BLUE FOLDER ITEM
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CITY COUNCIL MEETING
OCTOBER 14, 2025
J.1 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS
• PUBLIC COMMUNICATION
From: Charlotte Kim
To: CityClerk
Subject: Non-Agenda Comment: Support Certification and Approval of C Line Extension to Torrance Date: Saturday, October 11, 2025 2:57:41 PM
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City Clerk City Clerk,
Dear Mayor Light and City Council Members,
As a Redondo Beach resident, I urge you to support certification and approval of the Metro C Line Extension to Torrance project and its Final EIR to the LA Metro Board.
This extension represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to bring light rail further into the South Bay and strengthen Redondo Beach’s economic future. The Extension to Torrance will reduce regional traffic congestion by providing a fast, direct transit connection between Redondo Beach, Torrance, LAX, Inglewood, and the E Line. It will link our city’s Redondo Beach Transit Center to the Torrance Transit Center by rail—enhancing mobility for the city's residents, workers, and visitors.
The project delivers major local benefits for Redondo: The Hybrid Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA) modernizes the existing freight corridor with upgraded trackwork, safer pedestrian crossings, and quiet zone-ready improvements—making it safer and quieter for nearby neighborhoods. Improved access to the South Bay Galleria area will strengthen redevelopment, support new housing and jobs, and bring long-term tax revenue to the city.
The project also supports Redondo Beach’s mobility goals by creating new walking and biking paths connecting to planned bike paths on Grant Avenue and Redondo Beach Boulevard.
Metro’s Hybrid LPA is both cost-effective and inclusive—it thoughtfully addresses community concerns and provides the most viable project, while generating over 15,000 jobs and attracting approximately 1.5 million new annual riders. As a Redondo Beach resident, I strongly support the project and the Hybrid LPA. I urge the City Council to recognize the broad community support for this transformative project and advocate for its timely certification and construction. Thank you.
Charlotte
California
From: Mark Nelson (Home Gmail)
To: CityClerk; Marc Wiener
Subject: Public Comment - City Council and Planning Commission - Voters rejected a BCHD ALLCOVE building and demolition of the hospital in Measure BC
Date: Monday, October 13, 2025 9:13:27 PM
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Measure BC lost 55-to-45% and required 66.7. Therefore a majority of voters rejected BCHD's ill-fated redevelopment plan.
Measure BC
In July 2024, the BCHD Board of Directors voted 5-0 to put a $30 Million General Obligation Bond on the November 5, 2024 ballot. The measure did not pass. Measure BC, the Beach Cities Health District Community Health & Wellness bond measure, would have provided:
$9 million to complete construction of the allcove Beach Cities youth mental health center.
$8 million to remove the old South Bay Hospital building. $7 million to replace the old South Bay Hospital building with two acres of open space and health & wellness amenities.
$6 million for other construction improvements (e.g., parking, grading, planning).
The measure would have generated $1.7 million per year for the project From: Mark Nelson (Home Gmail)
To: Marc Wiener; CityClerk; Brad Waller; Chadwick B. Castle; Paige Kaluderovic; Scott Behrendt; Zein Obagi; Joy Ford Subject: Public Comment - Planning Commission and City Council - BCHD is currently lying about the height of the 4-story hospital building Date: Monday, October 13, 2025 9:27:20 PM
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Tom Bakaly is lying to the public in Easy Reader interviews. He claims that the 4-story hospital is 60-feet tall. Unfortunately for Tom, he has filed both a certified EIR and a draft CUP, both with addendums from BCHD's architecture and engineering firms that clearly state that the 4-story hospital is 51.5 feet tall.
Tom Bakaly, BCHD, and its Board must be held to a simple truth standard. They cannot file documents with 51.5-feet tall as the height of the 4-story hospital, and then add another floor of height so that they can allow 100% private commercial developers to bid on land leases for 60-foot projects.
See 100% incontrovertible proof that Tom Bakaly is lying.
Tom's public lie at https://easyreadernews.com/bchd-seeks-expressions-of-interest-for-campus-site/ BCHD pre-CUP from 2-2-2022 citing 51.5-feet tall for the hospital is available from the City of Redondo Beach as both an original BCHD filing and a mark-up from Director Forbes to BCHD.
From: Mark Nelson
To: James Light; CityClerk; [email protected]; Paige Kaluderovic Subject: Public comment mayor and council - LASD large helicopter pictured at Dominguez Park Date: Monday, October 13, 2025 9:30:36 PM
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From: Mark Nelson
To: CityClerk; James Light
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Public comment mayor, council, planning commission, public works commission. Excessive noise BCHD complex Date: Sunday, October 12, 2025 9:05:50 PM
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This represents the third visit from Redondo Beach fire to either 510 514 or 520 N. Prospect Comly called Beach Cities health District today. When I ask for statistics on the number of visits, I get something like one every two days from the city Redondo Beach. I’m sorry, but that’s just not even believable. We need to get somebody to make certain that all of the trips are counted whether they are called to, 510 514 or 520 I suppose hypothetically they could even be called to the parking ramp which may or may not have numbers. But in any event, this is an excessive amount of noise and cannot be allowed to continue in the future with future development as we know Hospital was built to provide emergency services. Emergency services stopped in 1992 I believe and the entire hospital shut down as a hospital in 1998. The hospital itself failed financially in 1984 and was no longer a public hospital after that date. It was simply a renter tenant in the building.
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