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HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 30 PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF REPORT TO: Planning Commission ITEM NUMBER FROM: Director of Community Development MEETING DATE: JUNE 19, 2017 SUBJECT: PUBLIC HEARING 3 REQUEST FOR CERTIFICATION OF FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL—IMPACT REPORT_ AND APPROVAL OF CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT (CUP 16 -7) TO CONSTRUCT A 37,000 SO. FT. HEALTH CLUB (FITNESS CENTER) AT 12411 SEAL BEACH BOULEVARD WITHIN THE SHOPS AT ROSSMOOR IN THE GENERAL COMMERCIAL (GC) ZONING AREA LOCATION: 12411 SEAL BEACH BOULEVARD APPLICANT: MARTY POTTS RECOMMENDATION: After conducting the Public Hearing, staff recommends that the Planning Commission adopt Resolution No. 17 -15, certifying the Final Environmental Impact Report with a Mitigation Monitoring Reporting Program and approving Resolution No. 17 -16 approving Conditional Use Permit 16 -7 with Conditions. GENERAL PLAN DESIGNATION ZONE: SITE DESCRIPTION: Assessor's Parcel Number: Lot Area: Project Gross Floor Area Surrounding Properties: ENVIRONMENTAL. ASSESSMENT: Conditional Use Permit 16 -7 and Final Environmental Impact Report 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard COMMERCIAL — GENERAL GENERAL COMMERCIAL 086 - 492 -79 1,544,202 sq. ft. or (35.45 acres) 37,000 sq. ft. (fitness center) North: Residential High Density (RHD -46) South: Residential Medium Density (RMD -18) East: General Commercial West: Residential High Density (RHD -46) The proposed development of a fitness center constitutes:a project that is subject to: review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) 1970, (Public Resources Code, Section 21000 et seq.) and the State CEQA Guidelines (California Code of Regulations, Section 15000 et seq.). Based on, the.f,ind.ings of"an Initial Study, an Environniental Impact Report (State Clearinghouse.No. 2017011033) was prepared pursuant to Section 21080(d) of the Public Resources Code. As part of this item, the Planning Commission must determine whether to certify the Final Environmental Impact Report;under CEQA; priorto making any decision on the proposed Conditional Use Permit. The analysis and recommendations on the Final'Environmental Impact Report are set out in'this °staff report. LEGAL NOTIFICATION: The legal notice of this hearing was published in the Seal Beach Sun Newspaper on June 8, 2017 and mailed to property,owners and occupants within a 500' radius of the subject property on June 8, 2017, with affidavits of publishing and mailing on file. VICINITY MAP: c. . ,,1 br,�i s<.��-h 1 ' 'i- AGMIAI RRAO. Page 2 of 12 • 0 • Conditional Use Permit 16 -7 and Final Environmental•Impact Report 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard ANALYSIS: The purpose of this public hearing is to hold a duly- noticed public hearing to consider (a) adoption of a resolution certifying a Final Environmental Impact Report (Final EIR) with Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (Attachment #1); and (b) adoption of a resolution approving Conditional Use Permit (CUP) 16 -7 to construct a single -story private health club comprising 37,000 square feet of floor space (Attachment #2). In addition to these attachments, this staff report also includes the Final EIR dated May 2017, with Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (Attachment #3); Project Plans including Site Plan, Floor Plan, and Elevations (Attachment #4); and all project related correspondence received (Attachment #5). Project. Description: Proposed CUP 16 -7 is for approval of construction of a 37,000 square -foot health club (fitness center) (hereinafter "the project "). Proposed facilities in the healthy club would include free weights, circuit training, a pool, a basketball court, separate rooms'for aerobics and spinning, a personal training room, men's and women's showers and lockers, a hot yoga studio, a physical therapy room, and a children's area. The project is proposed within the rear of The Shops at Rossmoor shopping center on the west side of Seal Beach Boulevard between St. Cloud Drive and Bradbury Road in the General Commercial (GC) zoning -area. The project site is located within a built -out and.completely urbanized area along Sea1Beach Boulevard and Rossmoor Center Way. The project site currently is used as parking for the Shops at Rossmoor. The existing shopping center is approximately 35.45 acres,or 1,544,202 square -feet in gross area and approximately 413,029 square feet • of gross building area. The site issurrounded by,residential uses to the north, south and west, with commercial uses to the east across Seal Beach Boulevard.. Seal Beach Municipal Code, Table 11.2.10.010 permits large scale commercial recreation uses subje&to approval of a Conditional Use Permit. Large scale recreational uses are health clubs, fitness centers, swimming pools and tennis centers etc. that are larger than 20,000 square feet of building area. The proposed use complies with the General Plan Commercial Land Use designation which encourages commercial areas to provide a broad range of'retail and service uses for the community. The traffic analysis (Appendix E of the EIR) found that under existing conditions without the Project, the existing northbound left -turn lane on Seal Beach Boulevard onto Rossmoor Center Way experiences queuing deficiencies during periods of peak demand. The project description includes a reconfig u ration, of the existing northbound left -turn lane which will extend that lane by 145 feet. This planned element will correct the existing deficiency and preclude any additional queuing deficiency caused by the Project. Although not necessary to mitigate impacts of the project on'traffic, the applicant also proposes an option to widen Rossmoor CenterWay to _install a- second westbound lane. This improvement provides for a dedicated lane for turns into the health center parking lot, allowing no delays to through traffic travelling westbound on Rossmoor Center Way. The applicant submitted an application for the large scale commercial recreation use on November 22, 2016. While the application was under review, the applicant conducted independent meetings to inform the community of the pending application. City staff did not • organize or attend the meetings while conducting its impartial review of the application. Parking Calculations: Page 3 of 12 Conditional Use Permit 16 -7 and Final Environmental Impact Report 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard The parking calculations for the proposed building and existing building and uses are per Section 11.4.20.015.A.1 of the Seal Beach Municipal Code. Type of Use Floor Area (SF) Parking Ratio Space per Square Footage Number of Spaces Required Retail 328,753 1/300 1096 Pac Dental 5,000 1/200 25 Restaurant Pads 27,300 1/100 273 In -line Restaurants 12,188 1/100 122 UnoCal Gas Station 2,788 1/250 11 Proposed Health Club 37,000 1/300 124 Total 413,029 1 1,651 Number of Parking $paces Provided 1,981 • The existing site configuration provides adequate on -site parking for the current uses, and the reconfiguration of the parking lot in the area where fitness center is proposed will continue to allow for a surplus of parking on -site. The subject site will continue to comply with Seal Beach Municipal Code, Section 11.4.20.015, which requires shared parking count with all the current uses and the proposed fitness centertobe 1,651 spaces and the • site with the reconfiguration is proposed to contain 1,981 parking spaces. This isa surplus of 330 parking spaces. The proposed fitness center is parked at,a°ratio of 1 parking space per 300 square feet of building area. The gross floor area of the fitness center is 37,000 and will require 124 parking spaces. The area of the shopping center where the proposed building is located is proposed to contain 405 parking spaces. In addition to reconfiguring the parking stalls the project site plan includes 16 {795 square feet of 'ornamental landscaping around the perimeter of the health club and within parking lot planters. The shopping center management has allowed residents from nearby residential developments to use portions of the shopping center parking lot for overnight parking of their personal vehicles. Some commenters have expressed concern that the project may affect the residents' ability to continue to park in the center overnight. Overn ghtpaeking'is not part of the project, as the project does not propose to address in any way the permission granted by the center's management for overnight resident parking; -or for the City to exercise any discretion in connection with overnight resident parking. The permitted overnight use of the shopping center parking lot remains in the sole discretion of the shopping center management, and is independent of any decision by the City related to the project. Architecturally (See project elevations, Attachment #4), the proposed single -story commercial building would consist of a painted concrete tilt -up wall system accented with a. prefabricated metal panel shell finish system. The entryway would consist of anodized • Page 4 of 12 Conditional Use Permit 16 -7 and Final Environmental Impact Report 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard aluminum. Painted plaster and simulated wood paneling would also be used on the • building exterior. The building would have a stepped massing from 24 feet in height at the side and rear to 28 feet at the entryway to 35 feet at the highest point of the parapet holding an illuminated sign on the south side elevation. The molding along the top of the building and arcade features would be finished with decorative cornices. Finally, images portraying individuals engaging in physical fitness activities are proposed to be placed on the rear and iside building elevations. The subject site will continue to comply with Seal Beach Municipal Code, Table 11.2.10.015, which provides Development Standards forthe Genera l °Commercial (GC) zoned area. The applicant requested approval to operate the fitness center which would provide membership -based fitness services, including access to exercise equipment, group fitness classes, and personal fitness training seven days a week. Hours of operation would be 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Fridays, and 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Environmental Impact Report: The proposed Conditional Use Permit is a "project" subject to environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (Public Resources Code, Section 21000 et. seq.) and the State CEQA Guidelines (California Code of Regulations, Section 15000 et. seq.) (CEQA Guidelines). On. January 4; 2017, City Staff, in conjunction with the environmental consultant firm of MIG, Inc., completed an Initial Study which found that the Project would have no impact or less than significant impact on all of the following environmental impact categories: aesthetics, agricultural and forest resources, biological resources, cultural resources, geology and soils, hydrology and water quality, land use, mineral resources, population and housing,, public services, recreation, and utilities and service systems. The City thereafter issued a Notice of Preparation (NOP) with the Initial Study (IS) (collectively the NOP /IS) indicating the City's intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Report based upon findings of the Initial Study. The City distributed the NOP /IS to the State Office of Planning and Research (OPR), responsible agencies and other interested parties, and circulated the NOP %IS for public comment for a 30 -day public review period extending from January 4, 2017 through February 31 2017, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15082(a) and 15375. The City also made the NOP /IS available for public review on the City's website at www:sealbeachca.gov and at four locations in the City including the City of Seal Beach Community Development Department, the Mary Wilson Library, the Los Alamitos - Rossmoor Library, and the Leisure World Library. During the public comment period on the NOP /IS, the City received comments from four public agencies, the O.C. Public Works / O.C. Development Services/ Planning Division, the Native American Heritage Commission, South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), and the Gabrieleno Band of Mission Indians — Kizh Nation. The City also received comments from members of the public. Based on the findings of the Initial Study, a Draft Environmental Impact Report (State Clearinghouse No. 2017011033) (Draft EIR) was prepared pursuant to Section 21080(d) of the Public Resources Code to evaluate the impacts of the Project on the following environmental impact categories: air quality, greenhouse gas, noise and traffic and • transportation. The Draft EIR concluded that the proposed project would also'result in no Page 5 of 12 Conditional Use Permit 16 -7 and Final Environmental Impact Report 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard impact or less than sign ificant.impacts, and do not require mitigation, in the following three environmental impact categories: Air Quality; Greenhouse Gas, and Traffic and • Transportation. With respect to noise impacts, the Draft 'EIR concluded that.the proposed Project would result in potentially sign ificant.noise impacts, but that with the incorporation of mitigation measures identified in the Draft EIR, the potentially significant noise impacts of the proposed project would be reduced below a level of insignificance. No significant and unmitigable impacts were identified in the Draft EIR. In addition, preparation of a traffic impact analysis (TIA) wasrequired pursuant to the City's policies for new projects. The TIA was thoroughly reviewed by the City. EngineerfTraffic Engineer, and after several revisions the TIA was accepted by the City EngineerfTraffic Engineer as a complete traffic analysis. The TIA was incorporated as Appendix E to.the EIR. In accordance with Public Resources Code Sections 21091 and 21092 and CEQA Guidelines' Section 15085, a Notice of Completion (NOC) of the Draft EIR was published in the Sun Newspaper on March 9, 2017, and the NOC and Draft EIR were transmitted to the State Clearinghouse and distributed to numerous State, federal, and local'agencies:and organizations, with comments requested by April 17, 2017. The NOC and the Draft. EIR were also circulated for public review for a 47 -day public comment period beginning on March 9, 2017 and ending on April 24, 201.7. Copies of the NOC and Draft EIR'were:also made available for public review on the City's website at www.sealbeachca.gov and at,four locations in the City including the City of Seal Beach Community Development Department, the Mary Wilson Library, the Los Alamitos - Rossmoor Library, and the Leisure World Library. During the public comment period on the Draft EIR, the City of Seal Beach received • comments from three public agencies; Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA), Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA), and California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), and also received written comments from members of the public. In accordance with SBMC Section 3.10.005, the Draft EIR was also presented to the Environmental Quality Control Board (EQCB) at a duly - noticed, public meeting held on April 5, 2017 during the required public comment period from March 9, 2017 to April 24, 2017. SBMC Section 3.10.005 authorizes the EQCB to make recommendations on environmental matters, but does not allow the EQCB to make decisions regarding projects. The Zoning Code also provides that the EQCB should receive public comments and provide comments to the approving authority: "F. Public Notice of Environmental Determination_ If the director or environmental review coordinator has determined that,the proposed.project will not have a significant effect on the environment, he orshe shall prepare a negative declaration for public review in conformance with the requirements of CEQA and applicable state and city environmental review guidelines. If the applicant has agreed to incorporate mitigation measures in order to reduce environmental impacts to a point of insignificance, the director or environmental review coordinator shall prepare a mitigated negative declaration for public review. The director or environmental review coordinator shall provide public notice of the proposed environmental • Page 6 of 12 Conditional Use Permit 16 -7 and Final Environmental,lmpact Report 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard determination at the same time and in the same manner required for the underlying permit in accordance with Chapter 5.10: General Procedures. The Environmental Quality Control Board shall conduct a public meeting during the public review period to receive public comments and to provide comments on the draft negative declaration or mitigated negative declaration and shall forward all comments to the approving authority for consideration as part of any subsequent public hearings on the draft negative declaration or mitigated negative declaration and accompanying discretionary land use entitlement applications." (Emphasis added.) Staff complied with the Seal,Beach Municipal Code,regarding the EQCB procedures at the public meeting held on April 5, 2017. During the EQCB meeting, staff presented the project to the EQCB and the EQCB received public testimony. Additionally, the environmental consultant, MIG, along with the traffic engineer for the developer, Donson Liu, of LSA, addressed questions from the public and EQCB. At the conclusion of the meeting, the EQCB identified four concerns that the environmental document should address, which are as follows: 1. Evaluate HVAC (heating, ventilation & air conditioning) units and the potential to locate them as far away from residences as possible. 2. Evaluate the existing RossmoorParkAssociation vehicle gate thatexists on Rossmoor Center Way and its proximity and potential impact to the four way stop at Rossmoor Center Way and an internal driveway adjacent to Sprouts and Pei Wei. • 3. Requested clarification and further discussion of sample size used for data collection, along with analysis to determine if other factors such as daylight savings time affected the data collection. 4. Requested .a scaled rendering of the northbound left -hand turn lane extension on Seal Beach Boulevard. Staff forwarded the EQCB's comments to the environmental consultant for response in conjunction with preparation of response to all other comments received on the Draft EIR and preparation of the Final Environmental Impact Report (Final EIR). The EQCB's comments are included and referenced in the application tables and pages found in the Final EIR as follows. 1. Evaluate HVAC (heating, ventilation & air conditioning) units and the potential to locate them as faraway from residences as possible.— Seal Beach Municipal Code Section 7.15.035 Heating, Venting, and Air Conditioning Equipment, requires that no building permit will be issued for the installation of heating, venting or air conditioning (HVAC) equipment in or adjacent to residential areas if the noise produced by the HVAC equipment exceeds an A- weighted exterior sound pressure level of 50 db(A). All HVAC equipment must be reviewed by Planning staff and approved, proving that they meet these requirements prior to a permit being issue. Many options are available to reduce the noise and Planning staff can require any of these to be implemented to • reduce the decibel level below the 50 dbA Page 7 of 12 Conditional Use Permit 16 -7 and Final Environmental Impact Report 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard 2. Evaluate the existing Rossmoor Park Association vehicle gate that exists on Rossmoor Center Way and its proximity and potential impact to the four way • stop at Rossmoor Center Way and an internal driveway adjacent to Sprouts and Pei Wei.— Page 9 -25 of the Final EIR Response to Comments,Response 12: CEQA calls for projections supported by substantial evidence. Perfection is neither required by CEQA, nor attainable. Statistical variation, wherebya series of measurements is obtained, however useful in terms;of scientific accuracy, is not the standard approach to collecting and analyzing data for traffic studies. The project Traffic Report used the standard ;approach outlined in the City's traffic impact analysis guidelines, which reflect industry standards. Traffic data is collected for typical conditions during a 24 -hour period and during themeekday and Saturday peak hours. It should be noted that the data collected for the to Fitness project is comparable to the data collected by the County for the Rossmoor Traffic Study. 3. Requested clarification, and further discussion of sample size. used for data collection, along with analysis to determine if other factors such as daylight savings time affected the data collection — Page 9 -27 of the Final EIR Response to Comments Response: Appendix,H Noise Study was performed from April 14 to April 21, 2017 to determine if the original sample size taken on a date affected by daylight savings time had an effect on the data collection. Veneklasen Associates who conducted the monitoring found that the new data was similar as the original findings. 4. Requested a scaled rendering of the northbound left -hand turn lane extension on Seal Beach Boulevard — The applicant has provided a scaled • rendering of the northbound left -hand turn lane extension' and is included with the project set of plans. Plans for the northbound left -hand turn lane are included in the Plan set provided with the site plan and floor plans. Following the end of the public review period, the City with the assistance of MIG'prepared responses to all comments received on the Draft EIR from members of the public, the other public agencies, and the EQCB, were prepared and then circulated to the public agencies, in accordance with Public Resources Code Section 21092.5 and CEQA Guidelines Section 15088. Public Resource Code Section 21081.6 and CEQA Guidelines 15091(d) require the City to prepare and adopt a mitigation monitoring and reporting program for any project for which mitigation measures have been imposed to assure compliance with the adopted mitigation measures. With respect to noise impacts, the Final EIR identified mitigation measures that will mitigate any or all significant noise impacts to a level of insignificance, which have been incorporated into a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program setting forth mitigation measures imposed to ensure that the project applicant complies with all provisions or changes adopted as mitigation measures during implementation of the project. Those mitigation measures are set forth on pages ES -1 through ES -3 (Table ES -1, Environmental Impact Summary) and pages 4.3 -12 through 4.3 -13 of Chapter 4.3 of the Final EIR. These mitigation measures include the following: • Page 8 of 12 Conditional Use Permit 16 -7 and Final Environmental Impact Report 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard Mitigation Measure Noise -1: Since HVAC rooftop unit noise levels would exceed Municipal Code limits of 50 dBA, one of the three following options —or any other comparable approach that will achieve the required noise reduction —will be implemented by the project applicant. The project applicant will be required to submit a plan to the City, prepared by an acoustical engineer or, otherwise qualified specialist, documenting that HVAC rooftop units and associated mitigating features will achieve the Municipal Code standard. a. Mitigation Option 1. Install a screen or parapet around the HVAC units. To be an effective noise barrier, the screen or should extend at least one foot above the tallest rooftop unit and be continuous at the north and west edges of the health club building. b. Mitigation Option 2. Utilize baffles /silencers /attenuators. Each rooftop unit will be fully enclosed with noise control devices located at air ventilation to lessen the noise radiating from the equipment. c. Mitigation Option 3. Install quieter HVAC units. Once specific HVAC rooftop units are selected, sound data from their manufacturer can be used to show that the Code limit of 50 dBAat nearby property lines will not be exceeded. Mitigation Measure Noise -2: During construction, the applicant/developer shall employ the following standard practices for mitigating construction noise: a. Implement a construction- related noise mitigation plan. This plan would depict the • location of construction equipment storage and maintenance areas, and document methods to be employed to minimize noise impacts on adjacent noise - sensitive land uses. Additionally, the plan shall,denote any construction traffic haul routes where heavy trucks would exceed 100 daily trips (counting those both to and from the construction site). To the extent, feasible, the plan shall denote haul routes that do not pass sensitive land uses or residential dwellings. b. Equip internal combustion engine- driven equipment with original factory (or equivalent) intake and exhaust mufflers which are maintained in good condition. c. Prohibit and post signs prohibiting unnecessary idling of internal combustion engines. d. Locate all stationary noise - generating equipment such as air compressors and portable generators as far as practicable from noise- sensitive land uses. e. Utilize "quiet' air compressors and other stationary equipment where feasible and available. f. Designate a noise disturbance coordinator who would respond to neighborhood complaints about construction noise by determining the cause of the noise complaints, and require implementation of reasonable measures to correct the problem. Conspicuously post a telephone number forthe disturbance coordinator at the construction site. The Final EIR with Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (Attachment #3), was • released to the public on June 9, 2017. The Final EIR is comprised of the NOP /IS, all Page 9 of 12 Conditional Use Permit 16 -7 and Final Environmental Impact Report 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard written comments received from members of the public and other public agencies in response to the NOP /IS, all written comments submitted in response to the NOC and the • Draft EIR submitted by other public agencies, members of the public and the EQCB during the public review period, and the responses to all comments, together with the Draft EIR. If the Planning Commission certifies the Final EIR, any mitigation measures identified in the Final EIR that will mitigate any or all .significant adverse impacts to a level of insignificance, the Planning Commission must also approve the.Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program containing those mitigation measures. In addition, if the Planning Commission decides to approve the Conditional Use Permit, all of the above- described mitigation measures identified in the Final EIR with Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program must be incorporated into the project conditions of approval. Certification of the Final Environmental Impact Report: The first task for the Planning Commission is to consider the Final EIR, including,Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, and determine whether to certify that the .Final EIR was adequately prepared in compliance with CEQA and the State CEQA Guidelines. In orderto certify an environmental impact report, the Planning Commission must make certain findings regarding the project's environmental impacts. The findings are included in proposed' Resolution No. 17 -15 (Attachment #1). The Commission must make a'decision whether the Final EIR meets the basic legal requirernents of CEQA - whether it is legally adequate. As decision makers, the Planning Commission must determine whether the Final EIR provides the information thatthe Commission needs to intelligently take:account of the environmental consequences of this Project. Please note that certifying a Final EIR as adequate is not the same thing as approving the Project; the two are, and will remain, separate decisions. • Section 15091 of the State CEQA Guidelines also requires that-the City, before'approving a project subject to CEQA, make one or'more of the following written finding(s) for each significant effect identified in a final environmental impact report accompanied by a.brief explanation of the rationale for each finding: 1. Changes or alterations have been required in, or incorporated into, the project which avoid or substantially lessen the significant environmental effects as identified in the Final EIR; or, 2. Such changes or alterations are within the responsibility and jurisdiction of another public agency and not the agency making the finding. Such changes have been adopted by such other agency or can and should be adopted by such other agency; or, 3. Specific economic, legal, social, technological, or other considerations, including provision of employment opportunities for highly trained workers, make infeasible the mitigation measures or project alternatives identified in the final EIR. The proposed resolution includes findings forthis purpose. If the Commission certifies the Final EIR, the Commission must also impose conditions to mitigate any adverse environmental impacts as identified in the Final EIR and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program. • Page 10 of 12 Conditional Use Permit 16 -7 and Final Environmental Impact Report 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard The Planning Commission should deliberate and issue a decision on the proposed • certification of the Final EIR, including Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, for the pro1ect before taking action on proposed Conditional Use Permit 16 -T. Proposed Resolution. No. 17 -15 (Attachment #1), contains all required findings for the Planning Commission to certify the Final EIR with Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting, Program. If the Planning Commission determines not to certify the Final EIR, the factual basis for a decision declining certification of the Final EIR should be set out in an oral motion by the Commission, and if adopted, the Commission should then direct Staff to return with a resolution incorporating those findings at a subsequent meeting. Any such motion should include specific findings why the Final EIR should not be certified, with direction to staff to return with a proposed resolution at a subsequent meeting. Decision on the;Conditional Use Permit In order to approve the CUP, and based on the project application and all written and oral evidence submitted at the public hearing, the Planning Commission must make all of the following findings in accordance with SBMC Section 11.5.20.020: 1. The proposal is consistent with the general plan and with any other applicable plan adopted by the city council; 2. The proposed use.is;allowed within the applicable zoning district with use permit approval and complies with all other applicable provisions of the municipal code; 3. The site is physically adequate for the type, density and intensity of use being proposed, including provision of services, and the absence of • physical constraints; 4. The location, size, design, and operating characteristics of the proposed use will be compatible with and will not adversely affect uses and properties in the surrounding neighborhood; and 5. The establishment; maintenance, or operation of the proposed use at the location proposed will not be detrimental to the health, safety, or welfare of persons residing or working in the vicinity of the proposed use. The discussion above outlines the basis why Staff believes that the Planning Commission may make these findings and approve the CUP, and a proposed resolution containing these findings is enclosed with this Staff Report (Resolution No. 17 -16, Attachment #2). Resolution No. 1.7-16 also includes proposed conditions of approval. As required by CEQA, these recommended conditions include all mitigation measures identified in the Final EIR and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, which must be included under CEQA if the Project is approved by the Planning Commission. These latter conditions are identified as Condition Nos. 46 and 47 in the proposed resolution (Attachment "2 "). The other conditions include conditions specifically developed for this Project, as well as standard City conditions. Alternatively, the Planning Commission may decline to approve the Project if the Commission determines that it cannot make all findings required by SBMC Section 11.5.20.020. The Planning Commission may deny the Project, even if it certifies the Final is EIR. The factual basis for a decision to deny should be set out in an oral motion by the Page 11 of 12 Conditional Use Permit 16 -7 and Final Environmental Impact Report 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard. Commission, and if adopted, the Commission should then direct Staff to return with a resolution incorporating those findings at a subsequent meeting. • The decision of the Planning Commission may be appealed to the City Council, within ten days of the Commission's decision. CONCLUSION: After conducting the public hearing and receiving public testimony, staff recommends that the Planning Commission deliberate and then take the following actions: 1. Adopt Resolution No. 17 -15 certifying the Flnal.EIR'for the Project; making findings pursuant to CEQA, and adopting a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (Attachment #1); and 2. Adopt Resolution No. 17 -16 approving Conditional Use Permit 16 -7 to construct and operate a 37,000 square foot health.club at an existingshopping center at 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard within the Commercial General (CG) zoning area (Attachment 42). Prepared by: Steffowler C stal Land zo Assistant Planner Aterim Director of munity Development Attachments (6): 1. Resolution No. 17 -15 -A Resolution of the ,Seal Beach Planning Commission Certifying the • Final EIR for the Project; Making findings pursuant to CEQA, and adopting a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program 2. Resolution No. 17 -16 - A Resolution of the Seal Beach Planning Commission Approving Conditional Use Permit 16 -7 to construct tand operate a 37,000 square foot health club'at an existing shopping center at 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard within the Commercial General (CG) zoning area. 3. Final Environmental Impact Report dated May 2017, with response to comments a. Mitigation.Monitoring and Reporting Program 4. Project.Plans'.;Site Plan, Floor Plan, Elevations 5. All Project - Related Correspondence Received • Page 12 of 12 ATTACHMENT 1 RESOLUTION NO. 17 -15 A RESOLUTION OF THE SEAL BEACH PLANNING COMMISSION CERTIFYING THE FINAL EIR FOR THE PROJECT, MAKING FINDINGS PURSUANT TO CEQA, AND ADOPTING A MITIGATION MONITORING AND REPORTING PROGRAM • • 0 0 0 0 ATTACHMENT 2 RESOLUTION NO. 17 -16 A RESOLUTION OF THE SEAL BEACH PLANNING COMMISSION APPROVING CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT 16 -7 TO CONSTRUCT AND OPERATE A 37,000 SQUARE FOOT HEALTH CLUB AT AN EXISTING SHOPPING CENTER AT 12411 SEAL BEACH BOULEVARD WITHIN THE COMMERCIAL GENERAL (CG) ZONING AREA. • 0 0 0 RESOLUTION NO. 17 -16 • A RESOLUTION OF THE SEAL BEACH PLANNING COMMISSION APPROVING CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT 16 -7 TO CONSTRUCT A 37,000 SQ. FT. HEALTH CLUB (FITNESS CENTER) AT 12411 SEAL BEACH BOULEVARD WITHIN THE SHOPS AT ROSSMOOR IN THE GENERAL COMMERCIAL (GC) ZONING AREA SUBJECT TO SPECIFIED CONDITIONS AND MITIGATION MEASURES THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH DOES HEREBY RESOLVE: Section 1. Martin Potts of MPA ( "the applicant ") on behalf of the property owner CPT Shops at Rossmoor, LLC John Miller, submitted an application to the City of Seal Beach Department of Community Development for Conditional Use Permit (CUP) 16 -7. The proposed project includes constructing and operating a 37,000 square foot health club (fitness center) at an existing shopping center, the Shops at Rossmoor, within the Commercial General (CG) zoning area. Section 2. The proposed development of a fitness center constitutes a project that is subject to review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) 1970 (Public Resources Code, Section 21000 et seq.) and the State CEQA Guidelines • (California Code of Regulations, Section 15000 et seq.). Based on the findings of an Initial Study, the City in conjunction with environmental consultant MIG, Inc. caused preparation of a Final Environmental Impact Report (State Clearinghouse No. 2017011033) (Final EIR) pursuant to Section 21080(d) of the Public Resources Code. Pursuant to CEQA and the CEQA Guidelines, on June 19, 2017, the Planning Commission certified the Final EIR, adopted findings pursuant to CEQA, and adopted a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP), on June 19, 2017 pursuant to Resolution No. 17 -15. Section 3. In accordance with Seal Beach Municipal Code (SBMC) Section 3.10.005, on April 5, 2017, a duly- noticed public meeting was conducted by the Seal Beach Environmental Quality Control Board (EQCB) during the public comment period on the proposed Draft Environmental Impact Report (Draft EIR) on the project. The EQCB received public comments on the Draft EIR, and forwarded those public comments and the EQCB comments to Staff to be incorporated into the Draft EIR, and to be included in the record submitted to the Planning Commission as part of the Planning Commission's consideration of the proposed Final EIR and project, in accordance with SBMC Section 3.10.005(F). Section 4. A duly noticed public hearing was held before the Planning Commission on June 19, 2017 to consider Conditional Use Permit 16 -7 and the associated Final Environmental Impact Report with Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program. At the public hearing, the Planning Commission took public testimony, • received into the record the comments forwarded from the EQCB, and all other written Page 1 of 10 Resolution 17 -16 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard and oral evidence and testimony provided on this matter, and thereafter closed the public hearing. The record of the hearing indicates the following: is A. The applicant submitted an application to the Community Development Department for Conditional Use Permit 16 -7 for a proposed project at 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard, Seal Beach, California. B. The subject property is a puzzle piece shaped parcel with a lot area of approximately 1,544,202 sq. ft. or (35.45 acres). The property is approximately 1,427 feet wide by 1,007 feet deep. The site is surrounded on the north, south and west by residential uses and to the east by commercial uses. C. The subject property is currently developed as a commercial shopping center with approximately 413,029 square feet of gross building area. D. The applicant is requesting to construct and operate a large scale commercial recreational use that is approximately 37,000 square feet in gross floor area. E. The health club is proposed to operate seven days a week. Hours of operation would be 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Fridays, and 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. F. The Final EIR, as certified by the Planning Commission, identifies that the proposed project would result in no impact or less than significant impacts in the • following environmental impact categories: aesthetics, agricultural and forest resources, air quality, biological resources, cultural resources, geology and soils, greenhouse gas, hydrology and water quality, land use, mineral resources, population and housing, public services, recreation, traffic and transportation, and utilities and service systems. The certified Final EIR further found that the Project would have a potentially significant impact on noise, but also found that with the incorporation of mitigation measures identified in the EIR, the potentially significant noise impacts of the proposed project would be reduced below a level of insignificance: No significant and unmitigable impacts were identified in the EIR. Pursuant to Resolution No. 17 -15, those mitigation measures were adopted as the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP) as Mitigation Measure Noise -1 and Mitigation Measure Noise -2. Section 4. Environmental Determination. A. The Project has been environmentally reviewed pursuant to the provisions of CEQA and the CEQA Guidelines, and the City's Local CEQA Guidelines. A Final Environmental Impact Report (Final EIR) was prepared for the Project, and is incorporated herein by this reference. The Planning Commission certified the Final EIR and made environmental findings concerning the Project by separate action, pursuant to Resolution No. 17 -15 on June 19, 2017. That resolution is also incorporated herein by this reference as if set forth in full. B. Prior to taking action on this Project, the Planning Commission has • independently reviewed and considered the certified Final EIR with Mitigation Page 2 of 10 Resolution 17 -16 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard Monitoring and Reporting Program, and the record of proceedings in connection • therewith, as certified and adopted by the Planning Commission pursuant to Resolution No. 17 -15, including the Notice of Preparation /Initial Study (NOP /IS), Draft Environmental Impact Report (Draft EIR), all public comments, both written and oral, received in response to the NOP /IS, Draft EIR and Final EIR, all staff reports, and all of the other evidence, both written and oral, that was presented to the Planning Commission during the public hearing held on the proposed Final EIR with MMRP, prior to taking action on this proposed project. Section 5. All legal prerequisites to the adoption of this Resolution have occurred. Section 6. Based upon the facts contained in the record, including those stated in the preceding Section of this resolution and pursuant to Chapter 11.5.20 of the Seal Beach Municipal Code, the Planning Commission makes the following findings: A. The proposed improvements are consistent with the General Plan which encourages architectural diversity in the commercial area (Planning Area 4) while stimulating growth and prosperity of the city and encouraging compatibility between residential and commercial uses. The construction and operation of a health club will provide a use that is customarily associated with commercial centers and near residential uses to encourage and promote recreational facilities. B. The proposed use is allowed within the applicable zoning district with Conditional Use Permit approval and will comply with all other applicable provisions • of the Municipal Code. The subject site is located within the General Commercial (GC) zone, an area where the Seal Beach Municipal Code (Section 11.2.10.010) allows health club facilities with approval of a Conditional Use Permit. C. The proposed use, as conditioned below, will be located on a site that is physically adequate for the type, density, and intensity of use being proposed, including provision of services, and the absence of physical constraints. The subject site is currently developed as a commercial retail shopping center. The construction of the health club will be located in an area of the center that is currently utilized as a parking lot behind the Sprouts market. This application will allow the site to continue to conform to the Seal Beach Municipal Code (Section 11.2.10.015) which provides Development Standards for the General Commercial (GC) zoned area. The proposed building is consistent with development standards applicable to height, setbacks and parking. D. The location, size, design, and operating characteristics of the proposed use, as conditioned below, will be compatible with and will not adversely affect uses and properties in the surrounding neighborhood. The subject site is located within the General Commercial zone, which consists of properties developed as commercial retail and office buildings. The proposed building and use with the added conditions as proposed will compliment the surrounding area and operate in a manner conducive with the Municipal Code requirements of noise, screening, glare, and other code requirements. The City has included mitigation measures, one to reduce construction noise and to require mufflers on construction equipment and two to reduce is the noise of the air conditioning units for the proposed project. The project proponent Page 3 of 10 Resolution 17 -16 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard shall also extend the queuing length of the left -turn pocket lane from northbound Seal Beach Boulevard onto westbound Rossmoor Center Way. • E. The establishment, maintenance, and operation of the proposed use will not be detrimental to the health, safety, or welfare of persons residing or working in the vicinity. The construction and operation of the health club will increase the landscape area which will soften visual impacts to the residences adjacent to the site by adding landscaping. The subject site will continue to operate as a commercial property, which is consistent with the uses in the surrounding neighborhood. Several conditions have been included to address security concerns in the area around the proposed health club. Section 7. Based on the foregoing, the Planning Commission approves Conditional Use Permit 16 -7 for the construction and operation of a 37,000 square foot health club, subject to the following conditions and further subject to the certified Final Environmental Impact Report with Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, and all mitigation measures contained therein, as certified and adopted pursuant to Planning Commission Resolution No. 17 -15: 1. Conditional Use Permit 16 -7 is approved for the construction and operation of a 37,000 square foot health club located at 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard. 2. All plan check and future construction shall be in substantial compliance with the plans approved through Conditional Use Permit 16 -7. All new construction shall comply with all applicable state and local codes. 3. The site shall be developed and maintained in accordance with the approved • plans which include Site Plans, architectural elevations, exterior materials and colors, landscaping, sign program, and grading on file in the Planning Department, the conditions contained herein, and the Development Code regulations. 4. The Planning Commission reserves the right to revoke or modify this CUP if any violation of the approved conditions occurs, or any violation of the Code of the City of Seal Beach occurs. 5. The health club will operate seven days a week. Hours of operation shall be limited to 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Fridays, and 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. 6. Prior to any use of the project site or business activity being commenced thereon, all Conditions of Approval shall be completed to the satisfaction of the Community Development Department. 7. Approval of this request shall not waive compliance with all sections of the Municipal Code, all other applicable City Ordinances, and applicable Specific Plans in effect at the time of Building Permit issuance. 8. All ground- mounted utility appurtenances such as transformers, AC condensers, etc., shall be located out of public view and adequately screened through the use of a combination of concrete or masonry walls, berming, and /or landscaping to the satisfaction of the Community Development Department. • Page 4 of 10 Resolution 17 -16 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard 9. All roof mounted equipment such as AC condensers shall be screened from • view. 10. A detailed on -site lighting plan, including a photometric diagram, shall be reviewed and approved by the Planning Department prior to the issuance of Building Permits. Such plan shall indicate style, illumination, location, height, and method of shielding so as not to adversely affect adjacent properties. • 11. The developer shall submit a construction access plan and schedule for the development for the Planning and Engineering Department approval; including, but not limited to, public notice requirements, special street posting, phone listing for community concerns, hours of construction activity, dust control measures, and security fencing. 12. The contractor shall limit construction activities to between the hours of 7:00 A.M. and 7:00 P.M. on weekdays, and 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. on Saturdays. Construction activities will not be permitted on Sundays or any federal holidays. The applicant shall ensure compliance with this condition. 13. The contractor, to the satisfaction of the Community Development Director, shall provide for all construction vehicles to have mufflers and be maintained in good operating order at all times. No major vehicle repair shall be conducted on the site. The applicant shall ensure compliance with this condition. 14. During construction activities, the contractor shall ensure that measures are complied with to reduce short -term (construction) air quality impacts associated with the project: a) controlling fugitive dust by regular watering or other dust palliative measures (such as covering stock piles with tarps) to meet South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) Rule 403 (Fugitive Dust); b) maintaining equipment engines in proper tune and establishing a preference for contractors using Tier -3 -rated or better heavy equipment; c) enforce 5- minute idling limits for both on -road trucks and off -road equipment; d) provide water spray during loading and unloading of earthen materials; e) cover all trucks hauling dirt, sand or loose material or require all trucks to maintain at least two feet of freeboard; and f) sweep streets daily if visible soil material is carried out from construction site. 15. During construction activities, the project contractor shall ensure that the project will comply with SCAQMD Rule 402 (Nuisance). Rule 402 prohibits the discharge from any source quantities of air contaminants or other material which would cause injury, detriment, nuisance, or annoyance to any considerable number of persons, the public, or damage to business or property. 16. In the event that the project generates significant adverse air quality, CEQA requires that all feasible mitigation measures that go beyond what is required by law be utilized during project construction and operation to minimize or eliminate the impacts. Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines 15126.4 (a)(1)(D), any impacts resulting from mitigation measures must also be discussed. Page 5 of 10 Resolution 17 -16 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard an eastbound lane and a dedicate eastbound right turn pocket. The reconfiguration of Rossmoor Center Way must be include in the project Plan Check submittal and approved by City Staff prior to issuance of building permits. Engineering Department: 25. Applicant shall modify the City approved traffic signal timing at the intersection of Seal Beach Boulevard and Rossmoor Center Way to allow for the northbound extended left turn. 26. Applicant shall implement City approved new traffic signal coordination timing and plans for Seal Beach Boulevard from North City Limit to the 1-405 freeway prepared by a California register traffic engineer. 27. Applicant shall monitor for one (1) year the traffic signal timing and coordination along Seal Beach Boulevard from North City Limit to the 1 -405 Freeway and report to the City on a monthly basis the conditions prepared by a California register traffic engineer. Any modifications requested by the City Traffic Engineer shall be made by the applicant prepared by a California register traffic engineer. 28. Prior to issuance of occupancy permits, the applicant shall extend the queuing length of the left -turn pocket lane from northbound Seal Beach Boulevard onto westbound Rossmoor Center Way, as recommended in the revised queuing analysis dated April 2016 for the project traffic impact analysis to the satisfaction of the City Engineer. The City may determine a fair -share payment for completion of such improvements. The improvement will require the removal of newly • installed median landscaping on Seal Beach Boulevard. As a result, the applicant is required to offset the loss of this landscape resource, by reimbursing the City for the cost of the landscaping, up to $50,000. The amount shall be in addition to all other fees required for this project. The reimbursement cost will be specified after the City Engineer has evaluated and identified the project costs incurred for landscaping within the median. 29. Applicant shall bear 100% of the cost of all above items. 