Harbor Commission - Regular Meeting

Roll call.

Sorry. Okay. Commissioner Simpson?

I'm here.

Commissioner Bazaj is absent. Commissioner Anderson is absent. Commissioner Nafisi? Here. Commissioner Bealy? Absent. Commissioner Sow?

Here.

Chair Arata?

Present. Commissioner Nafisi, can you lead us in the salute Approve the order of agenda. Approval for the order of agenda.

I'll make a motion to approve the order of agenda.

I'll second.

Blue folder items.

All favor?

All in favor? Aye. Blue folder items. We do have a blue folder item. We do have

one blue folder item for H1 under non agenda items. I'll make

a motion for that blue folder item. Can I get a second?

I'll second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Consent calendar. Business items, except those form noticed for public hearing or discussion, are assigned to the consent calendar. The commission members may request that any consent calendar items be removed, discussed, and acted upon separately. Items removed from the consent calendar will be taken up under the excluded consent calendar section below. Those items remaining on the consent calendar will be approved in one motion following oral communications. F1, approve affidavit of posting for the Public Works and Sustainability Commission meeting.

So I move we, adopt the consent calendar.

I'm sorry?

I move we adopt the consent calendar.

Okay. I'll second.

All in favor?

Aye. Aye.

We do need to take if anyone would like to speak, we can invite the public if they'd like to speak.

Is there any public comment?

This would just be for consent calendar items at this time. And there are just let me double check Zoom. There's no one on

Zoom at this time.

And there are no e comments.

No e comments.

So we vote I think we already voted, so.

F2, approve the Public Works and Sustainability Commission meeting minutes for October.

Think Commissioner Simpson actually voted was the motion to adopt all of the items on the consent calendar?

Yes, correct. That was my motion.

That would be F1 through F4. Okay. That's what you voted

Excluded consent calendar items.

There were none.

There's none. Public participation on non agenda items. This section is intended to provide members of the public with the opportunity to comment on any subject that does not appear on this agenda for action. This subject is limited to thirty minutes. Each speaker will be afforded three minutes to address the commission. Each speaker will be permitted to speak only once. Written requests, if any, will be considered first under this section. Public participation on non agenda items.

So this is the opportunity for anybody in the audience. If there's something you want to discuss that's not on the agenda, this would be the opportunity now. We do not have anyone on Zoom at this time.

Good evening, Commissioners. Andy Windy, Public Works Director. I just want to take a moment to share some good news that we've had in our department that we have found my replacement as city engineer, and Lauren has taken the job as the new city engineer for the city of Redondo Beach. So I just want to make you all aware of that. And with her promotion, we are also going to add a new a different liaison for this group, and that's Jessie Reyes, who's sitting right here with you. Jessie is our capital program project manager in charge of our kind of tracking the money and grants and all the things that we do for capital projects. So it'll be a regular part of this meeting moving forward. But this seemed like the best place on the agenda to let you know that announcement.

Congratulations. Thanks for

the time.

Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. All right. Items continued from previous agendas. There

are no items continued.

Items for discussion prior to action. That's J1 now. Discussion of bicycle lane feasibility on Palos Verdes Boulevard.

Good evening Public Works and Sustainability Commission. Ryan Lewis, city traffic engineer. Lauren, if you pull up the slides. So this discussion item is to talk about the feasibility of extending bicycle lanes on Pauls Verdes Boulevard, PV Boulevard. Just some notes.

This agenda item is just to talk about the bicycle lanes on Peavey Boulevard per council direction. So so this was a directive that came from city council at a at a recent meeting. This commission has discussed truck routes on Peavey Boulevard, prospect, other routes in around South Redondo. That was discussed back in March 2024. We also discussed truck routes and traffic safety in this general area at the Public Safety Commission last Thursday at their January 2025 meeting.

We consider traffic safety and the truck routes along this area to be generally separate issues, not mutually exclusive. So so tonight, we're not talking about truck routes. We're talking about, the extension of bicycle lanes on the street, which could have some, traffic safety traffic traffic safety benefits. For this topic, provided notice via postcard to all residents and businesses within two fifty feet of the PV Boulevard corridor, excluding the Legado addresses that are currently under construction. Just some background the city has already approved and will imminently strike class two bicycle lanes on PV Boulevard between Irina and the Torrance border to the East of Prospect so Irina is one block West of Prospect so from just West of Prospect going east to able

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sense PV We're Boulevard is narrower West of Ireena, 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. And the prior approved project was a bike lane implementation plan. I did not consider any parking or travel lane removals. So therefore the city council directed staff to study what those dedicated bicycle lanes could look like on PV Boulevard between PCH and IRENA. The photo below shows what those bicycle lanes will look like, the ones that are already slated for construction.

Some definitions for bicycle lanes. Per state of The class you know, this example here is a Class II dedicated bicycle lane with a buffer. That's still considered Class II. The bicycle lanes on Manhattan Beach Boulevard are considered buffered bicycle lanes class two. Regular class two bicycle lane is just a striped bike lane without any additional buffers.

An example of that would be Barrel Street. A class one shared juice path is a corridor where both cyclists and pedestrians can share the space. The, beachfront bike path is an example of that. A class three bicycle route is a shared street. Generally, you'll see bicycle sharers and as of new state law, these types of sharers are not allowed on 35 mile per hour or above streets.

So a small neighborhood street such as Felton Lane or Ridge Lane could be considered a class three bicycle route where cyclists and vehicles are sharing the use of that lane. Finally, over here, a bit of a newer type of bicycle facility, Class IV protected. They can be they can run-in both directions on one side of the street or be a single direction, on each side of the street or in just one direction. This provides a vertical, separated barrier to separate cyclists and, cyclist traffic from vehicle traffic traffic that could be parking or no parking, but it should incorporate some sort of physical element to prevent cars from entering those bike lanes. So, Harbor Drive is the most notable example in the city.

