Written Comments — Santa Monica City Council, September 8, 2026 (part 1 of 2)

1 David Yakobson
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
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
1 David Yakobson
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
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

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
4 David Yakobson
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
6 David Yakobson
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

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.

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
7 David Yakobson
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
8 David Yakobson
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

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.

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
9 David Yakobson
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
10 David Yakobson
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

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.

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
11 David Yakobson
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
Miriam Alpern
Wilmont
- Miriam
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
Manon Yona
South of Wilshire resident
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
1310 12th St
90401
Kate Coté
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
Jen Mid city
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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!

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.

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
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
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

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.

Thank you,
Kevin Pelletier
12th and Wilshire
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

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
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Jeff Mirkin
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
Kiana Achoy
Generations of Virginia Ave
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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 Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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
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.

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
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

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.

Thank you,
Sharon Currytto
14th Street resident!!
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

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
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

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.

Thank you,
Renee Curtis, Ocean Park resident & homeowner
Sent from my iPad
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
Joanne Rudolph
9th and Idaho]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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
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

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.

Thank you
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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.

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
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

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.

Thank you,
Peggy Fontenot
Santa Monica
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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
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

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
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

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.

Thank you
Rose Marie layman
Sunset park
Native Santa Monican 76 years
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you
Anne Connor
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
Bryan Sanders
Born and raised in Santa Monica
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

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
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

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
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

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.

Thank you,
Scott Bly, 19th st
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
Deborah Novak
Mid city
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPad
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

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
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
A Kornarens
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
Lori Creed
1444 15th Street 90404
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPad
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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
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

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.

Thank you,
Max Mirkin, Santa Monica
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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
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

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
57 Scott Griffin
Willmont resident since 1994
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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
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

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
60 Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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
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
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

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.

Thank you,
T Bartlett
NOMA
Sent from my iPad
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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
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

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.

Thank you,
Gail Gordon
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
John Levy, Sunset Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
71 David Yakobson
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
72 David Yakobson
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

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.

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
73 David Yakobson
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.

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74 4. **17th Street Redesign Review:** Conduct a public accounting and analysis of the outcomes and impacts observed on 17th Street following its recent redesign, specifically addressing consequences for local residents, parking availability, and overall public safety. This review would offer valuable insights and lessons learned.

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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September 8, 2026
75 David Yakobson
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

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
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

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.

Lesley Bracker
Santa Monica resident since 1992
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
77 David Yakobson
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

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.

Thank you,
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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.

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
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

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 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.

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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
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

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.

Thank you,
Raquel Vallejo
Sunset Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
Catherine Kirbyson, Sunset Park resident
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Best,
Cody Urode
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

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
85 Santa Monica, California
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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.

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
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September 8, 2026
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
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September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
Rolando Marchis
Jamie Yarow-Marchis
Fun Under The Sun
p:(818)907-8259
www.fununderthesun.com
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September 8, 2026
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September 8, 2026
89 Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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September 8, 2026
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

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.

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
91 Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
Luca Marchis Sunset Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
93 David Yakobson
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

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.

Thank you,
Briana Parness
Stewart neighborhood
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
94 David Yakobson
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
95 David Yakobson
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.

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.

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
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.

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.

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
97 David Yakobson
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

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.

Thank you,]
Dorene Gottstein
Wilshire Montana
14 Street
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
98 David Yakobson
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

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.

Thank you,
Kathy Cody
1500s Bay Street - right off 14th Street.

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
99 David Yakobson
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

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.

Thank you,
Mark Simmons
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
100
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

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.

Thank You,
Dawn Bailey, Ocean Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
101
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

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.

Thank you,
Natalie Rothenberg
Mid-Wilshire
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
102
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

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
103
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
104
Santa Monica Resident
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
105
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

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.

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
106
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Anne Marie Veschio
424 877-1090
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
107
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

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.

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
108
Sent from another Galaxy*
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
109
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

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.

Thank you,
Julie Pearl slater
Sunset park
14th and Ashland
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
110
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

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.

Thank you,
Carrie Spencer, Ocean Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
111
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

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.

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
112
____________________________
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
113
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
114
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
115
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

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.

Thank you,
Lisa Azuma
Ocean Park Cyclist
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
116
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

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.

Thank you,
Julie Pedone - Santa Monica NOMA resident and native
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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

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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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September 8, 2026
119
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

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 Thank you Chris Durbin
1330 California Av
Santa Monica 90403
Apartment 14th & California resident
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
120
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
121
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

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On Sep 8, 2026, at 4:51 AM, councilmtgitems <[email protected]> wrote:

Thank you for your email. Please be advised that this email will: 1) become part of the public record, 2) be filed with the City’s official records, and 3) be posted online at smgov.net/council/agendas. Comments will not be redacted and appear online as they are submitted.

If you plan to speak at the meeting and have an electronic presentation to show, please submit it to [email protected] no later than 12 PM on the day of the meeting.

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 $250 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.

Thank you,
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
[Norma Maister
1330 California Ave #206
Santa Monica,Ca 90403
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
Veronica Garcia Hecht
Sunset Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
AmyLevin, sunset park
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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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
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September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
Laura Park
Sunset Park
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
Jackie Feldman
209 14th St
Santa Monica, CA 90402
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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
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.

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
134
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
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

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.

Thank you,
Victoria Jensen – Ocean Park Resident
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
136
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

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.

Thank you,
Wilmont resident
Jennifer Kilburn

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
137
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.

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
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
138
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

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.

Thank you,
Erin Donley
Broadway / Euclid Neighborhood
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
139
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

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.

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
140
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
141
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

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.

Thank you,
Kimberly Loeffler, Sunset Park
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
142
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

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.

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
143
Sent from my Galaxy
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
144
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

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.

Thank you,
Nathan Elson
Northeast
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
145
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
146
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

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.

Thank you,
Adeena Karsseboom
College Streets
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
147
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Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
148
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

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.

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
149
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

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.

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
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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
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

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.

Thank you,
Elaine Korowitz mid city
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
Maryanne LaGuardia
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
John Bartlett, North of Montana
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
Teresa Zien
614 14th street resident
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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.

