J.1- Blue Folder — Redondo Beach City Council, August 13, 2024

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CITY COUNCIL MEETING
AUGUST 13, 2024
J.1 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS
• PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS

From: Tim Ozenne
To: CityClerk; Sean Scully; Planredondo
Cc: Bridgett Lewis
Subject: BCHD"s REQUEST FOR 1.25 FLOOR AREA RATIO
Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2024 9:21:37 AM
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Public Comment: Redondo Beach City Council and Planning Commission We oppose BCHD's request for special General Plan treatment so that it can service 80% to 95% non-residents of the District on our Public zoned land.

BCHD is surrounded by 0.5 Floor Area Ratio (FAR) commercial and residential homes. Allowing BCHD to build huge 100-foot tall, 300,000 sqft buildings on the edge of the campus is inconsistent with neighborhood character and a significant change from the current campus buildings in the center of the 10-acre site.

I live just east of BCHD's eastern property line. From my window, I have a view--if you can call it that--of the BCHD buildings already on the property, including the building that was once a hospital. That is fine since it was there before we bought our house, but allowing BCHD to build additional large structures in order to allow new private uses including an apartment complex for the "elderly" that would injure Torrance residents; nearly all the benefits would simply accrue to BCHD and its development partner(s).

I further understand there is a requirement that new developments in Redondo Beach must be compatible with their neighborhoods, but the proposed expansion of BCHD's holding here is simply incompatible and unconscionable.

Meanwhile, although the original eminent domain ruling required that the property be used for a hospital, it appears BCHD feels no obligation to provide any hospital on this land and also is avoiding Resolution of Necessity procedures to change the use of the property from the original plan.

Further,

1. Less than 1000-sqft of BCHD's 312,000 sqft of current buildings is 75- feet tall. The remaining 99.7% of all BCHD site structures are 52-feet tall or shorter. BCHD's proposals have all been out of scale with the surrounding neighborhoods and with the current facilities.

2. BCHD's consultants found that 80% of the tenants of the private assisted living will be from outside 90254, 90266, 90277, and 90278.

3. BCHD's contract for allcove requires 30-years or longer of mandatory allcove building and services to all of LA County Service Planning Area 8 (SPA8). BCHD has no funding past June 2026. That's an area of 1.4M population with the District residents being only 9%.

4. Further, BCHD's proposed PACE facility will service 95% non-residents based on the data from the National PACE Association. The residents of Redondo Beach should not have to suffer BCHD's use of our Redondo Beach public land for 80% to 95% non-resident benefit by providing BCHD a green light for excessive development.

BCHD should be denied its request for special treatment and be assigned a

0.75 FAR for its future non-resident development activities on the site.

Thank you,
Tim Ozenne
Torrance

From: Stop BCHD
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; CityClerk; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: FORMAL COMPLAINT: BCHD IS USING TAXPAYER RESOURCES TO ADVOCATE FOR THE BOND Date: Sunday, August 11, 2024 11:41:51 AM
Attachments: chf 8-10-24.pdf
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BCHD is deleting comments that oppose its proposed $30M bond measure. That is clearly the use of Taxpayer funded assets and services as advocacy in support of the bond measure. We are filing a State complaint in parallel with this internal complaint. cc: Public Comment, HB/RB/MB City Councils
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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: Stop BCHD
To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; info; [email protected]; [email protected]; MHSOAC; [email protected]; [email protected]; CityClerk; Jane Diehl; Michelle Bholat
Subject: Fwd: CPRA Fwd: BCHD has no obligation to provide allcove to SPA8 Date: Monday, August 12, 2024 10:18:14 PM
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MHSOAC - BCHD - Agreement_EXHIBIT A.pdf
allcove_Beach_Cities_-AppBHCIP Round 4_Paragraph 8.pdf
MHSOAC - BCHD - Agreement EXHIBIT A.pdf
allcove_Beach_Cities_-AppBHCIP Round 4_Paragraph 8.pdf
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We are very concerned that BCHD's purported claims of racial and geographic equity in allcove services were false claims made only to minority-wash BCHD's white and affluent District. As all are now aware, 74% of allcove services are going to MB/HB/RB/Torrance (19% of SPA8) while under 14% of allcove services are going to the 14 underserved cities that total 80% of SPA8. That 80% of SPA8 contains all the disadvantaged communities and mental HSPA communities. How can this be allowed by MHAOAC? BCHD is clearly in violation of the letter of their claims for funding.

