The online Comment window has expired

Agenda Item

a. REPORT 21-0264 HERMOSA SHINES PLAN FOR COMMUNITYWIDE REOPENING, RECOVERY, AND RESILIENCE (Deputy City Manager Angela Crespi)

  • Default_avatar
    George Doran almost 3 years ago

    AN ORDINANCE OF HERMOSA BEACH ADDING REGULATION 3.141592 TO COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY BAN MVs IN CITY LIMITS
    Illogical Conclusions of Incomplete Findi
    A. Per Wikipedia, a motor vehicle (“MV”) is a self-propelled vehicle, commonly wheeled, that does not operate on rails and is used for the transportation. Per the NHTSA, there were 33K fatal MV crashes in 2019. 100% involved MVs, demonstrating the correlation between MVs and MV accidents, particularly fatal ones
    B. Roads cover ~4M miles, which at an average width of 12 ft represents ~9K square miles, or less than .3% of the US landmass. However, those 33K fatal accidents caused 36K fatalities, or more than 1.2% of all fatalities in the US, which is incredibly disproportionate when comparing to the completely unrelated statistics of road-to-landmass.
    C. Also, WHO says Measles kills 158K people per year, and deaths in each country is correlated to vaccination rates. But, Andrew Wakefield once found that the MMR vaccine causes autism. Without any true counterfactual analysis of the original underlying study, I think we can completely agree that MVs, like Measles vaccines, can only be 100% safe if they are 100% eliminated because more than 100 yrs of reasonable regs and policing have proven unable to solve the horrible, unbalanced ratio of MV-per-total fatalities when compared to road-to-landmass ratio. Please don’t consider a single other benefit of MVs either.
    D. Wakefield also extrapolated from a small sample size, had an uncontrolled design and reached speculative conclusions. Obviously then, the number of fatalities from MVs probably also causes a lot of related and unaccounted for deaths because ambulances are too focused on the roads to possibly serve kayakers.
    E. Even worse, some MVs operate at standing capacity, and encourage people to sit on benches nearby roads, an undoubtedly dangerous and annoying thing, particularly when below my beach-facing patio. COVID has shown just how much better it is without people waiting on benches outside my apartment, and Zoom has proven how easy it is for basically nobody to ever need to take the bus to work again
    F. Moreover, eliminating MVs will have far reaching impacts to reduce traffic accidents in Hermosa. COVID has allowed us a perfect illustration of what even limiting MVs part of the year on the roads can do. The total number of traffic accidents and related injuries in Hermosa Beach fell 49% and 18% respectively in 2020, the biggest single year decline and the fewest recorded accidents or injuries on record (140 and 49). Just imagine how many fewer accidents and related injuries we might have if we outlawed MVs. Caltrans creates reasonable regs designed to keep MVs safe. But why not just be safer and make max occupancy 0?
    G. One of the most boggling things about roads and MVs too is that they’re all different. Different speeds on every one. Individual license plates. Specific permits. It’s ludicrous to expect our police to try and navigate this tangled web of regs. Outlaw them all
    H. [Bland words]
    I. Route 1, Sepulveda, PCH or whatever naming convention city councils would like to squabble over was first partially built in 1913, leveraging the Southern Pacific Coast Line railroad (an incredibly safer form transport). Shockingly, today there are still way too many accidents on PCH. No need to quantify how many is way too many, it’s too many and the inconsistently named Sepulveda Coast 1 Blvd, like all other roads in HB, needs to be cleansed of MVs
    J. Tragically, MV issues are not limited to injuries. Each year, Hermosa Beach issues over 60K parking citations. Data isn’t available and doesn’t matter, but it’s safe to say there were more parking citations per day of enforcement in 2020 than any year on record (we briefly halted enforcement). Clearly, stopping MVs is not enough. We need to remove them from the city because a parking citation is as bad as a traffic injury
    K. Sometime in 2020, police started aggressively enforcing stop sign violations at 22nd and Hermosa. Dozens of motorists were rightly ticketed for careless driving in a pedestrian artery. Sadly, changes in regs have made City government’s jobs hard (which of course the lighting, video surveillance, permitting, and landscaping regs in this statute would not do), so they can’t quite report the crime stats for 2021 yet. Who cares, I promise you there are still traffic accidents happening in 2021 despite this well-intentioned enforcement drive. Only eliminating MVs completely can make 22nd safe
    L. Indeed, MVs are devilish creatures. You can’t blame just motos, cars, buses or RVs. It’s literally all of them and could be any of them. Even eliminating all gas-powered vehicles will not stop your Tesla autopilot from failing every now and again. Hold all MVs accountable once and for all
    M. These regs on MVs are critical. Whatever other laws we need to amend to make sure we can utterly and completely ban MVs in Hermosa, we’ll get to later if there is time

