I am a resident of Redondo Beach and I strongly urge you to provide consistent access to warm showers for my unhoused friends who live near the Redondo Beach Pier. This, along with 24 hour restroom access, is what these residents are constantly in dire need of. Hot showers provide a sense of dignity and with Covid-19 cases growing rapidly in Los Angeles county, I find it immoral to keep people from accessing these resources that meet basic hygiene needs. It is literally a matter of life and death. Obviously, the urge to use the restroom does not stop at 9pm when most public bathrooms in Redondo Beach are closed. Please allow 24 access to bathrooms, whether that means keeping pier and park restrooms open or providing portable toilets. Lastly, I ask that when making decisions for the city, please remember that unhoused folks are also residents of Redondo Beach who need their basic needs met just like anyone else.
Dear City Council,
As a resident of Redondo Beach, I am writing in to ask the council to provide basic hygiene services that are accessible to the unhoused folks living near the pier. I've heard first hand from unhoused folks near the pier and Veteran's Park that they do not have access to warm showers or restrooms after the park and beach restrooms are closed for the evening. Staying clean and using the restroom are basic human necessities that everyone should be able to safely and reasonably access. These are basic services but I believe it would go a long way with building trust with the unhoused community and demonstrate the city's commitment to helping and listening to its unhoused residents.
Thank you.
I'm a longtime resident of Redondo Beach writing to encourage the council to do what they can to provide our unhoused neighbors with access to warm showers and 24-hour restrooms by the pier.
Hello, I am a lifelong resident of Redondo Beach and am writing to voice support for keeping beach and park restrooms open for our unhoused community members. COVID-19 has been incredibly dangerous for those who are already at-risk, such as people experiencing homelessness. There are zero shelters in the South bay where unhoused people can turn to, so the very least Redondo Beach can do as a city is provide warm showers and 24 hour restroom access. Access to a restroom and shower is basic human hygiene, and whether housed or not, all community members should have access to. Furthermore, barring unhoused people from restroom access often leaves them with no other option than to relieve themselves in less than ideal circumstances such as in public, sometimes upsetting other community members and resulting in citations from RBPD — who are no strangers to criminalizing our unhoused population. Restricting at-risk and disenfranchised individuals from public utilities will further perpetuate the cycle of criminalization that they are placed in by our governing systems, and only disenfranchise at risk-individuals even more. I urge Redondo Beach City Council to keep park and beach restrooms available 24/7, and provide unhoused community members with access to warm showers.
Our houseless neighbors living by the pier are in dire need of easy access to warm showers and bathrooms after the park and beach close. The City of Redondo can very easily provide these basic services, and -- considering the alarming rate at which COVID cases are spiking in the area -- it is quite literally matter of life and death for the most vulnerable, at-risk members of the community that the City does everything within its power to make their living space clean and habitable, and do it immediately. Being deprived of the basic dignity of secure housing and hygiene is cruel enough even under the best of circumstances, but during a deadly pandemic it's nothing less than inhuman. The City of Redonda MUST do better for its houseless constituents, and do it now.
I am happy to see the City taking a comprehensive look at the Artesia Blvd corridor with an eye towards making improvements that will see the business corridor remain vital for many years into the future. There is one overriding concern that I wish to emphasize as needing immediate attention in order to lay the proper foundation. The City must address and redefine parking requirements for businesses along the boulevard. The Kurt Hardware store and property have been for sale for more than 2 1/2 years. There were multiple offers for the property within 60 days of its listing. Potential buyers walked away, however, when they learned of the City’s parking requirements. The cost for creating the required spots, especially if done underground, made none of the projects pencil out and the buyers have abandoned the site.
Kurt Hardware may be the most visible victim of onerous parking requirements but it certainly does not stand alone. It is undeniable that parking requirements have become an impediment to financial reinvestment along the boulevard and something must be done.
As a part of the NRBBA I request that a comprehensive evaluation of all options for parking in this corridor be prioritized as the first and best step towards establishing the proper environment for investment and vitalization. Nothing is more important and nothing will have a greater impact.
