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roll call.

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Okay. Commissioner Simpson. I'm here. Commissioner Brasaj. Is abstent? Commissioner Anderson? Is abstent? Commissioner Nafisi? Here. Commissioner Bealey? Absent? Commissioner Sal? Here. Chair Arada? President? Commissioner Nafisi, can you lead us in the salute to the left? Yes, I can.

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Approved the order of agenda approval for the order of agenda motion to approve the order of agenda.

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All right.

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I'll second.

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Blue folder items.

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All in favor?

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Blue folder items.

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We do have a blue folder item.

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We do have one blue folder item for H1 under non-agenda items.

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I'll make a motion for that blue folder item.

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I'll consent.

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All in favor?

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Okay.

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All right.

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Consent calendar, business items,

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except those formerly noticed for public hearing or discussion are assigned to the consent calendar.

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The commission members may request that any consent calendar items be removed,

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discussed, and acted upon separately.

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Items removed from the consent calendar will be taken up under the excluded consent calendar section below.

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Those items remaining on the consent calendar will be approved in one motion following oral communications.

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I have one approved affidavit of posting for the Public Works and Sustainability Commission meeting

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So I move we adopt a consent calendar.

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I'm sorry. I move we adopt the consent calendar. Okay. I'll second on a favor. Hi

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We do need to take if anyone would like to speak we can

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Invite the public if they'd like to see any public comment.

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This would just be for consent calendar items at this time and

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And there are just, let me double check, zoom.

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There's no one on zoom at this time.

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And there are no e-comments.

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We've got to leave comments.

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Okay, so we've got, I think we already voted.

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So F2 approved the Public Works and Sustainability Commission meeting minutes for October.

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So with the consent, I think Commissioner Simpson actually voted, with the motion to adopt all

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of the items on the consent calendar.

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Yes, correct, that was my motion.

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That would be F-1 through F-4.

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That's what you voted on.

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Excluded consent calendar items.

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The war none.

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There's no public participation on non-agenda items.

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The section is intended to provide members of the public

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with the opportunity to comment on any subject

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So this is the right, the opportunity for anybody in the audience if there's something

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you want to discuss that's not on this, on the agenda, this will be the opportunity now.

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Good evening, commissioners, Andy Windy, Public Works Director, I just want to take a moment

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to share some good news that we've had in our department that we have found in my replacement

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as city engineer and Lauren has taken the job as the new city engineer for the city of

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Predomin Beach.

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Okay, so I just want to make you all aware of that and with her promotion, we are also going

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to add a new, a different liaison for this group and that's Jesse Reyes who is sitting right

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I hear with you, Jesse, it's our capital program project manager in charge of our kind

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of tracking the money and grants and all the things that we do for capital projects.

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So it'll be a regular part of this meeting moving forward, but it just seemed like the

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best place on the agenda to let you know that announcement.

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So thanks for the time.

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Congratulations.

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Thank you.

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so items continued from previous agendas.

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That's J-1, no?

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Discussion of bicycle lane feasibility on Palis Verde's boulevard.

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Good evening, Public Works and Sustainability Commission, Ryan Lewis, City Traffic Engineer,

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Lauren, if you pull up the slides.

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So this discussion item is to talk about the feasibility of extending bicycle lanes on

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Palis Verde's boulevard, PV boulevard.

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Just some notes.

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This agenda item is just to talk about the bicycle lanes on PV boulevard per council direction.

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So this was a directive that came from City Council at a recent meeting.

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This commission has discussed truck routes on PV boulevard prospect other routes around

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That was discussed back in March of 2024.

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We also discussed truck routes and traffic safety in this general area at the Public Safety

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safety commission last Thursday at their January 2025 meeting.

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We consider traffic safety and the truck routes along this area to be generally two separate

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issues, not mutually exclusive.

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So tonight we're not talking about truck routes, we're talking about the extension of bicycle

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lanes on the street, which could have some traffic safety benefits.

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For this topic, we provided notice via postcard to all residents and businesses within 250 feet

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of the PV boulevard corridor, excluding the legato addresses that are currently under construction.

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Just some background, the city has already approved and will imminently stripe class two bicycle lanes on PV boulevard

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between Irina and the tauren's border to the east of Prospect.

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So Irina is one block west of Prospect.

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So from just west to Prospect, going east towards the tauren's border.

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At this time, the city doesn't have any design or construction plans to extend those bicycle lanes to PCH, which is the other border on the west, west with torrents.

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PV Boulevard is narrower west of Irina, so to install dedicated bicycle lanes, we would either have to remove the parking or reduce PV Boulevard down to one lane in each direction.

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And the prior approved project was a bike lane implementation plan.

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It did not consider any parking or travel lane removals.

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So therefore, the City Council directed staff to study what those dedicated bicycle lanes

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could look like on PV Boulevard between PCH and IRENA.

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The photo below shows what those bicycle lanes will look like.

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The ones that are already slated for construction.

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Some definitions for bicycle lanes, per state of California,

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bicycle facilities are roughly put into four classes, one, two, three, and four.

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This example here is a class two dedicated bicycle lane with a buffer.

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That's still considered class two.

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The bicycle lanes on the Manhattan Beach Boulevard are considered buffered bicycle lanes class two.

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A regular class 2 bicycle lane is just a striped bike lane without any additional buffers.

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An example of that will be barrel street.

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A class 1 shared juice path is a corridor where both cyclists and

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pedestrians can share the space, the beachfront bike path is an example of that.

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A class 3 bicycle route is a shared street.

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Generally you'll see bicycle sharrows and as of new state law,

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these types of sheriffs are not allowed on 35 mile per hour or above streets.

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So a small neighborhood street such as Felton Lane or Orange Lane could be considered

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a class three bicycle route where cyclists and vehicles are sharing the use of that lane.

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Finally, over here, a bit of a newer type of bicycle facility, class four protected, they

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can run in both directions on one side of the street or be a single direction on each side

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of the street or in just one direction, this provides a vertical separated barrier to separate

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cyclists and cyclist traffic from vehicle traffic that could be parking or no parking, but it

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should incorporate some sort of physical element to prevent cars from entering those bike lanes.

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So Harbor Drive is the most notable example in the city.

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As a general safety comparison, different types of bicycle facilities are appropriate

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for different streets. Usually, as you go up in safety, it requires more space to separate

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the different modes. Perhaps a lot of smaller neighborhood residential streets are considered

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appropriate for a class three, just bike routes where speeds are slow enough for cyclists and

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vehicles to share the lane, but as streets get busier and wider, that's when it's more appropriate

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to provide more dedicated space or even separated space for cyclists and or pedestrians.

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So this map here, it's a bit complicated, but we'll walk through it.

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This red line on the map shows the whole PV Boulevard corridor.

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The purple lines show the various city boundaries as PV Boulevard starts in torrents, enters Redondo, goes back into torrents, and then enters PV estates.

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The numbers on the side of the street show the number of lanes in each direction for PV Boulevard.

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As you can see, the street starts off with bicycle lanes in both directions.

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One lane in each direction becomes two lanes in each direction, continues that way.

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Through Redondo Beach, back into Torrance, there are bicycle lanes on PV Boulevard in most

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of the Torrance sections except for South of Sepulveda.

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And then the lanes reduce down to one and kind of peter out as they enter PV estates.

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So the two lanes in each direction is not totally uniform on the corridor.

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So, but this is generally what the lanes look like, at least within the vicinity of Redondo, is two lanes in each direction.

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As part of this project, the city collected traffic data on PV Boulevard.

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We collected bidirectional daily traffic in 85% health speeds.

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This was back in December 2024, right around Avenue E.

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We recorded speeds about 35 miles per hour, and the daily traffic about 16,000 vehicles per day.

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16,000 vehicles per day, you know, by some back of the envelope estimates this could be handled by one lane in each direction.

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There are plenty of streets, you know, with this amount of traffic with one lane in each direction around our region.

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But at this time, we're not recommending reducing the number of lanes in the Redondo Beach segment of PV Boulevard because of just all the varying number of lanes in the city of Torrance and in Paul's various estates.

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So if there was a desire to change a number of car lanes on PV Boulevard, you would likely

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require some coordination and a more regional study with Torrance to avoid dropping lanes

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and forcing merges right at city borders.

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So that's why at this time staff determined that removing street parking on PV Boulevard

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was determined, this easiest and simplest way to provide these bicycle lanes.

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The city commissioned a two-day parking utilization study.

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The red lines show the extent of where we're proposing those bicycle lanes.

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But the blue lines show each different block on each side of the street where parking data was collected.

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The data was collected from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., every single hour.

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So for 12 times that the parking utilization was counted.

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And this was done on a Tuesday, a weekday, and a Saturday.

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So, as you can see on this graph that, you know, here are the number of approximate spaces

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along each block face, the length of that curb, assuming about 18-20 feet per parked vehicle

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and the number of cars counted at each hour between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., so as you can see

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each block face was roughly one to two vehicles parked at any given time, and this held the

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same on the weekend collection day as well.

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So, during those two days of data collection, which were closer to the holidays, the parking

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utilization was very low.

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We also, public work staff also collected parking data on eight different nights on the weekdays

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and weekends in December, right around 9.45 pm.

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This was in conjunction with the Avenue age holiday lights ballards when they were going

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to and from the ballard closure to service the ballards.

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they would collect parking data on either side of the street.

