City of Santa Monica
City Council Meeting
AGENDA
CAROLINE TOROSIS
MAYOR
ELLIS RASKIN JESSE ZWICK
COUNCILMEMBER MAYOR PRO TEM
DAN HALL BARRY SNELL
COUNCILMEMBER COUNCILMEMBER
LANA NEGRETE NATALYA ZERNITSKAYA
COUNCILMEMBER COUNCILMEMBER
OLIVER C. CHI
CITY MANAGER
HEIDI VON TONGELN
CITY ATTORNEY
DENISE ANDERSON-WARREN
INTERIM CITY CLERK
STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOR THAT PROMOTE CIVILITY AT ALL PUBLIC MEETINGS:
• Treat everyone courteously; • Embrace respectful disagreement and dissent as democratic rights, inherent components of an inclusive
public process, and tools for forging sound decisions
• Hate has no place in Santa Monica. The City opposes
abusive or threatening hate speech, intolerance, or
dehumanization, and supports basic civil respect and
human decency.
• Listen to others respectfully;
• Exercise self-control;
• Give open-minded consideration
to all viewpoints;
• Focus on the issues and avoid
personalizing debate;
Regular meetings are broadcast live on CityTV cable channel 16 and on the internet at santamonica.gov. Cable television re-broadcasts air on Thursday and Saturday at 11:30 AM. The agenda will air on CityTV on Saturday and Sunday at 11:00 AM and 6:00 PM, and on Monday and Tuesday at 12:30 PM and 6:00 PM.
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RULES OF ORDER FOR THE CONDUCT OF CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS (Resolution No.11663(CCS))
WAYS TO PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT
If you are interested in providing public comment at a City Council meeting, there are several ways to participate:
(1) Written public comment. In lieu of oral public comment, the public is strongly encouraged to submit written public comment on agenda items via email to [email protected]. For written public comment submitted by 12:00 pm on the day of the meeting, best efforts shall be made to have them available online for viewing. Please note the agenda item number in the subject line of your written comments.
(2) Oral public comment.
- In-person: Persons wishing to address the City Council regarding items on the agenda must be present and submit their name and address (optional) to the City Clerk before the public comment section is opened for that item or before the public hearing is opened where one is required by law. Register to speak at the Speaker Kiosk prior to the meeting. - Telephone: Persons wishing to address the Council by telephone must register at santamonica.gov/public-comment no later than 5:00 p.m. the day before a meeting. Showing electronic presentation materials are not permitted when commenting by telephone.
Oral public comment from any one individual is limited to a total of 6 minutes per City Council meeting, with a maximum of 2 minutes per agenda item if speaking on multiple items. A member of the public may allocate time between items in one-minute increments up to 2 minutes and those requesting to speak on only one agendized item for the meeting may speak for up to 4 minutes on that one item. Except for noticed public hearings or quasi-judicial items, if more than 25 speakers are registered to speak during a public input section, the amount of time shall be reduced to 1 minute per speaker during that section.
Except for the author of the request, public comment on 15-items are limited to 1 minute.
Levine Act Disclosure. Pursuant to the Levine Act (Govt Code Section 84308), any party to a permit, license, contract, or other entitlement before the Council is required to disclose on the record any contribution, including aggregated contributions, of more than $500 made by the party or the party's agents within the preceding 12 months to any City official. Participants and agents are requested to make this disclosure as well. The disclosure must include the name of the party, participant, or agent, and any other person making the contribution; the name of the recipient, the amount of the contribution, and the date the contribution was made. Information regarding the Levine Act can be found here or you can contact the FPPC.
ORDER OF BUSINESS (may not be changed except by majority vote of the City Council.)
1. General Public Input
(Members of the public may address the City Council
only on items not on the agenda, but within the
subject matter jurisdiction of the City and on Special
Agenda Items.)
2. Special Agenda Items (Commendations and
Proclamations presented).
3. Public Comment for Consent Calendar and Closed
Sessions Only.
4. Consent Calendar (All items considered in one
motion unless removed by a City Councilmember for
discussion. No public comment is permitted on
second readings.)
5. Closed Sessions.
6. Public Comment on remaining Agenda Items
7. Study Session.
8. Continued Items.
9. Administrative Proceedings.
10. Ordinances:
• 1
st Reading
• 2
nd Reading (No public comment is
permitted on second readings.)
11. Staff Administrative Item.
12. Public Hearings.
13. Reports of Boards and Commissions.
14. Resolutions.
15. Written Communications (Other than
Reports of Commission and Officers.)
16. Councilmember Discussion Items.
Agendas and reports are accessible on the City's webpage at smgov.net/council/agendas. They are also available at the City Clerk's Office and in alternate formats upon request. For a free email subscription to the City Council Agendas, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (310) 458-8211 or [email protected].
Si desea comunicarse con alguien en español, llame a nuestra oficina al (310) 458-8211 y pida hablar con Esterlina Lugo.
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AGENDAS
CITY OF SANTA MONICA
REGULAR MEETING
CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
1685 MAIN STREET, ROOM 250,
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2026
MEETING BEGINS AT 5:30 PM
HOW TO PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT BY TELEPHONE
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Zoom Dial-In Information: Phone Number (669) 900-6833 (US), Meeting ID:978 8290 3006# Persons wishing to address the Council by telephone must register at santamonica.gov/public-comment no later than 5:00 p.m. the business day before a meeting. Donation of time and showing electronic presentation materials are not permitted when commenting by telephone.
CALL TO ORDER
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE / LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ROLL CALL
City of Santa Monica Statement of Accountability (Land Acknowledgement) The City of Santa Monica is located on the land of Tovangaar. With great respect, the City acknowledges the Gabrieleño/Tongva as the First People of this ancestral and unceded territory of Kuruvungna, a village that we know as Santa Monica. We honor their elders, past and present, and the Gabrieleño descendants who are part of the Gabrieleño /Tongva tribes.
We recognize that these peoples are still here, and as settlers and kuyam (guests), we recognize our responsibility and obligation to care for their land in partnership with them.
The City of Santa Monica commits to work in partnership with the Gabrieleño/Tongva people to uplift their voices and visibility on their ancestral land.
LEVINE ACT DISCLOSURES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS / PROCEDURAL
MOTIONS
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1. GENERAL PUBLIC INPUT AND COMMENT ON SPECIAL AGENDA ITEMS (For regular meetings, public comment is permitted on Special Agenda Items and items not on the agenda that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the City. State law prohibits the City Council from taking any action on items not listed on the agenda, including issues raised under this agenda item. For special meetings, public input is limited to scheduled Special Agenda Items only.)
1.A. Written Comments
2. SPECIAL AGENDA ITEMS
2.A. 2.A. Proclamation: Hispanic Heritage Month (Sep.15- Oct.15)
2.B. 2.B.Proclamation: National Suicide Prevention Week (Sep. 6-Sep.12)
3. PUBLIC INPUT (ITEMS UNDER CONSENT CALENDAR AND CLOSED SESSION ONLY)
4. CONSENT CALENDAR
(All items will be considered and approved in one motion unless removed by a Councilmember for discussion. In accordance with Charter section 615, the adoption of all ordinances and resolutions shall be by reading of title only unless a Councilmember present dissents. No public discussion is permitted on ordinances for second reading and adoption.)
4.A. Adoption of a Resolution Authorizing the Application for Grant Funds from the U.S. Department of Interior - Bureau of Reclamation Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Program
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;
2. Adopt the attached resolution authorizing the application for grant funds in the amount of up to $40,000,000 from the U.S. Department of Interior - Bureau of Reclamation Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Program for the Santa Monica Advanced Reuse for Tomorrow (SMART) Project in the Public Works Department; and
3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute all necessary documents to apply for the grant, accept the grant, if awarded, and accept all grant renewals.
4.B. Award RFP No. SP2805 to and Authorize City Manager to enter into Agreement With Kimley-Horn for the Design of 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway Project
City of Santa Monica Generated: 9/9/2026 12:29 PM Page 5 Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt a finding of categorical exemption pursuant to Section 15301 (Existing Facilities) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;
2. Award RFP #SP2805 to Kimley-Horn for transportation planning, design and engineering services for the 14th Street Two-way Protected Bikeway for the Public Works Department;
3. Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with Kimley-Horn in a total amount not to exceed $1,999,205 over a five-year period, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval; and
4. Authorize the budget amendment as outlined in the Financial Impacts & Budget Actions section of the report (requires 5 votes).
4.C. Award RFP #478 and Authorize the City Manager to enter into an Agreement With Cloudburst Consulting Group, Inc. for Administration of Funds Received Though the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD)
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;
2. Award RFP #478 to Cloudburst Consulting Group, Inc. for administration of funds received through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) for the Housing and Human Services Department; and
3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute an agreement with Cloudburst Consulting Group, Inc. in an amount not to exceed $100,000 for one year, with four additional one-year renewal option(s), subject to 3% annual cost increases on the same terms and conditions, for a total amount not to exceed $531,000 over a 5-year period, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
4.D. Authorization to Enter Into Second Modification to Agreement #11181 with ES Engineering Services, dba Onterris, for Operation, Maintenance, and Monitoring of the Landfill Gas Management System
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt a finding of Categorical Exemption pursuant to Section 15301 (Existing Facilities), and Section 15330 Minor Actions to Prevent, Minimize, Stabilize, Mitigate or Eliminate the Release or Threat of Release of Hazardous Waste or Hazardous Substances) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines, and exempt pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the CEQA Guidelines.
2. Authorize the City Manager to execute a second modification to agreement #11181 in the amount of $306,076 with ES Engineering Services, dba City of Santa Monica Generated: 9/9/2026 12:29 PM Page 6 Onterris, for the operation, maintenance, and monitoring of the Landfill Gas Management System for the City Manager’s Office. This will result in a sixyear amended agreement with a new total amount not to exceed $1,321,287, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
4.E. Authorization of a Cooperative Agreement with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) for Local Improvements and Design and Construction Services for the PCH/Lot 1 North Traffic Signal Project Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt findings of categorical exemptions pursuant to Section 15301 (Existing Facilities) and Section 15311 (Accessory Structures) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines; and
2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute an Agreement with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), for Local Improvements and design and construction services for the PCH/Lot 1 North Traffic Signal Project for the Public Works Department. This is for a total amount not to exceed $2,000,000, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
4.F. Award RFP #2026-RFP-00020 to Brown and Caldwell for the Evaluation of Water Treatment Facilities Local Discharge Limits and Preparation of a Local Limits Study for the Water Resources Division
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt a finding of statutory exemption pursuant to Section 15262 (Feasibility and Planning Studies) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), a finding of categorical exemption pursuant to Section 15306 (Information Gathering) of the CEQA Guidelines, and a finding of no possibility of significant effects pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines;
2. Award RFP # 2026-RFP-00020 to Brown and Caldwell for the evaluation of water treatment facilities, local discharge limits, and preparation of a local limits study for the Public Works Department; and
3. Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with Brown and Caldwell in an amount not to exceed $360,000, over a five-year period, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
4.G. Approval of First Modification to Agreement #11720 (CCS) with Archi.txture, LLC dba BASK for Citywide Furniture Purchases and Installation Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt a finding of categorical exemption pursuant to Section 15301 (Existing Facilities) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines; and
2. Authorize the City Manager to execute a first modification to agreement #11720 (CCS) in the amount of $1,500,000 with Archi.txture, LLC dba BASK for citywide furniture purchases and installation for the Public Works Department. This will result in an amended agreement with a new total City of Santa Monica Generated: 9/9/2026 12:29 PM Page 7 amount not to exceed $2,500,000, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
4.H. Authorization to enter into Professional Services Agreement with Grail, Inc. to Provide Cancer Screenings for the Santa Monica Fire Department Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines; and
2. Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with Grail, Inc. to provide cancer screenings for Fire Department personnel. This recommended award is made as an exception to the competitive bidding process pursuant to the City’s Procurement Policy and is for a total contract amount not to exceed $130,962, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval and grant awards.
4.I. Authorization to Issue Purchase Order to Hach Company for Water Treatment Chemical Analyzer Equipment & Reagents
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt a finding of categorical exemption pursuant to Section 15301 (Existing Facilities) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines; and
2. Authorize the Procurement Manager to issue a purchase order with Hach Company for water treatment chemical analyzer equipment and reagents for the Public Works Department. This recommended award is made as an exception to the competitive bidding process pursuant the City’s Procurement Policy and is for a total amount not to exceed $750,000, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
4.J. Award Bid #4524 to and Authorize the City Manager to enter into an Agreement With UBM Enterprise, Inc. for Custodial Services at Big Blue Bus Facilities for the Department of Transportation
City of Santa Monica Generated: 9/9/2026 12:29 PM Page 8 Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt a finding of Categorical Exemption pursuant to Section 15301 (Existing Facilities) and a finding of no possibility of significant effects pursuant to Section 15061 (b)(3) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;
2. Award Bid #4524 to UBM Enterprise, Inc. for custodial services at Big Blue Bus facilities for the Department of Transportation;
3. Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with UBM Enterprises, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $1,549,611, with a $154,961 contingency, for a total amount not to exceed $1,704,572 over a five-year period with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
4.K. Authorization to enter into Concession Agreement with Santa Monica Trapeze School for Concessionaire and Recreation Services at Clover Park Recommended Action
Staff recommends that City Council:
1. Adopt finding of categorical exemption pursuant to Sections 15303, 15332, and 15061(b)(3) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines.
2. Authorize the City Manager to execute a Concession Agreement with Santa Monica Trapeze School (SMTS) to provide concession and recreation services at Clover Park for five years, with one additional five-year renewal option.
4.L. Authorization to Modify Agreement with Golden State Certified Development Corporation for Operation of the Virginia Avenue Park Community Kitchen Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;
2. Authorize the City Manager to execute a modified agreement in the amount of $385,000 with Golden State Certified Development Corporation for operation of the Virginia Avenue Park Community Kitchen for the Housing and Human Services Department, resulting in a new total amount not to exceed $1,155,000, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval;
3. Authorize budget amendment as outlined in the Financial Impacts & Budget Actions section of this report. (requires 5 votes)
4.M. Award Bids and Service Agreements for As-Needed Real Estate & Design Consulting Services
City of Santa Monica Generated: 9/9/2026 12:29 PM Page 9 Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of signification effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;
2. Award RFP# 2026-RFP-00015 to AECOM Technical Services, Inc., BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, CBRE, Cherry Tree Capital Partners, Eastdil Secured, Economic and Planning Systems Inc, Gensler, Kellenberg Studio, Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc., Michael Baker International, Robert Charles Lesser & Co, LLC d/b/a RCLCO, Sasaki Associates, Inc., Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill LLP, SWA Group, and The RAND Corporation for as-needed real estate & design consulting services for the City Manager’s Office, and;
3. Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with AECOM Technical Services, Inc in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 for three years, with two additional one-year renewal options, on the same terms and conditions, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
4. Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 for three years, with two additional one-year renewal options, on the same terms and conditions, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
5. Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with CBRE in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 for three years, with two additional oneyear renewal options, on the same terms and conditions, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
6. Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with Cherry Tree Capital Partners in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 for three years, with two additional one-year renewal options, on the same terms and conditions, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
7. Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with Eastdil Secured in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 for three years, with two additional oneyear renewal options, on the same terms and conditions, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
8. Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with Economic and Planning Systems Inc in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 for three years, with two additional one-year renewal options, on the same terms and conditions, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
9. Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement Gensler in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 for three years, with two additional one-year renewal options, on the same terms and conditions, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
10.Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with Kellenberg Studio in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 for three years, with two additional one-year renewal options, on the same terms and conditions, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
11.Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 for three years, with two additional one-year renewal options, on the same terms and conditions, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
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12.Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with Michael Baker International in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 for three years, with two additional one-year renewal options, on the same terms and conditions, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
13.Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with Robert Charles Lesser & Co, LLC in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 for three years, with two additional one-year renewal options, on the same terms and conditions, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
14.Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with Sasaki Associates, Inc in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 for three years, with two additional one-year renewal options, on the same terms and conditions, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
15.Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill LLP in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 for three years, with two additional one-year renewal options, on the same terms and conditions, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
16.Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with SWA Group in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 for three years, with two additional oneyear renewal options, on the same terms and conditions, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
17.Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with The RAND Corporation in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 for three years, with two additional one-year renewal options, on the same terms and conditions, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
4.N. City Council - Regular and Special Joint Meeting - Jun 23, 2026 5:30 PM
4.O. City Council - Regular Meeting - Jul 14, 2026 5:30 PM - New Item Received. 9/03/2026
4.P. City Council - Special Meeting - Jul 27, 2026 5:30 PM - New attachment added 9/03/2025
4.Q. City Council - Special Meeting - Jul 28, 2026 8:45 PM - New Item Received. 9/03/2026
4.R. Approval of Offer Letter for Retired Annuitant Extra Help Services in the Records and Election Services Department – Denise Anderson-Warren - New Item Received. 9/03/2026
City of Santa Monica Generated: 9/9/2026 12:29 PM Page 11 Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council
1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15601(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;
2. Approve the offer letter to Denise Anderson-Warren for her services as extra help during the transition to a new permanent Director of Records and Election Services (City Clerk); and
3. Authorize the Mayor to sign the offer letter on behalf of the City.
5. CLOSED SESSIONS
5.A. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code § 54956.9(d)(1):
John U.N.B. Doe, et al. v. City, et al., LASC # 23STCV12746; John Doe 1, et al. v. City, et al., LASC # 23STCV15009; Hector Orozco v. John Doe: Does 1-2, LASC # 23SMCV03120; John JPC Doe v. Doe City, et al., LASC # 23STCV22020; John AD Doe, et al. v. City, et al., LASC # 23STCV26548; John CW Doe, et al. v. City, et al., LASC # 23STCV29623; John Doe (A.G.) v.
Santa Monica Police Activities League, et al., LASC # 23SMCV06066; John GA DOE, et al. v.
City, et al., LASC # 24STCV06484; John U.L.W. Doe, et al. v. City, et al., LASC # 24STCV06768; Joseph Garcia v. Santa Monica Police Activities League, et al., LASC # 24SMCV01368; John Doe 15, et al. v. City, et al., LASC # 24STCV07647; John Doe 18, et al. v. City, et al., LASC # 24STCV08239; John RR Doe, et al. v. City, et al., LASC # 24STCV09398; John Doe 33, et al. v.
City, et al., LASC # 24STCV15580; John Doe 48 v. City, et al., LASC # 24STCV15420; John Doe 49 v. City, et al., LASC # 24STCV19296; John DD Doe v. City, et al., LASC # 24SMCV04421; Jane EB Doe, et al. v. City, et al., LASC # 24STCV24146; John Doe (V.D.) v. Santa Monica Police Activities League, et al., LASC # 24SMCV05049; John Doe (D.F.) v. Santa Monica Police Activities League, et al., LASC # 24SMCV05050; John Doe (D.G.) v. Santa Monica Police Activities League, et al., LASC # 24SMCV05051; Jane Doe 13, et al. v. City, et al., LASC # 24STCV27233; John AM Doe, et al. v. City, et al., LASC # 24STCV28433; John Doe v. City, et al., LASC # 24SMCV05527; John Doe (Y.M.) v. Santa Monica Police Activities League, et al., LASC # 24SMCV06355; Jane Doe 16, et al. v. a Public Entity, et al., LASC # 25STCV02235; John Doe 62, et al. v. City, et al., LASC # 25STCV04414; John Doe 23 v. City, et al., LASC # 25STCV05850; John Doe (E.B.) v. Santa Monica Police Activities League, et al., LASC # 25STCV06354; Jane PB Doe, et al. v. City, et al., LASC # 25STCV06880; John Doe 67 v. City, et al., LASC # 25STCV10142; John Doe 68 v. City, et al., LASC # 25STCV12089; John Doe 69, et al. v. City, et al., LASC # 25STCV14031; John OR Doe, et al. v. City, et al., LASC # 25STCV16251; John RD Doe, et al. v. City, et al., LASC # 25STCV24158; John Doe 71, et al. v. City of Santa Monica, et al., # 25STCV32120; John Doe 76 v. Roe 1, a public entity; et al., # 25STCV32032; John Doe 77 v. City of Santa Monica, et al., # 26STCV07769
5.B. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code § 54956.9(d)(1):
City v. ICSOP, et al.; OCSC # 30-2022-01261243
5.C. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code § 54956.9(d)(1):
Waymo, LLC v. City of Santa Monica, LASC # 25SMCV06541; City of Santa Monica et al. v. Waymo, LLC et al., LASC # 25SMCV06581; Santa Monica EV Holdings, LLC v. City of Santa Monica, LASC # 25MSCV06681 City of Santa Monica Generated: 9/9/2026 12:29 PM Page 12
5.D. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code § 54956.9(d)(1):
Martha Garcia, et al. v. City, et al; LASC # 24SMCV00971; report out
5.E. Conference with real estate negotiator - Gov. Code § 54956.8; property: Miles Playhouse, portions of Reed Park and portions of Jocelyn Hall, Santa Monica, California; City negotiator: Oliver Chi, City Manager; owner of record: Ceská olympijská a.s.; persons to be negotiated with: Blanka Konecná, Czech House Project Director, Ceská olympijská a.s.; under negotiation: price and terms of payment of lease. - New Item Received. 9/03/2026
5.F. Conference with real estate negotiator - Gov. Code § 54956.8 - New Item Received. 9/03/2026
2525 Michigan (“Bergamot Station Arts Center”), Santa Monica, California; City negotiators:
Oliver Chi, City Manager; Aileen Reynolds, Director of Housing and Human Services; Natalie Verlinich, Housing Manager; owner of record: City of Santa Monica; persons to be negotiated with: Joey Hagen, Associate, Bridge Housing; Teresa Pakalski, Senior Development Manager, Community Development Partners et al; John Mimms, Vice President of Development, Michaels; Anup Patel, Director of Real Estate Development, West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation; under negotiation: price and terms of payment. - New Item Received. 9/03/2026
5.G. Conference with real estate negotiator - Gov. Code § 54956.8:
City property: 2900 & 3000 Airport Avenue, 3011 Airport Avenue, and 3021 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, California; City negotiator: Oliver Chi, City Manager; persons to be negotiated with: Tim Katt, Gradient Holdings, LLC; Larry Serota, Executive Managing Director, Transwestern; under negotiation: price and terms of payment of lease
5.H. Conference with real estate negotiator - Gov. Code § 54956.8: property: 256 Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California; City negotiator: Oliver Chi, City Manager; owner of record: City of Santa Monica; persons to be negotiated with: Scott Francis, CEO, Santa Monica Brew Works; under negotiation: price and terms of payment for lease - New Item Received. 9/03/2026
CITY MANAGER REPORT
. City Manager Report - Small Business Relief Microgrant Program Update - New Item Received. 9/03/2026
TRAVEL ANNOUNCEMENT AND MAYOR'S HIGHLIGHT
6. PUBLIC INPUT ON REMAINING AGENDA ITEMS
. Public Input for 12-Items will be heard at the time when the Public Hearing is called.
7. STUDY SESSION
City of Santa Monica Generated: 9/9/2026 12:29 PM Page 13 No items
8. CONTINUED ITEMS
No items
9. ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS
No items
10. ORDINANCES
(Public comment is permitted on ordinances for introduction and first reading. No public discussion is permitted on ordinances for second reading and adoption. In accordance with Charter section 615, the adoption of all ordinances and resolutions shall be by reading of title only unless a Councilmember present dissents.)
10.A. Introduction and First Reading of an Ordinance Adding Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 3.12.540 to Establish an Automated Traffic Enforcement System (ATES) Program
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;
2. Introduce for first reading the attached ordinance adding Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 3.12.540 to establish an Automated Traffic Enforcement System (ATES) Program to detect a violation of a traffic control signal; and
3. Direct staff to monitor state legislation related to automated speed enforcement and evaluate opportunities for implementation should Santa Monica become eligible under state law.
11. STAFF ADMINISTRATIVE ITEMS
11.A. Adoption of a Resolution Approving Membership in the Westside Cities Affordable Housing Trust (WSCAHT) Joint Powers Authority and Appointment of Council Member to Board of Directors
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;
2. Adopt a resolution approving the City’s membership in the Westside Cities Affordable Housing Trust (WSCAHT);
3. Authorize the City Manager, or designee, to execute the Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement establishing the WSCAHT; and
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4. Appoint one (1) City Council member to serve as the City’s Director and one (1) City Council member to serve as the City’s Alternate Director on the Board of Directors of the Westside Cities Affordable Housing Trust.
11.B. Vision Zero Study Session: Transition to a Safe System Approach and Direction on Future Roadway Safety Priorities
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt a finding that this study session is not a “project” subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA);
2. Conduct a study session regarding the City’s Vision Zero program, the transition to a modified Safe System approach, and the next phase of roadway-safety implementation; and
3. Provide direction regarding the following items:
a. Adoption of the modified seven-element Safe System framework as the organizing structure for the next phase of the City’s Vision Zero program; b. Development and evaluation of a complementary High-Risk Network through the Local Roadway Safety Plan to enable proactive identification of, and response to, emerging locations that present vehicle, bicycle, and pedestrian safety issues ;
c. Implementation of the Neighborhood Traffic Calming Toolkit, including the hybrid intake model, the proposed 51 percent / 25 percent neighborhoodsupport framework, and continued delivery of the early implementation projects identified in this report ;
d. The proposed approval framework for traffic diversion treatments, including the administrative pathway for qualifying diverters, clarification of the 2014 Michigan Avenue Neighborhood Greenway Council-approval requirement, and a multifamily temporary-installation pathway ; and e. Administrative implementation approaches under which Council establishes policy and program parameters and staff advances qualifying safety and mobility improvements under administrative approval processes, including a Residential Preferential Parking modernization framework .
