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Question 13:
Comments /
Questions / Concerns / Open Forum:
Adding
more density--replacing one-story buildings with multi-story
ones--is a BAD idea considering the insufficient parking that
exists. The lack of parking is what currently keeps me from
frequenting the area. Businesses would lose parking to
beachgoers if meters were removed. Retail on sidewalks is ugly
and adds congestion to the sidewalks--even wide ones. I have
been a homeowner in Hermosa since 1983, and a resident for four
years as a renter. I now drive elsewhere to places I can park
rather than do business in Hermosa. Don't make it harder to
walk to the beach by making it necessary to stumble over
shoppers on the sidewalks.
City
funds should not be used for paving or repairing PCH it is a
state highway and state and federal funds should be used for
repairs and upgrades. I also believe that all residents of
Hermosa Beach should be allowed to purchase parking permits to
allow local residents to support local stores and businesses and
to enjoy the beach we live at. Let's get this one going as well.
In the past we were able to buy a parking pass.
Neighborhoods need protection from traffic impacts created by
commercial development.
No
outdoor dining on upper Pier Avenue.
Downzone
commercial along Aviation Blvd.
Hermosa
is an ugly city to drive through....we need to take landscaping/hardscaping
cues from Redondo Beach. How many busted sidewalks and crummy
trees can a city full of million dollar properties have? In my
opinion, Hermosa Ave. is much worse than upper Pier Ave. It
would be nice if Hermosa Ave. could look just a little like
Catalina Ave.
Home
owning families are not properly represented by the HB city
council.
I am a
business owner in Redondo Beach.
I am not a resident,
but I am in Hermosa beach almost every week for recreation or business. As a
supporter of the local economy I believe it's only fair I'm allowed to voice
an opinion!
I am very concerned
about pedestrian safety ALONG Pier Avenue. This is NOT up at the
Valley/Ardmore/Pier intersections where there are already stop signs. This
is along Pier where there are not stop signs, e.g. Pier & Loma, Pier &
Sunset, Pier and Cypress.
I do all
of my personal shopping and resturant diniing in Hermosa. Food,
hair, nails, dog grooming, clothes perfumes and soaps..literally
everything. Whay can't this money be spent to rebuild our
infrastructure for the residents? Our streets are a mess! Not to
make our tiny town more attractive to tourists. i don't mind
sharing this beautiful space with others, but the money for city
shouldn't be spent on outsiders, it should be spent to enhance
the qulity of life for the residents and the business that serve
them.
I do not
know who put this survey togther, however, they should have
address some of these concerns in the dozen or more public
meetings that were held. This looks like sour grapes planning
and put toghter to make the upac and the city council to look
poorly. I doubt it will work.
I firmly
believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Considering the
popilation vs facilities in both the state and the city, If you
DON'T build it they WON'T come. I miss the amenities and
ambiance of the Hermosa Beach I moved to over 45 years ago.
I like
the street the way it is. Just spruce it up a bit.
I think
the last thing this town needs is anything that will attract
more visitors to contribute to an already existing situation of
over-congestion, very limited parking and increased crime. I
like upper pier just the way it is.
I was out
of town when the meeting took place so I can't really complain
since I didn't participate, thanks for giving me a chance to
give my opinion.
I would
like to see police cars off pier plaza and the Strand. Police
can walk or ride bikes on Pier Plaza duty. Many do need the
excercise!
Require
business owners to insure there is no garbage, litter within
10-12 feet of any outer part of their establishment ant anytime.
The amount of litter on the sidewalks and streets in HB
continues to increase.
I'll be
happy to be part of this organization as long as it does not
become an organization attempting to promote one vision over
another and remains truly "non-partisan" . People of good will
can disagree.
Other
areas of concern. Noise and safety after midnight in the Pier
Plaza and surrounding areas.
Supporting and
encouraging non-bar/restaurant business in the downtown area. Especially,
boutiques and fine dining.
Promoting the
small-town, non-tourist, image.
Supporting our fine
police dept.
Putting residents
first!
I'm
interested, but where do I find more information about the
suggested plans you cite within?
Webpage suggestion:
please illuminate or highlight the selected dot with color,with a check mark
or something which contrasts more than as now.
thank you.
