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CITY COUNCIL MEETING
AUGUST 9, 2022
J.1 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS
PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS
From: [email protected]
To: CityClerk
Subject: Oral statement in writing
Date: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 2:38:20 PM
Attachments: MetroPitch 8922.pdf
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Hi ,
Attached please find my oral statement for tonight's council meeting. I checked the agenda and looks like I'll go again under item J.1, Non-Agenda. Please add to record.
It would be nice for cm's and mayor to get a copy.
Thank you!
Niki Negrete-Mitchell, D3
Niki Negrete-Mitchell, D3
Hi, I’d like to thank all 5 of you cm’s plus the mayor for your commitment and support of our communities on the east side of our town. Most of you have come out either to a walking event, or just to talk with us about said commitment. CM Horvath actually knocked on my door a while back and gave me the opportunity to converse with him about the Greenline. This all says a lot.
I’m here to REMIND everyone in the city of the very critical, current reality, and when I say critical I mean more than 480 NORTH Redondo Beach households, in both D3 and D4, can very easily be thrown under the bus in such a devastating way due to this Metro project.
This is happening NOW, day after tomorrow. We need informed support, I’m asking my neighbors in D3, D4 and beyond to please show up at the Adams Middle School Gym this Thursday from 6 - 8pm. Metro will be presenting their conceptual designs for the Greenline (C Line) extension to Torrance. They NEED our feedback on the alternatives. They are as follows:
• Existing rail corridor, aka Right Of Way at grade
• Existing rail corridor, aka Right Of Way partially trenched • Hawthorne Blvd. ELEVATED down the old Red Car route which the wide center median is already designed for
There have been some new developments in how they need to approach affected communities thanks to the Metro Board of Directors. But they need to hear from ALL of us, advocating for the City of Redondo Beach’s official, unanimous position to use the Hawthorne Blvd elevated route. We also need for EVERYONE to advocate for the integrity of this city’s landscape, our humanity and getting this done correctly because we only get ONE chance. Once it’s done it’s done, and this is big, IT REQUIRES ALL OF OUR ATTENTION.
I’m concerned that some of our neighbors are too distracted to be there for us. Can we stop indulging for a minture and prepare to UNITE and coalesce behind everyone’s many good, hard working neighbors. Can we please stop worrying about Metro’s potential problems and put the focus on having compassion for our humanity? The unprecedented funding is already there.
Historically they throw their weight around buying up properties, then sell them as “excessive property acquisitions”. They can sell the Right Of Way, it is not our problem that they bought it before conducting their studies. No more clinging to these tone deaf arguments. I’m asking neighbors to please put a pause on everything else for 5 minutes and come to our aid. And I’m asking our city leaders to please come and represent us. You’ve made me so proud in the past, but we are nowhere near done.
At the very least, please email [email protected] with words of support. For more info click and scroll rightofsay.com.
Thank you!
From: Stop BCHD
To: [email protected]; Communications; Jane Diehl; [email protected]; Michelle Bholat; Noel Chun; Vanessa I.
Poster; Kevin Cody; Lisa Jacobs; [email protected]; CityClerk; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Bill Brand; [email protected]
Subject: BCHD Non-compliant Development: Immediate Media Release and Public Agency Comments Date: Monday, August 8, 2022 8:13:17 PM
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StopBCHD Media Release and Public Comment 8-8-22.pdf
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StopBCHD.com ([email protected]) is a Neighborhood Quality-of-Life Community concerned about the quality-of-life, health, and economic damages that BCHDs 110-foot above the street, 800,000 sqft commercial development will inflict for the next 50-100 years.
Our neighborhoods have been burdened since 1960 by the failed South Bay Hospital project and have not received the benefit of the voter-approved acute care public hospital since 1984.Yet we still suffer 100% of the damages and we will suffer 100% of the damages of BCHDs proposal.
From: Laura Zahn
To: Res. Against Overdevelopment
Cc: CityClerk; [email protected]; Stop BCHD
Subject: Dissolve the fraudulent Beach Cities Health District Date: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 9:55:43 AM
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To whom it may concern, my name is Laura D. Zahn I was born in 1953 AT Torrance Memorial Hospital in Torrance, CA because the TAX-PAYER Bonded South Bay Hospital was not completed yet. My sister born in 1952, and my brother born in 1954 also were born at Torrance Memorial because the South Bay Hospital was not completed yet. HOWEVER... 12 of my family members* VOTED FOR AND
PAID INTO THAT BOND TO PAY OFF THE PURCHASE OF THE FORMER MR. HUNTINGTON'S PROPERTY THAT WAS TAKEN BY EMINENT DOMAIN UNDER A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT THAT STATED...That this property would ALWAYS be used AS a HOSPITAL FOR the THREE BEACH CITIES of MANHATTAN BEACH, HERMOSA BEACH AND REDONDO BEACH... OR BE DISSOLVED.
This TAX PAYER bonded land was NOT to be used for any other purpose, NOT an ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY, NOT a "Health-Center" (gym type of facility), NOT a Training -Center for others/staff, NOT a day-use facility for Seniors, NOT a mentalhealth facility for tweens/teens/adults, NOT a massive parking garage, NOT an Aquatic Center, NOT passive-green-space for day users.