As a general safety comparison, you know, types of bikes or bicycle facilities are appropriate for different streets. Usually, the, you know, as you go up in safety requires more space to separate the different modes. You know perhaps a lot of neighborhood smaller neighborhood residential streets are considered appropriate for a class three just bike routes where speeds are slow enough to for cyclists and vehicles to share the lane. But as streets get busier and wider that's when it's more appropriate to provide more dedicated space or even separated space for cyclists and or pedestrians. So this map here, it's a bit complicated, we'll walk through it.

This red line on the map shows the whole PV Boulevard corridor. The purple lines show the various city boundaries as PV Boulevard starts in Torrance, enters Redondo, goes back into Torrance, and then enters PV Estates. The numbers on the side of the street show the number of lanes in each direction for for Peavey Boulevard. As you can see, the street starts off with bicycle lanes in both directions, one lane in each direction, becomes two lanes in each direction, continues that way through Redondo Beach back into Torrance. There are bicycle lanes on PV Boulevard in the most of the Torrance sections except for South Of Sepulveda.

And then the lanes sort of reduced down to one and kind of peter out as they enter previous states. So the two lanes in each direction is not totally uniform on the corridor. So but this is generally what the lanes look like, at least within the vicinity of Redondo as two lanes in each direction. As part of this project, the city collected traffic data on Peavey Boulevard. We collected bidirectional daily traffic and eighty fifth percentile speeds.

This was back in December 2024, right around Avenue E. We recorded speeds of about 35 miles per hour and the average daily traffic about 16,000 vehicles per day. 16,000 vehicles per day, you know, by some back of the envelope estimates, this could be handled by one lane in each direction. There are plenty of streets, know, with this amount of traffic with one lane each direction around our region. 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 city of Torrance and in Paul's various estates.

So if there was a desire to change the number of car lanes on PV Boulevard, it would likely require some coordination and some a more regional study with torrents to avoid, you know, dropping lanes and forcing merges right at at city borders. So that's why at we're to going that. Day parking utilization study. The red lines show the extent of where we're proposing those bicycle lanes, but the blue lines show each different block on each side of the street where parking data was collected. The data was collected from seven a.

To seven p. M. Every single hour. So for there are 12 times that those the parking utilization was counted and this was done on a Tuesday, a weekday, and a Saturday. So as you can see on this graph that here are the number of approximate spaces along each block face, the length of that curb, assuming about 18 to 20 feet per parked vehicle, and the number of cars counted at each hour between seven a. M. And seven p. M. So as you can see, each block face was roughly one to two vehicles parked at any given time. And this held the same on the weekend collection day as well.

So during those two days of data collection, were closer to the holidays, the parking utilization was very low. Also public works staff also collected parking data on eight different nights on the weekdays and weekends in December, right around 09:45PM. This was in conjunction with the Avenue H Holiday Lights Bollards, when they were going to and from the Bollard closure to service the Bollards, they would collect parking data on either side of the street. And they counted no more than five vehicles parked on either side of Pauls Verdes Boulevard between PCH and Prospect. So on any given block face, there's no more than 50% occupancy at any given time.

Most blocks have a capacity about five to eight vehicles to be parked, and we found no more than three or four vehicles parked on any given block face. But that might have been the total for the whole corridor as well. And, yeah, less than 10 vehicles parked along this whole segment. We do have videos showing you know during the daytime so this is PV Boulevard eastbound at around 03:30 p. M.

As you can see here I'll try to go a little bit faster on this video. You can see there's very few vehicles parked on the curb here. And except for this, you know, couple vehicles parked on this segment, this is actually past IRENA, so it's not going to be affected by the proposal for additional bicycle lanes here. Here we reach Prospect and East of Prospect also not part of the project. Over here is westbound at 06:30PM.

You can see mostly low occupancy. 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. And as you can see, not very high utilization.

One car there. And here turning around at the log auto development. Going back eastbound on Peavey Boulevard. Past Cyrena right here. So so we see the same type of conditions at 9PM as well. So this is after the this is outside of what the parking consultant provided to us. These were videos taken by public work staff. Generally low utilization on the corridor. This is east bound. And then one more at west bound right around nine p.

M. That same truck parked right there. So here shows existing and proposed cross sections for PV Boulevard. On the top here is the existing cross section. We have approximately roughly eight feet dedicated to parking.

That's what we usually assume. 11 foot travel lanes, 14 feet reserved for the median. And if we were to take away that street parking, we could repurpose those lanes and actually narrow the travel lanes to 10 or 11 feet in each direction that would help slow down the traffic, which would provide additional traffic calming benefits. But within that space, we could provide a pretty wide six foot bike lane and a four foot buffer with any type of barrier or that the city may choose at a later date. Some of the benefits of, these protected bike lanes or any type of bicycle facilities that, you know, providing specific space for cyclists and other mobility devices, will help with traffic safety, reduce bike riding on sidewalks, which is safer for pedestrians and cyclists alike.

These narrower travel lanes can reduce speeding and the number of crashes. This will also connect bicycle lanes on PV Boulevard south of PCH that are in the city of Torrance. So this will help connect redundant residents in that area to Riviera Village. It will also improve the efficiency of public space. As it is right now, it's just providing free parking for people's personal vehicles.

But perhaps this space could be better used to move cyclists for anyone. At this time, this project is not funded or designed. If the city decided to move forward with this type of project, we would need to hire a consultant to produce the design plans and, make those plans for construction. We're estimating at least $200,000, to design and construct this. It should be a relatively low cost, because the the pavement is already there, and it's just a matter of re striping the street and, adding whatever type of barrier the city decides.

If, protected bike lane is is approved, the type of barrier can be decided later, but staff prefers more rigid materials that are longer lasting and more aesthetically pleasing. One of the downsides of adding protected bike lane barriers is that it would require coordination of Athens services that does our street

we're do to that.

