City of Redondo Beach 5-1-14

CITY OF REDONDO BEACH

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF REDONDO BEACH ON THE FOLLOWING MATTER.  ANY AND ALL INTERESTED PERSONS MAY APPEAR AND BE HEARD.

SUBJECT OF THE HEARING:  Consideration of an Exemption Declaration, Conditional Use Permit, Planning Commission Design Review, Coastal Development Permit, and Vesting Tentative Tract Map No. 72714 to allow the construction of 4-unit and 6-unit residential condominium projects on adjacent lots, for a total of 10 residential units, on properties located within a Low-Density Multiple-Family Residential (R-3A) zone, within the Coastal Zone.

LOCATION OF PROPOSED PROJECT:  521 – 527 S. Broadway, Redondo Beach. (Legal description on file)

APPLICATION FILING DATE:  March 10, 2014

APPLICANT NAME:  DC Construction & Development

COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT FILE NO.:  2014-03-CDP-007 and 2014-03-CDP-008

HEARING WILL TAKE PLACE:  Thursday, May 15th, 2014 at 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, in the City Council Chambers, 415 Diamond Street, Redondo Beach.

CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT:  The projects are Categorically Exempt, pursuant to Section 15332 of the Guidelines of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:  The case files containing the plans and applications may be reviewed in the Planning Division, located through Door E of the Redondo Beach City Hall, 415 Diamond Street, Redondo Beach.  For additional information, contact Alex Plascencia, Assistant Planner, at (310) 318-0637, extension 1-2405.

PUBLIC COMMENTS: Oral testimony will be received during the public hearing.  Written correspondence may be delivered to the Planning Division office at 415 Diamond Street Door E, Redondo Beach, Ca. 90277 by 5:00 p.m. the day of the public hearing, May 1, 2014.

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Planning Commission at, or prior to, the public hearing.

APPEALS:   All decisions of the Planning Commission are appealable to the City Council.  The decision of the City Council on the Coastal Development Permits is not further appealable to the California Coastal Commission.

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City of Redondo Beach

ORDINANCE NO.3121-14

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDONDO BEACH, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING THE MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADD TITLE 3, CHAPTER 7 BY ADDING ARTICLE 22 TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS FOR CARSHAREORGANIZATIONS TO OPERATE IN THE CITY.

WHEREAS, the Redondo Beach Municipal Code will be amended to allow car sharing in the City by permitting car sharing vehicles to park in City rights of way, at parking meters and in residential preferential parking zones to enable City users of the service to access the vehicles in different areas throughout the City; and

WHEREAS, car sharing has been shown to mitigate environmental and transportation issues commonly affecting urban communities, including increased traffic congestion and limited infrastructure capabilities; and

WHEREAS, car sharing serves to reduce residents’ reliance on individually owned automobiles, thereby reducing pressure on already scarce on-street parking spaces and offers a supplement to the limited public transportation options available to City residents; and

WHEREAS, the City seeks to encourage participation in car sharing programs because such programs offer economic, environmental, and community benefits to City residents, employers, and visitors; and

WHEREAS, car sharing supports the City’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, provides City residents, employers, and visitors with affordable transportation options, and is compatible with the City’s existing infrastructure; and

WHEREAS, California Vehicle Code Section 22507.1 authorizes cities to issue permits to facilitate car sharing programs; and

WHEREAS, based on the foregoing findings, the purpose of this Ordinance is to allow for the issuance of permits to allow for the parking of car sharing vehicles in legal parking spaces notwithstanding specified restrictions in order to facilitate and encourage the use of car sharing as an alternative method of transportation.

NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDONDO BEACH, CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1.AMENDMENT OF CODE.  Chapter 7, Title 3 of the Redondo Beach Municipal code is hereby amended to add there to Article 22 “Car Sharing Permits” to read as follows:

“3-7.2201 Definitions

As used in this Chapter:

“Car Share Organization” means a public, private, or non-profit entity that provides preapproved members access to a citywide network of motor vehicles and meets the requirements set forth in this chapter.

“Car Share Vehicle” means a motor vehicle for which a Car Share Vehicle Parking Permit is issued by the City that authorizes the vehicle to park in City rights of way, metered spaces and Preferential Parking Zones as outlined in this Article and the Car Share Organization’s Permit Agreement.

“Car Share Vehicle Permit” or “Display Permit” means a permit issued by the City Police Chief or designee that authorizes Car Share vehicles to park in the City rights of way and as outlined in this section.

“Car Share Permit Agreement” or “Permit Agreement” means an agreement entered into by and between the City and a qualified Car Share Organization which outlines the permit fee paid by such Car Share Organization to City, where permitted Car Share Vehicles may park in the City and such other operational guidelines deemed reasonably necessary by the parties.

“Preferential Parking Zone” means any zone in the City established pursuant to section 3-7.1701 et. seq. of the Redondo Beach Municipal Code.

“Residential Parking Permit” means a permit issued pursuant to Section 3-7.1704 of the Redondo Beach Municipal Code.