In
response to question #7: The Gateway should be integrated with
a pedestrian overpass. This would be a great safety feature for
the greenbelt which is used by schoolchildren and their parents
as well as a large portion of the cities population. It would
also improve trafic flow through the Ardmore/Valley & Pier ave.
intersection(s).
Individual business owners should take responsibility for making
the shopping area beautiful. Adding planters or window boxes
makes a huge impact but does not make this the responsibility of
the public. The expense of a shop owner watering and
maintaining a few planters each vs. the cost of the city
maintaining lots of landscape is enormous. Also, window boxes
and container planting will not be trampled by dogs. The city
put in public planters near Martha's. They are most often full
of weeds and dead palm branches.
It is important that
our council set aside political (re-election concerns) influences and
display good, principled leadership. Hard decisions that are not going to
be popular right now are necessary to the success of this project.
Item 10 is not clear:
who are you and why are you looking for supporters?
Lets try
to prevent over development of the city We voted for LOW DENSITY
many times and we are more crowded than ever.Stop the council
from promoting "party town" Less bars please No more permits
for liquor beer wine licences
My main concern is
the financial and quality of life impact that drinking establishments have
on our community. My family and I live 6 blocks from pier avenue yet suffer
it's collateral effects almost every weekend; especially during the summer
months. Unabated night time noise and discourtious behavior that is fostered
by the "bar scene" atmosphere in HB is our number one concern and has a
direct impact on our quality of life. Any development on Upper Pier Ave
should take this into consideration.
Thank you for your
work on makeing HB a better place to live.
Sincerely,
Phil
My wife
and I walk down Pier Ave several times a week. The street needs
massive improvements to be made pedistrian friendly.
No more high
buildings... Keep the street open... Higher buildings will create a closed
in feeling for the residents and tourists.
NO MORE
PARKING STRUCTURES!!!!PLEASE! IT BRINGS OUTSIDE PROBLEMS,
LITTER, and CONGESTION to our little city! ENOUGH!!!
Nobody
likes too much change. and seeing HB for 36 years of my life, we
have lost our "self." We have city counsel members so worried
about revenue, they have created a headache on old Pier Ave.
where bar row now stands. How much in law enforcement,
fire/rescue and lawsuits against the city has those bars COST
the city? How many 9pm to 2pm establishments do we need? I bet
you could make close to the same amount of revenue in 4 star
restraunts that serve from 11 am to 10pm. Look at other cities
that made things that WORKED for everyone. Don't let the city
counsel continue to destroy the city we love. Ironic things is,
a lot of the people on the board over the last 15 years are
"locals" who have lived here most of their lives. Well, I bet
when they are done with the city and sucked as much out of the
city and their home equity...they are packing their bags and
moving somewhere where their money will take them much further.
You can quote me on that! Good luck.
One
suggestion to help the congestion down at the pier during peak
hours would to have the patrons wait in the back of the
resturants/bars ~ it may involve removing some parking places
but it would diminish the eye sore of people waiting to get into
bars ~ also, bar owners might have better control if they were
in the back... the waiting in line in itself is a party scene
and if we reduced it to less of a party atmosphere it may help
cut down on noise and people acting in appropriately.
Overall, our streets
are in deplorable condition. I'd like to see some effort go into repaving
the neighborhood streets, not just PCH, prospect, and pier.
Please
change some of the most severely impacted neighborhoods into
permit-only parking
PLEASE do not build
anymore public parking structures!!! It makes our city a ZOO all summer. Our
taxes go to cleaning up after the toursists when they leave our beaches and
city a mess....when you don't live here, you don't care how you leave it!
Please no parking
structure on the corner of Manhattan and 14th, or other residential
location. Q#2 we use Pier ave. 3 or 5 times per week on foot.
Question
6, first item, is a confusing double negative -- i.e., spend no
money, if you think no money should be spent on the projects, do
you answer "most unimportant" or "most important"?
Questions 4,6 and 10
are not very clear.