Our staff recommendation is to recommend City Council to fund the design and construction of these protected bicycle lanes between PCH and IRENA. Happy to answer any questions.

I have a quick question, I think that's know that street point. Very well. I There's a lot of garage driveways, people pulling in and out. Has there been any contemplation or studies around how bike lanes will encumber or obstruct driveways and how that could potentially pose as safety?

So for any type of bike lane, especially protected bike lanes, the more driveways you have, the more openings you need to provide to provide access to those driveways. I think luckily for us along PV Boulevard, most of those driveways are sort of paired together in like right next to each other so if these types of bike lanes were approved we would paint conflict markings and openings at those driveways those are those are pretty typical for bicycle lanes the ones on Harbor Drive also have those openings as well.

Public comment?

Yes. We have a few people who have turned in cards already. So we'll start with Liam Walsh. And then the second person is Bob Halstead.

Good evening, commissioners. My name is Liam Walsh. I'm a resident of District 5. I'm also a volunteer with the South Bay High School Coalition. I am strongly in favor of the proposed new protected bike lanes on Palos Verdes Boulevard.

Just looking back to where we were a couple months ago, I know the city was ready to install some sheriffs along Paulis Vereus Boulevard which are like the bike markings in the middle of the road that Ryan mentioned. And as you mentioned those aren't really suitable for like traffic going 35 miles an hour. No one whether you're in a car or on a bike wants to be in that situation. So I applaud the work that has happened over the last few months to get to where we are now, where we're now looking at a much more improved design and really is like very appropriate for the kind of environment we're looking at here. I agree with all the points in the presentation about how PV Boulevard provides a really good convenient like regional connectivity connecting to existing bike lanes and just provides a good way to get across the south end of the city.

Protected bike lanes haven't demonstrated across many cities to provide safety benefits for all road users. So, this is really a good investment in like traffic safety generally, whether it's kids on bikes. And I think the benefit of protected bike lanes 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 between themselves and traffic. You look at Harbor Drive, which was the last class four protected bike lane that Redondo built about ten years ago. We haven't put in any protected bike lanes since then.

We've put in a lot of class twos, which I've been really happy about. But I think this is a really good momentum to sort of you know put in more protected bike lanes, help build out a connected network that everyone is comfortable using, and this has been shown to really bolster ridership and people are more willing to go ride their bike somewhere. This is especially relevant in the South Bay where like I think it's 70% of trips are less than three miles. So when you're looking at traffic congestion, school pickup drop off, all those considerations, the fact that we have growing interest in e bikes, the fact that we have this proposed network of bike lanes, these are all really great factors that can come together and provide regional transport transportation needs. So yeah, I encourage you to bring this to council to go and fund the design and construction.

And I'd also like hopefully for this to eventually lead into protected bike lanes on prospects, understand that's out of the scope of this project. But as far as regional connectivity, that is another key link in South Redondo that I would like to see us look into. So thanks for your time.

We

have Alex Feynman.

Alex, before you start, there's a switch just to your right on the face of that.

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

The whole thing will come up.

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evening, commissioners. My name is Alex Feynman. I'm a Redondo Beach resident in District 3. And I'm a frequent bike rider with my kids from North to South Redondo and back. And I'm really happy to see this commission considering improving our streets with Class IV bike lanes.

The proposed location for the bike lane on Palos Boulevard is ideal for this sort of infrastructure because its location immediately serves families who bike to Toledo Elementary School and visitors to Riviera Village who can enjoy the local businesses there without having to search for parking. And it would also have the added benefit traffic, which I know has been a goal of the city, as it makes Peavey Boulevard safer for all travelers, cyclists, pedestrians, and drivers. And the staff's analysis had mentioned we can accomplish this with relatively low impact to parking demand. This potential bike lane is also an opportunity for the city to further evaluate firsthand the effectiveness of Class IV bike lanes after having one on Harbor Drive for a while. There's another opportunity to see its effectiveness and utility and also how it promotes safety as far as general mobility and in routes to schools specifically.

So I really encourage the commission to support this class four bike lane construction on Palos Verdes Boulevard, I hope and expect that this bike lane will prove to be a model for further development of safe bike infrastructure throughout Rwanda Beach. Thanks very much.

So that I'll make this short. Staff did an awesome job on that presentation. My name is Laura McMoran. I'm a resident of District 1 and I actually live like a house in from PV. This is going to be awesome. I just am so excited and thrilled when I got the postcard that this was on the agenda. I had to speak in favor of it. We biked down to the village. Everything everybody else said is so true. So please recommend that Council adopt a study. Thank you for your time and thank you for your service.

Austin Carmichael, District five and Public Safety Commission chair. I want to applaud staff. I don't want to direct this to you. I want to applaud staff for coming up with this proposal and presentation. One of the things that I enjoy is my grandfather used to give us all these little sayings, and one of them was leadership is not about being in charge but about taking care of those in your charge.

And what I heard tonight, and I hope that you all recommend, is that we're taking an effort to take care of those that are in our charge. That corridor and I'm just going to speak on the bike lanes. I know I can speak on the other stuff, but Ryan gave us the but that corridor has been a pain point for that community for a long time. And to see an approach that is about the citizenry and not about the city is absolutely fantastic. And so I hope that you all are able to come together and think about how we can fund in creative ways.

I know that there are different things that are in the currently that may be covered under measure FP, etcetera. So it'll be a short order to figure out where we can maybe get some immediate funding. But I hope that you all are unanimous in moving this forward and are able to communicate with the community in a way that they're patient because there are things that still have to happen, right? We still have to put out a bid for the consultant and all that sort of wonderful stuff. But I hope that we continue in a way that everyone feels like there's momentum and not bureaucracy. So thanks for your putting this on the agenda and making it a priority. Have a good night.

Thank you. Anyone else? Sure, please.

