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Agenda Item

a) REPORT 19-0191 GREENBELT INFILTRATION PROJECT NEXT STEPS (Environmental Analyst Kristy Morris)

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    Ravi Singh about 5 years ago

    Unnecessary deadline for an unrealistic solution. Strongly oppose. Additional time should be requested for further research that is not aimed at correcting one issue by creating another issue.

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    Rebecca Veltman about 5 years ago

    I oppose this project strongly---for all the reasons voiced at the October council meeting by numerous citizens. Hermosa Beach's potential risk is many times greater than the loss of grants accepted by the council originally. Ruining South Park to "correct" it only compounds the error in judgment. It requires courage to admit the original acceptance was wrong. Better to rescind the approval now, accept the fact that the whole project as originally envisioned was based on poor research (or none), and proceed from there. Throwing more money down a rat hole is an abuse of the power granted to council by the voters. Please show you have the courage we voters thought you had. We can live with honesty. Can you?

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    Melissa Singh about 5 years ago

    Dear Counsel members,

    Please do not destroy the treasures that are South Park and the Greenbelt and site this project elsewhere.

    As a South Hermosa resident, I walk this trail and use this park daily. They are both in constant use by people of all ages. Please do not destroy our children’s safe walk to school and places to play. Please site this project under Herondo street or another location that will not destroy our neighborhood’s quality of life.
    Thank you

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    megan watumull about 5 years ago

    Strongly oppose

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    rebecca Hilgers about 5 years ago

    This is terrible for Hermosa Beach destroying our community vs. seriously woking with the communities that contribute 90%+ of the waste
    Rebecca

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    Nicole Ellison about 5 years ago

    As residents who live adjacent to the Greenbelt and 2nd Street, my family and I strongly oppose the Greenbelt infiltration project. We support that the city of Hermosa Beach should implement storm water capture projects that benefit the water quality of our beaches, however these projects should be the appropriate scope for our city.

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    Victoria Kohlhepp about 5 years ago

    The greenbelt is a place for our kids to walk and feel safe. I oppose this project it will affect our safety as well noise impact!!

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    Brad Ou about 5 years ago

    Dear HB City Council,

    Thank you for listening to our concerns concerning the infiltration project along the green belt.

    Please register my negative response in regards to athe proposed sight next to the Mooring condo complex. I feel that it may negatively affect the underlying ground stability and ultimate cause harm to our properties.

    Sincerely,

    Brad Ou
    Resident of the Mooring condo complex at 501 Herondo St.

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    Bob Jones about 5 years ago

    I do not live near either South Park or the southern greenbelt. My opposition is to the disruption of construction and the inadvisability of placing the facility in close proximity to residents' homes. This is as bad an idea as oil drilling in HB because of the extreme density of our community.

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    Marion Pearl about 5 years ago

    Dear City Council,
    What I would like to bring up is the history of making fast decisions by the HB City Council and then the HB residents have to rally up and fight it and also pay for those hastily decisions. In the 1980tis, the then city council thought it was a good idea to take off the ban of oil drilling and drill for oil in HB to have more money. It did got voted for and then oil contracts got signed with stipulations that the residents got another vote on it, however financially responsibility got already signed. By then all HB residents woke up to it and this oil drilling was fought for over 20 years with a price tag of over 20 millions of fines and fees for Hermosa’s residents!
    Now just about when the oil drilling got settled for this amount in 2016, the then HB City Council thought it was a good idea to take on this hastily signing MOUs Greenbelt infiltration project! Again we are here to fight it and who knows how much it will cost us!? For the future we might want to think about, how to restrict the HB City Council to make those costly and hastily signed mistakes!? That all residents get an informed notification in the mail when something like this will be considered, before anything is signed and promised?
    We would of saved us millions of $ and agony this way! We sure could need it for fixing roads and other infrastructure, when I look at those electrical cables tangling above us, I have the impression being in a third world country..
    Thank you
    Marion P

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    Patti G about 5 years ago

    I am a resident who lives close to proposed project site, and I strongly oppose this project and support dissolution of the MOU. The proposed locations for this project are inappropriate due to the proximity to homes and the fact children play on top of them. We all want cleaner oceans, but not at any cost. It’s tough to see any upside for the city in this project. I urge the council to listen to the community’s input and choose to not compromise the health and safety of its residents.