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And they counted no more than five vehicles parked on either side of Paul's Variable of Art between PCH and Prospect.

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So on any given block face, there's no more than 50% occupancy at any given time.

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Most blocks have about a capacity of about five to eight vehicles, we parked.

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And we found no more than three or four vehicles parked on any given block face.

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but that might have been the total for the whole corridor as well.

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And yeah, less than 10 vehicles parked along this whole segment.

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We do have videos showing during the daytime.

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So this is PV Boulevard eastbound at around 3.30 pm.

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As you can see here, I'll try to go a little bit faster on this video.

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You can see there's very few vehicles parked on the curb here.

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And except for this, you know, a couple vehicles parked on this segment.

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This is actually past Irina, so it's not going to be affected by the proposal for additional bicycle lanes here.

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So here we reach prospect and east the prospect also not part of the project.

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over here is westbound at 6.30 p.m.

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you can see

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And let me know if you need me to slow down on this. There's that one truck that's parked there. That truck has been a recurring sort of truck that's parked there all the time.

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And as you can see, not very high utilization,

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one car there. And here, turning around at the Lugato development. Going back, back eastbound on PV Boulevard,

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past Irina right here.

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So, we see the same type of conditions at 9 p.m. as well.

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So, this is after the, this is outside of what the parking consultant provided to us.

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These were videos taken by public work staff, generally low utilization on the corridor.

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This is eastbound.

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And then one more at westbound are right around 9 p.m.,

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that same truck park right there.

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So here shows existing and proposed cross sections for PV Boulevard.

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on the top here is the existing cross section.

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We have approximately roughly eight feet dedicated to parking.

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That's what we usually assume, 11 foot travel lanes, 14 feet reserved for the median.

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And if we were to take away that street parking, we could repurpose those lanes and

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actually narrow the travel lanes to 10 or 11 feet in each direction.

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That would help slow down the traffic, which would provide additional traffic calming benefits.

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But within that space, we could provide a pretty wide six foot bike lane and

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a four-foot buffer with any type of barrier or that, you know, that the city may choose

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at a later date.

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Some of the benefits of these protected bike lanes or any type of bicycle facilities

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that, you know, providing specific space for cyclists and other mobility devices will help

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a traffic safety reduce bike riding on sidewalks which is safer for pedestrians and cyclists alike.

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like these narrow travel lanes can reduce speeding

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and the number of crashes.

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This will also connect bicycle lanes

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on P.V. Boulevard south of P.C.H.

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that are in the city of Torrance

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so this will help connect

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Redondo residents in that area to Riviera Village.

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It will also improve the efficiency

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of this public space as it is right now.

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It's just providing free parking

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for people's personal vehicles,

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but perhaps this space could be better used

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to move cyclists for anyone.

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At this time, this project is not funded or designed.

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If the city decided to move forward with this type of project, we would need to hire

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consultants to produce the design plans and make those plans for construction.

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We're estimating at least $200,000 to design and construct this.

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This should be a relatively low cost because the pavement is already there and it's just

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adding whatever type of barrier the city decides.

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If protected bike lane is approved, the type of barrier can be decided, but

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decided later, but staff prefers more rigid materials that are longer lasting and

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more aesthetically pleasing.

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One of the downsides of adding protected bike lane barriers is a real would require

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coordination of ATHLEAN services that does our street sweeping.

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They would have to deploy a smaller size street sweeper, which is not something

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they typically do in Redondo Beach, but certainly those small-sized sweepers do exist.

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So that concludes my presentation.

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Our staff recommendation is to recommend City Council to fund the designing instruction

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of these protected bicycle lanes between PCH and IRENA.

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Happy to answer any questions.

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I have a quick question, Ryan.

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So I know the administrative report you mentioned that there's not a lot of housing frontage.

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they're all in the adjacent streets, but I know I know that street very well.

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There's a lot of garage driveways, people pulling in and out.

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So, have there been any contemplation or studies around how like bike lanes will like

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encumber or obstruct driveways and how that can potentially pose as safety?

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So for any type of bike lane, especially protected bike lanes, the more driveways you have,

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the more openings you need to provide access to those driveways, I think luckily for us along

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PV Boulevard, most of those driveways are sort of paired together in like right next to each other.

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So, if these types of bike lanes were approved, we would paint conflict markings and openings

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at those driveways. Those are pretty typical for bicycle lanes. The ones on Harbor Drive also have

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those openings as well.

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Public comment? Yes, we have a few people turning cars already,

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Okay, so we'll start with Liam Walsh and then the second person is Bob Halstedt.

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Good evening commissioners.

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I'm Liam Walsh. I'm a resident of District 5.

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I'm also a volunteer with the South Bay Pys School Coalition.

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I am strongly in favor of the proposed new protected bike lanes on the

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Polis Verde's Boulevard.

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Just looking back to where we were a couple months ago.

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I know the city was ready to install some sheros, long policy various boulevards which are like the bike markings in the middle of the road that Ryan mentioned and as he mentioned, those aren't really suitable for traffic going 35 miles now or no one whether you're in a car or on a bike once to be in that situation.

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So I applaud the work that has happened over the last few months to get to where we are now.

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Where we're now looking at a much more improved design.

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And really is like very appropriate for the kind of environment we're looking at here.

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I agree with all the points in the presentation about how PVB all of our provides a really good convenient.

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Like regional connectivity connecting to existing bike lanes and torrents.

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And just provides a good way to get across this health end of the city.

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Protected by claims haven't demonstrated across many cities to provide safety benefits for all road users.

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So this is really a good investment in like traffic safety, generally, whether it's kids on bikes.

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And I think the benefit of protected by claims is whether you have a kid who's eight years old or someone who's 80 years old they can feel comfortable riding in that space because they have a barrier.

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between themselves and traffic.

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You look at Harbor Drive, which was the last class 4 protected by Claim that Rdondo

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built about 10 years ago.

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We haven't put in any protected by Claims since then.

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We've put in a lot of class 2s, which I'm really happy about, but I think this is a really

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good momentum to sort of put in more protected by Claims, help build out a connected network

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work that everyone is comfortable using.

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And this has been shown to really bolster ridership, and

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people are more willing to go ride their bikes somewhere.

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This is especially relevant in the South Bay, where I think it's 70% of trips are less than three miles.

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So when you're looking at traffic congestion,

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school pickup drop off, all those considerations,

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the fact that we have growing interest in e-bikes,

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This is the fact that we have this proposed network of bike planes.

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These are all really great factors that can come together and provide regional transportation

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needs.

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So, yeah, I encourage you to bring us to council to go and fund the design and construction.

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And I'd also like hopefully for this to eventually lead into protected bike lanes on prospect,

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but understand that's out of the scope of this project, but as far as regional

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connectivity, that is another key link in southward on. I would like to see us look into.

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So yeah, thanks for your time.

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Thank you. Bob, how's it?

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We have Alex Feynman.

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Let's go for you, start. There's a switch just to your right on the face of that.

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You want to press and hold to go to make a go up.

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Hopefully we'll come up.

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Good evening, commissioners. My name is Alex Feynman.

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I'm a redondo beach resident in district three and I'm a frequent bike rider with my kids from north to south redondo and back.

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And I'm really happy to see this commission considering improving our streets with class 4 bike lanes.

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The proposed location for the bike lane on all as far as Boulevard is ideal for this sort of infrastructure.

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Because it's location immediately serves families who like to lead to elementary school and visitors to Riviera Village who can enjoy the local businesses there without having to search for parking.

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and it would also have the added benefit of calming traffic, which I know has been a goal of the city as it makes PV boulevard safer for all travelers, cyclists, pedestrians and drivers.

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And the staffs analysis had mentioned we can accomplish this with relatively low impact to parking demand.

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This potential bike lane is also an opportunity for the city to further evaluate firsthand the effectiveness of class 4 bike lanes.

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after having one on Harbor Drive for a while,

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there's another opportunity to see its effectiveness

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and utility, and also how it promotes safety

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as far as general ability, and in roots

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the school specifically.

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So I really encourage the commission to support

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this class for bike lane construction

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on Palace Ferry's Boulevard, and I hope

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and expect that this bike lane will prove to be

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a model for further development

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of safe bike infrastructure throughout Rwanda Beach.

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Thanks very much.

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So that was all the cards that I have,

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but if you would like to speak, please feel free to come on up.

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Thanks for your name.

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I'll make this short.

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Staffed an awesome job on that presentation. My name is Laura McMoran.

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I'm a resident of District 1 and I actually live like a house in from PV.

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This is going to be awesome. I just am so excited and thrilled when I got the postcard

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that this was on the agenda. I had to speak in favor of it.

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We bike down to the village. Everything everybody else said is so true.

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So, please recommend that council adopt a study.

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Thank you for your time and thank you for your service.

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Thank you.

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Michael, district five and public safety commission chair.

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One of the things that I enjoy is my grandfather used to give us all these

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charge but about taking care of those in your charge. And what I heard tonight and I hope that you

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all recommend is that we're taking an effort to take care of those that are in our charge.

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That corridor and I'm just going to speak on the bike lane. I know I can speak on that there's that but

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Ryan gave us that but that corridor hasn't been a pain point for that community for a long time

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and to see an approach that is about the citizenry and not about the city

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It's absolutely fantastic and so I hope that you all are able to come together and think

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about how we can fund in creative ways.