Thank you,
Amy Lyman, Santa Monica
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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

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. It would be a crime to do otherwise.

Briana Evans
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
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!

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.

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
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
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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent by Elaine Golden-Gealer
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
2 David Yakobson
From: Hajar Muqtasid St. Claire <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:00 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 formally object to Agenda Item 4.B on the September 8, 2026 consent calendar, which would authorize a $1,999,205 design contract for the 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway.

I respectfully request that the Council remove Item 4.B from the consent calendar and continue the matter for a full public hearing and substantive discussion before any contract is awarded.

This request is not opposition to bicycle infrastructure or multimodal transportation as a policy matter.

Rather, it concerns whether the City has developed a sufficient factual record to justify this particular project, on this particular corridor, at this particular cost, and whether the potential impacts on emergency access, accessibility, neighborhood residents, and historically disadvantaged communities have been adequately evaluated and disclosed.

1. Corridor-specific traffic and emergency-access analysis 14th Street is a significant north-south connector and is used by emergency-response vehicles, including fire, police, and paramedic services. It is also located in close proximity to UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center and its emergency department.

Before materially altering the existing roadway configuration, the City should make publicly available a corridor-specific analysis of traffic operations, emergency response, vehicle circulation, bicycle demand, pedestrian conditions, and anticipated operational impacts.

Studies concerning bicycle facilities in other jurisdictions may provide useful background, but they do not establish the actual conditions or impacts on 14th Street. The Council should have evidence specific to the corridor before committing nearly $2 million in public funds to the design phase.

2. Evidence supporting the projected bicycle demand
The public record should identify the data and methodology supporting the City's projected bicycle usage and ridership for this project.

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
3 If current ridership data for 14th Street does not exist, that absence should be expressly acknowledged rather than relying on assumptions or projections that cannot be independently evaluated by the public.

Residents should be able to review the underlying methodology, assumptions, baseline conditions, and projected outcomes supporting the proposed expenditure.

3. Accessibility and ADA compliance
I am also requesting a site-specific, intersection-by-intersection accessibility analysis addressing compliance with applicable federal and state accessibility requirements.

This should include, as applicable, impacts on sidewalks, curb ramps, crossings, pedestrian circulation, access for individuals with mobility and visual impairments, loading and drop-off activity, and access to residences and businesses.

A categorical CEQA exemption does not, by itself, establish compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, applicable California accessibility requirements, or the City's independent obligations to provide meaningful accessibility.

The Council should therefore not treat CEQA exemption status as a substitute for an affirmative accessibility analysis.

4. Evaluation of the 17th Street redesign
Before proceeding with a substantially similar roadway intervention, the City should provide a public evaluation of the 17th Street redesign, including available data concerning:
 changes in traffic circulation and congestion;
 emergency-response access and response times;
 bicycle and pedestrian usage;
 parking availability;
 collisions and other safety indicators;
 impacts on adjacent residents and businesses; and
 any documented displacement or other adverse neighborhood impacts.

The public should not be asked to approve another major corridor intervention without first having access to the City's evaluation of comparable projects already implemented in Santa Monica.

5. Racial equity and impacts on Black residents
This issue also warrants particular scrutiny in light of Santa Monica's documented history of discrimination, segregation, and displacement of Black residents and Black-owned businesses, as well as the City's subsequent commitments to address those harms.

The relevant question is not simply whether the proposed project is facially race-neutral. The City should consider whether its foreseeable effects may fall disproportionately on communities that have historically experienced displacement, reduced political influence, or unequal access to public resources.

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4 Accordingly, I request that the City identify and publicly disclose any racial-equity or communityimpact analysis performed in connection with Item 4.B, including whether potential effects on Black residents, Black-owned businesses, renters, seniors, persons with disabilities, and other historically underserved residents were considered.

If no such analysis has been performed, the Council should consider whether additional analysis and community engagement are warranted before proceeding.

6. Conflicts of interest and disclosure obligations
I further request that each Councilmember independently evaluate whether any actual or potentially disqualifying conflict of interest exists under applicable California law, including the Political Reform Act, Government Code Section 1090, or other applicable conflict-of-interest provisions.

I am not asserting that any particular Councilmember has a disqualifying conflict. Rather, given the political and organizational interests that may surround transportation and land-use policy, I am requesting appropriate disclosure and, where legally required, recusal.

7. Political and organizational transparency
I also request disclosure, to the extent required by applicable campaign-finance and public-disclosure laws, of any financial, campaign, organizational, or other relationships between proponents of this project—including Streets for All and California YIMBY—and any Councilmember, candidate, campaign committee, controlled committee, or other political committee relevant to this decision.

I am not asking the Council to characterize advocacy or campaign support as improper. I am asking for transparency so that members of the public can evaluate potential interests and relationships surrounding a significant public expenditure and policy decision.

Request for Council action
For all of these reasons, I respectfully request that the Council:

1. Remove Agenda Item 4.B from the consent calendar;

2. Continue the item to a noticed meeting at which the Council can receive substantive public testimony and discuss the proposal on the merits;

3. Direct staff to make the underlying traffic, emergency-response, bicycle-demand, accessibility, equity, and comparable-project data publicly available;

4. Provide the requested disclosures concerning conflicts of interest and relevant political or organizational relationships; and

5. Defer authorization of the $1,999,205 design contract until the Council has reviewed the foregoing information and determined that the project is adequately supported by the administrative record and complies with applicable legal and accessibility requirements.

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
5 The issue before the Council is not whether Santa Monica should invest in transportation infrastructure.

The issue is whether this project, on this corridor, at this cost, has been sufficiently studied and publicly justified before the City commits substantial public funds.

Given 14th Street's role in the City's transportation network, its proximity to emergency medical services, the City's obligations concerning accessibility and racial equity, and Santa Monica's own history of displacement and unequal public investment affecting Black residents, I believe the public deserves more than a consent-calendar vote.

Please pull Item 4.B from the consent calendar and allow the public to examine the evidence before the contract is awarded.