3-7.2202 General Permit Requirements

(a) Issuance. The City shall issue a Car Share Vehicle Permit to a Car Share Organization pursuant to the execution of a Car Share Permit Agreement with the City and the Car Share Organization’s compliance with all of the requisite terms of such Permit Agreement prior to Issuance.

(b) Display. The permit shall be displayed at all times when a Car Share Vehicle is operating in the City.  Car Share Vehicle Permits shall be placed on the left rear bumper and/or front windshield of each vehicle to be accorded Car Share Parking privileges.

(c) Revocation. City reserves the right to revoke a Car Share Vehicle Permit at any time upon written notice of revocation.  The Car Share Organization shall surrender such permit in accordance with the provisions of the Car Share Permit Agreement upon receipt of such notice.

(d) Duration. Car Share Vehicle Permits are valid for a period of twelve (12) months from the date of issuance and may be renewed if the City and Car Share Organization enter into a new Permit Agreement or mutually agree to extend the existing Permit Agreement.

(e) Records.  Car Share Organizations must provide to City a list of any and all vehicles which may operate in the City at any time during the term of the Permit Agreement.  A permitted Car Share Organization must update this list whenever a car which may operate in the City is removed or added to their fleet.

3-7.2203 Permit Required

(a) Car Share Vehicles with a valid permit displayed may be parked in all valid parking areas in the City rights of way, metered parking areas without payment and without regard to time restrictions, in any legal parking space in a City right of way without regard to time restrictions except as otherwise specified in this Article, and Preferential Parking Zones, notwithstanding the restrictions established in Sections 3-7.1302, 3-6.04 , 3-6.05, and 3-6.08 of this code.

(b) Car Share Vehicles shall comply with all other signs or parking restrictions posted, authorized, or designated by the City restricting parking, standing, stopping or leaving of vehicles.

3-7.2204Car Share Organization Eligibility

(a) In order to be eligible to enter into a Car Share Permit Agreement with the City and obtain a Car Share Vehicle Permit, the Car Share Organization must demonstrate the following:

(1) The Car Share Organization must have an online or similarly accessed real-time system used for processing and paying for car share vehicle reservations;

(2) Car Share Vehicles must be available for use by members on a twenty-four (24) hour, seven (7) days per week basis and must be available for access where the Car Share Vehicle is parked without requiring a member to go to a different physical location in order to access the vehicle;

(3) Vehicles must be allowed to be dropped off and picked up in at least twenty-five (25) different locations in the City providing broad access of such vehicles to all City residents;

(4) Automobile insurance must be provided for each Car Share Vehicle for each member using the vehicle during the period of use.

3-7.2205 Prohibitions

(a) Nothing in this section authorizes Car Share Vehicles to park in areas where standing or parking is prohibited for specified times identified in this code including but not limited to Sections 3-7.1307,3-7.1317, 3-7.1314, 3-7.1203, 3-7.1204,3-7.1205, 3-7.1207, 3-7.1208, 3-7.1209, and 3-7.1210 of this code.

(b) Car Share Vehicles may not park in City public parking lots and structures as defined in Title 3, Chapter 10 of this Code.

(c) Car Share Vehicles may not be parked in any City parking space with a duration limit of less than two (2) hours as designated in Sections 3-7.1302(a) and 3-7.1310(c) of this code.

(d) Car Share Vehicles may not be parked in any City right of way where street sweeping will take place within forty-eight (48) hours of the time the vehicle is parked.

(e) This section is not applicable to parking, standing, stopping or leaving of vehicles in private parking spaces, private parking lots, parking spaces or lots owned by the Redondo Beach Unified School District or any other parking spaces or lots not under the jurisdiction of the City.

(f) Car Share Vehicles must be less than seventy-two (72) inches in height.”

SECTION 2.EXEMPT FROM CEQA. The City Council determines that this ordinance is exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act (Cal. Pub. Regs. Code Section 15000, et seq.)because the only potential physical effect on the environment that could fore seeably result from its implementation is a reduction in environmental impacts associated with vehicle traffic including, but not limited to, traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions.  Such a reduction in the use or operation of an existing City street is categorically exempt from further CEQA review under. Cal Code Regs. Tit 14, Section 15301.  This ordinance, therefore, is an action that does not have the potential to cause significant effects on the environment.

SECTION 3. INCONSISTENT PROVISIONS.  Any provisions of the Redondo Beach Municipal Code, or appendices thereto, or any other ordinances of the City inconsistent herewith, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no further, are hereby repealed.

SECTION 4.SEVERANCE.  If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the ordinance.  The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional.

SECTION 5.PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE.  This ordinance shall be published by one insertion in the official newspaper of the City, and the same shall go into effect and be in full force and operation from and after thirty (30) days after its final passage and adoption.

PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 22nd day of April, 2014.

