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CITY COUNCIL MEETING
APRIL 19, 2022
J.1 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS
PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS
From: William Gibbs
To: CityClerk
Subject: FW: PLEASE FORWARD TO THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL - PUBLIC COMMENT Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 5:32:17 PM
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Subject: PLEASE FORWARD TO THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL - PUBLIC COMMENT Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers of the City of Redondo Beach:
I am communicating several concerns about the BCHD proposed project in advance of BCHDs formal permit filing with the City. Along with neighbors, I am very concerned about the negative impacts of BCHDs proposal to nearly triple the size of the campus buildings and build on the edges of the site at 110-feet above Beryl and Flagler streets.
TRANSPARENT PERMIT PROCESSING
I am requesting that you direct the Planning Commission and Planning Staff to make the BCHD permitting process 100% transparent to the public. Two taxpayer funded government agencies should not hide behind any disclosure exclusions in the California Public Records Act. Instead, agencies should be completely transparent and publish each and every document on the internet for public access within 3 days of sending or receipt. Because one agency is the project developer, I request that the City make all documents public.
NEIGHBORHOOD PROTECTION
Along with many other surrounding neighbors of BCHD, I want to be certain that BCHD is held to the Conditional Use Permit (CUP), Planning Commission Design Review (PCDR), and Residential Design Guidelines (RDG) criteria. I am also concerned that Torrance residents be protected by BCHDs compliance to the intent of the Hillside Overlay Development Standards (HODS). The HODS protect the privacy and other residential conditions of the many Torrance residents surrounding the project.
PROPERTY VALUE PROTECTION
One explicit purpose of the PCDR is to protect property values. Within a one-half mile radius of the project, there is over $2.6B in single family property value and an additional $1.1B in multi-family value. Even small property value damages will translate to large reductions in the value of most families’ largest single asset, their home.
CONCERNS WITH THE CURRENT PROPOSAL
Many of us have been providing comments to the Planning Commission based on BCHDs pre-CUP filing. In general, we are concerned about the 110-foot above the street height and its destruction of local privacy; the construction of the senior living, parking ramp, and pavilion building on the edges of the elevated site without respect for the natural terrain; the inconsistency and incompatibility of the buildings and design with the surrounding neighborhoods; the non-conformity with RDGs of the nearly 800,000 sqft final size that will be larger than all Beryl Heights homes taken together; and the non-compliance with the intent of the Torrance HODS caused by the development’s height, outward facing windows and balconies, position on the edge of campus, and the 8-10 story, 24-hour operation parking structure.
Along with others, I will continue to participate in the BCHD permitting process, however, we all rely upon the City to be transparent and provide us with full information in real-time in order to have intelligent participation and protect our neighborhoods.
Thank you.
William H. Gibbs lll
Redondo Beach, 90377
From: Nancy Orchard
To: CityClerk; [email protected]
Subject: PUBLIC COMMENT TO THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL
Date: Friday, April 15, 2022 10:33:50 AM
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From: Nancy Orchard
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers of the City of Redondo Beach:
I am communicating several concerns about the BCHD proposed project in advance of BCHDs formal permit filing with the City. Along with neighbors, I am very concerned about the negative impacts of BCHDs proposal to nearly triple the size of the campus buildings and build on the edges of the site at 110-feet above Beryl and Flagler streets.
TRANSPARENT PERMIT PROCESSING
I am requesting that you direct the Planning Commission and Planning Staff to make the BCHD permitting process 100% transparent to the public. Two taxpayer funded government agencies should not hide behind any disclosure exclusions in the California Public Records Act. Instead, agencies should be completely transparent and publish each and every document on the internet for public access within 3 days of sending or receipt. Because one agency is the project developer, I request that the City make all documents public.
NEIGHBORHOOD PROTECTION
Along with many other surrounding neighbors of BCHD, I want to be certain that BCHD is held to the Conditional Use Permit (CUP), Planning Commission Design Review (PCDR), and Residential Design Guidelines (RDG) criteria. I am also concerned that Torrance residents be protected by BCHDs compliance to the intent of the Hillside Overlay Development Standards (HODS). The HODS protect the privacy and other residential conditions of the many Torrance residents surrounding the project.
PROPERTY VALUE PROTECTION
One explicit purpose of the PCDR is to protect property values. Within a one-half mile radius of the project, there is over $2.6B in single family property value and an additional $1.1B in multi-family value. Even small property value damages will translate to large reductions in the value of most families’ largest single asset, their home.
CONCERNS WITH THE CURRENT PROPOSAL
Many of us have been providing comments to the Planning Commission based on BCHDs preCUP filing. In general, we are concerned about the 110-foot above the street height and its destruction of local privacy; the construction of the senior living, parking ramp, and pavilion building on the edges of the elevated site without respect for the natural terrain; the inconsistency and incompatibility of the buildings and design with the surrounding neighborhoods; the non-conformity with RDGs of the nearly 800,000 sqft final size that will be larger than all Beryl Heights homes taken together; and the non-compliance with the intent of the Torrance HODS caused by the development’s height, outward facing windows and balconies, position on the edge of campus, and the 8-10 story, 24-hour operation parking structure.
Along with others, I will continue to participate in the BCHD permitting process, however, we all rely upon the City to be transparent and provide us with full information in real-time in order to have intelligent participation and protect our neighborhoods.
Thank you.