Respectfully,
Hajar M. St. Claire
Santa Monica Ocean Park Resident & Community Advocate
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
6 David Yakobson
From: Ellen Gurevich <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:03 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

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.

Thank you,
Ellen wilsher/14th street
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
7 David Yakobson
From: Kara Fox <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:07 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]; Jackie Feldman; [email protected]; hoffman winter; pam hausman; gemma corfield
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract

EXTERNAL
PLEASE RESPECT OUR CITY AND THE SENIOR COMMUNITY. BIKE LANES, IGNORE US. APPROXIMATELY 17+% OF THE COMMUNITY ARE SENIORS-PROBABLY HIGHER. AND 3.4% OF COMMUNITY USE BIKES FOR TRANSPORTATION. LOGICALLY THIS DOES NOT MAKE SENSE.

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
8 K a r a F o x
Glamourproject.org
[email protected]
Instagram: @infinitelyolive
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
9 David Yakobson
From: Tom Richards <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:07 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]
Subject: Please OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract

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.

Thank you,
Thomas Richards, Sunset Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
10 David Yakobson
From: Rebecca hogan <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:12 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

I have had life threatening injuries and 14 th street is the route that allowed the first responders to get me to the ER in time to save my life.

I have heard the same from other SM residents also.

If the city knowingly creates a situation where this proven emergency care route is slowed due to narrowing, would the city council members then be responsible for deaths or permanent disabilities that occur due to a patients delay in narrowing for emergency care? Also - USGS puts the odds of a major earthquake hitting the LA area at roughly 60% in the next 30 years creating a situation where we need clear spacious thoroughfares.

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 just 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.

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
11 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,
Rebecca Hogan
Sunset Park neighborhood
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
12 David Yakobson
From: Michael Miller <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:14 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
13 David Yakobson
From: Lauren Wallenstein <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:17 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

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.

Thank you,
Lauren
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
14 David Yakobson
From: Tracy Sokolow <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:18 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

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.

Thank you,
Tracy Sokolow
Santa Monica Resident
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
15 David Yakobson
From: Darlene Vogel <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:18 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 hope you will at least read these letters and taken them into consideration.

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.

Thank you , diane
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
16 David Yakobson
From: Tatiana <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:19 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

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.

Thanks,
Tatiana Khmilinina
1325 Arizona Ave #202
Santa Monica CA 90404
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
17 David Yakobson
From: rosenelson <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:19 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

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.

Thank you,
Rose Nelson
35 year resident
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
18 Sent from my Galaxy
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
19 David Yakobson
From: Kati Kelleher <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:20 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
20 David Yakobson
From: Kati K <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:21 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, 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,
Kati Kelleher Sent from Gmail Mobile
DTSM
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
21 David Yakobson
From: Wendy Nishikawa Jaffa <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:22 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

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.

Thank you,
Wendy Jaffa
1842-20th Street
Santa Monica, CA 0404
Pico Neighborhood
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
22 David Yakobson
From: Maggie L <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:29 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
23 David Yakobson
From: Matthew Hausle <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:30 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

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
24 David Yakobson
From: May Lee <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:29 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

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.

Thank you,
May Lee
Sunset Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
25 David Yakobson
From: Sheryl <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:30 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

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.

Thank you,
Sheryl Lazarov/North of Wilshire
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From: Catherine Atherton <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:30 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

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.

Thank you,
Catherine Atherton
Brentwood flats, near Bundy & Wilshire
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
28 c.a. l.a. ca. u.s.a
Pronouns: not/a/prayer
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
29 David Yakobson
From: Go360 <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:38 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

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.

Thank you,
Stephanie Inouye
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
30 David Yakobson
From: LAURA ROMERO <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:37 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

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,
Laura Romero
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
31 David Yakobson
From: S A <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:40 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

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,
Susan Austin WIL/MONT
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
32 David Yakobson
From: John Petz <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:42 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
33 David Yakobson
From: Will Finch <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:42 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Item 4b - make our streets safer for all road users with protected bike lanes

EXTERNAL
I am writing in support of building out our protected bike infrastructure to make our streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians.

Thank you,
Will Finch
90405
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
34 David Yakobson
From: Rachel Harms <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:47 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
35 David Yakobson
From: Rachel Harms <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:48 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

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.

Thank you,
Rachel Harms, Wilmont
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
36 David Yakobson
From: Luis Ramirez <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:50 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

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.

Thank you,
Luis H Ramírez, Gandara Park/Pico Neighborhood and former SMMUSD Teacher/Adminstrator Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
37 David Yakobson
From: Dan Winjum <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:49 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

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.

Thank you,
Dan Winjum - Sunset Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
38 David Yakobson
From: Jane Wingfield <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:51 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
39 David Yakobson
From: LAURIE KAPP <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:53 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

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.

Thank you,
Laurie Kapp (NOM)
Sent from my iPad
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
40 David Yakobson
From: Christine Barton <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:59 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
41 David Yakobson
From: Lonnie Guinn <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:59 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Lonnie Guinn
Santa Monica
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
42 David Yakobson
From: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:05 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
43 David Yakobson
From: Karen Croner <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:08 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, How can a city in fiscal crisis afford to spend 2 million dollars design contract for a bike path that no one wants? I am a cyclist and I don’t want it. 14th Street is an essential thoroughfare for police, fire - Lincoln and 11th street are jam packed with commuters. 14th street is essential for Santa Monicans crossing town. Do none of you ever use 14th street? it is the last good street left for travel across town. I can’t imagine what would be motivating you destroy this asset for Santa Monicans? As Lana has expressed so well, most of us do not have the luxury to travel by bike, perhaps you do - but the majority of residents do not. So you must have another motivation.

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.

Thank you,
Karen Croner
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
44 David Yakobson
From: Kristina Watanabe <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:09 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

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.

Thank you,
Kristina
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
1 David Yakobson
From: Tammy Boone <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 3:26 AM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]

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
1 David Yakobson
From: BaconLettuceTomato1230 <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:33 AM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]

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
1 David Yakobson
From: Reid Soliman <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:55 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

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.

6. Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.