30. Per the current 2016 - 2017 Fee Schedule and a gross leasable space of 37,000 square feet, the following fees must be paid prior to the issuance of building permits: 1. Transportation Facilities and Programs Development Fee: $3.79/sf X 37,O00sf = $140,230.00 2. Transportation Facilities and Programs Development Application Fee: $0.55/sf X 37,000sf = $20,350.00 Total combined fee of $160,580.00. Police Department: 31. Provide a security plan to be reviewed and approved by the Police Chief or his representative prior to issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy. The security plan shall include but not limited to: placement of security cameras, guard patrol areas • and times they will be at the location. Page 7 of 10 Resolution 17 -16 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard an eastbound lane and a dedicate eastbound right turn pocket. The • reconfiguration of Rossmoor Center Way must be include in the project Plan Check submittal and approved by City Staff prior to issuance of building permits. Engineering Department: 25. Applicant shall modify the City approved traffic signal timing at the intersection of Seal Beach Boulevard and Rossmoor Center Way to allow for the northbound extended left turn. 26. Applicant shall implement City approved new traffic signal coordination timing and plans for Seal Beach Boulevard from North City Limit to the 1 -405 freeway prepared by a California register traffic engineer. 27. Applicant shall monitor for one (1) year the traffic signal timing and coordination along Seal Beach Boulevard from North City Limit to the 1 -405 Freeway and report to the City on a monthly basis the conditions prepared by a California register traffic engineer. Any modifications requested by the City Traffic Engineer shall be made by the applicant prepared by a California register traffic engineer. 28. Prior to issuance of occupancy permits, the applicant shall extend the queuing length of the left -turn pocket lane from northbound Seal Beach Boulevard onto westbound Rossmoor Center Way, as recommended in the revised queuing analysis dated April 2016 for the project traffic impact analysis to the satisfaction of the City Engineer. The City may determine a fair -share payment for completion of such improvements. The improvement will require the removal of newly • installed median landscaping on Seal Beach Boulevard. As a result, the applicant is required to offset the loss of this landscape resource, by reimbursing the City for the cost of the landscaping, up to $50,000. The amount shall be in addition to all other fees required for this project. The reimbursement cost will be specified after the City Engineer has evaluated and identified the project costs incurred for landscaping within the median. 29. Applicant shall bear 100% of the cost of all above items. 30. Per the current 2016 - 2017 Fee Schedule and a gross leasable space of 37,000 square feet, the following fees must be paid prior to the issuance of building permits: 1. Transportation Facilities and Programs Development Fee: $3.79/sf X 37,000sf = $140,230.00 2. Transportation Facilities and Programs Development Application Fee: $0.55/sf X 37,O00sf = $20,350.00 Total combined fee of $160,580.00. Police Department: 31. Provide a security plan to be reviewed and approved by the Police Chief or his representative prior to issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy. The security plan shall include but not limited to: placement of security cameras, guard patrol areas • and times they will be at the location. Page 7 of 10 Resolution 17 -16 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard 32. Security must be provided in the project area at least thirty minutes prior to the opening of the health club and remain on site until at least thirty minutes after the • health club's closing. 33. If the Seal Beach Police Chief or his representative determines, through evaluation of incidents or calls for service, that the performance of the guard(s) or guard company is inadequate to address the safety concerns of the community and the public, the Police Chief's requirement shall be met within seven calendar days of such written notification. 34. Install surveillance cameras in the parking area (as approved by the Police Chief or his representative on the submitted Security Plan) that are operating at all times. Recordings of the images captured from these cameras shall be maintained for a period of 30 calendar days and the recordings shall be made available for police viewing, upon request. 35. Install video cameras that must be positioned in a way to capture all parked vehicles in the parking area and cameras shall be installed for all points of entry and exit of the health club, including any emergency exits. Cameras shall be installed at mid -level heights to gather images of the potential suspect(s) faces. Cameras facing the parking lot from the health club and affixed on top of the parking lot street lights shall face in all directions. The cameras shall be equipped with: a. PTZ (Pan/Tilt/Zoom) and Night Vision b. High Definition or 4k Quality If the Police Chief or his representative determines that there is a necessity to have additional security cameras installed, the owners /lessees of the businesses /complex must comply with the request within 7 days. The Police Chief or his representative can also require the owners /lessees of the businesses /complex to change the position of video cameras if it is determined that the position of the camera does not meet security needs. The owner of the business must comply with the request within 7 days. 36. Install Crime Prevention Signs in and around the parking lot, i.e. "smile you are being recorded ", etc. 37. Provide security lighting to all buildings to eliminate dark areas around the buildings, with direct lighting to be provided by all entryways. The lighting shall be consistent around the entire development. Lighting in the parking lot, shall be at minimum 1 foot candle. 38. The lighting in exterior areas shall be in vandal- resistant fixtures. Orange County Fire: 39. The project is subject to review by the City and the OCFA for various construction document plan checks for the applicable fire life safety codes and regulations. The project will be subject to the 2016 editions of the CBC, CFC and related codes. • Page 8 of 10 Resolution 17 -16 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard on adjacent noise- sensitive land uses. Additionally, the plan shall denote any construction traffic haul routes where heavy trucks would exceed 100 daily trips (counting those both to and from the construction site). To the extent feasible, the plan shall denote haul routes that do not pass sensitive land uses or residential dwellings. b. Equip internal combustion engine- driven equipment with original factory (or equivalent) intake and exhaust mufflers which are maintained in good condition. c. Prohibit and post signs prohibiting unnecessary idling of internal combustion engines. d. Locate all stationary noise - generating equipment such as air compressors and portable generators as far away as practicable from noise - sensitive land uses. e. Utilize "quiet' air compressors and other stationary equipment where feasible and available. f. Designate a noise disturbance coordinator who would respond to neighborhood complaints about construction noise by determining the cause of the noise complaints, and require implementation of reasonable measures to correct the problem. Conspicuously post a telephone number for the disturbance coordinator at the construction site. • Section 8. The documents, staff reports, technical studies, appendices, plans, specifications, and other materials that constitute the record of proceedings upon which this resolution is based are on file for public examination during normal business hours • at the Community Development Department, City of Seal Beach City Hall, 211 8th Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740. PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED by the Seal Beach Planning Commission at a meeting thereof held on June 19, 2017, by the following vote: AYES: Commissioners NOES: Commissioners ABSENT: Commissioners ABSTAIN: Commissioners Deb Machen Chairperson ATTEST: Crystal Landavazo Planning Commission Secretary • Page 10 of 10 Resolution 17 -16 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard on adjacent noise - sensitive land uses. Additionally, the plan shall denote any construction traffic haul routes where heavy trucks would exceed 100 daily trips (counting those both to and from the construction site). To the extent feasible, the plan shall denote haul routes that do not pass sensitive land uses or residential dwellings. b. Equip internal combustion engine- driven equipment with original factory (or equivalent) intake and exhaust mufflers which are maintained in good condition. c. Prohibit and post signs prohibiting unnecessary idling of internal combustion engines. d. Locate all stationary noise - generating equipment such as air compressors and portable generators as far away as practicable from noise- sensitive land uses. e. Utilize "quiet' air compressors and other stationary equipment where feasible and available. f. Designate a noise disturbance coordinator who would respond to neighborhood complaints about construction noise by determining the cause of the noise complaints, and require implementation of reasonable measures to correct the problem. Conspicuously post a telephone number for the disturbance coordinator at the construction site. • Section 8. The documents, staff reports, technical studies, appendices, plans, specifications, and other materials that constitute the record of proceedings upon which this resolution is based are on file for public examination during normal business hours • at the Community Development Department, City of Seal Beach City Hall, 211 8th Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740. PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED by the Seal Beach Planning Commission at a meeting thereof held on June 19, 2017, by the following vote: AYES: Commissioners NOES: Commissioners ABSENT: Commissioners ABSTAIN: Commissioners Deb Machen Chairperson ATTEST: Crystal Landavazo Planning Commission Secretary • Page 10 of 10 P ATTACHMENT 3 Final Environmental Impact Report dated May 2017, with response to comments Delivered on June 7, 2017 Available on the City's website at: http: / /www.sealbeachca.gov /Departments /Community- • Development /Planning- Development /Environmental- Documents- Under - Review • 0 0 1 ATTACHMENT 3.a. Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program • E 0 0 Mitigation, Monitoring and Reporting Plan for the LA Fitness Health Club • This Mitigation, Monitoring and Reporting Plan (MMRP) has been prepared pursuant to CEQA Guidelines, which state the following: In order to ensure that the mitigation measures and project revisions identified in the EIR are implemented, the public agency [the City of Seal Beach] shall adopt a program for monitoring or reporting on the revisions which it has required in the project and the measures it has imposed to mitigate or avoid significant environmental effects. ( §15097(a)) The public agency may choose whether its program will monitor mitigation, report on mitigation, or both. "Reporting" generally consists of a written compliance review that is presented to the decision - making body or authorized staff person. A report may be required at various stages during project implementation or upon completion of the mitigation measure. "Monitoring" is generally an ongoing or periodic process of project oversight. There is often no clear distinction between monitoring and reporting and the program best suited to ensuring compliance in any given instance will usually involve elements of both. ( §15097 (c)) Table 1, on the next page, lists the impacts, mitigation measures, and timing of and responsibility for implementing the mitigation measures related to the LA Fitness Health Club. The mitigation measures listed here will be implemented by the Applicant/Developer and approved by the City of Seal Beach, or by its appointee. The Applicant will report completion of mitigation implementation to the City of Seal Beach (Lead Agency). • According to CEQA Guidelines Section 15126.4 (a)(2), "Mitigation measures must be fully enforceable through permit conditions, agreements, or other legally- binding instruments. 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Type NOP Notice of Preparation Description The proposed project is the construction of a 37,000 sf, single story private health club to be located within the existing Shops at Rossmoor retail center. The proposed project would be built on an existing parking lot, and the surrounding parking lot would be reconfigured to accommodate the parking demands of the proposed use and the center. The health club would provide membership -based fitness services, including access to exercise equipment, group fitness classes, and personal fitness trainine. The health club is proposed to operate seven days a week. Hours of operation would be 5:00 AM to 11:00 PM Monday through Friday, 5:00 AM to 10:00 PM on Saturday, and 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM on and Sunday. Lead Agency Contact Name Steve Fowler Agency City of Seal Beach Phone (562) 431- 2527.x 1316 Fax email Address 211 Eighth Street City Seal Beach State CA Zip 90740 Project Location County Orange City Seal Beach Region Cross Streets Lat /Long Parcel No. Township Range Section 3ase Proximity to: Highways Airports Railways Waterways Schools Land Use Project Issues Air Quality. Noise; Traffic /Circulation, Other Issues Reviewing Resources Agency, Department of Parks and Recreation; Department of Water Resources; Agencies Department of Fish and Wildlife, Region 5; Native American Heritage Commission; Caltrans, District 12; Regional Water Quality Control Board, Region 4; Regional Water Quality Control Board, Region 8 Date Received 01/04/2017 Start of Review 01/04/2017 End of Review 02/02/2017 NI-f- P on Pe in HnfA iinlrle roo It f, i,u, fnci -nt mfnrmafinn n. nvirian' by IFAr1 Anon, M G� o U a � N !�Y 4 CJ C O 7 U g y c o '� p N °' o m a o d p m v v o °_ °_ 2 E vim- `fi x .. .. _a ❑ C ❑ ❑ rn ❑ m n E c m' m :: . d .^ :: g .` :: _ :: c o .°: v F m m p ma@ . L v ° m -@ R m p -L m N E mm ¢ E mmW w mN v LL °@ S In ❑ ❑ s .R d um o' . O N R m p . 'OR H.Z -O _ _ O a v O C U. 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O@ N Oi @ W N R C m N O N O W O N N 4LJ LL� LLU LL� LLJ W G LLI-SLL LL -SU @ "- @ LL(A ❑Q ❑(Od ❑U W Ip ❑U y '2US ❑ ❑. ❑ ❑ ® ❑ ❑ ❑ L ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ a.o ❑ O cU N_ 1 a i L- _N a c z o cd °d c o o ° ° p 0 m y - T �CD m o O > Ol O N U1 N m@ @ O O m m R O U m m m �. O o C m N 41 O LL N N m W m U Om ❑�0 UUW U� ❑.W UUW U❑ U. 0_.� OaW OOO C) 0: � ❑U OD: of O Z ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ®.. ❑. ❑ ❑ ❑ W tq ❑ ❑ --91 v v o U _ N m 0 1- C7 =_ 3 > N Otn W ❑ LLU L Steve Fowler -2- January 10, 2017 In the event that the proposed project generates or attracts vehicular trips, especially heavy -duty diesel - fueled vehicles, it is recommended that the lead agency perform a mobile source health risk assessment. Guidance for performing a mobile source health risk assessment ( "Health Risk Assessment Guidance for Analyzing Cancer Risk from Mobile Source Diesel Idling Emissions for CEQA Air Quality Analysis ") can be found at: http / /www agmd gov/ home /regulations /cega/air- quality- analysis handbook/mobile- source- toxics- analysis. An analysis of all toxic air contaminant impacts due to the use of equipment potentially generating such air pollutants should also be included. In addition, guidance on siting incompatible land uses (such as placing homes near freeways) can be found in the California Air Resources Board's Air Quality and Land Use Handbook. A Community Perspective, which can be found at the following internet address: http:// www.arb.ca.gov /ch/handbook.pdf. CARB's Land Use Handbook is a general reference guide for evaluating and reducing air pollution impacts associated with new projects that go through the land use decision - making process. Finally, should the proposed project include equipment that generates or controls air contaminants, a permit may be required and the SCAQMD should be listed as a responsible agency and consulted. The assumptions in the submitted Draft EIR would also be the basis for permit conditions and limits. Permit questions can be directed to the SCAQMD Permit Services staff at (909) 396 -3385, who can provide further assistance. Mitigation Measures In the event that the project generates significant adverse air quality impacts, CEQA requires that all feasible mitigation measures that go beyond what is required by law be utilized during project construction and operation to minimize or eliminate these impacts. Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines § 15126.4 (a)(1)(1)), any impacts resulting from mitigation measures must also be discussed. Mitigation Measure resources are available on the SCAQMD CEQA Air Quality Handbook website: httD: / /www.aamd. eov/ home / regulations /ceaa/air- ouality- anaivsis- handbook Data Sources SCAQMD rules and relevant air quality reports and data are available by calling the SCAQMD's Public Information Center at (909) 396 -2039. Much of the information available through the Public Information Center is also available via the SCAQMD's webpage (hqp: / /www.agmd.gov). The SCAQMD staff is available to work with the lead agency to ensure that project emissions are accurately evaluated and mitigated where feasible. If you have any questions regarding this letter, please contact Gordon Mize, Air Quality Specialist by e -mail at ginize(i4aumd.gov or by phone at (909) 396 -3302. Sincerely, / ---- Jillian Wong, Ph.D. Planning and Rules Manager Planning, Rule Development & Area Sources JW:GM LAC170103 -04 Control Number Steven Fowler From: Crystal Landavazo Sent: Monday, June 05, 2017 4:15 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: FW: LA Fitness at the Shops at Rossmoor PLEASE VOTE NOf From: Dawn Kramer Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2017 11:53 AM To: Crystal Landavazo Subject: Fwd: LA Fitness at the Shops at Rossmoor PLEASE VOTE NO! Dear Crystal Landavazo, Senior Planner RE: LA Fitness project in the Shops at Rossmoor We ask you to VOTE NO! Please! I am writing to express my thoughts about the proposed LA Fitness Project in the Shops at Rossmoor Shopping Center. Our family says NO! My husband and I have been Rossmoor residents since November of 1995. Since that time there have been many changes surrounding our community, some of them have been positive, certainly not all. With all the additional business added to the commercial shopping center in the past 15 years or so, the traffic has increased exponentially to the point of concern already. We already have to contend with the majority of the elementary school traffic as most of the elementary schools that serve Los Alamitos, Rossmoor and Seal Beach are located inside the borders of our Rossmoor community. You can not continue to put it all on us! At the same time the schools are accepting more and more inter district transfers. Education is far more important than a huge corporation's investment. Adding a large fitness center like LA Fitness will lead to an increase in traffic at the same hours in the morning that 30,000+ vehicles are traveling in and around Rossmoor to drop off kids and commute to work. This is a recipe for disaster and we do not want that disaster to be dead school children hit by distracted drivers. Is that what it's going to take to get someone to see the negative impact this will have? And then what? This does not even mention the traffic already backed up southbound on Los Alamitos /Seal Beach Blvd. in the non holiday months. Holiday months are overwhelming! Please vote NO! Sincerely, Dawn Kramer Clarence Kramer MWalker Lee Drive 1 Rossmoor, CA 90720 ",,1. Steven Fowler From: Dustin Ron Cuellar Sent: Monday, June 05, 2017 12:42 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Dustin Ron Cuellar I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Dustin Ron Cuellar Mr. Steven Fowler April 24, 2017 Page 2 Throughout the development of this project, we encourage communication with OCTA on any matters discussed herein. If you have any questions or comments, r1IP.'1CP r.nntnrt min at t71d1 FFn -1;an7 nr # n* SIATI. OF CALIFORNIA 'NIFORNIA STATE NSPORTAT101 AGENMr EDMUNDC BROWNJ• Gnvcrnw DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT 12 1750 EAST FOURTH.STREE•f: SUITE 10(1 SANT.AANA. CA 92705 PHONE (6M329-6267 FAX (657) 326 -6510 TTY 711 www.dot.ca m April 26, 2017 Mr. Steve Fowler City of Seal Beach 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, CA 90740 Dear Mr. Fowler: n �'ovtar+sOfficeofP M& „(L, Serions.Drought. Making. Conservation a California Wav of Life. Ano n„ `' it' I- b 20 , 117 File: IGR /CEQA TATECLEARI,H0H [)! SCH#:2017011003 SE 12 -ORA- 217 -00508 1- 405. 1 -605 Thank you for including the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) in the review of the Draft:Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the proposed LA.Fitness at Sea] Beach (SCH #201701100 ')). The mission of Caltrans is to provide.a safe, sustainable, integrated and efficient transportation system to enhance California's economy and livability. The Local Development - imergoveramental Review (LD -IGR) Program reviews land use projects and plans to ensure consistency with our mission and state planning priorities of infill, conservation, and.efficient development. The project proposes the construction of a37,000 square foot LA Fitness facility within the existing Shops at:Rossmoor retail center. The project is located in close proximity of Caltrans Right -of -Way (ROW) on Interstate 405 (I -405) -and 605 (I- 605). Caltrans is a commenting agency on this:project, and has the following comments on the DEIR: Transportation 'Planning: 1. Caltrans Active Transportation Coordinator has recommended the installation of bike racks where feasible to encourage multimodal connectivity and accessibility. Please continue to keep us informed of this project and any.future developments that could potentially impact State transportation facilities. If you have any questions or need to contact us, please do not hesitate to contact Jude Miranda at (657) 328 -6229 or Jude.Miranda (u)dot.ca.gov. Sincerely, MAUREEN EL HARAKE Branch Chief, Regional -IGR- Transit Planning District 12 'Provide a safe, misrainable, integiaied and efficient transportation system to enhance - California's economv and llvabilitp" STATE OF CALIFORNIA —CALIFORNIA STATE TRANSPORTATION AGENCY EDMUND G. BROWN Jr. Governor DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT 12 1750 EAST FOURTH STREET, SUITE 100 SAN'1'AANA, CA 92705 PHONE (657) 328 -6267 FAX (657) 328 -6510 TTY 711 www dot.ca.eov April 26, 2017 Mr. Steve Fowler City of Seal Beach 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, CA 90740 Dear Mr. Fowler: 0 Serious Drought. Making Conservation a California Way of Life. File: IGR /CEQA SCH #: 2017011003 12 -ORA- 217 -00508 I -405; I -605 Thank you for including the California Department of Transportation ( Caltrans) in the review of the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the proposed LA Fitness at Seal Beach (SCH #2017011003). The mission of Caltrans is to provide a safe, sustainable, integrated and efficient transportation system to enhance California's economy and livability. The Local Development - Intergovernmental Review (LD -IGR) Program reviews land use projects and plans to ensure consistency with our mission and state planning priorities of infill, conservation, and efficient development. The project proposes the construction of a 37,000 square foot LA Fitness facility within the existing Shops at Rossmoor retail center. The project is located in close proximity of Caltrans Right -of -Way (ROW) on Interstate 405 (I -405) and 605 (I -605). Caltrans is a commenting agency on this project, and has the following comments on the DEIR: Transportation Planning: 1. Caltrans Active Transportation Coordinator has recommended the installation of bike racks where feasible to encourage multimodal connectivity and accessibility. Please continue to keep us informed of this project and any future developments that could potentially impact State transportation facilities. If you have any questions or need to contact us, please do not hesitate to contact Jude Miranda at (657) 328 -6229 or Jude.Miranda@dot.ca.gov. Sincerely, MAUREEN EL HARAKE Branch Chief, Regional -IGR- Transit Planning District 12 "Provide a safe, sustainable, integrated and efficient transportation system to enhance California's economy and livability" L C PublicWorks Integrity, Accountability, Service, Trust Shane L. Silsby, Director April 21, 2017 NCL -17 -022 Steven Fowler City of Seal Beach Community Development Department 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, CA 90740 Subject: Notice of Availability of a Draft EIR for the Proposed LA Fitness Health Club Dear Steven Fowler: The County of Orange has reviewed Notice of Availability of a Draft FIR for the Proposed LA Fitness Health Club and has no comments at this time. We would like to be advised of any further developments on the project. Please continue to keep us on the distribution list for future notifications related to the project. Sincerely, ree nso, Manager, Planning Division OC Public Works Service Area/OC Development Services 300 North Flower Street Santa Ana, California 92702 -4048 Laree.alonso@.ocpw.ocgov.com 300 N. Flower Street, Santa Ana, CA 92703 www.ocpublicworks.com P.O. Box 4048, Santa Ana, CA 92702 -4048 714.567.8800 1 Info @OCPW.ocgov.com Alel� AFFILIATED AGENCIES Orange County Transit Oisloct Loral Tu nsporlalion Authority Service Authority for Freeway Emergencies Consolidated Thmsporalion Service Agency Congestion Management Agency Service Authority for - Abandoned Vehicles April 24, 2017 Mr. Steven Fowler Associate Planner City of Seal Beach 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, CA 90740 Subject: Draft Environmental Impact Report (SCH# 20170110033) for the Proposed LA Fitness Health Club Dear Mr. Fowler: Thank you for providing the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) with the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Proposed LA Fitness Health Club Project (Project). The following comments are provided for your consideration: Page 4.4 -23, Section 4.4. 'Traffic and Transportation', Subsection 'Impact 4.0. D', refers to potential bicycle conflicts that might be created with the proposed Project. The District 1 and 2 Bikeways Strategy (Dec 2013) identified St. Cloud- Montecito as a regional corridor — Corridor H. OCTA recommends the proposed Project to consider evaluation of the following document to ensure consistency with active transportation facilities plans and to encourage enhancements along regional corridors where possible. o The District 1 and 2 Bikeways Strategy (Dec 2013) http: / /www.octa. net/ pdf /OCTAD12 %20Report12- 31- 2013.pdf From Page 4.4 -24, OCTA currently provides bus service and has bus stops located near the Project's offsite improvements, SpcCillicaluly on . 2ai Beach Boulevard (Bus Stop ID: 6869 and 6871). OCTA recommends employing measures to reduce potential disruptions to the bus stops, in effect reducing transit service disruptions, and requests the City of Seal Beach to keep OCTA updated with any potential bus stop disruptions or street closures that may necessitate detours. Orange Comity Transportation Authority 550 South Main Street IRO. Box 14184 / Orange /California 92863 -1584 / (714) 560 -OCTA (6282) Mr. Steven Fowler April 24, 2017 Page 2 Throughout the development of this project, we encourage communication with OCTA on any matters discussed herein. If you have any questions or comments, please contact me at (714) 560 -5907 or at dphu octa.net. Sincerely, Dan Phu Manager, Environmental Programs CITY OF 3191 Katella Avenue Lumofts Los Alamitos (5 2) 431 -3538 Telephone: (562) 431 -3538 FAX: (562) 493 -1255 C*WU www.cityoflosalamitos org April 6, 2017 Mr. Steve Fowler Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach 211 Eight Street Seal Beach, CA 90740 SUBJECT: LA FITNESS HEALTH CLUB - DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT Dear Mr. Fowler: The City of Los Alamitos has completed the review of the DEIR for the proposed LA Fitness Health Club located at the Shops at Rossmoor. We appreciate the opportunity to comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Report. We have limited our review to the traffic impact analysis section of the DEIR and to those issues that are of concern to the City of Los Alamitos. Based on our review of the documents, the City of Los Alamitos does not have any comments and concur with the findings as presented in the traffic analysis. Please include us in your project revisions, if any are produced. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact this office at (562) 431 -3538, Ext.300. Sincerely, CITY OF LOS ALAMITOS Steven A. Mendoza Development Services Director March 20, 2017 ORANGE COUNTY FIRE AUTHORITY P O Box 57115, Irvine CA 926[9 -7115 • 1 Fire Au[hori[y Road, Irvine. CA 92602 Jeff Bowman, Fire Chief Community Development Department 211 8th Street Seal Beach, CA 90740 Subject: Draft EIR LA Fitness Project To whom it may concern: (714) 573 -6000 www.ocfa.org Thank you for the opportunity to review the subject document. As stated in the document, the Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) provides fire protection and emergency medical services response to the project area. We have the following comments regarding the subject document: Project Design Features and Mitigation Measures required to minimize impact to fire service and risk to community include: • The project is subject to review by the City and the OCFA for various construction document plan checks for the applicable fire life safety codes and regulations. The project will be subject to the 2016 editions of the CBC, CFC and related codes. • Structures of this size and occupancy are required to have automatic fire sprinkler systems designed per NFPA 13 as required in the 2016 CBC, CFC. • A water supply system to supply fire hydrants and automatic fire sprinkler systems is required. Fire flow and hydrant spacing shall meet the minimums identified in the codes. Please refer to the California Fire Code Appendix section. These tables are also located in OCFA Guideline B09, Attachment 23. • Fire apparatus and personnel access to and around structures shall meet the minimum development standards of the OCFA and California Fire Code requirements. Please reference Section 2 of the OCFA's Guideline B -09 at www.ocfa.org. • If the project scope includes or requires the installation of traffic signals on public access ways, these improvements shall include the installation of optical preemption devices. In addition, we would like to point out that all standard conditions with regard to development, including water supply, built in fire protection systems, road grades and width, access, building materials, and the like will be applied to this project at the time of plan submittal. Serving the Cities of. Aliso Viejo • Buena Park • Cypress • Dana Point • Irvine • Laguna Hills • Laguna Niguel • Laguna Woods • Lake Forest • La Palma Los Alamitos • Mission Viejo • Placentia • Rancho Santa Margarita -San Clemente • San Juan Capistrano • Santa Ana • Seal Beach • Stanton • Tustin • Villa Park Westminster • Yorba Linda • and Unincorporated Areas of Orange County RESIDENTIAL SPRINKLERS AND SMOKE ALARNIS SAVE LIVES Sincerely, (2� Tamera Rivers Management Analyst (714) 573 -6199 CC: Division Chief Ken Cruz Deputy Fire Marshal Tim Kerbrat Serving the Cities of: Aliso Viejo • Buena Park • Cypress • Dana Point • Irvine • Laguna Hills' Laguna Niguel • Laguna Woods • Lake Forest • La Palma Los Alamitos • Mission Viejo • Placentia • Rancho Santa Margarita -San Clemente • San Juan Capistrano • Santa Ana • Seal Beach • Stanton • Tustin • Villa Park Westminster • Yorba Linda • and Unincorporated Areas of Orange County RESIDENTIAL SPRINKLERS AND SMOKE ALARMS SAVE LIVES C� CPublicWorks dr Integrity, Accountability, Service, Trust Shane L. Silsby, Director January 30, 2017 NCL -17 -003 Steve Fowler City of Seal Beach Planning Department 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, California 90740 Subject: Notice of Preparation for the LA Fitness Health Club Environmental Impact Report (EIR) Dear Mr. Fowler: Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Notice of Preparation for the LA Fitness Health Club Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The County of Orange offers the following comments for your consideration: • Provide the updated traffic study discussed on Page 61 of the LA Fitness Health Club Initial Study (December 2016). Thank you for the opportunity to review this document. If you have any questions regarding these comments, please contact Jamie Reyes at (714) 647 -3903 in OC Public Works Infrastructure Programs/TTaffic or Linda Smith at (714) 667 -8848 in OC Public Works /OC Development Services/Planning Division. Sincerely, La e Alonso, Manager, Planning Division OC Public Works Service Area/OC Development Services 300 North Flower Street Santa Ana, California 92702 -4048 Laree.alonso@ocpw.ocgov.com 300 N. Flower Street, Santa Ana, CA 92703 www.ocliubl ieworks.com P.O. Box 4048, Santa Ana, CA 92702 -4048 714.667.8800 1 Info @OCPW.ocgov.wm EDMUND G. BROWN.iR. GovERNOR STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR'S OFFICE of PLANNING AND RESEARCH STATE CLEARINGHOUSE AND PLANNING UNIT Notice of Preparation January 4, 2017 To: Reviewing- Agencies Re: LA Fitness Health Club SCH�l 2017011003 of`PE OF��hC� e — a O n 9 s 0� 4 @"C!:; KF.N ALEX DIRECTOR Attached for your review and comment is the Notice of Preparation (NOP) for the LA Fitness Health Club draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR). Responsible agencies must transmit their commnems on the scope and content of the NOP, focusing on specific information related to their own stamtor v responsibility, within 30 days of receipt of the NOP from the Lead A2encv. This is a courtesy notice provided by the State Clearinghouse with a reminder for you to comment in a timely manner. We encourage other agencies to also respond to this notice and express their concerns early in the environmental review process. Please direct vour comments to: Steve Fowler Citv of Seal Beach 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, CA 90740 with a copy to the State Clearinghouse in the Office of Planning and Research. Please refer to the SCH number noted above in all correspondence concerning this project. If you have any questions about the environmental document review process, please call the State Clearinghouse at. (916) 445 -0613. Sincerely, r� Moman Director, State Clearinghouse Attachments cc: Lead Aaenev 1400 10th Street P.O. Box 3044 Sacramento, California 95812 -3044 (916) 445 -0613 FAX (916) 323 -3018 www.opr.ca.gov NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE COMMISSION 1550 Harbor Blvd., Suite 100 West Sacramento, CA 95691 Phone (916) 3733710 Fax (916) 373 -5471 Email: nahc@nahc.ca.gov Website: http: /Avww.nahe.ca.gov Twitter: @CA NAHC January 9, 2016 Steve Fowler City of Seal Beach sent via e-mail: 211 Eighth Street sfowler @sealbeachca.gov Seal Beach, CA 90740 RE: SCH# 2017011003, LA Fitness Health Club Project, Notice of Preparation for Draft Environmental Impact Report, Orange County, California Dear Mr. Fowler: The Native American Heritage Commission has received the Notice of Preparation (NOP) for the project referenced above. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (Pub. Resources Code § 21000 et seq.), specifically Public Resources Code section 21084.1, states that a project that may cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of an historical resource is a project that may have a significant effect on the environment. (Pub. Resources Code § 21084.1; Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, § 15064.5 (b) (CEQA Guidelines Section 15064.5 (b)). If there is substantial evidence, in light of the whole record before a lead agency, that a project may have a significant effect on the environment, an environmental impact report (EIR) shall be prepared. (Pub. Resources Code § 21080 (d); Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, § 15064 subd.(a)(1) (CEQA Guidelines § 15064 (a)(1)). In order to determine whether a project will cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a historical resource, a lead agency will need to determine whether there are historical resources with the area of project effect (APE). CEQA was amended significantly in 2014. Assembly Bill 52 (Gatto, Chapter 532, Statutes of 2014) (AB 52) amended CEQA to create a separate category of cultural resources, "tribal cultural resources" (Pub. Resources Code § 21074) and provides that a project with an effect that may cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a tribal cultural resource is a project that may have a significant effect on the environment (Pub. Resources Code § 21084.2). Please reference California Natural Resources Agency (2016) "Final Text for tribal cultural resources update to Appendix G: Environmental Checklist Form," http: / /resources.ca.govlcega /does /ab521Clean- final -AB -52 -App -G- text - Submitted pd . Public agencies shall, when feasible, avoid damaging effects to any tribal cultural resource. (Pub. Resources Code § 21084.3 (a)). AB 52 applies to any project for which a notice of preparation or a notice of negative declaration or mitigated negative declaration is filed on or after July 1, 2015. If your project involves the adoption of or amendment to a general plan or a specific plan, or the designation or proposed designation of open space, on or after March 1, 2005, it may also be subject to Senate Bill 18 (Burton, Chapter 905, Statutes of 2004) (SB 18). Both SB 18 and AB 52 have tribal consultation requirements. If your project is also subject to the federal National Environmental Policy Act (42 U.S.C. § 4321 et seq.) (NEPA), the tribal consultation requirements of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (154 U.S,C. 300101, 36 C.F.R. § 800 et seq.) may also apply. The NAHC recommends lead agencies consult with all California Native American tribes that are traditionally and culturally affiliated with the geographic area of your proposed project as early as possible in order to avoid inadvertent discoveries of Native American human remains and best protect tribal cultural resources. Below is a brief summary of on rtions of AB 52 and SB 18 as well as the NAHC's recommendations for conducting cultural resources assessments. Consult your legal counsel about compliance with AB 52 and SB 18 as well as compliance with any other applicable laws. AB 52 AB 52 has added to CEQA the additional requirements listed below, along with many other requirements: 1. Fourteen Day Period to Provide Notice of Completion of an Application /Decision to Undertake a Project: Within fourteen (14) days of determining that an application for a project is complete or of a decision by a public agency to undertake a project, a lead agency shall provide formal notification to a designated contact of, or tribal representative of, traditionally and culturally affiliated California Native American tribes that have requested notice, to be accomplished by at least one written notice that includes: a. A brief description of the project. b. The lead agency contact information. c. Notification that the California Native American tribe has 30 days to request consultation. (Pub. Resources Code § 21080.3.1 (d)). we urge you to continue to request Native American Tribal Contact Lists and "Sacred Lands File" searches from the NAHC. The request forms can be found online at. http : / /nahc.ca.gov /resources/forms/ NAHC Recommendations for Cultural Resources Assessments To adequately assess the existence and significance of tribal cultural resources and plan for avoidance, preservation in place, or barring both, mitigation of project - related impacts to tribal cultural resources, the NAHC recommends the following actions: 1. Contact the appropriate regional California Historical Research Information System (CHRIS) Center ( http: / /ohp.parks.ca.gov / ?page_id =1068) for an archaeological records search. The records search will determine: a. If part or all of the APE has been previously surveyed for cultural resources. b. If any known cultural resources have been already been recorded on or adjacent to the APE. c. If the probability is low, moderate, or high that cultural resources are located in the APE. d. If a survey is required to determine whether previously unrecorded cultural resources are present. 2. If an archaeological inventory survey is required, the final stage is the preparation of a professional report detailing the findings and recommendations of the records search and field survey. a. The final report containing site forms, site significance, and mitigation measures should be submitted immediately to the planning department. All information regarding site locations, Native American human remains, and associated funerary objects should be in a separate confidential addendum and not be made available for public disclosure. b. The final written report should be submitted within 3 months after work has been completed to the appropriate regional CHRIS center. 3. Contact the NAHC for a. A Sacred Lands File search. Remember that tribes do not always record their sacred sites in the Sacred Lands File, nor are they required to do so. A Sacred Lands File search is not a substitute for consultation with tribes that are traditionally and culturally affiliated with the geographic area of the project's APE. b. A Native American Tribal Consultation List of appropriate tribes for consultation concerning the project site and to assist in planning for avoidance, preservation in place, or, failing both, mitigation measures. 4. Remember that the lack of surface evidence of archaeological resources (including tribal cultural resources) does not preclude their subsurface existence. a. Lead agencies should include in their mitigation and monitoring reporting program plan provisions for the identification and evaluation of inadvertently discovered archaeological resources per Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, section 15064.5(f) (CEQA Guidelines section 15064.5(f)). In areas of identified archaeological sensitivity, a certified archaeologist and a culturally affiliated Native American with knowledge of cultural resources should monitor all ground- disturbing activities. b. Lead agencies should include in their mitigation and monitoring reporting program plans provisions for the disposition of recovered cultural items that are not burial associated in consultation with culturally affiliated Native Americans. c. Lead agencies should include in their mitigation and monitoring reporting program plans provisions for the treatment and disposition of inadvertently discovered Native American human remains. Health and Safety Code section 7050.5, Public Resources Code section 5097.98, and Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, section 15064.5, subdivisions (d) and (e) (CEQA Guidelines section 15064.5, subds. (d) and (e)) address the processes to be� followed in the event of an inadvertent discovery of any Native American human remains and associated grave goods in a location other than a dedicated cemetery. Please contact me if you need any additional information at gayle.totton @nahc.ca.gov. Sincerely, a I Totton, s late Governmental Program Analyst oc: State Clearinghouse Steven Fowler - 'Im: Christopher Purtell nt: Thursday, January 19, 2017 11:07 AM To: Steven Fowler Cc: Laura Stetson Subject: LA Fitness Health Club Attachments: NAHC SLF Response Letter.pdf Steve: Good Morning. I am enclosing the Sacred Lands File Search (SLF) that was conducted by the Native American Heritage Commission on behalf of the above project. The NAHC found no Native American Cultural Resources within the Project Area. However, Please review the second paragraph of the NAHC letter. I strongly encourage the City to request the Consultation List from the NAHC. With your authorization, I would be happy to request from the NAHC their Consultation List for your records. I just did this for another Jurisdiction that was sending out 13 Notification Letters for each project, when they only had to send out 61 Knowing exactly which Tribes need to be contacted concerning AB 52 Consultation saves both precious resources and time. Please let me know and I'll be happy to request the NAHC Consultation List on the City's Behalf lards, Chris P Christopher W. Purtell, M.A., RPA Cultural Resources Group Lead MIG 1500 Iowa Ave. Ste 110 Riverside,CA 92507 951- 787 -9222 FAX 951- 781 -6014 STATE-OF _CALIF_9aH1A_ �mVntl_G rQ1yn.�[- Governor NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE COMMISSION 1660 HOrbor Blvd, Sidle 100 » West Sacramento, CA 95691 (916) 973 -9710 (916) 373 -5471 FAX January 19, 2017 Christopher W. Purtell MIc Sent by E-mail: cpurtell @migcom.com RE: Proposed LA Fitness Health Club Project, City of Seal Beach; Los Alamitos USGS Quadrangle, Los Angeles County, California Dear Mr. Puretll: Attached is a contact list of tribes with traditional lands or cultural places located within the boundaries of the above referenced counties. A search of the SFL was completed for the USGS quadrangle information provided with negative results. Our records indicate that the lead agency for this project has not requested a Native American Consultation List for the purposes of formal consultation. Lists for cultural resource assessments are different than consultation lists. Please note that the intent of the referenced codes below is to avoid or mitigate Impacts to tribal cultural resources, as defined, for California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) projects under AB -52. As of July 1, 2015, Public Resources Code Sections 21080.3.1 and 21080.3.2 require public agencies to consult with California Native American tribes identified by the Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC) for the purpose mitigating impacts to tribal cultural resources: Within 14 days of determining that an application for a project is complete or a decision by a public agency to undertake a project, the lead agency shall provide formal notification to the designated contact of, or a tribal representative of, traditionally and culturally affiliated California Native American tribes that have requested notice, which shall be accomplished by means of at least one written notification that includes a brief description of the proposed project and its location, the lead agency contact information, and a notification that the California Native American tribe has 30 days to request consultation pursuant to this section. (Public Resources Code Section 21080.3.1(d)) The law does not preclude agencies from initiating consultation with the tribes that are culturally and traditionally affiliated with their jurisdictions. The NAHC believes that in fact that this is the best practice to ensure that tribes are consulted commensurate with the intent of the law. In accordance with Public Resources Code Section 21080.3.1(d), formal notification must include a brief description of the proposed project and its location, the lead agency contact information, and a notification that the California Native American tribe has 30 days to request consultation. The NAHC believes that agencies should also include with their notification letters information regarding any cultural resources assessment that has been completed on the APE, such as: 1. The results of any record search that may have been conducted at an Information Center of the California Historical Resources Information System (CHRIS), including, but not limited to: • A listing of any and all known cultural resources have already been recorded on or adjacent to the APE; • Copies of any and all cultural resource records and study reports that may have been provided by the Information Center as part of the records search response; If the probability is low, moderate, or high that cultural resources are located in the APE. • Whether the records search indicates a low, moderate or high probability that unrecorded cultural resources are located in the potential APE; and If a survey is recommended by the Information Center to determine whether previously unrecorded cultural resources are present. 2. The results of any archaeological inventory survey that was conducted, including: • Any report that may contain site forms, site significance, and suggested mitigation measurers. • All information regarding site locations, Native American human remains, and associated funerary objects should be in a separate confidential addendum, and not be made available for pubic disclosure in accordance with Government Code Section 6254.10. 3. The results of any Sacred Lands File (SFL) check conducted through Native American Heritage Commission. 4. Any ethnographic studies conducted for any area including all or part of the potential APE: and 5. Any geotechnical reports regarding all or part of the potential APE. Lead agencies should be aware that records maintained by the NAHC and CHRIS is not exhaustive, and a negative response to these searches does not preclude the existence of a cultural place. A tribe may be the only source of information regarding the existence of a tribal cultural resource. This information will aid tribes in determining whether to request formal consultation. In the case that they do, having the information beforehand well help to facilitate the consultation process. The results of these searches and surveys should be included in the "Tribal Cultural Resources" section or in a separate subsection of the Cultural Resources section of the environmental document submitted for review. Please reference California Natural Resources Agency (2016) "Final Text for tribal cultural resources update to Appendix G: Environmental Checklist Form," http:// resources .ca.gov /cega/docsiab52/Clean- final- AB-52- App- G -text- Submitted.pdf. If you receive notification of change of addresses and phone numbers from tribes, please notify me. With your assistance we are able to assure that our consultation list contains current information. If you have any questions, please contact me at my email address: gayle.totton @nahc.ca.gov. Sincerely, ayl otton, M.A., PhD. Associate Governmental Program Analyst Gabrieleno Band of Mission Indians - Kizh Nation Andrew Sales, Chariperson P.O. Box 393 Covina, CA, 91723 Phone: (626) 926 - 4131 g ati4elenoindian s @yahoo.com Gabrieleno/Tongva San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians Anthony Morales, Chairperson P.O. Box 693 San Gabriel, CA, 91778 Phone: (626)483 -3564 Fax: (626)286-1262 GTTd balcoun ci l @ aol. com Gabrielino/Tongva Nation Sandonne Goad, Chairperson 106112 Judge John Also St., 4231 Los Angeles, CA, 90012 Phone: (951)807-0479 sWad@gabdelino-tongva.com Gabrielino Tangles Indians of California Tribal Council Robert Dorame, Chairperson P.O. Box 490 Bellflower; CA, 90707 Phone: (562) 761 - 6417 Fax: (562) 761 -6417 giongva @gmail.com Native American Heritage Commission Tribal Contact List Orange County 1/19/2017 Juaneno Band of Mission Indians Acjachemen Nation - Belardes Gabdoleno Joyce Perry, Tribal Manager 4955 Paseo Segovia Juaneno Irvine, CA, 92603 Phone: (949) 293 - 8522 kaamalam ®gmall.com Juaneno Band of Mission Indians Acjachemen Nation - Gabrieleno Belardes Matlas Bolardes, Chairperson 32161 Avenida Los Amigos Juaneno San Juan Capistrano, CA, 92675 Phone: (949)293-8522 Juaneno Band of Mission Gabrielino Indians Acjachemen Nation - Romero Teresa Romero, Chairperson 31411 -A La Matanza Street Juaneno San Juan Capistrano, CA, 92675 Phone: (949)48&3484 Fax: (949)488-3294 tromero @juaneno.com Gabrielino Gabrielino- Tongva Tribe Linda Candelaria, Co- Chairperson 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite Gabrielino 1100 Los Angeles, CA, 90067 Phone: (626)676-1184 Juaneno Band of Mission Indians Sonia Johnston, Chairperson P.O. Box 25628 Juaneno Santa Ana, CA, 92799 sonia.johnsto n @ sbcg lobal. net This lost is arrant only as or the date of this document Distribution of the lost tices not rellme any pasaa d statutory as dellned In SWUM 70505 of the Heallh and Sdery Cade, Section 5097.94 dthe Public Resource Section 5097.90 or the Pudic Resources Cale. This Ilsl Is only aprJlcabb for contacting local Na1Ne Am erlcans Win regard W culWral resources asseeSmenl to the propooed LA Run am Hodih Chub Project, Orange County PROJ -2017- 01/19/2017 07:32 AM 1 of 1 000106 Steven Fowler 1m: Gordon Mize <gmize @aqmd.gov> -at: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 10:57 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: SCAQMD Staff NOP Comments for the Proposed LA Fitness Health Club Project DEIR Attachments: LAC170103 -04 NOP LA Fitness Health Club City of Seal Beach.pdf Steve Fowler, Assistant Planner Department of Community Development City of Seal Beach Re: Proposed Project Located at 12411 Seal Beach Boulevard Attached are the SCAQMD staff Notice of Preparation Comments for the above -named project Draft EIR. The original, electronically signed letter will be forwarded to your attention by regular USPS mail. