City Council on 2025-06-10 6:00 PM - CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER Meeting Time: 06-10-25 18:00
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City Council on 2025-06-10 6:00 PM -
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER
06-10-25
18:00
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City Council on 2025-06-10 6:00 PM - CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER 06-10-25 18:00
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L.2. 25-0760 CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE
FISCAL YEAR 2025-26 PROPOSED BUDGET AND 2025-30 FIVE-YEAR
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
PROCEDURES:
a. Reconvene the Public Hearing;
b. Take testimony;
c. Receive and file Budget Response Reports; and,
d. Continue the Public Hearing to June 17, 2025.
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Agenda Item: eComments for L.2. 25-0760 CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE FISCAL YEAR 2025-26 PROPOSED BUDGET AND 2025-30 FIVE-YEAR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM PROCEDURES:
a. Reconvene the Public Hearing;
b. Take testimony;
c. Receive and file Budget Response Reports; and,
d. Continue the Public Hearing to June 17, 2025.
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Aida Ashouri
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Submitted At: 11:16pm 06-10-25
Please allocate funding for a Corridor Study of Prospect Ave. This study would evaluate traffic counts, intersection improvements, and potential roadway configurations for a safer Prospect Ave. It would be the next step to move this project along.
Brianna Egan
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Submitted At: 8:04pm 06-10-25
I am writing in strong support of budget items that will improve our local transit system and improve the safety, walkability, and bike-ability of our streets for health, safety and connectedness. I also support opportunities to increase revenue to the city by charging for the true cost of parking.
In summary, I support the following BRR items as well as an additional request for a BRR of a Prospect Ave Corridor Study:
- A grassroots community proposal for a Safer Prospect Ave was shared with the city council several months ago, and has received over 200 signatures and 9 organizations in support. Concerns about noise, speeding, and truck traffic on Prospect Ave which have been raised in BRR 3 and 22 show the importance of studying the street. The community proposal calls for a corridor study that would evaluate traffic calming, intersection improvements, and protected bike lanes on Prospect Ave to connect 11 schools with over 7,000 students and connect to existing EW bike lanes. A corridor study would be the first step to a Safer Prospect Ave and is estimated to cost around $100,000-150,000. It would also connect to PV Blvd Class IV protected bike lanes (BRR 27). - I support enrolling BCT in Metro GoPass to streamline monthly passes for students and promote transit ridership on BCT and Metro systems (BRR 11).
- I support adding raised crosswalks and a speed table to Ford Ave (BRR 24), crossing guards along the Greenbelt (BRR 43) and exploring speed tables.
- For increased revenue to the city: I support increasing parking permit fees (BRR 18), adding additional parking meters to Herondo St (BRR 40), expanding preferential parking zones and increase permit fees (BRR 57), and charging meter parking in Riviera Village during holidays (BRR 55).
Thank you!
Clint Reach
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Submitted At: 7:19pm 06-10-25
I want to express full support for a bike lane on Prospect Ave. Bikers need access to the major arteries of the city, and we need more bikers if we want less congestion and cleaner air.
Clint Reach, resident of Redondo Beach
Grace Peng
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Submitted At: 6:48pm 06-10-25
I strongly support
1) BCT joining the GoPass program. This will help increase BCT ridership and revenues because neighboring Centinela, Torrance and El Segundo school district students can use their GoPasses on BCT. 1a) If RBUSD also joins GoPass, this will free up staff time from administering the monthly BCT student passes, reduce traffic, increase safety, and alleviate parking scarcity by RUHS. 2) I strongly support increasing protected bike lanes throughout the city, including Palos Verdes Blvd and Prospect Ave.
Speeding is a severe problem in both those corridors. By narrowing the lanes and adding concrete structures, motorists will be forced to slow down. Residents on both those roads complain about road noise. Slowing down cars will reduce traffic noise volume. Adding concrete half walls (like K rail) between bikes and cars can also deflect and absorb car noise. This will also allow people to bike short trips around town (eg the school run), further reducing traffic and noise. This is a win-win-win.
Alex Fineman
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Submitted At: 6:24pm 06-10-25
I am a district 3 resident and strongly support allocating funds in the budget for expanding bike infrastructure in Redondo Beach. Not only is this a very necessary step to improve safety for residents - especially children - who bike in our city, but this would have the added benefit of reducing traffic by giving residents a viable alternative means of mobility, especially for the frequent short trips common to Redondo. In particular, the budget should include funds for the full construction of the Palos Verdes Blvd. Class IV bike lane, and a Prospect Ave. Corridor Study to evaluate and demonstrate the viability of bike lanes on a high-traffic street that services our schools.
This could additionally have the impact of reducing sound and speeding vehicular traffic along Prospect.
Thank you,
Alex Fineman
Devon Hollowood
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Submitted At: 6:15pm 06-10-25
I strongly support allocating budget for a Prospect Ave Corridor Study to evaluate protected bike lanes and traffic calming. This would help us make our streets safer for everyone, improve the environment by encouraging more non-car trips, and just generally make Prospect Avenue more pleasant. It would also address several other concerns that people have had, by reducing noise (BRR #3), speeding (BRR #22), and could connect with a Palos Verdes Blvd bike lane as well (BRR #47). The cost is comparatively low, and if we end up reducing traffic speed / volume, we may save money long-term by reducing road wear.
On a personal note, I would love to be able to ride my bike safely on Prospect, and to take more trips by bike in general. We have such perfect weather for it! We just need to make our streets safer for bikes and pedestrians, and then we can all enjoy more walks/rides in our beautiful city.
Thank you for your time,
Devon (Redondo Beach District 3)
Darryl Boyd
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Submitted At: 1:16pm 06-10-25
I support a review of a previously existing budget, stated to us at a neighborhood meeting by Council member Kaluderovic to be in excess of $200,000 for the North Prospect Ave. median repairs and improvements. I support additional funding to complete necessary repairs and improvements including a safety and sound barrier, a wall of 6-8 feet high on the big, North end median of Prospect Ave. .
The North Prospect Avenue median has been neglected by the City of Redondo Beach for decades. There have been 2 incidents of cars jumping the median on this street. The last one was between my home and my direct neighbor North of me. The vehicle jumped the median, took out the light pole, and landed upside down between our homes. Even with this happening, the City of Redondo Beach chose to do nothing in regards to safety enhancements or improvements on this street. We as residents are wide open to the threat of this happening again, wide are open exposed to an insanely busy street, we are sitting ducks. Your new puny 5 gallon plants that will take 5 years to grow into maturity provide no safety and they will provide no privacy either. Are you waiting for a fatality to happen before you do something? Last week nearby on Anza Ave. a car ran the median and ended up backwards in someones front lawn. A few months back an SUV smashed into the front of a home on Anza. A car flew into the football field at West High recently on Del Amo. Plants didn't stop these cars, plants didn't stop the car that landed next to my home either. Cars flying down staircases to the beach, or in swimming pools locally. Flagrant out of control drivers on N. Prospect Ave. Some of the City workers installing those tiny 5 gallon plants expressed to me concern for their own safety. So if your own employees say this, there is a definite problem.
Noise levels on this street are excessive, beyond acceptable levels. We have provided data to City Council to back this up, please read it. Increase in traffic, speeding cars, illegal & modified exhausts, loud audio, and BCHD sound reflection on us. BCHD is no friend to this street or our neighborhood. Would you accept this if it were your home in question?