Thank you,
Reid Soliman
C: (661) 373-5918
E: [email protected]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
2 David Yakobson
From: Kirstin Chickering <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:13 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

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.

Thank you,
Kirstin Chickering
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
3 David Yakobson
From: ALAN MONT <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:20 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

I ride my bike on 14th street several times a week and have never felt endangered by cars. This concrete barrier protected bike lane is totally unnecessary and will actually be less safe for bikers 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.

Thank you,
Alan Mont
NOMA
818-261-8172
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4 David Yakobson
From: Mary Jaras <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:20 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

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.

Thank you,
Mary Jaras - 848 11th street, 90403
Sent with the speed of light from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
5 David Yakobson
From: Yakov <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:27 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

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.

Thank you,
Yakov Zelkin
1325 Arizona
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
6 David Yakobson
From: Hal Stellini <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:29 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

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.

Thank you,
Hal Stellini - 11th&Idaho, Santa Monica 90403
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
1 David Yakobson
From: Robin OConnell <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:32 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

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.

Thank you,
Robin O’Connells
3044 Paula drive 90405
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
2 David Yakobson
From: Cheryl McNamara <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:34 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

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.

Thank you,
Cheryl McNamara
12th and Montana Ave
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
3 David Yakobson
From: Fredda Jaffe <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:36 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

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.

Thank you,
Fredda Jaffe, 202 San Vicente Bl
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4 David Yakobson
From: Gabriela Farrell <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:34 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
5 David Yakobson
From: Dima <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:37 AM
To: councilmtgitems; Oliver Chi; Council Mailbox; Lana Negrete Subject: September 8 — Item 4B: Please Pull from Consent and Require Verified Wheelchair Access
Attachments: Item_4B_Accessibility_Conditions_Public_Comment.pdf

EXTERNAL
Mayor and Councilmembers,
Please pull Item 4B from the consent calendar for discussion and add an explicit accessibility condition to approval of the 14th Street bikeway design agreement.

Require a documented assessment of wheelchair unloading and complete vehicle-to-sidewalk access, review by the City’s ADA coordinator, and presentation of the findings when the concept design returns to Council.

My attached submission includes photographs and measurements of repeated constrained openings on 17th Street, questions staff should answer about potential non-compliance, and the relevant Sarfaty court decision. It addresses both passenger-side and driver-side wheelchair access.

These concerns deserve particular attention on 14th Street because of its proximity to UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center and the wheelchair users I frequently observe on the corridor.

I ask a councilmember to request the pull and sponsor this accessibility condition.

Please distribute this email and attachment to all Councilmembers and the appropriate City staff, and include both in the public record for Item 4B.

Respectfully,
Dima Volovik
Santa Monica resident
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENT | ITEM 4B
Require verified disability access
To the Mayor and City Council • September 8, 2026 meeting Re: Request for accessibility conditions on Item 4B, 14th Street Two-Way Protected Bikeway Related policy direction: Item 11B, Vision Zero / Safe System approach PUBLIC COMMENT | SANTA MONICA CITY COUNCIL | SEPTEMBER 8, 2026 1 / 6 Mayor and Councilmembers:

Please pull Item 4B from consent for discussion and add an accessibility condition to approval:
require a documented assessment of wheelchair unloading and complete vehicle-to-sidewalk access, review by the ADA coordinator, and presentation of the findings when the concept design returns to Council.

I support protected bicycle infrastructure and Vision Zero. People who use wheelchairs, scooters, walkers and other mobility aids deserve safe, practical access from a parked vehicle to the sidewalk. That access must be demonstrated in the design and verified in the field.

Item 4B would authorize an agreement with Kimley-Horn of up to $1,999,205 over five years for transportation planning, design and engineering for the 14th Street bikeway, with future-year funding contingent on Council budget approval. The RFP already requires PROWAG and ADA compliance.

Council should translate that commitment into specific deliverables and verification requirements. [1, 11] The existing 17th Street installation raises a concrete concern about potential non-compliance with applicable accessibility requirements. I measured multiple openings between adjacent concrete separator ends and recorded readings of approximately 29-30 inches. The attached photographs document the repeated constrained condition. [3] City staff should provide a written, location-specific explanation: What dimensions were approved? What usable clearances were actually constructed? Which accessibility requirements govern, and how does the installed configuration satisfy them? If staff considers these openings unsuitable for wheelchair passage, identify and demonstrate the accessible alternative from the parked vehicle to the sidewalk, including unloading space, travel distance and traffic exposure. Council should require that evidence before accepting an assurance of compliance.

Passenger-side access: Where the passenger door faces the separators and bikeway, staff should identify the space available to exit, deploy a wheelchair lift or ramp where needed, and maneuver toward the sidewalk. Can that journey be completed with vehicles parked in adjacent spaces, and where does it cross bicycle traffic?
Driver-side access: Where the driver door faces motor traffic, staff should identify the space available to transfer into a wheelchair and travel around the vehicle toward the sidewalk connection. What exposure to passing traffic is involved, and can neighboring vehicles or separator placement obstruct that route? In Sarfaty v. City of Los Angeles, a federal district court found accessibility violations where altered on-street parking required wheelchair users to travel substantial distances in an active bicycle lane before reaching the sidewalk. The City Attorney and accessibility staff should address that decision when evaluating complete vehicle-to-sidewalk access on existing installations and establishing requirements for 14th Street near UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center. [9, pp. 14-18] Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENT | CONTINUED
Protect access near UCLA
PUBLIC COMMENT | SANTA MONICA CITY COUNCIL | SEPTEMBER 8, 2026 2 / 6 These questions are especially important on 14th Street because of its proximity to UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center. UCLA lists emergency and orthopaedic entrances on 15th Street, the next numbered street over. I frequently observe people using wheelchairs on 14th Street. The design review should expressly evaluate access to nearby medical facilities and involve people who use mobility devices, patients, caregivers and UCLA representatives. [10] The Item 4B report anticipates final design in Spring 2028, construction beginning Fall 2028, and Council direction on concept designs. Those milestones provide an opportunity to require documented accessibility review early. [1, pp. 2-3]
Requested condition on approval
Please direct staff to include the following deliverable in the executed agreement:

A documented accessibility assessment of wheelchair unloading and complete vehicle-to-sidewalk access, covering passenger-side and driver-side exits, transfers, lift/ramp deployment, maneuvering space, separator openings, bicycle crossings and curb-ramp connections. The assessment must identify applicable criteria, include review by the City ADA coordinator and qualified accessibility professionals, and be presented with the concept design when it returns to Council.

