Cindy Segawa, Mayor
Barry Waite, Mayor Pro Tem
James Gazeley Councilmember
Bill Uphoff, Councilmember
Mark A. Waronek, Councilmember
LOMITA CITY HALL
COUNCIL CHAMBERS
24300 Narbonne Avenue
Lomita, CA 90717
Phone: (310) 325-7110
Fax: (310) 325-4024
Next Resolution No. 2026-6
Next Ordinance No. 883
AGENDA
REGULAR MEETING
LOMITA CITY COUNCIL
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2026
6:00 PM
Welcome to a meeting of the Lomita City Council. Council meetings are held on the first and third Tuesday of every month at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers located at Lomita City Hall, 24300 Narbonne, Avenue, Lomita, California. Meetings are conducted in person and streamed online at https://lomitacity.com/agendas-minutes/. Please note that in person attendance at this public meeting may result in the recording and broadcast of your image.
Comments, input, and interests from the public provide the City Council with valuable information regarding issues of the community. To address the Council, please fill out a speaker card indicating your desire to speak on either a specific agenda item or during oral communications.
Speaker cards are located at the entrance of the Council Chambers. Once completed, please give it to the City Clerk and your name will be called when it is your turn to speak. All public comments are limited to a maximum of three (3) minutes unless an extension is granted. No action may be taken on items not on the agenda except as provided by law.
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Notification at least forty-eight (48) hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements.
No meeting of the Lomita Public Financing Authority will be held on this date.
Lomita City Council Meeting Agenda February 3, 2026
1. OPENING CEREMONIES
a. Call Meeting to Order
b. Flag Salute
c. Invocation – Mayor Pro Tem Waite
d. Roll Call
2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
3. PRESENTATIONS
None scheduled.
4. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
Persons wishing to speak on Consent Agenda items or subjects other than those scheduled are requested to do so at this time. In order to conduct a timely meeting, a three (3) minute time limit per person has been established. Government Code Section 54954.2 prohibits the Council from discussing or taking action on a specific item unless it appears on a posted agenda.
5. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS AND MEETING ATTENDANCE REPORTS FROM THE CITY
COUNCIL
The City Council may discuss and act upon items described under Council comments; however, items which are not on the agenda will be limited to Council reports, announcements, requests for clarification or factual information, or placement of matters on the agenda for a future meeting.
6. CITY MANAGER'S REPORT (information only)
7. CONSENT AGENDA
All items under the Consent Agenda are considered by the Council to be routine and will be enacted by one motion in the form listed below. There may be separate discussions of these items prior to the time the Council votes on the motion. Specific items may be removed from the Consent Agenda at the request of any Councilmember or staff.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: That Consent Agenda Items 7a-7f be approved. a. Motion to Waive Full Reading of Ordinances and That They be Read in Title Only.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve motion.
b. Minutes of the Special City Council Meeting of January 13, 2026 RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve minutes.
Lomita City Council Meeting Agenda February 3, 2026
c. Warrants/Payroll Register
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve and file Warrants/Payroll Register. d. Resolution No. 2026-06 Adopting the Updated City of Lomita Local Hazard Mitigation Plan 2025 and Incorporating it into the Safety Element of the General Plan in Accordance with Assembly Bill 2140
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Adopt Resolution No. 2026-06 approving the updated City of Lomita Local Hazard Mitigation Plan 2025 and incorporating it into the Safety Element of the City’s General Plan in accordance with Assembly Bill 2140.
RESOLUTION NO. 2026-06 – A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF LOMITA, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE UPDATED CITY OF LOMITA LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN 2025, REPLACING THE PREVIOUSLY ADOPTED
LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN, AND INCORPORATING THE PLAN INTO THE
SAFETY ELEMENT OF THE GENERAL PLAN
e. Professional Services Agreement with Janet Slinkard Graphic Design for Design, Layout and Print Services
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve a Professional Services Agreement with Janet Slinkard Graphic Design to provide design, layout, and print services for the creation of the Lomita Quarterly Newsletter for a three-year term ending February 28, 2029, with the option to extend for two one-year terms for $28,180 for year one, $29,025 for year two, $29,896 for year three for a total the three year term not to exceed $87,101; and authorize the City Manager to execute the agreement.
f. Amendment No. 1 to Professional Services Agreement with Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates (FM3) to Conduct a Community Priority Survey RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve Amendment No. 1 to Agreement No. 2025-02 with Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz and Associates (FM3) adding an amount of $28,250, for a total amount not to exceed $61,500, to conduct a resident budget and priority survey; and, appropriate $28,250 to the City Manager’s Department from General Fund Available Balance.