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Sincerely, Gordon E. Mize Air Quality Specialist uth Coast Air Quality Management District ,ZQA, Inter- Governmental Review (909) 396 -3302 Phone (909) 396 -3324 Fax gmize(a)agmd.gov i South Coast Air Quality Management District 21865 Copley Drive, Diamond Bar, CA 91765 -4178 (909) 396 -2000 • www.agmd.gov January 10, 2017 sfowler@sealbeachca.gov Steve Fowler, Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach, Department of Community Development 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, CA 90740 Notice of Preparation of a CEQA Document for the LA Fitness Health Club Project The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) staff appreciates the opportunity to comment on the above - mentioned document. The SCAQMD staffs comments are recommendations regarding the analysis of potential air quality impacts from the proposed project that should be included in the Draft FIR. Please send the SCAQMD a copy of the Draft FIR upon its completion. Note that copies of the Draft FIR that are submitted to the State Clearinghouse are not forwarded to the SCAQMD. Please forward a copy of the Draft EIR directly to SCAQMD at the address in our letterhead. In addition, please send with the Draft EIR all appendices or technical documents related to the air quality and greenhouse gas analyses and electronic versions of all air quality modeling and health risk assessment files. These include original emission calculation spreadsheets and modeling riles not Adobe PDF riles). Without all files and supporting air quality documentation, the SCAQMD will be unable to complete its review of the air quality analysis in a timely manner. Any delays in providing all supporting air quality documentation will require additional time for review beyond the end of the comment period. Air Quality Analysis The SCAQMD adopted its California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Air Quality Handbook in 1993 to assist other public agencies with the preparation of air quality analyses. The SCAQMD recommends that the lead agency use this Handbook as guidance when preparing its air quality analysis. Copies of the Handbook are available from the SCAQMD's Subscription Services Department by calling (909) 396 -3720. More recent guidance developed since this Handbook was published is also available on SCAQMD's website here: htto: / /www.agmd.gov /home /regulations/cega/ air - quality- analysis- handbook/cega -air- quality- handbook - (1993). SCAQMD staff also recommends that the Lead agency use the CalEEMod land use emissions software. This software has recently been updated to incorporate up -to -date state and locally approved emission factors and methodologies for estimating pollutant emissions from typical land use development. CaIEEMod is the only software model maintained by the California Air Pollution Control Officers Association (CAPCOA) and replaces the now outdated URBEMIS. This model is available free of charge at: www.caleemod.com. The lead agency should identify any potential adverse air quality impacts that could occur from all phases of the project and all air pollutant sources related to the project. Air quality impacts from both construction (including demolition, if any) and operations should be calculated. Construction- related air quality impacts typically include, but are not limited to, emissions from the use of heavy -duty equipment from grading, earth- loading/unloading, paving, architectural coatings, off -road mobile sources (e.g., heavy -duty construction equipment) and on -road mobile sources (e.g., construction worker vehicle trips, material transport trips). Operation- related air quality impacts may include, but are not limited to, emissions from stationary sources (e.g., boilers), area sources (e.g., solvents and coatings), and vehicular trips (e.g., on- and off -road tailpipe emissions and entrained dust). Air quality impacts from indirect sources, that is, sources that generate or attract vehicular trips should be included in the analysis. The SCAQMD has also developed both regional and localized significance thresholds. The SCAQMD staff requests that the lead agency quantify criteria pollutant emissions and compare the results to the recommended regional significance thresholds found here: http:/ /www agmd gov /does /default- source /cegalhandbook/scagnid- air - quality - significance - thresholds pdf. In addition to analyzing regional air quality impacts, the SCAQMD staff recommends calculating localized air quality impacts and comparing the results to localized significance thresholds (LSTs). LSTs can be used in addition to the recommended regional significance thresholds as a second indication of air quality impacts when preparing a Draft FIR document. Therefore, when preparing the air quality analysis for the proposed project, it is recommended that the lead agency perform a localized analysis ,y either using the LSTs developed by the SCAQMD or performing dispersion modeling as necessary. Guidance for performing a localized air quality analysis can be found at: http7/ /www amnd gov/ home /regulations /eega /air - quality- analysis- handbook/local izcd- significance- threshoIds. Steven Fowler From: Dawn Kramer Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2017 11:SS AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Fwd: LA Fitness at the Shops at Rossmoor PLEASE VOTE NO! Dear Steve Fowler, Assistant Planner RE: LA Fitness project in the Shops at Rossmoor We ask you to VOTE NO! Please! I am writing to express my thoughts about the proposed LA Fitness Project in the Shops at Rossmoor Shopping Center. Our family says NO! My husband and I have been Rossmoor residents since November of 1995. Since that time there have been many changes surrounding our community, some of them have been positive, certainly not all. With all the additional business added to the commercial shopping center in the past 15 years or so, the traffic has increased exponentially to the point of concern already. We already have to contend with the majority of the elementary school traffic as most of the elementary schools that serve Los Alamitos, Rossmoor and Seal Beach are located inside the borders of our Rossmoor community. You can not continue to put it all on us! At the same time the schools are accepting more and more inter district transfers. Education is far more important than a huge corporation's investment. Adding a large fitness center like LA Fitness will lead to an increase in traffic at the same hours in the morning that 30,000+ vehicles are traveling in and around Rossmoor to drop off kids and commute to work. This is a recipe for disaster and we do not want that disaster to be dead school children hit by distracted drivers. Is that what it's going to take to get someone to see the negative impact this will have? And then what? This does not even mention the traffic already backed up southbound on Los Alamitos /Seal Beach Blvd. in the non holiday months. Holiday months are overwhelming! Please vote NO! Sincerely, Dawn Kramer Clarence Kramer Walker Lee Drive Rossmoor, CA 90720 1 Steven Fowler From: Sent: To: Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Claire Hartman Claire Hartman Wednesday, May 31, 2017 4:05 PM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Claire Hartman Steven Fowler From: Sent: To: Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Melody sanford Melody sanford Wednesday, May 31, 2017 3:10 PM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concems. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Melody sanford Steven Fowler From: julia moye Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 11:03 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is julia moye I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely julia moye STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR'S OFFICE of PIL9NNLNGAND RESEARCH STATE-CLEAMPIGHOUSE AND PLANNING U= EDMUND G. BROWN SR, GOvERNOR April 27, 2017 Steve Fowler City of Seal Beach 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, CA 90740 Subject: LA Fimess Health Club SCHP: 2017011003 Dear Steve Fowler: o F`GEOF\U,y�AC s �o p Am �SOF cat @oaa3 PEN A, Ea DmEc-ror. The State Clearinghouse submitted the above named Draft E1R. to selected state agencies for review. On the enclosed Document Details Report please note that the Clearinghouse has listed the state agencies that reviewed, your document. The review period closed on April 26, 2017, and the comments from the responding agency (ies) is (are) enclosed. lfthis comment package is not in order, please notify the State .Clearinghouse immediately. Please refer to the project's ten -digit State Clearinghouse number in furore. correspondence so that we may respond promptly Please note that Section2l 104(c) of the California Public Resources Code states that: "A responsible or other public agencvshall only make substantive comments regarding those activities involved in a project which are within an area of expertise of the agency or which are required to be.carried out or approved by the agency. Those comments shall be supported by specific documentation." These comments are forwarded for use in preparing your final environmental document. Should you need more information or clarification of the enclosed comments, we recommend that you contact the commenting agency directly. This letter acknowledges that you have complied with the State Clearinghouse review requirements for draft environmental documents, pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act. Please contact the State Clearinghouse at (916) 445 -0613 if you have any questions regarding the environmental review process. Sincerely, Scott Morgan Director, State Clearinghouse Enclosures cc: Resources Agency 1400 10th Street P.O. Box 3044 Sacramento, California 95812 -3044 (916) 445 -0613 FAX(916)323-3018 www.opr.ca.gov .Document Details Report State Clearinghouse Data Base SCH# .2017011003 Project Title LA Fitness Health Club - .Lead Agency Seal Beach, City of - -Type EIR Draft EIR .Description The proposed: project is the construction of a 37,000 sf, single story private health club to be located within the existing Shops at Rossmoor retail center. The proposed project site, currently an asphalt parking lot, is located on the northwestern portion of the shopping center parking lot on Rossmoor Center Way, between Seal Beach Blvd and Montecito Rd. The site is bounded by residential uses to the west and north, circuit training, a pool, a basketball court, separate rooms for aerobics and spinning, a personal training room, men's and women's showers and lockers, a hot yoga studio, a physical therapy room, and a children's area. All parking would be provided on the surrounding surface lot. .Lead Agency Contact Name Steve Fowler Agency City of Seal Beach Phone (562)431 -2527 x 1316 Fax .email Address 211 .Eighth Street City Seal each :State CA .Zip 90740 _ Project location County Orange City Seal Beach Region .Lai /.Long Cross Streets 12411 Seal Beach Blvd, Rossmoor Center Way 'Parcel No. 086-492 -079 Township Range Section :Base Proximity to; Highways 22,405 Airports Railways Waterways Schools .Land Use Parking lot/CG- general commercial /general commercial Project issues Noise, Traffic /Circulation; Other Issues Reviewing Resources Agency, Department of Fish and Wildlife, Region 5, Department of Parks and Recreation; Agencies Department of Water Resources; California Highway Patrol, Caltrans, District 12, Regional Water Quality Control Board, Region 8, Native American Heritage Commission Date Received 03/1312017 Start of Review 03/1312017 End of Review 04/26/2017 Steven Fowler From: Sent: To: Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Horrible Idea Horrible Idea Tuesday, May 30, 2017 7AS PM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Horrible Idea Steven Fowler From: Jean R Walker® I' Sent: Monday, May 29, 2017 8:40 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Jean R Walker I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Jean R Walker Steven Fowler From: N. Edward Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2017 9:13 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is N. Edward I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, N. Edward Steven Fowler From: Carlos Danger Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2017 7:18 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Carlos Danger I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Carlos Danger Steven Fowler From: Sent: To: Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Leida hanzen Leida hanzen Friday, May 26, 2017 8:41 PM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness Fm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Leida hanzen Steven Fowler From: John H Priester Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 12:44 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is John H Priester I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely John H Priester Steven Fowler From: Eric caesar Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2017 6:49 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Eric caesar Fm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Eric caesar Steven Fowler From: Jeff Kolster Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2017 4:34 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Jeff Kolster I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Jeff Kolster Steven Fowler From: Hugh Osmera Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2017 9:27 AM To: Steven Fowler Cc: Editor @sunnews.org; Jesusruiz9l @gmail.com Subject: LA fitness Dear Mr. Fowler, I and my Kempton Drive neighbors were dismayed but not surprised to learn of the renewed effort to build the 37,000 square foot gym in the Rossmoor shopping area. None the less, we are deeply concerned about the project. Having experienced a similar displacement of parking in this area of the shopping center a few years ago, we are distressed about the prospect of increased parking and traffic on Kempton Drive and adjacent streets. We experienced the constant uncertainty of finding a parking spot for ourselves or our guests. The "displaced" persons looking for parking park in front of driveways, leave inordinate amounts of trash in the form of fast food containers, cigarette butts, used condoms, and shopping carts. (the persons leaving the carts usually become quite belligerent when asked to return the cart to the shopping center.) We also have in our neighborhood a number of small children who are put at risk by the intense traffic circulation and parked vehicles. A child venturing into the street cannot be seen by approaching traffic because of parked cars. We have seen it almost happen and the result could have been indeed tragic. The street itself is too narrow to accommodate vehicles parked on both sides. Two autos cannot easily meet without slowing or stopping. Kempton Drive is already heavily travelled as it is one of the main streets through Rossmoor. Traffic also is a nightmare within the shopping center. During the holiday rush it was next to impossible to reach Sprouts and adjacent businesses. What's it going to be like with gym traffic entering and exiting the shopping Center? The homes on this street are in the 800,000 thousand to one million dollar range. What happens to property values with the increased traffic and associated problems for at least 7 to 8 homes down the street? Please consider the quality of life for the Rossmoor residents in the vicinity of the new gym. Rossmoor has been proclaimed as one of the most livable urban areas in California. Should the gym be approved, east central Rossmoor will turn into a toilet because of the traffic and parking problems, danger to small children , trash disposal , and property values. I am certain that the planning committee will consider these points as it considers permitting the gym to be built. Thank you very much for your consideration of this communication. Hugh Osmera - - - - -- End of Forwarded Message Steven Fowler prom: Isabelle reyngold Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2017 1:39 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Isabelle reyngold I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Isabelle reyngold Steven Fowler 'rom: LiliAnn Blanco Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2017 10:59 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is LiliAnn Blanco I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, LiliAnn Blanco 1 Steven Fowler From: Kathryn Blanchard Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2017 7:55 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler. My name is Kathryn Blanchard I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Kathryn Blanchard Steven Fowler prom: Yolanda Salomon Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2017 11:38 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Yolanda Salomon I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coining to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Yolanda Salomon Steven Fowler prom: Sheryl Baker Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 8:26 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Sheryl Baker I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Sheryl Baker Steven Fowler prom: k harbor Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 1:23 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is k harbor I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, k harbor Steven Fowler prom: john nguyen Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 1:24 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is john nguyen I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project .will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, john nguyen Steven Fowler prom: george good Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 4:01 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is george good I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, george good Steven Fowler crom: Sandra Paris Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 7:11 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Sandra Paris I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting I.A Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Sandra Paris April 22, 2017 Steve Fowler Assistant City Planner, City of Seal Beach Department of Community Development 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, CA 90749 RE: Negative Impact of LA Fitness on community of Rossmoor Dear Mr. Fowler, I know you have received a number of letters and emails relating to the proposed construction of an LA Fitness gym in The Shops at Rossmoor. As a long time resident of Rossmoor, I am extremely concerned about this addition to the center, which is an obvious poor fit at every imaginable level. The City of Seal Beach has often enacted ordinances to ensure that resident's rights are protected from over- building and excessive noise. Two such ordinances come to mind. The first was in 2012 - the short term vacation rental ordinance which prohibits owners from renting their properties for less than thirty days to prevent short term, unruly guests from disrupting residents lives. The second was in 2015 - a zoning ordinance to limit residential buildings to two stories so that existing homes views are not obstructed. So, it seems that the City of Seal Beach is concerned about the rights, comforts, aesthetics, and well being of the citizens of Seal Beach, but when it comes to the citizens of Rossmoor, those same concerns don't apply. JLL says that all of the negative effects of the proposed construction of LA Fitness will be mitigated by the lengthening of the northbound turn lane, muffling the air conditioning, and widening Rossmoor Center Way. Despite these well- meaning notions, it is very clear these are "pseudo fixes" that would not even fix the problems with the center's traffic as it exists today, much less the aggravating effects the fitness center would impose. It would be foolishly blind to deny that there will be increased traffic congestion in the parking lot and on the streets of Rossmoor, increased noise, and increased crime. Councilwoman Ellery Deaton was quoted in 2012 in the LA Times in reference to citizens concerns about short term rentals, "People have emailed me, solicited me in the street, and called me. They say this is where they live. This is our home. And, commercial areas are unacceptable in our residential neighborhoods." It is shocking, alarming, and disappointing to think that council members of Seal Beach so clearly understand how something like this could affect their community, and yet, when it comes to Rossmoor, it seems that the lives of the people being affected are not a priority. I hope that you will hear the sincerity in this plea - please do not inflict this irreparable and irreversible duress on our community. Thank you for your time Brigid Wethe Inverness Drive Rossmoor, CA 90720 Steven Fowler "-om: LaureLee Barnes ,nt: Saturday, March 25, 2017 2:28 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Fitness center I am in favor of the fitness center. It would be a great addition to our community. I drove by LA fitness on Valley View in Garden Grove and there is no traffic issue there. Laurelee Barnes Sent from Whone Steven Fowler "•om: Colin Miller .nt: Friday, March 24, 2017 9:51 AM To: Steven Fowler Cc: Sandra Massa- Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Thomas Moore; Schelly Sustarsic; Subject: LA Fitness - Flaws and Assumptions of Traffic Study and lack of Pedestrian Safety Mitigation Mr. Fowler, Trying to keep this short as possible. PLEASE READ. Last night the representative from the company that completed the traffic study told me that 90% of the current traffic access the Center through Rossmoor Center Drive. They are using the same assumption about patrons' trips to LA Fitness. This is a flawed assumption as LA Fitness is behind the other stores and facing the other direction. Patrons will quickly figure out that they can access Montecito via St. Cloud and Bradburry. The traffic analysis is therefor inaccurate and flawed. I could go on and on,,, but think about that. I live here and would bet my last dollar that nobody will use Rossmoore Center Drive to access the club once they figure out that they can go around and get in through the back. There is a complete lack of Pedestrian Safety Mitigation. I had assumed that the current side walk behind the condos, originating at the intersection at Copa De Oro would be continued along the side of Home Goods. They just added parking there. How is our community expected to access the shops? By walking through the middle of a parking ',t? Why can't they put a side walk in, with lights so that we can at least, have a safe path to walk ? I don't see any oposed cross walks or anything to give Rossmoor residents on that side access through the lot. Also, note their parking lot layout. There is a diagonal section that will flow cars exiting right out through the rear exit at the Copa De Oro four way. If the intent is to flow cars in that direction that then Pedestrian Safety much be considered. Marty Potts stated last night that they have hundreds of parking spots, more than they need. Then why can't 20 or so be designated to the Condo owners? Where will they end up parking? It's all going to flow onto our streets. Please protect our community. I think a lot of the backlash from residents can be quelled if we implement a few relatively small requirements for the developer to adhere to. Can I schedule an appointment with you to address these concerns and point out my thoughts on a map? I live 5 houses in on Copa, this development will affect me and my family for years and feel I have a right to offer some input. Thank you for your consideration, Colin Miller Steven Fowler �rom: Terry Brown Ewe :nt: Monday, March 20, 2017 6:26 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness If this is going forward which I am against as the traffic study was not done at correct school times AND more important the impact on where the apartment people can park there 70/120 cars now what about offering the impacted present residents of Main way /Tucker lane and other Main Streets exiting Montecito from the library down to Bradbury with street permit parking similar to Seal Beach. So I totally oppose this project unless we have street permit parking in vicinity by project Sent from my il'ad Terr Brown Consultant Advisor Mobile Office. 11111111111M!� E -Mail NOTICE: This email, and any documents, files or other data attached to the email, may contain information that is privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you are hereby notified that any reading, use, copying, disclosure, dissemination or distribution of this email and its attachments is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by plying to the email or by calling ELG Haniel Metals Corp. at (412)- 672 -9200 and asking �o speak with the sender. Also, please immediately delete this email and all of its attachments without saving the email in any manner. Thank you. 1 Steven Fowler "•om: Vanessa Miller ,nt: Monday, March 20, 2017 9:40 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness A health club of this size would greatly impact traffic within the Rossmoor neighborhood, especially on Montecito Dr. We already have people speeding down our residential streets and this situation would only become worse with an establishment the size of LA Fitness. This would also directly effect home values within the community. I have read many messages from neighbors on social media platforms that are adamantly opposed to this project. We hope that you are taking community opinions into consideration. Thank you! Vanessa Miller Steven Fowler "-om: Colin Miller :nt: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 9:20 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: New Rossmoor Resident - Concerned with proposed development Greetings Mr. /Ms Fowler, We recently moved to Rossmoor and have recently learned about the proposed development of the LA Fitness. We're on Copa De Oro, about 5 houses in off of Montecito and are gravely concerned about the proposed development. I assume you are also opposed to the project development? What do you think the likelihood is that the proposal will pass? I just invested over 13M to move into this home and will fight vigorously to protect the interests of my family, and the way of life I thought I was buying into. Having a construction zone a stone's throw from my home for 2 years, followed by a corporate monstrosity pulling thousands of cars into our neighborhood a day is not what I bought into. Any help and guidance you can give me would be much appreciated. Thanks, Colin Steven Fowler '-om: .nt: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 5:51 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness We do not want or need this facility in our neighborhood. Steven Fowler From: Victoria Chang ent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 12:44 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness project Hi Mr. Fowler, I am a Rossmoor resident and wanted to write that I strongly oppose the LA Fitness plan for many reason. California is already SO crowded and you can't drive a few miles without getting stuck in traffic. We moved to Rossmoor because it had a sleepy town feel and even in the last 7 years, there seems to have been a lot of development and thus a lot more traffic. Getting into and out of that shopping center is already difficult and even as a pedestrian, pretty unsafe walking into and out of Sprouts, which was poorly planned IMHO. We can't continue to sustain this type of growth at the costs of our residents and community members. Safety is already a big issue and traffic within Rossmoor due to our schools which rightfully attract residents from outside our neighborhood. Please help block this unnecessary facility, which I think will draw outsiders to our already too crowded unsleepy community. Best, Todd Terlecki and Victoria Chang Steven Fowler '•om: Laurie Purcell mt: Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:17 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA FITNESS -NO My Name is Laurie Purcell and I live in Rossmoor. I am very against having an LA Fitness business in our Rossmoor Shopping Center. There will be more trafffic, more noise, more police involvement, less parking, etc. Thank you for your consideration in this matter. Laurie Purcell 4W Coleridge Dr. March 22, 2017 Mr. Steve Fowler Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach Dept. Of Community Development 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, CA, 90740 Dear Mr. Fowler, We are very much against having a new LA Fitness Health Club added to the Shops at Rossmoor. We are especially against having it built behind Sprouts. There is no room or parking for such a facility. We do not need another establishment crammed into existing space for the almighty dollar! Please don't do this! Thank you! Sincerely, litff(4- Larry R. Miler _ Weatherby Road Rossmoor, CA 90720 Steven Fowler From: Kalani Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 7:20 AM To Steven Fowler Sut,,,ct: Fwd: LA Fitness Is One Step Away Mr Fowler I signed up for emails from LA Fitness to get apprised of the proposed new club which I am strongly against. I received this email which asks that people fill in their email and name and immediately sends a slanted email to you encouraging the project without giving the option for people to edit. You are likely getting inundated with emails and I thought you should know why. I find this misleading and in poor taste. If my work email was suddenly flooded by emails I would not be happy and at least want to know why. Shame on LA Fitness for doing this and for attempting to speak on behalf of the people that would be negatively impacted by this. As a resident I strongly oppose this project. Traffic going North on Seal Beach Blvd is horrendous. Our daily commute to our children's school has doubled in time in 4 years with a natural increase in traffic. LA Fitness would only cause more gridlock. Furthermore, we live at the beach and work out there! There are many local businesses that provide great fitness classes from yoga to bane to Pilates to dancing. We don't need a sweaty gym. - K -'ani Robinson Begin forwarded message: From: LA Fitness Seal Beach <lafitnesssealbeachng,gmail.com> Date: April 12, 2017 at 6:00:13 AM PDT To: MW Subject: LA Fitness Is One Step Away Reply -To: <lafitnesssealbeach@gmail.com> i x Ix Dear Neighbor, Tha .k,ypu for your supporting the plans to bring;lA Fitness to Seal Beach. 3 9^r t }flrjr� Q.�-Xs SvKi.. ,M ,'py(•.. �9� Yyyf 2017 Seal yyA© 1 1 - ➢� Steve Fowler Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach Dept 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, Ca. 90740 April 10, 20172017 of Community Development My name is Mary Holzgang and I am a condo owner at 12200 Montecito Rd. and I am writing to you to ask you please vote against the proposed construction of an LA Fitness gym at the Shops at Rossmoor. The construction site at the back parking lot of the Shops at Rossmoor is definitely not an ideal location for a gym. My bedroom windows will end up being 50 -60 feet from the gym. Not something I and my neighbors look forward to sleeping near. I visit the Shops at Rossmoor a lot and I do enjoy shopping there. However, the access streets to the Shops are congested as it is and the addition of the gym would add greatly to the traffic problems of that area. It is hard enough to exit the condos as it is now. The nature of the gym business requires many cars constantly coming and going all day, using this already crowded access road. As I understand the City of Seal Beach will not gain very much revenue from the gym and the impact on the community will be so very negative. Please vote against this construction. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Mary Holzgang Steven Fowler From: Ellery Deaton <ellerydeaton @gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 9:22 PM To Jill Ingram Cc: Robin Roberts; Steve Myrter; Crystal Landavazo; Steven Fowler Subject: Fwd: Woman's Club on LA Fitness Attachments: LA Fitness letter 4- 17.doc FYI Yours, W&T ---- - - - - -- Forwarded message ---- - - - - -- From: Sandy Tessier Date: Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 9:19 PM Subject: Woman's Club on LA Fitness To: "Contaugfitnessintl.com" <Comact@ tnessintl.com >, "infognadep.com" <info(a,mdep.com >, "infogsepfunds.com" <inf6gseofunds.com >, " smassalavitt @sealbeachea.gov" <smassalavitt@sealbeachca.gov "ssustarsic@a,sealbeachea.gov" < ssustarsic(cr�sealbeachca.gov >, "edeaton&sealbeachca.gov <edeaton@sealbeachca.gov >, "tmooregsealbeachca.gov" <tmooreCa sealbeachca. ov >, "mvaripapa(.&sealbeachea.gov" <mvaripap @sealbeachca.gov >, "clandavazona,sealbeachea.gov" <clandavazogsealbeachca.gov >, "sfowlerksealbeachca.gov" <sfowler n sealbeachca.gov >, "+ buildingoffcia@sealbeachea.gov" <+ buildingoffician ,sealbeachca.gov >, "bmekinney( sealbeachca.gov" <br- ckinney(a sealbeachca.gou >, "ImedinaOsealbeachca.gov" <Imedina(n sealbeachca.gov >, "N elle.Steel@oc og v.com" <MichelIe.Stee1 aDocgov.com> Hello, Pleased be advised that at the last meeting of the Rossmoor Woman's Club the attached resolution was passed by a unanimous vote. Although our club bears the name Rossmoor Woman's Club be are comprised of women from all the surrounding communities including but not limited to; Long Beach, Cypress, Garden Grove and of course Seal Beach. ROSSMOOR WOMAN'S CLUB RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION BY THE ROSSMOOR WOMAN'S CLUB STRONGLY OPPOSING THE ,LA FITNESS HEALTH CLUB PROJECT IN THE SHOPS AT ROSSMOOR IN SEAL BEACH, CA. FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS: Rossmoor Woman's Club, a 56 year philanthropic organization, with 110 members serving the and- Lori`g Beach, has great the placement of the proposed 37,000 sq ft. gym facility within our residential neighborhoods and the negative impact of this project on the quality of life of our residents, and Wh as, the Rossmoor Woman's Club is greatly concerned over the ingress and egress and increased traffic impa,.cs of several thousand trips per day on the community, which is comparable to similar traffic patterns of gyms in the area, and Whereas, the Rossmoor Woman's Club is greatly concerned over the impact to our four elementary schools located in Rossmoor and the potential safety problems which this project might incur. Be it resolved that: The Rossmoor Woman's Club hereby opposes the construction of the LA Health Club Project. PASSED AND ADOPTED AT THE ROSMOOR WOMAN' CLUB GENERAL MEETING, Apri112, 2017 Sincerely, Sandy Tessier Past President Rossmoor Woman's Club Seal Beach Steven Fowler r From: Priscilla Zehmer Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 12:43 PM Tc Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com Subject: LA Fitness development To Whom This May Concern I am a Rossmoor homeowner, and I am TERRIBLY concerned about the proposed LA Fitness development. My family will NOT be effected by many of the issues listed above, but our community members will be effected. My kids are grown and I don't have to worry about them riding their bikes, but we have many community members with kids on bikes. My family won't be crossing Montecito due to parking on the nearby streets, but many community members will be... These negative effects are too high a price to pay for conveinence and money!" LA Fitness is lying about their anticipated numbers... compare them to their biggest competitor which brings in 2,300 members per day ... this is not to be compared to an independent gym such as Rossmoor Athletic Club, we need to realistice. Please make the responsible and moral decision to keep our community safe, please bring a business without the high risk. One person killed in this unsafe area is one too many and the City of Seal Beach and the property owner will be held responsible. Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter. Priscilla Zehner Concerned Homeowner Apr 191703:50p Microsoft 'majum1 p.2 S. S 1 �J sS S� o l�aO A t Mlcha d A. Horton tb� Mnntedto Rd 40 ea Seal Bch, 90790 -2702 1fsi5 -.jot7 RE_ a FITNESS GYM PROPOSAL ! t' l it �f a :l 1 1 :11.1 I l 11" 1 �. III 11 Y 1 f .1 l 111 ti f f ) 111 � N 1!!•! 11 RI lll. 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O P W ilak M ).as F� c�^ -a a m .' •+.m m 0 G� �w Ong 3 x o ° � aT �:�rtC°owmR^a o,n'i r.Nms %cB�N =.f c L� :: '•- cd�o'�." ^��(�^ ccmimal e N» O T P.1 '_ =' �o „n° m� � R m C° amp ao o•z°^, `°. °_ oja R. m a a- c �" o ff �' " c o y Fo ° u `e R QG Q R 7 •J^. n R Y V y V] c Y cow cr' 3 :° -°-•� o "R �� _ c c c ^. boa mg f � � C T� I� _ l VI 0 �V a 1` �J KIL g N-17 1 Steven Fowler From: Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:45 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Dear Mr. Fowler, I frequent Seal Beach for shopping and recreational reasons often. It is a wonderful city to visit. I stand with Seal Beach and Rossmoor residents who are against the proposed LA Fitness facility slated for The Shops at Rossmoor. Residents concerns include parking, noise and traffic issues. LA Fitness is a bad neighbor to have. It has been my experience that LA Fitness shows very little interest in addressing member and community concerns. I have been an LA Fitness member for 30 years. I attend several of the clubs in the Long Beach area. I have been in a battle with the LA Fitness Corporate office in Irvine and Peter Warren, the Long Beach area manager, since December when I sent him an email addressing several concerns. I have also tried to phone him. This past year in 2016 LA Fitness Corporate instituted a SafeSplash Swim School at club locations in the United States. This involves swim lessons for young children anywhere from babies to young adolescents. This takes place during paying members time and uses club facilities. At no time were members informed of this change in policy. This was an unprecedented move because it violates the LA Fitness contract with members which states "all guests must prove they are at least 18 years of age or older or are at least 14 years of age accompanied by a parent or legal guardian ". This brings in even more traffic to LA Fitness facilities in addition to traffic generated by paying members. They have created an uncomfortable atmosphere with teenage boys entering the women's locker room and visa versa. As a community member I am concerned that this also takes away funds from our Long Beach Recreation Department that offers swim lessons. Mr. Warren to date has not answered my email or phone calls. He also has not answered other members concerns. The corporate office ignores us. They refuse give us the names of higher up bosses or managers past Peter Warren to address member concerns. They are very secretive in the corporate office. LA Fitness does not care about its members concerns. This treatment also leads me to believe that they are just as unresponsive to community concerns. I hope that the Seal Beach City Council and Planning Commission looks into LA Fitness and its actual record. You can start with the Better Business Bureau. You will see all of the contract disputes members have with the corporate office. Don't let LA Fitness schmooze you! Why would anyone want a corporation to take up space in their city who feels that they owe nothing to their own paying members and the community in which they exist! They do not care about working to soften their footprint. It is quite the opposite. Please say no to LA Fitness. Sincerely, Marie Lutz fMKallin Ave. Long Beach, CA 90808 Steven Fowler From: Amy Thomas Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:01 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Good afternoon Mr. Fowler, My name is Amy Thomas and I currently live in Rossmoor, directly behind the proposed LA Fitness site. I am extremely concerned about this proposal for many reasons. I understand that the city is looking at adding an LA Fitness to the already busy Rossmoor Center. For those, like myself who live in the area, the traffic already exceeds what the area is zoned for and can accommodate. When attempting to park at the shopping center, or walk to a shop with my children, the traffic congestion at the center is unacceptable. The Los Alamitos School District has been concerned with the amount of traffic schools alone have put onto the streets in this area. For the safety of our children and those that live in the community, they've lowered the bus fares to encourage parents to NOT drive their children to school. They have also promoted walk -to- school Wednesdays to decrease the amount of cars to and from schools. The addition of LA Fitness to the already congested area will only create and even bigger problem. In addition to the traffic issue, I am also concerned about the potential for an increase in crime rate as parked cars always bring break in's in Gym parking lots. This has been proven, documented and reported on by local and national media time and time again. We currently have a lot of options for fitness centers in this area. LA Fitness on Valley View and Chapman is not too far of a drive (only one more freeway exit). There is an Anytime Fitness on Westminster Ave in Seal beach, a Seal Beach cross fit on Los Alamitos Blvd, a Boeing Fitness center, the Joint Training base offers many inexpensive options for fitness as well as the City of Seal Beach and the City of Los Alamitos programs. Please consider the residents that will be impacted by this addition and vote NO on LA Fitness Thank you, �Am and Jeff Thomas Brimhall Drive Rossmoor, Ca 90720 Dr. Amy T. Thomas Department of Anesthesiology University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine Steven Fowler From: Elizabeth S. Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 3:47 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: Thomas Moore Subject: Against LA Fitness in Rossmoor Hello Mr. Fowler, It is my understanding that you are receiving resident communications about the LA Fitness project that will be discussed at tonight's City Council meeting. We are so very lucky to have the businesses, jobs, and resources in the Rossmoor Center. The convenience and ease of these businesses increases quality of life for our residents and the neighboring communities. I love that my children can walk to Rite -Aid to get an ice cream cone when visiting their school friends who live in Rossmoor, and I love to buy fresh and healthy dinners at Sprouts on my way home from picking my kids up from school. However, I am very concerned that the traffic will become intolerable with the gigantic LA Fitness project proposed at the back of the center -- my kids will no longer be able to safely cross St. Cloud Dr /Montecito Rd, and I will choose to buy groceries at the Long Beach Trader Joe's to avoid nightmare traffic in the Center on my way home from work. I know the Council considered this request several months back, and I was heartened by the Council's decision to not approve the application. I strongly encourage the Council to again decline support for this project. Thank you, Elizabeth Stevenson t Wisteria St Seal Beach, CA 90740 Sent from my iPhone Steven Fowler From: bigraccoon Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 1:25 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Opposed to LA Fitness at Rossmoor Shopping Center Dear Sirs, I am a 38 year Seal Beach resident, homeowner, & currently serve as a board member of the Rossmoor Park Homeowners Association. Last week at our homeowners meeting & EVERY monthly meeting for sometime our homeowners have spoken unanimously and strongly against the proposed LA Fitness. Myself & our homeowner have multiple concerns about this large building with its increased traffic, noise, detriment to our families safety, and fear of many other untoward and adverse changes to our community and homes. The city should be representing its citizens & residents responsibly with care given to how their lives would be affected. LA Fitness is NOT a appropriate use for this property. If something is to be built next to our homes, please let it be something that is not so harmful to our families life and safety. My home is about 100 feet from the proposed LA Fitness. Please vote NO on the LA Fitness proposal. Your assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Craig Sandberg difto Montecito Road Seal Beach, CA 90740 Steven Fowler From: Ken Miller S Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 9:54 PM To: Steven Fowler; Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Schelly Sustarsic; mjaripapa @sealbeachca.gov; tmooreedeaton @sealbeachca.gov; Crystal Landavazo Subject: LA Fitness Center I find it absolutely unbelievable that a project of that magnitude was ever even considered for that space. It's an absolute insult to this community of at least 3400 hundred homes & elementary schools where children walk, skate board & ride bikes all over. A gym of that size you typically see on major highways like Katella or PCH, not in the middle of a suburban neighborhood that is heavily trafficked already. Seal Beach is really socking it to the neighborhoods where their children attend our schools. Put it on PCH please !H Nel Miller Salmon Drive, Rossmoor Steven Fowler From: Sent: To: Cc: Subject: Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: > Dear Steve, Melendy Fabian Monday, April 24, 2017 11:57 AM Steven Fowler coalitionagainstlafitness@gmail.com Fwd: Proposed LA Fitness Gym Facility Behind Sprouts • With all due respect, it is my opinion that building another gym • facility at this location will have a detrimental affect on the local populace due to a variety of reasons. Having been a past resident of Manhattan Beach, I have seen the negative impacts on local residents firsthand especially due to traffic congestion. This was one of the primary factors that prompted my family's relocation to CPE over nineteen years ago. > Since that time, we have initially enjoyed the commercial redevelopment of this area, including the various options for shopping, eateries, etc. However, we are at a juncture now where traffic on Seal Beach Blvd. and Katella Ave. has become burdensome, especially before and after work. Adding a LA Fitness Center to this community will only increase the bottleneck that residents currently encounter. > The parking issue is another concern. When overcrowding occurs, the answer in most cities, including the downtown area of Seal Beach, is to install parking meters or pay parking lots to enhance revenue for the city coffers. This always seems to be a natural progression when parking becomes a premium in an area. People then resort to parking in residential areas, thereby affecting street parking for friends or relatives visiting local residents. The only way to preclude this from occurring, is to build a multilevel parking structure that now becomes an eyesore for the local inhabitants and could cause a detrimental affect on the gym members, especially for an unaccompanied female. > Also, as it is, I can already visualize gym members utilizing the library parking lot because they are unable locate a viable spot dedicated for the gym. This will become an issue for library patrons since parking in that area is already at a premium. > These are just a few of a multitude of issues that will create a deleterious effect on our local community, especially given the fact that there are many options already available to us if we decide to purchase a gym membership. > Sincerely, > Kevin and Melendy Fabian > Sent from my iPad Steven Fowler From: Lisa Mais Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 12:38 PM To: Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com Cc: Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official Subject: LA Fitness project SB Hi my name is Lisa Mais, I am addressing this letter to all involved in the LA Fitness Project. I have lived in Rossmoor for 24 years. I live right by Rush Park, very, very close to where they would like to build the LA Fitness. The negative changes that will impact all of Rossmoor, Rossmoor Highlands, College Park because of the this Project are SIGNIFICANT. The cons out way any of the Pro's. I attended one of meetings at the Old Ranch. I had many questions, but the one I ask over and over to the people there and put it in writing as well was (because no one would answer me): They said there was a need for an athletic club in the area. My question was who did they survey? Because they did not survey ONE person I know in Rossmoor. The project's potential impact on parking, traffic congestion and noise, crime and safety our communities residence are all the reasons why I STRONGLY do not want an athletic club in our area. Since the Shops at Rossmoor was built the traffic has become so bad that I try not to drive in that area between 2:30- 7:30PM daily. If you build this facility it will be intolerable. It is so obvious that SB Revenue will go up, the mall owner will see more profits and LA Fitness will profit the most all. I belong to both Anytime Fitness and 24 Hour Fitness. I use them both. I don't mind driving to them. We have many Fitness facilities in our area why do we need another one? This business is not the right fit for the location. Please make the responsible and moral decision to keep our community safe. Lisa Mais Scott Alan Rivers Atta: Steve Fowler, Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach Department of Community Development 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, CA. 90740 April 24, 2016 Mr. Fowler: Gly r 4 291 �l I am a ten -year resident of Rossmoor and I oppose the proposed LA Fitness project in the Shops at Rossmoor. First, I should note that I am a licensed California architect. I have BA in Architectural Design from Princeton University and a Master of Architecture degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. As a design critic. I've participated in design juries at Harvard, USC, SciArc and the Boston Architectural Center. As an architect, I've submitted and obtained planning approvals for numerous projects, both large and small, in various jurisdictions. I've also assisted Planning staff in writing code and have authored design guidelines for large planned residential communities. As a result, I'm quite familiar with the Planning approval process when adjacent neighborhoods are involved. I've participated as an advocate for both residents and developers. In my experience, empathy and fairness offer the best results for all. For the past ten years, I lived in a house on the corner of Montecito and Woodstock Road in Rossmoor. Our driveway fronts Montecito Road. This makes me somewhat of an expert regarding daily traffic conditions along this portion of road. Most days during peak traffic hours, it can take up to ten minutes to safely exit our driveway. This is due to a seemingly endless chain of cars, drivers, taking their children to school and /or heading to work. There's virtually no pause to this Montecito traffic flow because it's not regulated by traffic lights. There's two lanes going each direction on Mortecito with only stop signs to regulate this flow. As a result, traffic briefly hesitates but never stops. Another condition of living along Montecito is the speed and carelessness of many of the drivers. As you may know, parents often have to rush to get their children to school (I have two children myself so I know). Montecito and Foster are the two main feeder streets for the five elementary schools and within Rossmoor. For those parents traveling to our two middle schools, our high school and /or St. Hedwigs, Montecito is the preferred route used to bypass the traffic lights of Seal Beach Blvd. Unfortunately, there is a high concentration of commuter traffic along this portion of Montecito Road. Montecito also serves as the main access road for a number of large condominium complexes near to the proposed LA fitness site. All of these households have people who go to and from work every morning/ evening. It's common knowledge, that commuters often drive at excessive speeds and cause accidents. 