The assessment should address realistic parking conditions and routes serving nearby UCLA facilities, with input from people who use mobility devices, patients and caregivers. Please identify the responsible reviewer and how the resulting requirements will be carried into final design and verified before opening.

Please identify the contractual provision requiring this assessment, the documentation staff will produce, the responsible reviewer and the Council review milestone. Require a written record demonstrating that the design provides usable access.

Additional Council direction
Separately, please direct an accessibility audit of relevant installations on 17th Street and Broadway, with a report on findings and corrective action for any deficiencies. The report expressly connects 14th Street to Broadway. Require the audit findings to inform the 14th Street design and assign responsibility and completion dates for corrective action. [1, p. 2; 8] Please also make available the complete RFP and addenda, the selected consultant scope and deliverables, and the proposed agreement with its scope exhibits. Publish the applicable grant deadlines and project milestones alongside these documents.

These requests advance the Vision Zero report's proactive safety and accessibility principles. Prompt investigation and correction can reduce avoidable exposure to accessibility complaints, legal claims and costly corrective work. [2]
Please pull Item 4B from consent and make this accessibility assessment an explicit condition of approval, with accountable review and public findings.

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
SUPPORTING ANALYSIS | STANDARDS AND EVIDENCE
What the record establishes
PUBLIC COMMENT | SANTA MONICA CITY COUNCIL | SEPTEMBER 8, 2026 3 / 6 Reported measurements and photographic limits [3]
The submitter reports repeated 29-30 inch measurements on 17th Street and provided six tape-measure photographs (IMG_5369 through IMG_5374). Three are reproduced here with one context photograph.

The images show tape extending onto rounded/sloped concrete; the visible pavement opening is narrower than the full tape span. A survey must establish the controlling usable clearance, including at wheel and footrest heights. Exact block locations and separate opening identifiers are not established in the supplied record. Broadway widths have not been measured in this package.

California: directly relevant separator guidance [4]
Caltrans DIB 89-02, sections 3.1 and 3.2 (printed pages 19-20), recommends five feet (60 inches) of clear pedestrian passage where the described rigid separators adjoin parking. Section 3.0 addresses documentation of design decisions. The width language uses should; it must not be represented as a universal federal ADA mandate. Ask the City to identify the applicable edition, adopted criteria and rationale for its design. The reported 29-30 inches is approximately half of 60 inches.

Federal: accessible walking surfaces [5]
2010 ADA Standards, section 403.5.1: 36 inches minimum; a reduction to 32 inches is permitted for no more than 24 inches of route length, separated by segments at least 48 inches long and 36 inches wide.

These provisions govern walking surfaces on accessible routes. A confirmed 29-30 inch clear opening would fall below those dimensions where this provision applies; the City must establish route classification and governing requirements.

Federal: public right-of-way guidelines [6]
PROWAG section R302.2 specifies 48 inches minimum continuous pedestrian access route width, excluding curbs; R302.2.1 specifies 60 inches across medians/refuge islands. Do not assume every separator is a refuge island. Federal adoption is agency- and facility-specific: the Access Board lists DOT adoption for new/altered transit stops in the public right-of-way and GSA adoption. PROWAG is not automatically a blanket retroactive standard for every City street. Staff should identify any binding adoption, funding condition or City design requirement.

Federal: public-entity accessibility obligations [7]
ADA Title II regulations address exclusion through inaccessible facilities (28 CFR 35.149), accessibility of existing programs viewed in their entirety (35.150), and new construction and alterations (35.151). The relevant inquiry includes the complete access route and the project history. Technical applicability requires a documented City determination; the available evidence supports an audit and correction request, not a final legal finding.

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBIT A | SUPPLIED PHOTOGRAPHS [3]
17th Street: configuration
Original photographs reproduced proportionally, without measurement overlays or retouching.

PUBLIC COMMENT | SANTA MONICA CITY COUNCIL | SEPTEMBER 8, 2026 4 / 6 A1 • Context | IMG_5366.jpeg
Concrete separator ends beside parked vehicles and the
adjoining bikeway. This view shows configuration; it is not a width measurement.

A2 • Tape placement | IMG_5373.jpeg
Representative tape-measure photograph. Tape extends
onto the rounded concrete ends; the exposed tape span is not itself the clear passage width.

Requested verification: locate and number each opening, measure the narrowest usable clearance, and map the complete route from parked vehicles through the separator/bikeway system to a usable curb ramp and sidewalk.

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBIT B | SUPPLIED PHOTOGRAPHS [3]
17th Street: repeated condition
Two additional photographs from the supplied tape-measure series. Location attribution: submitter.

PUBLIC COMMENT | SANTA MONICA CITY COUNCIL | SEPTEMBER 8, 2026 5 / 6 B1 • Tape placement | IMG_5370.jpeg
Opening with leaves and discarded bottle visible. The photo documents geometry and surface conditions at the time
photographed.

B2 • Tape placement | IMG_5374.jpeg
Additional view with pavement marking and leaves visible.

The City should confirm dimensions and the relationship to parking and curb-ramp access.

Evidence note: approximately 29-30 inches is the submitter's reported measurement range. These selected photographs support investigation of the repeated constrained geometry; they do not independently certify the narrowest clear width, exact locations or legal noncompliance.

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
REFERENCES | CITATION KEY
Sources and record locators
Bracketed numbers in the letter and analysis refer to the sources below. Page references to uploaded City documents use the printed browser-PDF page numbers. Sources verified during preparation of this submission.

