BLUE FOLDER ITEM
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CITY COUNCIL MEETING
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
J.1 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS
PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS
From: Mark Nelson (Home Gmail)
To: CityClerk
Cc: PRR; Paul Novak; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; CityClerk; Martinez, Oscar; Kevin Cody; Lisa Jacobs
Subject: PUBLIC COMMENT and City of Redondo Public Records Act Request Date: Saturday, February 12, 2022 8:01:39 PM
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Public Comment to Electeds and Agencies:
PRA Request to Redondo Beach:
BCHD is advertising that it has filed documents at the City. Provide the documents referenced below: The same PRA was provided to BCHD previously. Two taxpayer funded agencies should not be withholding information from their constituents. Furthermore, the CPRA does not REQUIRE any withholding. BCHD has provided NO UPDATED MASTER PLAN since 2021 to the taxpayers and public. We are completely in the dark as secret negotiations continue.
This is no different than the outrage in Hermosa over the Starbucks at 2nd and PCH or the excessive height 80 unit building in El Porto. Both occurred behind closed doors and the public was brought in at the 11th hour when it would be denied due process.
BCHD and the City previously engaged in secret negotiations in 2018 and 2019, which culminated in an inaccurate letter from BCHD counsel to the City in February 2019. BCHD withheld the document until July of 2020, following its June 2020 Board approval of the plant.
Following BCHDs release of the errant letter, BCHD responded in a August 2020 that it has no studies of operating damages, past or future, from the operation of the campus in a residential area. Clearly, BCHD misrepresented its benefits to the City Attorney, when in fact BCHD had no analysis of damages with which to determine whether or not where were ANY net benefits to Redondo Beach residents, as claimed by BCHD.
The only reason that BCHDs disinformation went unchallenged, was due to the City and BCHD choosing to hide it from the public for nearly 18 months.
That cannot be allowed to happen again, and per BCHDs web page, it IS happening at this time.
Mark Nelson
3+ Year BCHD Volunteer
Redondo Beach
Beach Cities Health District’s Conditional Use Permit
(CUP) pre-application that was submitted to the
City of Redondo Beach regarding its Healthy Living
Campus master plan.
From: Stop BCHD
To: CityClerk; [email protected]; Brandy Forbes; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Bill Brand; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; Kevin Cody; Lisa Jacobs
Subject: PUBLIC COMMENT:BCHD site commercial development and process concerns Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 2:50:13 PM
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Comments on BCHD Commercial Development 2-14-22.pdf
4up BCHD 1200 person petition-compressed.pdf
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PUBLIC COMMENTS FROM MULTIPLE RESIDENTS (LISTED AT BOTTOM) The following is a written public comment to all addressed parties regarding BCHDs attempted permitting for 3rd party developer actions on the 514 N Prospect site. BCHD has indicated that it does not have the financial capacity to develop the site, and that it plans to lease the site to a 3rd party for commercial development. BCHD further indicates that it refuses to allow voters the opportunity to approve a bond measure since BCHD expects voters will not approve its project and financing. As such, BCHD plan is to exclude low cost public bond funding as was used for the South Bay Hospital.
These comments address correcting the current lack of taxpayer transparency in the BCHD permitting process with the City. These comments also address specific development themes and the legacy disclosure issues of BCHD interactions with the City and taxpayers.
BCHDs damages will extend into the surrounding neighborhoods of Torrance, Hermosa Beach, and Redondo Beach.
KEY PUBLIC COMMENT THEMES
1. TAXPAYERS OPPOSE BCHD PROJECT AND WANT TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES AND PROCESSES INSTEAD OF THE CURRENT SECRET DISCUSSIONS
2. TAXPAYERS MUST BE UPDATED ON BCHD PLANS IMMEDIATELY
3. DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN BCHD AND THE CITY MUST BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
4. ALL DOCUMENTS TRADED BETWEEN BCHD AND THE CITY MUST BE PUBLISHED
5. BCHD MUST NOW PROVE ITS CLAIMS IN THE WITHHELD FEBRUARY 2019 MEMO
6. INSIDER RELATIONSHIPS WITH BCHD MUST BE HALTED IMMEDIATELY
7. INTERLOCKING RELATIONSHIPS WITH BCHD MUST BE HALTED IMMEDIATELY
8. A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF SURROUNDING RESIDENTS OPPOSE BCHD PLAN
9. BCHD MISSTATES ITS ACTIONS WITH REGARD TO PUBLIC COMMENTS
10. BCHD MISSTATES THE HEIGHT OF THE CURRENT CAMPUS
11. BCHD SITE PERIMETER CONSTRUCTION PLAN FAILS TO “RESPECT THE NATURAL TERRAIN OF THE SITE” AS REQUIRED IN RBMC DESIGN REVIEW
12. BCHD HAS BEEN FULLY AWARE OF ITS DAMAGES TO THE LOCAL NEIGHBORHOODS FROM PERIMETER CONSTRUCTION SINCE 2017
13. BCHD MUST MITIGATE ITS PROPOSED 85 dB NOISE WITH SHORTER HEIGHT CONSTRUCTION AND BETTER SOUND WALLS TO 70 dB TO PROTECT HEALTH
14. BCHD MUST SELECT A COMPATIBLE DESIGN FOR SURROUNDING
NEIGHBORHOODS PER RBMC
15. BCHD, LIKE THE KENSINGTON, MUST BE COMPATIBLE WITH SURROUNDING
NEIGHBORHOODS PER RMBC
16. SURROUNDING HOMEOWNERS HAVE SUBSTANTIAL PROPERTY VALUE RISK
THAT MUST BE PROTECTED PER RBMC DESIGN REVIEW
17. BCHD MUST BE IN HARMONY WITH SCALE AND BULK OF SURROUNDING
PROPERTIES PER RBMC ON DESIGN REVIEW AND BERYL HEIGHTS GUIDELINES
SUBMITTED BY:
Ann Cheung
Barbara Epstein
Candace Nafissi
Christine Ferrero
Darryl Boyd
Geoff Gilbert
Hamant and Robin Patel
Janet Smolke
Joyce Field
Joyce Stauffer
Linda Zelik
Lisa Falk
Lisa Youngworth
Marcia Gehrt
Marcie Guillermo
Mark Donna Miodovski
Melanie Cohen
Melissa White
Mike Woolsey
Pat Wickens
Ruby Sonadres
Steve Saber
Tim Ozenne
Tom McGarry
Warren Croft
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STOP BCHD ([email protected]) is a neighborhood organization of residents concerned about the economic and quality-of-life damages that BCHDs 100-foot tall, 800,000 sqft commercial development will inflict for the next 50-100 years.
From: Barbara Epstein
To: CityClerk; Bill Brand; Todd Loewenstein; Nils Nehrenheim; Zein Obagi; Christian Horvath; [email protected]; Laura Emdee; Mike Witzansky; Cameron Harding Subject: J-1 public Participation on Non-Agenda Items. Skate Park, Carousel Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 3:07:52 PM
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Dear City Leaders
As I was watching the Harbor Commission last night I heard a lot of concern about noise at the future Hexagon Skate Park.
Could we take it inside to the empty Fun Factory and put my carousel in the hexagon? Or put my carousel inside the future beautifully remodeled Fun Factory, and put a plexiglass wall landward at the Skate Park?
I grew up on hanging out at the Santa Monica Pier and have this thing about us having an antique carousel, too.
Barbara Epstein
[email protected]
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