12. PUBLIC HEARINGS
12.A. Public Hearing and Introduction and Adoption of Emergency IZO to Extend Interim Zoning Regulations Establishing Standards and Procedures for Light Fleet-Based Service for Autonomous Vehicles
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines; and
2. Introduce and Adopt an Emergency Interim Zoning Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Santa Monica Extending Interim Zoning Regulations Established by Emergency Interim Ordinance 2860 (CCS) to Establish City of Santa Monica Generated: 9/9/2026 12:29 PM Page 15 Standards and Procedures for Approval for Light Fleet-Based Services for Autonomous Vehicles and Creation of a Use Classification for Light-Fleet Based Service for Autonomous Vehicles.
12.B. Public Hearing and Introduction and First Reading of an Ordinance to Amend the Text of the Zoning Ordinance to Increase Development Standards for Parcels Located Within the R1 (Single-Unit Residential) Zoning District and the Area Bounded By the I-10 Freeway to the South, Dorchester Avenue to the West, Exposition Boulevard to the North, and Centinela Avenue to the East to Allow for the Exclusion of Certain Sites That Are Located Within One-Half Mile of the Expo/Bundy Stationfrom Senate Bill 79 Implementation Until One Year Following the Adoption of the 7th Cycle (2029-2037) Housing Element of the City's General Plan
Recommended Action
Staff recommends Council:
1. Adopt a finding of statutory exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to Government Code Section 65912.160(c); and
2. Introduce for first reading an Ordinance to Amend Chapter 9.06, Transit Oriented Development Zones, to Increase Development Standards for Parcels Located Within the R1 (Single-Unit Residential Zoning District) and the Area Bounded by the I-10 Freeway to the South, Dorchester Avenue to the West, Exposition Boulevard to the North, and Centinela Avenue to the East to Allow for the Exclusion of Certain Sites that are Located Within OneHalf Mile of the Expo/Bundy Station from Senate Bill (SB) 79 Implementation Until One Year Following the Adoption of the 7th Cycle (2029-2037) Housing Element of the City’s General Plan.
13. REPORTS OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS
No items
14. RESOLUTIONS
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15. WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS OTHER THAN REPORTS OF COMMISSION AND
OFFICERS
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16. COUNCILMEMBER DISCUSSION ITEMS
16.A. Annual Appointments to the following Boards and Commissions (Continued from 6/23/2026):
Board/Commission No. of
Seats
Term
End
Date
Special Requirements
City of Santa Monica Generated: 9/9/2026 12:29 PM Page 16 Airport Commission 1
6/30/20
30 Resident of Santa Monica
(Term may be adjusted due to
Airport Conversion Project)
Architectural Review Board 2
6/30/20
30 Persons qualified to: analyze
architectural and
environmental
trends/information; appraise
resource uses per Municipal
Code; and be responsive to
needs of the community.
Experts in conservation,
recreation, design,
landscaping, the arts, urban
planning, cultural-historical
preservation, and ecological
and environmental science
Arts Commission 1
6/30/20
30 Reside or work in Santa
Monica and shall be actively
involved in the arts
Clean Beaches & Ocean Parcel
Tax Citizens Oversight
Committee
2 6/30/20
30 Resident of Santa Monica
Commission on Sustainability,
Environmental Justice and the
Environment
2 6/30/20
30 Reside or work in Santa
Monica and must have
significant expertise in one of
the following areas: Energy,
water, transportation,
stormwater, wastewater,
coastal issues, waste
reduction and public health,
land use and sustainable
development, public education
Disabilities Commission
1 6/30/20
30 Resident of Santa Monica who
self identifies with a disability
1 Resident of Santa Monica with
significant experience in the
disability community
Downtown Santa Monica. Inc. 3
6/30/20
30 Directors shall be City
residents or persons who are
employed, own property or
hold business licenses in the
City of Santa Monica.
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1 6/30/20
28 Housing Choice Voucher
(Section 8) participant with a
voucher issued by the Santa
Monica Housing Authority
program
1 Housing Choice Voucher
(Section 8) participant with a
voucher issued by the Santa
Monica Housing Authority
program and be formerly
unhoused
L.A. County West Vector Control
District 1
6/30/20
30 Registered Santa Monica
voter
Landmarks Commission
1 6/30/20
30 Resident of Santa Monica over
the age of 18 and an architect
historian
1 6/30/20
30 Resident of Santa Monica over
the age of 18 with
demonstrated interest and
knowledge, to the highest
extent practicable, of local
history
1 6/30/20
30 Resident of Santa Monica over
the age of 18
Personnel Board 1
6/30/20
30 Either a resident of Santa
Monica, resident of Los
Angeles County that is
employed full-time within
Santa Monica, owns real
property in Santa Monica, or
has been issued a business
license by Santa Monica
Public Safety Reform and
Oversight Commission
1 6/30/20
27 Resident of Santa Monica
between the ages of 18 and
25 1
6/30/20
29 Recreation and Parks
Commission 2
6/30/20
30 Resident of Santa Monica
Santa Monica Library Board 2
6/30/20
30 Resident of Santa Monica
Santa Monica Pier Corporation 4
6/30/20
30 At least one shall be a resident
of Santa Monica, with the
City of Santa Monica Generated: 9/9/2026 12:29 PM Page 18 remaining being residents or
persons who do business or
are employed in Santa Monica
Santa Monica Travel and
Tourism, Inc. 3
6/30/20
30 At least one shall be a resident
of Santa Monica
16.B. Appointment to one unscheduled vacancy on the Personnel Board for a term ending on June 30, 2029
16.C. Recommendation to accept Brian Sweeney's resignation from the Public Safety Reform & Oversight Commission and authorize the City Clerk to publish the vacancy - New Item Received. 9/03/2026
16.D. A request of Councilmember Negrete that the City Manager Agendize the Small Business Relief Microgrant Program and provide an update on the guidelines, timeline and launch of the program - New Item Received. 9/03/2026
16.E. Request of Mayor Torosis and Councilmembers Hall and Snell that Council take formal ENDORSE positions on state Propositions 1, 3, and 37 and OPPOSE positions on Propositions 39 and 43. - New Item Received. 9/03/2026
16.F. Request of Mayor Torosis and Councilmembers Hall and Raskin Directing the City Manager and City Attorney to Negotiate a Community Workforce Agreement - New Item Received. 9/03/2026
16.G. Request of Mayor Torosis and Councilmember Hall that the City Council direct the City Manager to begin negotiations with the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District for a successor agreement to the current Master Facilities Use Agreement (MFUA), with the goal of ensuring continued and equitable community access to SMMUSD facilities. Negotiations should address current resident concerns with the MFUA, including but not limited to responsibilities for permitting, facility access and availability, scheduling, fees and cost allocation for public and community use of SMMUSD facilities. The City Manager is further directed to evaluate the fiscal and operational impacts of both potential outcomes of Measure ES and, should Measure ES fail, present contingency options as part of the March budget study session. - New Item Received. 9/03/2026
16.H. Request of Councilmembers Raskin and Negrete and Mayor Torosis that the City Council consider approving the allocation of $1,188 from Council Discretionary Funds to support the room rental fee at Virginia Avenue Park for Santa Monica Ballet Folklorico Dance Company in support classes that are dedicated to preserving and sharing Latino and Native American traditions in Santa Monica. The funds would be appropriated in the amount of $1,188 from Councilmember Raskin - New Item Received. 9/03/2026
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16.I. Request of Councilmember Snell that the City Council consider approving the allocation of $2,390 for the GREENwell event organized by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Sigma Lambda Omega Chapter on Sunday, September 20, 2026, that will celebrate their participation and support of International Coastal Cleanup Day. The funds would be appropriated in the amount of $2,390 from Councilmember Snell - New Item Received. 9/03/2026
ADJOURNMENT
Agendas and reports are accessible on the City's webpage at www.smgov.net/council/agendas. They are also available at the City Clerk's Office and in alternate formats upon request. For a free email subscription to the City Council Agendas, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (310) 458-8211 or [email protected].
Members of the public unable to attend a meeting but wishing to comment on an item(s) listed on the agenda may submit written comments prior to the meeting by meeting by mailing them to: City Clerk, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401 or to [email protected]. Written comments received from the public by 12 PM on the day of the City Council meeting will be distributed to the City Council prior to the meeting and posted online. Members of the public who submit written public comment on an agenda item may be subject to the Levine Act which requires disclosure of campaign contributions of more than $500 to an officer of the City within the preceding 12 months.
City Hall and the Council Chambers are wheelchair accessible. If you require any special disability related accommodations to either attend or provide public testimony at a Council meeting (i.e. sign language interpreting, access to an amplified sound system, remote option, etc.), please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (310) 458-8211 or TDD: (310) 917- 6626 or via email at [email protected] at least 72 hours prior to the scheduled meeting. Best efforts shall be made to accommodate requests received after the 72-hour deadline. In the case of special meetings, requests should be submitted as early as possible, but no later than noon the day of the special Council meeting.
Si desea comunicarse con alguien en español, llame a nuestra oficina al (310) 458-8211 y pida hablar con Esterlina Lugo.
Santa Monica Blue Bus Lines #1, #2, #3, #5, #9 and the EXPO Line serve City Hall.
Parking is available on Main Street, on Olympic Drive, and in the Civic Center Parking Structure (validation free).
City Council
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From: Denise Anderson Warren, Interim City Clerk, Records and Election Services Department
Subject: Written Comments
Prepared By: David Yakobson, Staff Assistant III
Approved Forwarded to Council
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From: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2026 12:29 AM
To: [email protected]; Shawn Landres; Nina Fresco; Jim Ries; Josh Hamilton; Leslie Lambert; Peer Chacko; Jacob Wasserman; Santa Monica City Manager's Office; Finance Mailbox
Cc: councilmtgitems; Jennifer Taylor; Oliver Chi; Susan Cline; Peter James; Sandra Santiago; Sergio Ramirez; Lisa Parson; Lauren Howland; Melissa Spagnuolo; Attorney Mailbox; Lana Negrete; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Natalya Zernitskaya; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Santa Monica’s mayoral rotation has a glaring flaw.
EXTERNAL
Santa Monica’s mayoral rotation has a glaring flaw.
Under City Charter §604 and Council Resolution 11547, the City Council selects the mayor from among its own members—but the rules do not prevent a councilmember from serving as Mayor while simultaneously running for re-election to the Council.
That should change.
The office of Mayor comes with heightened visibility, ceremonial authority, media exposure, agendasetting influence, and the ability to speak for the City at public events. During an election year, those advantages can blur the line between official City leadership and campaigning for another term.
No sitting councilmember who is actively seeking re-election should be allowed to serve as Mayor during that election cycle.
This is not about one individual. It is about basic fairness.
The mayor’s office should not become an incumbency advantage paid for by the prestige and visibility of City government.
Santa Monica should amend its Council rules so that any councilmember up for re-election is temporarily ineligible to serve as Mayor until the election is over.
Public office should not double as a campaign platform.
Sincerely,
To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Joe DiRosa Founder, CEO
213-STAGE-LA
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From: John Alle <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2026 2:51 PM
To: John Alle
Subject: Mother and Her 4-Month Old Daughter Leave LA and Return to Family and a Safer City
EXTERNAL
Urban Alchemy, a self-perpetuating NGO, is exploiting the SAFE CITIES Family Reunification Hotline despite receiving $49M since 2019, in part from the City of LA and the Department of Justice.
CEO Dr. Lena Miller's salary is up 68% since 2022. She and COO Bayron Wilson each take in about a third of a million dollars annually. SAFE CITIES Hotlines remain open regardless of any NGO mismanaging funds received from the City of LA, California or the Feds. Audits are needed for every California-based NGO receiving Taxpayer Funds.
GOOD NEWS: A mother and her 4-month-old daughter were flown back to safety and family in Raleigh, North Carolina for $600 courtesy of generous SAFE CITIES donors.
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From: Lauren Wyka <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2026 9:36 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: UPDATED: Public Comment Submission-Lauren Wyka-September 8, 2026 City Council Meeting (Please Disregard Previous)
Attachments: Wyka_Code_Enforcement_Failure_Food_Truck_Nuisance.pdf; emails,Wyka, Lauren for City Council Meeting Sept 8, 2026 .pdf
Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Flagged
EXTERNAL
Dear Santa Monica City Clerk,
Please accept this email as my formal submission for public comment for the City Council meeting on Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Please disregard my previous email and use this updated version instead.
I also redacted these documents per your last email. Thank you.
This submission regards the ongoing code enforcement and traffic services failures concerning the severe nuisance caused by the Felix Hibachi food truck operating on the public street outside 2018 Lincoln Blvd, directly impacting adjacent residential property owners and renters.
This matter is tied to six open city service files. Please ensure this submission is linked to Official 311 Case Tracking Numbers: CS0242939, CS0242710, CS0242258, CS0242256, CS0236049, and CS0206640.
Materials Submitted for Council Review:
1. Written Testimony (Attached)
My full written speech detailing the ongoing 12.5-hour daily generator noise, ground vibrations, multiple City code violations, documented attempts to work with City staff, timeline of communications, and the legal framework under Santa Monica municipal codes.
2. Correspondence Log (Attached)
A PDF containing email exchanges between myself and Code Enforcement employees documenting the history of this issue.
3. Digital Screen Proofs / Exhibits (Attached)
Screenshots proving public misrepresentation and compliance evasion, included within the written testimony packet as follows:
Exhibit A: Official website screenshot showing static restaurant hours (9:00 AM - 11:00 PM) mapped to 2018 Lincoln Blvd.
Exhibit B: Google Maps Business Profile screenshot pinning their commercial location to 2018 Lincoln Blvd and explicitly displaying an image of the actual physical business residing there, an O'Reilly Auto Parts store. Exhibit C: Official Instagram bio screenshot listing 2018 Lincoln Blvd as their active storefront address Exhibit D: Screenshot of official TikTok bio listing 2018 Lincoln Blvd as their active address Exhibit E: Screenshot of official Google search listing Felix Hibachi at 2018 Lincoln Blvd as their active address
1. Video Evidence (Sending Separately)
Short video clips (under 28 seconds each) documenting the generator noise and vibration from inside the residential space and on the property. These clips demonstrate the direct impact on remote small business operations, peace, and rest. I will send these short video clips in separate subsequent emails to ensure they bypass email file size limits and reach your inbox safely.
Please Note for the Official Record:
I will be present in person at the City Council meeting to deliver verbal testimony.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 2 I understand my live speaking time will be limited to 1 or 2 minutes depending on speaker registration volume. I am submitting this full written testimony packet, the staff correspondence PDF, the digital layout screenshots, and the forthcoming 28-second video sound bites as formal evidence for the permanent official record.
Thank you for ensuring these materials are successfully compiled and distributed to the Mayor and City Council members prior to the meeting. Please confirm receipt of the attached PDF documents.
Administrative Questions for Tuesday, September 8th:
Could you please advise if there are any specific print layout requirements I need to follow for Tuesday night, or if you need any additional information from me?
Additionally, I work until 5:00 PM on Tuesday, September 8th. To ensure I make the speaker cutoff list, do I need to physically arrive at City Hall and fill out a speaker card by 5:30 PM? Is this accurate? Thank you for your time, assistance, and guidance.
Warmly,
Lauren Wyka
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OFFICIAL PUBLIC COMMENT SUBMISSION
To: Mayor Caroline Torosis and Members of the Santa Monica City Council Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Re: Ongoing Code Enforcement Failure – Felix Hibachi Food Truck – Adjacent to 821 Bay St / Lincoln Blvd
Official 311 Case Tracking Numbers: CS0242939, CS0242710, CS0242258, CS0242256, CS0236049, CS0206640
From: Lauren Wyka, 821 Bay St, Santa Monica, CA 90405
I. INTRODUCTION
Good evening, Mayor Torosis and members of the Council.
My name is Lauren Wyka, and I am a resident and business owner in Santa Monica. I am submitting this written testimony because the city is allowing a commercial food truck to destroy the peace of my home and my livelihood, and the city is doing nothing to stop it.
This is not just about me. This is about my family, my neighbors, renters and property owners here in Santa Monica, and greater Santa Monica as we move forward into this 5-year Realignment Plan. We are all being affected by the nuisance of a food truck generator for up to 12.5 hours daily.
As tax paying Santa Monica residents and homeowner, with my partner having been raised right here in Santa Monica, we are demanding that the city fulfill its responsibility to its residents. For up to 12.5 hours every single day, a commercial food truck generator is vibrating our home, destroying our livelihood, and physically displacing us from our property. Even if this truck holds a vending permit, Santa Monica's progressive values and explicit code ordinances mean the city must prioritize the health and safety of its residents over an invasive commercial machine.
II. NOT A GOOD NEIGHBOR & UNPERMITTED USE OF
THE PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY
My family has lived at 821 Bay for over 16 years. We have been good neighbors. We pay our taxes. We follow the rules. And now, suddenly, a food truck has appeared, and it is making it clear to this neighborhood that it is not a good neighbor.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) On their own official website, Google Business profile, Yelp listing, Instagram, TikTok and delivery apps like DoorDash, this operator publicly advertises its location address as 2018 Lincoln Blvd. However, physical reality confirms they do not rent commercial storefront space, prep meals, or conduct any indoor business operations inside that property, which is an O'Reilly Auto Parts retail store. Instead, they park and run a static commercial business directly on the public asphalt of Lincoln Blvd.
By definition under Santa Monica Municipal Code Chapter 4.08, the public right-ofway is land explicitly reserved and dedicated for shared public transit, movement, and public utility access. It is not free commercial real estate. By running a fixed storefront here for hours at a time, this business is conducting an unpermitted conversion of public infrastructure into a private asset, gaining a rent-free, property-tax-free commercial storefront while shifting 100% of their industrial noise and traffic burdens directly onto our residential block.
A. Floodlight Violations
When the truck first started operating, its floodlights were blaring into our home. I asked them to turn them off. The first time, they did. The second time, they did.
The third time, I walked over and asked the owner. His response was: "We don't have to." That is not a good neighbor. To this day, the truck still has no simple reminder for employees to keep the floodlights from shining into our home. It continues to happen. A simple fix, would solve the problem. Yet the food truck owner refuses to take even that small step. This is irresponsible behavior from a food truck owner who operates in this neighborhood and shows no interest in being part of this community.
B. Private Property Violations, also showing not a good neighbor The commercial property owner of 2018 Lincoln has been directly impacted also, as the food truck constantly parks directly in front of their business. This truck's employees continue to use their private parking lot without permission.
Employees park there; customers park there. The property owner has told them to stop, and the employees' or owners response was: "What are you going to do about it? We are present, you can't tow us." That is not just illegal, it is harassment. And it is the opposite of being a good neighbor.
C. Disregard for the Community
This food truck has shown a complete and ongoing disregard for the residents, property owners, and business owners who live and work in this community. The owner refused to turn off floodlights blaring into our home. Employees park on private property without permission, using a private parking lot as their own even though it's not and they pay no rent to the commercial property owner even after being told to stop, and they disregard and ignore the property owner's wishes. All of this is compounded by the generator running up to 12.5 hours a day, filling our home with constant noise and vibration. Each of these actions, on its own, is unacceptable. Together, they demonstrate a total lack of respect for the people of Santa Monica.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) III. IMPACT ON OUR HOME AND LIVELIHOOD
For up to 12.5 hours every single day, the Felix Hibachi food truck operates outside our residence, running a roaring gas or diesel generator that rattles through our walls and windows.
This operation runs on a highly calculated daily schedule from 10:00 AM to 10:30 PM.
On weekdays, they temporarily vacate the space between 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM to avoid being towed by commuter bus lane restrictions, and immediately return right after to continue operating for approximately 9.5 total hours.
On weekends and holidays, they remain parked continuously for the full 12.5 hours.
Furthermore, they weaponize the fact that parking meters turn off after 6:00 PM on Lincoln Blvd, exploiting free evening parking hours to run an unpermitted storefront late into the night without paying fees to the city. Moving operations for a bus lane does not cure their ongoing parking violations.
This is Santa Monica. This building was built in 1980. There is no insulation. We feel and hear everything, including the generator that runs morning, afternoon and into the late evening.
We cannot eat, sleep, work, or live in peace anymore from the hours of 10:00 AM to 10:30 PM every single day. This is not a dispute; it is a public health issue that the City has a duty to address.
Health Impacts of Continuous Low-Frequency Noise
Continuous low-frequency noise and vibration are well-documented environmental hazards that cause sleep deprivation, elevated cortisol, and severe mental stress.
The World Health Organization (WHO) explicitly identifies low-frequency noise as a severe environmental hazard that intensely disrupts human health. According to research hosted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), chronic exposure to lowfrequency motor rumbles keeps your nervous system trapped in a continuous "fight-orflight" loop. This constant physical stress erodes your psychological sense of safety at home, rapidly triggering severe mental fatigue, cognitive exhaustion, and a significantly higher risk of anxiety and depression.
Interference with Livelihood and Daily Life
This is interfering with our livelihood, our ability to make money. I am on Zoom calls for up to 8 hours a day. I cannot focus or concentrate while there is a constant generator cycling through its three gear settings. Among a plethora of other responsibilities and duties as a small business owner, I am making video content and preparing for that, and I can no longer do this in my home due to the ongoing constant generator vibrating and buzzing all over our home. It's hard to concentrate and stay focused with ongoing noise, vibration, and buzzing that feels like a low-grade jackhammer operating all day outside our home.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) This is not just about sleep, it is about work, peace, and the basic enjoyment of our surroundings. We cannot have a conversation without the hum and buzzing of the generator in the background. We cannot enjoy a meal without the vibration rattling through the windows and walls. We cannot simply relax in our own home because the noise and vibration are constant. A food truck is being allowed to interfere with my livelihood for almost a year now. Our home, like yours, is our refuge. It is where we work. It is where we rest. It is where we live. It is where we connect with our family and friends. This truck has taken that away from us.
A Threat to Santa Monica's Renaissance
The City's own Realignment Plan and the Mayor's call for a "Renaissance" envision a Santa Monica that is vibrant, safe, and welcoming to all. Yet this vision is fundamentally at odds with the ongoing noise and vibration from this food truck's generator. The City has recognized that "a city that works" requires protecting residents' "peace, quiet and comfort" and their "basic livability." Residents' ability to sleep peacefully in their own homes is not negotiable, a principle that should apply equally to a food truck generator as it does to any other noise source.
Noise sensitivity is real and deeply impacts quality of life. Studies show that continuous low-frequency noise and vibration are documented health hazards, but they also affect people differently. Whether due to medical conditions, age, or neurodivergence, autism, etc. people are disproportionately impacted. Persistent noise and vibration do not just disrupt sleep; they create a pervasive sense of disorder and erode the feeling of safety and comfort that makes a home a refuge. That make a neighborhood feel safe.
And humans are not the only ones being affected. Animals, including dogs, birds, and other wildlife, are also sensitive to constant noise and vibration. Birds have been observed abandoning nests and relocating due to persistent noise. If the City's Renaissance is meant to create a welcoming, livable environment for all residents, visitors, and the natural environment, then allowing a gas or diesel generator to run for up to 12.5 hours a day directly contradicts that goal. The damage is not just to our home; it's to the entire neighborhood's sense of peace.
IV. VIOLATIONS OF CITY CODES
This truck is violating multiple City codes daily:
A. Moving Violations
On weekdays, this oversized vehicle makes three illegal U-turns on Lincoln Blvd at 4:00 PM, 7:00 PM, and 10:00 PM. On weekends and holidays, it makes one at 10:00 PM. That is seventeen illegal U-turns per week, 68 illegal Uturns per month, on one of the busiest thoroughfares in our City. These are not just violations; they are a public safety hazard that the SMPD has identified as a primary cause of traffic collisions.
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The truck remains in a public right-of-way space for up to 12.5 hours without moving, far exceeding posted parking guidelines and the city's strict 30-minute mobile vending limit. They consistently park in the red zone. Additionally, the truck does not consistently pay the meters. Because it is an oversized vehicle, the meter is not visible from the street, yet Parking Enforcement does not appear to care enough to enforce the rules on a daily basis. Instead, they simply allow this food truck to do whatever it wishes.
C. Good Neighbor Violations
The City's own Good Neighbor Policies for vendors require them to ensure that noise, lighting, and odors will not become a nuisance or burden on neighbors including noise from food truck generators. Yet this generator runs for over twelve hours a day, vibrating through our walls and windows into every room of our home:
• Our office: our livelihood, is affected
• Our bedroom: we cannot sleep/rest
• Every room rattles from 10:00 AM until 10:30 PM
• There is never a silent moment in our home from 10:00 AM to 10:30 PM daily now
• We can't watch TV at night and unwind; all we hear constantly is the noise and feel the vibration of this food truck
• We can't relax. We can't use our home. We can't dine to enjoy a meal. • And on days we can't take anymore, we are being displaced from our own home by a food truck. When are we supposed to go?
D. Nuisance Violations
Under Section 13.02.050, anything that obstructs the free use of property so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life is a violation of the City's Property Maintenance Code. This truck's operation is a daily violation of that standard.