  • Default_avatar
    Max Kondrath almost 3 years ago

    Oppose

  • Default_avatar
    Jetta Rider almost 3 years ago

    This is cruel and usual for all the business owners who followed your protocol perfectly. We are at the end of a pandemic (endemic). Please do your job that is to
    Support and lead our community. The action of hindering restaurants’ ability to thrive and peoples’ ability to gather and heal as one community is gut wrenching. Please support us in a bright and healthy future that reflects the efforts and patience that has been forth by all. Vote to allow our business the freedom that progress and scientific advancements have granted us. Let us support each other and our families by allowing businesses to open freely. Hindering the re opening is backward thinking. Check the facts and hear the people!

  • Default_avatar
    KIM TILTON almost 3 years ago

    STRONGLY OPPOSE

  • Default_avatar
    Allie Hoerster almost 3 years ago

    OPPOSE

  • Default_avatar
    George Branch almost 3 years ago

    Stop trying to limit demand and focus instead on enforcement. The 'bad apples' will find somewhere else to cause trouble if existing laws against public intoxication and open container are enforced, which leaves the restaurants and bars and law-abiding patrons, along with the City as a whole, in a better place without draconian and possibly unlawful changes.

  • Default_avatar
    Payton Cahalan almost 3 years ago

    Oppose

  • Default_avatar
    Mike Sibley almost 3 years ago

    Absolutely oppose this concept. Any public servant that supports this will be voted out of office. Give our small businesses a chance. Too much government control and this is going way over the top. Solve issues that actually exist. Stop the power grab.

  • Default_avatar
    CJ Riazzi almost 3 years ago

    I do not have words for how strongly I oppose.

    SHINES.. safety, health, infrastructure, new technology, economic development and service.

    All they did was add the word “new” so that the plan wasn’t SHITES

  • Default_avatar
    Daniel Rittenhouse almost 3 years ago

    I enjoy living in Hermosa Beach, California not Hermosa Beach, Utah thank you very much.

  • Default_avatar
    Emily Brown almost 3 years ago

    This will kill our local economy even more. Absolutely oppose.

  • Default_avatar
    Gillian Meenan almost 3 years ago

    Strongly Oppose. I was born and raised in Hermosa beach just two blocks from the pier. As a kid, downtown Hermosa wasn't the most ideal place to take your family. Over the past 10-15 years the city has worked hard to create a clean, family, business and tourist friendly destination. I now see families frequently vacating the downtown Hermosa beach establishments. Restaurants and bars already follow the closely monitored rules that the city has put forward and adding even more laws/restrictions will negatively effect them. They've worked so hard to stay open...limiting capacity will absolutely crush majority of these establishments. Seems a bit tone deaf after the year we just had. Why not work together to find solutions that best serves the interests of the both the residents and businesses?

  • Default_avatar
    Eric Cicalese almost 3 years ago

    What more do you want to do to this industry .It’s just had the worst situation in 100 years and you want to control their livelihoods.You are as corrupt as your governor.When you want those tax dollars you always seem to go after the bars .Realize that the state is in horrible shape and you are just adding to it .Maybe the homeless of hernias can give you the tax dollars .Wake up

  • Default_avatar
    Mat Herbers almost 3 years ago

    Who came up with this? This sounds like corruption of some sort because it makes no sense to enforce. The pier is already already way down in traffic since the pandemic and trying to keep the cap on that? Hmm who does this benefit? That's the bigger question. Someone is doing something pretty, prettyyy sus.

    I would say the complete opposition should be allowed. Open container in the pier, bars open 1 hour later, fair capacity limits. Let them make their money back from a lost year. It's time to make Hermosa the best beach town in CA.