8. SCHEDULED ITEMS
a. LOMITA SHERIFF’S STATION ANNUAL CRIME REPORT AND COMMUNITY
SAFETY DIVISION EFFORTS (NO STAFF REPORT)
Presented by Kimberly Guerrero, Lomita Sheriff’s Station Captain RECOMMENDED ACTION: Information only.
Lomita City Council Meeting Agenda February 3, 2026
b. REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE CITYWIDE PUBLIC
PARKING STUDY
Presented by Juan Ibarra, Sr. Management Analyst
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Review and discuss potential options and recommendations produced from the Citywide Public Parking Study. c. CONSTRUCTION SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH SIGNERGY FOR THE LOMITA
PARK MARQUEE SIGN REPLACEMENT PROJECT
Presented by Lina Hernandez, Assistant City Manager
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Award a Construction Services Agreement to Signergy for the manufacture and installation of the Lomita Park Marquee Sign in the amount of $69,595 plus $3,230 for removal of existing sign for a total of $72,825 with an additional contingency of $2,175 for a total construction budget not to exceed $75,000; appropriate $75,000 from the Park Equipment Replacement Fund and authorize the City Manager to execute the agreement.
9. PUBLIC HEARINGS
a. REQUEST TO CONTINUE TO THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING ON FEBRUARY 17, 2026 - TENTATIVE PARCEL MAP NO. 84865, SITE PLAN REVIEW NO. 1223, MODIFICATION NO. 2, AND HEIGHT VARIATION PERMIT NO. 119 Presented by Adrian Fernandez, Community and Economic Development Director RECOMMENDED ACTION: Staff recommends that the City Council continue the subject item to the February 17, 2026, City Council meeting due to improper public hearing noticing. Staff mailed and posted a public hearing notice with an omitted project address. A new public hearing notice with the project address will be mailed and posted in accordance with the public hearing requirements in advance of the new meeting date. b. ZONING TEXT AMENDMENT NO. 2025-02 – AN UPDATE TO THE LOMITA
MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS AND JUNIOR
ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS TO COMPLY WITH RECENT CHANGES IN STATE LAW
Presented by Adrian Fernandez, Community and Economic Development Director RECOMMENDED ACTION: Waive full reading and introduce for first reading by title only an ordinance entitled: “An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Lomita approving Zoning Text Amendment No. 2025-02, amending Section 11-1.30.06 of Lomita Municipal Code (LMC) Title XI (Planning and Zoning) Chapter 1 (Zoning) to comply with recent changes to State law that impose new limits on local authority to regulate Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) and Junior Accessory Dwelling Units (JADUs), and finding the action to be statutorily exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) under Public Resources Code Section 21080.17.”
Lomita City Council Meeting Agenda February 3, 2026
ORDINANCE NO. 883 – AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LOMITA AMENDING LOMITA MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 11-1.30.06 RELATING
TO ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS AND JUNIOR ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS
AND FINDING THE ACTION TO BE STATUTORILY EXEMPT FROM THE
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT UNDER PUBLIC RESOURCES CODE SECTION 21080.17
c. AMENDMENT TO THE LOMITA MUNICIPAL CODE GRANTING THE CITY
AUTHORITY TO INITIATE VEHICLE TOWS AND ESTABLISHING VEHICLE
REMOVAL, ABATEMENT, AND IMPOUND PROCEDURES
Presented by Lina Hernandez, Assistant City Manager
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Introduce an Ordinance amending the Lomita Municipal Code related to vehicle towing and abatement authority for first reading, waive further reading, and schedule the ordinance for second reading and adoption at a subsequent City Council meeting.
ORDINANCE NO. 884 – AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LOMITA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTIONS 8-1.05, 8-2.05, AND 8-5.02 OF TITLE 8 (VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC) OF THE LOMITA MUNICIPAL CODE AND ADDING CHAPTER 8-2.5 RELATED TO VEHICLE ABATEMENT AND TOWING AUTHORITY,
AND FINDING THE ACTION TO BE EXEMPT FROM THE CALIFORNIA
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT
10. ADJOURNMENT
The next regular City Council meeting will be held on February 17, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers located at 24300 Narbonne Avenue, Lomita, California.
Written materials distributed to the City Council within 72 hours of the City Council meeting are available for public inspection via the City’s website and copies are available for public inspection in the City Clerk’s Office, 24300 Narbonne Avenue, Lomita.
I hereby certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing agenda was posted not less than 72 hours prior to the meeting at the following locations: Lomita City Hall, Lomita Park, and uploaded to the City of Lomita website https://lomitacity.com/agendasminutes.
Date Posted: January 29, 2026
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Kathleen Horn Gregory, MMC, City Clerk