E. Separate Violations: Airborne Noise and Ground Vibration The generator is violating two distinct and separately enforceable rules, one addressing airborne noise, the other addressing ground vibration. Each is defined and prohibited under separate sections of the Municipal Code. • Airborne Noise (Section 4.12.025): The humming, buzzing, and droning we hear constantly throughout our home are regulated by the City's Noise Ordinance. Section 4.12.025 makes it unlawful to create noise that "unreasonably disturb[s] the peace, quiet and comfort of persons of normal sensitivity within the area of audibility." The law considers factors like the volume, intensity, duration, and whether the noise is constant, recurrent, or intermittent, all of which apply to this generator. Additionally, Section
4.12.105 prohibits sound amplifying equipment on public property adjacent to residential zones after 10:00 PM, which the generator flagrantly violates when it operates late into the night.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) • Ground Vibration (Section 4.12.070): The rattling we feel through our walls, doors, windows, and floors is separately regulated by Section
4.12.070. This section explicitly states that "it shall be unlawful for any person to create, maintain or cause any ground vibration that is perceptible without instruments at any point on any property." The law specifically defines "vibration" as "any movement of the earth, ground or other similar surface created by a temporal and spatial oscillation of displacement, velocity or acceleration in any mechanical device or equipment." The food truck's generator qualifies as this type of mechanical equipment. • The "Perceptible Without Instruments" Standard: The law does not require a machine to measure this vibration. The perception threshold is set at more than 0.05 inches per second RMS velocity, and vibration is "perceptible" if it is felt by a person without instruments. We feel this vibration every single day throughout our home, in our walls, doors, windows, floors, and furniture.
• The Exemption Does Not Apply: Vibration caused by construction activity, moving vehicles, trains, and aircraft is exempt from this section.
The food truck's generator is none of these. The truck is stationary, and the generator runs for up to 12.5 hours daily, so the exemption does not apply.
V. THE IRONY: SANTA MONICA ALREADY HAS LAWS
TO PREVENT GENERATOR NUISANCES
The City has already recognized generators as a public safety and nuisance concern.
Under Santa Monica's vending regulations, sidewalk vendors are explicitly prohibited from using any generator. The ordinance states: "No sidewalk vendor shall use any power source that poses a fire or public safety hazard, any generator, or wet cell battery with removable fill caps."
This rule was adopted to allow vendors to operate without degrading the neighborhood, recognizing generators as problematic equipment that creates noise, vibration, and safety hazards for nearby residents.
However, the food truck in question operates under different vending rules. It is a vehicle vendor, not a sidewalk vendor. While vehicle vendors must maintain noise levels in compliance with Chapter 4.12 of the City Code, they are not subject to the same generator ban that applies to sidewalk vendors. This is a significant loophole.
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VI. A FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION
From what I was told by Code Enforcement Supervisor Armando Rangel during our phone conversation on July 24th, this food truck that just showed up has more rights than residents who have lived here for 16 years, 46 years, 6 years, and more rights than Santa Monica property owners or renters.
So this food truck has more rights than a human being? Is that the Santa Monica we want to be?
It is allowed to break the law, create a public safety hazard, and destroy the peace of a neighborhood. Meanwhile, we the locals are dismissed and ignored, spoken to once in a while with no follow-up or follow-through. It all feels disjointed and disorganized.
VII. FAILURE OF CITY STAFF TO RESPOND
There is history before this, and I will start here.
Since April 1st Easter Sunday, a holiday and weekend for most, there has been no rest here or peace in our home due to this truck. I have asked repeatedly, at least five times in writing, for a code enforcement officer to come to our home, to stand on our property, to feel the vibration and hear the noise that we are inundated with for up to 12.5 hours a day. No one has responded to those requests.
Additionally, I have tried working with Traffic Services and Supervisor Margarita Verduzco. Since December 23rd, 2025, she has not responded to a single email, call, or message. I was advised to reach out to her. No response at all.
And then on June 24th, I was told our case was closed. How is that possible? How can a case be closed when the violations continue every single day? We have been ignored and dismissed.
It was only after I emailed a video of the sound and vibration from inside our home on July 19th, so they could actually see via video and hear what we endure every day, that I finally received a quicker response. Even though I had been asking for months, for someone to please come to my home, come on the property, so they could feel and hear what we endure daily.
On July 24th, after lots of chasing, I finally received a call back from Armando Rangel. I was told Code Enforcement was going to conduct a vibration test with sophisticated equipment. I was told the City Attorney was being consulted. I was told Daniel Mick on vacation and would respond by July 29th. I was quite excited and hopeful.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) That was over a month ago. We have heard nothing. I have sent additional emails following up. No vibration test has been conducted. I haven't heard. I was then told they don't have this sophisticated vibration equipment, by John Grammatico. I am still trying to understand, waiting for responses. No one has followed up as of today.
VIII. A DISHEARTENING REALITY
I am dumbfounded as to how this is okay. Not responding to residents. Residents whose livelihood is being affected. Enjoyment of their home taken away. Having a matter go this far, all the way to a City Council meeting.
I would prefer not to be here. I would prefer not to have to take time-stamped video and email city officials every single day documenting this disconnection and disservice to us.
It is so disheartening that it has to go this far.
When Mayor Caroline Torosis made her State of the City address on July 23rd praising Code Enforcement and saying she wants Santa Monica to be a "city that works," I was all ears. Yes, I want that too. That is exactly what I have been hoping and asking for, a city that works for its residents.
Unfortunately, right now, and at the time of her speech, I have been experiencing firsthand how it is, in fact, not working. I hope we can change that. I am here tonight because I still believe we can.
IX. LEGAL FRAMEWORK & MANDATORY CITY
OVERSIGHT
The City of Santa Monica has the authority to enforce this right. The City's own Municipal Code provides specific protections that apply to all residents, including homeowners and renters.
• Section 13.02.050 defines a violation as anything that "obstructs the free use of property so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property." The food truck's generator noise and vibration directly obstruct our free use of our property and interfere with our comfortable enjoyment of our home, every single day.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) • Section 4.12.025 makes it unlawful for any person to "make, produce, maintain, cause or permit to be made any noises or sounds in such manner so as to unreasonably disturb the peace, quiet and comfort of persons of normal sensitivity within the area of audibility." Factors to consider include the volume, intensity, and duration of the noise; whether the noise is constant, recurrent, or intermittent; the proximity to noise-sensitive land uses (including residences); and the time of day or night the noise occurs. The generator runs constantly for up to
12.5 hours daily. It is prolonged, recurrent, and located directly outside a residential building. This is a direct violation of Section 4.12.025. • Section 4.12.105 prohibits the use or operation of sound amplifying equipment on a public sidewalk, street, alley, or parkway located in Noise Zone I (residential) after 10:00 PM and before 7:00 AM on weekdays or 8:00 AM on weekends. The generator operates after 10:00 PM, it violates this section. • Section 4.12.070 prohibits any person from "create, maintain or cause any ground vibration that is perceptible without instruments" at any point on any property. The perception threshold is more than 0.05 inches per second rootmean-square velocity. The generator's vibration is perceptible throughout our home, rattling through our walls and windows. Vibration caused by construction activity and moving vehicles is exempt, but the food truck's generator is neither construction activity nor a moving vehicle. The truck is stationary for up to 12.5 hours. Therefore, the exemption does not apply.
• Section 4.12.130 requires that "noise generating mechanical equipment" be properly located and screened to ensure compliance with noise limits. No noise test has been conducted, and there is no buffering or screening to reduce the generator's impact on our home.
The City’s Lawful Authority to Regulate:
While state policies protect the general right of mobile vendors to operate, civil liberties protections do not block a city from regulating a business that creates verified environmental hazards. California law explicitly allows municipalities to enforce strict local controls based on objective health, safety, and welfare concerns. The Code Enforcement Division is tasked with "protecting the health, safety, and welfare" of residents through "prompt and vigorous enforcement" of the City's codes. The food truck's operations violate these objective public health protections daily.
X. REQUEST FOR ACTION
The City has the authority to enforce these codes and the Good Neighbor Policy. It has been made obvious to us locals that this truck is not a good neighbor.
I am asking you tonight to please personally intervene and direct Code Enforcement, Traffic Services, and the SMPD to put a definitive end to this ongoing neighborhood disruption.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) Specifically, we are demanding a Mitigation Remedy:
1. Switch to a silent commercial battery inverter.
2. Relocate further away from residential walls, doors, windows.
3. Install a sound-dampening generator box.
I am also asking you to close a major loophole. The City already bans generators for sidewalk vendors because they create noise and nuisance. Yet this Vehicle Vendor uses the same generator, creating the same disruption, simply because it operates from a truck. While I have been told LA County requires a power source to keep food warm, a generator is not required. A silent battery inverter is a viable alternative. The City has the authority to require this change under Section 4.12.025.
Furthermore, I am asking SMPD, Code Enforcement, and Traffic Services to coordinate and rigorously cite the full scope of this truck’s illegal activities and evasion strategies:
• Storefront Deception & Private Trespassing: Direct Code Enforcement and SMPD to address their fraudulent use of 2018 Lincoln Blvd on Google, Yelp, Instagram, TikTok, and Felix Hibachi’s own website, and delivery apps. By running a static street storefront for hours, they gain a rent-free, property-taxfree commercial space while dumping industrial noise onto our residential block. They are illegally using the property owner's private parking lot for staff and customers, openly harassing them with statements like, "We are present, you can't tow us." Stop allowing this vendor to hijack local property with zero accountability.
• Vending Parking Limits: Enforce the strict 30-minute mobile street vending limit on public rights-of-ways, which they violate by sitting statically for hours. • Meter & Space Exploitation: Enforce the 2-hour posted meter limits, the routine red zone violations, and the unpaid parking meters they intentionally block from the sight of enforcement officers using their oversized commercial vehicle. • Traffic Hazards: Enforce and cite the 68 illegal traffic hazard U-turns they perform on Lincoln Blvd every single month.
These requests are entirely fair, legal, and grounded in Santa Monica's duty to regulate objective safety and health compliance. Please take immediate action so that we can have our home back, our livelihood no longer tampered with, and our right to the peaceful enjoyment of our home fully restored.
Thank you.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) Ref: XI. ATTACHMENTS • Time-stamped documentation of daily violations, video evidence of generator noise and vibration (multiple clips, under 28 seconds each, separate emails) • Correspondence with City staff
• Exhibit A: Screenshot of official website showing static hours (9:00 AM - 11:00 PM) at 2018 Lincoln Blvd
• Exhibit B: Screenshot of Google Maps Business Profile pinning location to 2018 Lincoln Blvd
• Exhibit C: Screenshot of official Instagram bio listing 2018 Lincoln Blvd as their active address
• Exhibit D: Screenshot of official TikTok bio listing 2018 Lincoln Blvd as their active address
• Exhibit E: Screenshot of official Google search listing Felix Hibachi at 2018 Lincoln Blvd as their active address
Respectfully submitted,
Lauren Wyka, 821 Bay St, Santa Monica, CA 90405
📋 Summary of Key Dates
Date Event
Dec 23, 2025 Began trying to contact Margarita Verduzco, Traffic Services Supervisor; no response to date.
April 1, 2026 Began requesting on-site Code Enforcement visits (5+ times in writing).
June 24, 2026 Told case was closed (despite ongoing violation).
July 19, 2026 Emailed video of sound/vibration from inside home.
July 23, 2026 Mayor Caroline Torosis State of the City address, "city that works".
July 24, 2026 Received call back from Armando Rangel; promised vibration test and City Attorney consultation.
July 29, 2026 Daniel Mick's vacation ended; promised follow-up.
September 8,
2026 City Council meeting, asking for your help.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) August 14th -- I was advised by Armando Rangel on Friday, July 24th by phone that someone from code enforcement was going to take a vibration test with a very sophisticated vibration machine. He went on and on re: this very specialized piece of equipment. I was excited. J
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) August 25th – Me follow up with what I was told by Armando Rangel on the phone Friday, July 24th to Daniel Mick
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) August 26th – Me follow up with what I was told by Armando Rangel on the phone Friday, July 24th to John Grammatico
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 1 David Yakobson
From: Albin Gielicz <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2026 3:39 PM
To: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Lana Negrete; Dan Hall; Natalya Zernitskaya; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell
Cc: councilmtgitems; Oliver Chi; Council Mailbox
Subject: Letter of Support for OFF THE HOOK Seafood Festival Oct 11 on Santa Monica Pier
EXTERNAL
Dear City Manager, Mayor Torosis, and Members of the City Council, I am writing to express my strong support for the OFF THE HOOK Santa Monica Seafood Festival and respectfully encourage the City of Santa Monica to provide financial support to help ensure this important community event continues.
As a Santa Monica local for nearly 25 years I have seen firsthand how OFF THE HOOK celebrates the incredible culinary talent that makes our city such a special dining destination. The festival not only showcases local restaurants and chefs but also brings together residents and visitors to experience the very best of Santa Monica's hospitality, seafood culture, and vibrant waterfront.
Events like OFF THE HOOK have a meaningful economic impact. They encourage visitors to spend time in Santa Monica, support local businesses, generate revenue for nearby restaurants, hotels, parking facilities, and retailers, and create positive media exposure that benefits our entire community. With more than 90 million media impressions over the years, the festival has become one of Santa Monica's most visible culinary showcases.
What makes OFF THE HOOK especially valuable is that it is much more than a food festival. It is a celebration of community. It highlights sustainability through its commitment to being 100% plastic-free, supports local nonprofit efforts through fundraising for the Santa Monica Pier Corporation, and reminds both residents and visitors why Santa Monica remains one of California's premier culinary and tourism destinations.
This year's event is particularly significant as it celebrates the 100th Anniversary of Route 66 at the iconic "End of the Trail" on the Santa Monica Pier. There is no better place to showcase Santa Monica's restaurants and hospitality during this once-in-a-generation milestone.
Kim Koury and the Spin PR Group team have spent years investing in our local restaurant community and producing events that elevate Santa Monica's reputation. Their commitment to supporting local businesses, creating positive experiences, and generating national media attention has benefited countless restaurants, including ours.
Community events of this caliber have become increasingly expensive to produce. The City's support would help preserve a beloved annual tradition, keep ticket prices accessible, increase the event's charitable impact, and demonstrate Santa Monica's commitment to the restaurants, small businesses, and organizations that contribute to the city's economic vitality.
I respectfully urge the City to approve financial assistance for the OFF THE HOOK Santa Monica Seafood Festival.
Supporting this event is an investment in our local economy, our culinary community, our tourism industry, and the continued success of Santa Monica.
Thank you for your time, your leadership, and your thoughtful consideration.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 2 Sincerely,
Albin Gielicz
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 3 David Yakobson
From: Lauren Wyka <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2026 11:11 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: VIDEO EVIDENCE 2 of 5 - Lauren Wyka - September 8, 2026 City Council Meeting Attachments: office .mov
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Dear Santa Monica City Clerk,
Attached please find a video that is Exhibit F-2 as formal evidence for my public comment packet regarding the ongoing Felix Hibachi food truck nuisance.
This exhibit documents the continuous noise and vibration inside our home, specifically in my office and workspace, throughout the day and into the evening. Video is time, date and location stamped.
The generator noise and vibration are interfering with my ability to work in my own home. I am unable to conduct Zoom calls and perform certain aspects of my work from my office because of the ongoing disturbance. It sounds and feels like a low-grade jackhammer inside my workspace.
The noise and vibration also interfere with our ability to, sleep, rest and peacefully enjoy our home.
Felix Hibachi is the identifiable source of this disturbance. When the food truck is not present, the continuous noise and vibration inside my office are not present.
While the recordings document the generator operating, they do not fully capture the extent of the low-frequency noise and vibration experienced throughout our home every single day.
Thank you.
Lauren Wyka
This submission regards the ongoing code enforcement and traffic services failures concerning the severe nuisance caused by the Felix Hibachi food truck operating on the public street outside 2018 Lincoln Blvd, directly impacting adjacent residential property owners and renters.
This matter is tied to six open city service files. Please ensure this submission is linked to Official 311 Case Tracking Numbers: CS0242939, CS0242710, CS0242258, CS0242256, CS0236049, and CS0206640.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 4 David Yakobson
From: Lauren Wyka <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2026 11:21 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: VIDEO EVIDENCE 1 of 5 - Lauren Wyka - September 8, 2026 City Council Meeting Attachments: Exhibit F-1doorstep.mov
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Dear Santa Monica City Clerk,
Attached find a video as Exhibit F-1doorstep as formal evidence for my public comment packet regarding the Felix Hibachi food truck nuisance inside our home and on our doorstep. Documenting the noise and vibration we endure all day into the evening. This video is from July 19th 2026 at 7:50pm.
Thank you.
Lauren Wyka
This submission regards the ongoing code enforcement and traffic services failures concerning the severe nuisance caused by the Felix Hibachi food truck operating on the public street outside on the asphalt of 2018 Lincoln Blvd, directly impacting adjacent residential property owners, renters and brick and mortar storefronts quality of life every single day. A commercial food truck effectively creating a false storefront at 2018 Lincoln Blvd., operating from the same location as though it were a permanent brick-and-mortar business, while receiving the financial benefit of that fixed location without bearing the same property-related costs and obligations to the City of Santa Monica..
This matter is tied to six open city service files. Please ensure this submission is linked to Official 311 Case Tracking Numbers: CS0242939, CS0242710, CS0242258, CS0242256, CS0236049, and CS0206640.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 5 David Yakobson
From: Lauren Wyka <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2026 11:46 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: VIDEO EVIDENCE 3 of 5 - Lauren Wyka - September 8, 2026 City Council Meeting Attachments: in home food chopping.MOV
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Dear Santa Monica City Clerk,
Attached please find Video Exhibit F-3 – Food Chopping as formal evidence for my public comment packet regarding the ongoing nuisance caused by the non-Santa Monica vehicle vendor, Felix Hibachi, immediately outside our home.
This time-, date-, and location-stamped video documents the consistent noise, low-frequency vibration, buzzing, and food-chopping sounds that can be heard inside our home, on our property, and throughout the immediate neighborhood.
While the video captures the audible disturbance, it does not fully convey the extent of what we hear and physically feel every day for up to 12.5 hours, from approximately 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. The continuous noise and vibration inside our home sound and feel like a low-grade jackhammer.
This ongoing disturbance is causing daily distress and substantially interfering with our ability to work, rest, and peacefully use and enjoy our home.
Thank you,
Lauren Wyka
This submission concerns the ongoing Code Enforcement and Traffic Services failures regarding the severe nuisance caused by the non-Santa Monica vehicle vendor, Felix Hibachi food truck, which operates on the public street directly outside 2018 Lincoln Blvd. The truck’s daily operation directly impacts the quality of life and livelihoods of adjacent residential property owners, renters, and brick-and-mortar businesses.
The nuisance occurs repeatedly throughout the day, every day, interfering with residents’ ability to work, rest, sleep, and peacefully use and enjoy their homes and property. Despite multiple disturbances every day, repeated reports to the City, and multiple open service files, the nuisance continues and nothing effective is being done to stop it.
This commercial food truck is effectively creating a false storefront at 2018 Lincoln Blvd., operating repeatedly from the same public-street location as though it were a permanent brick-and-mortar business, while receiving the financial benefit of that fixed location without bearing the same property-related costs and obligations to the City of Santa Monica.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 6 This matter is tied to six open City service files. Please ensure this submission is linked to Official 311 Case Tracking Numbers: CS0242939, CS0242710, CS0242258, CS0242256, CS0236049, and CS0206640.
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From: Lauren Wyka <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2026 12:03 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: VIDEO EVIDENCE 4 of 5 - Lauren Wyka - September 8, 2026 City Council Meeting Attachments: living room.mov
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Dear Santa Monica City Clerk,
Attached please find Video Exhibit F-4 – Living Room Noise and Vibration as formal evidence for my public comment packet regarding the ongoing nuisance caused by the non-Santa Monica vehicle vendor, Felix Hibachi, immediately outside our home.
This video was recorded from inside our living room on July 25, 2026, at approximately 9:01 p.m. It documents the persistent generator noise, low-frequency vibration, and buzzing continuing into the evening. Despite being indoors with the windows closed, the noise is clearly noticeable, and the vibration carries through the walls, windows, and floors of our home and our bodies.
While the video captures the audible disturbance, it does not fully convey the extent of what we hear and physically feel every day for up to 12.5 hours, from approximately 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. The continuous noise and vibration inside our home sound and feel like a low-grade jackhammer.
This ongoing disturbance is causing severe distress throughout the day, every day—from approximately 10:00 a.m., while we are working, through lunchtime, preparing meals, eating dinner, and spending time in our living room, until approximately 10:30 p.m., when we should be able to unwind, rest, and sleep. Instead, the persistent noise and vibration follow us throughout our daily life inside our home, interfering with our ability to work, eat, relax, rest, sleep, and peacefully use and enjoy our own home.
Thank you,
Lauren Wyka
This submission concerns the ongoing Code Enforcement and Traffic Services failures regarding the severe nuisance caused by the non-Santa Monica vehicle vendor, Felix Hibachi food truck, which operates on the public street directly outside 2018 Lincoln Blvd. The truck’s daily operation directly impacts the quality of life and livelihoods of adjacent residential property owners, renters, and brick-and-mortar businesses.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 8 The nuisance occurs repeatedly throughout the day, every day, interfering with residents’ ability to work, rest, sleep, and peacefully use and enjoy their homes and property. Despite multiple disturbances every day, repeated reports to the City, and multiple open service files, the nuisance continues and nothing effective is being done to stop it.
This commercial food truck is effectively creating a false storefront at 2018 Lincoln Blvd., operating repeatedly from the same public-street location as though it were a permanent brick-and-mortar business, while receiving the financial benefit of that fixed location without bearing the same property-related costs and obligations to the City of Santa Monica.
This matter is tied to six open City service files. Please ensure this submission is linked to Official 311 Case Tracking Numbers: CS0242939, CS0242710, CS0242258, CS0242256, CS0236049, and CS0206640.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 9 David Yakobson
From: Lauren Wyka <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2026 12:26 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: VIDEO EVIDENCE 4 of 5 displacement by vehicle vendor - Lauren Wyka - September 8, 2026 City Council Meeting
Attachments: Saturday moring displacement by food trcuk .mov
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Dear Santa Monica City Clerk,
Attached please find Video Exhibit F-5 – Displaced From Home by Generator Noise and Vibration as formal evidence for my public comment packet regarding the ongoing nuisance caused by the non-Santa Monica vehicle vendor, Felix Hibachi, immediately outside our home.
This video was recorded from inside our living room on Saturday, August 8, 2026, at approximately 10:10 a.m., shortly after Felix Hibachi arrived at approximately 9:55 a.m. The video documents the continuous low-frequency hum, vibration, buzzing, and generator noise that can be heard and physically felt throughout our home and in our bodies.
On this Saturday morning, the disturbance was so severe that I could not sit or work in my own living room and felt forced to leave my home to get away from the continuous noise and vibration. I did not know where to go; I simply could not remain in my own home and work under these conditions.
This was not a one-time incident. Felix Hibachi routinely remains outside our home for up to 12.5 hours a day, from approximately 10:00 a.m. until 10:30 p.m. The disturbance follows us through every part of daily life—from working in the morning, through lunchtime, preparing meals, eating dinner, and spending time in our living room, until the evening when we should be able to unwind, rest, and sleep.
While the video captures the audible disturbance, it does not fully convey the extent of the lowfrequency noise and vibration that we physically experience inside our home and in our bodies. The continuous noise and vibration sound and feel like a low-grade jackhammer.
We are pleading with the City for help. Residents should not feel forced to leave their own homes because of the continuous noise and vibration generated by a commercial food truck operating on the public asphalt, within the public right-of-way, directly outside their residence. This ongoing disturbance is causing severe daily distress and interfering with our ability to work, eat, relax, rest, sleep, and peacefully use and enjoy our own home.
Felix Hibachi had just arrived when this disturbance began, making the food truck the identifiable source of the continuous noise and vibration documented in this video.
Please include this exhibit as part of my public comment packet and the City's ongoing documentation of this matter.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 10 Thank you,
Lauren Wyka
This submission concerns the ongoing Code Enforcement and Traffic Services failures regarding the severe nuisance caused by the non-Santa Monica vehicle vendor, Felix Hibachi food truck, which operates on the public street directly outside 2018 Lincoln Blvd. The truck’s daily operation directly impacts the quality of life and livelihoods of adjacent residential property owners, renters, and brick-and-mortar businesses.
The nuisance occurs repeatedly throughout the day, every day, interfering with residents’ ability to work, rest, sleep, and peacefully use and enjoy their homes and property. Despite multiple disturbances every day, repeated reports to the City, and multiple open service files, the nuisance continues and nothing effective is being done to stop it.
This commercial food truck is effectively creating a false storefront at 2018 Lincoln Blvd., operating repeatedly from the same public-street location as though it were a permanent brick-and-mortar business, while receiving the financial benefit of that fixed location without bearing the same property-related costs and obligations to the City of Santa Monica.
This matter is tied to six open City service files. Please ensure this submission is linked to Official 311 Case Tracking Numbers: CS0242939, CS0242710, CS0242258, CS0242256, CS0236049, and CS0206640.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 11 David Yakobson
From: Lauren Wyka <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2026 12:31 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: VIDEO EVIDENCE 5 of 5 displacement from home by vehicle vendor - Lauren Wyka - September 8, 2026 City Council Meeting
Attachments: Saturday moring displacement by food trcuk .mov
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Dear Santa Monica City Clerk,
Attached please find Video Exhibit F-5 – Displaced From Home by Generator Noise and Vibration as formal evidence for my public comment packet regarding the ongoing nuisance caused by the non-Santa Monica vehicle vendor, Felix Hibachi, immediately outside our home.
