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CITY COUNCIL MEETING
AUGUST 20, 2024
J.1 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS
• PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS
From: Aileen Pavlin
To: Planning Redondo; CityClerk
Subject: Beach cities
Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2024 8:15:39 PM
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I SUPPORT the 0.75 FAR limit on Public Institutional (PI) land as written in the updated General Plan.”
“The 0.75 FAR limit is already generous and supports substantial development. It provides the appropriate balance between growth and preserving compatibility with surrounding neighborhoods.” “Going beyond a 0.75 FAR will negatively alter our quality of life and forever change the character of our city.”
From: Babette Wald
To: Planning Redondo; CityClerk
Subject: FAR
Date: Thursday, August 15, 2024 9:03:01 AM
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I support the 0.75 FAR limit on public land. It was designed to ensure compatibility with the surrounding neighborhood.
Thank you.
Babette Wald
Redondo Beach, CA. 90277
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From: Stop BCHD
To: [email protected]; info; CityClerk; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: Communications; Kevin Cody; [email protected]; Jane Diehl Subject: Fwd: Public Comment
Date: Monday, August 19, 2024 3:09:27 PM
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Public Comment - All agencies and City Councils
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From: Stop BCHD <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Subject: Public Comment
To: Communications <[email protected]>
BCHD wants to borrow $30M for OPTIONAL upgrades to the allcove building and OPTIONAL early demolition/grass planting/new parking of the current Hospital Building.
BCHD shouldn't borrow $30M for OPTIONAL PROJECTS.
If BCHD is COMMITTED to tearing down the Hospital - then it can spend the $8M needed from DEMOLITION and pay for it with a $1M CUT TO EXECUTIVE PAYROLL COSTS.
BCHD Executives have only 1/3rd the number of employees as the City of Redondo Beach.
That inefficiency needs to be cut.
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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.
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. --
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: Stop BCHD
Subject: Gallup"s Claim of $182M in Healthcare Savings by BCHD Residents is VERY UNLIKELY TO BE TRUE Date: Monday, August 19, 2024 2:41:51 AM
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Gallup Claims BCHD Residents Healthcare Costs Fell $182M Because of Our Good Health.
THAT’S A CLAIM THAT ISN’T LIKELY TO BE PROVEN TRUE!
Using US Government math, the 54,592 households in the BCHD district paid about $310M for healthcare in 2022, the most recent year data is available from the government (see link below). If Gallup’s claim were true and our healthcare costs were $182M lower because of our good health, then the BCHD residents should have only spent $128M for healthcare. That’s $2,345 per year per household. BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT HAPPENED, IS IT?
So if $182M in savings happened, who got that money anyway? Not the healthy residents, that’s 100% for certain. If those savings went to us, then our annual healthcare expenses should be 60% lower. Did your health insurance, prescriptions and copays fall 60%? No one that we’ve talked with has seen any drops, especially not 60% healthcare cost reductions.
Like every other dollar BCHD spends, District taxpayers paid for the Gallup study. On behalf of the community we’ve requested the details of the taxpayer paid study and all correspondence between BCHD and Gallup.
In the meantime, we FACT CHECK the claim as VERY UNLIKELY.
As soon as we receive the details of the study that we taxpayers paid for, we’ll pass them along to you along with a FACT CHECK revision if needed.
(see https://patch.com/california/redondobeach/beach-cities-residents-save-182m-healthcareexpenses-yearly and https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/consumerexpenditures_selectedareas_table.htm for the data.)
Mark Nelson on behalf of StopBCHD.com, [email protected] PUBLIC COMMENT: ALL AGENCIES
BCC: Media
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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: M. Nava
To: Planning Redondo; CityClerk
Subject: I SUPPORT the 0.75 FAR limit
Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2024 5:56:35 AM
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I SUPPORT the 0.75 FAR limit on Public Institutional (PI) land as written in the updated General Plan.
Marcio
From: Stop BCHD
To: PRR
Cc: info; [email protected]; Kevin Cody; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; CityClerk; [email protected]; [email protected]; Communications
Subject: Inquiry about BCHD promotional email
Date: Thursday, August 15, 2024 3:11:12 PM
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Public Records Act request
Public Comment all agencies
Today, BCHD sent out an email that wrote:
"The good health exhibited by many adults in the Beach Cities area is likely in part the result of efforts of the Beach Cities Health District (BCHD), which regularly organizes events and activities meant to enhance various aspects of wellbeing for local residents," according to the Gallup report.
