Meeting Time: March 14, 2023 at 5:00pm PDT
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Agenda Item

a) REPORT 23-0142 WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

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    Tony Higgins about 1 year ago

    Dear City Council

    The 2017 General Plan was clear on the following:

    The General Plan says “Hermosa Beach is committed to promoting the commercial movement of goods and service vehicles in and around Hermosa Beach in a manner that protects the health, safety and wellbeing of residents and the environment”

    The 2017 General Plan says in Policies 8.1 that the city will minimize truck impacts by
    maintaining and REGULARLY RE-EVALUATING the designation of truck routes to minimize the negative impacts of trucking through the city.

    And yet when I did a public records request (PRR 22-73) for all records that describe the progress made or mitigation measures adopted that comport with the these provisions of the General Plan the only document the city produced was a 30 year old truck route map!

    Not a single record of a study of commercial traffic flows, truck counts, noise measurements, near roadway pollution measurements or the like was produced.

    JUST A 30 YEAR OLD TRUCK ROUTE MAP.

    AND now the city is planning on reducing the Pier Ave Truck Route by one lane in each direction without doing a single study of the number of commercial trucks will are using local collector roads to access downtown plaza area businesses or assessing the existing noise levels and near roadway pollution on 27th that exist as a cumulative result of years of discretionary projects.

    Nor has the city produced a single health assessment of these impacts as required by both the California Environmental Quality Act AND the General Plan itself.

    The problem is that under the Lowenthal administration precepts of the General Plan and CEQA are cherry-picked when it suits our City Manager and ignored when they don’t.

    Over and over this happens it’s simply not an ethical way to operate our city

    Anthony Higgins

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    Anthony Higgins about 1 year ago

    Dear City Council

    The 2017 General Plan was clear on the following:

    The General Plan says “Hermosa Beach is committed to promoting the commercial movement of goods and service vehicles in and around Hermosa Beach in a manner that protects the health, safety and wellbeing of residents and the environment”

    The 2017 General Plan says in Policies 8.1 that the city will minimize truck impacts by
    maintaining and REGULARLY RE-EVALUATING the designation of truck routes to minimize the negative impacts of trucking through the city.

    And yet when I did a public records request (PRR 22-73) for all records that describe the progress made or mitigation measures adopted that comport with the these provisions of the General Plan the only document the city produced was a 30 year old truck route map!

    Not a single record of a study of commercial traffic flows, truck counts, noise measurements, near roadway pollution measurements or the like was produced.

    JUST A 30 YEAR OLD TRUCK ROUTE MAP.

    AND now the city is planning on reducing the Pier Ave Truck Route by one lane in each direction without doing a single study of the number of commercial trucks will are using local collector roads to access downtown plaza area businesses or assessing the existing noise levels and near roadway pollution on 27th that exist as a cumulative result of years of discretionary projects.

    Nor has the city produced a single health assessment of these impacts as required by both the California Environmental Quality Act AND the General Plan itself.

    The problem is that under the Lowenthal administration precepts of the General Plan and CEQA are cherry-picked when it suits our City Manager and ignored when they don’t.

    Over and over this happens it’s simply not an ethical way to operate our city

    Anthony Higgins