  • Default_avatar
    Allison Wallace almost 3 years ago

    This is so blatantly illegal and would destroy the hospitality sector of not only hermosa, but the South Bay of Los Angeles in general. We are in a state of growth of the economy, and we need to foster that mentality NOT RESTRICT IT.

  • Default_avatar
    Jenn Olson almost 3 years ago

    Others have already said it and I agree this is terrible for business and for Hermosa. Please do not move forward on this legislation. Let's put our efforts towards cleaning up the homelessness and transients sleeping and pooping on our beaches.

  • Default_avatar
    Erika LangetiegNewman almost 3 years ago

    ADAMANTLY OPPOSE. My husband and I, along with our children & pets, live in the downtown zone on the same block as Barnacles. I am in full support of our downtown businesses, and as such, I encourage our city staff & city council to support them as well by OPPOSING any further plans to limit late-night business operations. This proposed ordinance is starkly anti-business and inconsistent with both the Kosmont analysis and published police crime data. Moreover, this proposed ordinance further vilifies restaurants after 12+ months of unprecedented restrictions causing extreme financial hardship, near bankruptcies in many cases. Restaurants that create a fun environment for people to socialize should not and must not be punished.

    The summer of 2021 should be one packed with celebrations, dancing, gatherings, beach days, and fun nights. Reducing late-night occupancy at restaurants encourages more lines on the plaza, promotes more partying / nuisances in residential areas, and hurts our city's ability to keep our residents here for dinner and other late-night festivities. In addition, I believe that the late-night restrictions in the proposed ordinance discourages paying customers from neighboring cities from coming to Pier Plaza for fun. This, coupled with the proposed late-night entertainment restrictions, leads to a domino effect of lost business revenues; if people are drawn to the latest table seatings for dinner and want to catch a DJ or band or go dancing or do karaoke at 11pm with their friends afterward, they will go somewhere else.

    This proposed ordinance was drafted by our own city staff. It has created division between city officials and businesses / residents. Every resident and business owner (most of whom also reside in Hermosa Beach) I know wants our town to thrive, both in safety measures and financially. I challenge our city staff and city council members to abandon their ill-advised attempts to disincentivize businesses. Stop threatening to hurt the vibrancy of downtown Hermosa Beach!

  • Default_avatar
    Stacianne Gabrielli almost 3 years ago

    I strongly oppose this ordinance. I am a lifelong resident and feel this is not a beneficial to our thriving community. It stems from a small group that wants to change what makes our beach town so special. We have always been able to ride down to pier ave and enjoy our local restaurant's and bars that provide us with great food, drinks and entertainment. When i think back to my mom and aunts and uncles all talking about walking to their favorite places to hear music and eat good food and have a couple of drinks it always was down on pier ave. i cant imagine not ever having had a birthday at the mermaid and then palmilla and sangria. I mean who hasn’t seen a live band at the lighthouse or had drinks at henneseys. I plan to continue to support our lovely pier avenue plaza for the rest of my life and hope that this is just a blip proposed by people that so do not go out with their families and friends to enjoy what we are so blessed to be bale to have. Please consider these words when you all decide the fate our favorite places that are our friends and families livelihoods. Sincerely. .

  • Default_avatar
    Aaron Boss almost 3 years ago

    AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HERMOSA BEACH
    ADDING CHAPTER 5.80 TO THE HERMOSA BEACH
    MUNICIPAL CODE TO ESTABLISH THE DOWNTOWN
    ALCOHOL ESTABLISHMENT LICENSE, AND AMENDING
    SECTION 1.10.040 TO MAKE VIOLATIONS OF CHAPTER
    5.80 SUBJECT TO ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY
    PROCEDURES

    Destroying local businesses on Pier Plaza is NOT the way to go about "cleaning up" the city. Most all of these businesses have been decimated, people's lives have decimated, things have been in turmoil due to the Pandemic. Now things are starting to go back to some semblance of normalcy and you want to implement something this extreme? It's truly ridiculous to consider this as an option...

  • Default_avatar
    Chio Baldocchi almost 3 years ago

    Strong Oppose 👎🏿

    Others have already said it and I agree this is terrible for business and for Hermosa
    Please do not move forward on this awful piece of ... legislation