Hi, I'm Bruce Redling, and I live on Avenue G right next to the corridor there. And I rode on Palos Verdes Boulevard today. And this design appears to make it safer to ride on Palos Verdes are right there, and I would heartily approve it. Thanks.

Thank you. Anyone else? We

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have two people on Zoom. One has raised their hand. Brianna Egan.

Hello. Hi, commissioners. My name is Brianna Egan. I'm a resident of District 1. Just want to add my voice in support of, this item.

I'm also a volunteer with South Bay Forward. One of our overarching goals is to, really move the South Bay Forward on mobility, and the way that we see doing that is to build an interconnected network of protected bike lanes. And I really see Redondo Beach as being the leader on that in in the community. And so I'm really excited and happy to see this item being brought forth, by public works, as well as, the district one council person. And I think, you know, 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 on the road.

That includes, narrowing 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 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, that that bring class class four bike lanes wherever feasible. It's a great example of not, you know, interfering with driveways. So I think it can really, be successful here. And I also want to just, put in a word of support as well for a further, corridor study of, Peavey Boulevard and Prospect, knowing that it's, one of our, you know, kind of a high injury area, fast roads, and, also one that connects a lot of our schools.

So I'd really like us to look at safe routes to schools, for, for people of all ages, to get around, by bike. So it meets our climate goals, it meets our sustainability, and our transportation goals and just want to support. Thank you.

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right. Thank you guys very much for this. I'm Niels Nerhadim, Council Member for District 1. First, I want to thank staff for an excellent presentation and all of the work that you guys have done over the course of last month. It's actually a lot more than I was expecting.

So big kudos for that. Thank you to 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 sitting down with the residents in that area, speaking about the traffic issues, the traffic issues regarding truck route, speeding, loud noise, the stop sign there at South Alberta, and it really came attention that this is part of the South Bay Redondo Beach Bicycle Master Plan. And so it will be excellent for us to be able to get this in place.

So as was mentioned before, the ability to get to the Riviera Village, Toledo from Torrance to Torrance to the beach, back from the beach. It's a real connector for 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 will be minimized and the impacts of the parking will be minimized. And it's one more step for a complete South Bay Redondo Beach bicycle master plan, full completion on that. And when I got in office, we had less than 5% of that built.

Now leaving out office here next March, we'll have 85% plus or minus design and build. So this is going to be a big thing for us. And I really want to thank you guys for taking the time. Appreciate it.

That's all the participants on Zoom. If anyone else wants to speak, you can come on up. For the record, we had three e comments, and they were all supportive.

Okay. Can you go back and just put up what our options are there again at end the of the presentation? It's always good to see those before we consider making

Here they are. So just to clarify, we don't have the funding to design or construct this at this time. So any support for this type of project will still require City Council to appropriate those funds at the next budget cycle.

Brian, is the streets in pretty good condition, correct? That's correct. So I we're

that's If we don't do a slurry good seal, then it will be cheaper. Question. But we can weigh those different options depending on the funding available. Correct me if

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

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

Well, was looking at is it for the goal six goal four of the city's infrastructure, number six on street rehabilitation. I was just thinking about implementing this into the BRR, it's a slurry, just to ensure it's in good condition. I saw that as the overall redundant strategy. So if we could implement that in. I could clarify if I look to the strategic plan. But my only recommend is just to implement it within the payment management plan, if possible, as one way to kind of incorporate those funds.

Yeah. The timeline for that could be a bit slower, I think, than compared to just fundings purely for striping and potential barriers. So that has to be considered as well.

I'll jump in on this. Hi, Steve. The payment management plan, we typically dedicate those funds towards our residential street projects. So this would be something that we'd probably go after some grant funding. There's quite a bit of active transportation type grant funding available.

And some of it's kind of rapid deployment stuff that's pretty much design ready. So we might be in a good position to find some quick money through a grant program. So that would probably be where we'd look first. But we certainly, with the council member from District 1 here, we might get a BRR request from him that the council approves for us to provide that for either the midyear coming up discussion in February or in advance of the June budget conversations as part of our CIP. Okay.

Commissioner Simpson. Commissioner Simpson.

Just our our action tonight, if we, the staff recommendation, would would be for the city council to go ahead with this project. Right? But then once it's designed and so on and we know would it come back to us again with a design, or does it just have our last word on it?

So just some context here. We had been working for you. You know you've been on the commission for quite some time. You know we've been working on implementation of the South Bay Bicycle Mass Ride for many years. We had previously designed this corridor with only for fear of eliminating parking and the issues that come along with that.

Last year, when the law changed and streets of this nature well, five miles an hour actually it's anything over 30 miles an hour is the way the law is written should not have sheriffs on them. We eliminated a couple of streets that were had sheriffs included in that project that's underway right now. We took them out of the project because they were no longer legal to do. We also took this street out even though it would be legal just because it didn't seem appropriate. The best choice here for traffic and cyclist safety.

And so at that time, council member Narenheim directed this topic to come before you to get public input about whether or not bike lanes along this corridor would be supported in concept. 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. Then counsel will tell us what to do from there in terms of next steps.

May I make a motion?

I had a couple more questions. The Bicycle Master Plan is 2011 at this point, right? That's correct. Has there been discussion about updating that at a regional level? Did the COG take the lead on that?

I believe it was the

No, South Bay Bicycle Coalition, I think, was the lead agency. Where's Jim Hannon when you need?

I believe there was some chatter about making, I think the bikes bicycle collision, you know, did make a minor update clarifying that they supported more class four facilities since that Class IV facilities weren't really a thing back when the master plan was built. But in terms of a more regional, you know, a redo of the regional plan, we haven't had those discussions at the staff level.

I think real value of the master plan was identifying the routes that were important, and there were proposed class one, two, and three in in something called the bicycle friendly street as well in that plan. Those categories have changed a little bit since that time. 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 given all the demands on the roadway.

And I had one other comment about the Class four barrier protection. We have the ones that stamped concrete on harbor, I believe.