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I know that there are different things that are in the SIP currently that may be covered

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on a measure F.P. etc. so it'll be a short order to figure out where we can maybe get some

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immediate funding but I hope that you all are unanimous in moving this forward and are

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able to communicate with the community in a way for their patient because there are things

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have to happen, right? We still have to put out a bit for the consultants and all that sort of

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wonderful stuff. But I hope that we continue in a way that everyone feels like there's momentum

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and not bureaucracy. So thanks for your putting this on the agenda and making it a priority.

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Have a good night. Thank you.

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Anyone else?

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Sure, please.

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Hi, I'm Bruce Redleen, and I live on IAVNUG right next to the corridor there.

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And I wrote on the, I wrote on Paliserti's boulevard today and this design appears to make

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it safer to ride on Paliserti boulevard right there and I would hardly approve it.

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Thanks.

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Thank you.

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What else?

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We do have two people on Zoom.

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One has raised their hand.

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Brianna Egan.

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Hello, hi, commissioners.

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My name is Veronica and I'm a resident of district one. I just want to add my voice in support of this item. I'm also a volunteer with South Bay forward.

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One of our overarching goals is to really move the South Bay Ford on mobility and the way that we see doing that is to build an interconnected network of protected bike lanes.

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And I really see Redondo Beach as being the leader on that in the community.

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and so really excited and happy to see this item being brought forth by public works as well as the District 1 Council person.

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And I think it represents a smart way forward and looking at our streets and seeing what is feasible and how can we make things safer for everyone.

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So that's one on the road. That includes nearing the lanes so that cars can be more mindful of where they're going, drivers can watch out and then also adding barriers to the bike lanes so that people who use them can feel safer to use them and adopt biking as a mode of transportation. And so I think this really makes a lot of sense. And I really encourage you as a commission to support projects moving forward.

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that bring class 4 bike lanes wherever feasible.

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This is a great example of not interfering with driveways,

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so I think it can really be successful here.

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And I also want to just put in a word of support as well

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for a further corridor study of PV Boulevard and prospect,

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knowing that it's one of our kind of a high injury area,

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and also one that connects a lot of our schools.

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So I'd really like us to look at safe routes to schools,

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for people of all ages to get around by bike.

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So it means our climate goals,

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it means our sustainability,

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and our transportation goals,

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and just want to support.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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Nils and Erinheim.

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All right.

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Thank you guys very much for this.

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I know it's near time council member for district one. First I want to thank staff for excellent presentation and all of the work that you guys have done over the course last month. It's actually a lot more than I was expecting. So big, big, big kudos for that.

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Thank you, the commissioners for being there tonight as well. Thank you for volunteering on that. This item has come to you because in December early December, I made a motion after seeing now with the residents in that area.

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Speaking about the traffic issues, the traffic issues regarding truck route, speeding, loud noise, the stop sign there at South Roberta, and it really came to the attention that this is part of the South Bay Rdonal Beach Bicycle Master Plan and it will be excellent for us to be able to get this in place.

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So, as was mentioned before, the ability to get to the Riviera Village, to Lida, from Torrance to Torrance to the beach, back from the beach, it's a real connector or the bikes and the ability to create a shared system there that's protected is excellent and I'm really very happy to see that the impact to the garage driveway be minimized and the impacts the parking would be minimized and it's one more step for complete South Bay

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We don't know beach bicycle master plan full completion on that and you know when I got an office

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We had less than 5% of that bill now leaving out office here next March will have 85% plus or minus

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Designed bill so this is going to be a big thing for us, and I really want to thank you guys for taking the time

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Appreciate it.

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That's all the participants on zoom if anyone else wants to speak you can come on up

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For the record, we had three e-comments and they were all supportive.

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Can

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you go back and just put up what our options are there again at the end of the presentation.

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It's always been to see those before we consider making a more clear.

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Here they are.

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So just to clarify, we don't have the funding to design or construct a set this time.

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So any support for this type of project will still require a city council to appropriate those funds at the next budget cycle.

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Ryan is the streets in pretty good condition, correct?

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That's correct.

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So have you thought about doing like maybe a fog coat or some kind of slurry over it when you do the actual striping instead of just digging out the striping and then restriping it?

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That can be something that can be considered as part of the cost if we don't if we don't do a slurry seal

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Then it will be cheaper, but we can we can weigh those different options depending on the funding available

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Because correct me if I'm wrong, but you're going to have kind of a pavement master plan that's going to come out here in the springtime correct

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That's actually done every three years and so it's I think we're slated for 2026

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It's cool I was looking at it's it for the goal six goal for the city's infrastructure number six on street rehabilitation

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Implementing I was just thinking about implementing this into the BRR to slurry

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Just to ensure it's in good condition

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I saw that is the overall

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Without a beach strategy, so if we could implement that and I could clarify that if I look to the strategic plan

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But I my only recommended is just to implement it within the the payment management plan if possible

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is one way to kind of incorporate those funds.

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Yeah, the timeline for that could be a bit slower, I think,

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than compared to just funding purely for striping

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and potential barriers, so that has to be considered as well.

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I'll jump in on this, Steve.

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The payment management plan we typically dedicate those funds

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towards our residential street projects, so this would be something

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that we'd probably go after some grant funding.

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there's quite a bit of active transportation type grant funding available.

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And some of it's kind of rapid deployment stuff that's pretty much designed ready.

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So we might be in a good position to find some quick money through a grant program.

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So that would probably be where we'd look first.

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But we certainly would council member from District 1 here, we might get a BRR request from him that the council

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So, Bruce, for us to provide that for either the mid-year coming up discussion in February

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or in advance of the June budget conversations is part of our CIP.

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I just, our actions tonight, if we accept the staff recommendation, would be from the City

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Council to go ahead with this project, right?

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But then, once it's designed and so on, and we know, would it come back to us again with

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the design, or does this have our last word on them?

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So just some context here, we had been working for you, you know, you've been on the commission for quite some time.

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You know, we've been working on implementation this up a bicycle mask right for many years.

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We had previously designed this corridor with sheros only for fear of eliminating parking and

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the issues that come along with that.

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Last year, when the law changed, and streets of this nature, well, 35 miles an hour actually it's anything over 30 miles an hour is the way the law's written, should not have sheros on them.

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We eliminated a couple of streets that were, had sheros included in that project that's underway right now.

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We took them out of the project because they were no longer legal to do.

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We also took this street out, even though it would be legal, just because it didn't seem appropriate,

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the best choice here for traffic and cyclist safety.

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And so at that time, Councilmember Narenheim directed this topic to come before you to get public input

441
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about whether or not bike lanes along this corridor would be supported in concept.

442
00:37:37,250 --> 00:37:49,430
If there's a positive recommendation, we'll take it back to City Council and say yes, you did support that or no, you didn't, whatever the decision is, and then Council will tell us what to do from there in terms of next steps.

443
00:37:52,910 --> 00:37:53,970
May I make a motion?

444
00:37:54,710 --> 00:37:55,950
I had a couple more questions.

445
00:37:57,190 --> 00:38:00,050
The bicycle master plans 2011 at this point, right?

446
00:38:00,490 --> 00:38:00,830
That's correct.

447
00:38:00,830 --> 00:38:04,550
Has there been discussion about updating that at a regional level with the con?

448
00:38:04,710 --> 00:38:06,050
Did the con take the lead on that?

449
00:38:06,550 --> 00:38:08,690
I believe it was the-

450
00:38:08,690 --> 00:38:14,490
No, South Bay Bicycle Coalition, I think, was the lead agency worst gym hand in when you need it.

451
00:38:15,490 --> 00:38:22,050
I believe there was some chatter about making, I think, the Bicycle Coalition did make a minor update

452
00:38:22,050 --> 00:38:27,950
clarifying that they supported more class four facilities, since that class four facilities

453
00:38:27,950 --> 00:38:30,770
and weren't really a thing back when the master plan was built.

454
00:38:31,470 --> 00:38:38,570
But in terms of a more regional, a redo of the regional plan, we haven't had those discussions at the staff level.

455
00:38:38,810 --> 00:38:42,570
I think the real value of the master plan was identifying the roots that were important.

456
00:38:42,850 --> 00:38:46,730
And there were proposed class one, two, and three, and

457
00:38:46,730 --> 00:38:48,890
something called the bicycle friendly street as well.

458
00:38:49,450 --> 00:38:54,690
In that plan, those categories have changed a little bit since that time.

459
00:38:54,690 --> 00:39:08,570
And I think to Ryan's point, you know, class three is becoming less, you know, important or valuable as a tool there in some of these other models. So we're looking at that. We're kind of incorporating that into our design, trying to do the best that we can.

460
00:39:08,670 --> 00:39:10,710
Given all the demands on the roadway.

461
00:39:12,050 --> 00:39:15,690
And I had one other comment about the Class 4 barrier protection.

462
00:39:16,030 --> 00:39:19,310
We have the ones that stamped concrete on Harbor, I believe.

463
00:39:19,790 --> 00:39:26,010
I believe though, the protection on Harbor is full carbon-gas or kind of raised

464
00:39:26,010 --> 00:39:26,810
ingredients, yeah.

465
00:39:26,970 --> 00:39:29,290
There's a stamp in the middle, though, like a stamped concrete.

466
00:39:29,290 --> 00:39:32,850
On the top of the curb, I think there is a stamped concrete element there.