This video was recorded from inside our living room on Saturday, August 8, 2026, at approximately 10:10 a.m., shortly after Felix Hibachi arrived at approximately 9:55 a.m. The video documents the continuous low-frequency hum, vibration, buzzing, and generator noise that can be heard and physically felt throughout our home and in our bodies.
On this Saturday morning, the disturbance was so severe that I could not sit or work in my own living room and felt forced to leave my home to get away from the continuous noise and vibration. I did not know where to go; I simply could not remain in my own home and work under these conditions.
This was not a one-time incident. Felix Hibachi routinely remains outside our home for up to 12.5 hours a day, from approximately 10:00 a.m. until 10:30 p.m. The disturbance follows us through every part of daily life—from working in the morning, through lunchtime, preparing meals, eating dinner, and spending time in our living room, until the evening when we should be able to unwind, rest, and sleep.
While the video captures the audible disturbance, it does not fully convey the extent of the lowfrequency noise and vibration that we physically experience inside our home and in our bodies. The continuous noise and vibration sound and feel like a low-grade jackhammer.
We are pleading with the City for help. Residents should not feel forced to leave their own homes because of the continuous noise and vibration generated by a commercial food truck operating on the public asphalt, within the public right-of-way, directly outside their residence. This ongoing disturbance is causing severe daily distress and interfering with our ability to work, eat, relax, rest, sleep, and peacefully use and enjoy our own home.
Felix Hibachi had just arrived when this disturbance began, making the food truck the identifiable source of the continuous noise and vibration documented in this video.
Please include this exhibit as part of my public comment packet and the City's ongoing documentation of this matter.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 12 Thank you,
Lauren Wyka
This submission concerns the ongoing Code Enforcement and Traffic Services failures regarding the severe nuisance caused by the non-Santa Monica vehicle vendor, Felix Hibachi food truck, which operates on the public street directly outside 2018 Lincoln Blvd. The truck’s daily operation directly impacts the quality of life and livelihoods of adjacent residential property owners, renters, and brick-and-mortar businesses.
The nuisance occurs repeatedly throughout the day, every day, interfering with residents’ ability to work, rest, sleep, and peacefully use and enjoy their homes and property. Despite multiple disturbances every day, repeated reports to the City, and multiple open service files, the nuisance continues and nothing effective is being done to stop it.
This commercial food truck is effectively creating a false storefront at 2018 Lincoln Blvd., operating repeatedly from the same public-street location as though it were a permanent brick-and-mortar business, while receiving the financial benefit of that fixed location without bearing the same property-related costs and obligations to the City of Santa Monica.
This matter is tied to six open City service files. Please ensure this submission is linked to Official 311 Case Tracking Numbers: CS0242939, CS0242710, CS0242258, CS0242256, CS0236049, and CS0206640.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 13 David Yakobson
From: Lauren Wyka <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2026 12:45 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: VIDEO EVIDENCE 6-outdoor residential space/neighbor - Lauren Wyka - September 8, 2026 City Council Meeting
Attachments: neighbor doorstep.MOV
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Dear Santa Monica City Clerk,
Attached please find Video Exhibit F-6 – Front Steps and Outdoor Residential Space as formal evidence for my public comment packet regarding the ongoing nuisance caused by the non-Santa Monica vehicle vendor, Felix Hibachi, immediately outside our home.
This video documents what we experience simply stepping outside our own front door and attempting to use our outdoor residential space. We can no longer comfortably sit on our front steps or porch, spend time outside our door, take things in and out of our garage, or even retrieve our mail without being inundated by the continuous generator noise, low-frequency vibration, buzzing, and commercial activity of this food truck.
The disturbance is not confined to the public street. The noise, vibration, and sound bleed throughout our immediate community and neighborhood, across our property, into our outdoor living space, and inside our home. There is no meaningful escape from it while the truck is operating directly outside.
Felix Hibachi, a non-Santa Monica commercial vehicle vendor, routinely occupies the public asphalt within the public right-of-way for up to 12.5 hours a day, approximately 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., seven days a week. It has been doing so for almost a year.
The food truck is effectively creating a false storefront at 2018 Lincoln Blvd., repeatedly using this brick-and-mortar address to create the appearance of a fixed commercial location while actually conducting its business from the public asphalt and public right-of-way.
As a result, we are losing the ordinary use and peaceful enjoyment of our own property. We cannot simply sit outside, use our porch and front steps, access our garage, retrieve our mail, work inside our home, eat, relax, or enjoy our living spaces without this commercial operation intruding into our daily lives.
This has been occurring from approximately 10:00 a.m. until 10:30 p.m., seven days a week, for almost a year, causing severe daily distress. Despite our repeated reports, extensive documentation, and multiple open City service files, the disturbance continues and nothing effective is being done to stop it.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 14 We are pleading with the City to recognize the magnitude of what residents are experiencing and to take effective action. Residents should not lose the peaceful use and enjoyment of their homes and property because a commercial food truck is permitted to operate for approximately 12.5 hours every day on the public right-of-way immediately outside their homes.
Thank you,
Lauren Wyka
This submission concerns the ongoing Code Enforcement and Traffic Services failures regarding the severe nuisance caused by the non-Santa Monica vehicle vendor, Felix Hibachi food truck, which operates on the public street directly outside 2018 Lincoln Blvd. The truck’s daily operation directly impacts the quality of life and livelihoods of adjacent residential property owners, renters, and brick-and-mortar businesses.
The nuisance occurs repeatedly throughout the day, every day, interfering with residents’ ability to work, rest, sleep, and peacefully use and enjoy their homes and property. Despite multiple disturbances every day, repeated reports to the City, and multiple open service files, the nuisance continues and nothing effective is being done to stop it.
This commercial food truck is effectively creating a false storefront at 2018 Lincoln Blvd., operating repeatedly from the same public-street location as though it were a permanent brick-and-mortar business, while receiving the financial benefit of that fixed location without bearing the same property-related costs and obligations to the City of Santa Monica.
This matter is tied to six open City service files. Please ensure this submission is linked to Official 311 Case Tracking Numbers: CS0242939, CS0242710, CS0242258, CS0242256, CS0236049, and CS0206640.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 15 David Yakobson
From: John Alle <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2026 1:52 PM
To: Santa Monica Coalition
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Can you believe this? Santa Monica is proud to use its new LED billboards on the 3rd Street Promenade to advertise that city leaders have recruited the newest tenant for its downtown: the LA County Coroner's Office AREA MORGUE & FORENSICS. They
won't have to move those who overdose in storefronts (courtesy of The Venice Family Clinic) very far.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 16 David Yakobson
From: Executive Office, L.A. County Board of Supervisors <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2026 8:07 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Public Meeting: Join us for the next Governance Reform Task Force Meeting in East Los Angeles on Wednesday, September 9, 2026
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 18 David Yakobson
From: Clem Samouris <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2026 12:28 PM
To: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Lana Negrete; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Council Mailbox; councilmtgitems; Santa Monica City Manager's Office; Susan Cline; Peter James; [email protected]; Oliver Chi Subject: RE: Agenda Item 1 - Please Listen to Residents on the Future of the Airport
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Dear Councilmember,
I am writing because I strongly support keeping the Santa Monica Airport open while exploring ways to expand park space and community benefits.
The Santa Monica Airport is a historic and valuable resource, and decisions about its future have implications beyond city boundaries. We do not want an irreversible decision that can impact jobs, businesses, and regional connectivity. A park-only option creates enormous costs for the City at a time when Santa Monica is already facing serious budget challenges, and would likely take many years and hundreds of millions of dollars before residents see any benefit.
Most importantly, a strong majority of Santa Monica voters support keeping the airport while still having park space and businesses. We are beginning to see that sentiment translate into action, with 834 letters submitted and 200 individuals showing up to speak in support at the most recent City Council meeting. Those speakers made clear that Santa Monica can pursue both open space and aviation, while also positioning itself as a hub for clean air mobility and emerging aviation technologies, creating benefits that extend across the city and the broader region.
I hope the City will take the time to pursue balanced solutions that preserve this important community resource while adding new public space and amenities.
Please listen to residents and avoid rushing toward closing the airport.
Thank you for your service to our community.
Sincerely,
Clem Samouris
San Diego, CA
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 19 David Yakobson
From: Geraldine Spira <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2026 7:08 PM
To: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Lana Negrete; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Council Mailbox; councilmtgitems; Santa Monica City Manager's Office; Susan Cline; Peter James; [email protected]; Oliver Chi Subject: RE: Agenda Item 1 - Please Listen to Residents on the Future of the Airport
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Dear Councilmember,
I am writing because I strongly support keeping the Santa Monica Airport open while exploring ways to expand park space and community benefits.
The Santa Monica Airport is a historic and valuable resource, and decisions about its future have implications beyond city boundaries. We do not want an irreversible decision that can impact jobs, businesses, and regional connectivity. A park-only option creates enormous costs for the City at a time when Santa Monica is already facing serious budget challenges, and would likely take many years and hundreds of millions of dollars before residents see any benefit.
Most importantly, a strong majority of Santa Monica voters support keeping the airport while still having park space and businesses. We are beginning to see that sentiment translate into action, with 834 letters submitted and 200 individuals showing up to speak in support at the most recent City Council meeting. Those speakers made clear that Santa Monica can pursue both open space and aviation, while also positioning itself as a hub for clean air mobility and emerging aviation technologies, creating benefits that extend across the city and the broader region.
I hope the City will take the time to pursue balanced solutions that preserve this important community resource while adding new public space and amenities.
Please listen to residents and avoid rushing toward closing the airport.
Thank you for your service to our community.
Sincerely,
Geraldine Spira
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 20 David Yakobson
From: Lauren Marie <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2026 9:45 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Clerk Mailbox; [email protected]; Office of Communications; City of Santa Monica
Subject: Displaced from home today food truck still here 13 hours a day. Documentation ongoing Felix Hibachi degrading our home life and neighborhood Attachments: Video.mov
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The city is allowing a food truck to continuously displace us. On this Saturday evening, I had to stay out of my home all day as we cannot stay in our own home as there is non-stop buzzing and vibration that started at 10am that will go until 11pm tonight from an out of town food truck! For 13 hours today and every day.
No peaceful enjoyment of our home allowed and extreme distress continues Saturday evening in our living room as our home is subjected to the continuous noise, vibration and buzzing of a food-truck generator operating nearby. We can watch tv and relax. This is taking a toll on our health.
Today we have been forced our of own home or endure the persistent low-frequency hum, vibration and buzzing generated by this equipment, which appears to be permitted to operate with little or no meaningful restriction.
The generator used by the Felix Hibachi food truck is creating ongoing low-frequency noise and vibration that can be heard and felt throughout our home.
Even deep inside our residence, including the kitchen and dinning room, bedrooms, on every floor of our home the noise, vibration and ongoing buzzing interfere with our ability to work (livelihood), sleep, cook, dine, have conversations, watch television, rest, and peacefully enjoy our home.
When Felix Hibachi arrives and begins operating, the noise and vibration begin, making the generator the identifiable source of the disturbance. When the generator is no longer operating, the disturbance stops.
Attached is a time, date, and location stamped video documenting the generator in operation from inside our residence.
While the recording documents the generator operating, it does not fully capture the extent of the low-frequency noise and vibration experienced throughout our home.
The sound and vibration are comparable to a low-grade jackhammer continuously operating nearby.
This ongoing condition is significantly interfering with our normal use and enjoyment of our home and is causing substantial distress and difficulty concentrating and functioning.
This incident is consistent with the ongoing pattern previously documented in this case, including repeated recordings from different locations inside our residence and on the property of 821 Bay.
Please add this documentation to the City's ongoing case and provide it to the appropriate staff reviewing this matter.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 22 David Yakobson
From: John Alle <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 6, 2026 11:40 AM
To: Santa Monica Coalition
Subject: Family Friendly Parks
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How many plain-clothes LAPD officers and Sheriff's Deputies ensured the LA District Attorney's private family and staff Labor Day picnic in MacArthur Park was safe yesterday? That same safety does NOT exist daily for residents who feel unsafe in the park and avoid using it. MacArthur Park is NOT currently "familyfriendly" unless the DA is there. Why won't Los Angeles DA Nathan Hochman, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell and LA Sheriff Robert Luna publicly speak out against Tax-Payer-funded NGOs handing out drug tool kits in the park and surrounding
streets? Reported and unreported overdose deaths and assaults have risen. DSA Councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez does not want armed LAPD within the park. Nothing to celebrate.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 23 David Yakobson
From: Lauren Wyka <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 6, 2026 11:46 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Council Mailbox; Santa Monica City Manager's Office; City of Santa Monica; Office of Communications
Subject: CITY COUNCIL TUESDAY: Food Truck Generator Noise, Buzzing, Humming, and Vibration Forcing Us Out of Our Home
Attachments: Video.mov
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To: Mayor Caroline Torosis and Members of the Santa Monica City Council From: Lauren Wyka, Santa Monica Resident and Business Owner Re: Ongoing Food Truck Generator Noise, Buzzing, Humming, Vibration and Blaring Floodlights Forcing Us Out of Our Home
311 Cases: CS0242939, CS0242710, CS0242258, CS0242256, CS0236049, CS0206640 SMPD Incident: 88910
Sunday, September 6, 2026
Ongoing Noise, Buzzing, Humming, Vibration and Blaring Floodlights Please listen to this sound clip. You can hear the constant, unrelenting buzzing and humming that is nonstop inside our home and constantly in our ears for the entire time this food truck operates. This is what we are being forced to live with approximately 13 hours a day, 7 days a week, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Today, the truck is also operating its blaring floodlights, despite having previously been told by Code Enforcement not to do so. Yet they continue to use them. This is another example of what appears to be a flagrant disregard for the surrounding residential community and the repeated concerns that have been raised.
How is this being a “Good Neighbor”? This business is representing itself online as operating from a physical location in this community, while its food truck operation continues to subject the people who actually live and work here to hours of generator noise, buzzing, humming, vibration and intrusive lighting every single day.
Once again, there is no peaceful enjoyment of our home. The Felix Hibachi food truck generator is subjecting our residence to continuous noise, sound, low frequency buzzing, humming and vibration.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 24 The World Health Organization recognizes environmental noise as an important public health issue, and NIH published research has documented adverse effects associated with chronic environmental and low frequency noise exposure, including stress, sleep disturbance and fatigue.
This is not simply an inconvenience. It is prolonged exposure occurring inside our home every single day.
I will have to leave my home again today, forced out by a food truck, or endure this disturbance continuously until approximately 11:00 p.m. Despite nearly a year of extensive documentation and repeated requests for help, the City has still not provided an effective solution.
The generator's noise, buzzing, humming and vibration can be heard and felt throughout our residence, including our kitchen, dining room, bedrooms and every floor of our home. It interferes with our ability to work and earn our livelihood, cook, eat, have conversations, watch television, read, rest and simply live in our own home.
When the truck arrives and its generator begins operating, the disturbance begins. When the generator stops, the disturbance stops. The source is identifiable and has been repeatedly documented.
Today's time, date and location stamped video again documents the generator operating from inside our residence. While the constant buzzing and humming are clearly audible in the recording, a phone recording still cannot fully capture the physical low frequency vibration and extent of the disturbance we experience. The sound and vibration are comparable to having a low grade jackhammer continuously operating nearby.
It is unacceptable that after nearly a year of documentation and repeated requests for City assistance, we continue to be run out of our own home by a food truck.
Please add today's documentation to the City's ongoing record and provide it to all appropriate City officials reviewing this matter ahead of Tuesday's City Council meeting.
Lauren Wyka
821 Bay Street
Santa Monica, CA 90405
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 25 David Yakobson
From: Lauren Wyka <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 6, 2026 12:52 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Lana Negrete; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Council Mailbox; Santa Monica City Manager's Office; City of Santa Monica; Office of Communications
Subject: CITY COUNCIL TUESDAY: FORCED OUT OF HOME by Food Truck Generator Noise, Buzzing, Humming and Vibration
Attachments: Video.mov
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To: Mayor Caroline Torosis and Members of the Santa Monica City Council From: Lauren Wyka, Santa Monica Resident
Re: Ongoing Food Truck Generator Noise, Buzzing, Humming, Vibration and Blaring Floodlights Forcing Us Out of Our Home
311 Cases: CS0242939, CS0242710, CS0242258, CS0242256, CS0236049, CS0206640 SMPD Incident: 88910
Sunday, September 6, 2026
Ongoing Noise, Buzzing, Humming, Vibration and Blaring Floodlights Please listen to this new sound clip. This recording is from another room in my home, my office, and you can clearly hear the constant noise, buzzing and humming. The vibration can also be felt. I cannot work from here either. There is nowhere in my home I can go to get away from this. It penetrates every part of our home.
I am now being forced to leave my own home to escape it.
This is what we are being forced to live with approximately 13 hours a day, 7 days a week, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Today, the truck is also operating its blaring floodlights, despite having previously been told by Code Enforcement not to do so. Yet they continue to use them. This is another example of what appears to be a flagrant disregard for the surrounding residential community and the repeated concerns that have been raised.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 26 actually live and work here to hours of generator noise, buzzing, humming, vibration and intrusive lighting every single day.
Once again, there is no peaceful enjoyment of our home. The Felix Hibachi food truck generator is subjecting our residence to continuous noise, sound, low frequency buzzing, humming and vibration.
The World Health Organization recognizes environmental noise as an important public health issue, and NIH published research has documented adverse effects associated with chronic environmental and low frequency noise exposure, including stress, sleep disturbance and fatigue.
This is not simply an inconvenience. It is prolonged exposure occurring inside our home every single day.
When the truck arrives and its generator begins operating, the disturbance begins. When the generator stops, the disturbance stops. The source is identifiable and has been repeatedly documented.
While the constant generator noise, buzzing and humming are clearly audible in today's recording, a phone recording still cannot fully capture the physical low frequency vibration and extent of the disturbance we experience. The sound and vibration are comparable to having a low grade jackhammer continuously operating nearby.
It is unacceptable that after nearly a year of documentation and repeated requests for City assistance, I am being forced out of my own home today because of a food truck.
Please add today's documentation to the City's ongoing record and provide it to all appropriate City officials reviewing this matter ahead of Tuesday's City Council meeting.
Lauren Wyka
821 Bay Street
Santa Monica, CA 90405
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 27 David Yakobson
From: Lauren Wyka <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:13 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Lana Negrete; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Council Mailbox; Santa Monica City Manager's Office; City of Santa Monica; Office of Communications
Subject: LABOR DAY: Food Truck Generator Has Driven Me Out of My Home Two Days in a Row, 13 Hours a Day, No Relief
Attachments: Video.mov
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To: Mayor Caroline Torosis and Members of the Santa Monica City Council From: Lauren Wyka, Santa Monica Resident
Re: Ongoing Food Truck Generator Noise, Buzzing, Humming, Vibration and Blaring Floodlights Forcing Us Out of Our Home
311 Cases: CS0242939, CS0242710, CS0242258, CS0242256, CS0236049, CS0206640 SMPD Incident: 88910
Monday, September 7, 2026, Labor Day
Ongoing Noise, Buzzing, Humming, and Vibration
Please listen to today's sound clip. This recording is from my living room, another room inside my home, and you can clearly hear the constant generator noise, buzzing and humming. The low frequency vibration can also be physically felt. There is nowhere in our home we can go to get away from this.
Today is Labor Day, a national holiday, a day when residents should be able to rest and peacefully enjoy their homes. Instead, this food truck will be operating outside our home for approximately 13 hours today, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., subjecting us to continuous generator noise, buzzing, humming and vibration. We cannot relax. We cannot rest. We have no peace inside our own home.
This past Saturday, September 5, and again yesterday, Sunday, September 6, I was driven out of my own home by this food truck. I left in the early afternoon because I could no longer endure the nonstop buzzing, rumbling and vibration. I did not want to come home while the truck was still there, so I stayed away from my own home until after approximately 11:00 p.m., when the truck finally left.
This happened two days in a row.
I am now experiencing dread at the thought of returning to my own home while this truck is operating because I know exactly what I am coming home to: hours of nonstop buzzing, rumbling and physical vibration inside my home and throughout our property. My home is supposed to be the place Item 1-A
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 28 where I can feel at peace, rest and recover. Instead, my mind and body are beginning to associate being at home with an ongoing disturbance that I cannot escape unless I physically leave.
This is what this situation has become. I am altering my daily life and staying away from my own home for hours at a time because a commercial food truck generator is being allowed to operate outside of it 13 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is not peaceful enjoyment of our home and property. It is displacement from it.
Today I have things I need to do inside my home, yet I will have to endure 13 hours of buzzing and humming in my ears, the low frequency rumbling of a gas powered generator, and vibration that can be felt inside our home and physically in my body. If I want to escape it, I have to leave my own home.
The City has the authority to enforce its codes and Vehicle Vendor Good Neighbor Policies. Yet after extensive documentation and repeated requests for help, this continues 13 hours a day, 7 days a week, making it increasingly impossible for us to comfortably live and work in our home, interfering with our livelihood, and forcing us out of our own home to escape it.
I am so disheartened and deeply saddened by what this situation has become. After months upon months of asking the City for help, documenting what is happening, and trying to get the appropriate departments to act, I am now staying away from my own home because I dread coming back to the nonstop buzzing, rumbling and vibration. I never imagined that I would have to fight this hard simply to be able to peacefully live and work in my own home and enjoy my own property.
Why do these protections remain unenforced? Why should taxpaying residents have to come before the City Council simply to get the City's own protections enforced? I seriously do not understand why City departments whose duty and job it is to enforce these protections have still not developed an organized and coordinated plan of action to stop this ongoing intrusion.
The result feels as though the City is telling its residents that an out of town food truck has more rights than the people who actually live, work, pay taxes, own or rent property, and operate local businesses here in Santa Monica.
There are City codes and Vehicle Vendor Good Neighbor Policies specifically intended to protect residents and neighboring businesses from these impacts. I am asking the City to enforce its own protections so that we can peacefully live and work inside our own home and enjoy our property.
Once again, there is no peaceful enjoyment of our home. The Felix Hibachi food truck generator is subjecting our residence to continuous noise, low frequency buzzing, humming and vibration approximately 13 hours a day, 7 days a week, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) indexed research on low frequency noise has also documented associations with psychological distress, sleep disturbance, fatigue and difficulty concentrating. This is not simply an inconvenience. It is prolonged exposure occurring inside our home every single day.
When the truck arrives and its generator begins operating, the disturbance begins. When the generator stops, the disturbance stops. The source is identifiable and has been repeatedly documented.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 29 While the constant generator noise, buzzing and humming are clearly audible in today's recording, a phone recording still cannot fully capture the physical low frequency vibration and extent of the disturbance we experience. The sound and vibration are comparable to having a low grade jackhammer continuously operating nearby.
I am asking the City to enforce its own protections. I am asking the Council to intervene and direct Code Enforcement, Traffic Services, and the City Attorney to work together and put a definitive end to this ongoing disruption.
No resident should be forced out of their home by a commercial food truck generator operating 13 hours a day, 7 days a week. Yet even on Labor Day, after nearly a year of documentation and repeated requests for City assistance, that is exactly what is happening to us.
Please add today's documentation to the City's ongoing record and provide it to all appropriate City officials reviewing this matter ahead of Tuesday's City Council meeting.
Lauren Wyka
821 Bay Street
Santa Monica, CA 90405
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 1 David Yakobson
From: Amani Abou-Zamzam MBA <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2026 9:27 PM
To: Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Barry Snell; Caroline Torosis; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Ellis Raskin
Cc: councilmtgitems; Oliver Chi; Susan Cline; Peter James Subject: OPPOSE & RETRACT “MASTER LEASING" AND RESIDENTS MUST WEIGH IN AS PROMISED BY MAYOR, COUNCIL; LA SUP
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Mayor Torosis and SM Council…. This is Outrageous!!! Your Constituents-Voters are counting on you! What happened to hearing our Concerns as you “Promised"?? Especially after the “OCEAN AVE” Debacle and Your promises to hear our Input First?? How did “Master Leasing” Pass without Residents Input ??? We have a Right to Weigh in on what impacts Our Neighborhoods!!! Right when we are on the verge of bringing SM back to our glory days!? This is a Grave Error for SM and its future!!! Especially allowing Drug Use in “Housing First” Which is now being dialed back to “Treatment First” by Federal Law.. HHS Aug 2026.. **No one deserves neighbors who use Drugs next door and cause chaos.. **We don’t pay our taxes to decrease our qualities of life… We have seen the Chaos in LA and Venice Bridge Housing and SM People Concern!!!! Mayor and Council and City Manager Chi... have to Do The Right Thing and Retract This… Until Residents have their VOTE and Input on Modifications and/or a Retraction..
We Residents Matter and We Earned the Right to Know and Have INPUT….that Affect Our Lives...
If this moves forward before retractions can be made.. you must Not allow Drug Use and Insist on Sober Living.. and No “Harm Reduction” Period..
(And separately also Stop Venice Clinic from Roaming our SM Parks!!) Please Do The Right Thing For Your Constituents and Our Beautiful Santa Monica!!! We Constituents-Voters are Counting on You!!!
30 Year Homeowner and Santa Monica Resident…and SM Voter 60 Year Los Angeles Homeowner and Resident..
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 1 David Yakobson
From: MELISSA FEINBERG <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2026 7:59 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Please and I’m begging you…
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Please be tougher on the homeless crisis happening in Santa Monica.
They seem to have more rights than the actual citizens of Santa Monica and it’s gone too far.
Manhattan Beach, Hermosa and a few other So Cal cities use the actual laws in place to deal with the problem.
And those cities are doing very well in cleaning up their beaches and keeping their streets safe.
