City Council on 2022-05-17 6:00 PM - CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER Meeting Time: 05-17-22 18:00
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City Council on 2022-05-17 6:00 PM -
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER
05-17-22
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City Council on 2022-05-17 6:00 PM - CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER 05-17-22 18:00
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D.1. 22-4030 INTRODUCTION OF HONORABLE HOLLY J. MITCHELL
AS REDONDO BEACH'S NEW LOS ANGELES COUNTY SUPERVISOR
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J.1. 22-4153 For eComments and Emails Received from the Public 1 0 0 0 N.1. 22-4166 DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE
SUBMITTAL OF A LETTER TO LOS ANGELES COUNTY SUPERVISOR
HOLLY MITCHELL AND LOS ANGELES COUNTY METROPOLITAN
TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY (METRO) REGARDING THE METRO
C (GREEN) LINE EXTENSION TO TORRANCE PROJECT
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Agenda Item: eComments for D.1. 22-4030 INTRODUCTION OF HONORABLE HOLLY J. MITCHELL AS REDONDO BEACH'S
NEW LOS ANGELES COUNTY SUPERVISOR
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Janette Kurth
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Submitted At: 5:58pm 05-17-22
THE ELEVATED METRO EXTENSION DOWN HAWTHORNE BLVD IS THE ONLY REASONABLE OPTION. By using the Elevated Hawthorne alignment, the struggling commercial businesses in Lawndale, Torrance and Redondo Beach will be revitalized. The loss of city Sales Tax Revenue has fallen by millions, caused by the Galleria’s stagnancy has been profound. A station at Artesia and Hawthorne is a perfect stop for customers and employees going to the Mall, and for the planned 300 Apartment Residents and Hotel guests to be built at this location. Traffic will not be impacted. The existing freight line on the ROW does not have to be moved 15 feet closer to our property lines. Our safety will not be impacted by possible derailments of compressing 3 tracks along the ROW ment for one track.
My husband and I have lived on a quiet Cul de sac at the end of Fisk Court for 43 years. We do not want the quality of our lives destroyed by the addition of the METRO two line light rail built along the ROW only feet from our home. The existing rail is elevated 35 feet above our property. The noise and vibration of trains passing by every 6 minutes from 5:00 am to 12 midnight (19 hours a day x 365 days a year) with only 5 hours of possible sleep a day, will erode our health, increase our stress and anxiety and shorten our lives. Not to mention the possibility of DERAILMENT of the 16 to 30 volatile fuel tankers being hauled by 3 locomotives around a curved line from the refinery 2 to 4 times a day. 480+ Redondo residential homes will be impacted along the ROW. Put yourselves in our position. If you were one of these homeowners, would you want this next to you? No privacy.
Bright lights beaming down on your property throughout the night.
Do the right thing. Either way the Tracks have to be elevated. Your increased cost to having to build additional bridges at overpasses, walls to support the elevated landmass feet from our property lines, destroying existing businesses that have encroached within the ROW. Hawthorne Blvd has the center green space available and was the former route of the RED CAR
Agenda Item: eComments for J.1. 22-4153 For eComments and Emails Received from the Public Overall Sentiment
Sara Martin
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Submitted At: 12:31pm 05-16-22
In light of the last Saturday’s massacre of Black Americans in a Buffalo, NY grocery store, by an 18-year-old white manboy who was radicalized to believe in the Great White Replacement Theory, and to use a weapon and body armor designed for military use, I congratulate those among us whose Republican political party leaders and preferred ”news” sources have been promoting both vile weapons, and committing stochastic terrorism, against the American people for years.
Maybe you, too, or the impressionable children you have indoctrinated into believing those racist lies and giving easy access to such murderous weaponry, will someday make the news for taking action like this calculating, evil teenage terrorist did.
Yes, I’m angry. I speak publicly tonight to encourage others to be a stand for our all of fellow Americans against domestic terrorism.
You’d think that after 7 years of discovering how generously I over-estimate the decency, intellectual capacity, emotional intelligence, empathy, good faith, and humanity of those who choose to identify as MAGA Republicans, I would have learned better. But no. There are still a large enough number who, along with their bad faith, cowardly, iresponsible elected representatives, cannot and will not see the evils which their party’s philosophies, policies and rhetoric promulgates.