3271 Woodstock Road, Rossmoor, CA 90720 scott(g).ccottalandvers cam (310) 871 -7235 As a result of everything mentioned above, drivers pedestrians and bicyclists currently have to use extreme caution while navigating this portion of Montecito Road. In my opinion, any additional traffic on Montecito no matter how small only makes the problem worse. Existing Parking Issues Along Montecito Road Street parking has become an issue for Rossmoor homeowners living on the West side of Montecito Road. Every night, drivers park their vehicles in front of our homes filling all available spots. As a result, homeowners have to deal with: the inconvenience having nowhere for their own house guests to park, the inconvenience of having nowhere to put out our trash cans on trash day, trash left on their lawns, damage done to landscape, broken sprinkler heads from the passengers carelessly exiting their vehicles, and unnecessary noise after hours (FYI, most Rossmoor homes only have single - glazed windows). So, who are these drivers parking in front of our homes? Based upon my own observation, it seems that most are residents or guests of the condominiums on the East side of Montecito. It is important to note that many of these condominium properties are in Seal Beach. So in effect, a Seal Beach parking issue has become a Rossmoor problem. This is not a fair condition and is a planning issue that the City of Seal Beach should acknowledge. Inadequacies Within the Traffic Study The latest traffic study submitted by the developer was pretty typical: statistical data derived from tables and observation all packaged to support a desired conclusion. However, in my review I noted some problematic omissions which deserve further attention: Insufficient Data Regarding Bicycle and Pedestrian Accidents - The traffic study data regarding bicycle and pedestrian accidents along Montecito and Bradbury is not adequate. Many bicycle and pedestrian accidents involving cars are considered minor and are not reported unless there is a physical injury. The developer's traffic study downplays the issue by only included information for one year, 2015. In the ten years that I have lived here, I have witnessed more than enough incidents to cause major concern. For more insight on what it's like for nearby residents, I suggest that you monitor the Rossmoor "Next Door" App. Nearly every other week, there are complaints posted about traffic and pedestrian /bicycle safety along Montecito and Bradbury. Generalized Trip Data - The traffic study trip data for fitness centers is based upon a National average. I have no doubt that the trip data for gyms in fitness - crazed Southern California far exceed the National average. Perhaps a more accurate study would base trips on local fitness clubs servicing the immediate area (ie. The 24 -Hr Fitness on Katella). Omission of Existing Traffic Hazards - Two existing condominium properties on the East side of Montecito have main driveway curb cuts far too close to the street intersection at Rossmoor Center Way. This is in violation of typical public works and transportation standards. In addition, there is another condominium driveway gate uncomfortably close to the congested Sprouts intersection. None of these hazards have been acknowledged in the traffic study. Incorrect Traffic Flow Forecast - The traffic study seems to imply that the majority of vehicle access to/ from the proposed facility will be from Seal Beach Blvd. This is probably based on the idea that the destination is "the Shops of Rossmoor" in general. However, an honest study of a typical gym user's habits would indicate something different (I'm a longtime gym user, too). Gym users do not typically come to a mall to visit their gym and then multiple stores. During peak hours, most come just to squeeze in a quick 20 -30 minute workout or class before /after work and then head out. In the case of this project, can envision someone maybe stopping at Sprouts to pick up something but that's about it. My concern is that after many trips to the proposed gym, users will not have the patience to deal with the traffic delays of the "Sprouts intersection" nor the traffic light at Seal Beach Blvd. Instead, they will find a quicker route by driving through the residential neighborhood using Montecito, Bradbury and St.Cloud. In effect, what will likely happen is that the "main entrance' to /from this gym will be from the residential residential streets not from a commercial street. Typically, this is considered a bad idea by planners 2 because of the potential negative impact on the residential community (ie. added traffic /noise, potential for crime, lower quality of life). Yet, the traffic study focuses on mitigating traffic issues to /from Seal Beach Blvd. It practically ignores the reality that the "main entrance" to the gym will come from a residential street (that is shared with Rossmoor) and through a residential neighborhood (that is mostly Rossmoor). For this reason, I feel that the traffic study is a bit misleading and may be too partial towards the developer objectives. In�quacies Within the Building and Site /Landscape Design As noted above, I dQ have experience as an architectural critic so I cannot remain silent,... This project is obviously a corporate prototype building and seems to have been "dropped" to fit onto this site. The site plan has been minimally developed. The sole intent being to meet tenant standards, code requirements and the needs of the property owner. As a result, the design is not at all site - specific nor sympathetic to the adjacent residential community. In.my opinion, it fails in the following ways: Building Setbac k - Most big -box commercial buildings are sited with significant setbacks to minimize their oppressive scale. However if you study the current plan by the developer, you will note a particularly terrible condition along Rossmoor Center Way. They intend to have a five -foot wide concrete sidewalk installed directly adjacent to a thirty -foot high building wall. There is a planter bed, but that hardly compensates for the claustrophobic pedestrian experience heading to /from the shops. Build ng A s� theti c - This building has a brutal, industrial aesthetic along Rossmoor Center Way to the North and facing the condominiums to the West: thirty -foot tall tilt -up concrete panels, no wall recesses, no doors, glass -block and fixed pane windows. This aesthetic is more appropriate for a parking garage. It does not complement the pedestrian- oriented, streetscape character of the adjacent commercial buildings (ie. Sprouts, Panera). It doesn't repeat any of the established thematic elements (ie. clerestory tower element, emphasis on the ground floor streetscape, brick/patterned walkways, awnings, patios flanked by raised planters,... ). Instead, it is a large box similar to Kohl's or Toys R Us,... EXCEPT for the fact that it is placed uncomfortably close to a residential neighborhood and abutting a major pedestrian thoroughfare for the community, Rossmoor Center Way. Lighted Sign - The developer's building elevations show lighted signage and lighted super - graphics, all within clear view of residential properties. This creates highly undesirable light pollution. It will also impact the property values of adjacent residential properties. The developer should omit all lighted signage that faces, or is in view of, adjacent residential properties and neighborhoods. Pedestrian Access - I may be mistaken, but I thought that the Shops at Rossmoor was supposed to be developed as a pedestrian - friendly mall. If so, then I would encourage the site design for this facility to include a direct, sidewalk path -of- travel access from Rossmoor Center Way all the way to the walkways in front of Home Goods. Currently, many people walk this path though the mostly empty parking lot. Seems like a good idea to include this pedestrian - friendly feature. Parking - Unfortunately, any new project proposed for this site will increase the off - street parking situation in Rossmoor (refer to my comments above "Existing Parking Issues along Montecito Road "). Seems to me that the developer should at least offer a partial solution to mitigate. Conclusion According to an article I read on fitness clubs, the most desirable location is: (1.) within 15 minutes by car of a residential neighborhood and (2.) sited within a shopping center. Based upon this, I understand the developer's interest in pursuing this site. While the community would gain yet another fitness club and the landowner and the developer would establish a profitable investment, far too many adjacent Seal Beach and Rossmoor residents would be impacted negatively by this poorly - planned venture. That is not fair, and it's not what good neighbors do. Let's be the better community we all are. 3 I strongly encourage the City of Seal Beach to deny approval of this LA Fitness project. Best Regards, e Scott A. Rivers M Steven Fowler •om: -ent: Monday, January 30, 2017 9:56 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA fitnessappear again when the city knows our beliefs. We fought this on =ce, we woll Mr. Fowler - -I want to express my dismay and opposition to the building of the LA Fitness Center in the Rossmoor Center. That area is no place for a business that is open 20 hours a day. It will cause too much traffic, too much noise and totally ruin property values for the condos around it. Those of us who live here were shocked to see the whole project. We fought this once and will fight it again. Elizabeth (Beth) Piburn 60*Montecito RdOW Seal Beach Beth Piburn Steven Fowler -Torn: ,ant: Sunday, January 29, 2017 11:21 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness City of Seal Beach Department of Community Development The LA Fitness Health Club is supposed to promote "Good Health ". How is that possible with their hours of operation? The American Medical Association for years has recommended 7 2 to 8 hours of sleep per night for "Good Health ". LAFHC will be open 18 hours 5 days and 17 hours 1 day per week plus the arrival and departures of employees that equates to 5 hours 5 days and 6 hours 1 day of quiet sleep time. This will never "settle in" it will be 6 days per week, every week, every month, every year! There will be the stopping and starting of cars, closing or slamming of car doors, alarm systems being set and unset, conversations, etc. 6 days a week that will add to noise that will not "settle in ". Why should my neighbors and I be deprived of our sleep? . ✓ith this additional traffic and starting of members cars our air quality will be effected. The additional pollution that is caused will not "settle in" it also will be added 7 days a week every year. Why should we be subjected to this additional pollution? The additional traffic will also cause more safety issues. People being who they are do not think of safety first - that will only increase with the addition of this project and more traffic. If the health and safety of the residents that surround this proposed project matter then you in your wisdom will reject this project! Thank you for your consideration. Sande Gottlieb Montecito Rd #W zieal Beach Steven Fowler -rom: Peter Lipschultz .ent: Friday, January 27, 2017 3:32 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: Thomas Moore Subject: LA Fitness Dear Mr. Fowler, I object to the La Fitness project based on the fact that commercial gyms prey on the consumer and must constantly generate new customers in order to keep making any profits. From an economic standpoint gyms are not really looking for regular consumers (according to The Atlantic Magazine article, "This is Why You don't Go to the Gym ", dated June 13, 2012) . The following makes sense: "Gyms make most of their money from two sorts of people: 1) Absentee members and 2) super -users who pay not only the monthly fee but also for the add -ons, like trainers and classes, all the way down to the whey smoothies. "Commercial health clubs need about 10 times as many members as their facilities can handle, so designing them for athletes, or even aspiring athletes, makes no sense," Men's Journal explained in Everything You Know About Fitness Is a Lie. One way to build a financially efficient gym is to make it appear really financially inefficient for gym rats: i'he winning marketing strategy, according to Recreation Management Magazine, a health club- industry trade rag, focuses strictly on luring in the "out-of-shape public," 1 meaning all of those people whose doctors have told them. The entire gym, from soup to nuts, has been designed around getting suckers to sign,up, and then.getting them mildly, vaguely exercised every once in a Ion while, and then getting them out the door. And like all of us do: we make resolutions to lose weight in the beginning of the year and then by April those resolutions are forgotten. However, you're still paying your monthly fees. As the Atlantic Magazine article concludes, "On the bright side, your flabby willpower means open weight machines for other gym members. Our laziness isn't good for our fitness, but it just might be good news for the fitness industry." Such an enterprise in the midst of my neighborhood does little for COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. It only creates income for the owners and leaves the average consumer frustrated and disappointed! Please reject the LA Fitness project!! Sincerely, Peter Lipschultz �Montecito Rd, SB (djIIWI! F] Steven Fowler '^om: Fred Wing .ant: Friday, January 27, 2017 2:12 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Steve, as a long time Rossmoor resident, I have some real concerns about the proposed fitness club in the shops at Rossmoor. Specifically, the entrances at exits to the center are already woefully inadequate to handle current traffic demands, let alone additional traffic that would be created. The entrance at Rossmoor Center Way is only one lane in and one lane out to Seal Beach Blvd, and already backs up on the Northbound Seal Beach Blvd direction from the left turn lane blocking the 91 lane at peak times. Already there are people turning left into the center in front of Chik Fil A over the double /double lines, a traffic infraction. More and more drivers are finding the entrances to the center from Montecito or St. Cloud, increasing the traffic noise and dust in the residential area. The traffic study must identify these problems, and how they will be alleviated, in order for this project to move forward. Thank you! Fred Wing Rossmoor Steven Fowler om: _ent: Friday, January 27, 2017 1:49 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Gary Miller Comments Regarding LA Fitness EIR Attachments: Gary Miller Comments Regarding LA Fitness EIR.docx Steve, Attached are my comments regarding the upcoming LA Fitness EIR. I have asked Patty Campbell to bring to you today a hard copy of my comments. Don't hesitate to call me at 1111� if you have any questions. Thanks, Gary Miller Comments Regarding LA Fitness EIR My concerns are traffic, the new facility itself, and parking: Traffic: Target Market The residential location of anticipated patrons and their route to the facility must be identified for any traffic study. It has been noted that anywhere from fifty to eighty percent of the center's target market is the community of Rossmoor and yet there are only three entrances to the center from Montecito and three from St. Cloud, while the rest are all along Seal Beach Blvd. where traffic is extensive. Originally one of the entrances off Montecito was a nicely landscaped entry way into the old Rossmoor Center; now that same entry way is still there but seldom used because you immediately run into the back of Kohl's when entering the center from there. The other Rossmoor entrances will have typical center traffic to be contended with for those desiring to go to LA Fitness. Thus, Rossmoor residents will be pretty much forced to use Rossmoor Center Way and /or to come out St. Cloud and Bradbury onto Seal Beach Blvd to enter the frontage portion of the center, thereby increasing traffic on Seal Beach Blvd. It would be ideal if they could just come and go from the back of the center and never have to get out onto Seal Beach Blvd. Rossmoor Center Way should be a four lane roadway from Seal Beach Blvd through to Montecito. Unfortunately, there are five important areas, two of which are choke points: 1. The exit /entrance by Montecito will not support four lanes, even three lanes may be difficult. If three lanes are made possible, l would suggest it be two lanes into the center and one lane exiting the center. 2. From the stop sign at West Road east to Sprouts: should be four lanes to accommodate traffic once it is in the center between Montecito & Seal Beach Blvd. 3a. Stop sign at Sprouts & Rossmoor Center Way: due to poor placement of the Sprouts building (it is too close to the roadway -- just an additional 10 feet to the south would be sufficient to solve this choke point and enable the roadway to be a decent four lanes. Currently there is a sidewalk along the north side of the building with landscaping on both sides of the sidewalk. To fix this inadequate lane problem, part of the landscaping on the north side of the Sprouts building should be modified to accommodate the extra lanes of traffic while still retaining a sidewalk to allow people to get to the overflow parking in back of the building. 3b. From Seal Beach Blvd to the stop sign by Sprouts, it definitely should be four lanes: two in and two out. Four lanes are needed to accommodate the traffic, which already is extensive. This section is hemmed in by the Panera Bread building and the side of the parking lot for Sprouts. Do what needs to be done to get four lanes, which may include cutting into the parking lot if removal of landscaping is not enough to obtain four lanes. 4. A new facility (LA Fitness) in back of Sprouts will increase traffic in the northbound left -turn pocket lane of Seal Beach Blvd. to Rossmoor Center Way. Today, northbound traffic trying to access the center on Seal Beach Blvd. is often backed up in both of the northbound pocket turn lanes and the traffic often sticks out into the left through lane creating a dangerous situation for both Rossmoor Center Way and Town Center Drive. This needs to be addressed by reconfiguring the signal and /or lengthening the left turn pocket lane of the recently improved median. Lengthening the pocket lanes needs to be accomplished without interfering with the southbound pocket lanes for traffic turning east into the Target Center. Also, an additional entrance /exit could be added just north of Subway sandwich facility, onto the southbound lane of Seal Beach Blvd, relieving traffic demands on Rossmoor Center Way. Seal Beach Blvd. is the city's only north -south through street. In many areas there are no side streets for extra traffic. As such, it handles a tremendous amount of traffic and asking it to accommodate more, is difficult as it already most likely is at a Level of Service (LOS) F at peak travel times, which due to the variety of traffic, is from 7 am to 9 am, from 2:30 pm to 7 pm. There is not only the usual to /from -work travel traffic, but also the school traffic, as all school children in the district use Seal Beach Blvd, with the exception of elementary school children in Old Town and the Hill that attend McGaugh. Consideration of the impact of the I -405 Improvement Project must also be considered because in 2023 traffic will increase on Seal Beach Blvd. due to the project, i.e., congestion at the county line and congestion caused by tolling. In the construction of an EiR for this project, a traffic circulation section needs to be included. The New Facility: LA Fitness proposed building location should be more to the south, at least 20 feet or so, but not on top of Rossmoor Center Way, especially if Rossmoor Center Way is widened, which should happen. Do not construct the building where it is presently planned as that will forever prevent traffic from easily accessing the center from the community of Rossmoor from Montecito. People will go the way of the least amount of traffic. Planning must also be for the future, not just as it is now. One other issue to consider: rotate the LA Fitness building 90 degrees, elongate 2 it, and moving it further west, possibly to West Road, so that the back of the building would be to the condos, and with parking for the LA Fitness to the east of the building (the back of Sprouts). Experience from the earlier center where there was a movie theater, demonstrated problems in the evening with movie -goers talking and slamming car doors upon leaving after the movie was over. This same behavior would exist with patrons from LA Fitness leaving as late as 11 pm., as well as patrons arriving at 5 am. Remember, we are all neighbors, so let's be neighborly. Parking: Currently, there is a parking problem from vehicles of Seal Beach residents living along Montecito Road in the apartments and condos. Some of those residents have been parking in the back of the center for years. When those apartments /condos were first constructed, they were built as senior apartments with provisions for only one car per unit (guess they thought seniors don't drive). With the condo conversion, they were open to non - seniors and most are now families and have two vehicles, creating a greater demand for parking than the street ( Montecito) can accommodate. Consequently, many residents use the back of the shopping center parking lot. The owners of the Shops at Rossmoor have put those residents on notice that they will no longer be able to park there, causing many residents to park across the street in the community of Rossmoor, thereby inconveniencing many residents over there who often find it difficult to access their own driveways, let alone park in front of their own homes. Thus, this facility (LA Fitness) would be a hardship on Seal Beach and Rossmoor residents. This issue must be addressed before allowing the project to go forward. There is more parking at that center than is needed. By initial calculations, based in the data we were given, approximately 223 spaces are excess. There is a strip of parking spaces behind the condos with approximately 160 parking spaces. These spaces should be made available for the apartments /condos to either use or purchase. A parking structure is cost prohibitive. I have heard the shopping center management say it is not their problem. Well, l beg to differ: if you wish to develop in this area, you have to consider all the problems that exist, and not make them worse. These people who live in Rossmoor and in the apartments and condos are the target market and neighbors of the property owners. I realize the property owners did not create this problem but unfortunately it exists, and if there is a way to ameliorate it, and we must do the best we can to solve it. Finding a solution to the parking woes of those residents is within the scope of this building project, and I urge it be considered in the EIR. 3 Alternate Plan I am well aware that LA Fitness wants to construct a building in The Shops at Rossmoor. However, if it does not come to fruition, perhaps another type of building could be constructed at that site: an office building of similar size would have better hours, not disrupt the sleep of the condo residents (gym members leaving late at night, closing car doors, talking -- voices do carry.) There would not be a need for parking after say 6 pm, thereby not conflicting with the residents from the condos who would wish to park along the back of their building. It would be a win -win for all. Something to consider. Submitted by Gary Miller Former Mayor, Councilman, District ANOGuava, Avenue Seal Beach, CA 90740 1/27/17 Steven Fowler -om: jerry strayve ,ent: Monday, January 30, 2017 1:34 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Dear Mr. Fowler and /or Whom It May Concern: First of all I would like to complement you and the City of Seal Beach for your efforts in maintaining a wonderful community that is the North End of Seal Beach. It is always a pleasure visiting the community; and I think of it as a "home away from home." Last weekend when visiting Seal Beach I had the opportunity to go house "shopping" and ran across a lovely community, Rossmoor Park. 12200 Montecito Road. While previewing some Open Houses, it came to my attention that there may be a large fitness center developed across the street from where I was considering purchasing a home. I must tell you that I was and am very concerned about living near such a facility. For all the obvious reasons, traffic flow /congestion; parking; safety (my grandchildren in particular); and security. I hope as this matter moves forward that you and other leaders in the community will consider the option of locating that facility to another location. You have a wonderful neighborhood there. It would be a shame to lose its present idyllic ambiance by giving way to obtuse commercialization. I wish you and your community the best, jrs Jerry Strayve, Jr. Steven Fowler '')m: Mona so at: Sunday, January 22, 2017 9:23 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: La fitness Please do not vote to approve this!!! Thanks, Mona Patrick Steven Fowler ` IM: NANCY holland at: Saturday, January 21, 2017 LS9 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Jan. 21, 2017 Steve Fowler, Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach Dept. of Community Development Dear Steve, I live in Seal Beach, in a condo directly facing the proposed job site. I am against putting an LA Fitness Health Club on this proposed sight because of the negative impact to my quality of life. This shopping center is already congested and to try to squeeze this Club behind our property will cause noise, pollution, traffic and congestion in our neighborhood. The hours of operation are a huge factor because of the noise so close to our bedroom windows. We urge the City of Seal Beach to reject this project because of the negative environmental impact to our nmunity. Sincerely, Nancy Holland INNIhVlontecito Rd., IM Seal Beach, CA 90740 Steven Fowler gym: Gary Brown' nt: Saturday, January 21, 2017 12:43 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA FItness I oppose the construction of a workout facility. The area is already congested, traffic a complete nightmare going in and out of the center and along the blvd. I would be more inclined to support such a project with a massive overhaul of the parking and entry / exit design to better optimize traffic flow and safety for pedestrians and vehicles alike. I live on Mainway and walk up to Sprouts twice per week and the 4 way stop sign at Sprouts is a terrible design and very pedestrian unfriendly. More traffic would be dangerous. I urge you to spend a few minutes watching that intersection and see just how many drivers fail to stop or yield to pedestrians. regards, Gary Brown (Rossmoor) Steven Fowler IM: jmwagoner _nt: Friday, January 20, 2017 8:16 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness We're writing to express our opposition to the LA Fitness Project proposal. It will be massive traffic to Rossmoor and to Seal Beach Blvd. And the parking will be taking up places where the apartments should be parking,and employee parking for the center. We saw a lady doing a traffic study and it was at night when it would not be so busy. I'm not sure you've done the proper study for traffic implications. Please know that we are opposed to the project of putting LA Fitness in our community. Every corner has fitness gyms. We don't need a gym in our neighborhood. It will impact us severely. Janet and Jim Wagoner Silver Fox Rd Rossmoor, CA. 90720 Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smanphone Steven Fowler Steve Havens NEENNEEW nt: Friday, January 20, 2017 8:01 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Opposed to Approval of LA Fitness Center in the Rossmoor /Seal Beach Shopping Center; re: Hearing planned for January 30th, 2017 Seal Beach Ca. Importance: High Good Evening Mr. Fowler and Seal Beach Administration: My name is Stephen B. Havens and I live on Kempton Dr. in Rossmoor, and we have lived here since 1971. It really is insanity to place this fitness Center into an area that already is over flowing with traffic and is impacted by a lack of infrastructure access. This Center will be a detriment to the surrounding residence and create chaos with morning and evening traffic access to the residential community. We as long term residence have seen the Los Alamitos Blvd grow in traffic similar to the traffic that is flowing in Huntington Beach on Beach Blvd. There is constant traffic and this destroys the neighborhood, the environment, and challenges simply running errands in the shopping areas. Enough is enough Seal Beach ... you have plenty of access in your own backyard... Place the health club on PCH ...tear down some properties ....find room where there is infrastructure in your neighborhood. We are seniors and are in the 4`" Qtr. of our lives, we like to stay active and fit, but this facility has much more negative aspects than positive services for our community. i can have traffic reports and environment reports that are made as instructed, but you will never convince a ,sonable person, that this project won't have a huge negative impact in an area that is already overflowing with traffic. I have recommended to our community to hire a law firm and STOP this project. I am not sure other residence will join in on the suggestion, but to me it would be well worth the cost to STOP this project rather than live with the after effects of more SEAL BEACH projects that are built to benefit Seal Beach with absolutely no consideration for the residence of Rossmoor. Yes this is a cry.... "Not in my backyard ...... but feel free to put this structure in Seal Beach on Pacific Coast Highway. Steven Fowler Im: Karen Swenson NIP _nt: Friday, January 20, 2017 3:28 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Please, DO NOT construct LA Fitness behind the Sprouts Market. Seal Beach is well aware of the safety concerns for our pedestrians and schoolchildren and the safety concerns of massive amount of new traffic added on Saint Cloud as well as on the few access driveways to the shopping center. Please, DO NOT for financial gain "ram through" a massive intrusion to the Rossmoor community. After Seal Beach tore down the small Rossmoor Gym to make room for the Shops in Rossmoor, I joined 24 Hour Fitness Gym on Katella. While a gym in the Shops of Rossmoor would be far closer, I would not want my Rossmoor community to experience the traffic and safety concerns that a huge gym would impose. Karen Swenson Rossmoor Homeowners Association: Standards Committee Rossmoor: Block Captain Steven Fowler From: Maria Mayans Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 3:11 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA FITNESS We certainly don't need to have LA Fitness behind Sprouts. We don't need more traffic or people in the area. Steven Fowler MikE M .nt: Friday, January 20, 2017 12:10 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: La fitness Hello I am opposed to the LA fitness going in in seal Beach. I am concerned on the parking situation in close by Rossmoor. Mike Massion Sent from my iPhone Steven Fowler From: Hugh Osmera Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 12:37 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA fitness Dear Mr. Fowler, I and my Kempton Drive neighbors were dismayed but not surprised to learn of the renewed effort to build the 37,000 square foot gym in the Rossmoor shopping area. None the less, we are deeply concerned about the project. Having experienced a similar displacement of parking in this area of the shopping center a few years ago, we are distressed about the prospect of increased parking and traffic on Kempton Drive and adjacent streets. We experienced the constant uncertainty of finding a parking spot for ourselves or our guests. The "displaced" persons looking for parking park in front of driveways, leave inordinate amounts of trash in the form of fast food containers, cigarette butts, used condoms, and shopping carts. (the persons leaving the carts usually become quite belligerent when asked to return the cart to the shopping center.) We also have in our neighborhood a number of small children who are put at risk by the intense traffic circulation and parked vehicles. A child venturing into the street cannot be seen by approaching traffic because of parked cars. We have seen it almost happen and the result could have been indeed tragic. The street itself is too narrow to accommodate vehicles parked on both sides. Two autos cannot easily meet without slowing or stopping. Kempton Drive is already heavily travelled as it is one of the main streets through Rossmoor. Traffic also is a nightmare within the shopping center. During the holiday rush it was next to impossible to reach Sprouts and adjacent businesses. What's it going to be like with gym traffic entering and exiting the shopping Center? The homes on this street are in the 800,000 thousand to one million dollar range. What happens to property values with the increased traffic and associated problems for at least 7 to 8 homes down the street? Please consider the quality of life for the Rossmoor residents in the vicinity of the new gym. Rossmoor has been proclaimed as one of the most livable urban areas in California. Should the gym be approved, east central Rossmoor will turn into a toilet because of the traffic and parking problems, danger to small children , trash disposal , and property values. I am certain that the planning committee will consider these points as it considers permitting the gym to be built. Thank you very much for your consideration of this communication. Hugh Osmera Steven Fowler gym: christine perez nt: Thursday, January 19, 2017 11:15 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA FITNESS Mr. Fowler, I am one of the many residences of Rossmoor that is trying to STOP the plans for the 37,000 sq. foot building to be built behind Sprouts!! We purchased our first home in Rossmoor in 1971. We have been so very happy in this community and have no reason to want to live anywhere else. With this said, we have also seen so many changes and growth. Some good, some bad. The idea that another 37,000 sq. ft. building coming into that parking lot, along with the the traffic and people is overwhelming! The traffic in the Shops of Rossmoor is beyond ridiculous. I can hardly get through the parking lot without incident. Seal Beach Boulevard is a line of cars backed up from the 405 entrance to Katella Ave. during certain hours of the day. I walk my dog every morning between 4:30am and S:OOam along Montecito and through the Shops an up Seal- Beach Blvd., the traffic at that hour is plenty busy already. I believe, without knowing fact, that the members of the City Council that voted in favor the the fitness center, live nowhere near Rossmoor. It seems as though every time Seal Beach Council members look for more tax money, they find space in my community to place another store. I'm not apposed to the fitness center if you would like to put it closer to Seal Beach main town ... NOT IN ROSSMOOR. I KNOW THE MAYOR VOTED FOR THE PROJCT, MAYBE IT SHOULD BE AROUND TH CORNER FROM HER HOME, NOT MINE Jan 231701:13p Microsoft 562- 430 -4751 p.1 Mtchael A. 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This =uld increase 7Q,OQ0 rnonthhl visit and the nearby Long Beach rub g BQ QQt) plus morrlhfy the traffic Orit ly over 2 0(10 vehicle daly ttiPs and this is ur - Residents have a1W eomp d to the Shops U18Rt shine td wGW i� RA�oor �o units. �WhY properly shielding the rear partdrrg � Posts it vAl getwome vwlh a gym! • has This matter not been corrected in conclusion. for many reasons �-g 1MOU[d serve the entire carrnrrumtY nruci' better if d was Jorated elsewhere- f L 7125120 Steven Fowler '•om: Jason Natanson _ent: Monday, January 30, 2017 12:30 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness response to Notice of Preparation EIR Attachments: Notice of Preparation LA Fitness Health Club EIR response letter Jason Natanson.pdf Mr Fowler, Please see the attached. Also, could you respond to confirm receipt. Thank you, Jason Natanson Steven Fowler ,-om: Arnold Mayans . ent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 9:39 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA FITNESS We don't need an LA Fitness in the Rossmoor Shopping Center. It will disrupt a lot of things and will bring more traffic to the area, which we don't want /need. Also, we don't need more people in the area,. I think we have enough as it is. Everything these days is done to collect more money for the local governments at whatever cost. Build the LA Fitness somewhere else. Thank you. Steven Fowler From: Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 6:09 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: 24 hour fitness Hello Steve, Our family 4 adults are against this project. Our area is already a bottle neck after getting off the freeway and trying to get into Rossmoor. I know this traffic will devalue our homes, be bringing in much more traffic and people that do not live in the area. Will there be a public forum? I know business brings revenue, but at what expense? The city of Seal Beach has a Motorcyle noise ordinance, the people want their area to stay quiet.... we do too! Thanks, Mona Patrick Steven Fowler From: Lauretta Collins .lent: Monday, January 09, 2017 12:04 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Proposed LA fitness I was told about the proposed LA Fitness plans yesterday. As a Ross Moor home owner I'm am opposed to this idea. Ross Moor residents life style are being negatively impacted by the actions of Seal Beaches greed. We spend 90% of our off time at some Seal Beach location as I feel most of my neighbors and friends do. If you continue to increase our traffic and quality of life because of the people that are traveling to our area that don't live there I will move. As people start to move because you are changing our neighborhood you will start getting a deferent clientele in your restaurants and other businesses. Lowering our quality of life will eventually lower yours. Please consider what I have said as rethink what you are planning. Respectfully Lauretta Collins A homeowner in Ross Moor Steven Fowler From: Tony Kozlowski .lent: Sunday, January 08, 2017 5:17 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Proposed LA Fitness in the Shops of Rossmoor Mr. Fowler: I wanted to express my complete disproval of the proposed LA Fitness facility that is being talked about for the Shops at Rossmoor. That area is completely over - developed now and even without a new fitness facility, traffic is already a nightmare for those of us who live in the area. I realize that since I live in Rossmoor I may not have a voice but I can certainly tell you that these decisions have a great impact on our quality of life. In its current state, it is already difficult to drive in and around the Shops at Rossmoor so I cannot even imagine the difficulties that would be thrust on my neighborhood. I have already begun to avoid the area and I am sure that others have as well. If this is approved and Seal Beach goes through with building the facility, I can tell you that I will not spend a dime in ANY of the Shops at Rossmoor and I will begin to encourage everyone I know to do the same. That will also include shopping at the Old Ranch Towne Center. I would hope that you would give that consideration of lost revenue for all of the other businesses in these two locations to be a mitigating factor. Thank you for your time and please let me know if you have any questions. Best Regards cony Kozlowski 011vlainway Drive Rossmoor, CA 90720 Steven Fowler ' im: Debbie Stea ..it: Sunday, January 08, 2017 1:46 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness My Name is Debbie Stea and I am a resident of Rossmoor. I am very much opposed to the development of LA Fitness in the Shops at Rossmoor. We have 5 large gyms and many small ones in a five mile radius and there in no need for another one. The traffic is a nightmare in Rossmoor and a gym that size would increase traffic and noise and safety concerns tremendously. Many of the residents are very much opposed to this gym being built. Please take our concerns into consideration. Thank you, Debbie Stea t Steven Fowler From: Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2017 10:19 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness NO! Our local community does not need another Health Club. There are several Health Clubs close by. My main concern is the quality of life in Rossmoor is going downhill mainly because of the traffic, noise, pollution, etc. I realize the City of Seal Beach benefits from additional taxes by adding more stores to the congested area of Rossmoor Shops, but where does it stop? I suggest LA Fitness add a location to the corner of Main and PCH..... Stop ruining Rossmoor and sending the tax funds to Seal Beach. Shame on you! Steven Fowler - IM: �® _nt: Saturday, January 07, 2017 4:18 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Mr. Steve Fowler Assistant Planner Re: Proposed LA Fitness - Rossmoor Center As long time Seal Beach residents we are strongly opposed to the approval of a LA Fitness facility in the Rossmoor Shopping Center. Traffic in and out of the Center and along Seal Beach Blvd. is currently a huge problem and the proposed facility will certainly create additional problems. You can drive by any LA fitness facility in this area at any time and observe a full parking lot with overflow to its neighbors. In addition, the nature of the customers, who are there only a ort time, adds to the many cars that will enter and leave the Center many times a day along with the noise that these actions will create for the adjacent residential area. Please do not approve this inappropriate business in the Center. Dale & Jeri Woodward 4MElder Avenue 1 Steven Fowler " 'Im: Hyun Soo Min _at: Friday, January 06, 2017 3:26 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Hi Steve Fowler, We do not support having LA Fitness in Seal Beach shopping center. Traffic is very difficult getting in and out of the center already. Also, we have kids and they walk around to in n out and Sprouts. It is dangerous for children and pedestrians if increase in traffic. Thank you Hyun Min Steven Fowler From: Lisa Guardi ent: Wednesday, January 04, 2017 3:25 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA FITNESS -NO Hello, I am a current Ftossmoor resident, My parents lived here for 45 years. We are definitely opposed to the LA Fitness. The center has so many "name brand" tenants that people are driving here from everywhere now. The traffic is awful on Los Al Blvd. see people speed 50 miles an hour on Montecito to go to Khois etc. The community would be better served with a bookstore or more boutique shops. Please! Thank you for your consideration. 1 Steven Fowler om: David Zawolkow _ent: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 8:33 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Fitness Addition Nothing has changed from the previous proposal. All of the prior resulting problems still exist without any indication of resolution. The time lapse certainly will not have any effect on the council's original rejection. While we locals appreciate the benefits provided by the product availability at the various stores, traffic in and around the shopping area is increasingly more of a problem. David Zawolkow (Rossmoor resident, Los Alamitos business owner and Seal Beach customer) Steven Fowler 'rom: Peter Lipschultz ent: Friday, January 27, 2017 1:44 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: Thomas Moore Subject: LA Fitness Dear Mr. Fowler, I object to the LA Fitness project because it would have a direct & negative impact on where I live, Rossmoor Park Condominiums. When the property was converted into condominiums in 1979, no thought was given to the lack of parking spaces for owners & renters. Seal Beach City planners did not take this into consideration at that time. As a result, we were forced to seek additional parking. When we parked in the adjacent streets in Rossmoor, we were disrupting their neighborhood life & activities. We are simply at a dead end to alleviate the parking problems. That's why such a potentially large project with so many ,-iarking spaces required, would leave residents like myself stuck in a no win situation. Perhaps the owners of Rossmoor Ctr could come up with a smaller project that would have a lesser impact on the neighborhood. I was thinking a craft shop for kids would draw much interest in a neighborhood full of young children. Let's be creative in coming up with a solution. Furthermore, there are plenty of fitness gyms in our immediate area; my condominium offers a free gym, as do many condominiums in the immediate area. Another gym does nothing for the development of our community! ! Cincerely , Petrer Lipschultz OMMontecito Rd, SB 1 Steven Fowler "mom: Wolfgang Konrad ent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 9:57 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Steven, I do live in 41M Montecito Rd Apt* Seal Beach, CA 90740. I am against building the LA Fitness behind our building due to Negative environmental impact Negative impact on safety Other negative impacts Sincerely, Wolfgang Konrad Steven Fowler From: Min, Hyun S. mt: Wednesday, January 04, 2017 7:27 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness No! Hello Assistant Planner Steve Fowler, We would not like LA Fitness to be at Seal Beach shopping center. The facility would definitely increase the traffic, and it's already difficult to get in and out of the center as it is, especially during peak times, when the facility will be used. Also, I'm definitely concerned that no in depth traffic studies have been done and how it will affect pedestrians — especially children who use the shopping /food facilities as it's a close walk from their Rossmoor homes. I'm a Rossmoor resident, and I do not want to see increase in dangerous traffic from other areas coming into Rossmoor /Seal Beach. It was already denied, please uphold the denial. Thank you, Hyun Min T`k4A -Lk y, Soo- Hyun Soo Min, MPP I Care Consultant Sr. I Anthem Inc. Enhanced Personal Health Care I I Office #410mw IMPORTANT WARNING: This message is intended for the use of the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and nfidential, the disclosure of which is governed by applicable law. 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If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message and any attachment thereto. Steven Fowler 'Tom: Peter Lipschultz .ent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 9:09 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: Thomas Moore Subject: LA Fitness Attachments: la fitnessjpg Dear Mr. Fowler, I have several objections to the LA Fitness project which I will send you in a series of emails. My first objection would be increased traffic & resulting bottlenecks that would result. I feel confident in saying this based on my observations of the LA Fitness on Valley View St (just 4 miles from the Rossmoor Center; a ten minute ride). I was over there on the weekend & this Wednesday. On the weekend about 1 pm, the parking lot was packed with close to a hundred cars —very few spaces available to park. When I was there on Wednesday, the parking lot was filling up as 'ie attached photo demonstrates. Again the traffic at Rossmoor Center would be impacted greatly in a neighborhood already quite busy. Please keep this in mind. Thanks Peter Lipschultz Montecito Rd, SB INECO %7n JAN 3 0 2017 The City of Seat Beach CITY CLERK CITY OF SEAL BEACH January 30, 2017 Crystal Landavazo, Senior Planner Community Development Department Seal Beach, CA 90740 Ref: Initial Study, LA Fitness Health Club, dated December 2016 Attachment: Comments to Initial Study Dear Crystal, Please find my comments attached. Best regards, Craig Maunders Montecito Road, Apt. Seal Beach, California 90740 G3�C�C���91�D JAN 3 0 2017 CITY CLERK CITY OF SEAL BEACH Ref: Initial Study, LA Fitness Health Club, dated December 2016 Attachment: Comments to reference Dear interested and concerned parties, January 30, 2017 In the present, challenged economic environment, many shopping centers in O.C. have suffered an inexorable downward spiral following short - sighted decisions by proper- ty owner or developer. While recognizing the obligation of city staff to fairly evaluate applicants proposal, it seems reasonable that the City of Seal Beach should also take every possible step to highlight a projects shortcomings, as well as its strengths, so that subsequent evaluations by city commissions can make in- formed decisions, and the city does not needlessly suffer the consequences and lia- bilities of a developer's self- inflicted wound. In the opinion of the undersigned, this project, which in essence was already sub- mitted and evaluated by the public, and rejected by the city processes last year should NOT be approved as a consequence of the detrimental impact not only to Shops at Rossmoor (SoR) neighbors, but to present and future customers of, as well as commercial tenants at, SoR. Best regards, Craig Maunders � Montecito Road, Apt. Seal Beach, California 90790 4.12 Noise Substantial permanent increase in ambient noise levels in the project vicinity above levels existing without the project The Initial Study (page 52, ¶3), acknowleges that "operation of the proposed project... could result in an ambient in- crease... noise by 3 dB(A) or more," however it fails to acknowlege that even in the absence of new traffic, the building itself, where it is presently proposed, will take on the unintended function of "acoustic reflector," amplifying the traffic noise from Rossmoor Center Way (due to reverberation), and sending it to the condos to the north, where previously traffic noise was largely reflected away by the carport wall. With the height of the new building, both the northerly and southerly directed noise will be directed towards bedroom windows. See attached schematic illustrating this. Independent noise measurements taken at the approximate location of the proposed new building northern wall showed peaks from traffic at 72.5 dB(A) to 80.5 db(A) without the reverberation , and should be included in the EIR analysis of both traffic as well as customer - sourced noise from persons exiting and entering their vehicles and the club. EB N a O a U rl { 1 y 11 t 1f1 i it l t I r 11 r t r r f t r f r r r r Y t t A t ! 5 ! r ! 1 f ! r t t f t f t rt t t ! lr t 7 r � f Y rn C O O. U 5 c ar U `a 0 E N 0 C O CL) L P m m z i 1 k i ll I k l t It 11 It it 11 11 II it tl I 11 1 I I 11 I I kill 1 1 11 1 1 I 1 Il II I 1 1 Y1 l V Y1 1 1 111 I 11 1 I kill l i t t 111 1 1 V l 1 i y I t I I Ik 4 1 I Ill 1 it i Ill ti 11 I Ilk tl It 1 I I1 I I kl I l l I k I t yr I k k { ( I k i t ti 1 I I J ! t ti It t 1 III t 1 I Ii J J 1 1 Ik t t I 1 ikt t tr I I IV r 11 I I i t t ! 