467
00:39:33,330 --> 00:39:35,150
Is that something that you're thinking about emulating?

468
00:39:36,110 --> 00:39:42,250
I don't think we're probably, I don't think we're going to be painting the full bike lanes green anymore

469
00:39:43,390 --> 00:39:47,870
since because of the maintenance and potential slipping hazards for the tires.

470
00:39:48,410 --> 00:39:53,150
But for example, those potential driveway conflicts, those will definitely have that green paint on them

471
00:39:53,150 --> 00:39:57,930
similar to what we just strived on barrel and Manhattan Beach Boulevard, Torns Boulevard.

472
00:39:57,930 --> 00:40:01,190
I don't think we would recommend concrete raised

473
00:40:01,190 --> 00:40:07,610
medians as a place to start because that would cost more until the implementation I think if council

474
00:40:07,610 --> 00:40:11,810
asks us to come back with the design we would propose something a little bit more modular,

475
00:40:11,810 --> 00:40:16,750
like those K-71 ballards or the parking stops or

476
00:40:16,750 --> 00:40:21,750
pre-fabricated curb sections that can be more aesthetically pleasing but so rigid.

477
00:40:22,170 --> 00:40:27,090
We just saw this in Santa Monica over the weekend. Those work much cheaper. Yeah, that modular style.

478
00:40:27,930 --> 00:40:35,090
Yeah, and I believe Santa Monica also has the they have a machine that actually forms curb as it goes along I think on ocean avenue

479
00:40:35,090 --> 00:40:37,570
That's what they've been doing. We don't have that type of machine

480
00:40:38,670 --> 00:40:41,510
But they've they've been using a variety of materials to and certainly

481
00:40:43,090 --> 00:40:45,190
In perhaps some inspiration for design

482
00:40:45,710 --> 00:40:46,570
In our city

483
00:40:51,660 --> 00:40:56,480
Yeah, I guess my only comment would be for something aesthetically pleasing to a certain degree to not just something

484
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,060
You know, just like the typical plastic ballards that

485
00:40:59,060 --> 00:41:00,740
but it's slapped out all the time.

486
00:41:00,860 --> 00:41:03,560
Yeah, we're very mindful of that component as well.

487
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,160
Because once those things, those flexible bars get hit,

488
00:41:06,300 --> 00:41:07,660
they don't let the same anymore.

489
00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:13,780
Kim, if we see just one question.

490
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:18,400
If we do a supportive motion to pass this off to City Council,

491
00:41:18,940 --> 00:41:21,220
do they discuss a variety of different ways

492
00:41:21,220 --> 00:41:22,800
or do you present a variety of different ways

493
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:23,980
to make it more cost-efficient,

494
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,200
or is this the cost that it is,

495
00:41:26,340 --> 00:41:28,560
and you guys kind of go in with this proposal?

496
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,040
We would probably come back to them

497
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:36,120
with a range of costs for various treatments, concrete being the most expensive and something

498
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:42,000
cheaper. So we would do kind of conceptual designs to present them, to ask for direction

499
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:43,280
about which way to go with the final.

500
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:43,780
Okay.

501
00:41:46,990 --> 00:41:53,030
I have a question. When you did the feasibility study, did you include like Avenue G going east

502
00:41:53,030 --> 00:41:58,870
and west across Pallas Verde's Boulevard? Because my thoughts are people, you know, go from

503
00:41:58,870 --> 00:42:02,830
east to west across Pallas Verde's Boulevard. That's a lot of traffic. So we have a lot

504
00:42:02,830 --> 00:42:06,750
But more bikes, have you thought about that, that particular?

505
00:42:07,850 --> 00:42:11,830
So in terms of the parking study, we didn't study anything on the side streets.

506
00:42:12,470 --> 00:42:17,330
We anecdotally, I think the parking utilization is not quite as high compared to other

507
00:42:17,330 --> 00:42:22,510
neighbourhoods in Redone Beach since most of the streets are single-family homes, and

508
00:42:22,510 --> 00:42:28,010
also shown by the parking study itself, showing very low parking utilization on PV boulevard.

509
00:42:28,010 --> 00:42:35,970
In terms of the crossings itself at the existing stop signs, there could be some side benefits

510
00:42:35,970 --> 00:42:41,810
where if we narrow those vehicle lanes, the pedestrian safety might be enhanced, a pedestrian

511
00:42:41,810 --> 00:42:46,910
might feel a little bit more confident in perhaps, you know, starting their crossing within

512
00:42:46,910 --> 00:42:51,190
the bike lane and with the narrower travel lanes that drivers might slow down a bit.

513
00:42:51,490 --> 00:42:56,270
So there could be some side benefits to pedestrian safety at the existing crosswalks.

514
00:42:56,270 --> 00:43:02,330
So, have a new G and Palis Verde's Boulevard, there is no stop signs, I mean it's like

515
00:43:02,330 --> 00:43:07,190
you're free for all you pull out halfway and then you've got cars going north and south

516
00:43:07,190 --> 00:43:08,190
and Palis Verde's Boulevard.

517
00:43:08,490 --> 00:43:12,810
So I'm just thinking that these are dedicated bike lanes, you know, it's going to somewhere

518
00:43:12,810 --> 00:43:17,070
hold it up like that, that's a pretty busy intersection, I mean it's not really an intersection

519
00:43:17,070 --> 00:43:21,310
because there's no stop sign, but it's a way to get from east to west and to know a lot

520
00:43:21,310 --> 00:43:21,950
of people do it.

521
00:43:21,950 --> 00:43:28,090
Yeah, I don't think there will be substantial change to a driver who's trying to cross at

522
00:43:28,090 --> 00:43:33,150
a non-stop, like a non-stop control intersection. There shouldn't be much change to safety is what I'm

523
00:43:33,150 --> 00:43:37,810
thinking about. Yeah, there should be adequate visibility. If anything, the visibility might be

524
00:43:37,810 --> 00:43:42,570
improved because instead of a parked car that's blocking, you know, that obscuring some of the visibility,

525
00:43:43,030 --> 00:43:47,650
now you have a clear line of sight for the entire roadway since there's a bike lane instead of the

526
00:43:47,650 --> 00:43:52,630
part. A potential part car but as we shown that utilization is low to begin with.

527
00:43:53,110 --> 00:43:57,030
Stop control with that and making that an always stop control for instance is not something

528
00:43:57,030 --> 00:44:01,330
that we looked at in this study nor were we directed to. It's really just about could

529
00:44:01,330 --> 00:44:09,110
bike lanes be people of our direction be recommended and so if the council tells us to look at that

530
00:44:09,110 --> 00:44:13,850
as well we could although there are some downsides to adding a stop sign there obviously.

531
00:44:13,850 --> 00:44:16,270
So we would just have to weigh the pros and cons.

532
00:44:16,450 --> 00:44:24,510
I'm not thinking, I don't know what I'm thinking of as far as safety would be the safest thing because when you're pulling out of avenue G, I mean, it's uphill.

533
00:44:24,930 --> 00:44:29,890
So, you know, they're all the way across when you're going across, I mean, I don't know how to see a slight safety issue there.

534
00:44:30,510 --> 00:44:30,910
Right.

535
00:44:43,220 --> 00:44:43,940
Can I make a motion?

536
00:44:44,140 --> 00:44:44,360
Absolutely.

537
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:53,060
I'd like to move that we recommend City Council fund a design and construction of protected bike lanes on PVB, that's PCH di Arena.

538
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:55,420
I'll second.

539
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:57,500
I want favor.

540
00:44:58,440 --> 00:44:59,900
Or this one will.

541
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:10,240
So you roll call vote. Okay. Commissioner Simpson? Aye. Commissioner Anderson? Aye. Commissioner Nafisi? Aye. Commissioner Bealy? Aye. Commissioner Sal? Aye. Chairperson Errata? Aye.

542
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:39,460
Thank you. If we're moving on to J2, Chair, I didn't want to presume that. Yeah. So receiving file, the public works spotlight presentation on public works operation. So I'll just intro this.

543
00:45:40,340 --> 00:46:09,320
Several of you are news since the last time we've had kind of an informational item about the way the Public Works Department works through its various divisions on the operation side you're familiar with the engineering side we handle the engineering side handles the capital improvement projects and traffic engineering that we're all very familiar with our operations divisions are led by Mike Klein our deputy director for the department Mike's here tonight to give you a brief overview on the various

544
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:19,080
types of work that we take on as an operational organization and I'll turn it over to Mike and we're here for any questions.

545
00:46:19,220 --> 00:46:25,180
This is really just for your information awareness of what the department handles on behalf of the city.

546
00:46:31,410 --> 00:46:31,930
Good

547
00:46:35,220 --> 00:46:46,140
evening, commissioners. My name is Mike. I'm the deputy director for operations. I oversee the operations division, which is just a good portion of how we get things done.

548
00:46:46,140 --> 00:46:53,380
around the city, we take a lot from the engineering department, and especially this commission when they suggest that we do things.

549
00:46:54,140 --> 00:46:58,060
And so I just wanted to give you a real quick overview of our division.

550
00:46:58,740 --> 00:47:07,780
We have seven divisions within our operations, overview streets, sewer and storm drain, building facilities, parks,

551
00:47:07,780 --> 00:47:13,260
here in Harbor, solid waste in recycling, and then fleet services.