Speaking of impacts, I continue to believe that, in the best interest of creating a vibrant community, the City needs to embrace who we are and return the boulevard name to Redondo Beach Boulevard. This simple step will allow residents throughout the adjacent neighborhoods to identify with and embrace the area in which they live and enhance their desire to make it also the area where they shop and play. Marketers will tell you that everything is in a name and we want to proudly incorporate our City’s name as an identity for this center of North Redondo Beach commerce.
Respectfully submitted,
Thomas Immer
Resident and Secretary with
North Redondo Beach Business Association
As a resident of the South Bay, I implore the city of Redondo to provide warm showers and 24 hour restroom access for unhoused residents near the pier. This is basic hygiene that is immoral to withhold from anyone. Unhoused residents are struggling massively with the pandemic and are at a higher risk, and anything that CAN be done to support them SHOULD be done. Thank you.
I am a resident of the South Bay area (Manhattan Beach) and I would like to ask the city council to provide showers and 24 hour restroom access for their unhoused residents near the pier. These are basic hygiene resources that the city could easily provide. The people experiencing homelessness in the city of Redondo Beach deserve the same amount of access, safety, and respect as anyone else. Especially during this time when this population has already experienced a severe decline in available resources and is at a high risk of contracting the virus.
As a community member of the South Bay i join with Street Watch LA in calling on the city of Redondo Beach to provide its unhoused residents with access to warm showers and 24 hour access to restrooms.
This is a very low standard, all humans need to stay clean and go to the bathroom. Making these services available to unhoused people not only helps them meet these human needs but also sends a message to them that their community cares about them, both help people get off the streets.
Redondo Beach officals like Mike Webb love to pat themselves on the backs about how great the city of Redondo Beach does helping it's unhoused neighbors, but when a community is failing to provide the basics for memebers in the community, it is not doing great. If the city has over $77,000 for an unnecessary fence, it should be able to produce these basic and necessary services.
Dear council members,
I am a resident of Redondo Beach and I strongly urge you to provide consistent access to warm showers for my unhoused friends who live near the Redondo Beach Pier. This, along with 24 hour restroom access, is what these residents are constantly in dire need of. Hot showers provide a sense of dignity and with Covid-19 cases growing rapidly in Los Angeles county, I find it immoral to keep people from accessing these resources that meet basic hygiene needs. It is literally a matter of life and death. Obviously, the urge to use the restroom does not stop at 9pm when most public bathrooms in Redondo Beach are closed. Please allow 24 access to bathrooms, whether that means keeping pier and park restrooms open or providing portable toilets. Lastly, I ask that when making decisions for the city, please remember that unhoused folks are also residents of Redondo Beach who need their basic needs met just like anyone else.
Thank you, Sam Chlanda
Dear City Council,
As a resident of Redondo Beach, I am writing in to ask the council to provide basic hygiene services that are accessible to the unhoused folks living near the pier. I've heard first hand from unhoused folks near the pier and Veteran's Park that they do not have access to warm showers or restrooms after the park and beach restrooms are closed for the evening. Staying clean and using the restroom are basic human necessities that everyone should be able to safely and reasonably access. These are basic services but I believe it would go a long way with building trust with the unhoused community and demonstrate the city's commitment to helping and listening to its unhoused residents.
Thank you.
I'm a longtime resident of Redondo Beach writing to encourage the council to do what they can to provide our unhoused neighbors with access to warm showers and 24-hour restrooms by the pier.
Hello, I am a lifelong resident of Redondo Beach and am writing to voice support for keeping beach and park restrooms open for our unhoused community members. COVID-19 has been incredibly dangerous for those who are already at-risk, such as people experiencing homelessness. There are zero shelters in the South bay where unhoused people can turn to, so the very least Redondo Beach can do as a city is provide warm showers and 24 hour restroom access. Access to a restroom and shower is basic human hygiene, and whether housed or not, all community members should have access to. Furthermore, barring unhoused people from restroom access often leaves them with no other option than to relieve themselves in less than ideal circumstances such as in public, sometimes upsetting other community members and resulting in citations from RBPD — who are no strangers to criminalizing our unhoused population. Restricting at-risk and disenfranchised individuals from public utilities will further perpetuate the cycle of criminalization that they are placed in by our governing systems, and only disenfranchise at risk-individuals even more. I urge Redondo Beach City Council to keep park and beach restrooms available 24/7, and provide unhoused community members with access to warm showers.