Gallup work for BCHD is funded by Taxpayer dollars. As a taxpayer group, we request documents demonstrating valid statistical analysis and not mere conjecture to support the statement above in quotations. Absent statistical analysis, this is merely a PR move by BCHD's propaganda division which is also funded by Taxpayer dollars. --
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: Jacqueline Caro
To: Sean Scully; Planredondo; CityClerk
Subject: OPPOSE BCHD Request for 1.25 Floor Area Ratio
Date: Thursday, August 15, 2024 11:56:54 AM
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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.
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.
Please maintain the .75 FAR as this ratio in compatible with the surrounding residential neighborhood. Any alteration to the ratio could open the door for other developers who want the same treatment in future plans.
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 for your time,
Jackie Caro Ecklund
From: Barbara Epstein
To: CityClerk; Sean Scully; Planredondo
Subject: Oppose BCHD Request For 1.25 Floor Area
Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2024 5:47:41 PM
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I am philosophically opposed to the tradition of The City of Redondo Beach gifting public land, property, and assets to private entrepreneurs. The public has lost too many parcels of public land through the years through this process, leaving them without any property for their own public projects.
The huge mass of the proposed development unnecessarily intrudes upon adjacent neighborhoods and school.
Thank You All For Your Service To Our City
Barbara Epstein
Redondo Beach
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From: [email protected]
To: CityClerk; Sean Scully; Planredondo
Subject: OPPOSE BCHD"s REQUEST FOR 1.25 FLOOR AREA RATIO Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2024 10:03:48 AM
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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'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.
Respectfully,
Jennifer Sams
From: Sinsheimer
To: Sean Scully; CityClerk; Planredondo
Subject: OPPOSE BCHD"s REQUEST FOR 1.25 FLOOR AREA RATIO Date: Thursday, August 15, 2024 12:02:48 PM
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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. I have been a resident of Redondo Beach since 1987.
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.
Jeanne Sinsheimer
Redondo Beach, CA 90278
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From: Stop BCHD
To: Sean Scully; CityClerk; Planredondo; [email protected]; info; Los Angeles County District Attorney"s Office; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; MHSOAC; Cc: Kevin Cody; [email protected]; Garth Meyer; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: PUBLIC COMMENT - BCHD"s LACK OF COMMITMENT to "advance racial and geographic equity" with allcove Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2024 11:14:26 PM
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Public Comment: City Council, Planning Commission, General Plan Public Comment: All other agencies
In order to make the Beach Cities Health District more attractive to State investment or allcove (the most likely reason), BCHD included areas of lower income, racial diversity, healthcare provider shortage areas (HPSA) and disadvantaged communities (DC) to its largely White and affluent resident base in its allcove funding proposal. Sadly, BCHD has only provided token benefit to the 14 SPA8 MHSA and DC communities with allcove.
The District consists of Hermosa, Manhattan and Redondo Beach with an average household income of $157,000 per year and a 68.1% White residency. In order to be more attractive for grant purposes (the most likely reason) BCHD added more diverse cities from SPA8.
The allcove program currently services enrollees that are 74% Hermosa, Redondo, Manhattan, and Torrance. That allcove area has an average household income of $145,000 and is 59.4% White. That is still a solid majority of the demographics that BCHD seems to have sought to dilute for grant application purposes.
However, the 14 SPA8 cities that represent the mental Healthcare Provider Shortage Areas and the Disadvantaged communities have only a household income of $74,000 annually (50% of the current allcove 4-city supermajority), are 75.8% of the SPA8 population (compared to under 20% for the 4-cities), only receive 13.4% of allcove services (compared to 74% of the 4- cities) and are 80.6% non-White.
Based on statistics alone, BCHD appears to have diversity-washed its allcove service area for application purposes, but failed to provide any meaningful level of services to the downtrodden of SPA8. Further, an Uber RT ride from Long Beach, the largest constituent of allcove, is approximately $70. Those youth, along with many of the other disadvantaged communities, are economically deprived of participation in allcove. BCHD's philosophy of "allcove at the beach" is disingenuous and continues to keep the segregation of income, race, and health care availability alive and well.
BCHD needs to walk the talk, or in this case, walk the WRITTEN APPLICATION and provide a majority of allcove benefits to the disadvantaged communities, non-White cities, and mental HPSAs.
FROM BCHDs FUNDING APPLICATION - BCHD HAS FAILED TO
SERVICE THE DISADVANTAGED AREAS OF SPA8 IN ANY
MEANINGFUL WAY
7. Describe State Priorities
Please describe how your project meets the priorities you have selected above (limit 500 words).
allcove Beach Cities targets 7 of the required state priorities:
Invest in behavioral health and community care options that advance racial and geographic equity: Through funding from
California's Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, BCHD is opening allcove Beach Cities this fall
to expand services to communities in Service-Planning Area 8, including 16 cities and communities of the City of Los
Angeles, which includes more than 1,000,000 people. allcove Beach Cities will be able to provide services to those 12-25
years old, including 49% Latino population, followed by 26% white, 15% Asian, 8% African American and 2% other.