PUBLIC COMMENT | SANTA MONICA CITY COUNCIL | SEPTEMBER 8, 2026 6 / 6

1. Item 4B staff report, No. 7769; September 8, 2026
Uploaded five-page staff report: award and amount, p. 1; Broadway connection, scope, Council concept review and schedule, pp. 2-3; funding, pp. 4-5. Consent placement also confirmed by the uploaded meeting agenda, pp. 1-2.

Open source

2. Vision Zero staff report, No. 7862
Uploaded 19-page report, “Vision Zero Study Session: Transition to a Safe System Approach and Direction on Future Roadway Safety Priorities.” Recommended actions: p. 1; Safe System principles and Safe Road Users: p. 8.

Open source

3. Submitter's photographs and reported observations
Six measurement images: IMG_5369.jpeg through IMG_5374.jpeg. Selected: IMG_5370.jpeg, IMG_5373.jpeg and IMG_5374.jpeg. Context: IMG_5366.jpeg. Supplied in the referenced conversation “Assess ADA Compliance.” No independent field survey accompanies this package.

4. Caltrans, DIB 89-02 (February 7, 2022)
Class IV Bikeway Guidance. Sections 3.0-3.2, printed pp. 19-20 (PDF pp. 23-24): design-decision documentation and pedestrian openings near parking.

Open source

5. U.S. Department of Justice, 2010 ADA Standards
Sections 403.1 and 403.5.1: scope and clear width of walking surfaces on accessible routes.

Open source

6. U.S. Access Board, PROWAG
Sections R302.2 and R302.2.1: pedestrian route widths. Adoption context is separately described on the Access Board's About PROWAG page.

Open source

7. U.S. Department of Justice, Title II regulations
28 CFR 35.149-35.151: program accessibility, existing facilities, and new construction/alterations.

Open source

8. City of Santa Monica, Broadway Safety Project
City describes a parking-protected facility with concrete barriers and flexible posts and people crossing the bike lane from parking. This supports including Broadway in the audit; it does not establish its gap dimensions.

Open source

9. Sarfaty v. City of Los Angeles
No. 2:17-cv-03594-SVW-KS, Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, August 12, 2020, pp. 14-18: access from altered parking through the bicycle-lane environment.

Open source

10. UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center, Maps & Directions Lists emergency entrance at 1255 15th Street, orthopaedic entrance at 1225 15th Street, and main address at 1250 16th Street. Wheelchair use on 14th Street is the submitter's observation.

Open source

11. City RFP SP2805, issued June 10, 2026
City RFP text reproduced on GovTribe. Task 2.2 addresses accessible-parking analysis; Task 2.9 requires design changes to comply with PROWAG and ADA standards.

Open source
Additional adoption reference for [6]: Access Board: About PROWAG.

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
6 David Yakobson
From: jessmaragon <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:45 AM
To: Council Mailbox; councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Heidi von Tongeln; Attorney Mailbox; Oliver Chi
Subject: Hello! I am a citizen and tax payer of Santa Monica.

EXTERNAL
Hello,
I read bergamot station is being sold off to make more room for homeless housing. Please don’t do this to our beloved city. We have enough. Can’t these shelters be built out where land is cheaper and more plentiful. Our family loves the arts district here. Why does all the cool stuff in Santa Monica get ruined? We are also very disappointed and sad about the ugly LED signs added to the promenade. Not a classy choice at all. What is this, honestly.

All we do is tell our children how lucky we are to live here but really not sure how true is somedays.

With respect,
Jessica Foldes
310-593-1306
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
7 David Yakobson
From: wendie olshan <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:46 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

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.

The concrete bike lane protectors are an absolute hazard for people with disabilities! They should not be built at all!
Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.

Thank you,
W. Olshan
Wilshire/Montana neighborhood
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
8 David Yakobson
From: Ivana Justine <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:49 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
9 David Yakobson
From: ANDREAS BIEBL <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:54 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

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.

Thank you,
Andreas Biebl
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
10 David Yakobson
From: Josh Ely <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 10:00 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
11 David Yakobson
From: Joi Morris <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 10:01 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

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.

Thank you,
Joi Morris
210 14th Street
Sent from my iPhone
Please pardon typos
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
12 David Yakobson
From: Phil Brock <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 10:00 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

Before any contract is awarded, I am asking for:

1. An independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergencyresponse 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.

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
13 Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.

Thank you,
Phil Brock
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
14 David Yakobson
From: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 10:11 AM
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
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,
Kelly Hsiao
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
15 David Yakobson
From: Micah Cloteaux <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 10:31 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
1 David Yakobson
From: Dana Tischler <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:18 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
2 David Yakobson
From: Chen-Chen Lee <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 10:48 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

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,
Chen-Chen Lee, resident from Mid-City Neighborhood
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
3 David Yakobson
From: Robert Jacobson <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 10:51 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: 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 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 request for 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.

Sincerely,
Robert Jacobson
1008 14th Street
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4 David Yakobson
From: Shelley Siegel <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 10:51 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
5 David Yakobson
From: joan hill <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 10:56 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
6 Joan Hill
+1 310 497 8029
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
7 David Yakobson
From: Rosie DiLorenzo <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 10:58 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
RDL Design
914-260-9787
[email protected]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
8 David Yakobson
From: mwdobbs <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 10:58 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

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.

Thank you,
Michael Dobbs, Sunset Park.

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
9 David Yakobson
From: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 10:59 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

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,
Ronald Ricard
Sunset Park Neighborhood
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
10 David Yakobson
From: William Johnson <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 11:06 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
11 David Yakobson
From: Daniel Gilbertson <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 11:06 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

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.

Thank you,
Daniel Gilbertson, Sunset Park
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
12 David Yakobson
From: Patti Walker <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:05 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Patti
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
13 David Yakobson
From: Nancy Pearl <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 11:13 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
14 David Yakobson
From: Taylor Braun <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 11:23 AM
To: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected]; councilmtgitems Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract

EXTERNAL
Forget the one click auto email. This is incredibly dumb and dangerous. It's already a nightmare pulling out of carports onto 14th street. The fact that this is being done "quietly" is reprehensible.

Who is this for? Certainly not the constituents who actually live on the streets you're trying to "improve".