I believe the protection on harbor is full carbon. These are kind

of raised Canadians, yeah.

With the stamp in the middle, though, like a stamped concrete.

On the

top of the curb, I think there is a stamped concrete element there.

Is that something that you're thinking about emulating?

I don't think going to be painting the full bike lanes green anymore because of the maintenance and potential slipping hazards for the tires. For example, those potential driveway conflicts, those would definitely have that green paint on them similar to what we just striped on Barrel And Manhattan Beach Boulevard, Torrance Boulevard.

I don't think we would recommend concrete raised medians as a place to start there because that would cost more and delay the implementation. Think if council asked us to come back with the design, we would propose something a little bit more modular like those K71 bollards the 100 and parking stops or

there's prefabricated curb sections that can be more aesthetically pleasing but still rigid.

I just saw this in Santa Monica over the weekend. Those work much cheaper, yeah, that modular style.

Yeah. And I believe Santa Monica also has they have a machine that actually forms curb as it goes along. Think on Ocean Avenue, that's what they've been doing. We don't have that type of machine, but they've been using a variety of materials too and certainly perhaps some inspiration for design in our city.

I guess my only comment would be for something as aesthetically pleasing to a certain degree to not just something you know just like the typical plastic bollards that get slapped out all

the time.

Yeah, we're very mindful of that component as well because once those things those flexible bars get hit they don't they don't look the same anymore.

Just one question. If we do a supportive motion to you know pass this off to City Council, do they discuss a variety of different ways or do you present a variety of different ways to make it more cost efficient or is this the cost that it is and you guys kind of go in with this proposal?

We would probably come back to them with a range of costs for various treatments, concrete being the most expensive and something cheaper. So we would do kind of conceptual designs to present them to ask for direction about which way to go with the final design.

I have a question. When you did the feasibility study, did you include Avenue G going east and west across Palos Verdes Boulevard? Because my thoughts are people go from east to west across Palos Verdes Boulevard. That's a lot of traffic, so we have a lot more bikes. Have you thought about that particular?

So in terms of the parking study, we didn't study anything on the side streets. Anecdotally, I think the parking utilization is not quite as high compared to other neighborhoods in Redondo Beach since most of the streets are single family homes, and also shown by the parking study itself showing very low parking utilization on Peavey Boulevard. In terms of the crossings itself at the existing stop signs, there could be some side benefits where if we narrow those vehicle lanes, the pedestrian safety might be enhanced. A pedestrian might feel a little bit more confident in perhaps starting their crossing within the bike lane and with the narrower travel lanes, drivers might slow down a bit. So there could be some side benefits to pedestrian safety at the existing crosswalks.

So Avenue G and Palos Verdes Boulevard, there is no stop signs. I mean, it's like a free for all. You pull out halfway, and then you've got cars going north and south on Palos Verdes Boulevard. So I'm just thinking if these are dedicated bike lanes, it's going to somewhere hold it up like that. That's a pretty busy intersection. I mean, it's not really an intersection because there's no stop sign, but it's a way to get from east to west. Know a lot of people do it.

Yeah. I don't think there will be substantial change to a driver who's trying to cross at a nonstop site like a nonstop controlled intersection. There shouldn't be much change.

The right safety is what I'm thinking about.

Yes. There should be adequate visibility. If anything, the visibility might be improved because instead of a parked what we're what to of is low to begin with.

And Stop control at that making that a an always stop control for instance is not something that we looked at in this study nor were we directed to. It's really just about could bike lanes PV Boulevard direction be recommended? And so if the council tells us to look at that as well, we could. Although there are some downsides to adding a stop sign there, obviously. So we would just have to weigh the pros and cons.

I'm not thinking mean, I don't know what I'm thinking of as as far as safety, what would be the safest thing because when you're pulling out of Avenue G, it's uphill so they're all the way across when you're going across. I I don't know. I just see a slight safety issue there.

Okay. No further questions.

Can I make a motion? Absolutely. I'd like to move that we recommend City Council fund the design and construction of protected bike lanes in PVB. That's PCH to Irene.

I'll second. I'll second that.

All in favor or opposed? This one we'll

do a roll call vote. Commissioner Simpson?

Aye.

Commissioner Anderson?

Aye.

Commissioner Nafisi? Aye. Commissioner Beeley?

Aye.

Commissioner Sow?

Aye.

Chairperson Arata?

Aye. Thank

you.

If we're moving on to J2, Chair, I didn't want to presume that. Yeah, so

receive and file the Public Works Spotlight presentation on Public Works operation.

So I'll just intro this. Several of you are new since the last time we've had kind of a informational item about the way the public works department works through its various divisions on the operations 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 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. This is really just for your information, so awareness of what the department handles on behalf of the city.

Good evening, Commissioners. My name is Mike Klein. I'm the Deputy Director for Operations. I oversee the Operations Division, which is just a good portion of how we get things done around the city. We take a lot from the engineering department and especially this commission when they suggest that we do things.

And so I just wanted to give you a real quick overview of our division. We have seven divisions within our operations overview: streets, sewer and storm drain, building facilities, parks, pier and harbor, solid waste and recycling, and then fleet services. Our Street Division is one of the things that comes out of the street division is a lot of work that does come from the public works and sustainability is that when there's a lot of things that are out there that you guys would like to see, a lot of times that comes up into our hands that we end up installing, and especially at our sign shop and things like that, but there's many other facets of the operations division. We're responsible for maintaining 6.7 square mile of sidewalks, 127 miles of streets and asphalt, that's maintained, and this is only the maintenance of it. 56 traffic signals and 1,900 Some of those are shared with Southern California Edison.

And then the 2,800 plus regulatory and wayfinding signs. That's where our sign shop really comes into operation. A lot of the work that Ryan Liu produces for us has changed and we have an excellent sign shop that does a lot of this work. Some of the pictures that you see here are some of the evidence of that and it was with the sign shop. If you look at the lowest picture right there, that are the speed cushions that were installed on Paulina.