If we as human beings, fail to grow well-informed, strong and secure enough to mold our own independent identity in a diverse nation, an extremist political party and a toxic information environment led by dishonest, antidemocracy, pandering, power-hungry narcissists, in desperate need of validation and approval, telling us how “we” are victims, and how “others” are our inferior seems impossible to resist or abandon.
To those former Republicans who have the integrity, clarity and courage to no longer see yourself in the faces of the GOPers who blow racist dog-whistles, and carry loaded guns to kill people, which inspire the weak, dumb and evil to commit violence against others, I say a deeply-felt Thank You. We stand together for all, not just the ones who share our neighborhoods, identities and beliefs.
Agenda Item: eComments for N.1. 22-4166 DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE SUBMITTAL OF A LETTER TO LOS
ANGELES COUNTY SUPERVISOR HOLLY MITCHELL AND LOS ANGELES COUNTY METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION
AUTHORITY (METRO) REGARDING THE METRO C (GREEN) LINE EXTENSION TO TORRANCE PROJECT Overall Sentiment
Niki Negrete-Mitchell
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Submitted At: 4:05pm 05-17-22
I support the letter. I'm thankful and appreciate the steadfast commitment to this cause. We need your strong voice to point out these glaring problems with the ROW alignment, whether at grade or subterranean, in any shape or form. We need your strong voice to advocate for us, Redondo Beach citizens, and for our city as a whole and for our environment.
What an eye opener this has been, knowing since we bought our house 15 years ago the ground supporting the rails just feet from our homes is loose and unstable. We've seen first hand what it does to our private infrastructure and can only imagine given the type of space we have and the open, close proximity how disruptive and life-altering this would all be. Our future depends on this decision. It's been nearly impossible to be heard about all of this, that is until now with your support.
There are a lot of retiring and already retired seniors in the single family home section who are counting on their homes to be peacefully enjoyed for the rest of our lives, as nest eggs. We, too will suffer the consequence of loss not being able to just pick up and go. We're all in the same boat.
There are a lot of young families as well, here to provide a stable home to raise their young children in this fine school district. We did the same for our daughter (but we started older), and we all work so hard for this. Most of us cannot just sell our homes and get the equivalent elsewhere, much less upgrade. It's a sign of the times.
We all need for this to be done correctly, and that is to use the Hawthorne Elevated route for the Greenline (C Line) Extension to Torrance. From the bottom of our hearts we appreciate this effort.
Thank you, Niki, Kevin and Gianna.
Janette Kurth
Location:
Submitted At: 11:59am 05-17-22
THE ELEVATED METRO EXTENSION DOWN HAWTHORNE BLVD IS THE ONLY REASONABLE OPTION. By using the Elevated Hawthorne alignment, the struggling commercial businesses in Lawndale, Torrance and Redondo Beach will be revitalized. The loss of city Sales Tax Revenue has fallen by millions, caused by the Galleria’s stagnancy and has been profound. A station at Artesia and Hawthorne is a perfect stop for customers and employees going to the Mall, and for the planned 300 Apartment Residents and Hotel guests to be built at this location. Traffic will not be impacted. The existing freight line on the ROW does not have to be moved 15 feet closer to our property lines. Our safety will not be impacted by possible derailments of compressing 3 tracks along the ROW meant for one track.
My husband and I have lived on a quiet Cul de sac at the end of Fisk Court for 43 years. We do not want the quality of our lives destroyed by the addition of the METRO two line light rail built along the ROW only feet from our home. The existing rail is elevated 35 feet above our property. The noise and vibration of trains passing by every 6 minutes from 5:00 am to 12 midnight (19 hours a day x 365 days a year) with only 5 hours of possible sleep a day, will erode our health, increase our stress and anxiety and shorten our lives. Not to mention the possibility of DERAILMENT of the 16 to 30 volatile fuel tankers being hauled by 3 locomotives around a curved line from the refinery 2 to 4 times a day. 480+ Redondo residential homes will be impacted along the ROW. Put yourselves in our position. If you were one of these homeowners, would you want this next to you? No privacy.
Bright lights beaming down on your property throughout the night.
Do the right thing. Either way the Tracks have to be elevated. Your increased cost to having to build additional bridges at overpasses, walls to support the elevated landmass feet from our property lines, destroying existing businesses that have encroached within the ROW. Hawthorne Blvd has the center green space available and was the former route of the RED CAR.