What kind of city would even waste its time considering the reduction of capacity of our bars and restaurants after city, county and state have basically robbed our small businesses from existing?
Shame on you for even wasting our tax dollars on contemplating a restrictive police state that will crimp the very existance of those businesses that have supported its citizens. Then further force the citizens of Hermosa Beach to wear a mask on our beach and out doors. Where is the science for that? If this blunderance of community restriction and business growth continues the council will be forced to defend it's self with lawsuits and the largest movement against it making the parade of Black Lives Matters look like a tea party.
Now get to work on helping our businesses thrive and prosper instead as you sit back and squash the existence out of these wonderful threads that make the blanket of our city. You should be ashamed of yourselves, your thoughts and your actions.
Absolutely against!! Give me a break!! Businesses have been patient and following the rules. And some knucklehead think that this ordinance is a good idea!! It’s not!!
I have been a resident of Hermosa Beach since 1972 and raised my family here with my daughters attending the local schools. Looking back over the last 50 years, the downtown plaza has greatly improved. Before the plaza, the downtown was a two-way street containing a number of bars that provided live entertainment until 1:30a. There were few restrictions and it could get rowdy, not a place to take your family. Now in the evening I see many families walking the plaza and having dinner at many of the restaurants. I live several blocks from the plaza and 20 years ago we used to have to contend with inebriated patrons walking down the street at 2:00a in the morning making plenty of noise. That has all ended mainly because of UBER. It concerns me that this new ordinance will economically pressure the businesses on the plaza just as they're trying to recover from the pandemic. This ordinance seems to have been put together by a person or small group without a lot of community input from all sides. It really concerns me that the premise for this ordinance mainly rests on the fact that the plaza represents only 5% of the total area of the city, yet requires 25% of the Hermosa Beach police budget. Give me a break! The downtown has always had a greater share of the police budget since this is the area of greatest people concentration. I would expect and hope the downtown would have a greater police presence. Since a large part of the city's budget is funded by taxes and license fees on the plaza businesses, why would we want to further hinder them. At a minimum, there should be a meeting between plaza business owners and representatives of the city.
This proposed ordinance is quite possibly the most idiotic idea I’ve ever heard of. I’m embarrassed that our city council is even considering this. Please use some basic common sense here and dismiss this. It’s time to get back to normal. And if those who support this are using COVID-19 as an excuse, I’m sorry but it’s over and should not be impacting policy decisions at this point... everyone has had the chance to get the vaccine. Let’s promote individual responsibility. Whoever created this proposal was either really bored or truly wants to see Hermosa Beach turn into a ghost town.
Dear council members,
I strongly urge you to reject any new restrictions or regulations on our neighborhood restaurants and bars. Hermosa Beach attracts many young adults and families that value the social environment and nightlife that Peir Plaza and neighboring establishments provide. Limiting capacity, queues and restaurants/bars autonomy to serve the community would be a detriment to the city. Please, grab a beer at your local watering hole and enthusiasticly reject any proposals that suppress our local businesses.
Our businesses are already struggling and working SO hard to recover from the last year. Why in the heck would we want to make it even harder? C’mon hermosa. Let’s help our local bars and restaurants, not hurt them!
This is communistic. This makes it impossible to stay in business and ruins lives. It is shameful that this type of garbage can even be brought to a vote. How does it make money for the city to shut down every social establishment? Is it fair for the citizens of our town to see our tax money blown on the city losing every one of the many lawsuits that will be filed if this craziness is approved? Haven't your residents and business owners delt with enough hardship in the past 13 months for a lifetime?
I strongly oppose this move that would prolong the misery that our food and drink business's have been going through. These people have been barely surviving for over a year. Also these establishments provide income to countless citizens and tax revenues to the city. It’s wrong to suppress free enterprise by the few when the many oppose it.