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Attached photos show posted and placarded speed limit at 25 -mph. Attached photos also show County and delivery vehicles parked on RCW, funneling traffic down to a lane and a half, these limitations should be accounted for. In addition, existence of residential gate located north of and between Sprouts loading dock (west) and its front door (east), and which empties onto RCW should be accounted for. As the adjacent Condo complex houses 256 units, dozens of vehicles exit, primarily during morning hours, and pose a potential of further blocking westbound traffic as residents attempt to negotiate into either east or west bound lanes. The new traffic study materials need to account for this, as well of the reduced window of safety in navi- gating the turn from said gate in the face of decreased cross- traffic arrival interval. As a result of uncertainty in new daily trip estimate (1,218 per the former report vs 1,285 - 1,714 as suggested by the LA Fitness cited 1.5 avg. visits / week of 6,000 - 8,000 members), traffic study should assess consequences of the higher esti- mates. For example, the previous study cites only two - car- length queues east -bound on RCW at the 4 -way STOP. At a level of only 4 car lengths, the east -bound queue there will cause east -bound exiting residents of the condo to block the west -bound lane. The new study should address the queue which will exist with left- turning traffic in the west bound lane of RCW directly behind the Sprouts store. This queue will occur whenever traffic must wait for right -of -way to turn across the east -bound lane. The east -bound lane will be seeing increased bursts of cars from new exiting traffic from the athletic center at the West Rd / RCW intersection. At a level of only 3 car lengths, the west -bound queue behind Sprouts will cause west -bound traffic, including exiting residents of the condo, to be blocked, and east -bound traffic condo residents will not be able to see for safe exit. IY 1;FIZ 3a Fr X21 F IT r`- pi ilk Steven Fowler "•om:� ant: Friday, January 27, 2017 1:48 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: from Bridgecreek Villas Condominiums, Seal Beach Attachments: BRIDGECREEK objection to developmentl.docx Hi, sorry about forgetting the attachment on my last letter to you. I'll try again, thanks, Greg Knowlton BRIDGECREEK VILLAS CONDOMINIUMS OWNERS ASSOCIATION 12450 —12600 Montecito Road, Seal Beach Dear City of Seal Beach Let this letter serve as a strong negative consensus against the proposed development of the L.A. Fitness Center at the back of the Shops at Rossmoor. Their thinly disguised, legal attempt at removing the primary objection of parking behind the Center will have no difference in the negative effects of their project. We have absolutely no objection to their right of development and to do as they wish with their land, as long as it has no negative effects on OUR community. The prior effects of the old Supersaver Movie Theaters come to mind. Added traffic, increased crime, increased trash, added noise from the cars leaving at night and racing were just some of the effects that we are talking about. Every night at 10:00 PM, the movie would end and the drag racing would begin. Many of us were here then and don't want to see a repeat of this. Their extended hours will only add to the problem. We have pondered several solutions that the Shopping Center and the City might consider, i.e. Parking Permits on the Rossmoor Streets, alternate parking within the Center, Library parking at night, etc. But all would require additional monitoring and other unpleasant procedures. Simply stated ..... The LA Fitness Center is a bad idea. As a matter of fact, I am a member of LA Fitness in Garden Grove and enjoy their facility, but I have also seen first -hand the negatives of their facility in a residential area. The main gripe were the car break -ins and traffic congestion. When I left there at 5:30 PM every night, the parking lot was overflowing and somebody was always waiting for my space. Obviously, many will opt to park in the residential streets. We are already receiving complaints of this since the Center imposed their new parking restrictions. We hope that the Center will find a more suitable fit for this space to maximize their cash -flow and value. As elected officials of our city, please take our strong objections seriously when deciding your position. Yours truly, Board of Directors at Bridgecreek Villas Condominiums Greg Shade Frank Dubbs Greg Knowlton Sean Hyepock Jan 26 17 06:16p Lana To. Jim Sasham, Director Steve Fowler Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach Department of Community Development 211 Eight St. Seal Beach, CA 90740 Tel. (562) 431 -2527 ext. 1316 Fax(562)430 -8763 Subject: LA Fitness Dear W. Fowler: We live at 12300 Montecito Rd. Unit 7, Seal Beach, CA 90740 and we oppose building 37000 square feet LA Fitness Health Club just behind our building. We have gone to all Public Meetings last time and to the City Council Meetings less than 6 month ago. After hearing all the arguments from the Citizens of Rossmoor, majority of City Council voted to reject building LA Fitness Health Club at 12411 Seal Beach Blvd, City of Seal Beach. And here we go again! Proposed hours of operation from 5:00 am till I Ipm on week days, 5:00 am to 10 pm on Saturday and 8:00 am to 8 pm on Sunday will make our building impossible to live or sleep in. Everyone is entitled to have a quiet enjoyment of your home, having Health Club just behind our back wall will deprive us from quiet enjoyment and rest. Our Bedrooms, Pool and Recreation area just behind the wall that we are sharing with the Shopping Center. Parking is also the issue. After the recent rains, our garage was flooded and we have had to take our vehicles out of garage. If there would be a Health Club there, we all would have a huge problem. Even now because our cars were parked in the shopping area parking, we got "Final Waming7. We would have nowhere to park at all if there would be a parking for Health Club there. ssmoor Center Way, this is a narrow street and There is a lot of traffic already at Ro making a left turn pocket onto Seal Beach Blvd. will not help a problem. Cars are already lining up half the way Rossmoor Center way on the weekends and during pick traffic time. People crossing the driveway to go into the shops already causing back up of the cars blocking the street. Shoppers of Sprouts and Marshalls already are parking behind the stores, due to the parking issues. There are a lot of Elderly in the area and access of the Emergency Vehicles to the area is of a big concern. p.1 Jan 26 17 06:16p Lana Schools in the area encourage parents to walk kids to school to reduce traffic issue in the mornings and afternoons. Adding 700 -9o0! ! ! cars a day will compromise safety of the kids and all the residents in the area. Noise, traffic, pollution, safety and property values are the reasons we oppose building LA Fitness. We do not need another Health Club in our area, there is a 24 hour Fitness and LA Fitness within 3 mile radius_ We have already endured a lot since renovation of Shops at Rossmoor, re- routing the water lines to accommodate the health club building, is going to make a lot of hardship on all residents. We love living in Rossmoor and would like to keep it a quiet residential area. I hope that Planning Commission will take into consideration the Community opposition to LA Fitness and reject the project. Sincerely, Lana and Jack Yelen. p.2 Steven Fowler '-om: Joni's Gmail at: Thursday, January 26, 2017 3:46 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness I am opposed to the LA Fitness Project at the Shops at Rossmoor. Here are my concerns: 1 Traffic, traffic, traffic - gyms regularly have their heaviest volume before work (6 -8am) and after work (5 -8pm). This is also when people are trying to get home and is already peak traffic here. I can't stress this enough that the volume of traffic expected will not only reduce the number of people who want to live in this community but reduce the number of people who want to shop here also. 2 Street size - Rossmoor Center way was not built or anticipated to have traffic as estimated given the size of the proposed gym. 3. Safety - Increasing the traffic given the volume proposed will greatly increase the chances of auto accidents and auto /pedestrian accidents. Residents in this area like to walk to Sprouts, restaurants, shopping but will not feel safe to do so. 4. Parking - it will reduce the available parking in the area. The parking behind sprouts is already ready used by the local residents and is the overflow for Sprouts, Home Goods, Kohls, Petco, Ulta etc. 5. Crime - having a facility open 20 hours a day will bring people looking for targets. 6. Air quality - Increasing traffic so much will increase the pollution from vehicles and at the same time block some of the sea breeze creating additional pollution. 7. Noise - All the increased activity and traffic will create excess noise pollution for those of us living here. — Reduced property value - The additional traffic, reduced safety, limited parking, increased crime, decreased air quality .d increased noise will reduce home property values which will over the long haul reduce the value of the commercial center as well. Joni Jones Rossmoor resident Sent from my Wad Steven Fowler Steve, The quiet neighborhood of Rossmoor was the reason we moved to the area 10 years ago. In the time since then, the Shops at Rossmoor has changed dramatically. I'm concerned that a transient clientele patronizing existing businesses and possibly LA Fitness will add to traffic congestion in the area and increase the element of safety concern to residents. I go to LA Fitness several times a week. Yet, I do not support opening an LA Fitness in my backyard at The Shops at Rossmoor. I understand that businesses bring commerce to the city and are a vital tax base. I would prefer a family oriented business be considered over an LA Fitness or BJs. Thanks for your service to the city. .. Todd N. nt: Monday, January 23, 2017 6:01 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Steve, The quiet neighborhood of Rossmoor was the reason we moved to the area 10 years ago. In the time since then, the Shops at Rossmoor has changed dramatically. I'm concerned that a transient clientele patronizing existing businesses and possibly LA Fitness will add to traffic congestion in the area and increase the element of safety concern to residents. I go to LA Fitness several times a week. Yet, I do not support opening an LA Fitness in my backyard at The Shops at Rossmoor. I understand that businesses bring commerce to the city and are a vital tax base. I would prefer a family oriented business be considered over an LA Fitness or BJs. Thanks for your service to the city. .. Steven Fowler `From: Bill Thomas Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 3:44 PM To: Zoe Cc: Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com; Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official Subject: Re: LA Fitness Project SB TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC BUSIER STREETS, MORE VEHICLE NOISES, MORE FUMES LOST PARKING SPACES.... THAT'S WHAT A BIG CORPORATION GYM. L A FITNESS WOULD BRING... NO, WE DON'T NEED ANY OF IT ! P! On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Zoe wrote: Hello to all involved in the LA Fitness Project, Many of us Rossmoor homeowners have evaluated the Pros and Cons of this project. Pros: 5B revenue Mall owner optimize land profitability Conveinence Cons: Increase in traffic (how many people will want to sit in a 250 ft. lane) Increase in crime Increase in noise for those who live nearby Increase in neighborhood exposure to criminals Decrease in safety Decrease in safely crossing Montecito for those parking on nearby neighborhood streets now impacted with more traffic Decrease in safety for kids riding bikes Decrease in safety for the elderly `* *Nearby homes at risk for property devaluation, lower comps, decrease in home values * ** As we can all see this project is all about money, while putting lives at risk! This business is not the right fit for the location. please get your planning teams working on bringing a business without alt' of these very serious negative effects on the community! I live in the middle of Rossmoor. My family will NOT be effected by many of the issues listed above, but our community members will be effected. My kids are grown and I don't have to worry about them riding their bikes, but we have many community members with kids on bikes. My family won't be crossing Montecito due to parking on the nearby streets, but many community members will be... * *I go to the gym every day and I am happy to drive 3 miles away to keep the negative effects away from my community. These negative effects are too high a price to pay for conveinence and money! ** LA Fitness is lying about their anticipated numbers... compare them to their biggest competitor which brings in 2,300 members per day ... this is not to be compared to an independent gym such as Rossmoor Athletic Club, we need to realistice. Please make the responsible and moral decision to keep our community safe, please bring a business without the high risk. One person killed in this unsafe area is one too many and the City of Seal Beach and the property owner will be held responsible. Zoe Hagmann Steven Fowler r' -;rom: Crystal Landavazo Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 4:37 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: FW: LA Fitness Plan Did you get this already? Crystal Landavazo, Senior Planner City of Seal Beach - 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740 (562) 431 -2527, Ext. 1324 6_ ax For Information about Seal Beach, please see our city website: http: / /www.sealbeachca.gov NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this communication to the intended recipient, please advise the sender by reply email and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. From: Sandra Massa -Lavitt Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 4:30 PM To: Crystal Landavazo Subject: Fwd: LA Fitness Plan You may have already received a copy of this. SML Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: From: Janis Date: March 28, 2017 at 11:16:38 AM PDT To: Sandra Massa - Lavitt <SMassaLavitt@sealbeachca.gov> Subject: LA Fitness Plan I am a resident of the Rossmoor Park area adjacent to the proposed LA Fitness Center location. I strongly object to this project, as I think it will have the following detrimental effects to the community: 1. Traffic: the other local LA Fitness centers (all within 4 miles of this proposed one) have peak times of between 8 am ad 11 am, and high peak times from 4 pm until 10 pm, Monday through Thursday. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays show minimal attendance. 2. If one calculates that the average person spends 45 minutes at the gym (which is what is stated under Google reviews), then with a low estimate of 100 people at the gym at any given peak time, this would mean an additional 533 cars entering and leaving the area within a 4 hour period. This would beat times when vehicular and pedestrian traffics is also at its highest: local people are taking their kids to school, school buses are out, people are commuting to work, pedestrians are shopping, eating out, etc. 3. 'effects on reputation of Sea! Beach / Rossmoor Park: Consumer Affairs rates LA Fitness a one out of 5 on their site, with a lot of complaints about manipulative charges, fraud, noise, bad service, faulty equipment, etc. Do we really want to have such an organization in our neiahhnrhnnri? 4. Housing prices: a quick Google search shows that gyms (and industrial and manufacturing buildings) reduce the housing values in the area by 10 %. Apart from the impact to residential owners, wouldn't that also decrease the amount of money to the city and county in property assessment taxes? I fail to understand why LA Fitness is so adamant about building a gym at Rossmoor Center, when they already have 3 gyms close by, some with pools. I'd rather they spend their money improving those facilities rather than building in our community. Local residents are unlikely to use the gym themselves (my large condo complex has a gym, two pools, a Jacuzzi and a sauna, so that removes a large number of people from the LA Fitness membership). And I'm sure the shopping complex could come up with a better solution if they need to build something there for more revenue, which wouldn't create traffic congestion, safety, parking, noise and reputation issues. Regards, Janis Hawkridge Owner 40MWWontecito Road, _ Seal Beach, CA 90740 Steven Fowler ,From: Crystal Landavazo Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 3:00 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: FW: Proposed LA Fitness In Seal Beach CA Crystal Landavazo, Senior Planner City of Seal Beach - 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740 (562) 431 -2527, Ext. 1324 For Information about Seal Beach, please see our city website: http: / /www.seaIbeachca.gov NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this communication to the intended recipient, please advise the sender by reply email and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. - - - -- Original Message---- - From: Home (mailto: Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 2:01 PM To: infoCd)lafitness.com Cc: Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Schelly Sustarsic; Mike Varipapa; Official; Michelle.5teel2oceov.com Subject: Proposed LA Fitness In Seal Beach CA To whom it may concern, Thomas Moore; Ellery A. Deaton; Crystal Landavazo; Building My family as well as most neighbors in the Rossmoor, Ca community are vehemently opposed to LA fitness building in our community. While it is technically Seal Beach, Rossmoor is an unincorporated area within Los Alamitos. Seal Beach is trying to utilize this area as an income stream but it will adversely affect the Los Al and Rossmoor Community. The location is also where they have done the local fundraiser for the high School, The Taste of Los Al, for over 15 years. This raises over $150k for the school. That will be gone. The traffic in our small neighborhood will be immense. They did an initial study saying that 800 cars will be coming into our area. Now they are saying that is not the case. The Street St. Cloud will be jammed as well as the already congested area in front of Sprouts. There is a small library on the corner that all the kids ride their bikes to. The parents are considering not letting the kids ride due to the impending traffic issues. Lastly, It will 100 percent bring crime to the area. The management at 24 hour fitness told me and my friend who had both of our cars broken into at that gym , said that a police officer is at the Cypress 24 hour Fitness EVERYDAY because a car is broken into at that gym every. Criminals watch women walk in without their purses and they break into the cars. I do not want that in our area. You should talk with management about this. r You need to ask LA Fitness about a crime study. Jennifer and Jason Friedman. Steven Fowler gym: Xenophon Colazas t: Monday, January 23, 2017 2:51 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Health Club Steve Fowler, Assistant Planner Community Development Dept 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, CA. 90740 Dear Mr. Fowler, My wife and I are Senior citizens who have lived at 12300 Montecito Rd., #34, (Rossmoor Regency Condos) Seal Beach 90740 for over 36 years! Most Condos in this area are occupied by senior citizens! This is the second letter we are writing re the LA Fitness Gym. The first letter was on May 17, 2016. We also attended Committee and City Council meetings where we voiced our concerns. Eventually,, the City Council wisely rejected this project! Unfortunately, due to administrative delays, the developer pulled the application and that gave him the right to resubmit it as a NEW PROJECT! THIS IS NOT A NEW PROJECT! IT'S THE SAME OLD PROJECT THAT THE CITY COUNCIL HAD REJECTED! Six hundred fifty (650) coming and going daily, seven days a week, from 5 am to 10 +/ pm through Seal Beach Blvd., Montecito Kd. and the ultra narrow road of Rossmoor Center Way! There are many problems associated with this project but the most serious are as follows: 1. TRAFFIC CONGESTION AND NOISE POLLUTION! Our Condos at Rossmoor Regency will be affected the most due to such close proximity to the project. We'll be surrounded by cars on all sides trying to enter or exit the GYM! and at certain times of the day we'll be UNABLE TO ENTER OR EXIT OUR UNDERGROUND GARAGE! 2. SAFETY OF PEDESTRIAN CHILDREN AND SENIORS walking or going to the Center. Montecito Rd. and Rossmoor Center Way is a very dangerous intersection! We have already witnessed a vehicular death in it! 3. PARKING ISSUES have not been resolved! We realize that the City of Seal Beach needs the revenue, but please try to find a project that does not DESTROY OUR WAY OF LIFE! We are Seal Beach citizens and WE DESERVE YOUR SUPPORT! THEREFORE, WE URGE THE CITY COUNCIL TO DENY THIS APPLICATION AGAIN! Sincerely, nenophon Colazas Montecito Rd., W Seal Beach, CA. 90740 Steven Fowler leland jay Friday, January 20, 2017 6:24 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Attachments: 16114371_ 10155249055808888_ 6525422198132166201 _njpg,15977593_ 10155249068233888 _5856177737754967248_njpg Hi Mr. Fowler, My name is Leland Jay and I have been a Seal Beach resident for 11 years, and a Rossmoor resident for 29 years. I am opposed to the proposal to place an LA Fitness gym in the Rossmoor Center because of the detrimental impact it will have on the quality of life for the residents of our community. I am sure you are aware of the Environmental Impact Report conducted by an independent consultant which concludes that there will be "substantial adverse effects" on humans. Besides greenhouse gas emissions, noise, and a potential increase of crime, I am primarily concerned about the addition of traffic in and around the Center. The estimates are that there would be an additional 800 -1000 cars per day as a result of the addition of LA Fitness. I happen to believe that the current configuration of the Center is already bad. I am wondering if there is a way to find out the number of traffic accidents at the corner of Seal Beach Blvd and Rossmoor Center Drive since the new configuration (Sprouts, etc.). I know of one very serious one involving a motorcyclist. Currently, traffic backs up in the left hand turn lane and spills over into northbound lane, and cars come flying northbound up Seal Beach Blvd and it is very uangerous. A couple of weeks ago I was down there and took the attached photos. You can see the back up in the left hand turn lane. Also, if there is as much as one pedestrian crossing Rossmoor Center Dr (at Panera Bread), the traffic can back up all the way to Seal Beach Blvd. On multiple occasions, I have observed cars (with a green signal) unable to complete the turn to Rossmoor Center Dr because it's backed up so much. This exacerbates the problem on Seal Beach Blvd. When the turn signal turns red, they are blocking the southbound traffic when the other light turns green. This is more of a nuisance for the southbound traffic, but I think the real danger is on the northbound side. So, adding another big corporate building that will add 800 -1000 cars per day is simply horrible planning, let alone what kind of business it would be. Now, if we are talking about a fitness gym, it is ludicrous. I don't believe there is a "need" in our community for one because we already have fitness gyms. I like to support local businesses and residents of our community (Seal Beach and Rossmoor). Los Al Gym is on Los Alamitos Blvd, and it takes me 5 minutes to drive there from Rossmoor. The owner is a Rossmoor resident. There is also Beach Fitness in Seal Beach. The owner has won multiple "Business of the Year" awards from the city and is highly involved in community activities. There really is no need to add another gym in the area when it will just add to the noise, traffic, pollution, greenhouse gasses, and crime to our beloved community. I was born in Rossmoor. I have grown up to see the growth and development here. I certainly understand the desire for growth and revenue to the city of Seal Beach, but this is simply a bad a. The independent Environmental Impact Report clearly states that there will be a significant adverse affect to humans, and I believe that the traffic increase at Seal Beach Blvd and Rossmoor 1 Center Drive will make an already dangerous situation exponentially more dangerous for motorists traveling up Seal Beach Blvd. Sincerely, Leland lay Steven Fowler <om: Enea Ostrich Friday, January 06, 2017 1137 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Fwd: LA Fitness Project Plan at Shops at Rossmoor Here is a copy of the original email I sent on this subject. I also since have seen most recently more traffic than when I originally sent this email. Please do not humor this developer in promoting this project. I was there at meeting when Ellery Deaton said it best. She said she cannot vote in favor of the project knowing that knowing that kids going to school at peak times in traffic study will not be safe. I wish to add our elderly community... some of which actually are close neighbors to this project. They do not need the fitness traffic which is constant. The elderly cannot walk fast and fitness people drive fast ... just go to one and observe for an hour ... you will see. I love fitness but not if people in general are in danger. We cannot expand Seal Beach BI any more then it already has been. Let's put a financial park in there. That is what needs to be there instead. We have an overdeveloped mall already... please shut down proposals like this for Shops at Rossmoor. Thank uou. Enea Ostrich illlllllllllCamelia St Seal Beach, Ca 90740 Get Outlook for Android From: Enea Ostrich Sent: Friday, July 15, 2016, 1:02 PM Subject: LA Fitness Project Plan at Shops at Rossmoor To: smassalavittCc)sealbeachca.gov, mvaripapa(d)sealbeachca.gov, edeaton .seal beach ca.gov, sloandistrict2(a)verizon.net, Gary Miller Dear Seal Beach City Council: I am writing to inform you that I am opposed to the project... for simple reason that it's neglectful when residents are griping and the developer is not listening... then adding insult to injury the councilman for this district where LA Fitness is planned to be also ignores their gripes and does not file an appeal on their behalf so they do not have to pay for an appeal!! EQCB asked for further study and Councilman David Sloane MUST have been aware of that when he did not file an appeal on their behalf? I sure hope he did not know because otherwise it would be very foolish. At this point I am losing faith the council will vote against this project. I hear that fix -its are on the way by one of the planning commissioners who voted against this project because she felt there needed to be more study!!! ahead and make the cookie cutter complete. Go ahead and make money without thinking of people's lace in life. I do not like the center as it stands today and in my last letter I provided several examples of good businesses that were in there way before this corporate lot eater came in and placed stores that do not match our Seal Beach way of life. All I see are more near misses in the center because of the way the parking was placed in front... especially in the area where California Pizza Kitchen is ... too condensed and it really is not safe and 1 never park there myself during the day. A senior couple was hurt in there because they got confused in parking and went through a windshield of a clothing store there. i feel the condensed area confused them. Do you REALLY want safety concern again when this gym is built and they come there to work out? Pedestrians will be compromised as will bicyclists who plan to get to gym to reduce traffic but surprise surprise... they will tie ignored by the automobile drivers and the combo could not be deadlier. Mark my words ... we will see an increase in accidents and I only say that because with a well known gym there the traffic will increase even with modifications. Anyhow, the center is located conveniently near the freeway... believe me there will be a lot of people coming to the "new" gym because the developer will be advertising for it everywhere. So thanks for ruining our Mayberry of the Sea if you vote in favor for this project. You just lost my respect if you did. Sincerely yours, Enea Ostrich lCamelia Street Seal Beach. CA 90740 Mr Fowler, I am writing you in response to the Notice of Preparation LA Fitness Flealth Club FIR published in the Sun on 12129/16 First i would like to say, my wife and I are Seal Beach business owners and residents of the Rossmoor Regency at=" Monteelto Rd. I believe in progress and an owner's right to use of their private property; I also believe in a cities right to decide the use of said property as it pertains to the overall city plan. This is why I believe allowing a LA Fitness to be sloe - horned into the proposed location is the wrong decision. Below are a list of my concerns for this project and its impact on the environment. citizens and the visitors to the area: 1. Traffic: during the previous proposal for this project over the summer of2016, the proposal estimated a range of 800 to 1200 additional cars per day as a result of this project. This traffic was presented as being contained to North and South bound Seal Beach Blvd and Rossmoor Center Way. These roads along and within the Shops at Rossmoor are already overly aowded. Once these additional cars experience the traffic that is already an issue, they will find ahernaives. Unfortunately the alternatives would involve the use of other nearby roads, includintr but not limited to: St. Coud, Moutecito. Bradbury, etc. What do all of these roads have in common? They are all roads directly leading through die surrounding neighborhood. A neighborhood full of children, adults. elderly, animals: mare of them out enjoying oar wonderful Southern California weather at all times of the day. 2. Ali Pollution: as stated in the point 1, estimates range from an additional 800 to 1200 cars in the area every day. This is an area that includes 100s of residents whose homes are with just a few hundred feet of the proposed project. Additionally the dust and debris created by the project shows that we must take a serious look at the long -terra health impact of allowing this to happen. 3. Crime: it seems that anytime an area creates a higher draw of traffic to any area there is an increase in crime. There are hundreds of homes within just a few hundred feet of this proposed project, do we want to add an additional risk to these citizens investment? 4. Safety: the project is right on the edge of a densely populated neighborhood. As stated previously a neighborhood full of children, adults and animals. It is great that this is still an area where people can still get out for a walk or a run on the steers without being fearful. There are constantly people out said about, Adding this additional traffic puts these peoplejust wanting to be out enjoying the environment at additional risk. Additional the traffic estimates showed that the highest traffic times would coincide with the start time for the multiple schools located in the area. Again we are lucking to be in a neighborhood where children are still able to walk and bike to school, it does not make sense to add additional traffic putting these children at additional risk. 5. Parking: There are many times when the parking for the Shops is lull or nearly full throughout the year. The parking where the proposed project is currently used for customers /visitors, center employees and surrounding resident overflow parking. When the Rossmoor Park development was allowed to convert from apartments to condos the city did not require a minimum of 2 spoLS per home, leaving most of these home owners with one parking spot in a world where most homes have at least 2 cars, if not more. This decision was made long ago, but shows how these type of land use decisions can have a lasting impact. Whether agreed to or not, there has been a long tern use of the proposed area as overflow parking four the surrounding condo's (primarily from Rossmoor Park); the developers /owners of the property have allowed this to happen for years. If the area is developed where will these people park? They will overflow onto Montecito and the side streets; take a look at this area on any given evening, Momecito is already packed with cars in both directions after these residents return home from work, just imagine the impact of adding several hundred more cars to the mix Rom customers, visitors, employees and residents. This will only make an existing problem worse. 6. Noise: the LA Fitness is proposed to be open from Sam to I Ipm (meaning this will likely mean at traffic from employees and customers would be from at least 4am to 12am). These times are far outside the normal operating times of nearly all of the businesses current), in the center. Noise created would include people, cars, car alarms, doors and more. Ail of this newly created noise is being generated only a few hundred feet from the surrounding resident's homes. The initial EIR posted recognizes the noise currently firm delivery trucks along [he back of Sprouts, granted some of this noise may be blacked by the new building but the findings do not take into account the additional noise that would be created. 7. Econoini c: While I am sure this proposed project would create revenue for the Shops property owners, LA Fitness and the City, have the negative economic impacts been taken into consideration? One of the real charms of our city is its small Lown feel. Part of that feel is the thriving economy of small businesses throughout the area, just do a quick interact search and you will find dozens of' main and pop" nn fitness facilities within only a couple of mites of this proposed project. These small businesses support our neighbors and their families and directly pump money back into our local economy: what negative revenue impact will adding a national fitness center have to these local residents? As I stated in the beginning t am not against development and progress, it is my belief that this is the wrong project for the space when you consider all of the factors. I am sure the developers could come up with other uses of the property that would have much less of an impact on the surrounding area and its residents, how about a small office building used for business or medical use9 1 is.bst one suggestion and if you look at the south comer of the property, one that tie developers already employ with die burg nest to the Farmer's and Merchant's bank. I appreciate you taking the time to receive and review my concerns. Please confirm receipt of this letter. Thank you, Jason Nata nson Steven Fowler 'rom: Jennifer Yee Eng ent: Sunday, March 19, 2017 4:33 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: No to LA Fitness at Shops at Rossmoor Dear Mr. Fowler, I am emailing to say that I OPPOSE putting an LA Fitness Club at the Shops at Rossmoor. I am a Rossmoor resident, and I am familiar with the area since the time of the bowling alley. The traffic in and out of the Shops of Rossmoor is too intense already due to the present retail shops in the area. The entrance at Rossmoor Center Way is always clogged up, due to people going in and out for Sprout's Market, and the eateries in that area. The alternate entrances are also clogged up due to In and Out, and Chik Filet. People who commute in and out of the area along St. Cloud or Bradbury are often impatient and angry, honking at those who patiently wait to turn into their residential streets. The presence of the LA Fitness will increase traffic further because people who use fitness facilities come in and out on a routine basis several times a week. The addition of these commuters will cause further obstruction of traffic for people who live in the area already, go to school in the area, and people who bike in the area. We don't need LA Fitness for the area residents in the Shops at Rossmoor. There are several parks in Rossmoor, and plenty of biking opportunities. 24 Flour Fitness and Pure Barre are a reasonable distance away. If anything, e traffic will be a deterrent to potential club customers. Why not put LA Fitness in a less populated, less traffic congested area? Such as Old Ranch? Sincerely, Jennifer Eng Rossmoor resident Christine 7Fieodore Donnis Rd. Rossmoor, CA 90720 Steve Fowler Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach Department of Community Development 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, CA 90740 March 21, 2017 Dear Mr. Fowler, I am writing to state my opposition to the proposed LA Fitness Health Club addition to the Shops at Rossmoor. There are multiple health clubs available to local residents within a short distance of our community. The Shops at Rossmoor have provided needed shopping in our area but have increased the traffic considerably as well. I am greatly concerned about the additional traffic that this club would bring to our community and ask you to oppose this project. Sincerer Chris ine Theodore Steve Fowler March 16, 2017 Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach Dept. of Community Development 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, Ca. 90740 My name is Sandy Tessier and I live at 4825 Ironwood and I am writing to you to ask you please vote against the proposed construction of an LA Fitness gym at the Shops at Rossmoor. The construction site at the back parking lot of the Shops at Rossmoor is definitely not an ideal location for a gym. I visit the Shops every day and I do enjoy shopping there. However, the access streets to the Shops are congested as it is and the addition of the gym would add greatly to the traffic problems of that area. The nature of the gym business requires many cars constantly coming and going all day, using this already crowded access road. As I understand the City of Seal Beach will not gain very much revenue from the gym and the impact on the community will be so very negative. I could go on and on, but I won't. Just know that I am a constituent in College Park East speaking on behalf of myself and my family (who lives in Leisure World) and many friends and families who live in Rossmoor. Please vote against this construction. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Sandy Tessier �Ironwood Ave. March 15, 2017 Steve Fowler Assistant Planner Department of Community Development 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, CA 90740 Mr. Fowler, I have resided at Leisure World in Seal Beach for over three years. When I first moved here, there was a proposal to develop a gym at The Shops at Rossmoor. If I recall correctly, this project was voted down because of its potential adverse impact on the residents in that area in the form of parking, tragic, noise, etc. Gyms are by reputation parking hogs. Nothing has changed since this last application. Therefore, I do not approve of this project. Respectfully, o � Monterey Road, Uni&w Seal Beach, CA 90740 Apr 221702:11p Microsoft Subject: LA FITNESS PROPOSAL &WOMontecito Road, Seal Beach, CA 90740 April 22, 2017 ATTN: Steve Fowler, Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach, California i}y TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Masao P.1 The close proximity of the gym to nearby condo bedroom windows is of great concem along with the added crime and faulty car alarms sounding in addition to added traffic congestion. Car alarms alone sounding next to our condos can reach the vicinity of 90 DBA and fitly percent duty cycle for minutes at a time. How has this been accounted for in your study? Also where does your report address the noise increase due to replacement of landscaping? The existing cinderblock walls along with a huge gym structure will create a reverberation chamber amplifying traffic and conversation noises into our bedroom windows_ The LA Fitness gym would be better suited in a different location for many reasons. 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In the Final Mitigated Negative Declaration, of June 2016, Section 4: Evaluation of Environmental Impacts: sub - section 4.16, Transportation and Traffic pages 82 -88 -- it discusses Parking In the Appendix C, Health Club Traffic Analysis. by LSA Associates, it discusses Parking and the existing conditions, starting at page 52. Of the 41 people who responded (scoping comments), 32 were against the project, which is 78 %. Of the 32 who were against the project, 13 or 41 % mention parking as an issue. As you can see, issues on parking are an important part of this project. I request that information on parking and a parking analysis be added. As such, this EIR is incomplete without any parking data, and needs to be reissued. Thank you Patty Campbell Planning Commissioner District 4 Steven Fowler From: Sent: To Cc: Subject: Attachments: FYI Yours, ,W&-T Forwarded message Ellery Deaton Thursday, April 13, 2017 11:05 AM Jill Ingram Robin Roberts Fwd: PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUE -- WEST & SOUTH ROADS in SEAL BEACH Capture.PNG From: Michael M.Obradovitch, P.E. Date: Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:17 AM Subject: PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUE -- WEST & SOUTH ROADS in SEAL BEACH To: smassalavittCsealbeachca.pov, mvaripapa@sealbeachea.gov, edeaton(a sealbeachca.gov, tmoore(ar_)sealbeachca.gov, ssustarsicasealbeachca.gov Cc: editor@sunnews.org Honorable Mayor and Members of the Seal Beach City Council, As a California Professional Engineer and now inactive Registered Environmental Accessor, I would like to alert you to what I believe is an existing (pedestrian) hazard in the Shops at Rossmoor Center. I believe that you and the developer are affected. This hazard will be aggravated by the development of the LA Fitness Center and the markedly increased traffic in this area under current conditions. Please review the following discussion along with my attachment and forward it your City Engineer, Mr. Michael Ho, your City Attorney and Mr. Steve Fowler the Assistant City Planner for further review and comprehensive community feedback. In the figure appended to this email, I draw your attention to two Roads that Criss -cross the Shops at Rossmoor Center parking lot. West Road runs North -South from Rossmoor Center Way to South Road. South Road runs from Montecito Road (by the Library) to Seal Beach Boulevard. Moreover, approximately half -way between there Rossmoor Center Way and South Way, there is a road that provides access from Montecito to South Road. Additionally, do note that South Road provides ingress from and egress to St Cloud in several places. All of these are frequently used by pedestrians and are likely to see increased use as traffic congestion at Rossmoor Center Way and Seal Beach Blvd (primary access to LA Fitness) becomes increasingly more difficult. The aforementioned roads appear to be legitimate and designated Seal Beach roads that have ostensibly been "merged" into and /or overtaken by the developer for use as parking facilities. For all intents and purposes they are no longer distinguishable from the developer's parL,ing lot. Aside from the possibility that public interest has been and is being undermined, I do believe the may be a public safety issue. These roads are used by pedestrians — including Rossmoor and Seal Beach residents -- to access the shopping center from a variety of directions. The lack of a sidewalk(s) and appropriate provisions to safeguard pedestrians presents a hazard that will only be augmented by a significant increase in traffic along with frustrated drivers given the anticipated development of LA Fitness in this area. Your efforts to address public safety including an indicated need for public parking is likely to impact the LA Fitness development. Before authorizing and /or initiating the LA Fitness Development, I would respectfully suggest that you consider public safety and interest by allocating, room for a sidewalk(s) —even if you may need to do so by eminent domain. Having walked along those roads, my recommendation is that you NOT rush approval of LA Fitness development until there has been a thorough review of th�a provision for sidewalks including a possible allowance for public parking for Seal Beach re Sincerely, Michael M Obradovitch, P.E. Conqulting Engineer (M23841 & 14206) Rossmoor C) Ste. >1 CL E 4-j m W- CL 0 Q C Ul O E Ln aquoN IA - =7k M -ont 7 t M 1 ,J IC) A tL IA - =7k M -ont 7 t ROSSMOOR WOMAN'S CLUB RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION BY THE ROSSMOOR WOMAN'S CLUB STRONGLY OPPOSING THE LA FITNESS HEALTH CLUB PROJECT IN THE SHOPS AT ROSSMOOR IN SEAL BEACH, CA. FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS: Whereas, the Rossmoor Woman's Club, a 56 year philanthropic organization, with 110 members serving the communities of Seal Beach, Cypress, Rossmoor, Los Alamitos, Cerritos, and Long Beach, has great reservations over the placement of the proposed 37,000 sq ft. gym facility within our residential neighborhoods and the negative impact of this project on the quality of life of our residents, and Whereas, the Rossmoor Woman's Club is greatly concerned over the ingress and egress and increased traffic impacts of several thousand trips per day on the community, which is comparable to similar traffic patterns of gyms in the area, and Whereas, the Rossmoor Woman's Club is greatly concerned over the impact to our four elementary schools located in Rossmoor and the potential safety problems which this project mightincur. Be it resolved that: The Rossmoor Woman's Club hereby opposes the construction of the LA Health Club Project. PASSED AND ADOPTED AT THE ROSMOOR WOMAN' CLUB GENERAL MEETING, ApriI12, 2017 Steven Fowler From: Linda L Havens Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2017 3:12 PM T, Steven Fowler Suoject: Letter for your files and request forwarding to each Board Member of EQCB and Planning Commission Attachments: VOICE OF REASON ON APPROVAL OF HEALTH CLUB CDSF.docx Dear Steve: I am attaching a summary letter asking for Board Members to use their "Voice of Reason" in making the upcoming decisions for sending the LA FITNESS project forward to the City Council. I don't know the names nor the emails to individually send this letter to these sub - council members. Thus I am attaching my letter to you with the hope that you will make available or forward to each council member as soon as possible. If you are too busy, then please send me the list of names of the EQCB and Planning Com. Councils, and I will address this letter to each one using City Hall mail for the routing of the letter. Thank you for your time and assisting me with this important letter opposed to the Fitness Center Development. VOICE OF REASON: LA FITNESS PROPOSAL ROSSMOOR SHOPPING CENTER Date: Saturday, April 15, 2017 Submitted by: Stephen B. Havens Rossmoor Resident: = Kempton Dr. Rossmoor, Ca. City of Seal Beach Community Planning Department Attn: Steve Fowler, Assistant Planning 10 Civic Center Place Santa Ana, Ca. 92701 Dear EQCB Board Members and Planning Commissioner Members: My wife and I have lived in Rossmoor for the last 47 years. We have raised three children attended St. Hedwig's and our children all have graduated from Los Alamitos H.S. Seal Beach and Rossmoor and the surrounding area have been great to raise families and gain respite from the sprawling humanity of freeways and jobs. We take great pride and feel very fortunate to have chosen this area to be community members. The reason for this letter is to help you formulate your thoughts and express our opinion on the Health Club Proposal that is working its way through the Community Development Process. Here is the Voice of Reason ringing out every day in the memory banks of my mind: The question is WHY? Why would a City allow a 37,000 -sf health club in an almost land locked area for a building of this size; and, planned, to attract 1500 workout trips per day or more. If you observe around So. Calif. you will note that most health clubs of this size and membership goals are located adjacent to a major arterial. This means four major traffic lanes for direct access to the site, and the site is not situated where one must traverse down what is much like an alley -way and can only be accessed on one side. The EIR study compared this site to all health clubs across the United States. Whereas, the most comparative analysis should have compared this site with other Health Clubs that are tucked away inside a shopping area with only limited access from a small alley- way of two lanes. Yes, it may be difficult to find such a comparative building and for GOOD reason: lit is not a good fit. This is obvious to a reasonable person, that this proposed Health Club does not suit this location primarily due to Page 1 of 3 access, and secondly, due to the proximity of Housing on the North, on the West, and to the South. In addition, parking is constrained due to the already existing overflow from housing projects that have been approved or apartments that have been converted to Condo's without sufficient onsite parking to accommodate the resident occupancy. The residents of Rossmoor living on access streets off of Montecito already are deluged with overflow parking from these housing projects. When City officials consider this site for approval, your voice of reason should prompt you to make a list of pros and cons on the following major points for discussion: Does it provide a service to the Community that the Community doesn't already have? Answer: "NO" there are several health clubs within a 5 -10 minute commute of various sizes, quality, and equipment. Seal Beach and or Rossmoor does not need another Health Club particularly of this Size. II. Does it provide continued revenue to the City that is sustainable and is greater than the additional cost and expense of future maintenance? Answer: "Not really" Yes the City will receive a windfall in fees and additional property tax, but probably won't receive any additional sales tax. Few people will shop at mall, people are there to work out and not shop. The trend today is to shop on the Web, that is why many retail stores are failing, shopping centers across the U.S. are failing in large numbers because people do not NEED to go to stores when they can shop on line and have it delivered. Other areas that need to be considered and pay particular- attention to added service expense: (1) Crime will definitely increase - Health Clubs attract crime, theft of wallets, valuables in cars, cars stolen, theft, burglary, organized crime, drug traffic, assault, a review of Health Club crime on the Web leads to many police activities and reports. (2) Parking lots will be trashed, bottles, wrappers, fast food throw -a -ways. (3) Noise complaints from residents resulting from loud music from the club, from the cars, from visitors in parking lots, motor cycles, loud trucks, doors slamming, people coming and going while residents are sleeping, and ambulances from injuries at the health club. (4) Traffic accidents will increase, bicycles, mothers walking on Rossmoor way with the children in strollers, cars crashing into each other due to the congested area. (5) It is estimated by realtors that homeowner within a 1000 feet of the Health Club and Montecito, St. Cloud, and Bradbury will have their property values decrease by at least $25,000- 50,000 per year. Yes, this is the responsibility of Seal Beach and Orange County -- -loss of Page 2 of 3 property taxes to Seal Beach and Orange County. Can you imagine losing $25 -50K of your home value so you can see more traffic coming and going in your neighborhood. It is totally absurd!! (6) The current parking at this site must be addressed. Residential overflow and Sprout customers are now parking at this site. Why? The 246 Regency Apartments were converted to condos many years ago. The parking for this site was never addressed, why because there was plenty of overflow parking in the commercial area. The same holds true for the Condos at the West of the site. Parking overflows have always used the commercial lot. In addition, overflow parking has sprawled into the Rossmoor streets collecting onto Montecito. So, the overflow was a direct result of poor planning by the City of Seal Beach. There should have been a parking structure on the commercial site. Now with a health club proposal, once again there should be a parking structure as part of the proposal... We don't see one... why.... Same reason ...Poor planning. WHY WOULD THE CITY WANT TO BE A BAD NEIGHBOR TO THE ROSSMOOR RESIDENTS? The communities interact at community events, at the schools, at the parks, at the pools, and particularly at the High Schools. There are sporting events, academic projects, team funding, grad night and a host of other activities where it is essential that we have good neighborly relations. We both share the ambiance of a beach community. Allowing this health Club to be approved is ABSOLUTELY. POSTIVELY, not acting in the best interest of your neighbors. Conclusion: Please consider short term and long term effects of your decision... Make a list, write down the pros and cons of your decision. You will soon realize that the Negatives strongly outweigh the positives of your decision. The right to develop private property is great and acceptable... however, the use of a Health Club at this site is the WRONG FIT, THE WRONG SITE. YOU MUST DISAPPROVE!!! Sincerely, Stephen B. Havens Resident of Rossmoor, 47 years. Page 3 of 3 Steven Fowler From: ellerydeaton @gmail.com on behalf of Ellery Deaton <SealBeachDistrictl @ gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 7:51 PM Ti Crystal Landavazo Cc: Jill Ingram; Robin Roberts; Steven Fowler Subject: Fwd: LA Fitness Project SB Public Comment Sincerely, W&-7 Ellery Deaton Council Member, District 1- -Old Town and Surfside City of Seal Beach - 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740 (562) 743 -4355 x - -- For Information about Seal Beach, please see our city website: http: / /www.sealbeachca.gov NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this communication to the intended recipient, please advise the sender by reply email and immediately delete the mr a and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. ---- - - - - -- Forwarded message ---- - - - - -- From: Zoe Date: Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 2:44 PM Subject: LA Fitness Project SB To: Cc: edeatonna,sealbeachca.gov, bmckinney(°a&sealbeachca.gov, ssustarsic&sealbeachca.gov, mvaripapan.a sealbeachca.s?ov, smassalavittgsealbeachca.gov To All Involved in the LA Fitness Decision, I'm a person who goes to the gym everyday and I'm happy to drive 3 miles to my gym. Although, a gym 1 mile away from my home would be conveinent, I do not believe this is the safest choice for our community. Luckily my kids are grown, for my piece of mind, but many families have young children and we need to come together as a community, as advocates for the kids of our neighborhood. A big corporate gym and the many cars it would bring to the area is not a safe fit for The Shops At Rossmoor. Please bring a business to the center without the negative impacts. Please think safety first. Th you, Zo. .agmann Steven Fowler From: Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 12:20 AM Tc Steven Fowler Subject: Strong opposition to LA Fitness Dear Mr. Fowler, I am a quiet resident of Rossmoor that loves our community. My family moved here because of the many wonderful attributes of Seal Beach and Rossmoor, the people being the best part. I am writing to you because I am deeply concerned about the proposed LA Fitness project at the Shops of Rossmoor. As a health educator, I advocate health lifestyles. However, I absolutely disagree with LA Fitness' efforts to build in a location that is clearly NOT the right place for the magnitude of the project. It is clear that the reasons they cite and the "data" they are using to support their motive are inaccurate. They have not addressed the community's concerns but rather have communicated that they know what is best for us. I find this offensive. They say we need a place to go to be healthy (we have many places including the Beach itself!). They say that the traffic impact will be negligible. They say that costs for the street modifications is not their responsibility, it is Seal Beach's. They say they don't live here so they don't know in response to the legitimate questions we ask. We are all residents and community members who love and are devoted to the Seal Beach community. With so many families, children and senior residents living here, LA Fitness will undoubtedly have a negative impact that will irreversibly change our