Before any contract is awarded, at minimum, I'd like to see published ridership data justifying this investment, Ada compliance plan, and a public accounting of what happened to residents safely on 17th street after its redesign.

Taylor Braun - 14th street resident.

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
15 David Yakobson
From: Tara <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 11:25 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Best,
Tara Gavan
(908) 902-4710
[email protected]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
16 David Yakobson
From: Reza Shapouri <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 11:27 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi
Subject: OPPOSE Agenda Item 4.B - 14th Street Bikeway Contract

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.

Thank you,
Reza Shapouri, 10th ST & Carlyle resident
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
17 David Yakobson
From: Judy Hopkins <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 11:28 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
18 David Yakobson
From: Esther Woodworth <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 11:33 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

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.

Thank you,
Esther Wasson 14th and Arizona
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
19 David Yakobson
From: Loni Rush <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 11:41 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

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.

Thank you,
Loni Rush Ocean Ave
Loni Rush - Director of Design

PMB LLC
619.417.7874 (cell)
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
20 David Yakobson
From: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 11:42 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: 14th Street bike lanes

EXTERNAL
It has always been difficult to travel in a north-south direcƟon in Santa Monica. Adding bike lanes to 14th street will further impact the issue.

Please do not further impact any north-south streets.

Joseph Palazzolo
[email protected]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
1 David Yakobson
From: Josh Levy <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 11:16 AM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Lana Negrete; Oliver Chi; [email protected] Subject: 14th street

EXTERNAL
Why are we spending TWO MILLION dollars for a bike lane when we already have it on 17th?Please stop wasting money.

Sent from my iPad
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
1 David Yakobson
From: Tania Fischer <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 11:53 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
2 David Yakobson
From: Elizabeth Lerer <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 11:54 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: OPPOSE Item 4.B

EXTERNAL
Dear Council Members and Mayor,
I oppose the installation of concrete curbs on 14th Street.

If you don’t like cars, don’t drive one.

Let the people who rely on automobiles to drive and exit their vehicles safely! Resident Elizabeth Lerer
Sent from my phone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
3 David Yakobson
From: Kim and Marsha Lovett <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 11:57 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Kim Lovett
11th and Arizona
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
1 David Yakobson
From: Matt Maccoby <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:00 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Matthew F. Maccoby
North of Montana
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
2 David Yakobson
From: Nikki Kolhoff <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 11:59 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: July 8 City Council Item 4B - OPPOSE 14th Street Bikeway Contract

You have already made it difficult and dangerous on 17th Street with the concrete barriers. This is a photo of me stuck on 17th going north behind a stalled bus that had nowhere to pull over. The car in front of me ends up doing a U-turn. I waited for a break in the southbound lane to go north around the bus in the wrong lane. Neither option is safe.

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
3 Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4 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,
Nikki Kolhoff
Sunset Park Resident
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
1 David Yakobson
From: Juan Matute <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 9:06 AM
To: Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Lana Negrete; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; councilmtgitems
Subject: Why I Support Safe Streets (4B, 11B and 10A)

EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor and Councilmembers,
I support items 4B, 10A, and 11B. 11B, to implement a customized safe systems approach, is a best practice for roadway safety for all people. I wrote about why I support implementation last week in Santa Monica Next, and I've copied the column below.

The Turn That Convinced Me Santa Monica’s
Safe System Approach Will Work
 JUAN MATUTE
 SEPTEMBER 3, 2026
 MOBILITY, NEWS, OPINION
The crossing guard at Chelsea Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard has been escorting McKinley kids across the street for almost twenty years, and for much of that time he’s had to watch out for left-turning drivers who didn’t see her or stop in time. I know this as a McKinley parent, a member of the school’s PTA Traffic Safety Committee who pushed for this redesign, and someone who studies transportation for a living. The city redesigned that left turn earlier this year. Conflicts dropped, drivers made better choices at the intersection, and the crossing guard is happy. So am I.

That intersection is item one on a list of nine near-term projects in a staff report that Council will take up on September 8, and it’s a big part of why I’m optimistic about the rest of the report. It’s honest about why Santa Monica didn’t hit the zero-fatality goal it set a decade ago, and it lays out a real plan for what comes next. I’ve written before about pieces of this story: declining traffic enforcement staffing after the Wilshire and Chelsea fatality, and new automated-enforcement authority last winter.

September 8 brings a lot of that together, and I support it.

The City missed its Vision Zero goal, but found a better framework In February 2016, the city committed to eliminating fatal and severe-injury crashes by 2026. That year is here, and the results are mixed. Total fatal and severe-injury crashes fell from 62 in 2024 to 52 in 2025. But pedestrian-involved crashes went up every year from 2021 to 2025, and pedestrians and cyclists made up 20 of the city’s 21 traffic deaths over that period. No single intersection had more than three of these crashes over five years, though Ocean Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard each had 26. The problem is spread across the city, not concentrated at a couple of bad corners.

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
2 To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. fatal and severe injury crash density in Santa Monica
Staff wants to replace the old five-E model (engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement, evaluation) with a modified Safe System approach built around seven elements: Safe Speeds, Safe Roads, Safe Road Users, Safe Vehicles, Post-Crash Care and Learning, Safe Land Use, and Safe and Viable Transit. I like this framework, especially the last two additions. Safe Land Use and Safe and Viable Transit fit Santa Monica well because much of the danger on our streets comes down to how far people have to drive for everyday things, and how good the transit option is when they’d rather not drive.

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
3 To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.

Santa Monica's modified safe systems approach.

A toolkit for empowering neighborhoods
The most concrete piece of the report is a Neighborhood Traffic Calming Toolkit paired with a new diverter pilot program. It gives residents a structured way to flag a safety problem on their street (e.g., daylighting, curb extensions, speed humps, diverters) and get it addressed on a predictable timeline instead of waiting years for a capital project to work its way through the budget.