BCHD appears to be deliberately avoiding any significant level of allcove service to the underserved areas. There is no other statistically plausible reason that 74% of services could be going to a group of cities with double the HH income and 3-times the white populations than the appropriate target areas requiring racial and economic equity. It certainly appears that the statistics support racism in allcove service delivery by BCHD on their face.

Perhaps the LA Times is a better path to assuring equity, since so far, the State is sitting back watching.

Public Comment: MHSOAC, LA County BoS, LALAFCO, CHHS, Redondo Beach Council and Planning Commission ---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: PRR <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Subject: RE: CPRA Fwd: BCHD has no obligation to provide allcove to SPA8 To: Stop BCHD <[email protected]>
Cc: PRR <[email protected]>
Dear Resident,
Please see below (in red) for the District’s response to your public records request received 8/1/24 that reads:

Addition. BCHD published: REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – (May 20, 2023) Beach Cities Health District (BCHD) has been awarded $6.3 million in grant funding from the California Department of Health Care Services’ (DHCS) Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP). This statewide program supports behavioral health infrastructure projects, providing new opportunities to address gaps in mental health services.

This grant is specifically for new construction of allcove Beach Cities, a youth wellness center in Redondo Beach, serving young people ages 12-25 in the county’s Service Planning Area (SPA) 8, and comes through the BHCIP Round 4: Children and Youth grants." (1) CPRA REQUEST: Provide a contract document that binds BCHD to provide allcove services to SPA8. (2) Provide the application materials from BCHD to BHCIP Round 4 - IF - they include a proposal by BCHD to service SPA8

1. Please see attached responsive contract document: Exhibit A, Section 1. General and Section 4. Grantee Responsibilities.

2. Please see responsive application material for BHCIP 4 paragraph 8.

Please note that if records you are seeking do not exist, BCHD has no obligation to create new records, or to obtain records from other sources, unless those sources are considered “prepared, owned, used by, or retained by” by the District.

If you believe we have not correctly interpreted your request, please resubmit your request with a description of the identifiable record or records that you are seeking.

Please note that the District may not respond to questions or comments included with your request that are not themselves requests for identifiable public records under the California Public Records Act. The lack of response by the District to any such questions or comments, including follow-up questions and comments, is not an indication of the District’s position on any topic or item, and should not be presented as such to any person.

Thank you.

From: Stop BCHD <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 1, 2024 5:12 PM
To: PRR <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: CPRA Fwd: BCHD has no obligation to provide allcove to SPA8

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Addition. BCHD published: REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – (May 20, 2023) Beach Cities Health District (BCHD) has been awarded $6.3 million in grant funding from the California Department of Health Care Services’ (DHCS) Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP). This statewide program supports behavioral health infrastructure projects, providing new opportunities to address gaps in mental health services.

BCHD continually claims that allcove services SPA8, however, BCHD's application for allcove funding provided by BCHD in a CPRA response (12/7/21) contained no such proposal for the $2M MHSA funding.

Further, BCHD's contemporaneous press release made no mention of SPA8 either.

CPRA REQUEST: Provide a contract document that binds BCHD to provide allcove services to SPA8. ---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Stop BCHD <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Subject: BCHD has no obligation to provide allcove to SPA8 To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
BCHD's application for the $2M allcove operating funding as provided subject to CPRA demonstrates no obligation or intent to service SPA8.

BCHD's contemporaneous press release from March 9, 2022 makes no mention of the 1.4M population SPA8.