I am deeply disappointed in this city. I wrongly believed the pandemic caused Hermosa city government to realize that the business owners here are human beings with families, living on extremely thin margins. The vibrant outdoor dining patios and efforts to support these community members led me to believe Hermosa was turning over a new leaf.
Hermosa’s existing code and CUP framework are already abused and heavily leveraged against businesses. There is no need to enact an ordinance like this to make it even more difficult to operate a business in this city.
I recently worked with a group of incredible business operators who lost nearly everything they had trying survive in Hermosa Beach, after the city wrongfully and unlawfully altered their CUP. Their business was loved and supported by the community and by many of the council members. The city’s regulations and unreasonable actions, however, bled them dry and ultimately forced them out. Hermosa will not attract any good businesses if it continues to run the city this way, and it will continue to financially ruin people.
While I am no longer a resident, I am a frequent visitor and submit this comment on behalf of my friends in the hospitality business who are trying to survive in Hermosa Beach.
I strongly oppose. As a resident since 2007, I have witnessed everything imaginable under the sun at Pier Ave, and year over year the City imposes more restrictions. This is exactly the type of ordinance that we do NOT need during a period of recovery. Local businesses have struggled over the last 13+ months. This proposal is anti-business and will not aid the effort in keeping Hermosa, Hermosa.
This will be a huge hit negatively for the business, employees, and patrons in the community. Limiting access appears to be an attempt at addressing issues that I am having a hard time comprehending even exist. We need to get back to normalcy and this is not a step in that direction what so ever. I am firmly against this alcohol ordinance
I cannot understand what value this has to the city. Our restaurant/bar owners and employees have complied with regulations during the pandemic at a high cost for our safety. They have reopened safely with the promise of being made whole again. These businesses pay a premium to be in our city and measures like this will force them and they dollars to another city. We will be left with empty buildings or worse... chains on every corner.
What kind of city would even waste its time considering the reduction of capacity of our bars and restaurants after city, county and state have basically robbed our small businesses from existing?
Shame on you for even wasting our tax dollars on contemplating a restrictive police state that will crimp the very existance of those businesses that have supported its citizens. Then further force the citizens of Hermosa Beach to wear a mask on our beach and out doors. Where is the science for that? If this blunderance of community restriction and business growth continues the council will be forced to defend it's self with lawsuits and the largest movement against it making the parade of Black Lives Matters look like a tea party.
Now get to work on helping our businesses thrive and prosper instead as you sit back and squash the existence out of these wonderful threads that make the blanket of our city. You should be ashamed of yourselves, your thoughts and your actions.
Oppose- this is not what the city needs. The pier is a huge draw and the findings seem erroneous.
Ridiculous..
We oppose! Take a stand for our restaurant and local business.
Let the people live, it’s impossible for bars and restaurants to survive these conditions.
Absolutely against!! Give me a break!! Businesses have been patient and following the rules. And some knucklehead think that this ordinance is a good idea!! It’s not!!
I have been a resident of Hermosa Beach since 1972 and raised my family here with my daughters attending the local schools. Looking back over the last 50 years, the downtown plaza has greatly improved. Before the plaza, the downtown was a two-way street containing a number of bars that provided live entertainment until 1:30a. There were few restrictions and it could get rowdy, not a place to take your family. Now in the evening I see many families walking the plaza and having dinner at many of the restaurants. I live several blocks from the plaza and 20 years ago we used to have to contend with inebriated patrons walking down the street at 2:00a in the morning making plenty of noise. That has all ended mainly because of UBER. It concerns me that this new ordinance will economically pressure the businesses on the plaza just as they're trying to recover from the pandemic. This ordinance seems to have been put together by a person or small group without a lot of community input from all sides. It really concerns me that the premise for this ordinance mainly rests on the fact that the plaza represents only 5% of the total area of the city, yet requires 25% of the Hermosa Beach police budget. Give me a break! The downtown has always had a greater share of the police budget since this is the area of greatest people concentration. I would expect and hope the downtown would have a greater police presence. Since a large part of the city's budget is funded by taxes and license fees on the plaza businesses, why would we want to further hinder them. At a minimum, there should be a meeting between plaza business owners and representatives of the city.