Santa Monica is weak on crime and homelessness.
I’m a lifelong Dem and WAS a bleeding heart liberal until last year.
Now for the first time I will be voting Republican.
I can’t support democrats anymore especially if we don’t have the protection and pragmatic approach from Gov Newsom after 2029.
I’ll be voting for Hilton this election and I’m beginning to look at Republicans for all other candidates on my ballot this year.
And I’m not alone.
MANY of us lifelong democratic property owners in SM are completely over the crime and the homeless crisis happening in our city.
If you were stronger on these issues you would have the full support of every Democrat and probably many of the registered Republicans in the city.
Please deal with the crime, homelessness and fraud so we can somehow get our city back under control.
Even our SMPD are frustrated and they say their hands are tied.
We have the laws on our side.
Please use them to the full extent.
Thank you in advance.
All the best,
Melissa
Sent from my iPhone
Melissa Feinberg
PROPERTY MASTER
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 1 David Yakobson
From: Lauren Wyka <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2026 11:30 AM
To: councilmtgitems; Ellis Raskin; Natalya Zernitskaya; Santa Monica City Manager's Office; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Lana Negrete; Barry Snell; Caroline Torosis Cc: City of Santa Monica
Subject: This AM run out of our home by a food truck: Documentation: Felix Hibachi Generator Noise and Vibration Inside Residence
Attachments: Video.mov
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Dear Mayor Torosis, City Council members, and City Manager Chi, This morning we are being run out of our own home by a vehicle vendor food truck. Where are we suppose to go? Where am I suppose to work? The city is allowing a food truck to continously displace us. On this Saturday morning we cannot stay in our own home as there is non-stop buzzing and vibration that started at 10am that will go until 11pm tonight form an out of town food truck! 11 hours of no peace or relaxing in our home today and tomorrow and everyday since October 2025! We have to leave our home as it’s unbearable. Please help!
We have been documenting this for months and nothing is changing. We are asking for your help.
I will see you on Tuesday at the Council Meeting. I wanted you to see, and understand how bad this really is! Everyday! It’s unbearable at this point. Thank you, Lauren No peaceful enjoyment of our home allowed and extreme distress continues Saturday evening in our living room as our home is subjected to the continuous noise, vibration and buzzing of a food-truck generator operating nearby.
Today we have been forced our of own home or endure the persistent low-frequency hum, vibration and buzzing generated by this equipment, which appears to be permitted to operate with little or no meaningful restriction.
The generator used by the Felix Hibachi food truck is creating ongoing low-frequency noise and vibration that can be heard and felt throughout our home.
Even deep inside our residence, including the kitchen and dinning room, bedrooms, on every floor of our home the noise, vibration and ongoing buzzing interfere with our ability to work (livelihood), sleep, cook, dine, have conversations, watch television, rest, and peacefully enjoy our home.
When Felix Hibachi arrives and begins operating, the noise and vibration begin, making the generator the identifiable source of the disturbance. When the generator is no longer operating, the disturbance stops.
Attached is a time, date, and location stamped video documenting the generator in operation from inside our residence.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 2 While the recording documents the generator operating, it does not fully capture the extent of the lowfrequency noise and vibration experienced throughout our home.
The sound and vibration are comparable to a low-grade jackhammer continuously operating nearby.
This ongoing condition is significantly interfering with our normal use and enjoyment of our home and is causing substantial distress and difficulty concentrating and functioning.
This incident is consistent with the ongoing pattern previously documented in this case, including repeated recordings from different locations inside our residence and on the property of 821 Bay.
Please add this documentation to the City's ongoing case and provide it to the appropriate staff reviewing this matter.
Lauren Wyka
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 3 David Yakobson
From: Lauren Wyka <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2026 11:48 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: APPENDIX B – Final Video Evidence for September 8, 2026 Public Testimony, Lauren Wyka
Attachments: Video.mov; Video_1.mov
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Dear Santa Monica City Clerk,
Please log the two attached video clips into the permanent public record as “APPENDIX B” for my scheduled public testimony on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, and make them available for review by the Mayor and City Council prior to Tuesday night’s meeting.
Both videos were recorded on Friday, September 4, 2026, while the vehicle vendor remained operating until approximately 11:00 PM.
The first video was recorded outside and clearly documents the food truck operating at the location late at night.
The second video was recorded from inside my bedroom at 10:40 PM and documents the persistent low-frequency generator noise and motor rumbling penetrating our home during nighttime hours.
This occurred after the 10:00 PM nighttime threshold established under Santa Monica Municipal Code § 4.12.060, which governs exterior noise standards. For residential Noise Zone I, the Code establishes nighttime limits beginning at 10:00 PM of 50 dBA for a 15-minute continuous measurement period and 55 dBA for a 5-minute continuous measurement period.
The disturbance was severe enough that I placed a call to the Santa Monica Police Department regarding disturbing the peace — Police Incident #2026-88910.
Together, these videos document both the source of the disturbance and what we are being forced to experience from inside our own home: persistent low-frequency motor rumbling and vibration penetrating our walls late at night, making it impossible to peacefully sleep, rest, or enjoy our home.
After months of documentation, complaints, and repeated requests for enforcement, it is deeply disturbing that this operation is not only continuing every day, but is now extending later into the night.
This is no longer simply a noise complaint. It reflects an ongoing and blatant lack of regard for the surrounding residential community—and a continuing failure to provide meaningful enforcement or relief.
Residents should not have to repeatedly document the same disturbance, contact City departments, and ultimately call the police simply to have peace inside their own bedrooms.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 4 Please ensure that these final pieces of video evidence are included with my previously submitted materials and made available to the Mayor, City Council, City Attorney, and City Prosecutor prior to Tuesday night’s meeting.
Thank you for your assistance in ensuring this documentation is included in the public record.
Lauren Wyka
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 1 David Yakobson
From: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2026 1:18 PM
To: [email protected]; Shawn Landres; Nina Fresco; Jim Ries; Josh Hamilton; Leslie Lambert; Peer Chacko; Jacob Wasserman; Santa Monica City Manager's Office; Finance Mailbox
Cc: councilmtgitems; Jennifer Taylor; Oliver Chi; Susan Cline; Peter James; Sandra Santiago; Sergio Ramirez; Lisa Parson; Lauren Howland; Melissa Spagnuolo; Attorney Mailbox; Lana Negrete; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Natalya Zernitskaya; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: THE CITY WAS NOTIFIED EIGHT TIMES—DON’T ACCEPT ITS PR NARRATIVE AT FACE VALUE
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THE CITY WAS NOTIFIED EIGHT TIMES—DON’T ACCEPT ITS PR NARRATIVE AT FACE VALUE The City of Santa Monica may portray its proposed exclusive agreement with AEG/Goldenvoice for the Civic Auditorium as routine, transparent and unopposed. The documented record—and the City’s own legal obligations—tell a different story. City officials received eight notices: August 5 — Written objection. The City was formally warned about the proposed exclusive arrangement before proceeding. August 10 — Oaks Initiative notice. The City was notified of concerns about the required disclosure of AEG/Goldenvoice’s officers, directors and individuals holding more than a 10% financial interest before receiving a qualifying public benefit. August 10 — Formal procurement protest. Santa Monica Municipal Code §2.24.110 says that once a qualifying protest is filed, “no solicitation shall be awarded” until a final determination is issued. It also requires the City Manager or designee to issue a written decision, with reasons, within 10 days. August 12 — Warning delivered before the City Council vote. The Council was expressly informed of the procurement and disclosure objections before voting, but proceeded without first resolving them. August 13 — Written addendum and supporting record. Additional facts and legal grounds were submitted, further documenting that the objections were not vague or merely political. August 21 — Demand for the overdue procurement determination. After the 10-day period passed without the required written decision, the City was formally reminded of its obligation. If the City contends §2.24.110 does not apply, it should explain that position in writing—not simply ignore the protest. August 26 — Formal Brown Act complaint. The City was notified that its closed-session and open-session procedures were being challenged. This notice did not automatically stay the agreement, but it placed officials on notice of alleged opengovernment violations before any further implementation. August 30 — Statutory Cure and Correct demand. California Government Code §54960.1 gives the City 30 days after receiving the demand to cure or correct the challenged action or provide written notice that it refuses to do so. The demand does not automatically invalidate the vote, but it is a mandatory step toward asking a court to declare the action null and void. The City cannot credibly claim it did not know about these objections. It received repeated written notice, including notice before the Council vote. The strongest immediate contracting restriction comes from the procurement protest: if §2.24.110 applies, the City could not award the challenged solicitation until issuing its final determination. The City may dispute whether the AEG process qualifies as a procurement or solicitation—but that is now one of the central questions before the court. A civil case has been filed in Los Angeles Superior Court challenging the City’s actions. Filing a case does not prove the allegations, and it does not by itself stop the Item 1-A
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 2 agreement unless the court issues an injunction. But it does mean the City’s carefully managed public-relations narrative is not the final word. Residents should examine the eight notices, the City’s own procurement code and the court filing. Santa Monica deserves facts, transparency and lawful process—not propaganda. Sources: Santa Monica Municipal Code §2.24.110:
https://ecode360.com/42719200 California Government Code §54960.1:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/
Sincerely,
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On Sep 3, 2026, at 12:29 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Santa Monica’s mayoral rotation has a glaring flaw.
Under City Charter §604 and Council Resolution 11547, the City Council selects the mayor from among its own members—but the rules do not prevent a councilmember from serving as Mayor while simultaneously running for re-election to the Council.
That should change.
The office of Mayor comes with heightened visibility, ceremonial authority, media exposure, agenda-setting influence, and the ability to speak for the City at public events.
During an election year, those advantages can blur the line between official City leadership and campaigning for another term.
No sitting councilmember who is actively seeking re-election should be allowed to serve as Mayor during that election cycle.
This is not about one individual. It is about basic fairness.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 3 The mayor’s office should not become an incumbency advantage paid for by the prestige and visibility of City government.
Santa Monica should amend its Council rules so that any councilmember up for reelection is temporarily ineligible to serve as Mayor until the election is over.
Public office should not double as a campaign platform.
Sincerely,
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Joe DiRosa
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Artist Series, Seedlings, Tartare, BrainPower
213-STAGE-LA
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 1 David Yakobson
From: John Alle <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 2:11 PM
To: Santa Monica Coalition
Subject: Steve Hilton
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Without an entourage of uniformed and plainclothes police and sheriffs with helicopters overhead, Steve Hilton, the next governor of California, diligently walked through MacArthur Park and the Westlake area of LA--some of LA's dirtiest, disease-stricken areas—to see for himself how corrupt and sick the city's and state's 1-party rule is. Hilton pledged to end taxpayer- and privately-funded handouts of all drug paraphernalia in our parks and public spaces.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 1 David Yakobson
From: Lauren Wyka <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:47 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Lana Negrete; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Council Mailbox; Santa Monica City Manager's Office; City of Santa Monica; Office of Communications
Subject: Please Help Us — We No Longer Want to Be Inside Our Own Home — Food Truck Generator Disturbance
Attachments: Video.mov
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To: Mayor Caroline Torosis and Members of the Santa Monica City Council From: Lauren Wyka, Santa Monica Resident
Re: Ongoing Food Truck Generator Noise and Vibration Forcing Us Out of Our Home 311 Cases: CS0242939, CS0242710, CS0242258, CS0242256, CS0236049, CS0206640 SMPD Incident: 88910
Monday, September 7, 2026 — Labor Day
Please listen to this sound clip, recorded inside my home. You can clearly hear the constant generator noise—including buzzing, beeping, rumbling and motor cycling. The low-frequency vibration can also be physically felt. There is nowhere in our home we can go to get away from this.
Tonight, I cannot even sit in my own living room, watch television and rest. On Labor Day, this food truck will be operating outside our home for approximately 13 hours, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. We cannot relax. We cannot rest. We have no peace inside our own home.
This past Saturday and again Sunday, I was driven out of my own home by this food truck. I left because I could no longer endure the nonstop disturbance and stayed away until after approximately 11:00 p.m., when I knew the truck would be gone. This happened two days in a row.
I don't even want to be in my own home anymore while this truck is operating. It is brutal and maddening to be subjected to relentless noise, rumbling and physical vibration day after day, with nowhere to escape it. The only way I can get relief is to leave my own home.
A commercial food truck generator is being allowed to operate outside our residence 13 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is not peaceful enjoyment of our home and property. It is displacement from it.
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 2 The City has codes and Vehicle Vendor Good Neighbor Policies intended to protect residents from these impacts, yet this ongoing intrusion continues.
I am asking the Council to please help us, intervene and direct Code Enforcement, Traffic Services, and the City Attorney to work together and put a definitive end to this ongoing disruption.
No resident should be forced out of their home by a commercial food truck generator operating 13 hours a day, 7 days a week. Yet tonight, on Labor Day, I cannot even sit in my living room, watch television and rest peacefully in my own home.
Please add today's documentation to the City's record and provide it to all appropriate City officials reviewing this matter ahead of Tuesday's City Council meeting.
Lauren Wyka
821 Bay Street
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From: Clerk Mailbox
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 1:06 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Sorry I'm late!
Attachments: Public Comment Fouad Alkisswani Sept 8 2026.docx Mitchell Kois
Staff Assistant III | City Clerk’s Office
(310) 458-8211 x5518
From: Fouad Alkisswani <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:17 PM
To: Clerk Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: Sorry I'm late!
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I'd like to submit a public comment for today's 5:30PM city council meeting. Attached.
Fouad I. Alkisswani (he/him)
WYA Technologies / FIA Consulting Services
[email protected]
[email protected]
(424) 377-7137
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) Public Comment: Fouad I. Alkisswani, Santa Monica Resident and Business Owner Santa Monica City Council Meeting – Sept 8, 2026, 5:30PM Hello, and good evening.
My name is Fouad Alkisswani, and I have been a Santa Monica resident for a little over a year. I have a huge passion for airports, and during my 17 year tenure at Capital One, have led initiatives that have increased revenue by hundreds of millions of dollars, influenced up through the CEO and board of directors, and have been in multiple meetings with Rich Fairbank himself. When I left 3 years ago, I was leading a $1B P&L in Capital One’s most profitable business, and spearheaded an enterprise-wide cross sell initiative.
I own a small business (FIA Consulting Services, LLC) which is incorporated here in Santa Monica – It’s a management consulting firm helping businesses worldwide grow and optimize their book.
I have a huge passion to make Santa Monica the New York City of the West. I want the airport to become a hub for next generation travel inclusive Electronic Vertical Landings and Takeoffs, Automated Aircraft, and I want our residents (rich and poor) to ask themselves “Do I need to go to LAX” every time they need to fly somewhere.
The Santa Monica, Inc passion helps drive the airport dream. I want to be on the front lines of helping bring commercial occupancy to 95% or greater. Santa Monica is an amazing city and I want businesses to fight to want to be here.
Thanks for your time.
Fouad
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Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 4] (7915 : Written Comments) 1 David Yakobson
From: Clarence McDowell <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:06 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Clerk Mailbox; Oliver Chi; Romy Ganschow; Jing Yeo; Risk Management; Victoria McDowell (Isis)
Subject: Public Comment Handout — 1011 Pico Blvd., Unit 7 — City Council Meeting Tuesday, September 8, 2026 — HD-11536 | Permit No. 26BLD-0578 | Case No. 25-COM-1682 Attachments: Council_Handout_Enforce_PerDiem_Settle_GL_Harassment_090826.pdf
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Dear City Clerk and Members of the City Council,
Attached is our public-comment handout for tonight’s City Council meeting (Tuesday, September 8, 2026), concerning 1011 Pico Blvd., Unit 7 — Habitability Determination HD-11536, Permit No. 26BLD-0578, and pending Government Claims Act claim (Case No. 25-COM-1682).
The handout summarizes three requests for Council action:
1. Enforce the required relocation per diem under HD-11536 (corrected net unpaid balance $57,706 as of August 29, 2026, accruing $473/night).
2. Agendize a closed session under Government Code § 54956.9 to consider settlement of the pending Government Claims Act claim before the 45-day response window closes around September 12, 2026.
3. Agendize a written disposition of the pending tenant-harassment complaint under SMMC Chapter 4.56 and direct a cease-and-desist position on rent demands while HD-11536 remains unlifted and Civil Code 1942.4 predicates are satisfied.
This handout is submitted for the public record and for staff/Council follow-up. It does not constitute a settlement offer or legal advice. All figures are sourced from the Claimants’ filed supplements and City records.
We would appreciate confirmation that the handout has been received and distributed to the Mayor, Councilmembers, City Manager, City Attorney, Director of Community Development, and Risk Management.
Respectfully,
Clarence McDowell Victoria McDowell
1011 Pico Blvd., Unit 7 Santa Monica, CA 90405
(310) 291-4468 | [email protected]
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Report
City Council Meeting: September 8, 2026
Agenda Item: 2.A
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Subject: 2.A. Proclamation: Hispanic Heritage Month (Sep.15- Oct.15) Prepared By: Amy Larkin, Staff Assistant III
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City Council Meeting: September 8, 2026
Agenda Item: 4.A
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To: Mayor and City Council
From: Christopher Dishlip, Director of Public Works, Water Resources Division Subject: Adoption of a Resolution Authorizing the Application for Grant Funds from the U.S. Department of Interior - Bureau of Reclamation Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Program
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;
2. Adopt the attached resolution authorizing the application for grant funds in the amount of up to $40,000,000 from the U.S. Department of Interior - Bureau of Reclamation Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Program for the Santa Monica Advanced Reuse for Tomorrow (SMART) Project in the Public Works Department; and
3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute all necessary documents to apply for the grant, accept the grant, if awarded, and accept all grant renewals.
Summary
The City of Santa Monica’s (City) Department of Public Works – Water Resources Division is applying for grant funding from the United States Bureau of Reclamation’s (USBR) Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Program to support implementation of the Santa Monica Advanced Reuse for Tomorrow Project (SMART Project). The Title XVI Program provides up to $40,000,000 in funding for the planning, design, and construction of water reclamation and reuse projects. The SMART Project would enhance water supply resiliency and emergency response for the community and Santa Monica’s local economy. If the SMART Project is awarded funding, the Title XVI Water
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Reclamation and Reuse Program requires an official resolution adopted by the City’s governing body to accept the grant award.
Discussion
The USBR Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Program provides financial assistance for projects that develop new, drought-resilient local water supplies to address growing water demands and resource challenges. By expanding existing water resources, reducing reliance on imported water, and increasing water supply reliability, these projects strengthen long-term water security and community resilience.
The City’s Water Resources Division is applying for Title XVI funding for its SMART Project. The SMART Project would support expansion of the City’s recycled water system and implement direct potable reuse to enhance water supply resiliency and expand the City’s local water supply portfolio. The SMART Project would integrate the Sustainable Water Infrastructure Project with the recently completed Olympic Advanced Water Treatment Facility and upgraded Arcadia Water Treatment Plant to maximize local water production. Specifically, components of the SMART Project include a new recycled water booster pump station, expansion of the City’s recycled water network, treatment upgrades and a new Water Operations Center at the Arcadia Water Treatment Plant. The SMART Project would strengthen the City's long-term water supply resilience while establishing a regional model for the planning, design, and implementation of advanced water treatment and reuse systems that expand local water supplies and reduce reliance on imported water supplies. The SMART Project builds upon Santa Monica's nationally recognized leadership in innovative water infrastructure.
It follows the successful completion of the City’s award-winning Sustainable Water Infrastructure Project in 2022, which pioneered integrated stormwater harvesting and potable reuse, as well as the expansion of the City's groundwater desalination facility featuring the world's first municipal Flow Reversal Reverse Osmosis retrofit. By reducing reliance on increasingly vulnerable and overallocated imported water supplies from the Colorado River and the State Water Project, the SMART Project helps the City
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proactively address drought-related allocation reductions, potential disruptions from natural disasters, and rising water costs while advancing the sustainable management of local water resources.
The total project cost is currently estimated to be approximately $93 million, and the Title XVI Program requires a minimum City cost share of 75 percent of the total project cost. The 75 percent matching funds are available from the Water Enterprise Fund through a combination of CIP projects, such as the Arcadia Operations Building Replacement Project, and through either a water revenue bond or a state/federal loan, as outlined in the 2025 Water Rate Study adopted by City Council on June 2025. Staff would return to Council with budget changes if the grant is awarded.
Prior to award, the Bureau of Reclamation requires recipients to provide an official resolution adopted by the organization’s governing body to commit the recipient to financial and legal obligations of the financial assistance award. Staff is requesting authorization to enter into agreement, if awarded, and to submit any required documents, invoices, and reports to obtain Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Program funding.
Environmental Review
Authorization of the application for grant funding from the U.S. Department of the Interior – Bureau of Reclamation’s Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Program would have no possibility of significant effect on the environment and, therefore, is exempt pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines. If awarded, the use of the grant funding to construct the SMART Project would be subject to state and federal environmental review at the time the project is proposed.
Financial Impacts and Budget Actions
Staff seeks authority to apply for a grant from the USBR to support the SMART Project
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and to accept the grant and all grant renewals, if awarded. There is no immediate financial impact or budget action necessary as a result of the recommended action. The Title XVI Program requires a minimum City cost share of 75 percent of the total project cost. Staff would return to Council with budget changes if the grant is awarded.
Prepared By: Sunny Wang, Water Resources Manager
Approved Forwarded to Council
Attachments:
A. Resolution - Title XVI Funding Program
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1 City Council Meeting: September 8, 2026 Santa Monica, California RESOLUTION NUMBER _________ (CCS)
(City Council Series)
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO APPLY FOR GRANT FUNDS FROM THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR – BUREAU OF RECLAMATION TITLE
XVI WATER RECLAMATION AND REUSE PROGRAM FOR THE SANTA MONICA
ADVANCED REUSE FOR TOMORROW PROJECT AND TO NEGOTIATE AND
ENTER INTO A GRANT AGREEMENT WITH THE DEPARTMENT AND ANY
AMENDMENTS THERETO
WHEREAS, the U.S. Department of Interior - Bureau of Reclamation has allocated grant funding for projects pursuant to the Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Program; and
WHEREAS, the Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Program aims to develop new, drought-resilient local water supplies to address growing water demands and resource challenges; and
WHEREAS, the City seeks to apply for grant funds from the Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Program to improve the City’s drought resiliency with the implementation of the Santa Monica Advanced Reuse for Tomorrow (SMART) Project.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The Recitals above are incorporated herein by this reference.
SECTION 2. The City of Santa Monica City Manager, or designee, is hereby authorized and directed to prepare and file an application for funding from the Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Program and take such other actions necessary or appropriate to obtain grant funding.
SECTION 3. The City of Santa Monica City Manager, or designee, is hereby
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Department of Interior - Bureau of Reclamation and any amendments thereto.
SECTION 4. The City of Santa Monica City Manager, or designee, is authorized to work with the U.S. Department of Interior - Bureau of Reclamation to meet established deadlines and is also authorized and directed to submit any required documents, invoices, and reports required to obtain the aforementioned grant funding.
SECTION 5. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution of the City Council, and thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be in full force and effect.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
_________________________
HEIDI VON TONGELN
City Attorney
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Report
City Council Meeting: September 8, 2026
Agenda Item: 4.B
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To: Mayor and City Council
From: Christopher Dishlip, Director of Public Works, Mobility Division Subject: Award RFP No. SP2805 to and Authorize City Manager to enter into Agreement With Kimley-Horn for the Design of 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway Project
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt a finding of categorical exemption pursuant to Section 15301 (Existing Facilities) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;
2. Award RFP #SP2805 to Kimley-Horn for transportation planning, design and engineering services for the 14th Street Two-way Protected Bikeway for the Public Works Department;
3. Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with Kimley-Horn in a total amount not to exceed $1,999,205 over a five-year period, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval; and
4. Authorize the budget amendment as outlined in the Financial Impacts & Budget Actions section of the report (requires 5 votes).
Summary
The City of Santa Monica’s (City) Public Works Department continues to advance the City’s Bicycle Action Plan Amendment (BAPA) and Vision Zero commitment by implementing projects that expand the bicycle network, improve safety, and encourage walking, bicycling, and other forms of active transportation. The 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway Project, extending from Pico Boulevard to Washington Avenue, is identified in the BAPA as a priority project to strengthen north-south bicycle connectivity, improve access to schools, parks, neighborhoods, and the Expo E Line, and provide a more comfortable facility for people of all ages and abilities. The project includes improvements at the Vision Zero priority intersection of 14th Street and California
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Avenue and crosses several Vision Zero priority corridors, including Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica Boulevard, and Broadway as identified in the City’s 2022 Local Roadway Safety Plan (LRSP). These improvements advance the City's commitment to reducing severe and fatal traffic collisions while supporting its Clean Streets and Safe Neighborhoods priority. Staff recommends awarding RFP SP2805 to Kimley-Horn and authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute an agreement in a total amount not to exceed $1,999,205 over a five-year period, accounting for support during construction. This agreement will provide for the consultant team to prepare the engineering design and construction plans to implement the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway project.
Discussion
On December 16, 2025, EAH Inc. was awarded a $49.9 million grant through the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) Program to support the development of 1318 4th Street (formerly Parking Structure 3) and sustainable transportation infrastructure projects across the city. Of the total award, $7,999,999 is dedicated to sustainable transportation infrastructure, including the design and construction of the 14th Street Two-way Protected Bikeway Project. The AHSC grant has no local match requirement. Approval of the AHSC grant and resolution of the City’s partnership with EAH Inc. to deliver the project was approved by City Council on October 8, 2024. The project design and construction will be supplemented by other miscellaneous grants including the Measure M Subregional Program (MSP) in the amount of $4,117,798 as approved by City Council (Staff Report 7220, Resolution Number 11731) on January 27, 2026, and the Special Revenue Source – St. John’s Development Agreement in the amount of $100,000.