It appears that BCHD has misled the District taxpayers by claiming that allcove is an SPA8 service area project on its webpage https://www.bchd.org/allcovebeachcities
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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.

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From: Warren Croft
To: CityClerk; Sean Scully; Planredondo
Cc: Stop BCHD
Subject: OPPOSE BCHD"s REQUEST FOR 1.25 FLOOR AREA RATIO Date: Monday, August 12, 2024 9:07:39 PM
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To Whom It May Concern,
I oppose BCHD's request for special General Plan treatment so that it can service 80% to 95% non-residents of the District on our Public zoned land. BCHD is surrounded by

0.5 Floor Area Ratio (FAR) commercial and residential homes. Allowing BCHD to build huge 100-foot tall, 300,000 sqft buildings on the edge of the campus is inconsistent with neighborhood character and a significant change from the current campus buildings in the center of the 10 acre site.

Less than 1000-sqft of BCHD's 312,000 sqft of current buildings is 75-feet tall. The remaining 99.7% of all BCHD site structures are 52-feet tall or shorter. BCHD's proposals have all been out of scale with the surrounding neighborhoods and with the current facilities.

BCHD's consultants found that 80% of the tenants of the private assisted living will be from outside 90254, 90266, 90277, and 90278.

BCHD's contract for allcove requires 30-years or longer of mandatory allcove building and services to all of LA County Service Planning Area 8 (SPA8). BCHD has no funding past June 2026. That's an area of 1.4M population with the District residents being only 9%.

Last, BCHD's proposed PACE facility will service 95% non-residents based on the data from the National PACE Association. The residents of Redondo Beach should not have to suffer BCHD's use of our Redondo Beach public land for 80% to 95% non-resident benefit by providing BCHD a green light for excessive development.

BCHD should be denied its request for special treatment and be assigned a 0.75 FAR for its future non-resident development activities on the site.

Thank you,
Warren Croft
Redondo Beach, CA
90277
From: Warren Croft
To: CityClerk; Sean Scully; Planredondo
Cc: Stop BCHD
Subject: OPPOSE BCHD"s REQUEST FOR 1.25 FLOOR AREA RATIO Date: Monday, August 12, 2024 9:07:39 PM
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To Whom It May Concern,
I oppose BCHD's request for special General Plan treatment so that it can service 80% to 95% non-residents of the District on our Public zoned land. BCHD is surrounded by

BCHD's consultants found that 80% of the tenants of the private assisted living will be from outside 90254, 90266, 90277, and 90278.

BCHD should be denied its request for special treatment and be assigned a 0.75 FAR for its future non-resident development activities on the site.

Thank you,
Warren Croft
Redondo Beach, CA
90277

From: William Shanney
To: CityClerk; Sean Scully; Planredondo
Subject: OPPOSE BCHD"s REQUEST FOR 1.25 FLOOR AREA RATIO Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2024 5:28:46 AM
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Public Comment: Redondo Beach City Council and Planning Commission I oppose BCHD's request for special General Plan treatment so that it can service 80% to 95% non-residents of the District on our Public zoned land. BCHD is surrounded by 0.5 Floor Area Ratio (FAR) commercial and residential homes. Allowing BCHD to build huge 100-foot tall, 300,000 sqft buildings on the edge of the campus is inconsistent with neighborhood character and a significant change from the current campus buildings in the center of the 10 acre site.

Less than 1000-sqft of BCHD's 312,000 sqft of current buildings is 75-feet tall. The remaining

99.7% of all BCHD site structures are 52-feet tall or shorter. BCHD's proposals have all been out of scale with the surrounding neighborhoods and with the current facilities.

BCHD's consultants found that 80% of the tenants of the private assisted living will be from outside 90254, 90266, 90277, and 90278.

BCHD should be denied its request for special treatment and be assigned a

0.75 FAR for its future non-resident development activities on the site.

Sincerely,
William and Vivian Shanney

of the private assisted living will be from outside
90254, 90266, 90277, and 90278.