This proposed ordinance is quite possibly the most idiotic idea I’ve ever heard of. I’m embarrassed that our city council is even considering this. Please use some basic common sense here and dismiss this. It’s time to get back to normal. And if those who support this are using COVID-19 as an excuse, I’m sorry but it’s over and should not be impacting policy decisions at this point... everyone has had the chance to get the vaccine. Let’s promote individual responsibility. Whoever created this proposal was either really bored or truly wants to see Hermosa Beach turn into a ghost town.
Yall are quacks, let us live! Keep hermosa hermosa. Bunch of donkey transplants
Dear council members,
I strongly urge you to reject any new restrictions or regulations on our neighborhood restaurants and bars. Hermosa Beach attracts many young adults and families that value the social environment and nightlife that Peir Plaza and neighboring establishments provide. Limiting capacity, queues and restaurants/bars autonomy to serve the community would be a detriment to the city. Please, grab a beer at your local watering hole and enthusiasticly reject any proposals that suppress our local businesses.
Our businesses are already struggling and working SO hard to recover from the last year. Why in the heck would we want to make it even harder? C’mon hermosa. Let’s help our local bars and restaurants, not hurt them!
This is communistic. This makes it impossible to stay in business and ruins lives. It is shameful that this type of garbage can even be brought to a vote. How does it make money for the city to shut down every social establishment? Is it fair for the citizens of our town to see our tax money blown on the city losing every one of the many lawsuits that will be filed if this craziness is approved? Haven't your residents and business owners delt with enough hardship in the past 13 months for a lifetime?
I probably lost a few brain cells trying to understand how this is even in motion.
I strongly oppose this move that would prolong the misery that our food and drink business's have been going through. These people have been barely surviving for over a year. Also these establishments provide income to countless citizens and tax revenues to the city. It’s wrong to suppress free enterprise by the few when the many oppose it.
I am deeply disappointed in this city. I wrongly believed the pandemic caused Hermosa city government to realize that the business owners here are human beings with families, living on extremely thin margins. The vibrant outdoor dining patios and efforts to support these community members led me to believe Hermosa was turning over a new leaf.
Hermosa’s existing code and CUP framework are already abused and heavily leveraged against businesses. There is no need to enact an ordinance like this to make it even more difficult to operate a business in this city.
I recently worked with a group of incredible business operators who lost nearly everything they had trying survive in Hermosa Beach, after the city wrongfully and unlawfully altered their CUP. Their business was loved and supported by the community and by many of the council members. The city’s regulations and unreasonable actions, however, bled them dry and ultimately forced them out. Hermosa will not attract any good businesses if it continues to run the city this way, and it will continue to financially ruin people.
While I am no longer a resident, I am a frequent visitor and submit this comment on behalf of my friends in the hospitality business who are trying to survive in Hermosa Beach.
I strongly oppose. As a resident since 2007, I have witnessed everything imaginable under the sun at Pier Ave, and year over year the City imposes more restrictions. This is exactly the type of ordinance that we do NOT need during a period of recovery. Local businesses have struggled over the last 13+ months. This proposal is anti-business and will not aid the effort in keeping Hermosa, Hermosa.
This will be a huge hit negatively for the business, employees, and patrons in the community. Limiting access appears to be an attempt at addressing issues that I am having a hard time comprehending even exist. We need to get back to normalcy and this is not a step in that direction what so ever. I am firmly against this alcohol ordinance
Please do not do this!
I cannot understand what value this has to the city. Our restaurant/bar owners and employees have complied with regulations during the pandemic at a high cost for our safety. They have reopened safely with the promise of being made whole again. These businesses pay a premium to be in our city and measures like this will force them and they dollars to another city. We will be left with empty buildings or worse... chains on every corner.
No, please give our restaurants/bars a break. It has been a very rough year.