The 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway modifies an existing north-south bike corridor, connecting to Lincoln Middle School, Memorial Park, Broadway Protected Bikeway, Santa Monica College, and the Michigan Avenue Neighborhood Greenway (MANGo). City’s Bicycle Action Plan Amendment (BAPA) proposes converting the existing bike lanes on 14th Street to a protected bikeway between Washington Avenue
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and Pico Boulevard. Because 14th Street serves as a transit route, the design may incorporate treatments such as bus boarding islands, in-lane transit stops, and designated bike/pedestrian mixing zones at bus stops to reduce conflicts and improve access. The student pick-up/drop-off area in front of Lincoln Middle School will require careful design to balance school operations with the protected bikeway. Additional design considerations include raised bikeway crossings at select intersections, traffic signal modifications, bike/bus mixing zones, curb ramp design, and other intersection improvements to provide enhanced, intuitive crossings for people walking, biking, riding transit, and driving. The City completed its LRSP in 2022, which analyzed crash data from 2015 to 2019 to identify priority corridors and intersections with the highest concentration of fatal and severe injury crashes. The intersection of 14th Street and California Avenue was identified as a priority intersection through this data-driven process. This project will evaluate targeted safety improvements to address crash patterns identified at the intersection and reduce the risk of future severe and fatal collisions.
Throughout the conceptual design and plans, specifications, and estimate (PS&E) phases, the City and Consultant team will conduct robust community engagement to inform project development and build public understanding of the project's goals, benefits, and trade-offs. Staff will conduct both digital and in-person engagement opportunities to collect feedback from community stakeholders and corridor users, including presenting to City Council to receive direction on concept designs and project tradeoffs. Final design of the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway project is anticipated to be completed in Spring 2028, and project construction is anticipated to begin Fall 2028, after the LA 2028 Olympic and Paralympics Games.
Vendor Selection
Bidder Recommendation
Best Qualified Firm Kimley-Horn
Evaluation Criteria Understanding of the work to be done; Experience with similar kinds of work; Project team; Familiarity with state and federal procedures; Financial responsibility and schedule
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management; Demonstrated technical ability; Interview (top rated candidates).
Municipal Code SMMC 2.24.100(b)
RFPs Received
CSG Consultants, Inc. John M. Cruikshank
Consultants, Inc. Kimley-Horn Michael Baker International, Inc Psomas Stantec Consulting
Services, Inc.
Willdan
Engineering
RFP Data
Posted On Posted On Advertised In
(City Charter & SMMC)
Vendors
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Date Publicly
Opened
6/10/2026 City's Online
Bidding Site
Santa Monica Daily
Press 98 7/17/2026
Justification to Award
The Evaluation Committee reviewed proposals and qualifications from seven consultant teams. The Evaluation Committee was comprised of a selection panel from the Mobility Division and the Engineering Services Division. Based on these criteria, the selection panel ranked the Kimley-Horn team as the best qualified firm to provide final design services due to their technical expertise in signal design and operations, as well as navigating complex drainage-related challenges. The team also demonstrates knowledge and experience working on similar multi-modal projects in neighboring jurisdictions, including South Pasadena, and coordinating with key stakeholders such as Metro Rail Team and California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). In addition, Kimley-Horn proposed key staff with significant bikeway design and implementation experience leading state and federally funded grant procedures.
Environmental Review
The project is exempt from CEQA pursuant to Section 15301 (Existing Facilities) of the CEQA Guidelines, which exempts minor alterations to roadways such as the addition of bicycle facilities, including but not limited to bicycle parking, bicycle-share facilities and bicycle lanes, transit improvements such as bus lanes, pedestrian crossings, street trees, and other similar alterations that do not create additional automobile lanes. The project will include new crosswalk markings, curb or sidewalk extensions, bicycle facilities, and signal improvements within the existing right-of-way. These alterations
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would not increase the vehicle capacity of the existing roadways. Therefore, the award of the contract for this project is exempt pursuant to Section 15301.
Past Council Actions
Meeting Date Description
01/27/2026
(attachment A)
Receive and File Short Range Transit Plan and Adoption of a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to File the FY 2026–2028 Short Range Transit Plan with Los Angeles
County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) and Execute Related Grant Agreements.
10/08/2024
(attachment B)
Approve Deal Terms and Authorize Development and
Disposition Agreement DDA) and Ground Lease for 1318
4th Street.
Financial Impacts and Budget Actions
Staff seeks authority to appropriate Miscellaneous Grant Funds (Los Angeles Metro’s Multi-Year Subregional Program also known as MSP) and Special Revenue Source Funds (St John’s Hospital Developer Agreement) for expenses related to this project, and approval of the following budget amendments. In addition, $200,000 was budgeted in FY 2026-27 as a part of the FY 2026-28 Biennial CIP Budget for the AHSC grant.
FY 2026-27 Budget Amendment
Establish Revenue Budget Appropriate Funds
Account Number Amount Account Number Amount
20500012.406330 $1,150,000 C2009460.689290 $1,150,000
20500012.406331 $749,205 C2009460.689291 $549,205
Total $1,899,205 $1,699,205
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FY 2026-27 Budget Amendment
Release Funds Appropriate Funds
Account Number Amount Account Number Amount
10.366631 - St. John’s DA $100,000 C1009460.689545 $100,000 In addition, staff also seeks authority to approve available funding from the Miscellaneous Grants Fund and the Special Revenue Source Fund to award a contract with Kimley-Horn for design services. Future year funding is contingent on Council budget approval.
Contract Request
Funding Sources FY 2026-27
Request Amount CIP Account # TotalContract Amount
Miscellaneous Grant
(LAMTCA Multi Year
Subregional Program –
MSP)
$1,150,000 C2009460.689290 $1,150,000
Special Revenue
Sources (St. John’s
DA)
$100,000 C1009460.689545 $100,000
Miscellaneous Grant
(Affordable Housing and
Sustainable
Communities Grant
{AHSC})
$749,205 C2009460.689291 $749,205
Total $1,999,205 Total $1,999,205
Prepared By: Jacqueline Swartz, Senior Transportation Planner Approved Forwarded to Council
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Attachments:
A. January 27, 2026 Staff Report (web link)
B. October 8, 2024 Staff Report (web link)
C. 4._KH_Oaks_Initiative_Disclosure_Form
D. 5._KH_Levine_Act_Disclosure
E. Written Comments
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CITY OF SANTA MONICA OAKS INITIATIVE DISCLOSURE FORM
In order to facilitate compliance with the requirements of the Oaks Initiative, the City compiles and maintains certain information. That information includes the name of any person or persons who is seeking a “public benefit.” If the “public benefit” is sought by an entity, rather than an individual person, the information includes the name of every person who is: (a) trustee, (b) director, (c) partner, (d) officer, or has (e) more than a ten percent interest in the entity.
Public benefits include:
1. Personal services contracts in excess of $25,000 over any 12-month period;
2. Sale of material, equipment or supplies to the City in excess of $25,000 over a 12- month period;
3. Purchase, sale or lease of real property to or from the City in excess of $25,000 over a 12- month period;
4. Non-competitive franchise awards with gross revenue of $50,000 or more in any 12-month period;
5. Land use variance, special use permit, or other exception to an established land use plan, where the decision has a value in excess of $25,000;
6. Tax “abatement, exception, or benefit” of a value in excess of $5,000 in any 12- month period; or
7. Payment of “cash or specie” of a net value to the recipient of $10,000 in any 12- month period.
Name(s) of persons or entities receiving public benefit:
Name(s) of trustees, directors, partners, and officers:
Name(s) of persons with more than a 10% equity, participation, or revenue interest:
Prepared by: Title:
Signature: Date:
Email: Phone:
FOR CITY USE ONLY:
Bid/PO/Contract # Permit #
See attached list o Kimley-Horn's principal officers and directors.
Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.
Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. is wholly owned by Associates Group Services, Inc., which is wholly owned by APHC, Inc., which is owned by over 700 Kimley-Horn employees, none of which own 2% or more of the outstanding shares.
Senior Vice President
July 17, 2026
Darren J. Adrian, PE
[email protected] 714.705.1304
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PRINCIPAL OFFICERS:
Names/Titles Business Address
Brent H. Mutti, President, Chief Executive Officer 1001 West Southern Avenue, Suite 131 Mesa, AZ 85210
Aaron W. Nathan, COO, Executive Vice President 801 Cherry Street, Unit 1, Suite 301 Fort Worth, TX 76102
Ashley R. Keil, Secretary 421 Fayetteville Street, Suite 600 Raleigh, NC 27601
David L. McEntee, Senior Vice President, Treasurer 421 Fayetteville Street, Suite 600 Raleigh, NC 27601
Steven E. Lefton, Executive Chair 11400 Commerce Park Drive, Suite 400 Reston, VA 20191
Tammy L. Flanagan, CFO, Executive Vice President 421 Fayetteville Street, Suite 600 Raleigh, NC 27601
DIRECTORS:
Names/Titles Business Address
Ashley M. Frysinger, Senior Vice President 11700 Katy Freeway, Suite 800 Houston, TX 77079
Aaron W. Nathan, Executive Vice President,
Chief Operating Officer
801 Cherry Street, Suite 1300, Unit 11
Fort Worth, TX 76102
Brent H. Mutti, President, Chief Executive Officer 1001 West Southern Avenue, Suite 131 Mesa, AZ 85210
Brian A. Good, Senior Vice President 445 24th Street, Vero Beach, FL 32960 Emily H. Meador, Senior Vice President 421 Fayetteville Street, Suite 600 Raleigh, NC 27601
Jennifer L. Harry, Senior Vice President 401 B Street, Suite 600, San Diego, CA 92101 Joseph D. Kaltsas, Executive Vice President 401 B. Street, Suite 600, San Diego, CA 92101 Kevin M. Schanen, Senior Vice President 1920 Wekiva Way, Suite 200 West Palm Beach, FL 33411
Lori A. Hall, Executive Vice President 11400 Commerce Park Drive, Suite 400 Reston, VA 20191
Steven E. Lefton, Executive Chair 11400 Commerce Park Drive, Suite 400 Reston, VA 20191
Stephen W. Blakley, Jr., Senior Vice President 200 South Tryon Street, Suite 200 Charlotte, NC 28202
Scott W. Colvin, Executive Vice President 4582 South Ulster Street, Suite 1500 Denver, CO 80237
Tammy L. Flanagan, Executive Vice President 421 Fayetteville Street, Suite 600 Raleigh, NC 27601
Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. is wholly owned by Associates Group Services, Inc., which is wholly owned by APHC, Inc., which is owned by over 1,000 Kimley-Horn employees, none of which own 2% or more of the outstanding shares.
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CITY OF SANTA MONICA
CALIFORNIA LEVINE ACT DISCLOSURE
The Levine Act prohibits City Officers from participating in any action related to a contract, license, permit, or entitlement if such Officer received campaign contributions totaling more than $500 within the previous twelve months, and for twelve months following the date of a final decision, from a party or participant to the proceeding, or their agent.
Section 84308(a)(4) of the Levine Act defines an "Officer" as follows: “Officer” means any elected or appointed officer of an agency, any alternate to an elected or appointed officer of an agency, and any candidate for elective office in an agency. The term “Officer” is further defined 2 Cal.
Code Regs. Section 18438.1, which states:
An officer of an agency includes only those persons who make, participate in making, or in any way attempt to use their official position to influence a decision in the license, permit, or entitlement for use proceeding, or who exercise authority or budgetary control over the agency or officers who may do so, and:
(1) Serve in an elected position, including an official appointed to an elected position due to an interim vacancy or an election otherwise canceled because the official was the sole candidate for the position;
(2) Serve as a member of a board or commission;
(3) Serve as the chief executive of a state agency, or county, city or district of any kind; or (4) Have decision making authority with respect to the proceeding involving a license, permit, or other entitlement for use and is also a candidate for elected office or has been a candidate for elective office in the 12 months prior to the proceeding.
A list of Santa Monica Elected Officials and members of boards and commissions can be found at the following links. The party making this certification is responsible for determining whether a recipient of a political contribution is a City Officer prior to completing this form. https://www.smgov.net/departments/council/
https://www.santamonica.gov/departments/rent-control
https://www.smgov.net/boards/
Have you, your company, or any agent on behalf of you or your company, made any political contributions of more than $500 to any City Officer in the twelve months preceding the date of the submission of your application or proposal? _ _YES _ _ NO
Name of Councilmember or City Officer:
Name of Contributor:
Date(s) of Contribution(s):
Amount(s)
Please specify below and/or add additional sheet(s) to identify additional Councilmembers or City Officers to whom you and/or your agents made campaign contributions.
City of Santa Monica Levine Act Disclosure Form
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Packet Pg. 143 Attachment: 5._KH_Levine_Act_Disclosure [Revision 1] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Answering YES does not preclude the City of Santa Monica from awarding a contract, license, permit, or entitlement or taking any subsequent action related to the item. It does, however, preclude the identified City Officer from participating in any actions related to such item.
By signing below, you certify you also agree to disclose to the City any future contributions made to Councilmembers or other City Officers by you or your agent(s) after the date of signing this disclosure form, and within 12 months following the approval, renewal, or extension of the requested contract, license, permit, or entitlement.
I HEREBY CERTIFY UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA THAT THE FOREGOING IS TRUE AND CORRECT.
Signed: Date:
Print Name: Title:
Company:
Additional Disclosures:
Please note this form is a public record and subject to a California Public Records Act request.
City of Santa Monica Levine Act Disclosure Form
Senior Vice President
Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc
July 17, 2026
Darren J. Adrian, PE
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TO: Public
FROM: City Attorney’s Office
RE: Levine Act Disclosure Form
The Levine Act (Government Code 84308) is a California law aimed at preventing “pay to play” practices by prohibiting parties, participants, and their agents in a proceeding involving a license, permit, or other entitlement from contributing more than $500 to an officer of the City during a 12-month period. The prohibition applies to any 12-month period while the proceeding is pending and for 12 months following the date a final decision is rendered in the proceeding.
State law requires a party to a proceeding to disclose any contributions exceeding an aggregate $500 that the party and their agents have made to an officer of the City within the preceding 12 months. The Disclosure Form is intended to assist City officials with recognizing when they have an obligation to disclose and recuse themselves, and to aid parties with their disclosure obligations.
1. To what sort of proceedings is the disclosure form applicable? The Levine Act applies to all discretionary entitlements and contracts, with the exception of labor contracts, personal employment contracts, and contracts that must be awarded to the lowest responsive/responsible bidder. It does not apply to ministerial approvals.
For instance, the Levine Act applies to the following:
• Building and development permits
• Conditional use permits
• Contracts generally (unless an exception applies):
o Real property contracts for purchase, sale, lease
o Contract amendments
o Settlement agreements
o Contracts for goods, services, professional services that are not awarded pursuant to a competitive process
• Public street abandonments
• Private development plans
• Professional license revocations
• Rezoning of specific real estate parcels
• Event permits
• Rulemaking procedures affecting a particular industry where only a small number of businesses are affected
• Special district formation proceedings involving the creation of a special use or benefit to the person in the district
• Tentative subdivision and parcel maps
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• Zoning variances
• Vacation of a public easement across private property • Pre-applications, such as for General Plan Amendment, considered by the legislative body prior to filing of formal application
• Contracts entered under the City Manager’s Authority
• Closed session items that may result in a contract/settlement agreement approved by Council (real estate or litigation)
It does not apply to:
• Contracts under $50,000
• Contracts where no party receives financial compensation • Contracts between two or more public agencies
• Competitively bid contracts that are required by law, agency policy, or agency rule to be awarded pursuant to a competitive process
• Purely ministerial decisions
• General policy decisions or rules where the interests affected are many and diverse
• Ordinances and resolutions (except items like development agreements adopted by ordinance)
• Ballot measures
• Departmental policies
• Council rules
• Labor contracts and project labor agreements
• Personal employment contracts
• Allocation of resources in the City budget
2. Who is required to disclose?
A “party” to a proceeding is any person who files an application for, or is the subject of, a proceeding. In general, a person or company who applies for a permit, license, or right to use property in a particular way, which requires the City’s discretionary approval, will qualify as a party.
Parties are also required to disclose contributions by their agents. An “agent” is someone who (1) represents a party to a proceeding for compensation; and (2) appears before or otherwise communicates with the City for the purpose of influencing the pending proceeding. This can include law firms, architects, engineers, consultants, and similar entities. Both the individual and their employer or firm are considered “agents.” A party should also disclose contributions of other entities majority owned by the party, as well as contributions of any other entity whose contributions it directs or controls.
3. What must be disclosed?
A party must disclose campaign contributions over $250 made in the prior twelve months.
A “contribution” is anything of value for which the party has not received full consideration, including money, nonmonetary items, payments made for advertising or
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other expenses coordinated with a candidate or committee, loans, tickets to political fundraisers, etc.
4. Who is considered an officer of the City?
An “officer” is anyone who may make, participate in making, or attempt to influence a decision in the proceeding or who exercises authority over officers who may do so. This includes elected officials, members of appointed boards and commissions, the City Manager, and any individual who is a candidate for elected office or who has been a candidate in the twelve months prior to the decision. This definition is included on the Disclosure Form.
5. When should the disclosure occur?
The Disclosure Form must be completed (1) by a party to a contract with the City (or that party’s agent) at the time the party submits a response to a Request for Proposal or other competitive solicitation, enters into contract negotiations with the City, or executes a contract with the City, whichever is earliest; or (2) by a party to a license, permit, or other entitlement proceeding before the City at the time the party (or their agent) submits the license, permit, or entitlement application to the City. The party (or their agent) must submit a supplemental form if they make any new reportable contributions while the same contract, license, permit, or other entitlement is being considered. The party (or their agent) must also use the form if they need to correct any previously submitted form.
Parties are solely responsible for completing the form accurately, and could face penalties for failure to do so. The California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) is the body who enforces violations of the Levine Act. If a party is uncertain about whether they are required to report or combine a contribution, they should consult with their attorney.
Nothing herein constitutes legal advice and individuals are urged to consult with their own attorney regarding the requirements of the law. To the extent there is any inconsistency, the language of the Levine Act and FPPC Regulations govern over this notice. Resources for officers, parties, participants, and agents, are available on the FPPC’s website at https://www.fppc.ca.gov/learn/pay-to-play-limits-and-prohibitions.html
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From: Kelli <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 8:00 AM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Lana Negrete; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; Jesse Zwick; Oliver Chi; Council Mailbox; Ellis Raskin Subject: item 4b -14th street concrete bike lanes
EXTERNAL
I am writing to formally state my strong opposition to the proposed changes to 14th Street and to ask the City Council to vote NO on this item.
I am very concerned about the design that is being proposed for 14th Street. The recent redesign of 17th Street and Broadway has created streets that are more dangerous and confusing for drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, and residents.
There are numerous pavement markings, concrete barriers that extend into the roadway, reflectors, cones, and other traffic-control features that make navigating these streets unnecessarily difficult.
I strongly oppose bringing this same type of design to 14th Street.
Our north/south streets are extremely important to the residents of Santa Monica. They provide necessary routes for residents to move throughout the city and are particularly important for emergency access. With hospitals and other essential services nearby, we should be very careful about making changes that could slow or complicate emergency vehicle access.
I am also concerned that reducing lanes and parking on 14th Street will simply push additional traffic and parking into surrounding residential neighborhoods. Residents already struggle to find adequate parking for themselves and their guests. Removing additional parking will make an existing problem even worse and place more pressure on neighboring streets.
Santa Monica is a unique, beautiful, small beach community. We should be looking for ways to improve safety and mobility without creating confusing roadways, eliminating needed residential parking, increasing congestion on surrounding streets, or making it more difficult for emergency vehicles to get where they need to go.
Please listen to the residents who live in these neighborhoods and carefully reconsider this proposal.
I respectfully ask the City Council to vote NO on the proposed 14th Street bike lane design. Please do not move forward with a design that has already created safety and traffic concerns on other streets.
Thank you for considering the concerns of Santa Monica residents.
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 148 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 1 David Yakobson
From: Alyssa <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 12:20 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: SM Observer
Subject: Award RFP No. SP2805 - NO. NO protected bike lane on 14th Street
EXTERNAL
Dear council member,
I live on 9th Street and frequently need to cross town. 17th street is now unusable with the poorly designed concrete curbs that make the street extremely dangerous for cars, people getting into and out of parked cars, and I suspect even the bike riders, of which there are very few.
This city does NOT need another failed experiment like this. It did not work on 17th street. It only pushed traffic from 17th street onto streets in which it is easier to drive.
NO change to 14th Street.
There is zero necessity for this poor decision.
Alyssa Ganezer
9th Street
Santa Monica, CA
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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From: Santa Monica Forward <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 2:25 PM
To: Caroline Torosis; Dan Hall; Barry Snell; Ellis Raskin; Jesse Zwick; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; councilmtgitems
Subject: 4.B - Expedite the 14th St Safety Project
EXTERNAL
Mayor and Councilmembers,
Please make every effort to expedite the design & completion of the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway Project.
Bike lanes shouldn't take 2 years to build, especially when they are so crucial to ensure the safety of students going to school.
Sincerely,
Sam Shapiro-Kline and Brad Ewing
Co-Chairs, Santa Monica Forward
--
We are working for a diverse, progressive, sustainable and equitable Santa Monica.
SantaMonicaForward.org
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 150 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 2 David Yakobson
From: Mathew Millen <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 7:36 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Mathew Millen
Sent from my Galaxy
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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From: jzhawk13 <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 7:52 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: No to bike restructure
EXTERNAL
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All's and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Jill Hawkins, Santa Monica
11th and Broadway
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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From: Gosia Probosz <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 7:56 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Gosia Probosz
1428 12th St.
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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From: Jenny Mitchell <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 8:19 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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From: Kazia Schulhof <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 8:20 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Kazia Schulhof
Western Region Manager
Trefethen Family Vineyards
310-447-4722 cell
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September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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From: Ashley Oelsen <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 8:28 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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From: Kari Rudolph <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 8:35 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
I am a daily bike rider, born, raised, own property, worked for SMPD for over 30 years and find the inside bike lanes dangerous as the cars turn right at the corners and don’t see us and as a bike rider you must look past the parked cars to see traffic and it is difficult. I live in the 1200 block of 14th and many of us have had our cars sideswiped while parked due to narrow lanes, the low income buildings will bring more cars to park and we already can’t park. Please do not put inside bike lanes in.
Thank you,
Kari Rudolph - 1227 14th
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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From: KARRI URODE-Abe <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 8:43 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 159 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 12 David Yakobson
From: M Alpern <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 8:44 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Miriam Alpern
Wilmont
- Miriam
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 160 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 13 David Yakobson
From: Manon <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 8:48 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Manon Yona
South of Wilshire resident
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 161 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 14 David Yakobson
From: Kate Cote <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 8:55 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
1310 12th St
90401
Kate Coté
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 162 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 15 David Yakobson
From: composition33proton.me <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 8:56 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Jen Mid city
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 163 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 16 David Yakobson
From: MarieHernandez <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:00 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: Stop squeezing our street on 14th people will die!
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
I am a nurse, people will die trying to get transport. This is a foolish plan and people will never forget who did this.
We will make you all famous. My father is a senior and is transported to the hospital all the time and if he can't get through because of this I will make sure that we all come together to file a class action law suit.To do this near a hospital is insane!
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Regards,
Marie Hernandez
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 164 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 17 David Yakobson
From: Eve Lopez <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:05 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to respectfully oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway.
As residents, we all share an interest in improving mobility while ensuring that public safety remains the City’s highest priority. Before advancing projects that may affect emergency access and evacuation routes, the City should complete a comprehensive emergency evacuation capacity study and allow the public to consider its findings.
Responsible planning requires evaluating these impacts before deciding to move forward with these projects, not after.
I respectfully ask the Council to pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and defer awarding the contract until the evacuation capacity study has been completed.
Thank you,
Eve Lopez
Sunset Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 165 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 18 David Yakobson
From: Kevin Pelletier <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:07 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Kevin Pelletier
12th and Wilshire
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 166 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 19 David Yakobson
From: Carissa Drucker <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:09 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Carissa Drucker owner of 1443 10th street between Santa Monica and Broadway Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 167 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 20 David Yakobson
From: Jeff Mirkin <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:11 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Jeff Mirkin
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 168 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 21 David Yakobson
From: Kiana Achoy <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:12 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Kiana Achoy
Generations of Virginia Ave
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 169 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 22 David Yakobson
From: lori brown <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:14 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Ellis Raskin; Jesse Zwick; Natalya Zernitskaya; Caroline Torosis; Dan Hall; Attorney Mailbox
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway.
14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 170 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 23 award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Lori brown
Sent from my iPhone Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 171 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 24 David Yakobson
From: Lesley Holden <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:16 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Please don’t add to Santa Monica’s abysmal, confusing and down right dangerous “traffic calming” measures that have crippled local businesses, put the disabled and Moms trying to juggle small children and car seat extraction in mortal danger.
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street.
USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend. Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for: 1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists. 3. A full, intersectionby-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption. 4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign. 5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting. Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists. Thank you, [Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 172 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 25 David Yakobson
From: sharon currytto <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:16 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Sharon Currytto
14th Street resident!!
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 173 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 26 David Yakobson
From: Kimberly Handley <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:17 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank You,
Kimberly Handley
1323 14th St..