community for the worse. They are not really interested in Seal Beach at all. Again, this is the WRONG fit. Mr. Fowler, I respectfully ask you to consider the numerous requests to deny this proposal. To draw this much opposition is evidence that this would be a horrible mistake that would really alter the image of our collective communities. Kin... <egard s, Grace Pokorny Steven Fowler From: Alice Baldwin t: Monday, April 17, 2017 S:34 PM 10: Steven Fowler Subject: no to la fitness Mr Fowler, The shops at Rossmoor do not need an LA fitness. It will bring in too many people who will use the community of Rossmoor as their private short —cut to avoid the inevitable traffic and congestion that will be a result of all the additional cars. No change to the set up from Seal Beach Blvd will alleviate this mess. If Seal beach wants an LA fitness , let them put it somewhere else, (of which there are many available spots). Be a good neighbor vs. bowing to the corporations and more revenue. Sincerely Alice Baldwin Steven Fowler From: Kevin Oon it: Monday, April 17, 2017 10:07 AM ro: Steven Fowler Subject: No LA Fitness at Seal Beach Steve Fowler, As a resident of Rossmoor, I strongly oppose the construction of LA Fitness at the Shops at Rossmoor parking lot. The construction process would bring a lot of noise and air pollution to my apartment complex which is adjacent to the proposed construction site. In addition to that, heavy traffic of trucks and equipment would add more traffic congestion to the area. Given that particular LA Fitness is a 24/7 facility, there will be lots of noise late at night in the area. Our son's room windows directly open to the parking lot. We do not like our sleep to be disturbed. Rossmoor is a family friendly neighborhood with quiet streets. As a father, I want my children to feel safe on our streets without increased traffic in the area. Thank you, Kevin Oon Steven Fowler From: Douglas Carasso it: Monday, April 17, 2017 9:55 AM 10: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Dear Mr. Fowler, As a resident of the Old Ranch community across the street from where LA Fitness is proposed to be built, I strongly oppose this construction, for the following four reasons. First, the neighborhood, with the "Target Magnet," is already hugely crowded. Driving in this neighborhood is getting more and more difficult each day, with the high concentration of popular stores and eateries. We are very lucky to have In N Out, Chipotlle, and Chick Filet so close. But this draws a lot of people to the area already. Combine that with the trifecta across the street of Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Ralphs, and you can tell how already busy this area is, primarily in terms of vehicle traffic. Second, this is a family /residential neighborhood. So there are a lot of kids here, going to and from the local stores, with or without parents. Safety is therefore a paramount concern to me. I myself have a young son. Third, LA Fitness has not yet shown that it has sufficient potential customers to justify its existence in this neighborhood. It requires a certain number of members to stay in business. If it cannot meet that number, it will close. And we will be left with an empty building. Based on its location hidden behind the Sprouts, it would likely not be visible enough to attract enough new customers to stay in business. I'm sure your experience with abandoned buildings shows that this is a desirable element to any neighborhood. Fourth, while the idea of having a local gym may be appealing to some (including myself), there is already a 24 Hour Fitness just a few minutes away on Katella. A far more appropriate location for the LA Fitness would be away from residents but still close, near the intersection of Westminster and Seal Beach Blvd. That might also serve to increase customers at the hotel right there. In sum, putting an LA Fitness in the proposed location in the Seal Beach Rossmoor area would make the neighborhood more crowded and less safe, decrease property values, not be a sustainable business, likely result in an abandoned building, and be more appropriate elsewhere in the city. For these reasons, I respectfully request that you do all you can to prevent this LA Fitness from appearing behind the Sprouts or anywhere else in that shopping center. Thank you for considering my thoughts on this. Should you wish to discuss any of the above with me, please do not hesitate to write. Douglas M. Carasso Steven Fowler From: Emily O Sent: Monday, April 17, 2017 8:54 AM Tc Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness project Good morning, I am very worried about the proposed LA Fitness project and would like to express my concerns. The land designated for LA Fitness is bordered on two sides by apartment buildings, one of them mine. My bedroom window and my 9 month old's bedroom window look out directly on the site. A large gym with late hours so close to our sleeping quarters would disrupt our lives with the noise, traffic, and pollution. A residential area is not a good place to build LA Fitness. Please consider the hundreds of nearby residents whose lives will be most directly affected by this project. Sincerely, Emily Ono Steven Fowler From: Janis Hawkridge Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 9:05 PM To Michelle.Steel @ocgov.com; Leslie Medina; Brian McKinney; Building Official; Steven Fowler; Ellery A. Deaton; Mike Varipapa Subject: Re: Fitness project in the Shops at Rossmoor To reiterate my earlier e-mail: As an owner and resident of the Rossmoor Park area, I wish to raise my objections to the proposed LA Fitness project. The traffic and congestion is already bad in the area, especially at the times when LA Fitness gyms have the most attendance. With the increase in traffic it will cause additional delays and hardship to current property tax payers.This is also the time when local children are likely to be out on the streets or on their bikes. It's likely that people who would normally shop at the Shops at Rossmoor will go elsewhere if they are unable to get access or find parking. There are also 3 LA Fitness facilities within 3.8 miles of this proposed location, so this one is unnecessary. Janis Hawkridge Owner Seal Beach CA 90740 Sent from my iPhone Steven Fowler From: Lydia Zuvich Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 7:52 PM Tc Steven Fowler Subject: Oppose proposed LA Fitness in Seal Beach We oppose the proposed LA Fitness in Seal Beach. There's already too much traffic in the Rossmore Shopping Center area and adding this fitness center will be terrible for safety. We live in CPE and already have two LA Fitness locations close by with one on Valley View, Garden Grove and the other on Bellflower, Long Beach. We know that crime in the neighborhoods has increased at the Garden Grove location. There are often car break -ins at the GG parking lot LA Fitness location. We believe it's unfair to the condo residents that park their cars behind Sprouts, should LA Fitness take away their parking area. Leave this property alone, leave it as it is. Again we want to state our opposition of the Seal Beach proposed LA Fitness. Thank you for your time. Regards, Leo and Lydia Zuvich Sent from my Phone Steven Fowler From: Melissa Roudabush Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 4:07 PM To Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com; Schelly Sustarsic Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com; Building Official Subject: Opposition to location for LA Fitness I recently moved to Rossmoor from one of the condo buildings on Montecito Rd in Seal Beach. My favorite part about living in the condos was the access to shopping while still being in a quiet setting. I oppose the request by LA Fitness to build in the parking lot behind the condos. The peaceful, neighborhood feel of that center will severely diminish. The center right now is highly walkable, with walking routes actually mapped out with distances. If you build a gym, any gym, there, you will shatter the walkability of that entire center. I will never let my young children walk through there, as the increased traffic volume will make it unsafe for them to do so. I also worry about the increase of crime. I have a few friends who had their cars broken in to in the gym parking lot on Valley View and had hundreds of dollars of belongings each stolen. The police told them gyms are targets for thieves because people often go to the gym on their way home from other places, leaving many of their belongings in the car. I worry that these individuals will seep in to the streets of Rossmoor and that we will see an increase of property crime, especially on the streets nearest the center. Please picture this gym outside your backdoor, as it literally will be for several hundred Seal Beach residents. Please vote no. M as Roudabush Rossmoor, CA 90720 Sent from my iPhone Steven Fowler From: Leslie Medina Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 2:37 PM T Crystal Landavazo; Steven Fowler S. ,act: FW: Opposition to LA Fitness Center in Shops at Rossmoor From: diane rush ] Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 2:31 PM To: Leslie Medina Subject: Opposition to LA Fitness Center in Shops at Rossmoor Diane Rush Rossmoor, CA 90720 April 14, 2017 Building & Safety Department P, it Technician, Leslie Medina & . Beach City Hall 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, CA 90740 Permit Technician Medina, I wish to express my opposition to the LA Fitness Project in the Shops at Rossmoor. No mitigation can compensate for the loss of peace, quiet and safety that will certainly result from the proposed construction of a 37,000 square -foot health club in the middle of our residential neighborhood. My deep concerns include: Crime: I lived for many years in Anaheim across the street from a major health club of which I was a member. Clients arrived and departed continually, night and day. The adjacent parking lot was the site for many forms of crime — drug dealing, gang activity, muggings and a base -of- operation for neighborhood vandalism, robbery and human trafficking. It was noisy, dangerous and heaped with refuse. Even stepped -up law enforcement could not keep pace with the criminal activity. Health: The EIR contains a section on "Noise Assessment" of magnitude, spectral composition, duration and repetitiveness, speculating these will be within allowable limits. Allowable limits? What is that worth to residents of Rossmoor Regency and Rossmoor Park Condominiums who live just a few yards from the proposed site? Car alarms, human voices and the roar of HVAC systems are but a few of the disruptive sounds residents would be constantly subjected to. Safety and Access: A 37,000 square -foot health club would also obliterate scarce parking especially crucial for the elderly and hF tapped. Access by emergency service vehicles would also be restricted. `ill urge you to advise against this project that will harm and burden RossmooffSeal Beach's most supportive rieighbor __ Steven Fowler From: Bob Scott Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 11:10 AM Tc Sandra Massa- Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com; Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official; coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: Seal Beach LA Fitness I wish to express my extreme OPPOSTION to the proposed LA Fitness to go in behind Sprouts at the Shops at Rossmoor. Sent from Bob's Whone Steven Fowler From: James, Joanne Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 9:21 AM Ta Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com; Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official; coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: OPPOSITION TO SEAL BEACH LA FITNESS The proposed site of LA Fitness is not appropriate for the area. Rossmoor is known for its charm, this gym will forever have a negative impact on Rossmoor's quaint charm. LA Fitness is not wanted. A more appropriate business is warranted and needed, for example a high end nursery to support the large surrounding neighborhoods. Please do not put in LA Fitness, it is not the appropriate location. A store in line with a neighborhood environment is needed. Not LA Fitness. Joanne James, Legal Office Manager Law Offices of Nancy A. Halas (Orange Legal) Law Offices of Aimee J. Treece (Oklahoma CityLegal) Employees of Liberty Mutual Group Phone: Cell: Desktop Fax: - This e -mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and /or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e -r in error, please notify me via return e-mail and via telephone at VWAWW and permanently delete the original and any spy of any e-mail and any printout thereof. Steven Fowler From: James, Joanne Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 9:18 AM Tc Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney, Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com; Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official; coalitionagainstlafitness @gmaiI.com Subject: OPPOSITION TO LA FITNESS - SEAL BEACH I am a resident of the Rossmoor neighborhood. I wish to express my OPPOSTION to the proposed LA Fitness to go in behind Sprouts at the Shops at Rossmoor. The shopping center parking lot is already too congested and is difficult to maneuver in its current state. A gym of this magnitude should not be in a residential neighborhood, it will forever increase the traffic to an intolerable rate which will be unchangeable upon completion of the gym. The charm of Rossmoor will be forever affected by LA Fitness. This is not the place for the gym, it is not wanted. Joanne James, Legal Office Manager Law Offices of Nancy A. Halas (Orange Legal) Law Offices of Aimee J. Treece (Oklahoma CityLegal) Employees of Liberty Mutual Group Phone: Cell: Desktop Fax: This e -mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and /or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e -mail in error, please notify me via return e-mail and via telephone at MR111MI and permanently delete the original and any copy of any e-mail and any printout thereof. Steven Fowler From: Jill Ingram Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 9:35 AM To Steven Fowler, Crystal Landavazo Su. _ct: FW: Fwd: Attachments: The Los Alamitos. LA Fitness.doc FYI Jill R. Ingram, City Manager City of Seal Beach - 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740 (562) 431 -2527 Ext. 1300 For Information about Seal Beach, please see our city website- http: / /www.sealbeachca.gov NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this communication to the intended recipient, please advise the sender by reply email and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you From: Ellery Deaton [mailto:ellerydeaton(a cimail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 9:26 AM To: Jill Ingram Cc, _,bin Roberts Su. -ct: Fwd: FYI Yours, W&IT ---- - - - - -- Forwarded message ---- - - - - -- From: LaDelle Clark Date: Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 9:17 AM Subject: To: edeatonaa,sealbeachca.gov The Los Alamitos - Rossmoor Friends of the Library is strongly opposed to the LA Fitness project in the Shops of Rossmoor. See attachment. Placing a 37,000 sq.ft. gym in a residential neighborhood with 4 elementary schools, more than 13,000 residents, poses significant harm to the safety of the community. Re- °ctfully, Del Clark, President The Los Alamitos - Rossmoor Friends of the Library has taken a position of strong opposition to the construction of the 37,000 sq.ft. LA Fitness facility to be located in the Shops of Rossmoor for the following reasons: 1. Proximity. The location of the planned facility is in extreme close proximity to our library, one of the most highly patronized libraries in the county, serving the communities of Seal Beach, Los Alamitos, Cypress, Rossmoor ; in addition, this location is adjacent to residential neighborhoods making it incompatible with the area. 2. Traffic /Safety. The impact of increased traffic of approximately 2000 trips per day poses a major safety problem for our library patrons, especially our school children who use the library after school hours whic is also heavy use time for gyms. For these reasons, the Los AI- Rossmoor Friends of the Library Board stands in opposition the LA Fitness project. Action taken at Los Alamitos - Rossmoor Board Meeting, April 12, 2017 Steven Fowler From: James Rogers Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 9:51 PM To Steven Fowler Subject: NO LA FITNESS CLUB WE DO NOT WANT THIS BUILT IN OUR BACKYARD ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! IF YOU LIVED IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND!!!! Steven Fowler From: Leslie Medina Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 9:27 AM Tc Steven Fowler Subject: FW: Karen Swenson - - - -- Original Message---- - From: Karen Swenson J Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 8:05 AM To: Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel@ocgov.com; Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official Subject: Karen Swenson Please, do not allow tax greed to destroy the safety of Rossmoor. A neighborhood like each one of you would like to reside in will become far less safe due to huge amounts of traffic along our small Rossmoor streets as resourceful drivers try to avoid congested Seal Beach Blvd. Please, do not greedily change a neighborhood for tax revenue. Karen Swenson resident of Rossmoor since 1981 Steven Fowler From: Leslie Medina Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 7:57 AM Tc Steven Fowler Subject: FW: Please Help Us From: Tatiana Boiko Thoene Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 6:14 PM To: Leslie Medina Subject: Please Help Us Dear Ms. Medina, My name is Tatiana Thoene, and I reside in the area immediately next to the proposed site of the LA Fitness facility. I am sure, you consider it as a good addition to our landscape, but you are not living in this area, and it is hard for you to estimate the impact of such a huge construction and a future site. Our neighborhood is already suffering from extensive traffic, the area becomes less safe, and there are fewer walking routes here. I know, we are not entitled to all the open parking area (I park underground and parking is not my concern at all), but it will be better served with a cluster of smaller, and more intimate facilities - like maybe family restaurants or cafes. Something, that will dramatically increase traffic, reduce safety, create noise, and affect people living here, is not really welcomed. Please be considerate to us. Please put this facility elsewhere. Thank you. Tatiana Thoene Seal Beach CA 90740 Steven Fowler From: Leslie Medina Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 3:03 PM To Steven Fowler SuG)act: FW: NO on the LA Fitness Project! From: Felice Sussman Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 1:59 PM To: Sandra Massa- Lavitt; Crystal Landavazo Subject: NO on the LA Fitness Project! The proposed LA Fitness is a BAD project for our community- -the increases in traffic, noise, and crime and the threat to the safety of our children are all compelling reasons to REJECT this development. Even the developer's (JILL) senior vice president, Marty Potts, thinks it's a bad fit for our community. Here is a direct quote from him in the OC Register's Sunday newspaper from April 9, 2017 (Local section; article by Susan Christian Goulding): "Commercial properties and residential properties just don't live together well ". Thank you in advance for rejecting this project on behalf of our community. Felice Sussman Steven Fowler From: Janis Hawkridge Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2017 7:16 PM Tc Michelle.Steel @ocgov.com; Leslie Medina; Brian McKinney; Building Official; Steven Fowler; Ellery A. Deaton; Mike Varipapa Subject: Fwd: Fitness project in the Shops at Rossmoor Shelly Sustarsic 562.431.2527 x 1504 City Council District THREE (Hill, Coves, Heron Pointe) Mike Variposa 562.431.2527 x 1503 As an owner and resident of the Rossmoor Park area, I wish to raise my objections to the proposed LA Fitness project. The traffic and congestion is already bad in the area, especially at the times when LA Fitness gyms have the most attendance. With the increase in traffic it will cause additional delays and hardship to current property tax payers.This is also the time when local children are likely to be out on the streets or on their bikes. It's likely that people who would normally shop at the Shops at Rossmoor will go elsewhere if they are unable to get access or find parking. There are also 3 LA Fitness facilities within 3.8 miles of this proposed location, so this one is unnecessary. Janis Hawkridge Owner Seal Beach CA 90740 Sent from my iPhone Steven Fowler From: Debbie Stea Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2017 2:58 PM Tc info @lafitness.com; info @mdcp.com; info @sepfunds.com; Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Schelly Sustarsic; Mike Varipapa; Thomas Moore; Ellery A. Deaton; Crystal Landavazo; Steven Fowler; Building Official; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; Michelle.Steel @ocgov.com Cc: Kevin Pearce Subject: LA Fitness Project I am opposed to the LA Fitness being built into our Rossmoor community. I don't feel LA Fitness is being honest with the details and numbers that they project for membership. They claim they will only need 6500 members to maintain their gym. Their main competitor 24 Hr. located on Katella, just 3 miles away has 17,000 members. LA fitness couldn't survive with 6,500 members, half of what 24Hr. has. 70,000 people go to 24Hr. Fitness a month. (that is 2300 cars in and 2300 car out daily) .... 4600 extra cars a day! There is no way our community could support this kind of traffic coming onto Seal Beach Blvd. and into our neighborhood on St. Cloud and Bradbury. This is not safe for all the kids going to school, pedestrians trying to cross the street, not to mention all the crime it will bring to the neighborhood with people breaking into cars while people are working out. (This happens at 24 Hr.) The Village 605 that is going to be built in Los Alamitos is already going to bring increased traffic to the area. Our community cant handle 4600 more cars a day from LA Fitness coming in also. Trying to get to the high school or middle schools will be a nightmare! We need to stop LA Fitness coming into our neighborhood before it is too late. Once it comes in it will be too late to F =v what a mistake it was. We already have 4 large gyms (2 are LA Fitness) in a 4 mile radius. We don't need an er! Debbie Stea Rossmoor resident 25 years Steven Fowler From: Dan Schechter Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2017 10:30 AM To Sandra Massa- Lavitt, Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com; Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official Subject: I'm concerned about the LA Fitness project — traffic, noise, and congestion I live in Rossmoor, near the proposed LA Fitness gym. I am very concerned that it will be a disaster for our neighborhood. Please reconsider this project. Thanks, Dan Schechter Rossmoor, CA 90720 Steven Fowler From: ANN COLLINS Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 6:29 PM Tc Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @sealbeachca.gov Cc: Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official; coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: Please good neighbors work together Dear all copied on here that work on the behalf of Seal Beach, We are all close neighbors - if I walk 4 houses down my block and cross the street I am in Seal Beach. I grew up on Dolphin Avenue in Seal Beach and haven't gone far. I shop on main street, get my hair done on main street, we take our friends and family to Walts, to Thai on Main, and many other restaurants. I am a good citizen to Seal Beach. I don't speed through town, don't litter, and support the community in every way equal to someone who 4 houses away might live /work in Seal Beach. Our children go to the same Los Al schools, they play sports together, they are in many activities together. Why then, would the Seal Beach council ever vote for something you abhor for the downtown area of Seal Beach but somehow may feel it is ok to impose on us here in Rossmoor? I understand the revenue aspect but how much is enough? There is substantial business revenue from Rossmoor Town Center already. And there is room to add yet another - but let's choose one that you all would be happy to have in r"d Town - a business without all of the many negative affects of 24 Hour Fitness. I fervently oppose the 24 Hour Fitness project. The traffic aspect is major and has a ripple negative affect beyond traffic - more people speeding, going through stop signs, driving tired, taking short cuts, parking in our neighborhood. Our housing community will be adversely affected by such a large business that has such extended hours. Increased crime with more people coming into our area. You would never consider this near your homes. Please be good neighbors and vote against this. We are one community all of us even if my zip code is slightly different and I hope all of you will vote to be my good neighbor. Thank you for listening and I hope you will carefully and thoughtfully consider our pleas. Respectfully, Ann Collins Rossmoor, CA Steven Fowler From: Peter Lipschultz Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2017 7:57 PM Tc Steven Fowler; Kevin Pearce Subject: LA Fitness Proposal Dear Assistant Planner Fowler, I oppose building LA Fitness at Rossmoor Center for many of the reasons you already have been mulling over these past months. However, I want you also to consider the point that when the Rossmoor Park Condominiums was converted into condominiums in the late 1970s, the Planning Department approved the plan without providing adequate parking spaces. As a result, over the past 40 years, we residents have parked in the adjacent lot. If you planners eliminate that possibility, our only choice would be to seek spaces among the private homes in nearby Rossmoor. This will eventually lead to bad feelings and disputes among homeowners and condominium residents. If the owner of the Shops at Rossmoor wants to charge a monthly parking fee, I'm confident my fellow neighbors would consider this favorably. In this way, both parties would be satisfied - -- the residents will have parking spaces and the owner can make money from his property. Thanks for your consideration!! Peter Lipschultz Rossmoor Park Condos Seal Beach Steven Fowler From: Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 1:58 PM Tc info @lafitness.com; info @mdcp.com; info @sepfunds.com; Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Schelly Sustarsic; Mike Varipapa; Thomas Moore; Ellery A. Deaton; Crystal Landavazo; Steven Fowler; Building Official; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; Michelle.Steel @ocgov.com Cc: coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: Stop LA Fitness at the Shops in Rossmoor I am opposed to the LA Fitness Project at the Shops in Rossmoor (Seal Beach) As a Seal Beach resident, I'm concerned about the amount of additional traffic generated by he LA Fitness Gym. The shopping center is jammed with cars all day and night ..... go take a look! School children use the streets around the shopping center for riding bikes to school; increased traffic will make this unsafe and dangerous. Seniors use the shopping center for daily meals and free food; increased traffic will make it dangerous for Seniors to cross the busy streets of Montecito Road and St Cloud Road. Tax revenue is not worth causing potential harm to children and /or Seniors. Stop the project now. LA Fitness is not FIT to be in Rossmoor! Steve Samuelson Seal Beach and Rossmoor resident 31 years. Steven Fowler From: James Wethe Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 8:17 PM Tc Steven Fowler Cc: coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: Letter against LA Fitness in Shops at Rossmoor Attachments: Seal Beach Planning Commission.docx Dear Steve- I have attached a letter that I also mailed to you in an attempt to make sure it actually got to your mailbox /inbox. Please read it and understand my strong opposition to LA Fitness building /operating at that location in the Shops at Rossmoor. J. Wethe April 15, 2017 Steve Fowler Assistant City Planner, City of Seal Beach Department of Community Development 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, CA 90740 RE: Severe negative impact of proposed fitness center in Shops at Rossmoor Dear Mr. Fowler: It appears that JLL /Marty Potts are again intent on creating a fitness center in the Shops at Rossmoor. Despite their rosy language to "provide a great retail experience that is aligned with the needs and desires of our customers' I have an opposite view as to the experience and effect such a fitness center would have on the local community. My concerns center on a number of issues but the most critical negative impact would be from: 1. Traffic- Despite any and all efforts to direct traffic to Seal Beach Boulevard it is completely apparent that the majority of traffic will quickly find the shortest route is via Montecito Road through Rossmoor. I spoke to the traffic engineer, at length, and viewed their measures. I have absolutely no doubt that there will be a marked increase in traffic in Rossmoor with an expected increase in accidents /incidents and a seriously lowered level of safety for residents including children. Their "estimates' for traffic on Montecito are clearly "guesses' and ignore common sense. Traffic within the Shops at Rossmoor is already horribly congested and makes for a situation and place I try to avoid currently because of the danger of driving within it. This will be significantly worsened by the proposed construction and exploding amount of traffic 2. Safety- With the expected increase in traffic through Rossmoor and the knowledge that surge times for attendance at a fitness center seem to parallel school opening and closing times I have a very strong concern that should this fitness center be built there will be a corresponding decrease in the safety of school children, as well as residents, during those times particularly. 3. Crime- Fitness centers are known to be "hot spots" for crime. It is no secret that anyone entering a gym will likely be there for at least one hour. As such, it is all too common to have such places staked out by groups of criminals with the intent of car break -ins. Any female entering the gym without a purse almost certainly has one in their car and becomes a target. It would be impossible for Seal Beach to station a police unit at the fitness facility from 5 AM to 11 PM to prevent this. The location is secluded enough to make this a very real concern. My wife had exactly just such an incident at the 24 hour Fitness Center in Cypress recently. The Cypress police related that this is exceptionally common and opening such a center at the Shops at Rossmoor only invites a higher level of crime into Seal Beach and also into Rossmoor itself. I have a much longer list of additional negative impacts such a fitness center would have on my community, Rossmoor, but the above seem to be the most critical. Despite the letter from Marty Potts suggesting there is an ever - growing interest in such a fitness center to be built, I remain totally unconvinced there is any such interest. I am aware of an extremely strong concern in the community that such a center will be a severely negative influence. More traffic, more crime, more congestion in a space that is severely impacted currently does not match up with JLL's notion of an experience "aligned with the needs and desires of our customers ". I strongly urge you and the Planning Commission to do everything in your power to deny permission to build this fitness center. James Wethe = Inverness Drive Los Alamitos, CA 90720 Cell April 22, 2017 Steve Fowler Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach Dear Mr. Fowler: I hope you are doing well. I am writing this letter in regards to the proposed L.A. Fitness Center that is planned for the Rossmoor Shops Center. We, my wife and I moved into our Rossmoor community in November of 1987, 3 months after we were married. We have raised our 2 children here and we are very happy living in the Seal Beach, Rossmoor, and Los Alamitos community. We are very distressed about this proposed gym that will be interfering in our specific area The very much additional traffic, crime, noise and other unwanted aspects that it will bring along, at all hours, will really upset our lives, homes and community. I attended a planning meeting and spoke up against this proposed Fitness center. Many many objections were brought up at this meeting not only by the people of Rossmoor that attended but also Seal Beach residents (that have to take their children to the Los Al schools and pass by on Seal Beach Blvd). Not one resident spoke in favor of this proposal. We are still at a loss why this proposed fitness center is even being brought up again since it failed the first time. The EIR presented at the planning meeting (April 5) was a very leaky document at best as you should know since you were at this meeting. The traffic indicated in the report didn't even use the area concerned traffic patterns. Bottom line widening the left turn lane at SB Blvd. and Main will alleviate nothing. It is already a major problem and that is not even taking into consideration the widening of Main way at Panera Bread and Sprouts only to that intersection. Thus creating a huge bottleneck there! This makes no sense. I indicated in my 5 minute address that the people coming and going to the Fitness Center (and more than likely all people coming to the Rossmoor Shops) will take the path of least resistance and drive in by using St. Cloud — Montecito — and Bradbury thus thru the back door to Main Way. We in Rossmoor have no representation here all we can do is write letters and protest. Seal Beach will get additional tax base revenue and we will get all the crime and traffic. This is very unfair. All the neighbors on our block Woodstock (Montecito) are vehemently against this. We implore you for your help in denying this proposal. Respectfully,L�i � ary and Joyce C ningham _Woodstock Road Rossmoor, CA 90720 April 24, 2017 Gary Miller MGuava Ave. Seal Beach, CA 90740 Mr. Steve Fowler Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach Department of Community Development Dear Mr. Fowler: Subject: Comments Regarding the Shops at Rossmoor LA Fitness EIR My comments on the LA Fitness Notice of Preparation were not included in the LA Fitness FIR, and I am including them below for inclusion and consideration in the final EIR. In addition to my concerns about parking at the proposed LA Fitness facility, I noted a significant number of comments regarding parking were in Appendix B of the EIR. The EIR is not complete since a parking analysis was not performed as part of the EIR. A parking analysis should be completed and included in a reissued EIR. The developer is concerned about parking enough to not want to lose parking for an ingress and egress location on Seal Beach Boulevard north of the Verizon Wireless store. Additionally, it is proposed to have curb barriers to separate the north and south sections of the parking lot to encourage patrons visiting the Home Goods and PetSmart not to park near LA Fitness. Lack of parking in the LA Fitness parking area could be very detrimental to Seal Beach and Rossmoor residents. Parking needs to be studied. As proposed, the current configuration of the Rossmoor Center Way is unacceptable. There needs to be four lanes between Seal Beach Boulevard and Spouts, or at a minimum two westbound lanes and one eastbound line, plus a eastbound right turn lane onto Seal Beach Boulevard. The two westbound lane should continue to the LA Fitness area, with one lane becoming a left- turn lane into LA Fitness. There should be three lines between Montecito Road the LA Fitness area. Two 12 foot wide eastbound lanes, with one becoming a right turn lane into LA Fitness and a 12 foot wide westbound lane from the LA Fitness area to Montecito Road. The northbound left -turn lane (pocket) on Seal Beach Boulevard at Rossmoor Center Way can only be extended approximately 90 feet that would only accommodate four to five additional vehicles, which most likely will not be sufficient for an already existing problem. This needs further study. If this left -turn lane is extended, the developer should refund to the City of Seal Beach the cost of the reverently improved median. Sincerely, A,, AM Gary Miller Gary Miller Comments Regarding LA Fitness FIR January 27, 2017 My concerns are traffic, the new facility itself, and parking: Traffic: Target Market The residential location of anticipated patrons and their route to the facility must be identified for any traffic study. It has been noted that any where from fifty to eighty percent of the center's target market is the community of Rossmoor and yet there are only three entrances to the center from Montecito and three from St. Cloud, while the rest are all along Seal Beach Blvd. where traffic is extensive. Originally one of the entrances off Montecito was a nicely landscaped entry way into the old Rossmoor Center; now that same entry way is still there but seldom used because you immediately run into the back of Kohl's when entering the center from there. The other Rossmoor entrances will have typical center traffic to be contended with for those desiring to go to LA Fitness. Thus, Rossmoor residents will be pretty much forced to use Rossmoor Center Way and/or to come out St. Cloud and Bradbury onto Seal Beach Blvd to enter the frontage portion of the center, thereby increasing traffic on Seal Beach Blvd. It would be ideal if they could just come and go from the back of the center and never have to get out onto Seal Beach Blvd. Rossmoor Center Way should be a four lane roadway from Seal Beach Blvd through to Montecito. Unfortunately, there are five important areas, two of which are choke points: 1. The exit/entrance by Montecito will not support four lanes, even three lanes may be difficult. If three lanes are made possible, I would suggest it be two lanes into the center and one lane exiting the center. 2. From the stop sign at West Road east to Sprouts: should be four lanes to accommodate traffic once it is in the center between Montecito & Seal Beach Blvd. 3a. Stop sign at Sprouts & Rossmoor Center Way: due to poor placement of the Sprouts _a - building (it is too close to the roadway -- just an additional 10 feet to the south would be sufficient to solve this choke point and enable the roadway to be a decent four lanes. Currently there is a sidewalk along the north side of the building with landscaping on both sides of the sidewalk. To fix this inadequate lane problem, part of the landscaping on the north side of the Sprouts building should be modified to accommodate the extra lanes of traffic while still retaining a sidewalk to allow people to get to the overflow parking in back of the building. 3b. From Seal Beach Blvd to the stop sign by Sprouts, it definitely should be four lanes: two in and two out. Four lanes are needed to accommodate the traffic, which already is extensive. This section is hemmed in by the Panera Bread building and the side of the parking lot for Sprouts. Do what needs to be done to get four lanes, which may include cutting into the parking lot if removal of landscaping is not enough to obtain four lanes. 4. A new facility (LA Fitness) in back of Sprouts will increase traffic in the northbound left -turn pocket lane of Seal Beach Blvd. to Rossmoor Center Way. Today, northbound traffic trying to access the center on Seal Beach Blvd. is often backed up in both of the northbound pocket turn lanes and the traffic often sticks out into the left through lane creating a dangerous situation for both Rossmoor Center Way and Town Center Drive. This needs to be addressed by reconfiguring the signal and/or lengthening the left turn pocket lane of the recently improved median. Lengthening the pocket lanes needs to be accomplished without interfering with the southbound pocket lanes for traffic turning east into the Target Center. Also, an additional entrance /exit could be added just north of Subway sandwich facility, onto the southbound lane of Seal Beach Blvd, relieving traffic demands on Rossmoor Center Way. Seal Beach Blvd. is the city's only north -south through street. In many areas there are no side streets for extra traffic. As such, it handles a tremendous amount of traffic and asking it to accommodate more, is difficult as it already most likely is at a Level of Service (LOS) F at peak travel times, which due to the variety of traffic, is from 7 am to 9 am, from 2:30 pm to 7 pm. There is not only the usual to /from -work travel traffic, but also the school traffic, as all school children in the district use Seal Beach Blvd, with the exception of elementary school children in Old Town and the Hill that attend McGaugh. Consideration of the impact of the I -405 Improvement Project must also be considered because in 2023 traffic will increase on Seal Beach Blvd. due to the project, i.e., congestion at the county line and congestion caused by tolling. In the construction of an EIR for this project, a traffic circulation section needs to be included. The New Facility: LA Fitness proposed building location should be more to the south, at least 20 feet or so, but not on top of Rossmoor Center Way, especially if Rossmoor Center Way is widened, which should happen. Do not construct the building where it is presently planned as that will forever prevent traffic from easily accessing the center from the community of Rossmoor from Montecito. People will go the way of the least amount of traffic. Planning must also be for the future, not just as it is now. -3- One other issue to consider: rotate the LA Fitness building 90 degrees, elongate it, and moving it further west, possibly to West Road, so that the back of the building would be to the condos, and with parking for the LA Fitness to the east of the building (the back of Sprouts). Experience from the earlier center where there was a movie theater, demonstrated problems in the evening with movie -goers talking and slamming car doors upon leaving after the movie was over. This same behavior would exist with patrons from LA Fitness leaving as late as 1 I pm., as well as patrons arriving at 5 am. Remember, we are all neighbors, so let's be neighborly. Parking: Currently, there is a parking problem from vehicles of Seal Beach residents living along Montecito Road in the apartments and condos. Some of those residents have been parking in the back of the center for years. When those apartments /condos were first constructed, they were built as senior apartments with provisions for only one car per unit (guess they thought seniors don't drive). With the condo conversion, they were open to non - seniors and most are now families and have two vehicles, creating a greater demand for parking than the street (Montecito) can accommodate. Consequently, many residents use the back of the shopping center parking lot. The owners of the Shops at Rossmoor have put those residents on notice that they will no longer be able to park there, causing many residents to park across the street in the community of Rossmoor, thereby inconveniencing many residents over there who often find it difficult to access their own driveways, let alone park in front of their own homes. Thus, this facility (LA Fitness) would be a hardship on Seal Beach and Rossmoor residents. Thi: issue must be addressed before allowing the project to go forward. There is more parking at that center than is needed. By initial calculations, based in the data we were given, approximately 223 spaces are excess. There is a strip of parking spaces behind the condos with approximately 160 parking spaces. These spaces should be made available for the apartments /condos to either use or purchase. A parking structure is cost prohibitive. I have heard the shopping center management say it is not their problem. Well, I beg to differ: if you wish to develop in this area, you have to consider all the problems that exist, and not make them worse. These people who live in Rossmoor and in the apartments and condos are the target market and neighbors of the property owners. I realize the property owners did not create this problem but unfortunately it exists, and if there is a way to ameliorate it, and we must do the best we can to solve it. Finding a solution to the parking woes of those residents is within the scope of this building project, and I urge it be considered in the EIR. Steven Fowler From: Brian McKinney Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 7:43 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: FW: Opposition to Shops at Rossmoor LA Fitness Development From Janice Manis Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 5:35 PM To: Brian McKinney Subject: Opposition to Shops at Rossmoor LA Fitness Development Dear Mr. McKinney, I have been a Rossmoor resident since 1981 and love my neighborhood. My family and I have also enjoyed the benefits of proximity to Seal Beach. However, I am distressed by the planned development in Seal Beach (LA Fitness) that directly borders and will negatively impact the community. The LA Fitness development may appear to be a solid addition on blueprint but I can tell you that the reality of the development will be worsening traffic, increased air pollution, parking nightmares, increased crime, and poorer quality of life for residents living nearby. Any sane person living, working or visiting this area would know this. The irony of this project is that it will not impact any non -high density housing areas (i.e., private homes) in Seal Beach but it will be a nightmare for Rossmoor and the North Seal Beach residents living in apartment abutting the development. My questions: • Is this development gaining support/approval because it is in North Seal Beach and will have no direct impact on Seal Beach city or its residents other than the benefit of increase revenue, or • Is it because Rossmoor is unincorporated and Seal Beach has turned a blind eye to the impact of this project —even though it will be housed in the Shops at Rossmoor— further irony. Why has the Orange County building department not realized the impact on Rossmoor and surrounding areas? I can assure you that this development would never get approved in Los Angeles County based on its environmental impact. Parking, traffic flow, pollution, crime, and diminished urban forest and landscaping would be major red flags barring approval. It is puzzling that the Seal Beach LA Fitness project, which required an EIR, appears to be moving forward even though developers have not addressed EIR issues raised by the Seal Beach Planning Commission. Also, LA Fitness will be placed between commercial (behind a Sprouts Market) and residential zoned areas. The loss of parking will result in North Seal Beach apartment residents parking in Rossmoor. This alone does not make sense for a development - there should not be a negative impact because of displaced parking spaces. How can this development be approved just considering the parking problem alone? And, why didn't Seal Beach require adequate parking for these residents when the buildings were approved for construction years ago? Access to the LA Fitness site is also a nightmare as proposed along Los Alamitos Boulevard which is already a strained traffic corridor. The reality is that the planned 1,700 fitness members will find more convenient ways to enter along the residential streets of St. Cloud /Montecito which bisects apartments to the east (Seal Beach) and homes to the west (Rossmoor) from 5 AM to 11 PM, seven days a week. Fitness members will not use the already strained Los Alamitos Boulevard corridor or entry to the Shops at Rossmoor. I am a recently retired, chief operating officer with 35 years of experience in both real estate,and property development. on m_y experierice this project, a .proposed, is simply wrong for_the surrounding community_ am certain that you have from others inn =my community bulYinvite you to actually visit the- proposecLprotectarea, 4o.ay360 degree look at_what- Based surrounds the development and then imagine that you live in this area that is about undergo a significant, negative change. Would you be happy? What is the right thing to do for the neighborhood? Thank you for your consideration. Best wishes, Janice Manis I. Steven Fowler From: Susan Marriott on Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 3:46 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Susan Marriott /IA Fitness Mr. Fowler As a 20+ year resident of Rossmoor, I am writing to let you know I strongly oppose the proposed LA Fitness project. Below, please find some of the reasons I object. 1) Those close to Montecito will have parking issues that lead to lower property values. This business will cause major congestion on this and surrounding residential streets. 2) Activity of an estimated 2,000 daily gym visitors will bring attention, congestion and crime to our area. Gym parking lots and the vicinity are well established as high crime areas. Concern for the safety of our community and quality of life issues should be a high priority. 3) No need for another gym -there are dozens of gyms in the surrounding community. 4) As stated by the developer, these 37,000 square foot gyms are not designed for a partially residential area such as this. This type if business should be on a major street, not adjacent to a residential area. 5) This project was turned down last year, and our community plans to continue to oppose this project. It will be challenged at every turn. Why not find a location that welcomes this type of development? 