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    Laurie Rodgers about 5 years ago

    The truth is a bad decision was made. Please do not add insult to injury. Step up, admit it was a bad call and do something to fix it. Certainly the city does not have to move this forward .i would hope Our council will hear us , and represent us. We are to small a community to bring that into our neighborhood. There is still areas around Herondo that Redondo could utilize before they force it on us. It is too impactful on the green belt. Shame on you all if you can’t find a better solution. Think before you act, please. We might as well have let the oil guys in, at least there the land owners would have gotten something for the troubles. Listen to your community. Thank you

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    Polly Schneider about 5 years ago

    City Council:
    I have read every one of the statements here in opposition to the proposed infiltration system. I strongly agree with them! My husband and I owned two homes and lived and raised our kids in each of them for a total of fifty years. I have always been just a few steps from the south end of the greenbelt. After the railroad was "abandoned" many of the residents worked very hard to preserve the area for an open space. There were developers around who wanted to develop the whoIe stretch of land into condos and commercial use. The argument was we have the beach, what do we need more open space far? I hope I'm not the only one here who remembers the other battles we as citizens have had with different city councils to protect the south end of town. When my husband and I first moved here there were actually vacant lots, the Ace boat Yard, 190th stopped at PCH and became a dirt road. The first city council meeting we went to was when the city was trying to stop people from having chickens in their back yards! A few of us actually went dressed like chickens! (not me) From then on there were many problems more concerns mostly about density in this little town. The redevelopment fight was the big one. It went on for over a year. Our house was in, what the council designated as a "blighted area" We, and our neighbors were all considered blighted! It's a great way to make new friends! There were many meetings One had so many people that it was moved from the council chambers to the auditorium at the community center. I think that was still the JR. HI then.There was still only standing room. It lasted until five in the morning! The people in the "north end" decided to join us because we had helped them in an oil fight so long ago that I can't even remember it! We finally won after we held enough fund raisers to hire an attorney and threaten to recall the council. It took lots of walking the neighborhoods to get enough signatures on the They had appointed themselves as the redevelopment agency. Finally they said if we vote against it will you please not recall us! So we won!
    There were a couple of condo projects that had too many units. Finally one of them wanted to squeeze 15 units on a very small lot. They changed the plan from 15 units to 13 units and put a swimming pool in the extra space! I guess we won that one. And then the NO ON Oil fight which I'm sure you all remember. By that time I decided that I was too old to keep fighting--it was time for the youngsters to step up---but here I am again! All of this happened in the south end of town for some mysterious reason. Maybe people keep forgetting that we are fighters and every time they come up with a ridiculous new idea for us we will stand up and fight again! And this seems another of those times.

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    Jamie Immel about 5 years ago

    We don’t want this

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    Sheila Ennis about 5 years ago

    I oppose!

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    D F about 5 years ago

    I live one block from the Greenbelt and am opposed to this location and South Park for the infiltration project. Both locations would compromise the health and safety of our residential neighborhood. The greenbelt is a beautiful part of Hermosa Beach. Please do not destroy it with this project. It is your duty to find an alternate site that is not in the center of a residential neighborhood.

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    Monica Haase about 5 years ago

    I very much oppose the Stormwater Infiltration Project in Hermosa Beach. There are dozens of other locations where this project could be located. Hermosa Beach is a tiny, residential community, with barely enough room for parks and walking space. There is absolutely no room for this project in Hermosa Beach, especially so close to my home.

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    Sharon Kondo about 5 years ago

    This is a horrible idea. We all want cleaner oceans, but polluting the ground in our neighborhoods and underneath where our children play is not an acceptable solution (neither South Park nor Greenbelt). It's hard to believe it's even being considered, especially when there's an empty lot just yards away. It also doesn't make sense for Hermosa to have to bear the brunt of the potential environmental and safety issues when our city contributes a fraction of the water runoff that will be filtered. For the sake of our families, our children's children and the future of our city, please, please find a better solution.

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    Racheal Wallis about 5 years ago

    We strongly oppose Hermosa Beach using the greenbelt for the infiltration project as proposed to date. We believe the City council has been negligent and taken on too much responsibility for the project and has made a mistake in not taking into consideration the full impact of this project in Hermosa Beach most importantly on the residents and the homes immediately surrounding the area. This was acknowledged in the October meeting by city council members that the lack of assessment on the residents was an oversight and the overwhelming response from the residents is that Hermosa Beach is too density populated to have a project of this size and that by proceeding Hermosa Beach will open themselves up to lawsuits should they proceed. The city council members now need to take the mature response to accept their mistake, cut their losses and hand back proportionate responsibility to the surrounding beach cities by dissolving the current MOU. At the very least the greenbelt in between 2nd and Herodondo Street needs to be removed from the proposed sites as this would have the most damage to local residents and homes if it is to be used for this purpose. While I agree we all need to take responsibility to improve the water quality in the ocean I do not believe we need to damage the health and wellbeing of the most important resources in Hermosa - the residents, families and children who live here. As the city council members you have a duty to protect and take the responsibly for the health and wellbeing of this community in Hermosa. Regards Racheal Wallis

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    Scott Goldenberg about 5 years ago

    The infiltration project location on the Hermosa Greenbelt is dangerously close to many residences. The location was not properly vetted, and the potential damage to health, usability of the greenbelt and nearby property values is too great a risk. The city has not done due diligence here. We are your neighbors and we are taxpayers. We deserve a safe and sensible resolution - not just the most expedient one. If this project was going to be outside your front door - as it would be mine - I’m sure you would understand why we strongly oppose the greenbelt location. It’s lose-lose-lose for all involved. Thank you, respectfully, Scott Goldenberg.