Santa Monica, CA. 90404
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 174 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 27 David Yakobson
From: Renee Curtis <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:22 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Renee Curtis, Ocean Park resident & homeowner
Sent from my iPad
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 175 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 28 David Yakobson
From: Joanne Rudolph <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:22 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Joanne Rudolph
9th and Idaho]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 176 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 29 David Yakobson
From: girltunes <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:23 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All's and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Ferris Gluck
Ocean Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 177 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 30 David Yakobson
From: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:22 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 178 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 31 David Yakobson
From: Marya Shahriary <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:30 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
for all the reasons listed below and also - it’s not even safe for bikers, roller skaters. There is too much traffic in 14th.
Please designate a less busy street for bikers.
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 179 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 32 David Yakobson
From: Peggy Fontenot <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:31 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Peggy Fontenot
Santa Monica
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 180 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 33 David Yakobson
From: TUVYA ZARETSKY <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:32 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for: 1. An independent, corridorspecific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets. 2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists. 3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption. 4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign. 5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All's and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting. Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists. Thank you, Tuvya Zaretsky,DIS
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 181 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 34 David Yakobson
From: Audrey Bly <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:32 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All's and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Audrey Bly (NorthEast Santa Monica)
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 182 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 35 David Yakobson
From: Rose Marie Layman <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:33 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you
Rose Marie layman
Sunset park
Native Santa Monican 76 years
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 183 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 36 David Yakobson
From: Anne Connor <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:34 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you
Anne Connor
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 184 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 37 David Yakobson
From: Joyce Urode <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:36 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 185 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 38 David Yakobson
From: Bryan Sanders <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:36 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Bryan Sanders
Born and raised in Santa Monica
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 186 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 39 David Yakobson
From: Jeffrey Rankin <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:38 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Jeffrey Rankin,
Santa Monica resident
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 187 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 40 David Yakobson
From: Magdalena Kula Manchee <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:39 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 188 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 41 David Yakobson
From: George Guttman <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:39 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
George Guttman
1049 16th street #4
90403
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 189 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 42 David Yakobson
From: Scott Bly <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:39 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Scott Bly, 19th st
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 190 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 43 David Yakobson
From: Rita Branch <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:41 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 191 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 44 David Yakobson
From: Deb Novak <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:44 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Deborah Novak
Mid city
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 192 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 45 David Yakobson
From: Erin Palermo Brooks <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:45 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. I also use it daily to take my daughters to and from school in the Ocean Park neighborhood (I live at 15th and Wilshire). 17th st has already been given this treatment and it is not necessary to do it on 14th - cyclists (including myself) already have the option to use the 17th St bike lanes.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for: 1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bikeusage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street. 2. Published ridership data justifying this investment. 3. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign. 4. The rationale as to why this is necessary on 14th (only 3 streets away from 17th where this exists)?
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above is provided.
Thank you,
Erin Brooks
Wilmont (15th and Wilshire)
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 193 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 46 David Yakobson
From: VALERIE PRAGER <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:46 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPad
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 194 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 47 David Yakobson
From: Jack Hillbrand <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:45 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
JACK HILLBRAND
1323 18th Street, Unit D
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 195 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 48 David Yakobson
From: Anthony Kornarens <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:48 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
A Kornarens
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 196 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 49 David Yakobson
From: Lori Creed <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:52 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Lori Creed
1444 15th Street 90404
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 197 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 50 David Yakobson
From: Jane Tucker <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:54 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All's and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 198 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 51 David Yakobson
From: Kathryn Boole <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:55 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPad
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 199 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 52 David Yakobson
From: Jane <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:56 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All's and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Jennifer Abbott
800 Block of Euclid Street
Santa Monica 90403
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 200 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 53 David Yakobson
From: Max Mirkin <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:56 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Max Mirkin, Santa Monica
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 201 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 54 David Yakobson
From: lee rose <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:57 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 202 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 55 David Yakobson
From: Jane Tucker <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:57 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All's and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Jane Tucker
800 Block of Santa Monica 90403
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 203 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 56 David Yakobson
From: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:59 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Narrowing this commercial street will force traffic into the residential neighborhoods along Euclid and 15th Street, endangering children, bicyclists, and others as speeding cars seek to make up the time lost via congestion and detours. As a resident of Euclid, our street is already dangerous enough.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All's and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 204 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 57 Scott Griffin
Willmont resident since 1994
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 205 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 58 David Yakobson
From: Richard Orton <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 10:01 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Don't narrow 14th Street
EXTERNAL
I used to live on 14th Street. It's an important artery and should not be narrowed.
Thank you,
Richard Orton
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 206 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 59 David Yakobson
From: Chris Emhardt <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 10:02 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All's and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Chris Emhardt
Ocean Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 207 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 60 Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 208 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 61 David Yakobson
From: James Blanchard <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 10:03 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for: 1. An independent, corridorspecific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets. 2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists. 3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption. 4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign. 5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All's and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting. Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
It is becoming increasingly difficult for residents to get around Santa Monica for groceries, medical appointments and other daily errands. I live with my aging parents and this is simply untenable. I actually prefer doing my errands in Venice and Culver City these days just to avoid the terrible and dangerous traffic mitigation obstacles put in place on SM thoroughfares.
Meanwhile, the out of control crime and drug problems make it unsafe for any of us to do business in downtown Santa Monica.
My 82 year old mother volunteers at the Wide Senior Center in downtown SM and she says it’s quite unsafe and scary near the metro station and surrounding neighborhoods.
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 209 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 62 Please don’t add to the chaos by narrowing the residential traffic flow for local citizens and police and rescue vehicles.
Thank you,
The Orban and Blanchard Family in Sunset Park
Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail for iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 210 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 63 David Yakobson
From: Teresa Bartlett <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 10:07 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
T Bartlett
NOMA
Sent from my iPad
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 211 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 64 David Yakobson
From: Andra Bard <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 10:15 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend. Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for: 1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets. 2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists. 3. A full, intersectionby-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption. 4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign. 5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All's and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting. Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists. Thank you, Andra Bard, Sunset Park neighborhood Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 212 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 65 David Yakobson
From: Gail Gordon <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 10:15 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Gail Gordon
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 213 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 66 David Yakobson
From: John Levy <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 10:20 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
John Levy, Sunset Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 214 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 67 David Yakobson
From: Board of The Neighborhood Taskforce <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 10:26 PM
To: Caroline Torosis; Lana Negrete; Ellis Raskin; Dan Hall; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Jesse Zwick
Cc: councilmtgitems; Ross Fehrman; Jing Yeo; Heidi von Tongeln; Oliver Chi Subject: 9/8/26 - Agenda Item 12.B
EXTERNAL
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council:
The Neighborhood Taskforce asks the Council to refrain from introducing the proposed ordinance for first reading. We ask instead that you direct staff to return with a revised emergency ordinance that would significantly reduce the number of parcels that are upzoned based on the approach described below. Proceeding by emergency ordinance would enable an alternative ordinance to become effective earlier than the ordinance before you tonight even accounting for the fourteen (14) day HCD presubmittal requirement. While we believe emergency ordinances should be used extremely sparingly, it is amply warranted here.
We support qualifying the Expo/Bundy TOD Zone for temporary exclusion. That exclusion is the only tool available that shields the entire zone — including the R2 and R3 parcels where nearly all of the zone's rentcontrolled housing sits — from SB 79's height and density standards, giving the City time to meet SB 79’s objectives, but in a way that is far more consistent with the City’s values. Our disagreement is narrow: how many parcels the City must give up to obtain that protection, and how those parcels are selected.
We share the objective staff states in the report: qualifying the Expo/Bundy TOD Zone for temporary exclusion so the City can "maintain local control over development standards" while it plans through the 7th Cycle Housing Element, a LUCE update, and/or a TOD Alternative Plan. Local control enables residents to play a vital role in shaping the future of our City and proposed ordinances, like the one before us today, that may fall short of the mark. It has long been a principle underpinning our local governance, one that we have strived to exercise to advance the interests of the City and its residents while doing our fair share to address the overall needs of California. The proposed ordinance, while ultimately aiming to preserve the City’s ability to plan our zoning thoughtfully for the future, unnecessarily diminishes the limited amount of local control that SB 79 preserves for the City, and works against this bedrock principle of local governance. It upzones far more properties than the exclusion requires, without a sufficient analysis of which parcels are least likely to redevelop as a result — unnecessarily surrendering local control over many parcels and unnecessarily putting tenants at risk.
We ask the Council to weigh several elements before it acts: that the 33% threshold be calculated using the entire Expo/Bundy TOD zone and secured through a two-pronged ordinance; that no more parcels be upzoned than that threshold requires; that whichever parcels are chosen be chosen after an explicit analysis of the risk of displacement due to redevelopment (applicable not only in R2 and R3 but also in R1, where tenants live as well, including some long-term tenants in rent-controlled homes); and that among the parcels that have been selected because they will not result in involuntary tenant displacement, priority go to those whose redevelopment would be most in balance with the height and scale of surrounding parcels.
1. Calculate the 33% threshold using the entire Expo/Bundy TOD zone SB 79 defines a "transit-oriented development zone" as a half-mile radius around a transit stop, with no reference to municipal boundaries, and every test in the statute is keyed to that undivided zone. Where the Legislature wanted a jurisdiction-scoped calculation it said so expressly — "within a jurisdiction," "within the jurisdiction." It used no such language in the 33% test at Government Code § 65912.161(b)(1)(B)(i).
Computing that figure from one city's parcels alone would seem to allow a single transit stop's zone to be excluded on one side of a city line and covered on the other. The Legislature demonstrated it knew how to Item 4-B
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Packet Pg. 215 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 68 narrow the statute’s scope to one jurisdiction when it wanted to. It did not do so here. When the legislature uses “within a jurisdiction“ language in one section but not in another, the omission signals an intent not to impose that same requirement or limitation elsewhere. The City should not ignore this fundamental element of statutory construction in assessing how to interpret this statute.
The fact that staff publicly proposed the possibility of calculating the 33% using the entire TOD zone on more than one occasion is a strong indication that they, too, have believed this is an option likely available to us.
Why would the Council disregard this potentially significant reduction in the number of lots that require upzoning?
The difference is substantial. Staff's own figures at page 8 show that, taking the whole zone, about 31% of parcels already qualify and roughly 36 would need increased standards. Under the Santa Monica–only calculation, staff states at page 3 that at least 52 would be required. But even here, the ordinance goes too far - upzoning 89 parcels.
2. Adopt it through a two-pronged ordinance
Staff declines to recommend the whole-zone approach because of the legal uncertainty it creates while the City waits on HCD. The ordinance could be designed to address that uncertainty without the City prematurely undercutting its options: a primary provision applying increased standards to the minimum parcels required under the whole-zone calculation, and a contingent provision — adopted at the same time, in the same ordinance — taking effect automatically if HCD or a court requires the Santa Monica–only calculation. No return to Council would be needed, which answers staff's concern about notice and effective dates.
Nor should the City be held responsible for this continued uncertainty. Staff raised this precise issue with HCD on April 24, 2026 and, as staff confirms, it has received no answer in the intervening four plus months. HCD has responded to other City inquiries in that time, yet this one has been left hanging, thereby leaving unresolved whether about 20 additional Santa Monica parcels actually need to be upzoned in order for the entire TOD zone to be excluded. We should not prematurely adopt an ordinance which assumes a result not supported by the statute’s language. Have City officials or staff continued to convey the urgency of this question?
Staff's liability concern is real, but bounded. The backup standards would operate prospectively, so the risk is confined to applications filed in Santa Monica's quarter of one TOD zone before any contrary determination — an interval this structure shortens, and one the City can manage by processing any such applications in accordance with the timelines authorized by the Permit Streamlining Act. Should such an application be denied, it could be without prejudice and a renewed application could be processed expeditiously should the City’s approach be rejected. Set against that contingent risk is a certain one: 37 parcels upzoned beyond what the City's own analysis identifies as necessary. Which is the worse outcome? And, as stated, the most expedient way to minimize this risk is to get a definitive response from HCD.
3. Upzone the minimum number required — and no more
By staff's own figures, the Santa Monica–only calculation — the reading least favorable to the City, demanding the most upzoning in order to achieve the exclusion — requires 52 parcels. That is the ceiling: even if HCD rejects the whole-zone approach outright, 52 is what the exclusion costs. The ordinance upzones 89, reaching approximately 42.7% against a 33% requirement. Those 37 extra parcels are unnecessarily being subjected to upzoning before the Housing Element, before any LUCE update, and before any TOD Alternative Plan.
4. Select parcels through an explicit tenant displacement and redevelopment-risk analysis We do not claim to know with certainty which parcels will redevelop (and therefore risk displacement). Our objection is that the question has been raised without being sufficiently analyzed. On July 14, Council asked what redevelopment, and therefore what displacement, could occur on parcels in R2 and R3. We support Council's objective to protect tenants in R2 and R3. Our concern for them does not diminish our concern for tenants throughout the TOD zone, who could also face involuntary displacement. The displacement question has still not been analyzed broadly in the TOD zone, including the 89 R1 parcels actually proposed in the ordinance (or any other R1 parcels that might be considered instead). It should be, before any parcel is upzoned to meet this exclusion. Three factors (at least) should inform an analysis. a. Take the parcels with no redevelopment potential on them first. Staff has said on several occasions, including at the August 25 community meeting [Timestamp 49:00] , that there are “about 30 [parcels] that probably have no redevelopment potential” and therefore, on staff’s account, no risk of tenant displacement.
Under the whole-zone calculation they alone would supply most of the parcels needed to obtain the statutory exemption from SB79. And under the Santa Monica-only calculation, they still provide well over half. b. Measure the real magnitude of the upzoning. Table 1 of the staff report presents the increase as marginal: a 6,500 square foot R1 parcel already permits five units under SB 1123, and the proposed standards Item 4-B
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Packet Pg. 216 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 69 would permit six. That is not a like-for-like comparison. State Density Bonus Law is available only to developments of five or more units, and staff has advised that SB 1123 projects cannot access it. The targeted increase on 6,500 sq foot lots yields exactly six — and with that, density bonus eligibility for the first time. The real comparison is five units against as many as twelve. One additional unit does not change a development decision; doubling the achievable count certainly could. A density bonus project can also seek waivers from standards that would preclude its bonus units, so the 28-foot height limit is not fixed either. At some point, redevelopment becomes so attractive (and profitable) that the market will no longer be able to restrain itself. This must be accounted for. Smaller parcels, for example, may not meet the density bonus threshold even after being upzoned to meet SB79’s exclusion density level; parcels in this category should be prioritized, as they are less likely to be redeveloped.
c. Weigh evidence of which parcels, in addition to the 30 parcels already identified by staff, will not lead to tenant displacement. R1 parcels can, and do (according to recent testimony at SB79 community meetings) have tenants in them. R1 parcels can also have rent-controlled homes with long-term tenants in them, and, when they do, the tenants are likely to be low-income. Similarly, R2 and R3 parcels could be solely owner occupied, or even empty. Establishing as quickly as possible which of the parcels in the TOD zone do not have tenants in them would be an essential datapoint. The Rent Control Agency has access to robust data on the City’s rent-controlled units and should be able to provide it. If we are to use the LA side of the TOD, we could, again, be selecting as few as 6 parcels (after accounting for the 30 parcels that have been deemed to have no risk of redevelopment) that do not have tenants in them, and which could be upzoned to meet the exclusion threshold.
5. Among the parcels that are chosen because they will not result in tenant displacement, prioritize those that would, should they redevelop, be most in balance with the allowable height and scale of the parcels closest to them.
This would likely argue for parcels that are closer to the Expo/Bundy stop itself, and to edges of neighborhoods – nearer to Exposition, Centinela, or Pico, for example.
6. Selective designation is not a spot zoning problem
These parcels would not need to be contiguous. Claims have been raised that this approach would constitute spot zoning. The council shouldn’t presume that what we’re proposing would be spot zoning. Under California law, “spot zoning” is not in and of itself illegal. Spot zoning is a factual description that a small parcel or small area has been zoned more or less restrictively than the land surrounding it. A claim of illegal spot zoning is subject to a two-part test which was most clearly articulated in Foothill Communities Coalition v. County of Orange (2014). First, has spot zoning actually occurred? Here, given the large number of parcels that would be up zoned, it is not clear that this ordinance would even fail this initial inquiry. More importantly, the second part of the test asks - is it in the public interest. We are quite confident that the Council can articulate a strong public interest in legislating as we propose. The goal is to retain local control over this TOD to the greatest extent feasible, while ensuring that the parcels selected are those where upzoning creates no risk of displacing a household. There is no question that this action fits into the City’s broader, rational planning scheme. The selection of these non-contiguous parcels would not be arbitrary, capricious, or lacking in evidentiary support. Indeed, quite the opposite, it would be in the public interest.
7. Investigate the feasibility of amending the relocation law to provide additional tenant protections The intent should be to prevent tenant displacement. That is why we ask the Council to upzone only parcels where no tenant lives today. But even a list drawn that carefully cannot absolutely ensure that no displacement will occur: a tenancy determination made in 2026 may prove incomplete, and an R1 parcel that is tenant-free today may house a family before it redevelops. Thus, Council should investigate the feasibility that either, through amending the Tenant Relocation Law, or enacting standalone legislation, owners of upzoned parcels be required to provide comparable housing in the City that would be available at the time of the tenant displacement. Comparable housing should enable these displaced tenants to replicate the services and benefits that their current housing provides, at the same price to the tenant, carrying the same tenancy protections at the time of displacement, and with a right to return to the redeveloped property. That obligation should run with the parcel for as long as the increased development standards apply to it. If the owners fail to meet this obligation, the City should act as a backstop while taking enforcement action against the owners. SB79 may require that this new provision be generally applicable and not directly solely to SB79 projects.
8. On the treatment of existing State housing law
We question the report's treatment of existing State housing laws as a definitive benefit to the City. Santa Monica must provide its fair share of housing at all income ranges and adequate sites for it, but should retain Item 4-B
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Packet Pg. 217 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 70 local control over how those obligations are met, so that residents’ voices can be considered, and we can continue to scale as sensitively as possible to surrounding neighborhoods. The City demonstrated through the LUCE and the 2015 Zoning Ordinance that its vision is aligned with the State's. Indeed, the State’s vision may have been shaped by efforts such as these. A city that has shown it is committed to these mandates should be able to decide how they are met. Citing the cumulative reach of ADU law, SB 9, and SB 1123 as evidence that further upzoning is unremarkable inverts that principle.
Requested Action
The State has given the City an opportunity to implement SB79 in a more orderly and appropriate fashion; the City should take advantage of this and aim to preserve as much of our ability to plan for the future as possible in ways that work best for our city. To this end, The Neighborhood Taskforce respectfully requests that the Council:
1. Decline to introduce the ordinance as drafted and continue Item 12.B.
2. Direct staff to return with a two-pronged emergency ordinance calculating the 33% threshold using the entire Expo/Bundy TOD zone, paired with a self-executing contingent provision applying the Santa Monica–only calculation should HCD or a court so require.
3. Direct that the ordinance upzone only parcels that have no displacement risk, and only the absolute minimum number of such parcels as is necessary to satisfy the applicable threshold.
4. Direct that all approximately 30 parcels that, according to staff, contain no risk of redevelopment be included irrespective of whether the entire Expo/Bundy TOD zone or the Santa Monica-only calculation is selected. These satisfy a substantial share of the threshold without, according to staff, placing households at risk, and none should be passed over in favor of a parcel that faces any risk of displacement.
5. Direct staff to select any remaining parcels using an explicit redevelopment-risk methodology that takes into account maximum achievable density including State Density Bonus Law.
6. Among the parcels that are chosen because they will not result in tenant displacement, prioritize those that would be most in balance with the allowable height and scale of the parcels closest to them. This would likely argue for parcels that are closer to edges of neighborhoods – nearer to the Expo/Bundy stop, and/or nearer to Exposition, Centinela, or Pico, for example.
7. Direct that the ordinance include express findings stating the public purpose served, the criteria used to select parcels, and why the number selected is the minimum necessary.
8. Direct staff to investigate the feasibility of drafting legislation requiring owners of parcels upzoned by this ordinance and later redeveloped, at any time while the increased development standards apply to the parcel, to provide displaced tenants comparable, timely replacement housing in the City at the same price, carrying the same tenancy protections, and with a right to return. Where an owner fails to comply, the City should act as a backstop and pursue enforcement against the owner.
We appreciate the work staff has put into a difficult statutory problem, and we share the Council's goal of preserving the City's ability to plan for its own growth. We ask only that the ordinance adopted to protect local control not give away more of it than the law requires.
Respectfully submitted,
The Board of Directors
The Neighborhood Taskforce
A California nonprofit public benefit corporation
www.theneighborhoodtaskforce.org
Item 4-B
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From: Michelle Cardiel <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 10:30 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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September 8, 2026
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From: Kristen Young <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 10:35 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Kristen Young (owner/resident at 14/Arizona)
Kristen Young
310-968-4465
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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From: naomi blum <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 10:35 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to respectfully express my strong opposition to Agenda Item 4.B, which is scheduled for consideration on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar. This item proposes the allocation of a significant design contract, valued at $1,999,205, for the implementation of a Two-Way Protected Bikeway on 14th Street.
My primary concern stems from the critical role 14th Street currently plays within our city's infrastructure. It stands as one of the last remaining continuous north-south thoroughfares, serving as an indispensable route for essential emergency services, including fire, police, and paramedic teams. Its proximity, just one block from the emergency department of UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center on 15th Street, underscores its vital importance for rapid response during critical situations. Moreover, given the U.S. Geological Survey's projection of approximately a 60% probability of a major earthquake striking the Los Angeles area within the next three decades, maintaining unimpeded access along such a crucial corridor for emergency preparedness and response is paramount.
The proposed narrowing of this street for the bikeway project, coupled with its placement on the consent calendar directly following a holiday weekend, raises serious questions regarding both the suitability of the location for such a redesign and the transparency of the decision-making process.
Before any contract is awarded or irreversible steps are taken, I earnestly request that the following essential actions be undertaken:
1. **Independent Corridor Analysis:** Commission a comprehensive, independent study focused specifically on 14th Street. This study must encompass detailed analyses of current traffic flow, existing and projected bicycle usage patterns, and, critically, the impact on emergency response times and accessibility, rather than relying on generalized data or citations from other municipalities.
2. **Data-Driven Justification:** Provide verifiable and published ridership data that definitively justifies the substantial financial investment associated with this project. To date, such data appears to be conspicuously absent from public discourse.
3. **ADA Compliance Strategy:** Develop and present a thorough, intersection-by-intersection plan detailing how the proposed design will ensure full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). A categorical CEQA exemption alone is insufficient to address the intricate requirements of ADA accessibility.
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Furthermore, in light of previous publicly reported ethics-related discussions and rulings concerning certain council members – including the FPPC's directive regarding Councilmember Zwick's recusal from housing-related votes and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis – and to uphold the highest standards of impartiality and public trust, I respectfully urge Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to either recuse themselves from deliberations and voting on this agenda item or to provide a comprehensive public disclosure of the full scope of any campaign support received from organizations such as Streets for All and California YIMBY that may have a vested interest in the outcome of this vote.
I strongly advocate for the immediate removal of this item from the consent calendar to allow for a full and comprehensive public discussion. The contract for this project should not be awarded until all the aforementioned prerequisites have been thoroughly addressed and publicly presented.
Thank you for your careful consideration of these vital concerns.
Sincerely,
[Your name and neighborhood]
NAOMI BLUM. MSW
938 4th Street, #306
Santa Monica. 90403
[email protected]
9/7/26
213-448-3720
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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From: Bri Ola <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 10:36 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street.
USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All's and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Brian Lasky (WilMont)
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 223 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 76 David Yakobson
From: Lesley Bracker <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 10:43 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Lesley Bracker
Santa Monica resident since 1992
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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From: Bis Plan <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 10:46 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 225 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 78 David Yakobson
From: Steve R <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 10:49 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Corruptis, Mayor Conflict of Interest Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Does it even matter? Wil-Mont!
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 226 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 79 David Yakobson
From: Johanna Jenkins <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 10:55 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
As I’m confident you’re already well aware, the above has been formulated by an organization of citizens intent on stopping what I agree is a preemptive move on the part of the City of Santa Monica to force it’s views into creation without opposition. I oppose that intention without qualification. It is politically ugly, adopts an attitude of supreme disregard for residents, forces nasty means of opposition, and is ultimately not humane. I do not understand how Santa Monica’s governing body has disintegrated into this kind of behavior - and a regret it powerfully.
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 227 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 80 In my view, this city is becoming a mess. The streets are vastly over-regulated, with ugly posts and pavements forcing drivers to go the way the city has decided. No aesthetic or quality of life appears to have been applied. Buildings are being built that are vastly higher than what has been the norm, and are visually ugly, create an experience of being closed in and leaned over. A huge case in point is the new building at 7th Street and Broadway, where for years I had an office. Now there is minimal parking, the entire intersection is darkened and loomed over, and the other three corners can barely hold their own.
There is almost nothing being created to mitigate this kind of invasive and unconsidered act - no attention to beauty, no trees, no small parks, no space for sun and air, or even a common sense of human decency. In New York, the city uses every out-of-date area to create more loveliness for the inhabitants. The elevated walkway, in the space formerly occupied by an elevated train along the eastern edge of the city from about 30th street south is a prime example.