Our houseless neighbors living by the pier are in dire need of easy access to warm showers and bathrooms after the park and beach close. The City of Redondo can very easily provide these basic services, and -- considering the alarming rate at which COVID cases are spiking in the area -- it is quite literally matter of life and death for the most vulnerable, at-risk members of the community that the City does everything within its power to make their living space clean and habitable, and do it immediately. Being deprived of the basic dignity of secure housing and hygiene is cruel enough even under the best of circumstances, but during a deadly pandemic it's nothing less than inhuman. The City of Redonda MUST do better for its houseless constituents, and do it now.
I am happy to see the City taking a comprehensive look at the Artesia Blvd corridor with an eye towards making improvements that will see the business corridor remain vital for many years into the future. There is one overriding concern that I wish to emphasize as needing immediate attention in order to lay the proper foundation. The City must address and redefine parking requirements for businesses along the boulevard. The Kurt Hardware store and property have been for sale for more than 2 1/2 years. There were multiple offers for the property within 60 days of its listing. Potential buyers walked away, however, when they learned of the City’s parking requirements. The cost for creating the required spots, especially if done underground, made none of the projects pencil out and the buyers have abandoned the site.
Kurt Hardware may be the most visible victim of onerous parking requirements but it certainly does not stand alone. It is undeniable that parking requirements have become an impediment to financial reinvestment along the boulevard and something must be done.
As a part of the NRBBA I request that a comprehensive evaluation of all options for parking in this corridor be prioritized as the first and best step towards establishing the proper environment for investment and vitalization. Nothing is more important and nothing will have a greater impact.
Speaking of impacts, I continue to believe that, in the best interest of creating a vibrant community, the City needs to embrace who we are and return the boulevard name to Redondo Beach Boulevard. This simple step will allow residents throughout the adjacent neighborhoods to identify with and embrace the area in which they live and enhance their desire to make it also the area where they shop and play. Marketers will tell you that everything is in a name and we want to proudly incorporate our City’s name as an identity for this center of North Redondo Beach commerce.
Respectfully submitted,
Thomas Immer
Resident and Secretary with
North Redondo Beach Business Association
As a resident of the South Bay, I implore the city of Redondo to provide warm showers and 24 hour restroom access for unhoused residents near the pier. This is basic hygiene that is immoral to withhold from anyone. Unhoused residents are struggling massively with the pandemic and are at a higher risk, and anything that CAN be done to support them SHOULD be done. Thank you.
I am a resident of the South Bay area (Manhattan Beach) and I would like to ask the city council to provide showers and 24 hour restroom access for their unhoused residents near the pier. These are basic hygiene resources that the city could easily provide. The people experiencing homelessness in the city of Redondo Beach deserve the same amount of access, safety, and respect as anyone else. Especially during this time when this population has already experienced a severe decline in available resources and is at a high risk of contracting the virus.
Thank you,
Emma
As a community member of the South Bay i join with Street Watch LA in calling on the city of Redondo Beach to provide its unhoused residents with access to warm showers and 24 hour access to restrooms.
This is a very low standard, all humans need to stay clean and go to the bathroom. Making these services available to unhoused people not only helps them meet these human needs but also sends a message to them that their community cares about them, both help people get off the streets.
Redondo Beach officals like Mike Webb love to pat themselves on the backs about how great the city of Redondo Beach does helping it's unhoused neighbors, but when a community is failing to provide the basics for memebers in the community, it is not doing great. If the city has over $77,000 for an unnecessary fence, it should be able to produce these basic and necessary services.
Thank you for your time.
Matt Zarro