______________________________

Steve Aspel, Mayor

ATTEST:

STATE OF CALIFORNIA )

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS

CITY OF REDONDO BEACH )

I, Eleanor Manzano, City Clerk of the City of Redondo Beach, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 3121-14 was duly introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 16th day of April, 2014, and was duly approved and adopted by the City Council at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 22nd day of April, 2014, by the following vote:

AYES:

NOES:

ABSENT:

ABSTAIN:

______________________________

Eleanor Manzano, City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

__________________________

Michael W. Webb, City Attorney

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City of Redondo Beach

ORDINANCE NO. 3122-14

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDONDO BEACH, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 3-7.1705 OF ARTICLE 17, CHAPTER 7, TITLE 3 OF THE REDONDO BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE TO EXEMPT CAR SHARE VEHICLES FROM THE REQUIREMENT OF DISPLAYING A PREFERENTIAL PARKING PERMIT TO PARK IN CITY PREFERENTIAL PARKING ZONES

WHEREAS, it is the intent of the City Council of the City of Redondo Beach to amend Section 3-7.1705 of the Redondo Beach Municipal Code to exempt Car Share Vehicles from being required to display a preferential parking permit in order to park Car Share Vehicles in City Preferential Parking zones; and

WHEREAS, the City Council enacted Article 22, Chapter 7, Title 3 of the Redondo Beach Municipal Code allowing car share organizations and vehicles to be permitted to operate in the City; and

WHEREAS, in order to effectuate car sharing in the City, car share vehicles must be allowed to park in preferential parking zones.

NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDONDO BEACH, CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1.   AMENDMENT OF CODE.  Section 3-7.1705 of Article 17, Chapter 7, Title3 of the Redondo Beach Municipal code is hereby amended to read as follows:

“3-7.1705Prohibitions.

(a) No vehicle shall be parked or stopped adjacent to any curb in a preferential parking zone in violation of any posted or noticed prohibition or restriction unless such vehicle shall have prominently displayed upon the left rear bumper thereof an unexpired permit indicating the exemption from such restriction or prohibition or an unexpired visitor permit suspended from the rear view mirror, facing towards the rear, except that the following vehicles shall be exempted from this prohibition:

(1) A motor vehicle identified, in a manner prescribed by the City Engineer, as owned by or operated under contract to a utility, whether privately, municipally or publicly owned, when used in the construction, operation, removal, or repair of utility property or facilities or engaged in authorized work in the designated preferential parking zone;

(2) A motor vehicle identified, in a manner prescribed by the City Engineer, as owned by or operated under contract to a governmental agency, when used in the course of official government business;

(3) A commercial vehicle or trailer engaged in loading or unloading property, or parked in connection with or in aid of the performance of a service to or on a property located in the block in which such vehicle is parked;

(4) Emergency vehicles, health and life support delivery vehicles, vehicles displaying disabled licenses or placards, refuse vehicles, and postal/package delivery vehicles;

(5) Car Share Vehicles properly permitted pursuant to Section 3-7.2202 of this code displaying an unexpired Car Share Vehicle Permit.”

SECTION 2. EXEMPT FROM CEQA. The City Council determines that this ordinance is exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act (Cal. Pub. Regs. Code Section 15000, et seq.) because the only potential physical effect on the environment that could foreseeably result from its implementation is a reduction in environmental impacts associated with vehicle traffic including, but not limited to, traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions.  Such a reduction in the use or operation of an existing City street is categorically exempt from further CEQA review under. Cal Code Regs. Tit 14, Section 15301.  This ordinance, therefore, is an action that does not have the potential to cause significant effects on the environment.

SECTION 3.  INCONSISTENT PROVISIONS.  Any provisions of the Redondo Beach Municipal Code, or appendices thereto, or any other ordinances of the City inconsistent herewith, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no further, are hereby repealed.

SECTION 4.  SEVERANCE.  If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the ordinance.  The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional.

SECTION 5.  PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE.  This ordinance shall be published by one insertion in the official newspaper of the City, and the same shall go into effect and be in full force and operation from and after thirty (30) days after its final passage and adoption.

PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 22nd day of April, 2014.

______________________________

Steve Aspel, Mayor

ATTEST:

STATE OF CALIFORNIA )

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS

CITY OF REDONDO BEACH )

I, Eleanor Manzano, City Clerk of the City of Redondo Beach, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 3122-14 was duly introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 16th day of April, 2014, and was duly approved and adopted by the City Council at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 22nd day of April, 2014, by the following vote:

AYES:

NOES:

ABSENT:

ABSTAIN:

______________________________

Eleanor Manzano, City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

__________________________

Michael W. Webb, City Attorney

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City of Redondo Beach

NOTICE INVITING SEALED BIDS

BID#1314-011

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Redondo Beach, California, will receive sealed bids for the following:

CHALLENGE TITAN 230 PAPER CUTTER

Bids will be received by Purchasing, 415 Diamond St., Door C, Redondo Beach, up to the hour of 11:00 a.m., Thursday, May 22, 2014 at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud.  Bids received after specified date and time will be considered late and returned to the bidder unopened.  Each bid shall be submitted on a bid form obtained from Purchasing and in a sealed envelope with the bid number and the name and address of the bidder appearing on the outside of the envelope.  No bid shall be submitted by telephone, fax, or electronic mail.  The City of Redondo Beach reserves the right to reject any and all bids received and, to the extent permitted by law, to waive any irregularities in the bid.

Bid forms and specifications may be obtained by contacting:

Robert Norman in Financial Services, at (310) 318-0602 or robert.norman@redondo.org

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