552
00:47:16,180 --> 00:47:22,000
Our street division is, one of the things that comes out of the street division is a lot

553
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:27,880
of work that does come from the public relations sustainability, is that when there's a lot

554
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:31,180
of things that are out there that you guys would like to see and a lot of times that comes

555
00:47:31,180 --> 00:47:36,860
up in our hands that we end up in song, and especially with our sign shop and things

556
00:47:36,860 --> 00:47:42,260
things like that, but there's many of the facets of the operations division were responsible

557
00:47:42,260 --> 00:47:50,700
for maintaining 6.7 square miles of sidewalks, 127 miles of streets and asphalt.

558
00:47:51,340 --> 00:47:59,900
That's maintenance and this is only the maintenance of it, 56 traffic signals and 1900 street

559
00:47:59,900 --> 00:48:00,100
lights.

560
00:48:00,100 --> 00:48:06,600
some of those are shared with. I think I'll find you Edison. And then the 2800 plus regulatory

561
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:13,860
and wayfinding signs. So that's where our sign shop really comes into operation. A lot of the

562
00:48:13,860 --> 00:48:21,280
work that Ryan Lue produces for us has changed and we have an excellent sign shop that does a lot of

563
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:27,680
this work. Some of the pictures that you see here are some of the evidence of that and it was with

564
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:32,200
the sign shop, if you look at the lowest picture right there, that are the speed cushions

565
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:39,220
that were installed on Polina. That was done approximately two weeks ago. And we

566
00:48:39,220 --> 00:48:43,780
received those and working with the sign shop and our street department, they end up

567
00:48:43,780 --> 00:48:48,820
installing the upper two pictures that you see there are some of the concrete and that's

568
00:48:48,820 --> 00:48:51,760
what work that our division does in the street department.

569
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:52,640
Along

570
00:48:56,320 --> 00:49:10,840
with this, the SRM and SRM and SRM department has approximately seven guys are overseen by a supervisor and a manager.

571
00:49:11,720 --> 00:49:24,260
They are responsible for maintaining the sewer lines, 160 miles of sewers, the 16 sewer pumps that we have, we also have four SRM lip pumps.

572
00:49:24,260 --> 00:49:30,140
This gets water that's in lower areas into areas that then it can gravity fall and drain off.

573
00:49:30,940 --> 00:49:36,740
We also maintain 784 SRM catch basins, that's what you normally see out on the street.

574
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:41,060
Some of those are owned by LA County, but we maintain them, we clean them.

575
00:49:41,140 --> 00:49:46,880
We make sure that they're clean enough so that we're not collecting debris that goes out to the ocean at them.

576
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:59,080
This division is on constant on call basis, it's important that we get to source fills or any kind of spills that we have immediately.

577
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:12,740
These are, I don't want to say the 18 because other people get mad but these guys are out there quite a bit and just this weekend prepping for rain just to make sure that we don't have any backups or anything like that.

578
00:50:12,740 --> 00:50:16,700
the guys were out yesterday morning, jumping on them pretty quick.

579
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:25,180
The pictures that you see here are this one piece of equipment that's our vector truck.

580
00:50:25,740 --> 00:50:32,360
That helps us stop any kind of sewage flows, any things like that that are getting to the

581
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:34,060
ocean or to stormbrain network.

582
00:50:35,780 --> 00:50:40,740
The picture right next to it is our crews helping out a contractor when they had a cracked

583
00:50:40,740 --> 00:50:47,380
line down at the portafino pump station, they jumped in to help out this contractor so

584
00:50:47,380 --> 00:50:52,620
that we could make sure that we didn't get any sewage, any effluent into the ocean

585
00:50:52,620 --> 00:50:55,180
while wanting to make sure that we kept that clean.

586
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:58,760
The bottom picture was kind of an unfortunate one.

587
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:03,200
This was a traffic accident in Palsford, Easton, and Catalina.

588
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:06,320
It was a bad accident, car caught on fire.

589
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:11,560
the residual that was left over was not pretty.

590
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:14,920
It was a lot of ash and a lot of plastic and things like that.

591
00:51:15,660 --> 00:51:20,620
Our job on here, why am I putting this into a storm, into a sewer and storm drain, is

592
00:51:20,620 --> 00:51:22,740
that we can't let that stuff go to the ocean.

593
00:51:23,580 --> 00:51:29,220
And so our power, power washing crew was out there and behind this picture is a picture

594
00:51:29,220 --> 00:51:31,200
of us vacuuming that water up.

595
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:35,560
We want to make sure we're trying to keep our oceans as clean as we possibly can.

596
00:51:38,720 --> 00:51:44,060
Our facilities main in this department, this is a department that's fairly small,

597
00:51:44,180 --> 00:51:47,020
doesn't have a lot of guys, but they do an awful lot of work.

598
00:51:47,380 --> 00:51:54,500
They maintain our civic center in making sure that number one that it's claimed the janitors and

599
00:51:54,500 --> 00:52:00,060
cleaning up of it every day, keeping it in shape, carpets vacuum, things like that.

600
00:52:00,060 --> 00:52:04,020
That, all the way to improving some of the office spaces here,

601
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:09,700
doing improvements, painting, carpeting, things like that.

602
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:16,040
It's a fairly small group of guys to maintain as many facilities as we have in the aging facilities that we have.

603
00:52:16,540 --> 00:52:20,280
They make sure that they do a pretty good job on an older building.

604
00:52:20,940 --> 00:52:23,580
They maintain the senior centers also.

605
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:28,660
This is something that is within all of the buildings within the city's network.

606
00:52:28,660 --> 00:52:28,780
work.

607
00:52:29,340 --> 00:52:30,040
Police and fire.

608
00:52:30,660 --> 00:52:35,580
We also do CIP related maintenance improvements that would be like roughs, air conditioning, things

609
00:52:35,580 --> 00:52:40,600
like that, that we ask for money for our maintenance CIP, then that way we can have enough money,

610
00:52:40,740 --> 00:52:43,960
that we'll, enough funding that we'll get those type of things done.

611
00:52:46,140 --> 00:52:52,040
This group also maintains setting up chairs and doing things for the Christmas celebration

612
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:53,340
all the way to homeless court.

613
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:58,120
Every month the guys are out there, they'll set up and tear it down for the homeless court,

614
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:03,260
So they have a lot of hats in this group, but they do quite a bit of work.

615
00:53:03,540 --> 00:53:09,880
They also oversee the electrical and HVAC and the plumbing and maintenance for all the city structures that we have here.

616
00:53:10,540 --> 00:53:13,480
The pictures that are off to the side, I just wanted to toss those in.

617
00:53:13,780 --> 00:53:17,760
The police department and kitchenette that we did over the past couple of years.

618
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:24,120
We've tried to keep a police station built in 1959 for 29 officers.

619
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:27,140
And we're trying to hold there together until we get a new one.

620
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:37,680
And so, Kitchen Out was a nice thing along a lot along with some of the other nice improvements that we've done over the years in these RLCIP based projects.

621
00:53:38,540 --> 00:53:48,580
Parry Park Teen Center, I don't know if you've been by there lately, but another building that was starting to show its age on the inside and the out had some pretty dated looking walls and things like that.

622
00:53:48,580 --> 00:53:55,360
That our facilities team led by Gary LaLonghi, who's a manager, has 38 years with the city.

623
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:57,440
A lot of experience with him.

624
00:53:58,060 --> 00:54:01,740
Took an old building and really cleaned up the inside of it.

625
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:04,520
They're still working on some of the kitchen facets of it.

626
00:54:04,700 --> 00:54:08,500
So, there's some small improvements still ongoing today.

627
00:54:09,620 --> 00:54:15,040
Althavista Ruff, we did a Ruff for a placement on seven of our facilities.

628
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:20,180
Althavista was one of them, one of the more expensive ones because it's tile, but it was

629
00:54:20,180 --> 00:54:25,280
time for a new rough that was done last year, along with six other buildings.

630
00:54:25,820 --> 00:54:30,480
So we keep, we have a lot of rest for a place sometimes.

631
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:40,080
The parent harbor maintenance is a division that's led by Chris King, who is a manager for

632
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:41,640
the parent harbor area.

633
00:54:42,700 --> 00:54:46,560
He's fairly new to the city, he came to us two years ago.

634
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:48,080
He came from the city of Long Beach.

635
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:51,140
He worked in the Harbor and Beach area.

636
00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:58,600
He's been an asset to the city that has been very, very promising for us.

637
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:03,680
He's got a lot of experience underneath his belt and he brought it here.

638
00:55:04,940 --> 00:55:06,660
He oversees the daily maintenance.

639
00:55:06,980 --> 00:55:10,520
We want to make sure that our tourists and residents have a nice place to come to.

640
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:16,260
and that means clean restrooms, empty trash cans, and clean paper stones, so he makes sure

641
00:55:16,260 --> 00:55:21,180
that that's going on. Also supports special events like beach life and some of the other

642
00:55:21,180 --> 00:55:26,880
activities opening up seaside lagoon, making sure that that's taken care of. Then he also works

643
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:32,700
with the engineering group very well. He has done a couple of projects we're right off the bat,

644
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:38,240
and that includes some of the pictures that are here right here. Number one was a monstead peer

645
00:55:38,240 --> 00:55:41,920
structure when we're having to reduce some pile work underneath it.

646
00:55:42,140 --> 00:55:44,840
Very important one that we keep the pair up.