BCHD's contract for allcove requires 30-years or
longer of mandatory allcove building and services
to all of LA County Service Planning Area 8
(SPA8). BCHD has no funding past June 2026.

That's an area of 1.4M population with the
District residents being only 9%.

Last, BCHD's proposed PACE facility will service
95% non-residents based on the data from the
National PACE Association. The residents of
Redondo Beach should not have to suffer
BCHD's use of our Redondo Beach public land for
80% to 95% non-resident benefit by providing
BCHD a green light for excessive development.

BCHD should be denied its request for special
treatment and be assigned a 0.75 FAR for its
future non-resident development activities on the
site.

J. Burschinger
From: Abbes Khani
To: CityClerk; Sean Scully
Cc: Planredondo
Subject: OPPOSE BCHD"s REQUEST FOR 1.25 FLOOR AREA RATIO Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2024 7:15:06 AM
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I oppose BCHD's request for special General Plan treatment so that it can service 80% to 95% non-residents of the District on our Public zoned land. BCHD is surrounded by

BCHD's consultants found that 80% of the tenants of the private assisted living will be from outside 90254, 90266, 90277, and 90278.

BCHD should be denied its request for special treatment and be assigned a 0.75 FAR for its future non-resident development activities on the site.

Respectfully,
Abbes G Khani
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From: Farah K
To: CityClerk; Sean Scully; Planredondo
Subject: OPPOSE BCHD"s REQUEST FOR 1.25 FLOOR AREA RATIO Date: Monday, August 12, 2024 8:52:09 PM
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Public Comment: Redondo Beach City Council and Planning Commission
I oppose BCHD's request for special General Plan treatment so that it can service 80% to 95% non-residents of the District on our Public zoned land. BCHD is surrounded by 0.5 Floor Area Ratio (FAR) commercial and residential homes. Allowing BCHD to build huge 100- foot tall, 300,000 sqft buildings on the edge of the campus is inconsistent with neighborhood character and a significant change from the current campus buildings in the center of the 10 acre site.

Less than 1000-sqft of BCHD's 312,000 sqft of current buildings is 75- feet tall. The remaining 99.7% of all BCHD site structures are 52-feet tall or shorter. BCHD's proposals have all been out of scale with the surrounding neighborhoods and with the current facilities.

BCHD's consultants found that 80% of the tenants of the private assisted living will be from outside 90254, 90266, 90277, and 90278.

1.4M population with the District residents being only 9%.

BCHD should be denied its request for special treatment and be assigned a 0.75 FAR for its future non-resident development activities on the site.

Thank you,
- Farah
From: Stop BCHD
To: [email protected]; [email protected]; CityClerk Subject: Public Comment - OPPOSE BCHD $30M SHIFT OF DISTRICT TAXPAYER FUNDING TO SPA8 AND PMB LLC (PRIVATE DEVELOPER)
Date: Friday, August 9, 2024 6:34:39 PM
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Redondo Beach Council and Planning Commission
Public Comment - NO ON BCHD $30M BOND!
BCHD CANNOT GIVE DISTRICT TAXPAYER FUNDING TO LA COUNTY SPA8 -OR- TO 100% PRIVATE DEVELOPER PMB LLC
$9M ALLCOVE – NO!
THE BEST THING TO DO WITH ALLCOVE IS NOT BUILD A BUILDING! allcove is a financial mess. BCHD accepted $6.3M State grant that required a 30-year obligation to operate the allcove program and the allcove building without any 30-year funding. That means BCHD taxpayers are on the hook for $175M across 30-years while BCHD’s $2.4M per year in Executives goes panhandling at other agencies looking for money – or tries to raise our District resident taxes.

BCHD was also required (or offered, we don’t know yet) to service the 1.4M population area of LA County Service Planning Area 8 (SPA8) with allcove. Currently, HB/RB/MB are getting 50% of services, Torrance is getting 24%, and the 14 SPA8 cities that make up 80% of the population are getting 13.5%.

