a few
ideas.
• Public works departments' essential repaving and
repair projects are great opportunities to put in
quick-build projects at low cost.
• Local and regional funds such as general fund,
sales tax revenue, and Air Quality Management
District funds can be used for quick-build projects.
• Tack on costs to another publicly-funded
transportation project, or even a private project.
For example, a development project that is
required to repave and stripe new bike lanes
might install a protected bike lane using quickbuild materials instead. • In 2020, the Active Transportation Program
piloted a special quick-turnaround funding pot
for quick-build projects, with an earlier (summer)
deadline. Keep an eye on the ATP to see if they
continue to offer this funding in future years.
CalBike will be pushing them to do so.
• PeopleForBikes has a small grant program for
infrastructure projects.
• AARP's Community Challenge grant could fund
a quick-build project.
Photo credit: Alta Planning + Design
This resource was prepared in partnership
with Alta Planning + Design. For more
information see our complete
Quick-Build Guide.