BLUE FOLDER ITEM
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STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION
APRIL 25, 2023
M.1 DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE CITY’S STRATEGIC PLAN, GOALS AND
OBJECTIVES
CONTACT: MIKE WITZANSKY, CITY MANAGER
PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS
Goal #6, sub 2 of the CC strategic planning meeting agenda packet, residential design guidelines, needs additional time and public discussion. At present, the revision fails to protect both character and consistency, especially with regard to interfaces between zoning.
From: Mark Nelson (Home Gmail)
To: CityClerk
Subject: City Council Comment - Strategic Planning Meeting Date: Thursday, April 20, 2023 8:41:38 PM
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From: Jim Light <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2023 9:32 PM
To: Eleanor Manzano <[email protected]>
Subject: SBPC Strategic Plan Requests
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Eleanor,
Please include the attached recommendations for Strategic Plan items from South Bay Parkland Conservancy in the public record for the meeting tomorrow.
Mayor and Council members,
South Bay Parkland Conservancy submits the attached strategic plan recommendations for your consideration. We appreciate the Council’s consideration of these items that would help us expand and enhance public open spaces and parks in Redondo. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
VR
Jim Light
President, South Bay Parkland Conservancy
Certified California Naturalist
310-989-3332
South Bay Parkland Conservancy Redondo Beach Strategic Plan Recommendations April 19, 2023
TO: REDONDO BEACH CITY COUNCIL
Subject: South Bay Parkland Conservancy Strategic Plan Recommendations South Bay Parkland Conservancy (SBPC) requests the City Council consider including the recommendations that follow in the city’s strategic plan update:
1. Prioritize reestablishment of the lower pond and stream at Wilderness Park. When working in Wilderness Park one of the most repeated questions we get is: “what happened to the lower pond.” The lower pond and its stream were one of the most popular attractions in the park. SBPC would like to collaborate with city staff to design and reestablish the lower pond to create a more natural wetlands environment and avoid the filtering and algae issues with the current configuration of the upper pond. This would be a good precursor to the future wetlands at the AES site.
2. Prioritize establishment of an El Segundo blue butterfly (ESBB) habitat corridor from the end of the Coastal Bluff to the current power plant property and the SCE Right of Way west of PCH. SBPC, LACC, and US Fish and Wildlife are currently expanding the ESBB habitat along the bluff in Redondo. We are concurrently working with other members of the El Segundo Blue Butterfly Coalition to connect populations in PV, Redondo, El Segundo, LAX and Ballona Wetlands with one another. SBPC is building an ESBB habitat corridor on Hermosa’s Greenbelt.
The maximum distance biologists believe the ESBB will migrate is ½ mile. That leaves a large gap from the northern end of Redondo’s bluff to the power plant property and to Hermosa’s Greenbelt. SBPC has identified City property that could close this habitat gap – including the northern edge of Veteran’s Park just beside Torrance Blvd, the northern edge of Czuleger Park, and the medians on Catalina from Torrance Blvd to the northern terminus of Catalina. SBPC would like to be involved in this project with a minimum of 2 South Bay Parkland Conservancy Redondo Beach Strategic Plan Recommendations palette definition, but our preferred involvement would include planting and maintenance of this corridor of habitat. SBPC also offers to apply for grants for this project with City collaboration and concurrence.
3. Redefine the City’s plant and tree palettes for city and private property. The City continues to plant non-native species in public spaces and has not provided developers and the public a plant palette that emphasizes and prioritizes California native plants and trees where possible. SBPC requests to participate in defining the new palettes.
4. After we get some operational time with the new Community Garden at Alta Vista, SBPC requests the city to include a second Community Garden with a North Redondo location. We do not recommend moving forward until we get some solid lessons learned from the first community garden, but the City should be looking at this in the year plus event horizon.
5. SBPC is in the process of developing an overarching master plan for Wilderness Park to include infrastructure and amenities. SBPC asks the Council to add a strategic plan item for Public Works and Community Services staff to review and provide Council recommendations to adopt and execute this master plan after Council approval.
6. SBPC requests City Council consider adding a strategic planning item to develop and execute a Wilderness Park native ecosystem education program jointly administered by the Community Services staff on site at the park and by SBPC.
SBPC is currently conducting monthly education walks and a Junior Urban Naturalist Program. Some of the Wilderness Park attendants have requested that SBPC educate them so they can conduct similar walks and present good information to park guests as they do their other duties in the park. SBPC would develop the education and provide training to City staff.
3 South Bay Parkland Conservancy Redondo Beach Strategic Plan Recommendations SBPC appreciates your consideration of these items and would be glad to provide any more details needed.
Sincerely,
James A Light
President, South Bay Parkland Conservancy
Certified California Naturalist
310-989-3332
[email protected]
Www.southbayparks.org
From: JAMES LIGHT <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday April 24 2023 10 10 PM
To: Eleanor Manzano <[email protected]>
Subject: Strategic Planning Item for consideration - harbor reorg CAUTION: Email is from an external source; Stop, Look, and Think before opening attachments or links.
Eleanor
Please include this email and attachment in tomorrow s Strategic Planning session public record.
Mayor and Councilmembers
No single person in the City is responsible for King Harbor. The “Harbor Director” is currently dual-hatted as the City s Economic Development Director. And the Harbor Director is not the “single belly button” for the whole harbor enterprise. Harbor Patrol falls under one Division of the Firefighters and the Harbor Patrol is often absent from on-water duties due to landside calls as part of the fire department - leaving us for considerable periods of time with no harbor patrol. Police activities fall under the police department. Infrastructure falls under Public Works. And new development falls under the Planning Department.
The City is not following the municipal code with respect to coordination with the Harbor Commission and the processes are different depending on which department is in charge of the action. For example the Commission helped draft the RFP and support source selection of the contractor for the Amenities Plan. However the Harbor Commission was not involved at all with the source selection of the design contractor for the Seaside Lagoon. In the case of dredging the harbor the harbor commission was unaware of the City s application until after the application was submitted. And though the charter says the Commission shall be advised of leases and subleases unless there is a CUP to approve the Commission is not advised until after the Council approves the changes… so the Harbor Commission cannot make any recommendations to the Council. From the Municipal Code:
“The Commission shall hold hearings on any matter concerning the commercial or recreational development of the harbor. (c)The Commission shall further the commercial and recreational development of the harbor. (d)The Commission shall be advised and may recommend to the Council on all new lease and sublease arrangements with the City relating to harbor lands, facilities, or improvements.
(e)The Commission shall be advised and may report to the Council on all subleases with firms doing business within the jurisdiction of the Commission. (f)The Commission shall be advised and may report to the Council on the assignment of all leases and subleases with the City relating to harbor lands, facilities, or improvements.
(g)The Commission shall advise the Council on any matter concerning the harbor when so requested by the Council. “ Other harbors are run by distinct organizations responsible for integrating all aspects of the harbor’s vision, operation, development, maintenance and public promotion and activities. I maintain the city is suboptimizing the harbor by distributed responsibilities and no one leader. I ask the city to consider reorganizing to form a Harbor Department that is city’s single belly button responsible for all aspects of the harbor. I attach a draft of a possible organization that meets this objective. The first page is the simple line diagram of the organization and second shows how each city department supports the harbor in a matrixes fashion.
I appreciate the Council’s consideration of this reorganization to better execute an integrated vision for the future for our harbor I previously sent in a request for the Council to consider adding the AES site and hotel properties to the Harbor Department to the Harbor Commission purview to ensure these critical sites and uses are integrated with the development on the west side of Harbor Drive.
VR
Jim Light
Sent from my iPad
310-989-3332
[email protected]