This city of Santa Monica has rapidly become uglier, less harmonious, less inviting, and a postcard for a future to be avoided, in which bicycles are almost a requirement, cars are made difficult, air and light and vegetation are suppressed - which poses a significant issue for anyone my age or even 15 years younger. and drives citizens who can afford it to move to Montana. Why? Nature! Space! Ease! The ability to choose! None of this is offered in the city you are building. We can’t even select where to turn in are cars. Dark buildings loom over us. For 1 ½ years now, a street I drive often (20th) has been inhibited by monstrous construction of buildings which serve a purpose only to be revealed when they are FINALLY completed and open their doors. A recent example - already old enough to be only 3 stories high - is a home for storage units.
I am 86 years old. I moved here at the age of 48. The desecration of a lovely living place over the past 15 years is astonishing. I actually DO NOT need to concern myself about it, because my family is centered on the East Coast - mainly in New York City. Both my sister and my daughter live in places where their windows over look parks - Washington Square Park and Prospect Park. Areas are being graciously gentrified, with buildings that harmonize with the surrounding older ones. I will be moving there soon enough, and happily leaving a place that has begun to horrify me.
I encourage you to reconsider the kind of consciousness that has prevailed in your decisions over the past 5-8 years, and consider what would preserve beauty, charm, livability, and graciousness. Places can be modernized, bikes can be supported, and life can modernize without becoming ugly and invasive.
Thank you,
Johanna Jenkins
Sunset Park
Johanna Jenkins
[email protected]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 228 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 81 David Yakobson
From: Raquel Vallejo <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 10:59 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend. Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Raquel Vallejo
Sunset Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 229 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 82 David Yakobson
From: Catherine & Rob <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:00 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Catherine Kirbyson, Sunset Park resident
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 230 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 83 David Yakobson
From: Cody Urode <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:02 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Best,
Cody Urode
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 231 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 84 David Yakobson
From: Arthur J Kip Dellinger <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:02 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
You people are certifiably insane if you undertake this. I work daily in a third floor den overlooking 14th and California from the southeast corner across from Lincoln Middle School. And I see ambulances use it day and night (5 times today), the congestion during the opening and closing of school every week day.
You would be creating one of the greatest road and pedestrian hazards imaginable - for no reason whatsoever, because maybe 25 bicycle riders use 14th on a given day - except your collective vanity.
And there is plenty of room for safety in both directions without any modifications.
Thank you,
Kip Dellinger, CPA
1400 California Ave.
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 232 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 85 Santa Monica, California
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 233 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 86 David Yakobson
From: Houman David Hemmati <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:08 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Oliver Chi; Caroline Torosis; Barry Snell; Dan Hall; Natalya Zernitskaya; Ellis Raskin; Lana Negrete; Jesse Zwick
Cc: David Ganezer ([email protected]); [email protected]; John Alle; Allen, Ben; Phil Brock; Dr. Anna Rogers; Ann Maggio; Wade Major; Ellen Goldstein Subject: DO NOT SLOW TRAFFIC. DO NOT ADD MORE BIKE AND TRANSIT LANES!
EXTERNAL
Councilwoman Torosis, spare us the sermon.
You went on Instagram today to tell Santa Monica we need to slow traffic even more and put up more red-light cameras to “protect pedestrians and cyclists.” Ten years of Vision Zero. Tens of millions of dollars. Road diets, narrowed lanes, bike lanes, lower speed limits, enforcement theater. Fatal and severe-injury crashes still soared to a record in 2024. You failed.
Now you want the same religion, just more cameras and slower streets.
Look at who is actually dying in the cases your office likes to wave around as “vulnerable road users.” In about two and a half years, the local record shows six unhoused pedestrians killed in traffic collisions in this city — plus an unhoused bicyclist. Here is the list:
• Christmas Eve 2023 / died Jan 5, 2024: Unhoused woman struck crossing 4th Street and Washington Avenue.
• Jan 15, 2024, ~1:00 a.m.: Unhoused woman in the Lincoln Boulevard travel lane pushing a shopping cart. Struck and killed.
• April 1, 2024: Unhoused woman killed at Ocean and Colorado, by the Pier. • Oct 18, 2024: Unhoused woman sleeping in the sand. An SUV doing donuts on the beach ran her over.
That is not a “we need slower Lincoln Boulevard” problem. That is a crime-and-disorder problem. • Nov 17, 2024: Bradley Proudfoot, 41, unhoused bicyclist on Lincoln shortly after midnight. Struck by one car, then another.
• Aug 15, 2025: Unhoused man struck near the Expo station at 4th and Colorado. • May 15, 2026: Unhoused woman crawled under a stopped Metro bus at Main and Ocean Park. Killed when the bus pulled away.
That is not a mom walking her kid to school in a crosswalk. That is not a commuter on a bike to work.
That is people in the travel lane at 1 a.m. with a cart. People sleeping in the sand. People going under a bus. People who should not have been living in the roadway in the first place.
You want to grind this entire city down — every parent late to school, every nurse going to UCLA, every small-business owner on a delivery, every taxpayer trying to get home — because you will not enforce the basic rule that the street is for moving, not camping, wandering into traffic, or riding a bike through Lincoln at midnight in a condition where you cannot process a headlight.
Red-light cameras do not stop a woman pushing a cart down Lincoln at 1 a.m.
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 234 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 87 Lower design speeds do not stop someone from crawling under a bus.
Another $200,000 camera program does not stop donuts on the beach.
Narrowing Santa Monica Boulevard does not resurrect a man who walked into traffic next to the Expo tracks.
And stop pretending the death ledger proves cars are the disease.
The city’s own Local Roadway Safety Plan, city streets, 2015–2019: 15 traffic fatalities. 11 pedestrians. 1 bicyclist. 3 drivers or passengers in motor vehicles.
Read that again. On our local streets in that published window, people inside cars accounted for 3 of 15 deaths. People outside cars accounted for 12 of 15.
That is not an argument for making driving worse. That is physics. A motor vehicle has a cage, a crumple zone, belts, airbags. A body on asphalt does not.
When you mix impaired, untreated, unsheltered people with moving steel, the person without the cage loses. The honest response is: get the untreated people out of the travel lane and off the sand. Your response is: punish the cage.
You are using the deaths of people who should never have been living in the street as a moral club against the residents who pay for the street. Taxpaying, law-abiding people in cars are not the ones dying in these cases at the rate you imply. You are asking us to spend money we do not have, sit in congestion we cannot afford, and accept a slower, poorer city so you can say you “did something” for a population your policies imported, tolerated, and then refused to move.
Vision Zero was supposed to hit zero by 2026. It is 2026. You missed. Do not charge the rest of us a camera tax and a speed tax for your failure to keep people out of the roadway.
Enforce the law. Clear the lanes. Treat the psychosis and the drugs. Stop redesigning Santa Monica around people who should not be living here untreated. The residents who actually fund this city are done being the designated villains in your slideshow.
— Houman Hemmati
PS Be prepared for massive public shaming on a national level and litigation if you attempt this PPS I hear you’re planning to destroy the San Vicente median after killing all the coral trees to turn it into a bus transit line, triggering SB79 and upzoning all of North of Montana for your precious low income and homeless housing. If you DARE try this, you will regret it. Politically and through the legal system, as well as in the media, your names and reputations will be destroyed. This will be the greatest mistake you’ve ever pondered and prepare for a battle the likes of which you cannot begin to imagine. This is a dark red line. And it’s a hill that I and my kids and many others are prepared to (figuratively) die on. Don’t say you weren’t warned. Ask yourself if it’s worth it. Whatever they’re paying you (and Torosis and Jesse Zwick and others you’re LITERALLY on their payroll!) as yourself if it’s worth it. The feds are here. It’s a matter of time.
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 235 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 88 David Yakobson
From: Jamie Yarow <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:25 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Rolando Marchis
Jamie Yarow-Marchis
Fun Under The Sun
p:(818)907-8259
www.fununderthesun.com
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 236 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 89 Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 237 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 90 David Yakobson
From: Jamie Yarow <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:24 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Jamie Yarow- Marchis
Jamie Yarow-Marchis
Fun Under The Sun
p:(818)907-8259
www.fununderthesun.com
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 239 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 92 David Yakobson
From: Luca Marchis <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:28 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Luca Marchis Sunset Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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From: Briana Parness <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:29 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Briana Parness
Stewart neighborhood
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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From: Jessica Yingling <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:44 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
As someone who lives with and is a caregiver for a disabled senior with Parkinson’s, I am hyper aware of how these street modifications to create protected bike lanes negatively impact the mobility of our most vulnerable residents.
This is particularly worrisome since 14th Street is where many of us park when accessing the hospital or other medical facilities in the area.
Thank you,
Jessica
North of Montana
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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From: Dr. Anna Rogers <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:57 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Oliver Chi; Caroline Torosis; Barry Snell; Dan Hall; Natalya Zernitskaya; Ellis Raskin; Lana Negrete; Jesse Zwick; Houman David Hemmati Cc: David Ganezer ([email protected]); [email protected]; John Alle; Allen, Ben; Phil Brock; Ann Maggio; Wade Major; Ellen Goldstein
Subject: Re: DO NOT SLOW TRAFFIC. DO NOT ADD MORE BIKE AND TRANSIT LANES!
EXTERNAL
YES! Thank you Houman!!!
On Monday, September 7, 2026 at 11:08:37 PM PDT, Houman David Hemmati <[email protected]> wrote:
Councilwoman Torosis, spare us the sermon.
You went on Instagram today to tell Santa Monica we need to slow traffic even more and put up more red-light cameras to “protect pedestrians and cyclists.” Ten years of Vision Zero. Tens of millions of dollars. Road diets, narrowed lanes, bike lanes, lower speed limits, enforcement theater. Fatal and severe-injury crashes still soared to a record in 2024. You failed.
Now you want the same religion, just more cameras and slower streets.
Look at who is actually dying in the cases your office likes to wave around as “vulnerable road users.” In about two and a half years, the local record shows six unhoused pedestrians killed in traffic collisions in this city — plus an unhoused bicyclist. Here is the list:
• Christmas Eve 2023 / died Jan 5, 2024: Unhoused woman struck crossing 4th Street and Washington Avenue. • Jan 15, 2024, ~1:00 a.m.: Unhoused woman in the Lincoln Boulevard travel lane pushing a shopping cart. Struck and killed.
• April 1, 2024: Unhoused woman killed at Ocean and Colorado, by the Pier. • Oct 18, 2024: Unhoused woman sleeping in the sand. An SUV doing donuts on the beach ran her over. That is not a “we need slower Lincoln Boulevard” problem. That is a crime-and-disorder problem. • Nov 17, 2024: Bradley Proudfoot, 41, unhoused bicyclist on Lincoln shortly after midnight. Struck by one car, then another.
• Aug 15, 2025: Unhoused man struck near the Expo station at 4th and Colorado. • May 15, 2026: Unhoused woman crawled under a stopped Metro bus at Main and Ocean Park. Killed when the bus pulled away.
That is not a mom walking her kid to school in a crosswalk. That is not a commuter on a bike to work.
That is people in the travel lane at 1 a.m. with a cart. People sleeping in the sand. People going under a bus. People who should not have been living in the roadway in the first place.
You want to grind this entire city down — every parent late to school, every nurse going to UCLA, every small-business owner on a delivery, every taxpayer trying to get home — because you will not enforce the basic rule that the street is for moving, not camping, wandering into traffic, or riding a bike through Lincoln at midnight in a condition where you cannot process a headlight.
Red-light cameras do not stop a woman pushing a cart down Lincoln at 1 a.m.
Lower design speeds do not stop someone from crawling under a bus.
Another $200,000 camera program does not stop donuts on the beach.
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 243 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 96 Narrowing Santa Monica Boulevard does not resurrect a man who walked into traffic next to the Expo tracks.
And stop pretending the death ledger proves cars are the disease.
The city’s own Local Roadway Safety Plan, city streets, 2015–2019: 15 traffic fatalities. 11 pedestrians. 1 bicyclist. 3 drivers or passengers in motor vehicles.
Read that again. On our local streets in that published window, people inside cars accounted for 3 of 15 deaths. People outside cars accounted for 12 of 15.
That is not an argument for making driving worse. That is physics. A motor vehicle has a cage, a crumple zone, belts, airbags. A body on asphalt does not.
When you mix impaired, untreated, unsheltered people with moving steel, the person without the cage loses. The honest response is: get the untreated people out of the travel lane and off the sand. Your response is: punish the cage.
You are using the deaths of people who should never have been living in the street as a moral club against the residents who pay for the street. Taxpaying, law-abiding people in cars are not the ones dying in these cases at the rate you imply.
You are asking us to spend money we do not have, sit in congestion we cannot afford, and accept a slower, poorer city so you can say you “did something” for a population your policies imported, tolerated, and then refused to move.
Vision Zero was supposed to hit zero by 2026. It is 2026. You missed. Do not charge the rest of us a camera tax and a speed tax for your failure to keep people out of the roadway.
Enforce the law. Clear the lanes. Treat the psychosis and the drugs. Stop redesigning Santa Monica around people who should not be living here untreated. The residents who actually fund this city are done being the designated villains in your slideshow.
— Houman Hemmati
PS Be prepared for massive public shaming on a national level and litigation if you attempt this PPS I hear you’re planning to destroy the San Vicente median after killing all the coral trees to turn it into a bus transit line, triggering SB79 and upzoning all of North of Montana for your precious low income and homeless housing. If you DARE try this, you will regret it. Politically and through the legal system, as well as in the media, your names and reputations will be destroyed. This will be the greatest mistake you’ve ever pondered and prepare for a battle the likes of which you cannot begin to imagine. This is a dark red line. And it’s a hill that I and my kids and many others are prepared to (figuratively) die on. Don’t say you weren’t warned. Ask yourself if it’s worth it. Whatever they’re paying you (and Torosis and Jesse Zwick and others you’re LITERALLY on their payroll!) as yourself if it’s worth it. The feds are here. It’s a matter of time.
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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From: Dorene Gottstein <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:11 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,]
Dorene Gottstein
Wilshire Montana
14 Street
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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From: Kathy Kane <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:22 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Kathy Cody
1500s Bay Street - right off 14th Street.
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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From: Mark Simmons <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:23 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Mark Simmons
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Dawn M Bailey <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:35 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank You,
Dawn Bailey, Ocean Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: natalie rothenberg <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:37 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Natalie Rothenberg
Mid-Wilshire
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: SAMO BELL LLC <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:40 AM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: I strongly OPPOSE Agneda item 4.B-14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway.
Have you counted how many people actually do bike in Santa Monica in order to justify this humongous cost to build such dangerous (for cars) concrete barriers on our streets? You actually are depriving many drivers from a safe ride to give rights to a handful of bikers so that you may be considered a modern city? Drivers also have rights! Santa Monica is not New York and just a handful of people bike vs drive. I am curious to know how many of you people who are currently on the board do bike around in this city? I cannot tell you how every time I want to turn from Broadway onto 17th street I have swerved in order not to crash into the cement barriers which you believe were smart to be put there. Also why should some cement and paint cost this much? You do not care about the cost because you are not directly paying for it from your own pockets!!!! 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
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our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All's and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
D. Melamed
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Santa Monica Resident
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Jules Rothenberg <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:44 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Jules Rothenberg
1214 14th Street
Santa Monica 90404
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: HopeforAll <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:49 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Anne Marie Veschio
424 877-1090
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Wendy Hermosillo <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:56 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. I have personally witnessed the impact on 17th street when emergency vehicles have not been able to get through due to the new protected bike paths.
USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it. As residents of Santa Monica, we deserve greater transparency from our elected officials, and we demand that you create agendas and manage the City finances responsibly and in the best interest and aligned with the desires of those of us who live here.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Wendy Hermosillo
30-year Resident in Wilmont Neighborhood
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Sent from another Galaxy*
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
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David Yakobson
From: Julie Pearl Slater <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 1:43 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Julie Pearl slater
Sunset park
14th and Ashland
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Carrie Spencer <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 1:51 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Carrie Spencer, Ocean Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Edward Mazurek <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 2:18 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Edward Mazurek
Homeowner
1212 Ocean Park Blvd.
Unit 1
Santa Monica 90405
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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____________________________
Edward Mazurek
LMGI Board of Directors
[email protected]
www.mazurek.la
www.locationmanagers.org
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Chris Knauf <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 2:20 AM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Council,
I join many concerned long-time residents to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway.
I join this community request as an avid bicyclist who loves and uses painted bike lanes. While I appreciate the design intention, 17th Street in my opinion has become an untenable choked artery during the majority of the day and early evening. It causes more problems for residents than it was designed to solve.
Like so many, I need to use my car frequently even though I enjoy biking.
The need to run errands during winter and rainy months alone are one reason why.
As a Sunset Park resident, the north-south arteries are vital. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for: 1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets. 2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists. 3.
A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption. 4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign. Thank you,
Christopher H. Knauf
25-year Sunset Park resident
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Wendy Dembo <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 3:50 AM
To: Council Mailbox; councilmtgitems
Subject: Please oppose Agenda Item 4.B. Use the money to pay SMMUSD to keep the fields open.
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I live on 21st Street and California. When I bike south, I use 17th Street.
There is no need to the City to use the city’s limited funds to build concrete bike lanes. Use the money to pay for the school fields to be open.
I am sure you would make the Streets for All people happy, but the concrete bike lanes are difficult to manage and cause unsafe conditions for people with mobility issues and the fire department. Evidently, the police trucks can go over the curbs in an emergency, but the firefighters can’t.
Please oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway.
14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend. Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for: 1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets. 2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists. 3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption. 4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign. 5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All's and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting. Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
With great concern,
Wendy Dembo
Wilmont resident
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Lisa Azuma <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 4:20 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Lisa Azuma
Ocean Park Cyclist
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Julie Pedone <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 4:43 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Julie Pedone - Santa Monica NOMA resident and native
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: BR Collins <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 4:46 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Early Bird Pricing Ends September 15 for Housing Mastery
EXTERNAL
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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September 8, 2026
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September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Chrissi Durbin <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 4:51 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above Thank you Chris Durbin
1330 California Av
Santa Monica 90403
Apartment 14th & California resident
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Gemma Corfield <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 5:03 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Chrissi Durbin <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 5:06 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Re: Automatic reply: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
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On Sep 8, 2026, at 4:51 AM, councilmtgitems <[email protected]> wrote:
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 269 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 122
David Yakobson
From: Norma Maister <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 5:16 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Norma Maister
1330 California Ave #206
Santa Monica,Ca 90403
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 270 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 123
David Yakobson
From: Veronica Garcia <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 5:16 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Veronica Garcia Hecht
Sunset Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 271 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 124
David Yakobson
From: Keith Sackler <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 5:22 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 272 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 125
David Yakobson
From: Levin, Amy C <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 6:07 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
AmyLevin, sunset park
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 273 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 126
David Yakobson
From: Jason Rosenbaum <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 6:14 AM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: SUPPORT Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to support Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway.
I've been very pleased to see expanded bike lane and other safe street initiatives from the City, helping move us from a car-only culture towards something more equitable, sustainable, and safe. I'm sure you will receive letters in opposition, asking for additional studies and other delay tactics. You should ignore them. I fully support initiatives like this, and hope to see them continue, as does my family and neighbors.
-- Jason Rosenbaum
Pico Neighborhood
__________________________________
Jason Rosenbaum
Email: [email protected]
Cell: 914.806.1939
Twitter: http://twitter.com/j_ro
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 274 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 127
David Yakobson
From: Laura Park <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 6:27 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Laura Park
Sunset Park
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 275 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 128
David Yakobson
From: Monique Mendelovitz <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 6:40 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 276 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 129
David Yakobson
From: Jackie Feldman <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 6:40 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street.
USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend. Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for: 1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists. 3. A full, intersectionby-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption. 4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign. 5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting. Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists. Thank you, [Your name and neighborhood]
David Feldman
14th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90402
Sent from Gmail Mobile
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 277 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 130
David Yakobson
From: Jackie Feldman <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 6:42 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street.
USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend. Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for: 1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists. 3. A full, intersectionby-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption. 4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign. 5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting. Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists. Thank you, [Your name and neighborhood]
Jacquelyn Feldman
209 14th St
Sent from Gmail Mobile
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 278 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 131
David Yakobson
From: Dave Feldman <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 6:44 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Jackie Feldman
209 14th St
Santa Monica, CA 90402
Sent from my iPad
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 279 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 132
David Yakobson
From: irena mendez <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 6:46 AM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All's and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Irena Mendez
Sunset Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 280 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 133
David Yakobson
From: Your Best Life Therapy <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 6:52 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street.
USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend. Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for: 1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists. 3. A full, intersectionby-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption. 4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign. 5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting. Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists. Thank you, [Your name and neighborhood]
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
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David Yakobson
From: lmarreola <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 6:58 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: City Council meeting tonight,Item 4-B
EXTERNAL
Stop the narrowing of our streets with mosly unused curbed bike paths. Our emergency vehicles will take longer to get to their destinations. Have some common sense and follow the wishes of almost all of your constituents. Stop the madness!
Carol and Larry Arreola
Sunset Park Residents
Sent from my Galaxy
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4.B.e
Packet Pg. 282 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 135
David Yakobson
From: Victoria Jensen <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:01 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway.
I use 14th Street regularly to travel from Ocean Park north to Montana Ave. and beyond. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street.
USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Victoria Jensen – Ocean Park Resident
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: JENNIFER KILBURN <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:09 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Wilmont resident
Jennifer Kilburn
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Mary Ann Todd <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:14 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to strongly oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Mary Ann Todd
608 14th Street, Santa Monica
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Erin Donley <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:02 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Erin Donley
Broadway / Euclid Neighborhood
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Sarah A Spitz <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:15 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Sarah Spitz
1621 Centinela Ave #D
SM 90404
I may have dictated this message. So blame Siri for any typos! Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Brian Mills <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:17 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Carl & Kim Loeffler <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:19 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Kimberly Loeffler, Sunset Park
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Michael Kadish <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:22 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
STOP ALL OF THIS UNEEDED WASTE!!! NO MORE TRAFFICE JAMS, PARKING NIGHTMARES AND NARROW STREETS. YOU ARE RUING THE BUSINESSES, VIBE AND CULTURE OF SANTA MONICA.
Moreover, if any contract is to be awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Michael Kadish,
Resident and Business Owner
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Sent from my Galaxy
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Bob Elson <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:23 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Nathan Elson
Northeast
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: merrilyn Herrera <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:23 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Adeena Fitterman <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:26 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Adeena Karsseboom
College Streets
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Adeena K. Fitterman
Estates Director
310.991.8166
[email protected]
9440 Santa Monica Blvd, PH | Beverly Hills CA. 90210
carolwoodre.com
DRE 02012059
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: Katherine Newall <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:28 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Katherine Newall
14th and Oak Street
Katherine Caulfield Newall
310.663.3670
[email protected]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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David Yakobson
From: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:34 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Katie Carroll
1st AD
(310) 710-9976
[email protected]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 297 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 150
David Yakobson
From: hope cloteaux <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:37 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 298 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 151
David Yakobson
From: Debbie Ricard <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:39 AM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All's and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Deborah Ricard
Sunset Park Resident
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 299 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 152
David Yakobson
From: Elaine Korowitz <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:40 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Elaine Korowitz mid city
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 300 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 153
David Yakobson
From: Maryanne LaGuardia <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:41 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Maryanne LaGuardia
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 301 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 154
David Yakobson
From: John Bartlett <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:44 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
John Bartlett, North of Montana
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 302 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 155
David Yakobson
From: Teresa Zien <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:47 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Teresa Zien
614 14th street resident
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 303 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 156
David Yakobson
From: amy Lyman <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:50 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Thank you,
Amy Lyman, Santa Monica
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 304 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 1 David Yakobson
From: Briana Evans <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 7:46 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete,
I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years.
This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists. It would be a crime to do otherwise.
Briana Evans
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 305 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 1 David Yakobson
From: DanielCollins <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 9:04 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: Stop the corruption and conflicts / all of you have to recuse from this vote!
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.
Caroline you must recuse yourself you have been endorsed by streets for all abundant and yimby.
You should all recuse. This is unethical. Stop the corruption. thank you,
Daniel 14th Street
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 306 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 1 David Yakobson
From: Leila <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 10:02 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: Opposed
EXTERNAL
Sent from my iPhone Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend. Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for: 1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets. 2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists. 3. A full, intersectionby-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption. 4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign. 5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All's and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting. Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists. Thank you, [Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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Packet Pg. 307 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 2] (7769 : Award the Contract for Professional Service for the 14th Street Two Way Protected Bikeway 1 David Yakobson
From: Elaine Golden-Gealer <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:01 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract
EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Torosis, Mayor Pro Tem Zwick, and Councilmembers Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Negrete, I am writing to oppose Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would award a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway. 14th Street is one of the last continuous north-south connectors in our city, used daily by fire, police, and paramedic crews, one block from UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center's emergency department on 15th Street. USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years. This is the wrong street to narrow, and the wrong way to do it - quietly, on a consent calendar, the day after a holiday weekend.
Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:
1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.
2. Published ridership data justifying this investment, since none currently exists.
3. A full, intersection-by-intersection ADA compliance plan, not a categorical CEQA exemption.
4. A public accounting of what happened to residents, parking, and safety on 17th Street after its redesign.
5. Given this council's documented history of unresolved ethics findings - including the FPPC's order that Councilmember Zwick recuse from housing votes, and the pending complaint involving Councilmember Zernitskaya and Mayor Torosis - I am asking Mayor Torosis, Councilmember Zernitskaya, and Councilmember Zwick to recuse themselves from this vote or publicly disclose the full scope of Streets for All and California YIMBY's support for their campaigns before voting.