That was done approximately two weeks ago and we received those. Working with the sign shop and our street department, they end up installing that. The upper two pictures that you see are some of the concrete and asphalt work that our division does in the street department. Along with this, the storm and sewer and storm drain department has approximately seven guys that are overseen by a supervisor and a manager. They are responsible for maintaining the sewer lines, 160 miles of sewers, the 16 sewer pumps that we have.

We also have four storm drain pump, storm lift pumps. This gets water that's in lower areas into areas that then it can gravity fall and drain off. We also maintain seven eighty four storm catch basins. That's what you normally see out on the street. Some of those are owned by LA County but we maintain them, we clean them, we make sure that they're clean enough so that we're not collecting debris that goes out to the ocean.

This division is on constant on call basis. It's important that we get to source spells or any kind of spells that we have immediately. These are I don't want to say the A Team because other people get mad, but these guys out there quite a bit. Just this weekend prepping for rain just to make sure that we don't have any backups or anything like that, the guys were out yesterday morning jumping on them pretty quick. The pictures that you see here are this one piece of equipment, that's our vector truck, that helps us stop any kind of sewage flows, any things like that that are getting to the ocean or to storm drain network.

The picture right next to it is our crews helping out a contractor when they had a cracked line down at the Portofino pump station. They jumped in to help contractor so that we could make sure that we didn't get any sewage or any effluent into the ocean. We wanted to make sure that we kept that clean. The bottom picture was kind of an unfortunate one. This was a traffic accident at Palos Verdes in Catalina.

It was a bad accident. Car caught on fire. The residual that was left over was not pretty. It was a lot of ash and a lot of burnt plastic and things like that. Our job on here, why am I putting this into a sewer and storm drain, is that we can't let that stuff go to the ocean.

And so our power washing crew is out there and behind this picture is a picture of us vacuuming that water up. We want to make sure we're trying to keep our oceans as clean possibly as can. Our facilities maintenance department, this is a department that's fairly small, doesn't have a lot of guys, but they do an awful lot of work. They maintain our civic center in making sure that number one, that it's clean to the janitors and cleaning up of it every day, keeping it in shape, carpets vacuum, things like that, all the way to improving some of the office spaces here, doing improvements, painting, carpeting, things like that. It's a fairly small group of guys to maintain as many facilities as we have and the aging facilities that we have.

They make sure that they do a pretty good job on an older building. They maintain the senior centers also. This is something that is within all of the buildings within the city's network. Police and fire. We also do CIP related maintenance improvements that would be like roofs, air conditioning, things like that, that we ask for money for a maintenance CIP.

Then that way we can have enough money that will enough funding that will get those type of things done. This group also maintains setting up chairs and doing things for the Christmas celebration all the way to homeless court. Every month the guys are out there, they'll set up and tear down for the homeless court, so they have a lot of hats in this group, but they do quite a bit of work. They also oversee the electrical and the HVAC and the plumbing and maintenance for all the city structures that we have here. The pictures that are off to the side, I just wanted to toss those in.

The police department kitchenette that we did over the past couple of years, we've tried to keep a police station that was built in 1959 for 29 officers. We're trying to hold her together until we get a new one. Catching up was a nice thing along with some of the other nice improvements that we've done over the years in these RCIP based projects. Perry 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. Our facilities team led by Gary Lalangi, who's a manager, has thirty eight years with the city, a lot of experience with him, took an old building and really cleaned up the inside of it.

They're still working on some of the kitchen facets of it, so there's some small improvements still ongoing today. Alta Vista roof, we did a roof replacement on seven of our facilities. Alta Vista was one of them, one of the more expensive ones because it's tile. But it was time for a new roof that was done last year, along with six other buildings. So we have a lot of roofs to replace sometimes.

The Parent Harbor maintenance is a division that's led by Chris King, who is a manager for the Parent Harbor area. He's fairly new to the city. He came to us two years ago. He came from the city of Long Beach. He worked in the harbor and beach area. He's been an asset to the city that has been very promising for us. He's got a lot experience underneath his belt and he brought it here. He oversees the daily maintenance. We want to make sure that our tourists and residents have a nice place to come to and that means clean restrooms, empty trash cans, and clean paver shone. So he makes sure that that's going on.

Also supports special events like beach life and some of the other activities, opening a seaside lagoon, making sure that that's taken care of. Then he also works with the engineering group very well. He has done a couple of projects right off the bat and that includes some of the pictures that are here. Number one was the Monstad Pier structure when we're having to redo some pile work underneath it. Very important one that we keep the pier up.

Then we had the international boardwalk pavers. Once you put pavers in, you've got to keep them clean. He not only oversaw some of the installation of it, along with our project engineers on this one, but he's making sure that we're trying to keep this clean on a recurring basis. Then another one that our police department got out of this one is he took on the remodel of the Pierce Substation. It was an old 1970s building that was pretty well beaten up on the inside.

Had a lot of water leaks. We reroofed it. We did quite a few improvements to it inside and out, reconfigured it a little bit, made it into some place that I'd like to have an office there myself because it's a nice view. And then one of the last two parts of this are the tenant and leasehold related issues. Chris and Robert Rivera, who's his supervisor, they want to make sure that we're working with our tenants down there at the pier because they're bringing in money.

We want to make sure that they're happy, but we also want to make sure that they're treating our peer happy in good ways. We have to have good partnership with them, so we want to make sure that's happening. Then the last bullet point on this one is beach and the breakwater. Last year, we had quite a few storms that were coming in. We utilized our teams to basically push back sand in front of the chart house to keep it from rolling up onto Harbor Drive.

Chris was one of the operators of the piece of equipment that we rented to push it back to the sand and we're glad that we did it. We're going to keep doing that. Also, the parking lot at the yacht club came apart, he was there to help that out. Chris also ended up helping out with the breakwater or not with the breakwater, but with the dredging of the harbor. So these are all things that happened down at the pier and there are a lot of items that I'm including into this presentation, but they're very, very important for our waterfront.