The toolkit sets a reasonable line between two paths. Diverters that fit an already approved program go through administrative review: engineering analysis, interdepartmental review, public notice, and monitoring. New or nonstandard proposals need documented neighborhood support first: 51 percent of residents and businesses in areas zoned mostly R-1, 25 percent in more mixed zoning, the same threshold the city already uses for Block Party street closures. That keeps circulation changes accountable to the people who actually live with them, since a diverter redirects cut-through traffic rather than eliminating it.

This is also where the city’s grid matters. Santa Monica has real route redundancy because our streets are connected, but that only helps if diverters are evaluated at the network level, so a fix on one street doesn’t just push the same traffic onto the next one, and emergency responders keep the routes they need. The Michigan Avenue greenway shows this working as intended: the city set a target back in 2014 of 1,500 or fewer daily car trips on that street, but any actual diverter still needs Council approval, since Michigan absorbs cut-through traffic that Olympic, as the regional road, is supposed to handle instead. Washington Avenue is in earlier stages, with a quick-build greenway now funded.

Red light cameras, and why the fine amount doesn’t tell the whole story
Running a red light and driving at unsafe speed are two of the most dangerous things a driver can do, and state law treats them separately. AB 645 allows automated speed cameras, but only in a handful of pilot cities, including Los Angeles and Malibu. Santa Monica isn’t one of them. SB 720 provides the broader authority for red-light and stop-sign cameras, and the ordinance coming to Council for a first reading relies on it: cameras at two signalized intersections. I wish it were more, but two is a start.

Without state authorization for automated speed enforcement, Santa Monica is handling the speed side manually. SMPD expanded traffic enforcement staffing this year and has been putting officers at school sites in the morning, which I think has been good for children’s safety. For signals and stop signs, though, cameras are the tool state law actually gives us right now.

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4 The fine schedule is $100 for a first violation, rising to $500 by a fourth, plus a $50 late fee. It’s civil rather than criminal, attached to the registered owner of the vehicle. Some people will look at that and assume it’s too small to matter. I don’t think that’s right. A fine only deters if people expect to get caught, and an officer working an intersection manually might cite fewer than two speeding drivers an hour. A camera catches almost everyone who runs the light. When the odds of getting caught go up that much, the fine doesn’t need to be as high to have the same effect.

Curb space is a safety issue too
I’m glad to see smart curb management included here, with a pilot planned for 2nd and 4th Streets.

This is something I’ve researched in the past: competition for curb space in our business districts pushes a lot of delivery and rideshare vehicles into double-parking, and a lot of that double-parking happens in bike lanes, which is dangerous for cyclists and makes it harder to see pedestrians at intersections. A pilot that uses data and defined zones to allocate that space more predictably addresses a real problem.

What Council is actually deciding
There’s no immediate budget action tied to this study session. Council is being asked for direction, not money, and any ATES fine revenue is meant to stay limited, since the program’s point is near-certain enforcement and putting any surplus into local roadway safety improvements rather than raising general fund revenue. What Council decides on September 8 is whether to adopt the Safe System framework, move the traffic calming toolkit and diverter process forward, advance the curb and parking pilots, and introduce the ATES ordinance.

Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
1 David Yakobson
From: Mac Fox <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:07 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, 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,
Maxwell Fox
Santa Monica, Mid-City
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
2 David Yakobson
From: Connor Webb <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:15 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Dan Hall; Jesse Zwick; Caroline Torosis; Ellis Raskin; Lana Negrete; Natalya Zernitskaya; Barry Snell
Subject: Item 4B- Support 14th Street Protected Bikeway Project

EXTERNAL
Mayor Torosis and Councilmembers,
I strongly support the advancement of the 14th St Protected Bikeway. This project will provide an all-ages-and-abilities connection to three elementary and middle schools, Santa Monica College, the E Line, UCLA-Santa Monica Hospital, and Memorial Park, all while knitting together a historically disadvantaged community that was demolished and divided by the 10 freeway. This is a crucial project that should not wait until 2028 to be completed. I urge the council to expedite the design and construction of this project for a 2027 completion.

Sincerely,
Connor Webb
Mid-City Resident, 90404
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
3 David Yakobson
From: roman verba <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:30 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

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.

Thank you,
[Your name and neighborhood]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
4 David Yakobson
From: Lucien (Lu) Plauzoles <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:29 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

I am a daily bike rider in Santa Monica. I average about 60 miles/week in town.

I am also one of the riders who finds the so-called protective lanes a wast of money since they do not really enhance our safety. Think of spending $2M on repaving rough pavements and re-painting abandoned share-row signage before you waste money on this project, even if most of it is paid by outside grants.

Before any contract is awarded, I am asking foran independent, corridor-specific traffic, bike-usage, and emergency-response study for 14th Street - not a citation to other cities' streets.

Please pull this item from the consent calendar for full public discussion and do not award this contract until the above exists.

Thank you,
Lucien (Lu) Plauzoles
533 4th St Santa Monica, CA 90402
res. 310.395.6235
cell 310.779.0966
[email protected]
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
5 Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
6 David Yakobson
From: Jen <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:35 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, Jenifer Byington, 14th Street Northof Montana Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
7 David Yakobson
From: Clayton Canning <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:37 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

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.

Thank you,
Clayton Canning - resident at 1324 14th St
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
8 David Yakobson
From: Chris Sattlberger <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:44 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

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.

Thank you,
Chris Sattlberger
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
9 sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
10 David Yakobson
From: christine walter <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:46 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

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.

Christine Walter
2228 3rd Street
Sent from my iPhone
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
11 David Yakobson
From: Courtney Jennings <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:51 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

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
12 David Yakobson
From: Molly Read <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:53 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 emergencyresponse 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, Molly Read - Wilshire/Montana Resident
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
13 David Yakobson
From: Colin Warn <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 1:01 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: 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 would like to bike without dying on the road in Santa Monica. Research from the National Library of Medicine makes it abundantly clear: Protected bike lanes are the most effective means for doing so - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32388015/
Thank you,
Colin Warn
90292
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
Item 4-B
September 8, 2026
14 David Yakobson
From: walter Zifkin <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 1:17 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

Santa Monica City CouncilSeptember 8, 2026

Santa Monica City Council
September 8, 2026