EVERY "PROGRAM" or "USE" that the NEWLY dubbed Beach Cities Health District has and is proposing are DUPLICATE PROGRAMS, that other organizations
have created and are successfully operating. Beach Cities Health District is just piggy-backing on other successful programs, offering nothing new or original. In one of Tom Bakaly's proposals HE even indicates that HIS organization (BCHD) WILL CHARGE these successful organizations a USER FEE for providing THEIR OWN program
to folks that choose to attend at HIS location. In horticulture when ONE organism "takes" from another organism without offering anything necessary for the primary organism's survival WE CALL THAT SECONDARY ORGANISM A PARASITE! My relatives along with other families alive and living at the time the Huntington Land was taken, CHOOSE to BOND this land FOR a LOCAL HOPSITAL FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS of the THREE BEACH CITIES. Manhattan/Hermosa/Redondo. NO-ONE was "supper wealthy" in the late 40's and early 50's when this IDEA and project was presented to those tax-payers. BUT everyone in those THREE BEACH CITIES understood the IMPORTANCE of having a LOCAL hospital and MADE THE FINANCIAL SACRIFICE to make it happen.
Yes, we ALL understand that the current/existing Hospital/Building may not be as structurally sound as a NEW BUILT facility...We ALL also understand that the now former South Bay Hospital entity was not operating in the strongest financial capacity.
HOWEVER, that does not mean that the ORGINAL BOND-Purchased LAND should be wholesaled OUT to the highest bidder. Mr. Huntington and his family and his financial backers were NOT wishing TO sell this piece of property, JUST like the Bruce family IN Manhattan Beach that had their "Beach Resort" for African Americans taken by Eminent Domain. I am sure most of you reading my comments are at least vaguely familiar with what has transpired with that land. Several prominent politicians along with some very passionate people VOTED to RETURN that
land BACK TO the Bruce family. Karma has its way doesn't it? Well, we have enough passionate people, and some politicians on our side to dissolve BCHD and to KEEP the land ZONED for what the purpose of the Eminent Domain and the ORIGINAL Conditional Use Permit WAS approved for. Perhaps WE should start by REACHING OUT to the Huntington family and informing them that THEIR land that was taken all those many years ago is possibly NOT GOING TO BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE INTENDED!
Some of my biggest issues are 1) that the potential users of this massive facility IF it gets built will not be from the THREE BEACH cities. 2) ALL of BCHD programs are NOT scaled or focused ON the THREE BEACH CITIES, 3) No-one mentions that the ROOMS for the Residential Care Facility for the Elderly (RCFE) are SHARED ROOMS, (Seriously who wants to pay upwards of $12,000 a month for a SHARED ROOM???) 4) Tom Bakaly has his SITES on a HUGE CAPTURE of INCOME for his BOARD from OTHER organizations programs, at the EXPENSE of the Tax-payers from the three beach cities, Manhattan Beach/Hermosa Beach/Redondo Beach. 5) Redondo Beach has enough Senior Care Facilities both Corporate ran and private home conversions.
Laura D. Zahn
* Florance Zahn-Crow (Paternal Grandmother )
John Crow (Paternal Step-Grandfather)
Chester Tornbom (Maternal Grandfather)
Kathrine Tornbom (Maternal Grandmother)
Carl Tornbom (Maternal Uncle)
Mary Tornbom (Maternal Aunt)
Roy Zahn (Father)
Kay T. Zahn (Mother)
Pat Sullivan (Paternal Uncle)
Marjorie Sullivan (Paternal Aunt)
Sally Hartman (Paternal Aunt)
Vern Hartman (Paternal Uncle)
From: Mark Nelson (Home Gmail)
To: CityClerk
Subject: Non-agenda Public Comment - Planning Commissioners - Need for C-2 CUP for BCHD Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2022 4:22:31 PM
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As I read the RBMC, P-CF does not allow Adult Daycare and has no provision for it as a conditional use.
As I also read the RBMC - C-2 does allow Adult Daycare with a conditional use permit.
I do not see any Conditional Use Permit application for the C-2 zoned lot in order for it to include PACE. PACE has medical aspects, but is also adult daycare.
I am concerned that neither the City nor BCHD has raised this issue.
Mark Nelson
From: Mark Nelson (Home Gmail)
To: CityClerk; CityClerk
Cc: info
Subject: Public Comment
Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2022 8:39:52 PM
Attachments: BCHD Willfully Deceived the Neighborhoods.pdf CAUTION: Email is from an external source; Stop, Look, and Think before opening attachments or links.
Torrance and Redondo Beach City Councils
LALAFCO Board and Alternates
Attached is a demonstration of BCHD's failure to have open discussions with the neighborhood. At the time that BCHD withheld from the public that they were putting up to 4000kW of generation and up to 75,000 gallons of fuel next to homes, BCHD was moving into its EIR comment phase. BCHD knew that it could not suffer the righteous rage of the neighborhoods, so it withheld the information.
https://www.stopbchd.com/post/bchd-willfully-deceived-the-neighborhoods stopbchd a few seconds ago 1 min read
BCHD Willfully Deceived the
Neighborhoods
In December of 2020, BCHD added a building to its plans. When directly and legally asked what it was, BCHD REFUSED to disclose even the general use of the building.
SO IT TURNED OUT THAT BCHD WAS HIDING GENERATORS AND UP TO 75,000 GALLONS OF BACKUP FUEL IN TANKS NEXT TO DIAMOND STREET FROM THE PUBLIC!
For anyone that wonders why the surrounding neighborhoods don't trust CEO Tom Bakaly and the BCHD Board - that's an A #1 Example of their treatment of the neighborhoods that have been damaged for 60+ years by the public South Bay Hospital that failed in 1984 and the subsequent "government entities never die" problem with BCHD.
OF COURSE THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOODS DON'T TRUST
CEO BAKALY OR THE BCHD BOARD!