I.2. PC20-1269 A public hearing to consider the Draft Artesia and Aviation Corridors Area Plan (AACAP) document. Discuss, receive public input/comments, consider, and make a recommendation to the Mayor and City Council on the Draft Artesia & Aviation Corridors Area Plan (AACAP) which includes strategies to activate, energize, and revitalize the Artesia and Aviation Corridors. The Draft Artesia & Aviation Corridors Area Plan document captures the recommendations of previous efforts as well as the analysis, discussions, and recommendations by the City's General Plan Advisory Committee (GPAC). The Draft AACAP defines a number of strategies and implementable actions that will guide the revitalization of the Artesia and Aviation Corridors, including physical placemaking enhancements such as outdoor dining, pedestrian improvements (benches, landscaping, lighting, and crosswalk improvements), connectivity to surrounding neighborhoods, and new gathering spaces to create a sense of "place and character".
RECOMMENDATION:
1. Open the public hearing, take testimony from staff and the public, discuss and deliberate;
2. Confirm the Draft AACAP as drafted or reach consensus on any recommended changes or edit;
3. Close the public hearing;
4. Adopt a resolution by title only recommending that the City Council approves the AACAP
Hi Lina, I submitted the following via email on Aug 13. Will it be included tonight?:
Safety: I think the plans to continue to grow businesses and walking access on Artesia Blvd are great. However, my neighbors and I (we live only 2 blocks away from Artesia Blvd) believe this will actually increase crime and decrease safety. Bringing in more people to the Artesia corridor may help the city economy, but it will not help us homeowners. Just in the last year alone, we have noticed an increase of homeless people, vagrants, and recycling bin scavengers on the bike path and on our street. So, what do you plan to do to ensure homeowner safety if you are saying you want to attract more people to the area?
The League of Women Voters of the Beach Cities supports bike lanes along both Artesia and Aviation to help combat climate change and auto-dependence, and reduce air, water and noise pollution. Because rush hour commuters drive along Artesia with the sun in their eyes, any bike lane on Artesia needs to be a protected, Class 1 bike lane to protect human life. Concrete barriers to protect cyclists also serve as noise barrier, making noise levels on the sidewalk less deafening. Bike lanes can also accommodate scooters and motorized wheelchairs, serving Redondo Beach locals of all ages and abilities.
About 10 bicycles can park in the footprint of one automobile. To preserve customer parking, replace automobile with bicycle parking. Consider adding parking that can accommodate different types of cycles, particularly eTrikes used by the elderly, disabled, and those carrying children.
Looking forward to the much-needed revitalization. However, there as few concerns, and Commissioner Ung also alluded to those in the prior meeting. How can we ensure that Grant ave does not, in fact, become the new high-speed thoroughfare of transportation given the level of activity we'd hope to generate along Artesia. Also acknowledging issues of parking, with serious consideration not just for the businesses but for the residents in the area? maybe start considering a fee for parking at the galleria once a red car or proposed trolley down Artesia blvd is designated. I would urge the commission to stay away from the strongly suggested language of "Prefered businesses". This suggest the deep divide of proposing a level of gentrification that is strongly not wanted in the area, further pricing out the existing community and generations to come to be able to afford to live here, while I love Abbot Kinney's amenities in Venice beach, what I hope this will consider looking like, I know I can't afford to live there especially as young 30 something. How can the commission ensure the authenticity of local shops of local entrepreneurs to continue to grow, for example, the great owners of the new natural food market? the two owners Rose, and her partner live in the two proceeding districts with their families. As someone who has grown up here, I was excited to hear that locals are opening up shops, which gives me hope in opening up my own coffee shop on Artesia blvd, provided the commission and council stop approving commercial and corporate franchises. another local business, Mint and Laural, a Syrian soap company currently based in the home of a manhattan beach resident was hoping to open up a storefront until COVID happened. these are the types of authentic true to south bay culture business of local entrepreneurs we should consider encouraging to set up shop. While the idea of "silicon beach" making its way to the Galleria, there isn't enough incentive and reliable metro/train and transportation for large industries like companies to make their way into our city to further sustain the growth. Again, how do we pay for it. YES! to Mixed use units in NRB.BLIGHT FEES +
Goals:
1. Class I bike path along Artesia and Aviation. A designated bike path with protective barriers to car traffic is always going to be the safest. It also requires less width of the street when done right. If we took out parking on one side of the street and cut 1 foot from each auto travel lane on that side of the street we would have 10 feet for a two lane bike path on Artesia. This would require only repainting the street and finding ways to accommodate the need for reduced street parking. No destruction of the median would be required.
Biking traffic will bring more people through the Artesia and Aviation Corridor at a pace that allows them to stop and enjoy the businesses on the way to the beach and home again. With bike lanes, nearby residents like myself will be able to explore shops, get a book at the library, and bike to lunch, at leisure pace on a bicycle or walking.
2. Class I bike lanes on Flagler and Ripley. Ripley is such a unique cut through the neighborhood and goes by 2 major schools. Ripley is also a natural route to the high school and Galleria. By removing parking on one side of the street, painting it green, putting up barriers you could have an increased number of kids riding their bikes to school. "Bike safe streets" are really not any safer than regular streets.
3. Activity Nodes at Flagler-Blossom. 2020 neighborhood attractions are farmers markets, breweries, hip non-corporate coffee shops, non-corporate authentic ethnic food, food trucks, and open air public spaces to enjoy those things. There are really good businesses along Artesia and Aviation, we just need to get them to be more pedestrian oriented.