647
00:55:46,020 --> 00:55:48,640
Then we had the international boardwalk pavers.

648
00:55:49,140 --> 00:55:51,160
Once you put pavers in you got to keep them clean.

649
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:58,000
And so he not only oversaw some of the installation of it along with our project engineers on this

650
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:04,380
one, but he's making sure that we're trying to keep this clean on a recurring basis.

651
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:12,560
Then another one that our police department got out of this one is he took on the remodel of the pier substation.

652
00:56:13,020 --> 00:56:20,140
It was an old 1970s building that was pretty well beaten up on the inside.

653
00:56:20,140 --> 00:56:22,920
How to water a lot of water lakes were re-rerupted.

654
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:25,600
It didn't quite a few improvements to it inside.

655
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:31,540
Now reconfigured in a little bit, made it into some place that I'd like to have an officer myself because it's a nice view.

656
00:56:31,540 --> 00:56:31,620
Yeah.

657
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:39,160
And then one of the last two parts of this are the tenant lease hold related issues.

658
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:46,740
Chris and Robert Rivera, who's a supervisor, they go to, they want to make sure that we're

659
00:56:46,740 --> 00:56:51,400
working with their tenants down there at the pier, because they're bringing in money.

660
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:54,540
We want to make sure that they're happy, but we also want to make sure that they're treating

661
00:56:54,540 --> 00:57:00,940
our pier happy in good ways. We have to have good partnership with them, so we want to

662
00:57:00,940 --> 00:57:01,980
make sure that's happening.

663
00:57:02,660 --> 00:57:05,740
Then the last bullet point on this one is

664
00:57:05,740 --> 00:57:07,720
beach and the breakwater.

665
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:10,960
Last year we had quite a few storms that were coming in.

666
00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:17,080
We utilized our teams to basically push back sand

667
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:19,700
in front of the chart house to keep it from rolling up

668
00:57:19,700 --> 00:57:20,780
on to Harbor Drive.

669
00:57:22,260 --> 00:57:26,660
And Chris was one of the operators

670
00:57:26,660 --> 00:57:29,860
of the piece of equipment that we rented

671
00:57:29,860 --> 00:57:33,880
to push it back to the sand and we're glad that we did it, we're going to keep doing that.

672
00:57:34,420 --> 00:57:40,840
Also, when the parking lot at the Yacht Club came apart, he was there to help that.

673
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:45,760
Chris also ended up helping out with the brake water or not with the brake water, but with the

674
00:57:46,380 --> 00:57:48,060
dredging of the harbor.

675
00:57:49,020 --> 00:57:53,000
So these are all things that happened down at the pier and there are a lot of items that I'm

676
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:57,980
including into this presentation, but they're very, very important for a water front.

677
00:57:57,980 --> 00:57:58,960
Our

678
00:58:02,060 --> 00:58:30,040
park's maintenance division is another division that we've have a fairly new manager at he came from ocean side he had 20 years of experience there he's been with us six months we've given him a lot of work since he got here he oversees the maintenance of 27 park park at our parks and park at including the landscaping he also oversees tree trimming planting playgrounds, restrooms, sport fields,

679
00:58:30,980 --> 00:58:39,140
the street median maintenance, residential tree related issues that some of our residents

680
00:58:39,140 --> 00:58:43,320
either don't want a tree or they do want a tree, most of it they don't want a tree in

681
00:58:43,740 --> 00:58:47,560
their way, but he also oversees a playground safety maintenance.

682
00:58:48,460 --> 00:58:54,420
This group on some of the pictures that you see up above are WCA who's our partner for

683
00:58:54,420 --> 00:58:58,660
or a tree trimming, they do quite a bit for us,

684
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:00,540
especially on emergency situations,

685
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:02,620
the picture of the up and the right,

686
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:05,620
that'd be the right upper corner with the long boom.

687
00:59:06,300 --> 00:59:09,740
That was about a 70 to 85 foot pine

688
00:59:09,740 --> 00:59:12,100
that came over up on Baylon,

689
00:59:12,740 --> 00:59:14,580
and it rolled over into the street.

690
00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:16,280
And we were out there, cleaned it up,

691
00:59:16,580 --> 00:59:18,240
got it trimmed up pretty quick.

692
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:20,500
Everybody wanted the firewood out of it, of course,

693
00:59:20,500 --> 00:59:31,960
But, um, and then up on prospect, the picture right next to it to the left is on prospect. We're doing, uh, basically a median replanting right there. We're working on that.

694
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:39,780
Um, we just cleared that out a week and a half ago. We're working with some of the residents. We want to make sure that we're getting something in the old, um,

695
00:59:46,060 --> 00:59:53,760
We're looking at doing a different configuration of portacarpus and some trees along there make it look a little bit better over there.

696
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:59,920
And then this, the bottom picture is just a picture of our of WCA doing their annual bird.

697
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:01,020
Good morning.

698
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:30,000
Solid waste and recycling operations. This is led by Andrea Delab. She's one of our analysts for the city and she oversees a couple of departments. The solid waste and recycling operations. They manage our largest contractor, which is Athens. Athens does all of our trash collection. They also do our street sweeping. This also includes a complaints that come from that. And so they are day-to-day requests for pickups and things like that.

699
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:32,620
over size pickups, she over, she's that.

700
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:47,180
In turn, we ensure that the compliance that we have with all of our trash pickup from recyclables to green waste things like that she's overseeing that section of it.

701
01:00:47,820 --> 01:00:49,480
And then we have our sponsor events.

702
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:59,040
And so the E-Waste pickup that happens up at the Performing Arts Center, along with that household hazardous waste pickup, that's done with a huge group.

703
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:06,000
It normally happens on a Saturday, they set up. It's a little bit of a fun time for people to come and pick up and then take off.

704
01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:10,260
So it's a chance to get them, get the things that they don't want anymore out of here.

705
01:01:11,100 --> 01:01:15,200
And then one of the most popular things is the compost distribution.

706
01:01:16,060 --> 01:01:27,960
The compost distribution usually happens at Wildearns Park and it is always will bring in 40 yards of compost and the cars will be lined up down the street into torrents.

707
01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:36,920
And so it is a very popular event people come and they fill up as many trash cans as they can to residents of City of Verdana Beach only.

708
01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:40,200
and we make sure that we try to get as much as we can.

709
01:01:40,300 --> 01:01:42,400
There's usually maybe a couple of shovels

710
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:43,460
for the left when we're done.

711
01:01:44,700 --> 01:01:48,560
That's part of our solid waste and recycling operations.

712
01:01:50,460 --> 01:01:52,260
Then we have our fleet operations.

713
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:56,440
Our fleet, we procure for all of our,

714
01:01:56,460 --> 01:01:58,380
we have 250 units in the city.

715
01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:01,780
And that goes everything from police cars, fire trucks,

716
01:02:02,140 --> 01:02:04,360
to pickup trucks and back hose.

717
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:13,180
And so that's part of our vehicle replacement fund that's something that the city generates so that we can afford to buy vehicles as we go along.

718
01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:23,120
We also maintain our own city fuel island, we have diesel and we also have gas, but then we also have our C&G station that's there also.

719
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:31,120
The C&G runs quite a few of the public works equipment, but it also runs some of our buses.

720
01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:39,980
We maintain all of our generators this building and all the buildings that are building

721
01:02:39,980 --> 01:02:41,460
sure it's at the Civic Center.

722
01:02:42,020 --> 01:02:46,400
Have generators that are behind them in case we have power turn-off especially with

723
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:51,640
the PD fire stations and then most importantly is the pump stations that we have for the

724
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:53,640
sewer pump stations that I talked about earlier.

725
01:02:54,340 --> 01:02:59,320
Those pump stations have to come on when they're needed and that's why we have generators

726
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:01,320
and that's overseen by this department.

727
01:03:02,600 --> 01:03:05,780
The Special Police and Fire Department vehicle maintenance,

728
01:03:06,780 --> 01:03:09,280
the couple of pictures that I have here,

729
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:11,300
are one of our mechanics at the bottom.

730
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:13,240
He's working on one of our fire trucks.

731
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:17,540
He has to be licensed to be working on those types of vehicles.

732
01:03:18,100 --> 01:03:21,020
We have two mechanics that are going through their training

733
01:03:21,020 --> 01:03:23,440
to make sure that they're certified in certain aspects.

734
01:03:24,040 --> 01:03:27,040
Things that fall out of their aspect of expertise,

735
01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:28,540
we end up sending out.

736
01:03:28,540 --> 01:03:34,920
We do send somewhere vehicles out for maintenance, but on the things that we can handle, they take care of.

737
01:03:35,260 --> 01:03:37,960
And so we make sure that our trucks are ready to go.

738
01:03:38,700 --> 01:03:45,700
Just in the fires in the past couple of weeks are the vehicles that were sent up to the fires.

739
01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:48,040
We want to make sure that they get back when they come back.

740
01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:55,400
They also have to be basically taken a look at and gone through safety inspections to make sure that they're taken care of very well.

741
01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:55,460
Well,

742
01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:02,380
that is my presentation.

743
01:04:05,150 --> 01:04:08,050
Do you want to do question and answer right now or?

744
01:04:08,570 --> 01:04:12,690
Yeah, if you have any questions for Mike or anyone?

745
01:04:12,810 --> 01:04:18,510
Just in context, the Public Works Operations Division is about 80% of the Public Works Department

746
01:04:18,510 --> 01:04:19,530
in terms of employees.