6) "The Golden Rule" should apply. We are all neighbors, right? Do unto others... Would you want this business in your neighborhood ... on your street? I think not. Thank you for your time and consideration, Susan Marriott Steven Fowler From: Joni Angstadt Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 3:46 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Mr Fowler We are against putting a new LA Fitness behind Sprouts. We have lived in Rossmoor for over 30 years before either of the 2 big shopping centers were built. Since their construction the traffic on Los Alamitos Blvd has become atrocious. Adding the Fitness center would only double the traffic , not only on the Blvd but also in Rossmoor, cause parking problems plus bring in more crime. Seal Beach only cares about tax revenue they will receive but do not care to be good neighbors. Please reconsider giving them a permit. Eric and Joanne Angstadt Sent from my !Phone Steven Fowler From: Wendy Ketcham Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 110 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: Sandra Massa- Lavitt, Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com; Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official; coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: Please stop LA Fitness Dear Mr. Fowler, I am writing to you to urge you to do everything you can to stop the building of an LA Fitness in the Shops of Rossmoor. This project will reduce our quality of life and the value of our property. My husband and 1 have been residents of Seal Beach and Rossmoor for the majority of our lives and it saddens us to witness the continual downturn of our community. Our number one complaint is traffic. I dread driving to the Shops of Rossmoor and many times I avoid it by shopping somewhere else. The boulevard is dangerous, the 4 -way stop outside of Sprouts is overly congested and driving through the lot is a joke. There is no way that adding a gym is going to help any of these problems. I also have 4 boys, who over the years have ridden their skateboards and bikes over to the center. But if this project goes through, I would be more hesitant to let them go. There is no safe route to get across the parking lot and more cars would only make it more dangerous for them. In conclusion, myself nor any member of my family will ever frequent this gym and we strongly feel it should not be built in this center. Thank you for your time, Wendy Ketcham Steven Fowler From: Debra Benjestorf4 Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 3:03 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Proposed LA Fitness Dear Mr. Fowler, My name is Debra Benjestorf and I am a resident of Rossmoor. I am extremely concerned about the proposed La Fitness at the Shops of Rossmoor. Although we have spoken in the past, I would like to reiterate my position on the development of LA Fitness at the Shops of Rossmoor. I am totally opposed to its development in this shopping center. I have attended the previous planning meetings as well as the environmental meetings. I am not opposed to developing at the center, but totally opposed to LA Fitness as the said project. The fitness center backs to residential streets. Although the developer was stating they would increase the left turn lane into the center, you know as well as I, the least resistance will be used; i.e. St. Cloud/ Montecito then cutting through our residential area vs staying on Seal Beach Blvd. I live on the comer of Druid and St. Cloud and getting out of our driveway currently is a challenge as the cars come around Montecito at a high rate of speed. There are no stop signs so speed is out of control. We have had a fatality on St. Cloud, but the developer could not locate the information as he was searching through Seal Beach records. Unfortunately, it occurred and both Orange County Sheriffs and CHP responded.. Seal Beach Police Department does not patrol this area, only Orange County Sheriffs and from time to time CHP. In the planning process, the developer is very non committal to the number of members that they are inclined to have, but be that as it may, 24 hour Fitness located on Katella in Cypress, has approximately 17,000 members and 70,000 people use the gym on a monthly basis. If you put that in numbers that's over 2300 people "a day "... we are a residential area that cannot handle that kind of traffic with kids riding bikes, older people trying to go to the community center or library or residents trying to walk through the neighborhood. Not to even describe the additional crime that comes with a gym of the proposed size. I would appreciate if you would include my comments and pass them forward to the planning commission. Again, I am totally opposed to the development of LA Fitness at the Shops of Rossmoor. I believe traffic currently on Seal Beach Blvd is strongly affected during prime time. Thank you for your time. Debra Benjestorf Sent from my iPhone Steven Fowler From: Shari White Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 2:53 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Opposed to LA Fitness I have been a Rossmoor resident since 1992 and I have seen a lot of changes in our area most of which I appreciate, however, there has to be a point where the building MUST STOPII I am not sure if you have ever tried to get into the intersection in question on a weekend, around 5:OOpm or god forbid the holiday season. It is already a problem especially with the walking traffic in front of Sprouts. The traffic constantly backs up there. This is a HORRIBLE idea to put a LA Fitness back there. At least consider the former Marie Calendars building that has been sitting empty for years. (I would prefer a nice restaurant go there but apparently they are having trouble getting takers probably because of the high rent). Please also consider the additional traffic that will be coming from Katella Ave and the new business being built in the 605 Center. Our quaint little neighborhood is quickly turning into a downtown type neighborhood which is NOT what any of us want. I will continue to fight this along with my neighbors for a long as we have to. This shopping center does NOT need anything more. You should concentrate on filling the spots that are vacant! Thank you for your time! Shari White Steven Fowler From: Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 2:44 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Please note that as homeowners in Rossmoor we are very much against a huge fitness center in the back Of the Kohls area. We cherish are small town feel, and as our grandchildren to to preschool almost directly behind where the Center would be, we encourage you to support us in keeping our area safe from more crime and traffic. Thank you so much, Bill and Lori Scott Rossmoor Residents since 2003 Sent from Mail for Windows 10 Steven Fowler From: Natalie Samodouroff Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 2:43 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: FW: la fitness bad for Rossmoor From: Steel, Michelle [ mailto :Michelle.Steel @ocgov.com] Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 2:39 PM To: Natalie Samodouroff 1 11 11111111111111111M Subject: RE: la fitness bad for Rossmoor Dear Ms. Samodouroff, Thank you for your recent email expressing your concerns regarding the proposed LA Fitness project in the Shops at Rossmoor, located in the City of Seal Beach. Your position on this matter is important to me. However, the County does not have a role in the City of Seal Beach's planning decisions. The County Board of Supervisors planning authority is limited to County -owned facilities and communities within the unincorporated areas of Orange County. What I can and will do is forward your email to the Mayor and City Manager of Seal Beach to make them aware of your correspondence with me regarding your concerns about the proposed LA Fitness project. Sincerely, Michelle Steel Chairwoman, Board of Supervisors Supervisor, Second District (714) 834 -3220 From: Natalie Samodouroff Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 11:15 AM To: Steel, Michelle <Michelle.Steel @oceov.com> Subject: la fitness bad for Rossmoor Last meeting didn't address any of the residence in the community that would be affected by this terrible money grab by the city of seal beach. How do we protect our community from the council people that are voted in to do this. Please Please Please — read and listen to our community and all of our traffic, crime and quality of life concerns we have. This is not a facility that will benefit our community. Find.a.property that fits this high traffic type of facility. Not a cramped / overbuilt area near a residential community. Thrs;issuch.a:bad_ idea Thank you for listening. Natalie Steven Fowler From: Jodi Edwards Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 12:22 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Traffic - pollution - noise Dear Steve, I'm shocked and appalled that the LA Fitness building is still being considered after all of the complaints you have had. 1 own my condo in Seal Beach and please make a note of my complaint that despite efforts and planning meetings SB is still considering putting a gym where it is going to cause a lot of traffic, noise, and pollution. Please reconsider NOT putting a gym in such s rediculous spot. If you need to reach me, please contact me via email. Sincerely, Jodi Edwards. Jodi Edwards Steven Fowler From: NANCY holland -60 Now Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 12:09 PM To: smassalvitt @sealbeachca.gov; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; bmckinny @sealbeachca.gov, Schelly Sustarsic; tmoore @sealbeahca.gov; Crystal Landavazo; michelle.steel @ocgov.com; Building Official; Leslie Medina Subject: LA Fitness Project I am opposed to the LA Fitness Project. My name is Nancy Holland. I live at 4W Montecito Rd., 0, Seal Beach, CA 90740. I have lived at the Rossmoor Regency for 30 years. I do not park in the lot directly behind our project. The Rossmoor Regency was built as a Condominium and we have ample parking. All my windows and balconies face the proposed job site. This is a bedroom community, and this proposed project will have a negative effect on our quality of life. My windows are open every day. A business opening at 5:00 AM until 11:00 PM is not acceptable. When will we sleep? A project of this type and size should have direct Blvd. access. Cars should not be winding around behind peoples bedroom windows at this time of the day and night. This will bring noise, pollution and traffic congestion to those of us who have been living here peacefully for years. This will hurt our property values as well. Please reject this proposed project. They need to find a location that won't disturb so many residents of the community. Sincerely, Nancy Holland Steven Fowler From: Sent: To: Cc: Subject: Public Comment Sincerely, on behalf of Ellery Deaton <SealBeachDistrictl @gmail.com> Thursday, April 20, 2017 11:20 PM Crystal Landavazo Jill Ingram; Robin Roberts; Steven Fowler Fwd: opposition to the LA fitness Ellery Deaton Council Member, District 1 - -Old Town and Surfside City of Seal Beach - 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740 (562) 743 -4355 For Information about Seal Beach, please see our city website: http: /twww.sealbeachca.gov NOTICE_ This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. 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Thank you. ---- - - - - -- Forwarded message ---- - - - - -- From: Eileen McIlrath EPW Date: Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 6:21 PM Subject: opposition to the LA fitness To: " smassalavitt ksealbeachca.gov" <smassalavittna sealbeachca.gov >, "mvaripapa@sealbeachca.gov" <mvaripapa@sealbeachca.gov >, "edeaton cr sealbeachca.gov" <edeatonCa)sealbeachca.gov >, "sfowler(crsealbeachca.gov" <sfowler cr sealbeachca.gov >, "bmekinneyaa,sealbeachea.gov" <bmckinney@sealbeachca.gov>, "lmedinanae sealbeachca.gov" <lmedina ,sealbeachca.gov >, "michelle.steel@ocgov.com" <michelle.steel&cgov.com >, "ssustarsic@sealbeachea.gov" <ssustarsic crsealbeachea.gov >, "tmoore@sealbeachca.gov" <tmooreg..sealbeachca.aov >, "clandavazo(a]sealbeachca.gov" <clandavazo@sealbeachca.gov >, " buildingofficial@sealbeachca.gov" < , " coalitionagainstlafitness na,gmail.com" < coalitionagainstlafitness (a7,gmail.com> I am 100 % AGAINST the proposed LA Fitness to go in behind Sprouts at the Shops at Rossmoor. All large gyms face a major street: ex. Valley View, Katella, Bellflower, etc. This is the first time LA Fitness is attempting to put one in a residential area. I live in that residential area, Rossmoor. As an Official for the Seal Beach, Orange County area you have the ability to help keep the charm and quaintness of our Rossmoor Community, or to make life very uncomfortable for those who have lived here for many years. Our lives are in your hands, in your Vote. Seal Beach and Rossmoor are very special, quaint areas and we wish to keep them like that. Patrick and Eileen Mcllrath - - Rossmoor Residents Steven Fowler From: Janis Hawkridge Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 7:20 PM To: Steven Fowler; Kevin Pearce Subject: LA Fitness project at Rossmoor, Seal Beach, CA As an owner and resident of the Rossmoor Park area, I wish to raise my objections to the proposed LA Fitness project. The traffic and congestion is already bad in the area, especially at the times when LA Fitness gyms have the most attendance. With the increase in traffic it will cause additional delays and hardship to current property tax payers.This is also the time when local children are likely to be out on the streets or on their bikes. It's likely that people who would normally shop at the Shops at Rossmoor will go elsewhere if they are unable to get access or find parking. There are also 3 LA Fitness facilities within 3.8 miles of this proposed location, so this one is unnecessary. Their websites show a graph of their busiest times, all of which coincide with commute traffic and shoppers. Old like to see Rossmoor property values improve, not go down due to increases in congestion and the other issues such as crime in our neighborhood. Janis Hawkridge Owner U.Montecito Road, Seal Beach CA 90740 Steven Fowler From: ellerydeaton @gmail.com on behalf of Ellery Deaton <Seal Beach Districtl@gmail.com > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 6:04 PM To: Crystal Landavazo Cc: Jill Ingram; Robin Roberts; Steven Fowler Subject: Fwd: LA Fitness Public Comment. Sincerely, Wafff Ellery Deaton Council Member, District 1 - -Old Town and Surfside City of Seal Beach - 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740 (562) 743 -4355 i For Information about Seal Beach, please see our city website: http: / /www.sealbeachca.gov NOTICE This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, or an employee or agent responsible far delivering this communication to the intended recipient, please advise the sender by reply email and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you ---- - - - - -- Forwarded message ---- - - - - -- From: Betty Jane Vandenberg- Stobaug �V ONION Date: Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 1:33 PM Subject: LA Fitness To: smassalavitt(a seal beachea.gov, ssustarsickssealbeachca.gov, mvaripapaasealbeachca.gov, tmoorea.sealbeachca.gov, edeatonno sealbeachca.gov To whom it may concern, I frequently shop the Sprouts shopping center. My daughter dances in Los Alamitos and I have short periods of time to run my errands before needing to pick her up. I understand there is a possibility of an LA Fitness to join the center. I fear I would have to stop shopping there if that happens. As it is, the street traffic is heavy and with an LA Fitness in the same location I know I would not have time to run my errands and pick up my daughter in time. My vote would be not to have an LA Fitness in that area. Sincerely, Steven Fowler From: Sent: To: Crystal Landavazo Monday, April 24, 2017 11:10 AM Steven Fowler Subject: FW: IA Fitness Project Comments. Crystal Landavazo, Senior Planner City Of Seal Beach - 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740 (562) 431 -2527, Ext. 1324 I I For Information about Seal Beach, please see our city website: http: / /www.sealbeachca.gov NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this communication to the intended recipient, please advise the sender by reply email and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. From: building fmailto:buildino(@TRANSRCH.ORGj Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 3:47 PM To: Crystal Landavazo Subject: Fwd: LA Fitness Project Crystal An other public comment sent to Building Official instead of Planning Ayla Sent from my Whone Begin forwarded message: Resent -From: < buildingoificia l;asealbeachca.gov> From: Zoe Date: April 22, 20 7 at :48:22 PM PDT Cc: Kevin Pearce < coalitionagainstlafitness (cygmail.com> Subject: LA Fitness Project I'm a person who goes to the gym everyday, and I'm happy to drive my 3 miles as opposed to the conveinience of driving I mile from my home in Rossmoor. The negative impacts LA Fitness would bring, such as decrease in safety, increase in crime, increase in traffic...is too high a price to pay for convenience, especially when another business can be placed in the same location without the negative impacts. There are over 25 gyms within a 3 -4 mile radius of the center. Many with a Seal Beach address. LA Fitness would create a huge ri here first, the owners working living for themselves m a arse; these smaller businesses to go under. These smaller gyms were .o build their membership and become successful to provide a rn e V mdu .- I am not affiliated to any -of- these - fi endeflt ---- r - o . ._-� - Y gyms, I knowwi it would be terrible if the city does not watch out for the preexisting businesses in their city. I did meet a gym owner at the Seal Beach l Ok race and he is truly concerned. 1 believe another business would be successful in this location without placing a threat to preexisting businesses, home owners in Rossmoor and the many other issues of concern already mentioned. Please make a responsible and moral decision on the impacts you will make on our communities. Make this a wtn win situation where the mall owner car. make money th a different business and keep our kids and families safe all at the same time. Thank you, Zoe Hagmann Steven Fowler From: Michele Menier Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:00 PM To: sfowler @sealbeach.ca.gov, Steven Fowler Subject: OPPOSEDIII Seal beach LA Fitness Hello Mr. Fowler. As residents of Rossmoor we want to make it loud and very clear that out family is against the building of any fitness center including LA Fitness in the nearby vicinity. We believe that the increased traffic will be a great detriment to our community and children and wish to fight this with all that we have. Please be aware that we will not support this business if it goes in and we plan to fight it every step of the way. Thank you for your time. Michele and Todd Menier - Michele Carofyn van Aalst MInterlachen Rd. IIJW Seal Beach, CA 90740 Steve Fowler Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach Department of Community Development 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, CA 90740 March 21, 2017 Dear Mr. Fowler, I am writing to state my opposition to the proposed LA Fitness Health Club addition to the Shops at Rossmoor. As a resident of Seal Beach and specifically Leisure World, I regularly visit and shop at the Shops at Rossmoor. I require handicapped parking which is already at a premium and have had to adjust my shopping hours so that I have the best chance of getting one of these spaces. I am greatly concerned about the additional number of cars parking in these lots with the addition of this health club and ask you to oppose this project. Sincerely, �/"r'!�/j�14'�(,r'h� C Gnu' Carolyn van Aal t c t � - 2� �,- �l,,;Zr (,•�,�.x lei .�I'�� .�j ��f_�� -fr�z ,,,,,��� b�( Y we % /,j vpa' v.o Us2 c Co i 3 c�I_ _�C— 7 ���?!^�r ^tiN �r- ! v cAe S �,c.L-, c, c,cAqL9L"tL� 2. 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Deaton; Thomas Moore; Schelly Sustarsic; Jill Ingram; Patrick Gallegos; Sean Sabo; Jim Basham; Steven Fowler Subject: Proposed LA Fitness at Shops at Rossmoor Madam Steel: I am writing to voice my opposition to the proposed LA Fitness at the Shops at Rossmoor as I understand that the County also has power to stop this proposed project from moving forward. The Orange County Register recently wrote an article detailing why Rossmoor residents are concerned with the proposed project. Rossmoor residents are not the only ones concerned with the impact that this proposed business will have on the area. As a Seal Beach resident who resides directly across from the entrance to the Shops at Rossmoor, I can personally attest to the fact that the traffic at that intersection (Plymouth and Seal Beach), especially during peak times, is horrendous. Adding an additional 1,200 cars entering /exiting the Shops every day will lead to an unbelievable logjam. The turn lane that JLL proposes will not solve the problem (I do not think it will even alleviate the current bottleneck). The site simply is not designed to facilitate this type of use. Obviously, no one expects the parking lot to sit vacant. But this project -- given its size and the amount of traffic it W, merate - -just does not belong in this location. It is a perfect example of trying to make a square peg fit in a round hole. Given all of the property that will be freed up when Boeing leaves, the Westminster /SB Boulevard industrial park makes entirely much more sense for this proposed project. Even placing the gym in the industrial park now makes more sense than the Shops -- in terms of the number of parking spaces available and the impact that an additional 1,200 cars would have entering /exiting from both Seal Beach Boulevard and Westminster (both of which are built to handle that type of capacity at that location). But from a general planning perspective, does the area we really need another gym? LA Fitness already has another location not three miles away from this proposed site. If you add all the mom and pop and big chain gyms together, in a 5 mile radius, there are over 30 gyms /fitness centers /trainers, etc. If we over - saturate the area with gyms, from where are the customers going to come? If there are not enough customers to sustain the business, then we end up with a big box of a building that will be vacant for how long? The Marie Callendars in the Shops at Rossmoor has been vacant for more than two years. The concern about the inability to lease space -- which will have limited use without an exorbitant TI expenditure when the gym fails -- is very real. Does this project truly benefit Seal Beach? The proponents seem to be myopically focused on short-term tax revenues without truly considering all of the relevant factors (environmental impact, traffic, crime /safety, conforming with the City's vision in terms of planning, etc.). Please do what you can to represent your constituents as there are far more against this proposal than are for it and veto the LA Fitness at the Shops at Rossmoor. TI- you for your consideration, Kimberly Carasso Esq — -- -- —_.. 12275 Nucket P1 -"` = = - _ ant —_ Seal Beach CA 90740 Edit Rep' Share ) http: / /disq.us /p /1 i012yg Kimberly A. Carasso LAW OFFICES OF MARSHALL SILBERBERG 3333 Michelson Drive, Suite 710 Irvine, CA 92612 "Only in the office Tuesdays- Thursdays This email is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only. The information contained in this communication may be confidential and may be subject to the altomeyclient privilege. If you ` - e received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or disma. ,nis email without the authors prior permission. We have taken precautions to minimize the risk of transmitting software viruses, but we advise you to carry out your own virus checks on any attachment to this message. We cannot accept liability for any loss or damage caused by software viruses. Steven Fowler From: Michael & Lynne Wilson Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 1:22 PM 0 �y To: Steven Fowler Cc: coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: Opposition for Proposed LA Fitness Please Read Steve Fowler, I have been a resident of Rossmoor for 25 years and my husband and I raised our 2 children here. They both attended Lee Elementary School, McAuliffe Middle School and Los Alamitos High School. We moved here, specifically to Rossmoor from New Jersey because of a job promotion for my husband. It's amazing we moved from across the United States and found the most amazing neighborhood like Rossmoor. We have embraced this community and continue to enjoy our full active lives here. I am writing to you to implore you to reconsider the proposed LA Fitness in our backyard! If you have ever driven your car down Los Alamitos Boulevard during school hours, morning, mid - afternoon and also during rush our time 4 -6 pm you would know that there is ALREADY HEAVY TRAFFIC. Because of this heavy traffic which affects the boulevard, drivers take short cuts through Rossmoor, making our community a thoroughfare. When my husband and I purchased our home 25 years ago, we bought in a residential neighborhood, not a major boulevard. We have countless gyms within a few miles of our home and so does Seal Beach. WHY DO WE NEED another gym, especially the SIZE of LA FITNESS ? ?? We do not! This money will obviously benefit Seal Beach, but it is in Rossmoor's backyard, bringing down our quality of life significantly! Effective May 31 st, I understand that no parking from the condos will be allowed behind Sprouts, moving them into the streets of Rossmoor. These cars belong to Seal Beach residents and now are being forced to park in front of Rossmoor resident homes. Is this really fair to us ?? The way I see it, Seal Beach gets all the revenue and Rossmoor gets all the traffic, unsafe roads, noise, pollution, inconvenience and we become an unsafer community as a whole. This parking issue is a community, city problem. The city of Seal Beach created this problem, what is Seal Beach going to do about it ? ? ?? Safety is also a HUGE ISSUE!!!! If you have ever driven down Montecito at any time if day you would AGREE that if a gym the size if LA FITNESS is allowed to be built, pedestrians, young and old in our neighborhood are at risk of being hit by a car. We have lots of children who walk, and ride bikes to school, to play with friends, to go to the parks in their neighborhood. We also have many senior citizens who walk the neighborhood for exercise. I cannot imagine the traffic coming out of the back of Sprouts onto Montecito if a HUGE GYM is built. This seems incredibly short- sighted and a terrible mistake when the only driving factor is $$$$$ and not quality of life, safety, pollution control, crime prevention, noise control, traffic control, on an already incredibly congested area of Los Al Blvd and Montecito. Please sir, look at your conscience and decide if you wouldn't feel the same way if you lived in our neighborhood, and see all of the reasons that this LA Fitness in our backyard is a bad idea. Steven Fowler From: Leslie Medina Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 2:50 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: FW: Opposition of LA Fitness at the Shops of Rossmoor From: Cheri Real [mailto: Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 2:44 PM To: Leslie Medina Subject: Opposition of LA Fitness at the Shops of Rossmoor To whom it may concern, I oppose the addition of the fitness building for many reasons. The main reason I am in opposition is my concern for safety. I drive Montecito every morning to drop my daughter off at Rossmoor Elementary school. One morning I was stopped at the corner of Montecito and Bradbury, waiting for cross traffic. My daughter and I were talking and before I could honk my horn a car had hit a teenager crossing the street on his bike. My 7 year old daughter and I both screamed in horror as we watched this poor boy be thrown off his bike, over the car, and slam to the ground, right in front of us and we couldn't stop it or help him. I crossed the intersection and pulled over to offer help and call for an ambulance. For the 3 years we have been driving this route I have seen several close calls and this was by far the worst. I can't begin to imagine how many more accidents or close calls will occur if we add more traffic to the area. Please take the safety of the children into account and consider how the extra traffic will affect the safety of the kids that walk or bike to school. I believe this is a terrible location and the children will suffer with the additional traffic. Sincerely Cheri Real Steven Fowler From: Sent: To: Subject: The City of Seal Beach Craig Maunders ' Monday, April 24, 2017 10:45 AM Steven Fowler LA Fitness Health Club DEIR April 23, 2017 Mr. Steve Fowler, Assistant Planner Community Development Department Seal Beach, CA 90740 Reference: LA Fitness Health Club Draft Environmental Impact Report Attachment: Comments to reference DEIR Dear Steve, Please find my comments attached. Best regards, C Maunders Montecito Road, Apt. 'am Seal Beach, California 90740 Attachment 1. There appears to be considerable contention with the ITE TG Trip figure for the project of 1,218. Both nearby gym employees and users assert this figure to be low. Sources affiliated with the ITE readily advise checking against, local data or alternative models. Since this is easy to do, it odd that the DER makes no of theWesults. CEQA guideline 15151 =states tt eisufficiency of awEIR is to be reviewed in the lig 2. Reliance upon Seal Beach Traffic Study Guidelines, and Orange County Transportation Analysis Model to arrive at trip distribution pattern likewise appears feeble. Conclusion drawn there from may well be correct for shoppers who intend visits to the stores / shops at the front of the Center, but not Project clients who will almost certainly find the gym entrance closer to Montecito Road, and therefore access via it preferable. DEIR assertion in this regard flagrantly breaches common sense. The purpose of the EIR is to inform, not miss - inform. 3. Air pollution consequences of 1, above are therefore not accounted for. 4. Noise consequences of 1, & 2, above, are therefore not accounted for. 5. The reflective impact of this tall building on traffic noise from Rossmoor Center Way to the Rossmoor Park condominiums to the north does not appear included in the traffic noise estimates in figure 4.3.5, despite a request that the EIR preparer do so in a NOP comment letter. 6. The DEIR section on Site Adjacent Driveways (page 4.4 -23) combines a condominium gate exit figure computed in seconds per vehicle with daily volumes and compares to the gross capacity of the roadway of 12,500 vehicles per day. It goes on to assert the impact would be "acceptable," yet it cites no objective basis for making this claim. The risk to hundreds of residents for whom this is the only vehicular outlet from their homes will not find it acceptable when they discover that, although the street capacity is sufficient, during peak hours, opportunity to exit is foreclosed because remaining safe access to Rossmoor Center Way has been usurped by traffic attributable to the new development and its driveway behind Sprouts. Yet one can see clearly that this would be "acceptable" ...to applicant. it is a source of particular distress that, during the EQCB meeting on April 5, 2017 the City's traffic consultant was identified as being involved in a decision to "filter" this key residential exit from the impact analysis of the traffic study. That might have been fine if this were an assessment of street capacity, but not for CEQA impacts. In short, LSA Associates has analyzed the impact of the Rossmoor Park Condominium exit on the Project. CEQA demands instead that the assessment be made of the impact of the proposed project on Rossmoor Park condominiums. In my opinion, this DEIR still does not. 7. Site plan fails to identify either loading dock, nor dumpster / trash pickup location(s). Noise impact assessments(s) thereof are therefore missing and DEIR incomplete. 8. Veneklasen's Noise assessment in the Operational Noise - Outdoor Parking Lot Activities section on page 4.3 -11 relates the use of a noise assessment model. This is very convenient as we're led to believe a car horn parked there produces a figure of 47 dBA directly at the west residential property line. Perhaps this implies that on any given day, one can park a stock automobile near that property line, with confidence that the 90 dbA sound emitted from its horn respects the property line mere inches away. Perhaps Veneklasen would be willing to arrange a demonstration for the planning commission, or city council. In my opinion, it is not the noise levels, but the technical credibility that has descended below significance. 9. DEIR sweeps aesthetic impacts "under the rug," yet the applicant proposes obliteration of landscaping on Seal Beach Blvd. where left turn lane is extended will result in a more "industrial" look more akin to City of Industry or Santa Ana- Why is this no impact? 10. DER addressing of Alternatives seems fixated on the athletic club. Its apparent assertion that a 37,000 square foot donut shop would bring more traffic is hilarious. Seems like an extension of the "boutique shopping" theme adopted elsewhere at the center could do much to provide revenue to the owner, and to the city. Why aren't the natural addition of shoes, accessories, books, or even a small hardware store not part of the alternatives? I claim this section fails to meet the criteria for "good faith." Steven Fowler From: Vicki Toutz Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 6:03 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: Vicki Toutz Subject: AGAINST.. to Fitness Project April 23, 2017 TO: Steve Fowler Assistant Planner, City of Seal Beach, Department of Community Development Dear Mr. Fowler, I am writing this letter to Seal Beach City Council about serious concerns regarding the environmental impact study and projected consequences of proposed LA Fitness Center in The Shops of Rossmoor. As a residence, who lives in the impact area and frequents The Shops of Rossmoor about three to times a week there are significant concerns about proceeding with this major development. A few of these basic concerns regarding the new development are: increased traffic, pedestrian safety (which is already an issue in front of Sprouts) crosswalk safety into the Shops (particular St. Cloud near F& F Bank which is extremely dangerous), inadequate parking, traffic grid lock entering and exiting off and onto Seal Beach Blvd., traffic turning from Seal Beach Blvd into the Center taking short cuts through the parking lot and spilling onto Montecito and St. Cloud, unsafe turns by Kohl's, Staples, and In and Out and crime. Presently many of these concerns already exist and make shopping at Rossmoor Center inconvenient, frustrating and almost impossible to handle at peak times. The current study states LA Fitness development would not have a significant increase in traffic volume and/or flow. This is very interesting, because the builder anticipates problems and has already agreed to increase traffic lanes into the Center by Panera off of Seal Beach Blvd., and increase the length of turn lanes off of Seal Beach Blvd. Energy and utilities usage in the area will be severely impacted. Currently, Golden State Water Company has been under conservation standards. They have implemented stage mandatory water conservation and ration usage. Presently, residences are asked to limit days and volume of water or penalties may be applied. LA Fitness will drastically increase water volume in the area! Showers, pool and normal water services in a large active facility will only increase the water usage in the area. No matter how many energy efficient and /or water saving devices used, the usage will drastically increase. Hence, tighter restriction will be placed upon the residences resulting in increase conservation of our own residences. Edison electric demands will increased as the AC units run all day and into the night significantly stressed the demand on hot days. Past year, The Shops of Rossmoor have seen an increase in police and security presence, and I am sure an increase in crime. Since the fitness facility draws hundreds of cars parked unattended all day and into the night it is possible for crime to escalate. With the proximity of the fitness center to the adjacent residential community increased policing problems and an unintended crime spill over into the neighborhood is likely. Pollutants and traffic noise are also concerns for the increased building in the area. The hours this facility are open will only increase the above mentioned. Yes, the builder has provided an environmental impact study by law and the results must meet State guidelines. However, environmental statistic /studies can be slanted to defend or oppose almost any project. Ultimately the impact of this project is upon the immediate residences that back up to this project, which are in your city limits, and the overflow parking and traffic brought onto the Rossmoor streets. Having a fitness center in your bedroom is not the answer to convenience! No right minded person can safely say pollutants, noise, traffic, lighting, crime, etc. will NOT AFFECT the neighbors or community. I strongly recommend you rethink this project and withdraw the LA Fitness Center plan, knowing the negative impact it has upon the community. Sincerely, Vicki Toutz Rossmoor Resident Steven Fowler From: Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 12:12 AM To: Steven Fowler; Sandra Massa- Lavitt, Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Brian McKinney; ledina @sealbeachca.gov; michelle.steel @ocgov.com; ssustaric @sealbeachca.gov; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official Subject: NO Against Approving the LA Fitness Center in the Shops as Rossmoor Attachments: 20170412_071600.jpg; 20170413_190833.jpg; 20170413_190857 (1)jpg As a resident who lives on Montecito Drive just a few hundred feet from the potential location of the fitness center, I implore you all to vote NO on this project. As you can see by the pictures I have taken and attached, the exit from my condo complex is not safe. These trucks blocking our line of sight to turn left or right puts us all in grave danger because we cannot see to make a safe turn. The driveway behind Pei Wei to CPK should be reopened to allow delivery trucks to make their deliveries instead of blocking the roads and parking lot spaces for customers. These pictures are just a sample of the trucks that continuously block Rossmoor Center Drive by the Sprouts /Pei Wei intersection. The fire department also parks their trucks on the street when they shop in Sprouts instead of parking in the parking lot behind Sprouts where there is plenty of parking. This area is a neighborhood with houses, schools, youth sports, a library, shopping and other residential amenities. This large project does not belong in a neighborhood. Mr. Potts himself has said that the mixing of commercial and residential projects is not a good fit. We would like to see a smaller scope project (similar stores to the ones already in the shopping center, small hardware store, food courts, etc) that fits the residential neighborhood and boutique type shopping that already exists. Traffic is, has been and continues to be a major issue. There are many problems with this project, but, we all keep addressing traffic because it is a very real and dangerous fact of life. Daily there are kids, animals, strollers, cars, buses, motorcycles and pedestrians that fill the area. The small transit buses from Leisure World and OCTA to drop off people stop right at the corner of the Sprouts intersection blocking traffic back to Seal Beach Blvd. It doesn't matter how far back you make the left turn lane or how many new lanes Rossmoor Center Way you put in. The space between Seal Beach Blvd and the Sprouts intersection can only hold 8 -9 cars. Daily traffic is backed on to Seal Beach Blvd so the southbound lanes cannot move on a green light until the cars turning left get out of the street. The extended left turn lane will only back up on Seal Beach Blvd also and block the left turn lane in to Target so the cars can't turn as they are supposed to. Help us keep our quaint small town charm that all of us enjoy. Isn't that why we choose to live here? As an official and protector of our community, you have the power to do the right thing and vote NO as the only acceptable vote. Thank you Rebecca Allie Montecito Rd Seal Beach ,�A I ,t *w Steven Fowler From: Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 7:41 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: Jill Ingram; csteele QBarro chell Campbel Subject: Fw: Gary Miller Comments Regarding LA Fitness EIR Attachments: Gary Miller Comments Regarding LA Fitness EIR.docx Steve, In reviewing the LA Fitness EIR, I see my comments were not included in the Introduction and Scope of the EIR. Page 1.0 -3 implies under "Scoping" that all comments are included in Appendix B of the EIR. However, based on my review I see my comments and a Mr. David Zawolkow's comments were omitted in Appendix B of the EIR. I have been involved with the development of this project area since 2011, 1 believe my comments were important for others to see in reading the EIR. Please provide my comments and Mr. David Zawolkow's comments to all the Planning Commissioners and have our comments included in the final EIR. Also, please provide me with a copy of Mr. Zawolkow's comments during the morning of April 24, 2017. Why were my extensive comments left out of the EIR? Gary Miller ----- Forwar ed Massa a - - - -- >From: >Sent: Jan 27, 2017 2:49 PM >To: sfowler(d sealbeachca gov > Subject: Gary Miller Comments Regarding LA Fitness EIR > Steve, >Attached are my comments regarding the upcoming LA Fitness EIR. I have asked Patty Campbell to bring to you today a hard copy of my comments. >Don't hesitate to call me at if you have any questions. >Thanks, >Gary Miller ,,,.. _ x Comments Regarding LA Fitness EIR My concerns are traffic, the new facility itself, and parking: Traffic: Target Market The residential location of anticipated patrons and their route to the facility must be identified for any traffic study. It has been noted that any where from fifty to eighty percent of the center's target market is the community of Rossmoor and yet there are only three entrances to the center from Montecito and three from St. Cloud, while the rest are all along Seal Beach Blvd. where traffic is extensive. Originally one of the entrances off Montecito was a nicely landscaped entry way into the old Rossmoor Center; now that same entry way is still there but seldom used because you immediately run into the back of Kohl's when entering the center from there. The other Rossmoor entrances will have typical center traffic to be contended with for those desiring to go to LA Fitness. Thus, Rossmoor residents will be pretty much forced to use Rossmoor Center Way and /or to come out St. Cloud and Bradbury onto Seal Beach Blvd to enter the frontage portion of the center, thereby increasing traffic on Seal Beach Blvd. It would be ideal if they could just come and go from the back of the center and never have to get out onto Seal Beach Blvd. Rossmoor Center Way should be a four lane roadway from Seal Beach Blvd through to Montecito. Unfortunately, there are five important areas, two of which are choke points: 1. The exit /entrance by Montecito will not support four lanes, even three lanes may be difficult. if three lanes are made possible, l would suggest it be two lanes into the center and one lane exiting the center. 2. From the stop sign at West Road east to Sprouts: should be four lanes to accommodate traffic once it is in the center between Montecito & Seal Beach Blvd. 3a. Stop sign at Sprouts & Rossmoor Center Way: due to poor placement of the Sprouts building (it is too close to the roadway -- just an additional 10 feet to the south would be sufficient to solve this choke point and enable the roadway to be a decent four lanes. Currently there is a sidewalk along the north side of the building with landscaping on both sides of the sidewalk. To fix this inadequate lane problem, part of the landscaping on the north side of the Sprouts building should be modified to accommodate the extra lanes of traffic while still retaining a sidewalk to allow people to get to the overflow parking in back of the building. 3b. From Seal Beach Blvd to the stop sign by Sprouts, it definitely should be four lanes: two in and two out. Four lanes are needed to accommodate the traffic, which already is extensive. This section is hemmed in by the Panera Bread building and the side of the parking lot for Sprouts. Do what needs to be done to get four lanes, which may include cutting into the parking lot if removal of landscaping is not enough to obtain four lanes. 4. A new facility (LA Fitness) in back of Sprouts will increase traffic in the northbound left -turn pocket lane of Seal Beach Blvd. to Rossmoor Center Way. Today, northbound traffic trying to access the center on Seal Beach Blvd. is often backed up in both of the northbound pocket turn lanes and the traffic often sticks out into the left through lane creating a dangerous situation for both Rossmoor Center Way and Town Center Drive. This needs to be addressed by reconfiguring the signal and /or lengthening the left turn pocket lane of the recently improved median. Lengthening the pocket lanes needs to be accomplished without interfering with the southbound pocket lanes for traffic turning east into the Target Center. Also, an additional entrance /exit could be added just north of Subway sandwich facility, onto the southbound lane of Seal Beach Blvd, relieving traffic demands on Rossmoor Center Way. Seal Beach Blvd. is the city's only north -south through street. In many areas there are no side streets for extra traffic. As such, it handles a tremendous amount of traffic and asking it to accommodate more, is difficult as it already most likely is at a Level of Service (LOS) F at peak travel times, which due to the variety of traffic, is from 7 am to 9 am, from 2:30 pm to 7 pm. There is not only the usual to /from -work travel traffic, but also the school traffic, as all school children in the district use Seal Beach Blvd, with the exception of elementary school children in Old Town and the Hill that attend McGaugh. Consideration of the impact of the I -405 Improvement Project must also be considered because in 2023 traffic will increase on Seal Beach Blvd. due to the project, i.e., congestion at the county line and congestion caused by tolling. In the construction of an EIR for this project, a traffic circulation section needs to be included. The New Facility: LA Fitness proposed building location should be more to the south, at least 20 feet or so, but not on top of Rossmoor Center Way, especially if Rossmoor Center Way is widened, which should happen. Do not construct the building where it is presently planned as that will forever prevent traffic from easily accessing the center from the community of Rossmoor from Montecito. People will go the way of the least amount of traffic. Planning must also be for the future, not just as it is now. One other issue to consider: rotate the LA Fitness building 90 degrees, elongate 2 it, and moving it further west, possibly to West Road, so that the back of the building would be to the condos, and with parking for the LA Fitness to the east of the building (the back of Sprouts). Experience from the earlier center where there was a movie theater, demonstrated problems in the evening with movie -goers talking and slamming car doors upon leaving after the movie was over. This same behavior would exist with patrons from LA Fitness leaving as late as 11 pm., as well as patrons arriving at 5 am. Remember, we are all neighbors, so let's be neighborly. Parking: Currently, there is a parking problem from vehicles of Seal Beach residents living along Montecito Road in the apartments and condos. Some of those residents have been parking in the back of the center for years. When those apartments /condos were first constructed, they were built as senior apartments with provisions for only one car per unit (guess they thought seniors don't drive). With the condo conversion, they were open to non - seniors and most are now families and have two vehicles, creating a greater demand for parking than the street ( Montecito) can accommodate. Consequently, many residents use the back of the shopping center parking lot. The owners of the Shops at Rossmoor have put those residents on notice that they will no longer be able to park there, causing many residents to park across the street in the community of Rossmoor, thereby inconveniencing many residents over there who often find it difficult to access their own driveways, let alone park in front of their own homes. Thus, this facility (LA Fitness) would be a hardship on Seal Beach and Rossmoor residents. This issue must be addressed before allowing the project to go forward. There is more parking at that center than is needed. By initial calculations, based in the data we were given, approximately 223 spaces are excess. There is a strip of parking spaces behind the condos with approximately 160 parking spaces. These spaces should be made available for the apartments /condos to either use or purchase. A parking structure is cost prohibitive. I have heard the shopping center management say it is not their problem. Well, I beg to differ: if you wish to develop in this area, you have to consider all the problems that exist, and not make them worse. These people who live in Rossmoor and in the apartments and condos are the target market and neighbors of the property owners. I realize the property owners did not create this problem but unfortunately it exists, and if there is a way to ameliorate it, and we must do the best we can to solve it. Finding a solution to the parking woes of those residents is within the scope of this building project, and I urge it be considered in the EIR. 3 Alternate Plan 1 am well aware that LA Fitness wants to construct a building in The Shops at Rossmoor. However, if it does not come to fruition, perhaps another type of building could be constructed at that site: an office building of similar size would have better hours, not disrupt the sleep of the condo residents (gym members leaving late at night, closing car doors, talking -- voices do carry.) There would not be a need for parking after say 6 pm, thereby not conflicting with the residents from the condos who would wish to park along the back of their building. It would be a win -win for all. Something to consider. Submitted by Gary Miller Former Mayor, Councilman, District 4 ANUES Guava, Avenue Seal Beach, CA 90740 1/27/17 R Steven Fowler From: Hyun Soo Min Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 1:31 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: No to LA Fitness Hi, I am in Rossmoor and live right next to the Chick Filet and Sprouts mall. I have noticed that even now the traffic to get into that center is not easy. The way the 4 way stop is configured, it is very slow to get in and out and unsafe. I also walk to sprouts and I do not feel safe and with the extra traffic and drivers with an LA Fitness, I don't feel that walking around that area to get to the stores will be safe, especially for kids. Currently kids bike to in n out and other stores. I strongly oppose the LA Fitness. Thank u Soo Min Steven Fowler From: Angie Epstein Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 2:01 PM To: Steven Fowler; Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Schelly Sustarsic; Mike Varipapa; Thomas Moore; Ellery A. Deaton; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; Michelle.Steel@ocgov.com Subject: opposition to proposed addition to The Shops at Rossmoor Dear Mr. Fowler and all of Seal Beach planning and City Council Members, I would like to voice my serious concerns with the proposed addition of LA Fitness to the Shops at Rossmoor location. I am a resident of Rossmoor since 2002 when we purchased our home on Oak Knoll Drive. We have 2 children. I am NOT against LA Fitness, nor am I against the Shops at Rossmoor however, the location is just too close to and between two family communities and a shopping center is already riddled with way to much traffic and congestion. I have seen several accidents in the parking lot and cars backed up onto Los Alamitos Blvd at various times throughout the day. Pedestrians, bicyclists and cars all share these roadways coming in and going out. I see drivers in these vehicles getting irate at the traffic, pulling u turns and speeding down Rossmoor Center Way as an alternative to get out only to find kids on bicycles at the intersection of Montecito and Rossmoor Center Way. This in and of itself is already an extremely dangerous situation. My son and his friend were riding their bikes and his friend was hit by a person with no drivers license, no insurance and it was awful. This driver was in a hurry to get out of the Rossmoor Center. This has prevented my children from riding their bikes to get a yogurt or sandwich at the Rossmoor Center. In addition to the above, since the inception of the "new' Shops at Rossmoor, (Toys R Us, Marshalls and Sprouts), I have personally experienced a huge increase in crime. 1. My SUV was stolen off my driveway 2. All my Christmas decorations including a large blow up merry go round stolen off my yard. 3. The uplights in my garden were all taken (hardwired) 4. A bistro set taken from the front of my house 5. My car broken into, ransacked and a felony committed after over $3,000 of prescription sunglasses taken. 6. Husbands car window shattered and Navagation system stolen. 