Low cost, minimal infrastructure immediate options:
Farmers Markets: Establish farmers market at the library parking lot, community services lot, or the Green Lane Streetlet.
Food Trucks: With food trucks placed in the private parking lots so that they serve the sidewalk you can get the effect of more shops where there are unsightly parking lots. This will increased pedestrian traffic to all businesses.
Thank you for you time
--
Chris Maloney
cmaloney888@gmail.com
Hi Lina, I submitted the following via email on Aug 13. Will it be included tonight?:
Safety: I think the plans to continue to grow businesses and walking access on Artesia Blvd are great. However, my neighbors and I (we live only 2 blocks away from Artesia Blvd) believe this will actually increase crime and decrease safety. Bringing in more people to the Artesia corridor may help the city economy, but it will not help us homeowners. Just in the last year alone, we have noticed an increase of homeless people, vagrants, and recycling bin scavengers on the bike path and on our street. So, what do you plan to do to ensure homeowner safety if you are saying you want to attract more people to the area?
The League of Women Voters of the Beach Cities supports bike lanes along both Artesia and Aviation to help combat climate change and auto-dependence, and reduce air, water and noise pollution. Because rush hour commuters drive along Artesia with the sun in their eyes, any bike lane on Artesia needs to be a protected, Class 1 bike lane to protect human life. Concrete barriers to protect cyclists also serve as noise barrier, making noise levels on the sidewalk less deafening. Bike lanes can also accommodate scooters and motorized wheelchairs, serving Redondo Beach locals of all ages and abilities.
About 10 bicycles can park in the footprint of one automobile. To preserve customer parking, replace automobile with bicycle parking. Consider adding parking that can accommodate different types of cycles, particularly eTrikes used by the elderly, disabled, and those carrying children.
Looking forward to the much-needed revitalization. However, there as few concerns, and Commissioner Ung also alluded to those in the prior meeting. How can we ensure that Grant ave does not, in fact, become the new high-speed thoroughfare of transportation given the level of activity we'd hope to generate along Artesia. Also acknowledging issues of parking, with serious consideration not just for the businesses but for the residents in the area? maybe start considering a fee for parking at the galleria once a red car or proposed trolley down Artesia blvd is designated. I would urge the commission to stay away from the strongly suggested language of "Prefered businesses". This suggest the deep divide of proposing a level of gentrification that is strongly not wanted in the area, further pricing out the existing community and generations to come to be able to afford to live here, while I love Abbot Kinney's amenities in Venice beach, what I hope this will consider looking like, I know I can't afford to live there especially as young 30 something. How can the commission ensure the authenticity of local shops of local entrepreneurs to continue to grow, for example, the great owners of the new natural food market? the two owners Rose, and her partner live in the two proceeding districts with their families. As someone who has grown up here, I was excited to hear that locals are opening up shops, which gives me hope in opening up my own coffee shop on Artesia blvd, provided the commission and council stop approving commercial and corporate franchises. another local business, Mint and Laural, a Syrian soap company currently based in the home of a manhattan beach resident was hoping to open up a storefront until COVID happened. these are the types of authentic true to south bay culture business of local entrepreneurs we should consider encouraging to set up shop. While the idea of "silicon beach" making its way to the Galleria, there isn't enough incentive and reliable metro/train and transportation for large industries like companies to make their way into our city to further sustain the growth. Again, how do we pay for it. YES! to Mixed use units in NRB.BLIGHT FEES +
Hello Redondo Residents and Businesses,
Goals:
1. Class I bike path along Artesia and Aviation. A designated bike path with protective barriers to car traffic is always going to be the safest. It also requires less width of the street when done right. If we took out parking on one side of the street and cut 1 foot from each auto travel lane on that side of the street we would have 10 feet for a two lane bike path on Artesia. This would require only repainting the street and finding ways to accommodate the need for reduced street parking. No destruction of the median would be required.
Biking traffic will bring more people through the Artesia and Aviation Corridor at a pace that allows them to stop and enjoy the businesses on the way to the beach and home again. With bike lanes, nearby residents like myself will be able to explore shops, get a book at the library, and bike to lunch, at leisure pace on a bicycle or walking.
2. Class I bike lanes on Flagler and Ripley. Ripley is such a unique cut through the neighborhood and goes by 2 major schools. Ripley is also a natural route to the high school and Galleria. By removing parking on one side of the street, painting it green, putting up barriers you could have an increased number of kids riding their bikes to school. "Bike safe streets" are really not any safer than regular streets.
3. Activity Nodes at Flagler-Blossom. 2020 neighborhood attractions are farmers markets, breweries, hip non-corporate coffee shops, non-corporate authentic ethnic food, food trucks, and open air public spaces to enjoy those things. There are really good businesses along Artesia and Aviation, we just need to get them to be more pedestrian oriented.
Low cost, minimal infrastructure immediate options:
Farmers Markets: Establish farmers market at the library parking lot, community services lot, or the Green Lane Streetlet.
Food Trucks: With food trucks placed in the private parking lots so that they serve the sidewalk you can get the effect of more shops where there are unsightly parking lots. This will increased pedestrian traffic to all businesses.
Thank you for you time
--
Chris Maloney
cmaloney888@gmail.com