747
01:04:20,450 --> 01:04:25,090
And operational budget is certainly the biggest piece of what we do in the city.

748
01:04:25,190 --> 01:04:28,530
We're the second largest department in the city after the police department.

749
01:04:28,530 --> 01:04:35,370
So we have a lot of activity, a lot of response, but it's very broad base of things that we take care of.

750
01:04:35,510 --> 01:04:41,670
And Mike's been with the city for 19, as I was going to say, 20 years.

751
01:04:41,950 --> 01:04:47,430
And in this role, probably the last 12, yeah, 12, doing a great job.

752
01:04:47,690 --> 01:04:55,470
And we have a great relationship with our union that's many of the employees with the union that can get dicey sometimes.

753
01:04:55,470 --> 01:04:57,050
but we have a great relationship there.

754
01:04:57,190 --> 01:05:00,130
Things are going well and a really, really good group.

755
01:05:01,030 --> 01:05:04,090
When you send in your ComCate, and that was the last thing I wanted to say,

756
01:05:04,090 --> 01:05:08,470
that it usually ends up in somebody's desk in the Public Works Operations Group

757
01:05:08,470 --> 01:05:13,250
to take care of those maintenance items that you guys notice in the public right away.

758
01:05:14,330 --> 01:05:16,230
So that's all, yeah, we're happy to answer any questions,

759
01:05:16,230 --> 01:05:20,250
or if there are none, we just wanted to share some insight

760
01:05:20,250 --> 01:05:21,890
about the kind of things that we do in the departments.

761
01:05:22,470 --> 01:05:28,430
Thank you. I think it's a fantastic job. It's a lot of work for, I thought it wasn't quite a lot of work.

762
01:05:30,350 --> 01:05:34,790
Don't have a question. I just want to compliment you on your presentation. It was very informative.

763
01:05:35,290 --> 01:05:39,010
Very helpful in getting an understanding of exactly what you do.

764
01:05:39,630 --> 01:05:41,810
I hope I don't speak too fast. I tend to do that.

765
01:05:44,980 --> 01:05:50,360
I had one question. I had rained in quite a while. We had a big rain event. You touched on it quickly.

766
01:05:50,360 --> 01:06:10,360
How was how were the catch basins and was a lot of clogging was a lot of issues we didn't there wasn't really enough rain to do that last year we had more than enough rain and so there were places that we have we always go out we make sure that when we start to get heavy down pours

767
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:18,220
including myself I go out there I get a little bit nervous I'm that's what I

768
01:06:18,220 --> 01:06:27,360
made of he teases me about that and we have hot spots that that we try to

769
01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:31,360
make sure that we you know that we get to and we have a list of them and guys

770
01:06:31,360 --> 01:06:36,660
that are on these crews are we go out there and we inspect them and it may be as

771
01:06:36,660 --> 01:06:39,340
simple as breaking off some leaves.

772
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:41,380
We did very well last night.

773
01:06:41,640 --> 01:06:42,780
We need more rain though.

774
01:06:43,300 --> 01:06:48,580
It really does help our perks out all of the wash down

775
01:06:48,580 --> 01:06:51,260
of the Esplanade to help keep that clean.

776
01:06:51,380 --> 01:06:52,320
We need more rain.

777
01:06:52,580 --> 01:06:54,580
I'd rather be clearing storm drains

778
01:06:54,580 --> 01:06:57,640
and then if it continues to be dry,

779
01:06:57,640 --> 01:07:00,480
we're gonna, again, we don't want to be in a drought.

780
01:07:00,800 --> 01:07:03,020
But it really does help with the larger scale

781
01:07:03,020 --> 01:07:04,540
of things of cleaning things up.

782
01:07:04,540 --> 01:07:11,280
Our storm water permit requires us to clean our catch basins at least once a year and most of the residential streets

783
01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:14,720
We do for water quality purposes, but it also serves for flood control

784
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:18,800
And then the higher areas we clean a lot more often than that

785
01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:26,960
So yeah, we have our known hotspots and some really seasoned guys who know exactly where those places are and that's where they patrol on rainy nights

786
01:07:27,540 --> 01:07:29,580
That preventive maintenance really helps

787
01:07:29,580 --> 01:07:34,380
Yes, that has been one of the largest things that we've seen over the past probably five

788
01:07:34,380 --> 01:07:35,140
or six years.

789
01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:40,700
Is that if we jump on it way before and we look at this stuff, we benefit from it.

790
01:07:42,200 --> 01:07:45,060
And I don't want to say that we haven't had things flood.

791
01:07:45,200 --> 01:07:51,400
We've had a couple of small issues, but it's normally because we've had something, an

792
01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:56,620
aberration happen where something got caught like a piece of plastic or something like that.

793
01:08:01,370 --> 01:08:11,670
I just want to say I think that as many people as hate the street sweeping they do remove a lot of material off your streets and keep it out of the storm trend as well.

794
01:08:12,790 --> 01:08:26,470
Yeah, we had a real challenge with the fires because we had a lot of ash on our streets and we had to slow our sweepers way down they had to come in more often because that's the ashes kind of one of the fundamental pieces of cement in some formulas.

795
01:08:26,470 --> 01:08:39,910
So, that stuff would get hard inside the trucks and we'd have to get those trucks over so we were still working on it honestly when it rained, we'll see how bad it is now but hopefully a lot of that stuff has been taken care of.

796
01:08:40,690 --> 01:08:44,610
Don't go swimming by the way for the next couple of days but yeah.

797
01:08:44,610 --> 01:08:49,370
Yeah, so one of one of the best parts about this job is we have a great South Bay Network

798
01:08:49,370 --> 01:08:55,270
of Public Works teams from Manhattan, El Segundo, and her most as we all work together

799
01:08:55,270 --> 01:08:59,430
on and when they're, hey, what are some of the problems that you're starting to see?

800
01:09:00,110 --> 01:09:03,110
Ash was the biggest thing that came up and what are you guys doing?

801
01:09:03,310 --> 01:09:06,490
Are we adding too much water, slow your sweepers down?

802
01:09:06,990 --> 01:09:11,810
Cut down on the on the leaf blower, you know, stop the leaf blower, so that's the biggest

803
01:09:11,810 --> 01:09:12,070
thing.

804
01:09:12,070 --> 01:09:17,610
We started washing down all of our playgrounds to make sure that they were okay, and we had some very concerned parents

805
01:09:17,610 --> 01:09:23,390
That were asking about our sand, you know, and there were things that we reached out to our fire chief on to get answers on

806
01:09:23,390 --> 01:09:25,550
We have a great network here

807
01:09:26,250 --> 01:09:28,630
If I don't know, I have people to ask

808
01:09:29,950 --> 01:09:32,530
It's okay to say that you don't know sometimes

809
01:09:45,120 --> 01:09:47,120
Receive and file the excellent report

810
01:09:52,180 --> 01:09:57,800
Just for the public comment, there's a e-comment no e-comments and

811
01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:03,280
Just make sure we do not have anyone raising their hand on zoom at this time

812
01:10:03,900 --> 01:10:08,320
But if anyone from the public would like to speak. This is your opportunity as well

813
01:10:08,320 --> 01:10:12,340
I don't

814
01:10:15,420 --> 01:10:18,100
see anyone who would like to speak in the audience so

815
01:10:18,780 --> 01:10:19,720
We have a motion

816
01:10:27,110 --> 01:10:28,070
to receive a file.

817
01:10:29,110 --> 01:10:29,850
So we have a second.

818
01:10:30,150 --> 01:10:30,790
Second, the motion.

819
01:10:31,150 --> 01:10:31,350
Through you.

820
01:10:31,990 --> 01:10:32,590
Okay.

821
01:10:32,810 --> 01:10:33,550
This is my two-voice.

822
01:10:34,010 --> 01:10:34,330
Sure.

823
01:10:36,280 --> 01:10:37,140
All in favor?

824
01:10:37,620 --> 01:10:37,780
Hi.

825
01:10:37,900 --> 01:10:38,040
Hi.

826
01:10:38,580 --> 01:10:38,860
Thank you.

827
01:10:45,940 --> 01:10:46,960
Thank you.

828
01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:51,180
Commissioner, member items and future commission agenda topics.

829
01:11:09,430 --> 01:11:17,630
This is your opportunity to ask any questions or this is actually in lieu of the referrals to staff.

830
01:11:18,650 --> 01:11:24,110
It's been retitled at the request of the City Clerk and across all commissions.

831
01:11:24,870 --> 01:11:27,350
This is the new, this is that item.

832
01:11:28,250 --> 01:11:33,550
So this is your opportunity to ask any questions this time.

833
01:11:33,990 --> 01:11:38,150
We can also make a referral to staff, though, or what, right, and we can point something out.

834
01:11:39,790 --> 01:11:41,790
I think that's more of a question, but-

835
01:11:41,790 --> 01:11:49,470
Certainly, we'll take any questions, or if you have, you know, there's a sign down that we need to fix, we're happy to hear that as well.

836
01:11:49,990 --> 01:12:00,790
I think what we wanted to, the clerk wanted to introduce is that it's also an opportunity for the commissioners to discuss among themselves future topics that you might like to see on the agenda.

837
01:12:02,780 --> 01:12:08,060
I did get a notice in District 5 on the potential crosswalks on aviation.

