From: Mark L Hansen
To: CityClerk; Eleanor Manzano
Subject: D.5 Aviation Park & D.2 Pickleball Courts
Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2022 3:37:53 PM
Attachments: 041122 HC Ocean Encounter.pdf
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To City Council
Subject: D.5 Aviation Park and D.2 Pickleball Courts
At the last meeting of the Harbor Commission, they received a presentation from Thomas Grimm, of the 'Carlsbad Aquafarm', proposing a very impressive "Ocean Encounter" Educational Facility at the Joe's site. It is attached.
The Harbor Commission voted unanimously to recommend the preservation of the Joe's site for an Educational Facility, potentially to include our local "Waterfront Education" program and our local 'White Sea Bass' program.
This interrelates with the two agenda items tonight regarding a potential Aquatic Center/50-meter pool at Aviation Park (D.5), and potential Pickle Ball Courts at Aviation Park (D.2.) During the Harbor Amenities Plan process, the consultants have recently provided three conceptual drawings
for the Seaside Lagoon. Two of those included a lap pool and one actually extended the Lagoon's footprint
to the north to encompass the Joe's site.
Many harbor enthusiasts have made the fairly obvious observations that:
1) A lap pool is not "coastal-dependent", and not even "coastal-related". 2) A lap pool would be much better situated somewhere further inland and warmer, not subject to the common marine layer and cold coastal winds.
Members of the community have suggested more 'coastal-related' amenities, including a small wave pool and potential scuba training, both of which could transition both kids and adults toward use of our beaches and ocean.
Item D.2 on the Pickle Ball Courts provides eight (8) different potential locations.
I recommend that the City Council consider utilizing one of the other seven (7) locations for the Courts. and preserve the Aviation Park location for the Aquatic Facility/50-meter pool, maintaining the Joe's site for Marine Education and the Lagoon site for more coastal related uses.
Fraternally,
Mark Hansen
HARBOR COMMISSION
MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2022
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FUTURE EDUCATIONAL FACILITY AT THE WATERFRONT - Excerpts The City of Redondo Beach is in the middle of a planning effort to establish a framework plan to improve and enhance various public amenities within the City’s waterfront… Understanding that the various public amenities are interrelated and recognizing that these amenities set the framework for other public and commercial activities within the Waterfront, the City has started the process of creating a comprehensive plan for the waterfront.
One specific element of the amenities plan is to create an educational facility. Staff has invited Thomas Grimm [Oyster Farm] to present an oral report at the Commission hearing to explore a potential programming idea for such an educational facility with an opportunity to field questions/comments from the Commission.