Address urgent gaps in the care continuum for people with behavioral health conditions, including children and youth: While
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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: Sean Scully; Planredondo; CityClerk; Sheila W. Lamb; Wayne Craig Subject: Public Comment - City Council, Planning Commission, Planning Director, General Plan Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2024 10:20:28 PM
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Please circulate to all commissioners - we only have Comm Lamb and Craig's emails.
As the City considers 0.75 FAR vs 1.25 FAR for P/I land use, we suggest a nuanced approach.
BCHD states in its EIR NOP (6/27/2019) that the current campus has 312,000 sqft. (sum of sqft of buildings, Table 1, Page 7). Further, BCHD states that the parcel is 9.95 AC (Table 1,
Should BCHD be granted a 1.25 FAR, that is a significant 73% expansion of the site buildings. That is excessive for buildings in the center of 0.5 FAR commercial and roughly 0.5 FAR residential land uses.
At present, only 962 sqft of the entire BCHD buildings is at 76'-2" above the ground level. That 962 sqft is atop 514 N Prospect Ave and is centered in the site, minimizing its impact on surrounding neighbors.
Per BCHD's HLC drawings, the remaining 99.7% of the campus buildings are at 51'-6" or less and also near the center of the site. Should BCHD be granted a 1.25 FAR, it must come with a 218'-0" asl elevation maximum. Further, it must have a deep setback from the edges of the site in order to "respect the site" and not destroy the surrounding neighborhood character.
For reference
ALSO FOR THE RECORD
BCHD published the diagram below. The 962-sqft Penthouse is at 76'-2" above the ground The overwhelming mass is at 51'-6" as called out by BCHD.
Consequently, BCHD misrepresents that existing height without including that it is only 962-sqft of 312,000 or 0.3%. --
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: Mark Nelson (Home Gmail)
To: Sean Scully; Planning Redondo; Planredondo; CityClerk Subject: PUBLIC COMMENT: BCHD Apparently Misled the State in its Funding Application for allcove Date: Monday, August 19, 2024 2:14:43 PM
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Public Comment: City Council, Planning Commission, General Plan In order to make the Beach Cities Health District more attractive to State investment (likely reason), BCHD included areas of lower income, racial diversity, healthcare provider shortage areas (HPSA) and disadvantaged communities (DC) to its largely White and affluent resident base. Sadly, BCHD has only provide token benefit to the MHSA and DC communities with allcove.
The District consists of Hermosa, Manhattan and Redondo Beach with an average household income of $157,000 per year and a 68.1% White residency. In order to be more attractive for grant purposes (likely reason) BCHD added more diverse cities from SPA8.
The allcove program currently services enrollees that are 74% Hermosa, Redondo, Manhattan, and Torrance. That allcove area has an average household income of $145,000 and is 59.4% White. That is still a solid majority of the demographics that BCHD seems to sought to dilute However, the 14 SPA8 cities that represent the mental Healthcare Provider Shortage Areas and the Disadvantaged communities have only a household income of $74,000 annually (50% of the current allcove 4-city supermajority), are 75.8% of the SPA8 population (compared to under 20% for the 4-cities), only receive 13.4% of allcove services (compared to 74% of the 4- cities) and are 80.6% non-White.
Based on statistics alone, BCHD appears to have diversity-washed its allcove service area, but failed to provide any meaningful level of services to the downtrodden of SPA8. Further, an Uber RT from Long Beach, the largest constituent of allcove, is approximately $70. Those youth, along with many of the other disadvantaged communities, are economically deprived of participation. BCHD's philosophy of allcove at the beach is disingenuous and continues to keep the segregation of income, race, and health care availability alive and well.
FROM BCHDs FUNDING APPLICATION - BCHD HAS FAILED TO
SERVICE THE DISADVANTAGED IN ANY MEANINGFUL WAY
FROM BCHD FILING WITH THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
7. Describe State Priorities
Please describe how your project meets the priorities you have selected above (limit 500 words).
allcove Beach Cities targets 7 of the required state priorities:
Invest in behavioral health and community care options that advance racial and geographic equity: Through funding from
California's Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, BCHD is opening allcove Beach Cities this fall
to expand services to communities in Service-Planning Area 8, including 16 cities and communities of the City of Los
Angeles, which includes more than 1,000,000 people. allcove Beach Cities will be able to provide services to those 12-25
years old, including 49% Latino population, followed by 26% white, 15% Asian, 8% African American and 2% other.
Address urgent gaps in the care continuum for people with behavioral health conditions, including children and youth: While