Our parks maintenance division is another division that we have a fairly new manager at. He came from Oceanside. He had twenty 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 parks and parkettes, including the landscaping. He also oversees tree trimming, planting playgrounds, restrooms, sport fields, street median maintenance, residential tree related issues. Some of our residents either don't want a tree or they do want a tree. Most of us say don't want a tree in their way. But he also oversees the playground safety maintenance.

Group, some of the pictures that you see up above, WCA, who's our partner for tree trimming. Do quite a bit for us do

to

And

it rolled over into the street. And we were we're going out there,

cleaned do it up, got that. It trimmed up pretty quick. Everybody wanted the firewood out of it, of course. And then up on Prospect, the picture next to it to the left is on Prospect. We're doing basically a median replanting right there.

We're working on that. 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 Oleanders that were there had died off, and we're looking at doing a different configuration of porta carpus and some trees along there, make it look a little bit better over there. And then the bottom picture is just a picture of WCA doing their annual grid pruning.

Solid waste and recycling operations. This is led by Andrea DeLapp. 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 the complaints that come from that, and so the day to day requests for pickups and things like that, oversized pickups, she oversees that. 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. And then we have our sponsored events. And so the e waste pickup that happens up at the Performing Arts Center along with the Household Hazardous Waste pickup, that's done with a huge group.

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, so it's a chance to get the things that they don't want anymore out of here. And then one of the most popular things is the compost distribution. The compost distribution usually happens at Wilderness Park and it always will bring in 40 yards of compost and the cars will be lined up down the street into Torrance.

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 Verdonta Beach only, and we make sure that we try to get as much as we can. There's usually maybe couple of shovels left when we're done. That's part of our solid waste and recycling operations. Then we have our fleet operations.

Our fleet we procure for all of our we have two fifty units in the city, and that goes everything from police cars, fire trucks, to pickup trucks and backhoes, 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. We also maintain our own city fuel island. We have diesel and we also have gas, but then we also have our CNG station that's there also. The CNG runs a few of the public works equipment, but it also runs some of our buses.

We maintain all of our generators this building and all the buildings here at the Civic Center have generators that are behind them in case we have power turn off, especially with the PD fire stations. And then most importantly is the pump stations that we have for the sewer pump stations that I talked about earlier. Those pump stations have to come on when they're needed, and that's why we have generators and that's overseen by this department. The Special Police and Fire Department vehicle maintenance, the couple of pictures that I have here are one of our mechanics at the bottom. He's working on one of our fire trucks.

He has to be licensed to be working on those types of vehicles. We have two mechanics that are going through their training to make sure that they're certified in certain aspects. Things that fall out of their aspect of expertise, we end up sending out. We do send some of our vehicles out for maintenance, but on the things that we can handle, they take care of. And so we make sure that our trucks are ready to go.

Just in the fires in the past couple of weeks, the vehicles that were sent up to the fires, we want to make sure that they get back. When they come back, they also have to be basically taken a look at and gone through safety inspections to make sure they're taken care of very well. That is my presentation. Do you want to do question and answer right now?

Any questions for Mike or anyone?

Just in context, the Public Works Operations Division is about 80% of the Public Works Department in terms of employees, and operational budget is certainly the biggest piece of what we do in the city. We're the second largest department in the city after the police department, so we have a lot of activity, a lot of responsibilities, very broad base of things that we take care of. And Mike's been with the city for

nineteen years.

I was going say twenty years. And in this role, probably the last twelve? Twelve? Doing a great job. And we have a great relationship with our union. Many of the employees work for the union that can get dicey sometimes, but we have a great relationship there. Things are going well and a really good group. When you send in your CommKate and that was the last thing I wanted to say that it usually ends up in somebody's desk in the Public Works Operations group to take care of those maintenance items that you guys notice in public right away. So that's all. Yeah, we're happy to answer any questions or if there are none, just wanted to share some insight about the kind of things that we do in the department.

Thank you. I think you did a fantastic job. It's a lot of work for that is quite a lot of work.

Commissioner? I

don't have a question. I just want to compliment you on your presentation. It was very informative and very helpful in getting an understanding of exactly what you do.

I hope I don't speak too fast. I tend to do that.

I have one question. It hadn't rained in quite a while. We had our big rain event, you kind of touched on it quickly. How were the catch basins? Was there a lot of clogging? Was there 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 always go out and we make sure that when we start to get heavy downpours, including myself, I go out there, I get a little bit nervous. That's what I made of.

He teases me about that. And we have hot spots that we try to make sure that we get to and we have a list of them and guys that are on these crews, we go out there and we inspect them. And it may be as simple as breaking off some leaves. We did very well last night. We need more rain, though.

It really does help our parks out, all of the wash down of the Esplanade to help We keep that need more rain. I'd rather be clearing storm drains than if it continues to be dry, we're going to again, we don't want to be in a drought. But it really does help with the larger scale of things of cleaning things up.

Our storm water permit requires us to clean our catch basins at least once a year on most of the residential streets. We do for water quality purposes, but it also serves for flood control.

And

then the higher areas we clean a lot more often than that. We have our known hot spots and some really seasoned guys who know exactly where those places are and that's where they patrol on rainy nights.

That preventive maintenance really helps.

That has been one of the largest things that we've seen over the past five or six years. If we jump on it way before and we look at this stuff, benefit from it down I the don't want to say that we haven't had things flooded. We've had a couple of small issues, But it's normally because we've had something an aberration happen where something got caught like a piece of plastic or something like that. That's simple. That's simple.

Great, John.

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 trends as well.