That’s either discrimination by BCHD to keep the funding in the wealthier, whiter areas, or, it’s a violation of the agreement to “serve” all of SPA8. $21M DEMOLITION, PARKING LOTS, GRASS – NO!
BCHD’S 100% PRIVATE DEVELOPER COMMITTED TO ALL THAT WORK AT NO COST TO TAXPAYERS.

BCHD is simply trying to give the private developer (PMB LLC) an “in-kind” give of demolition, parking lots and grass. BCHD’s investment bankers have written OVER and OVER that the developer will pay for the demo, parking lots and grass.

NO ON BCHD’S SHIFT OF DISTRICT TAXPAYER FUNDS TO LA COUNTY SPA8 AND PMB LLC!
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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.

From: Sabrina Kerch
To: CityClerk
Subject: Quality of Our Neighborhoods
Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2024 12:39:44 PM
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Please uphold the 0.75 FAR limit on public land. Humans need space and greenery for mental and physical health.

It’s so jarring to drive on the 405 and see apartments built right up to the edge and even overlooking the freeway.

Unhealthy! Let’s preserve what makes the Beach Cities so livable! Thank you.

From: Tom McGarry
To: CityClerk; Sean Scully; Planredondo
Subject: Subject: OPPOSE BCHD"s REQUEST FOR 1.25 FLOOR AREA RATIO Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2024 9:48:35 AM
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Less than 1000-sqft of BCHD's 312,000 sqft of current buildings is 75-feet tall.

The remaining 99.7% of all BCHD site structures are 52-feet tall or shorter.

BCHD's proposals have all been out of scale with the surrounding neighborhoods and with the current facilities.

BCHD's consultants found that 80% of the tenants of the private assisted living will be from outside 90254, 90266, 90277, and 90278.

BCHD's contract for allcove requires 30-years or longer of mandatory allcove building and services to all of LA County Service Planning Area 8 (SPA8).

BCHD has no funding past June 2026. That's an area of 1.4M population with the District residents being only 9%.

BCHD should be denied its request for special treatment and be assigned a

0.75 FAR for its future non-resident development activities on the site.

Tom McGarry
Redondo Beach

BCHD should be denied its request for special treatment and be assigned a 0.75 FAR for its future non-resident development activities on the site.

Respectfully submitted,
Carl Paquette
Torrance, CA 90503

benefit by providing BCHD a green light for excessive development.

BCHD should be denied its request for special treatment and be assigned a 0.75 FAR for its future non-resident development activities on the site.

Aloha!
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From: Stop BCHD
To: Stop BCHD; Sean Scully; CityClerk; Planredondo
Subject: URGENT/IMPORTANT: COMMENTS NEEDED AT REDONDO PLANNING COMMISSION BEFORE THUR 8/15/24- EVERYONE CAN COMMENT!
Date: Monday, August 12, 2024 8:49:38 PM
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This is a continuation of the August 1, 2024 draft General Plan meeting. BCHD is requesting a special exemption from the City's proposed General Plan so that it can pack its 10-acre site with buildings to service non-residents of the District. THAT'S UNFAIR! Please comment by Noon on Thursday 8/15/24
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[email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Subject: OPPOSE BCHD's REQUEST FOR 1.25 FLOOR AREA RATIO Public Comment: Redondo Beach City Council and Planning Commission I oppose BCHD's request for special General Plan treatment so that it can service 80% to 95% non-residents of the District on our Public zoned land. BCHD is surrounded by

BCHD's consultants found that 80% of the tenants of the private assisted living will be from outside 90254, 90266, 90277, and 90278.

BCHD should be denied its request for special treatment and be assigned a 0.75 FAR for its future non-resident development activities on the site. --
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.

Redondo Beach City CouncilAugust 13, 2024

Redondo Beach City Council
August 13, 2024