Regarding
Question 4 of the Survey:
To: Planning
Commission, City of Hermosa Beach
Re: Encouraging
mixed-use and service type business to second floor
Dear Planning
Commission:
The UPAC committee
has stated that they would like to encourage mixed-use and service type
businesses on the second floor and general commercial/retail on the ground
floor. Apparently, UPAC feels that retail establishments and restaurants
are more pedestrian friendly and therefore warrant priority in the prime
ground floor locations across the city. This concerns me as an active member
of this community.
Service businesses
are what drive small town Hermosa Beach. Local community members take
advantage of the convenience in having their day-to-day lifestyle services
easily accessible. Local Hermosa residents can take care of their personal
service type errands (such as doing a quick load of laundry at the local
laundromat, picking up documents from their lawyers, or even getting a
chiropractic adjustment. All servi
Spending $$ on
placing cameras in front of the police department to discourage vandalism?!!
Really?
How about using some
of that $$ for a few beat cops to walk the streets after the bars close at
night to help curb petty theft, drunk driving, vandalism and public
urination?
thank you
.....my only concern is all these improvements with minimal
concern for parking..Everything the city council passes does not
have enough parking. Non existent parking spaces approved
constantly by the council is the biggest scam in this city. So
now we are going to take more away.
I am not worried
about people coming into our city to park. My concern is resident parking
Thanks you for doing
this - an involved and informed electorate is essential to effective public
debate.
The big
question is TRAFFIC on Upper Pier Avenue and vicinity. Anything
that increases the volume of cars and decreases the allowable
traffic flow is automatically not good for the residents and,
therefore, must have some truly overwhelming justification in
order to be adopted. I do not see that in the proposed changes.
Nagging
point: Why doesn't the poll page set-up allow not ranking some
choices i.e. as being unacceptable. Also note that ranked polls
that are scored by assigning points to each preference usually
distort the wishes of nthe voters and lead to mediocre choices.
(The situation is analogous to electing one of many candidates
by preference ranking.) This is a very well known unintended
consequence.
This is a
very important issues, one which needs to be done in an open
format, with as much city input as possible. One option would
be to approach this the same way Redondo Beach approached the
design plans for the power plant area. While the outcome for
Redondo is not ideal - nothing is happening - it did receive the
entire city buy-in, and three different proposals were put up
for city wide vote.
If the council moves
forward with little input, they risk the plan being totally shot down with a
city forced vote and as a result the current city council would loose
support. Similar to what happened in RB.
My single biggest
complaint with the roads and such in the city is the total lack of bike
lanes and sidewalks that are difficult to ride anything on. Rather than
continuing to foster a car dominated city, we should look to add large
bike/scooter lanes that would also be appropriate for small electric cars
that do not go over 35 MPH. Loose a lane each way on Pier and promote a
greener, more friendly
thx
We do not
see anything really wrong with the present Pier Avenue other
than the city's neglect of the pavement. Appears to be
neglected on purpose to justify a project?
How about just paving
the street. If anything, whatever they do it should be with keeping
visitors to a minimum. Please do not encourage anything that will bring
more visitors, cars, noise, crime to the city. Please reduce the number of
events going on in the city. What is the purpose of the events every
weekend?
WHO EVER
PUT THIS SURVEY TOGETHER HAS DONE A POOR JOB..EVERY QUESTIONS
LEADS TO A ANSWER THAT I DON'T WANT.WHO SIDE ARE YOU ON...
Why do
you ask about being a supporter. We do not even know who is
behind the shoddyly prepared survey. The only face to this
document or website is Jeff Duclos. He is just trying to look
involved so as to get elected to City council. He is just
another attention grabber.
Why is
the City IGNORING Aviation From Prospect to P.C.H.?
Widen
upper Pier Ave sidewalks... for outside dining.
Your
Survey is misleading stating that the Upper Pier Avenue
Committee recommends mixed uses of condominiums (implying
residential use) and office on second or third floors. The
Committee specifically excluded residential mixed use. In fact,
there is no changes recommended to the existing zoning.
Regarding the Keegan
plan for parking: This would convert Pier Avenue into a paring lot with
pedestrians running through 2 lanes of traffic and a bike lane to get to
stores. This is not the village atmosphere that was favored in the"other"
survey.
Swimming
Pool?
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