From: Mark Nelson (Home Gmail)
To: James Light; CityClerk; Scott Behrendt; Brad Waller; Chadwick B. Castle; Zein Obagi; Paige Kaluderovic Cc: Kevin Cody; Darryl Boyd
Subject: Re: Public Comment - Redondo Beach Mayor and Council Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2025 7:38:10 PM
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Thank you for time during non-agenda items to discuss this important topic with negative impacts to the health and safety of our 500-600 N Prospect neighborhoods.
On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM Mark Nelson (Home Gmail) wrote:
TO: Mayor and Council
CC: Mr. Boyd and the Easy Reader News
BCC: 500-600 N Prospect Residents
The letter below was provided on behalf of the 500-600 blocks of the N. Prospect service road by Mr.
Boyd in hard copy as well as electronic version to the City. I reiterate these issues to the Mayor and Council and thank Mr. Boyd for his continued service to the neighborhood.
As the City is well aware from unopposed testimony in the destructive Metro extension EIR and the BCHD privatization and development EIR as examples, noise is clinically linked to various health conditions.
Excessive road and environmental noise is linked to a wide range of adverse health conditions, going far beyond just hearing loss. The primary mechanism for many of these non-auditory effects is the activation of the body's stress response system, leading to chronic stress, inflammation, and the disruption of sleep.
The main health conditions caused or exacerbated by excessive road and environmental noise include:
Auditory Effects
Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL): Permanent or temporary loss of hearing, typically from high-intensity noise exposure.
Tinnitus: A persistent ringing, buzzing, or hissing sound in the ears.
Hyperacusis: Increased sensitivity and intolerance to normal everyday sounds.
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases
Chronic noise exposure, even at levels that don't cause hearing damage, activates the "fightor-flight" response, which over time puts a strain on the cardiovascular system.
Hypertension (High Blood Pressure): The most common cardiovascular effect, as noise can prevent the normal drop in blood pressure during sleep.
Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD): Including heart attacks (myocardial infarction) and other conditions caused by reduced blood flow to the heart.
Stroke (both ischemic and hemorrhagic).
Heart Failure and Arrhythmias (irregular heart rhythms, like atrial fibrillation).
Type 2 Diabetes and other metabolic disturbances.
Premature Mortality from all natural causes, particularly cardiovascular disease.
Neurological and Mental Health Effects
Noise acts as a chronic stressor, affecting mental and cognitive functions.
Sleep Disturbance: Including difficulty falling asleep, reduced total sleep time, and fragmentation of sleep (waking up or being shifted to lighter sleep stages).
Annoyance and Stress: Leading to increased levels of stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline.
Mental Health Issues: Exacerbation or contribution to conditions like anxiety and depression.
Cognitive Impairment: Including difficulties with memory, attention deficits, and reduced productivity.
Childhood Learning Delays: Associated with noise exposure (e.g., aircraft noise near schools), resulting in lower reading scores and problems with hyperactivity and attention.
Other Effects
Annoyance: Considered a major adverse health effect itself, often leading to anger, displeasure, and reduced quality of life.
Endocrine Effects: Disturbances in hormonal function due to the constant activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis.
Inflammation and Oxidative Stress: Underlying mechanisms that drive many of the longterm, non-auditory diseases.
Please review and heed Mr Boyd's communication to the City. He has completed substantial research and organized public meetings with City electeds and staff. Mr. Boyd has made clear and compelling showings of the damages from excessive noise, the risks and damages of traffic, and the lack of noise and traffic enforcement in the neighborhood.
Thank you for your review and action.
Mark Nelson
Property Owner
COMMUNICATION FROM MR BOYD ON BEHALF OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD To: Jim Light, Mayor
Paige Kaluderovic, Council Member District 3
Joe Hoffman, Redondo Beach Chief Of Police
Cc: Mike Witzansky, City Manager
Joy Ford, City Attorney
Eleanor Manzano, City Clerk
500-600 N Prospect Ave. Neighbors
RE: 500-600 Block N Prospect Ave. Redondo Beach - ACTION REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY Be informed that The City of Redondo Beach is out of compliance and in violation of many laws, codes, and ordinances. We have the legal right as Residents and the majority of us are owner occupied here, to a safe, healthy, and peaceful living environment. The City of Redondo Beach has provided neither safety nor a peaceful living environment for Residents of the 500-600 N. Prospect Ave. block for decades.
California Health and Safety Code 46000 is very clear regarding excessive noise and our rights to peaceful enjoyment of our property. This is a California State LAW and part of the Noise Control Act.
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that:
(a) Excessive noise is a serious hazard to the public health and welfare. (b) Exposure to certain levels of noise can result in physiological, psychological, and economic damage.
(c) There is a continuous and increasing bombardment of noise in the urban, suburban, and rural areas.
(d) Government has not taken the steps necessary to provide for the control, abatement, and prevention of unwanted and hazardous noise.
(e) The State of California has a responsibility to protect the health and welfare of its citizens by the control, prevention, and abatement of noise.