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 ash is kind of one of the fundamental pieces of cement in in some formulas. And so that stuff would get hard inside the inside the trucks, and we'd have to get those trucks over. So we it's we were still working on it honestly. When it rained, we'll we'll see how bad it is now, but hopefully a lot of that stuff's been taken care of. Don't go swimming, by the way, for the next couple of days. But

One of the best parts about this job is we have a great South Bay network of public works teams from Manhattan, El Segundo, and Hermosa's. We all work together on when they're, hey, what are some of the problems that you're starting to see? Ash was the biggest thing that came up. And what are you guys doing? Are we adding too much water? Slow your sweepers down. Cut down on the leaf blowers. Stop the leaf blowers. That's the biggest thing. We started washing down all of our playgrounds to make sure that they were okay.

We had some very concerned parents that were asking about our sand. There were things that we reached out to our fire chief on to get answers on. We have a great network here of if I don't know, I have people to ask. It's okay to say that you don't know sometimes.

May I move that we receive and file the excellent report?

Excellent, It very informative.

For Any public comment? There's E comment? No e comments. And let me just make sure we do not have anyone raising their hand on Zoom at this time. But if anyone from the public would like to speak, this is your opportunity as well. I don't see anyone who would like to speak in the audience. So We have a motion.

Do we have a second?

A motion Do to adjourn?

I think Commissioner Sison made a

motion to receive Do and

we have a second?

Second a motion to repeat it.

Can do this by your voice vote. All in favor? Aye. Right. Okay. Commissioner, member items, and future commission agenda topics.

This is your opportunity to ask any questions or this is actually in lieu of the referrals to staff. It's been retitled at the request of the city clerk. It's across all commissions. This is the new this is that item. So is your opportunity to ask any questions this time.

We can also make a referral to staff, though, right? We can point something out.

I think that's more of a question, but

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. 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.

I did get a notice in District 5 on the potential crosswalks on aviation. I was going to see the status on that because I thought that might come up this month.

Yeah. We were asked to delay that presentation by the council member from District 5 pending a in district meeting, which was gonna happen next week, but then that got delayed as well. So we are still waiting for a date from him and whether or not he'll combine it with District 4 as was planned for next week, we're yet to hear. But as soon as we have that meeting, then we'll bring him back here to this commission. Okay. Yep.

I just wanted to follow-up to

see if there's been any movement on the benches at the skate park that you guys removed.

Is Chris still here? Did we get a do you want to come up? Come on up and introduce yourself, Chris.

Good evening. I'm Chris King, senior McDonald Beach, manager for Harbor and Pure Division. As to all the benches, they all have been refurbished and reinstalled. So all of those have been replenished. And we also added a couple additional that weren't there before.

Thank you. Thank you.

I would love an update on Dominguez Park. Are we back to working on it again?

Can I just nod and not say

anything out loud?

Okay. So the county let you guys work?

Are We expecting to be as far down as we can go by next week. That's we're pushing our contractor to get there. We're still working with the county to satisfy them with all the things they've asked us to do. So it's still a an unresolved issue at this point, but we're trying to move forward at least to get the site stabilized and make sure we don't have runoff issues with coming rainstorms. The construction. We expect that, I'd say, next week or ten days.

If I may, I have a question. Put this in a question format, but do you know about a tree on Aviation Boulevard just south of Redondo Beach 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. And the branches are growing out and blocking the view if you're trying to come out of Rockville Lane.

Yeah. I I don't I'm looking to Mike to see if he's heard of anything there. Apparently not.

Well, needs to be

if he'd like

to It's send You've cleaned that up in the past a couple of years ago, but it's grown back out and it needs somebody to come down and clean it so it can

see when

we you get say out aviation in Redondo Beach? Don't think you meant Rockefeller?

Oh, Rockefeller. I case. That's

Southeast Corner?

Yeah. Yeah. Right. Okay. But it's not the car wash. It's it's it's one of the city's city access trees. Got the bushes are coming out of the bottom of the tree that just needed to be pruned a little bit and it will be much safer.

Very good. We'll send somebody by and have a look.

Thank you.

One other thing I was just curious about was in our October meeting, we discussed the signage kind of discouraging people from parking on those residential streets that were impacting people for the street lighting and torrents. We recommended

Oh, the Avenue H holiday.

Did you want a discussion on that in the future date or

Yeah, just an update on the efficacy of that and how that worked. Just curious to see

Can we talk about that now or agenda item?

Can talk about it as an answer to a question? Sure.

Yeah, so I don't actually do more work. No. Yeah. Yeah. So so it was, public works, myself, traffic engineer with operations, and police department all working together to, you know, make sure the signage plan as approved by city council, was implemented.

You know, every year we get some residents on both sides of the border complaining about the bollards, but, ultimately, I think it was a it was a pretty smooth, rollout this season. We didn't get too many complaints, throughout the season, which was which was really good. I visited the area at least three to four different times in the evening, and the parking was filled, so that may or may not be an unresolved problem. But the roundabout was actually working pretty well, even despite our best efforts of providing all the signage saying that there's a dead end at Avenue H, there were still some people who decided to drive and look for parking. So that roundabout location of a scene in Avenue H really did provide up the sort of that last chance opportunity to make a U-turn without three point turns or else you're hitting the ballers at the end of the block.

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. 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 sort of clean up that trash around the area. So I think overall, this year has been improved.

Yeah, it's not solved. We're gonna get comments every year about solve it, know, waste of time. It's a very difficult situation to solve. But, I think improvements were made. We had more police presence this year and a lot lot more, working together with the police department to kinda help, keep the parking issues at bay at least.

Has there been discussion further about having a seasonal residential parking pass for that area?

No, there hasn't been a formal discussion on that. I think one of the first steps that has happened is to actually change our municipal code so that it could allow for those types of permits. Think a more overall discussion about our permit parking program is probably needed.

Thank you.

So anybody else have anything to talk about? How about a motion to adjourn?

I'll make a motion to adjourn.

Adjourn. In favor?

In favor?

I

said all in favor. All right.