838
01:12:09,440 --> 01:12:13,700
I was going to see the status on that because I thought that might come up this month.

839
01:12:14,180 --> 01:12:21,720
Yeah, we were asked to delay that presentation by the Council member from District 5 pending

840
01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:28,380
a in-district meeting which was going to happen next week but then I got delayed as well.

841
01:12:28,380 --> 01:12:36,500
So we are still waiting for a date from him and whether or not he'll combine it with district four as was planned for next week or yet to hear.

842
01:12:36,680 --> 01:12:40,380
But as soon as we have that meeting, then we'll bring him back here to this commission.

843
01:12:40,780 --> 01:12:40,960
Okay.

844
01:12:41,480 --> 01:12:41,960
I

845
01:12:47,500 --> 01:12:54,220
just wanted to come on to see if there's been any movement on the benches at the skate park that you guys removed and.

846
01:12:54,500 --> 01:13:00,340
Chris still here. Did we get you want to come up and introduce yourself, Chris?

847
01:13:00,340 --> 01:13:01,460
I just see

848
01:13:06,190 --> 01:13:08,830
if we don't reach the manager for Harbor and Peer Division.

849
01:13:09,730 --> 01:13:14,370
As to all the benches, they all have been refurbished and reinstalled.

850
01:13:15,190 --> 01:13:20,050
So all of those had been replenished, and we also added a couple additional that weren't there before.

851
01:13:20,830 --> 01:13:21,170
Thank you.

852
01:13:23,930 --> 01:13:25,970
I'd love it update on Dominguez Parker.

853
01:13:26,170 --> 01:13:28,630
Are we back to working on it again?

854
01:13:31,350 --> 01:13:33,450
I just nod and not saying anything out loud.

855
01:13:34,810 --> 01:13:38,010
Okay, so the county let you guys work.

856
01:13:38,450 --> 01:13:44,730
We are expecting to be as far down as we can go by next week, that's we're pushing

857
01:13:44,730 --> 01:13:45,830
our contractor to get there.

858
01:13:45,950 --> 01:13:50,690
We're still working with the county to satisfy them with all the things they've asked

859
01:13:50,690 --> 01:13:55,790
us to do, so it's still kind of an unresolved issue at this point, but we're trying to move

860
01:13:55,790 --> 01:14:01,830
it forward at least to get the site stabilized and make sure we don't have runoff issues with

861
01:14:01,830 --> 01:14:03,650
with the coming rainstorms.

862
01:14:03,730 --> 01:14:05,150
Is there a completion date in mind?

863
01:14:07,350 --> 01:14:09,210
I couldn't commit to something

864
01:14:09,210 --> 01:14:11,910
in terms of substantial completion of the construction.

865
01:14:12,150 --> 01:14:15,070
We expect that, I'd say next week or 10 days.

866
01:14:20,260 --> 01:14:21,800
I may have a question.

867
01:14:23,420 --> 01:14:24,920
What does it have a question format,

868
01:14:25,260 --> 01:14:31,300
but do you know about a tree on Aviation Boulevard,

869
01:14:31,560 --> 01:14:33,520
just south of Regondo Beach,

870
01:14:34,180 --> 01:14:43,500
that has too many branches growing, it's on the street right next to the street, so I think it's in the city right away in front of a car wash.

871
01:14:44,360 --> 01:14:51,580
And the branches are growing out and blocking the view of if you're trying to come out of rock and roll in the lane.

872
01:14:53,140 --> 01:14:57,640
Yeah, I'm looking to mic to see if he's heard of anything there apparently not.

873
01:14:57,640 --> 01:14:59,880
We need to be like this.

874
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,980
It's, you've cleaned that up in the past. Okay. A couple of years ago, but it's grown back out and it needs somebody to come down and clean it so we can get out of our fellow and redone a beach head on. Thank you, Rockefeller, Rockefeller, Rockefeller. Okay. Yeah. And aviation. Yeah. It's just Rockefeller comes into aviation and it's just right on the corner essentially of Rockefeller and aviation. And as a car wash at the southeast corner. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Okay. But it's not the car wash. It's, it's

875
01:15:29,980 --> 01:15:37,420
It's one of the city's city access trees, it's a fast car park to go by.

876
01:15:37,660 --> 01:15:42,860
The bushes are coming out of the bottom of the tree that just needs to be grown a little bit.

877
01:15:43,080 --> 01:15:44,440
The movie much safer.

878
01:15:45,020 --> 01:15:46,720
Very good. We'll send somebody by and have a look.

879
01:15:47,500 --> 01:15:47,780
Thank you.

880
01:15:51,480 --> 01:15:54,400
One other thing I was just curious about was in our October meeting.

881
01:15:54,400 --> 01:15:59,980
We discussed the signage kind of discouraging people from parking on those residential streets

882
01:15:59,980 --> 01:16:05,480
that we're impacting people for the street lighting and torrents, and we

883
01:16:05,480 --> 01:16:11,480
recommend it. Oh, the Avenue 8. Yeah. Holiday. Do you do want a discussion on that in the future date?

884
01:16:11,780 --> 01:16:16,060
Or yeah, I just an update on the efficacy of that and how that worked. Just curious to see.

885
01:16:16,160 --> 01:16:21,580
Can we talk about the now or again? Can you talk about it? Is an answer to a question? Sure. Yeah, so I don't

886
01:16:21,580 --> 01:16:28,980
actually do work. Yeah, so it was public works. Myself traffic engineer with operations and police

887
01:16:28,980 --> 01:16:34,220
department all working together to you know make sure the signage plan as approved by City Council was

888
01:16:34,220 --> 01:16:39,500
implemented. You know every year we get some residents on both sides of the border complaining

889
01:16:39,500 --> 01:16:45,860
about the ballards but ultimately I think it was a it was a pretty smooth rollout this season we didn't

890
01:16:45,860 --> 01:16:52,740
get too many complaints throughout the season which was which was really good. I visited the area

891
01:16:52,740 --> 01:16:57,660
at least three to four different times that in the evening and you know the parking was filled so

892
01:16:57,660 --> 01:17:03,100
So that may or may not be an unresolved problem, but the roundabout was actually working pretty

893
01:17:03,100 --> 01:17:07,820
well, even despite our best efforts of providing all the signage saying that there's a dead

894
01:17:07,820 --> 01:17:11,200
end at Avenue H, there were still some people who decided to drive and look for parking.

895
01:17:11,840 --> 01:17:17,120
So that roundabout location of a scene at Avenue H really did provide the sort of that last

896
01:17:17,120 --> 01:17:22,900
chance opportunity to make a U-turn of three-point turns or else you're hitting the ballers

897
01:17:22,900 --> 01:17:23,760
at the end of the block.

898
01:17:25,700 --> 01:17:37,700
We put out a lot of trash cans and our peer guys actually took the lead on that and we checked and most of the cans got filled up to maybe 50, 60% or so.

899
01:17:38,760 --> 01:17:48,280
But I think any trash that was left on the ground, we tried to move trash cans strategically to capture that on the next days and we were able to clean up that trash around the area.

900
01:17:48,740 --> 01:17:51,820
So I think overall this year has been improved.

901
01:17:51,820 --> 01:17:53,540
Yeah, it's not solved.

902
01:17:53,900 --> 01:17:56,060
It's we're going to get comments every year about

903
01:17:56,640 --> 01:17:58,600
solve it, you know, waste of it.

904
01:17:58,680 --> 01:18:01,820
It's a very difficult situation to solve.

905
01:18:02,060 --> 01:18:03,480
But I think improvements were made.

906
01:18:03,540 --> 01:18:05,760
We had more police presence this year

907
01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:09,140
and a lot more working together with police department

908
01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:13,640
to kind of help keep the parking issues at bay at least.

909
01:18:14,040 --> 01:18:18,620
Has there been a discussion further about having a seasonal

910
01:18:18,620 --> 01:18:21,980
residential parking pass for that area?

911
01:18:22,640 --> 01:18:26,160
No, there hasn't been a formal discussion on that.

912
01:18:26,340 --> 01:18:29,840
I think one of the first steps that has happened is to actually change our municipal code

913
01:18:29,840 --> 01:18:33,080
so that it could allow for those types of permits, I think.

914
01:18:33,520 --> 01:18:38,000
A more overall discussion about our perfect parking program is probably needed.

915
01:18:40,530 --> 01:18:41,010
Thank you.

916
01:18:51,450 --> 01:18:53,710
There's nothing else to do.

917
01:18:53,710 --> 01:19:04,390
No, okay, so anybody else anything to talk about how about motion to adjourn?

918
01:19:05,630 --> 01:19:07,510
I'll make a motion to adjourn.

919
01:19:07,570 --> 01:19:08,250
That's not exactly true.

920
01:19:09,590 --> 01:19:10,810
Also, we'll all say a good one.

921
01:19:10,830 --> 01:19:11,230
All in favor.

922
01:19:11,990 --> 01:19:12,910
Where do you go?

923
01:19:16,850 --> 01:19:18,070
All in favor?

924
01:19:18,530 --> 01:19:18,950
Hi.

925
01:19:19,690 --> 01:19:20,530
I said all in favor.

926
01:19:23,370 --> 01:19:23,870
Yeah.

927
01:19:23,870 --> 01:19:24,910
Yeah, I'm talking about it.

928
01:19:25,770 --> 01:19:26,250
Alright.