(f) All Californians are entitled to a peaceful and quiet environment without the intrusion of noise which may be hazardous to their health or welfare. (g) It is the policy of the state to provide an environment for all Californians free from noise that jeopardizes their health or welfare. To that end it is the purpose of this division to establish a means for effective coordination of state activities in noise control and to take such action as will be necessary to achieve the purposes of this section.
California Civil Code 3479 addresses Public Nuisance and our rights to peaceful free enjoyment of our property.
Anything which is injurious to health, including, but not limited to, the illegal sale of controlled substances, or is indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, or unlawfully obstructs the free passage or use, in the customary manner, of any navigable lake, or river, bay, stream, canal, or basin, or any public park, square, street, or highway, is a nuisance.
Los Angeles County Code Section 12.08.390 defines acceptable noise levels during the day and the evening as 50 decibels during the day, 45 decibels at night. The City of Redondo Beach is out of compliance. There may be several other code sections that the City of Redondo Beach is out of compliance with as well.
Section 12.08.210 addresses Intrusive Noise
Section 12.08.230 addresses Noise Disturbance
Section 12.08.250 addresses Noise Level
Section 12.08.300 addresses Public Right Of Way
Section 12.08.320 addresses Real Property Boundry
Section 12.08.560 addresses Vibration
City of Redondo Beach Code Section 4-24.301 defines acceptable noise levels during the day and the evening as 50 decibels during the day, 45 decibels at night, same as LA County. The City of Redondo Beach is out of compliance with its own ordinance.
Noise levels on the 500-600 N. Prospect Ave. block have been collected ranging from 55 to 60 decibels sitting traffic, 65 to 75 decibels moving traffic, 80 to 85 decibels motorcycles, cars with illegal exhausts, or super cars, and as high as 98.5 decibels emergency vehicles. The City Of Redondo Beach was also made aware of non-compliance through data provided by BCHD. The City of Redondo Beach has an obligation to remedy, yet has done nothing about it. This is way above the acceptable levels of both LA County and the City of Redondo Beach ordinances. It is totally intolerable.
Beach Cities Health District is a major contributor of noise with increased traffic, employee and patient/customer vehicles, and constant emergency vehicles in and out of there. The City of Redondo Beach has been and continues to be an enabler of intrusive and unsettling noise upon our persons and our properties by not remedying the situation with proper traffic control, citing traffic and noise offenders which includes drivers on North Prospect Avenue, and controlling activities at BCHD that cause constant noise disturbances. The noise levels we have been forced to are a sonic noise nuisance and is totally unacceptable.
Additionally, this ongoing situation and due to nonexistent sound and safety barriers on the North Prospect Ave. median may also be considered a Dangerous Condition Of Public Property and a Public Safety and Noise Nuisance, defined under California Government Code 835 and California Penal Codes 372, and 373A. This may apply to the City of Redondo Beach for allowing a Dangerous Condition and a Public Safety and Noise Nuisance to continue without taking the steps to remedy. The N Prospect Ave. median is an outdated design and is not compliant with modern safety or noise codes.
We have had cars flip that median twice in the past. At the excessive speeds vehicles are traveling on N Prospect Ave. the next time could be fatal.
City of Redondo Beach Code 3-7-902 Prohibits large load commercial vehicles from using any City street unless designated in City of Redondo Beach Code 3-7-903. Prospect Avenue is NOT a truck route. Code 3-7-902 is violated day and night on N Prospect Ave with no enforcement by Redondo Beach Police Department. Again, The City of Redondo Beach is out of compliance with its own ordinance.
California Public Records Act CPRA: California Government Code 7920.000 - 7931.000 Our Public Records Requests for traffic and accident data at the Beryl St./N Prospect Ave./BCHD/Diamond St./Del Amo Blvd. streets and intersections have been ignored, stonewalled, not responded to. This is in violation of California State LAW. Additionally, data and video evidence that has been offered to you from Residents has been ignored or rejected.
The City of Redondo Beach, Mayor Jim Light, Council Member Paige Kaluderovic, and Redondo Beach Police Department Chief Joe Hoffman, you have not taken these problems seriously and you have not represented us well. You have neglected your duties and obligations to the Residents of 500-600 N Prospect Avenue and the Beryl Heights community. Ignoring these very serious problems and your inaction to bring remedy greatly impacts our quality of life and our property values. We are suffering mental, physical, personal, and economic damages due to your dereliction of your City Government duties. We need resolutions to safety, traffic control, traffic calming, traffic enforcement, noise abatement, and privacy issues immediately.
We have had 3 neighborhood meetings. We have attended and tried to speak at several City Council and Public Works meetings. We had to force our voices to be heard at Council Member Kaluderovic’s 9/19/25 community meeting as we were not included on her agenda. A year of emails, lodging complaints to RBPD, and fighting with you all to just do what is needed and what is right. It’s enough going back and forth fighting with you all. Now you need to take the proper and required action to remedy.
This is a demand that you provide your plan of corrective action and remedy to us for the problems stated at 500-600 N Prospect Ave. Redondo Beach, CA 90277. In writing and within 30 days from receipt of this letter.