7. Bench stolen from front porch This is BEFORE the new "Rossmoor" shops. LA Fitness at the proposed site will increase traffic and congestion that will result in delays in emergency vehicles (fire, police, ambulance) responding to the Shops at Rossmoor as well as the other businesses along Los Alamitos /Seal Beach Blvd. and the residents in Rossmoor, Rossmoor Highlands, Los Alamitos and Seal Beach. Increased crime from the proposed LA Fitness will also occur. Generally speaking, gyms attract organized crime including breaking into cars in the parking lot. IN ADDITION, this will expose our community to more theft and crime, violence and burglaries. There are many gyms very close to Los Alamitos /Seal Beach boarder. This is not a fit for this community /shopping center and I strongly urge you to not allow this mis -fit to be built. Sincerely, Mrs. Angela Epstein Oak,Knoll;Dnve, Steven Fowler From: jtLazar Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 4:18 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: opposition to LA Fitness Greetings, I would like to take a moment to express my opposition to the 37K sq. ft. proposed LA Fitness. I am a Rossmoor resident who lives a stones throw from the Shops at Rossmoor and despite what any report says, the traffic cannot be sustained, even by adding lanes and other proposed ideas. I do my best to stay clear out of the shopping center on the weekends, and try to stay off of Seal Beach Blvd. Often times I would rather go without than try to fight traffic and spend my money locally. The amount of traffic, especially at any intersection associated with and inside of the Center, can take 2 or 3 lights to turn into. With so many entrances into the Center from Montecito and Bradbury, the traffic has no where to go but INTO Rossmoor as gym goers and Center users look for short cuts into the Center. That will affect the quality of life for my family and all Rossmoor and many SB residents as we enjoy the outdoors walking are dogs, or riding bikes with our children. I know 2 families whose children were hit several years ago as traffic increased when the Shops at Rossmoor opened. I am sure there have been more and we all continue to put ourselves at risk when we walk to the Shops to shop or eat, on the weekends especially. There is just too much traffic already. I know you have heard from many residents and I don't want to go on and on, but the Shops own representative said that this size gym is not a good fit for a quiet neighborhood such as Rossmoor. That seems pretty clear! I respect the developers right to use the property, but I don't respect the developer who is trying to make a quick buck at the expense of literally thousands of families in the meantime. While up I ask that you please consider the quality of life we enjoy and do not allow this project to come to fruition. While up at Sprouts today, the traffic was gridlocked and I waited for about 45 seconds to be able to use the crosswalk at the Shops main, (intersection at the corner of Sprouts and Pei Wei). I value the safety of all of us, Los Al, Seal Beach and Rossmoor families, who will be affected if this project is approved. Please, please, do not allow this project to move forward. There are plenty of other gyms for gym goers to continue to enjoy. Respectfully, The Lazar family Salmon drive Steven Fowler From: Majella Maas Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 4:39 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Project Dear Sir. Please reconsider the use of this already impacted parking lot. The additional traffic and all it brings is highly undesirable and potentially ruinous to Rossmoor residents, and beyond inconvenient for all who drive down Seal Beach Boulevard. Let's be considerate, good neighbors and plan limited growth with commercial tenants who will have fewer hours of operation and fewer clients using the streets. Please add my name to the list of Rossmoor residents who oppose the building of the LA Fitness Gym. Thank you, Majella Maas Foster Road Rossmoor 90720 Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android ,.tea•.:... Steven Fowler From: Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 3:48 PM To: Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com; Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official; coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: LAFitness With LA Fitness 'Health' Club bringing 1200 additional cars in and out of the area on a daily basis our air quality will be effected. Pollution, gas emissions, etc. are not needed nor will they add to the quality of good health. The additional pollution that is caused will not "settle in" it will be added 7days a week every year. It isn't temporary, it won't go away. The emissions from equipment, such as pool cleaning chemicals will also add to this pollution. Why should we be subjected to this additional pollution? Our health matters - Please reject this project! Thank you for your consideration. Sande Gottlieb IMMMontecito Road - Rossmoor Regency Seal Beach, Ca Steven Fowler From: Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 4:46 PM To: Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler, Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com; Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official; coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: LA Fitness The LA Fitness 'Health' Club is supposed to promote "Good Health ". How is that possible with their hours of operation? The American Medical Association for years has recommended 7 tto 8 hours of sleep per night for "Good Health ". LAFHC will be open 18 hours 5 days and 17 hours 1 day per week plus the arrival and departures of employees that equates to 5 hours 5 days and 6 hours i day of quiet sleep time and Sunday the only quiet sleep time. This will never "settle in" it will be 6 days per week, every week, every month, every year! There will be the stopping and starting of cars, closing or slamming of car doors, alarm system being set and unset or going off 'accidently', various levels of conversations, HVAC machinery, etc. 6 days a week that will add to noise that will not "Settle in ". Why should my neighbors and I be deprived of our sleep and "Good Health'? Please reject this project - our health matters. Thank you for your consideration. Sande Gottlieb Montecito Road 5eal Beach, CA Steven Fowler From: Wiley Rittenhouse -- ENEENRAW Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 4:53 PM To: coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com; Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness project To whom it may concern, My wife and I went to one of the information sessions for this project and the following detail has occurred to me: There were several figures presented as projected mean increases in traffic at a number of studied points in the traffic pattern. It was not clear whether these figures represented national averages, regional averages, or something else. Presumably, the figures inferred from other studies were aggregated with studied /observed figures from existing local traffic. What is absent is any mention of the variance in the data. Without this, the effect of the changes is incomplete. A more compelling case could have been made taking the variance into account and providing confidence intervals for the projected mean increases. This was not done. If these calculations were done, they should be made available to the public. Otherwise, we are not being given the whole story, and it leaves the impression, potentially falsely, that the increases will not be that bad. No meaningful assertion can be made merely from stating mean values. Wiley Rittenhouse INEMENEW Wiley Steven Fowler From: Crystal Landavazo Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 10:24 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: FW: LAFitness Comments Crystal Landavazo, Senior Planner City of Seal Beach - 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740 (562) 431 -2527, Ext. 1324 For Information about Seal Beach, please see our city website: http: / /www.sealbeachca.gov NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this communication to the intended recipient, please advise the sender by reply email and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. From: Joi Lipton Sent: Monday, April 24-,2017 To: Kevin Pearce Cc: Crystal Landavazo; Thomas Moore; Mike Varipapa Subject: LAFitness Every home, or condo or apartment is generating more vehicles today than it was 10 or 20 years ago in places built before 1970 as near the area around Rossmoor Shops Here in the Urban Core area, where apartments are packed near single - family homes, curbs are often crowded bumper -to- bumper with cars LA Fitness would only contribute to the overflow of parking and the growing parking and traffic problems I: Side effects are Litter in the streets; strangers parking Mobile Homes ;more work - trucks , ._. 2. Long walk home from parking space 3. More frequent Parking Tickets 4. Property Values drop and Security becomes more problematic S. More Neighborhood safety and security issues 6. More Auto accidents - hitting people, children walking home from schools & bus stops 7. Auto Insurance rates go up 8. Increase of carbon footprint - pollution and noise 9. CREATING TENSIONS - between NEIGHBOR AGAINST NEIGHBOR 10. Always Overnight parking issues just get BIGGER AND BIGGER. Nearby Stores cut back on their operating hours to cut down on crime. LA Fitness would be open 5:00Am to LATE at night. Shall we put this massive building in YOUR own neighborhood? City leaders and planners need to think out of the box to solve this issue. Building more public parking on available land and putting something more desirable, to more people PLEASE VOTE NO! on LA fitness center FROM JOI LIPTON ROSSMOOR PARK CONDOS Oft MONTECITO RD, SEAL BEACH, CA INFORMATION IN THIS EMAIL BASED ON ARTICLE IN SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 2017 TIMES COMMUNITY NEWS PUBLICATION SERVICING ORANGE COUNTY HEADLINE: O.C. CAN'T AWAKEN FROM ITS PARKING NIGHTMARE Steven Fowler From: Susan Taylor Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 6:26 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Stop LA Fitness Hello Steve, I spoke to you last week at City Hall. Thank you for your time! I once again want to voice my opposition to this project as proposed. After reading a BOATLOAD of information about this center, this is just not the right fit. This space is too small to effectively accomodate such a large building. Safety, traffic, increased crime, and the continued erosion of our quality of life are the concerns we all have! We hope we can be heard, and that all will truly listen. Thanks again, Susan Taylor Steven Fowler From: Iry Cuevas Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 7:40 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: NO to L.A. Fitness Dear Mr. Fowler: Please consider the following. I live in a condo on Montecito .... adjacent to the proposed Fitness Center. Please do all possible to prevent the facility from being built. Regards, Iry Cuevas 12490 Montecito Rd. Seal Beach, CA 90740 Public Safety / Crime • Large population of elderly persons in our community (including coming from Leisure World) who are driving and walking in and through Shops at Rossmoor. The added traffic and congestion from the LA Fitness will create a potentially dangerous condition to the elderly community. • Large population of school aged children in our community. There are four elementary schools (grades K- 5 including pre - school aged children at the Child Development Centers at the various school sites) in Rossmoor. Children from Rossmoor, Los Alamitos, Rossmoor Highlands, Seal Beach (CPE and CPW) as well as surrounding cities attend the elementary schools as well as the two middle schools (Oak and McAuliffe) and Los Alamitos High School. Children drive, bike, walk and bus to school. • The Los Alamitos Unified School District has also implemented a "Walk to School" program encouraging children to walk to school in an effort to reduce and relieve traffic and congestion. • To respond to complaints and concerns about large amount of school - related traffic and safety of students, the Los Alamitos Unified School District instituted staggered start times /dismissal times for the schools. The staggered start /dismissal times are an effort to reduced and relieve traffic and congestion. • The Rossmoor /Seal Beach branch of the Orange County Library is situated along Montecito (on the curve between St. Cloud and Rossmoor Center Way). In addition to the general members of the community who visit the library, children visit the library. The library is located along the route of persons going to the proposed LA Fitness which will increase traffic and congestion in the area of the library which will threaten the safety of children. • Increased traffic and congestion from the proposed LA Fitness will result in delays in emergency vehicles (fire, police, ambulance) responding to the Shops at Rossmoor as well as the other businesses along Los Alamitos /Seal Beach Blvd., and the residents in Rossmoor, Ross moor Highlands, Los Alamitos and Seal Beach. • Increased crime from the proposed LA Fitness. Generally speaking, gyms attract organized crime including breaking into cars in the parking lot (knowing the owners are in the gym) and breaking into gym lockers. The LA Fitness will invite crime into the neighborhood. Steven Fowler From: jmwagoner Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 8,05 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA FITNESS I know you were at the Environmental Impact Review Council meeting and heard all of the comments regarding LA Fitness. I would like to emphasize again that we are in Opposition to it and would hope you would vote against it. It just isn't a good business to be in a neighborhood residential area. We are not opposed to a business going in that parking lot just not a gym with so many negatives of traffic, noise, pollution and long business hours . Please respect our wishes to maintain our neighborhood as a Charming and unique neighborhood. We don't wish for our area to be impacted with more traffic. It won't matter to you if you don't live in this area, but if it goes through it will make a huge negative difference to the surrounding neighbors. You can make a positive difference by voting against this project. Sincerely from a 36 yr. resident, Jim and Janet Wagoner Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Steven Fowler From: David Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 10:10 PM To: Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Schelly Sustarsic; Mike Varipapa; Thomas Moore; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler Cc: Michelle Steel; coalitionagainstlafitness @gmaiI.com Subject: Vote No on Proposed LA Fitness Project Attachments: Sea I Beach Fitness LetterApri 1 21,2017. pdf Mayor Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Please vote no on the proposed LA Fitness Project behind Sprouts. This business does not fit in with the surrounding residential community because it will increase traffic dramatically, impact local parking, increase residential safety issues, and increase crime. As a leader in the community and an official sworn to support the people, please read the attached pdf file for more details. Thank you, David A. Paulsen Steven Fowler From: Vanessa Widener Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 8:48 PM To: Sandra Massa- Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore Cc: coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com; Momma0 (@(�)0; Building Official; michelle.steel @ocgov.com; Leslie Medina; Crystal Landavazo; Brian McKinney Subject: Opposition to LA Fitness proposal Dear Mr. Fowler and Distinguished Council Members Thank you for the opportunity to express my concerns regarding the proposed LA Fitness at the Shops at Rossmoor. While I appreciate the desire of the owner /developer to utilize every square inch of the Shops at Rossmoor for profit, I implore you to find a balance between profit and people and recognize the LA Fitness is not a good "fit" for our community. I am opposed to the LA Fitness project for many reasons. However, my biggest concern is the fact that the inevitable increase in traffic will negatively impact the safety of my family. As you know, there is a large population of school aged children in our community. There are four elementary schools (grades K -5 including pre- school aged children at the Child Development Centers at the various school sites) in Rossmoor. Children from Rossmoor, Los Alamitos, Rossmoor Highlands, Seal Beach (College Park East and College Park West) as well as surrounding cities attend the elementary schools as well as the two middle schools (Oak and McAuliffe) and Los Alamitos High School. While many children are driven to school, children are encouraged to ride bikes, walk and take the bus to school. In fact, the Los Alamitos Unified School District implemented a "Walk/Ride Your Bike to School' program encouraging children to walk/ride to school in an effort to reduce and relieve traffic and congestion. Moreover, to reduce /relieve school - related traffic and improve the safety of students, the Los Alamitos Unified School District instituted staggered start times /dismissal times for the schools. My family is doing our part to help relieve the traffic. To that end, my son attends Weaver Elementary School and my daughter attends McAuliffe Middle School. Both of my children ride their bikes to Weaver and my daughter then rides the bus from the bus stop at Weaver to McAuliffe. The prospect of adding the LA Fitness which will bring an influx members and cars during peak morning school drop -off hours is unfathomable. The addition of the LA Fitness will "un -do" the progress we have made as a community to improve traffic. Moreover, the Rossmoor /Seal Beach branch of the Orange County Library is situated along Montecito (on the curve between St. Cloud and Rossmoor Center Way). In addition to the general members of the community who visit the library, children visit the library. My children frequently ride their bikes or walk to the library. Because the library is located along the inevitable route of cars traveling to the proposed LA Fitness, traffic and congestion in the area of the library will increase which will, in turn, threaten the safety of all children including mine. The expected increased crime associated with the LA Fitness (based on crime report statistics of other gyms) is upsetting as it again effects the safety of my family. The concerns I've articulated above only scratch the surface of the anticipated problems associated with the LA Fitness in this location, but I hope it provides you with meaningful insight into the adverse effects the project will have on families like mine. Thank you for your time. Steven Fowler From: Sent: To: Subject: Dear Mr Fowler, Janet Sunday, April 23, 2017 8:56 PM Steven Fowler Opposition to LA Fitness I am sending you this email in STRONG opposition to the LA Fitness project slated to be built behind Sprouts. Instead of writing a lengthy email, I will put it in bullet points. Traffic /Congestion * It's already bad * It's difficult now for emergency vehicles to get through the area from Lampson and Bradbury on Los Al Blvd. * There is already a bottleneck at the intersection of Rossmoor Center Way and Los Al Blvd. Extending the lane won't solve the problem since only 8 -9 cars fit on Rossmoor Center Way from Los Al Blvd. The 4 way stop sign at Sprouts / Panera causes it. Very rarely do I get through on the first signal. * In frustration people will look for alternative routes. One being turning onto St Cloud from Los AI Blvd. That intersection is already impacted since many cars upon turning either make a quick left onto Yellowtail or a right into Rite Aid. Once again I have sat through a few signals waiting to turn. * Another route will be turning onto Bradbury from Los Al Blvd. The county recently reconfigured it and has taken it from a 2 lane each way street to virtually a single lane each way street. The county did it for safety reasons. The influx of traffic will impact the safety they were after. *Monetico will also be used as an route. It was not designed to handle the traffic it will not incur. Safety *.Since there will be vastly increased traffic /congestion safety is the upmost concern. I have witnessed many accidents and near misses at the 4 way stop sign at Sprouts/ Panera. I've also witnessed pedestrians almost getting hit. * The 4 way stop sign at Rossmoor Center Way and Montecito isn't much better. Since it's offset near misses of cars and pedestrians happen daily. My husband almost was hit head on since the women followed the car that preceded her. *. Montecito is a residential street not a major thoroughfare which is what it will become if the project goes through. * Rossmoor Center Way was not designed to be a major thoroughfare either. LA Fitness * The size of the facility, hours of operation and over 2,000 people daily is too large of a project for a back parking lot. * It's not designed to be a residential gym, in order to be successful it will need to draw on many communities bringing more cars to an already congested area. I am not opposed to any development in the back lot but a development that benefits the developer but isn't a burden on the surrounding community. On a side note, I am an active person who workouts 5 days a week. Fitness is important but LA Fitness negatively impacts far too many people and communities to make it a viable project for this area. Sincerely, Janet Crook Sent from my iPad April 21, 2017 Ms. Sandra Massa - Lavitt Mayor, City of Seal Beach 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, CA 90740 Dear Ms. Massa - Lavitt: I am writing this letter to strongly ask you to vote no on the proposed LA Fitness Project behind Sprouts. The LA Fitness business being planned for the location behind Sprouts on Seal Beach Blvd is not suitable for this location. This location is essentially in a residential area with limited access and neighborhood streets. Activity from this business will also spill over further in the residential area impacting the quality of life of many local residents. Traffic will increase dramatically. Traffic on Seal Beach Blvd will be impacted the most with vehicles entering the shopping center at Rossmoor Center Way. Seal Beach Blvd traffic is already congested and an additional 2000 estimated trips per day generated from this business will result in gridlock. Traffic on Seal Beach Blvd will be backed up without many options for improvement. Rossmoor Center Way is a small 2 lane local road that will be completely overwhelmed by the additional traffic. Many drivers will try to bypass the traffic logjams on these two roads by taking either St. Cloud Drive or Bradbury Road to Montecito Road to come in the back way. These roads are completely residential with houses, condominiums, a library and a children's playgroup lining the sides. More specifically, the increased traffic will impact people from Old Town Seal Beach, Leisure World, College Park East and Rossmoor as they travel for medical care at Los Alamitos Hospital or Doctors offices, bring their children to school in Los Alamitos or Rossmoor, or drive to the local food markets or restaurants. Parking problems will arise. Vehicle and patron noise and activity from the facility will increase in the parking lot disturbing the residents (5:00am- 11:00pm weekdays). Added traffic will lead to parking spillover onto residential streets near Montecito Road. Local residents will have to fight for a parking place even in front of their own house. Vehicle noise and activity will also increase in the spill over areas. Residential safety problems will increase. The added traffic and parking issues will hinder public services from accessing the neighborhood. Police, Fire, Ambulance, Utility and Trash services will be greatly slowed down creating a nightmare for those in need of these services. Letting our children walk or ride their bikes to school through this area will not be safe. Driving our children to school through this area will all of a sudden become a logistical problem. Crime will increase. Vehicle burglary will increase. Crimes of opportunity will increase as patrons store purses, wallets, phones and laptops in their vehicles while using the facilities. These crimes of opportunity will spill over into the adjacent neighborhood. Added security will be needed. Lastly, I feel obligated to state that I am not opposed to LA Fitness as a business but I am only opposed to it being built on this particular location. The immense size of the building and parking area do not fit in with the surrounding community. Another way to look at the immense size problem is to compare the size of Rossmoor which has a total population of approximately 10,000 people (including children) to the potential size of the new fitness facility, if built, which could have a membership of an estimated 13,000- 17,000 people for the very large 37,000 square foot building. Again, this is the wrong business for this location. A more suitable business to occupy this prime piece of real estate would be Doctor's offices (close to Los Alamitos Hospital), a service bank, or a general office complex. Sincerely, David A. Paulsen Steven Fowler From: therieths Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 10.00 M To: Steven Fowler Cc: coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: Concerned Neighbor's Opposition to LA Fitness HI Mr. Fowler, I'm writing to express my concern to the City of Seal Beach concerning the proposed construction of LA Fitness at the Shops at Rossmoor. I was born and raised in Rossmoor. When my sisters and I were younger, we would ride our bikes to the Rossmoor Center to get an ice cream cone at Thrifty and watch the bakers at work at Rossmoor Bakery. When we were there, we'd inevitably run into a neighbor or friend from church. The center was a big focus for the community and a large part of my childhood. When my husband and I got married and contemplated having children, the decision of where to live was easy— we knew we wanted to return to Rossmoor (my husband was raised in Seal Beach and also attended Los Al High School). We wanted our children to know what it means to grow up in a community where neighbors know one another and look out for each other. The Rossmoor Center has changed quite a bit in the last several years. While new developments are inevitably met with resistance, the City's charge in contemplating developments is to meet the needs of its constituents and consider the impact of the development on the neighboring community. LA Fitness does not serve the community and the impact on Rossmoor residents would be significant. LA Fitness would not add to the neighborhood— it would greatly detract from it. Indeed, the only purpose served would be to generate revenue for the City of Seal Beach. As the mother of two boys, I would never allow my children to ride their bikes to the Shops at Rossmoor— there's way too much traffic and it's far too dangerous. I'm not sure I've even seen bike racks at the center, so I don't think local traffic or community has ever been part of the design. Adding LA Fitness to the Center would impact the traffic flow so much more — particularly on Montecito, the one street still safe for bike traffic for our kids. And the fact that the "fix' for traffic problems includes adding more traffic lanes, again demonstrates a lack of concern for our children. Our boulevards are busy enough — they don't need to be turned into highways. My husband was raised in College Park and rode his bike to school every day. Many children ride their bikes to school and travel down Seal Beach Blvd. just like he did. How does expanding the road and increasing vehicle traffic promote safety for our kids ? ?? I urge the members of City Council to be good neighbors. I've been a member of large gyms. I know the crowds they draw — and at all hours of the day and night. Large gyms tend to be in industrial or large commercial development areas— not in a neighborhood strip mall. If the goal is to bring fitness to the Center, then look to a company better suited for the size (Orange Theory, Curves, etc.). LA Fitness has no place in the Shops at Rossmoor. I've heard that at the time plans for the development were first raised, a sitting council member had a daughter who remains a top executive at LA Fitness. If this is true, I assume your counsel has verified with the Attorney General and California Fair Practices Commission that the development complies with California law and is not voidable under California Government Code Section 1090, or in violation the Political Reform Act. I also question the adequacy of the Environmental Impact Report, particularly in the area of trip generation. But I'll leave those challenges to others. Instead, I call on you to consider why you hold your positions. What does it means to be part of a larger community? What does it means to be a good neighbor. Seal Beach and Rossmoor share zip codes, property and school districts. Your decision to name the shopping center, "The Shops at Rossmoor' demonstrates how important the Rossmoor community is to your city. As a long time Rossmoor resident, I urge you to reconsider this project. I urge you to consider the negative impact it has on Rossmoor residents and more importantly, our children. Your neighbor, Carrie Rieth Steven Fowler From: Marco Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 9:35 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Traffic Study Mr. Fowler: Last month I attended a meeting of the city's Environmental Commission which discussed the LA Fitness project's traffic impact. After listening to the traffic study's results, I found the study flawed in the following ways: It failed to contemplate traffic entering Rossmoor Center Way from the west, off Montecito, heading eastbound to project site. Since commuters like using the path of least resistance, gym users will likely enter from Bradbury and use Montecito to access Rossmoor Center Way as they'll avoid congestion heading westbound caused by the Sprouts /Pei Wei intersection. It failed to contemplate traffic entering from St. Cloud, again using either the several parking lot access points along St. Cloud (Rite Aid, Toys R Us etc..) or Rossmoor Center Way. The two left hand turn pockets for St. Cloud on Seal Beach Blvd tend to be filled throughout most of the day. With drivers turning left at Yellowtail from St. Cloud, additional gym traffic using those pockets on Seal Beach Blvd is likely cause further backups into the Blvd intersection and more accidents for those wishing to avoid those turning left on Yellowtail. While the numbers described in the study remain suspiciously underestimated, any further traffic impact on the area regardless of these numbers won't likely be mitigated through the measures described in the presentation. The better option for LA Fitness is to use an existing vacant building at the proposed Village 605 project. There's plenty of infrastructure, parking and space there. I appreciate your attention and time in reviewing this input. Marco Guardi Steven Fowler From: Kristine Howard Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 9:48 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Please help us stop LA Fitness at this residential location! Traffic is already terrible in the morning and afternoon in Los Alamitos Blvd. I already try to avoid Rossmoor Center dr by Sprouts and Pei Wei because traffic is too difficult. I can't imagine what it will be like with a large gym taking up the rest if the space in that high traffic center. My kids already ride bikes and skateboards up to that center and it would be extremely dangerous to add still more traffic speeding through that center. Not to mention that there are already too many cars parked in the residential street behind the center with pedestrians crossing from between them across Montecito creating dangerous conditions on a daily basis. Those are just a few of the reasons a large gym is a terrible fit for that center. Thank you, Kristine Hiward Sent from my iPhone Steven Fowler From: Akashi Family Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 10:14 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Against LA Fitness Project Mr. Steve Fowler I am currently a member of a 24 hour fitness center and I live in Seal Beach / Rossmoor. I have noted that most of 24 Hr Fitness center which I go to are very crowded in the morning before work and after work. The building codes for parking does not take this into consideration. The fitness center member stand 2 to 3 deep trying to get to exercise machines. Peak attendance is at the same time as school traffic which already is a problem. Traffic study only account for daily flows. The gym goers are younger, live outside of this area and in very much in a hurry. This will degrade our Seal Beach / Rossmoor area. Please reject this project and approve which has a constant steady flow. Steven Fowler From: Tony Kozlowski Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 11:11 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Opposition to LA Fitness Mr. Fowler: My family is opposed to the proposed LA Fitness in the parking lot at the Shops at Rossmoor. Traffic • Already heavy traffic on entire boulevard, especially during school drop off and pick up times • Due to the heavy traffic on the entire boulevard, drivers will then take a short cut through Rossmoor. Rossmoor is a residential neighborhood, not a major boulevard, but will become one if the gym goes in. • Even if you make an extra lane on Rossmoor Center Way, you can't do anything about the back -up due to customers walking into /out of Sprouts. It is already backed up and is extremely unsafe. It will only be worse. • How will emergency response vehicles get thru the congested traffic? • At its own cost, the school district has even begun a program offering low cost bus service to all the schools from Seal Beach, Los Alamitos, and Rossmoor due to the fact that there is already too much traffic For the first time in decades, the district has had to stagger the start times of all the elementary schools to help with the congestion of traffic. Why do we want to add more traffic? Noise • EIR report should take into account slamming car doors, trunk lid, etc. • EIR report doesn't address conversation of gym clients in close proximity of residential properties • EIR doesn't mention car or motorcycle engines starts and revving near residential property • Car alarms sounding right next to residential property line to the west -these can reach the vicinity of 90 DBA and fifty percent duty cycle for minutes at a time -where is this accounted for? Report fails to account for increase in noise due to replacement of landscaping on Seal Beach Blvd and Rossmoor Center Way. Is that why noise measurements at other LAF locations could not be used? • Report does not address the reflective properties of the building itself. Along Rossmoor Center Way, there is an existing cinderblock wall and the huge gym will create a reverberation chamber amplifying traffic noise and reflecting it into bedroom windows to the north. Hazardous Materials • Concentrated chlorine or oxidizer & acids are part of the routine cleaning of swimming pools /athletic equipment. There is no mention of a loading dock or storage for these materials. • Shouldn't the proximity to residences mandate the preparation of a hazardous materials and emergency response plan, given the use of toxic chemicals used? Aesthetics Parking • Effective May 31, 2017 no parking from the condos will be allowed, thus moving them onto streets of Rossmoor. These cars belong to Seal Beach residents and now are being forced to park in front of Rossmoor residences. Is this being a nice neighbor? • This parking issue is a community, city problem. The city created it? What is Seal Beach eoine to do about it? Alternatives • Loss of landscaping on Seal Beach Blvd where • Why should the community now be "held left turn lane is extended will result in a more hostage" due to poor planning of the developer "industrial" look more akin to City of Industry or years ago? Santa Ana -Why is this no impact? • Seems like an extension of the "boutique • Is applicant saying the aesthetic improvement shopping" theme adopted elsewhere at the center at the Shops which was part of its own could do much to provide revenue to the owner, redevelopment plan years ago be razed when it and to the city. suits it desire for expansion? • Will applicant bull -doze trees & landscaping in the proposed project when it discovers that the parking is inadequate? Public Safety / Crime • Why aren't the natural addition of sheoes, sporting goods, or small hardware store not part of the roadmap? • Large population of elderly persons in our community (including coming from Leisure World) who are driving and walking in and through Shops at Rossmoor. The added traffic and congestion from the LA Fitness will create a potentially dangerous condition to the elderly community. • Large population of school aged children in our community. There are four elementary schools (grades K- 5 including pre - school aged children at the Child Development Centers at the various school sites) in Rossmoor. Children from Rossmoor, Los Alamitos, Rossmoor Highlands, Seal Beach (CPE and CPW) as well as surrounding cities attend the elementary schools as well as the two middle schools (Oak and McAuliffe) and Los Alamitos High School. Children drive, bike, walk and bus to school. • The Los Alamitos Unified School District has also implemented a "Walk to School" program encouraging children to walk to school in an effort to reduce and relieve traffic and congestion. • To respond to complaints and concerns about large amount of school- related traffic and safety of students, the Los Alamitos Unified School District instituted staggered start times /dismissal times for the schools. The staggered start/dismissal times are an effort to reduced and relieve traffic and congestion. The Rossmoor /Seal Beach branch of the Orange County Library is situated along Montecito (on the curve Teen St. Cloud and Rossmoor Center Way). In addition to, the general members of the community who visit ibrary, children visit the library. The library is located along the route of persons going to the proposed LA Fitness which will increase traffic and congestion in the area of the library which will threaten the safety of children. • Increased traffic and congestion from the proposed LA Fitness will result in delays in emergency vehicles (fire, police, ambulance) responding to the Shops at Rossmoor as well as the other businesses along Los Alamitos /Seal Beach Blvd., and the residents in Rossmoor, Ross moor Highlands, Los Alamitos and Seal Beach. • Increased crime from the proposed LA Fitness. Generally speaking, gyms attract organized crime including breaking into cars in the parking lot (knowing the owners are in the gym) and breaking into gym lockers. The LA Fitness will invite crime into the neighborhood. Additionally, I am considering to begin a drive with our local residents to boycott all of the businesses in the Shops of Rossmoor if the plans to build the LA Fitness go forward. Regards, Tony & Teresa Kozlowski MeMainway Drive Steven Fowler From: Angie Simpson Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 12:53 PM To: Steven Fowler; info @lafitness.com; info @mdcp.com; info @sepfunds.com; Sandra Massa - Lavitt; ssustaric @sealbeachca.gov; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Building Official; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com Cc: Kevin Pearce Subject: Letter in OPPOSITION to LA Fitness in SB /Rossmoor I am greatly OPPOSED to the LA Fitness project in the Rossmoor Shops ( Seal Beach) As a home owner for over 21 years here in Rossmoor, I have witnessed the horrendous increase in traffic over the years. This project, if approved, would only cause further congestion, delay and safety concerns to residents. Along with the increase of traffic due to the Center, I have also seen a tremendous increase in litter along our beautiful streets that line up along Montecito. I cannot believe that the traffic impact alone has not convinced the city NOT TO GO FORWARD. Most fitness centers ARE NOT right on a residential areas like this project. This creates an opening for CRIMES OF OPPORTUNITY ...... more break in in both homes and cars which would be a travesty to our lovely residential community. This fitness project is just too close to our homes and the traffic impact is not a fit for our community. Shame on the city of Seal Beach for not thinking about the homeowners that make this community a beautiful place to live. This project is a money grab and DOES NOT present a Win -Win for the city and homeowners and therefore, it is a mistake and unwanted. Thank you for your time and consideration. An unhappy Rossmoor Homeowner, Angelique Simpson Angelique Simpson Steven Fowler From: Kevin Pearce <coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 3:04 PM Subject: Traffic Concerns with the DEIR and the Reality of the Traffic This letter is to address the traffic concerns with the DEIR for the proposed LA Fitness Project behind Sprouts in the city of Seal Beach. 1. The traffic study has been based on information from the ITE trip manual book. This information has been found in many courts of law to not work in all circumstances and have been found to be off by over double the amount. The data that the developer is using for this DEIR is the most minimal traffic trip studies that can be found. If the city allows this minimal amount of trip data to be used for this project, the city is putting itself in a bad situation. The city needs to require that the developer uses actual LA Fitness monthly facility usage data. A sampling needs to be taken from many of the local LA Fitness's to come up with numbers that are more realistic in regards to gym usage. The numbers that the developer is using are less than half of what the actual numbers should be. 2. The new design and lane reconstruction for the Shops at Rossmoor at Rossmoor Center Way and Seal Beach Blvd is flawed. It will create more of a bottleneck, because there will be extra lanes that still go into the same congested intersection. By increasing the amount of ingress /egress to the four way stop sign near the Sprouts and Pei Wei, this will only increase the amount of overcrowding and make the problem worse. The current situation with the traffic back up is being caused by pedestrians /vehicles backing up and pulling out at the four way stop and at Sprouts. This new lane design does nothing to alleviate the current traffic problems and will only exacerbate it. This is already a horrible traffic situation at peak times and there is no way it can handle any more cars. Adding extra lanes and longer cueing lanes will only make people think you are solving the traffic problem, when actuality you are making the problem worse. 3. Due to the two above circumstances, people will look for other routes to get to the proposed gym project, ie. St. Cloud to Montecito, Bradbury to Montecito, Orangewood, Foster, etc. This will undo all of the efforts that the Los Alamitos Unified School District has done to mitigate traffic problems during peak school to /from hours. The school district has spent countless man hours and money to stagger the start times of all of the elementary schools and middle schools and provided low cost busing to address the severe traffic congestion throughout the entire Seal Beach, Los Alamitos, and Rossmoor communities. This is historical, due to the fact that they never had to do this sort of drastic implementation just for traffic. In closing, if the city of Seal Beach chooses not to address the use of the trip data coming from the ITE manual and not from actual gym data this will result in future litigation. Kevin Pearce Coalition Against LA Fitness Steven Fowler From: Kenneth Coolidge Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 4:52 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Fwd: Proposed La fitness center of ---- - - - - -- Forwarded message ---- - - - - -- From: Martha Coolidge Date: Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 4:50 PM Subject: Fwd: Proposed La fitness center of To: Kenneth Coolidge I MIN ---- - - - - -- Forwarded message ---- - - - - -- From: Martha Coolidge Date: Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 4:35 PM Subject: Fwd: Proposed La fitness center of To: Laura Doyle Esparza ---- - - - - -- Forwarded message ---- - - - - -- From: "Martha Coolidge" Wnow Date: Apr 23, 2017 4:34 PM Subject: Proposed La fitness center of To: <sfowlergseal beach. gov> Cc: Hello Steve, I am writing to you about the proposed LA fitness center. We are residents of seal beach and frequent the shops at rossmoor. The area is quite congested as it is now with the traffic on seal beach blvd. The ingress and egress to the center is often a nightmare.. We frequent Sprouts, Marshall's, Home Goods, CPK. I don't know how much more traffic this area can handle. In addition, la fitness will not produce any sales tax to the city of seal beach. It is for these reasons that we are strongly opposed to having the fitness center located at the shops of rossmoor. Sincerely, Martha and ken Coolidge CPE residents __ - -. Steven Fowler From: Debbie Stea Ol 11 1"' 11111§1W Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 5:04 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Mr Fowler My name is John Stea. I am a 25yr Rossmoor resident who opposes a LA Fitness being built in the Rossmoor shopping center. This is a bad idea and a poor fit for the area. Who would even consider putting a large gym so close to a residential area? I am shocked this is even being considered! LA fitness is not being honest with the number of members this gym will bring in. They have said they expect about 6500 members. A gym this large needs more members to survive. 24 HR Fitness on Katella a similar size gym has 17,000 members which account for 70,000 cars a month or roughly 2,400 cars a day. You can call the manager there and check it out. We love living in Rossmoor and love going down to Seal Beach to dine and shop to support the small businesses and the community. The increase in traffic and crime this gym will bring to the area will harm the residents of both our communities. I think the area where the proposed LA fitness would be located would be a great place for a Nursery. That would add to the area not detract. Sincerely John Stea Steven Fowler From: Kathy Barnes Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 5:06 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness I am writing this to you to express my deep concern about the ramifications of allowing this business to be located in the Rossmoor Shopping Center. I am not opposed to a smaller building and business to be located there but one that would not attract people there from S a.m. To 11 p.m. That shopping center is already a nightmare to enter from any of the entrances. I have seen many near miss accidents and many disgruntled drivers there in the last few years. Seal Beach Blvd is strained to the max with the traffic from the many businesses between the San Diego Freeway and Bradbury. The boulevard cannot handle another 2000+ cars a day that the gym estimates it will attract. The quality of life for those Seal Beach residents who occupy the four condo buildings that back the center should also be strongly considered. They do not live there to have a gym in their backyard since most of the condos already have some type of exercise room or pool. They will be exposed to more air quality issues with both the building of the gym and the 2000+ car fumes a day that will be traveling there. Your citizens need to come first! You also need to be a good neighbor to the Rossmoor citizens who will have more condo cars parking on their streets and gym patrons who will be looking for a quicker route into the gym when the traffic is backed up on the boulevard. Since the majority of LAUSD elementary schools are located inside the Rossmoor tract the traffic is already very congested at certain times of the day and safety for those students and parents should also be considercd. There are already at least 15+ small and large gyms within a 5 mile radius that the citizens of Seal Beach, Los Alamitos, Rossmoor, and West Garden Grove can attend- not another one is needed. At some point in time an area becomes over developed and the safety and quality of life of its citizens must become a priority! Please consider this when you are considering this LA Fitness request. It was close to being denied once and it must be denied again! Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Kathleen Barnes VAMHarrisburg Rd Rossmoor CA Steven Fowler From: Randy Ho Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 9:31 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Nearby resident very concerned about LA Fitness impact to pedestrian safety on Montecito Road H Steve, I am a resident that lives near the Seal Beach apartments and am very concerned about possible plans to construct a LA Fitness right nearby. Ijog on Montecito Road 3x a week and have observed how so many cars disobey stop signs and zoom on by without disregard for pedestrian safety, especially for a residential road. Just yesterday afternoon at 6:00 PM, I was jogging on Montecito Road and almost got hit as I was crossed the street on a four way stop on Montecito Road and Rossmoor Center Way. I was lucky as I was alert but can not imagine if little children were crossing instead. The addition of LA Fitness will only exponentially make this worse. Since Seal Beach Blvd is already backed up, I bet many visitors of the gym will use Montecito Road as a shortcut to the gym. Was there a traffic study impact done on Montecito Road with the addition of a large -scale corporate gym? If not, then I ask that the city and the board consider this when voting for /against the gym. Much appreciation, Randy S. Ho Steven Fowler From: Bev Houghton Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 5:38 PM Subject: Letter Regarding LA Fitness Project To Seal Beach Leaders, As a resident of Rossmoor I am deeply concerned about the impact that having the LA Fitness business in the Shops at Rossmoor will have on our community. All of the information I have read, the opinions I have heard and the conversations I have had with individuals involved in the project are very disturbing. Although I realize that any one in business wants to make money, there has to be a moral and ethical standard involved that considers the safety, invasion of and quality of life of those impacted. Contrary to what the "party line" is regarding impact on traffic and parking on Montecito and nearby streets, the fact is that drivers will use Montecito Road as "short cut' rather than dealing with the traffic off of Seal Beach Blvd. The increased traffic will increase the risk for pedestrian accidents from people crossing Montecito Road. There will be more people crossing Montecito Road if they need to park on the adjacent streets due to new parking restriction in the Shops at Rossmoor lot. Montecito Road already needs to be upgraded with safer crossing markings, speed control additions and better lighting. Regards, Beverley Houghton Rossmoor Resident Steven Fowler From: Robert Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 9:42 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: EIR Comments I would like to comment on the Draft EIR for LA Fitness proposed addition to Rossmoor Shopping Center. My wife is in a wheelchair or sometimes mobility scooter. We have attempted to use the Shops at Rossmoor but unfortunately its very difficult at best. For instance, going from our area in Rossmoor via St. Cloud /Montecito Ave and then down Rossmoor Center Way the present sidewalk do not allow room for her to navigate. We attempted to go to Peet's Coffee this route a couple of times and gave up. When attended the meeting at Old Ranch Country Club, the representative for the LA Fitness Center said they did not have to comply with Americans Disabilities Act as a health club. There is not adequate information in this EIR to allow me to see the solution for Handicapped people to navigate around this new health club when the present situation is inadequate and this addition makes the situation even worse. Also I go to Sprouts shopping at least twice a week and the present traffic situation is basically gridlock which ever way you enter the parking in front of Sprouts. I urge the rejection of this addition to the Rossmoor Shops and that Seal Beach and the owners try to find a better tenant with less impact on traffic. Thank you, Robert L. Zambenini Hill Rose Drive, Los Alamitos, CA 90720 Steven Fowler From: Jennifer Knapp Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:44 PM To: Steven. Fowler Cc: coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: Please Reject the project for LA Fitness... Please read. Thank you. Dear Mr. Fowler, I have lived in Seal Beach and Los Alamitos for a total of 42 years. I currently reside in Rossmoor with my husband and two children. My husband was raised in Rossmoor. Both my husband parents and my parents live here in Rossmoor as well. As I write this letter, I am speaking on behalf of our parents as well. We have seen our community grow and change throughout the years. We have all lived here and watched our entire community grow exponentially... unfortunately, the growth has been too much. The traffic has exponentially increased, bringing congestion, pollution, traffic accidents and a marked difference in our community. Clearly, there are too many cars and too much big business. We have to drive around certain areas to avoid congestion. Please know that creating more lanes, taking away the tree lined center dividers is only going to add to this problem. This is not a form of relief... Our kids ride our bikes here, we don't need more congestion. When the original designer /developer created our community, Rossmoor, I am sure that he did not have in mind anything that it looks like now in the surrounding area. Almost every store /restaurant is a big chain (they are the only ones who can afford space at The Shops at Rossmoor). Very different than the smaller shops that used to make up our community (Holiday Hardware, pet store, my friends Dads dental office, Rick Rack, several banks, kids clothing stores, unique small 1 owner restaurants like Davios, Champs, Rosmoor bowl, Rossmoor Pasteries etc.). There was not Target, BB &B, Ralphs, Islands, etc. There was a field and one bank on the other side of SB Blvd. There was no Retirement Center, another strip mall, Ayres Hotel. On the corner of SB and Lampson, there were additional putting greens and one gas station. Now there are stores everywhere you turn. Yes, one could argue that is convenience, but in the opinion of hundreds, possibly thousands of residents, this has all brought too many people, too much traffic and is changing our tight knit comminty. have a vested interest in seeing our community preserve itself and all of the families, children and people who live here. Please hear us and please understand that putting in LA FITNESS in the middle of all the other huge stores, is something our community, as a group, DOES NOT WANT. Please listen to your constituents and please make a decision that is best for our community. If you lived here and drew up here I am sure that you would feel similarly.... Thank you so very much for your consideration and relaying this message to the appropriate people. Can you please confirm that you have received my message. Thank you. Sincerely, Jennifer Knapp Davenport Rd. Rossmoor, 90720 Steven Fowler .-rom: Ellen Gong-Guy Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:38 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com; Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com; Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official Subject: Opposition to the LA Fitness Facility Dear Mr. Steve Fowler, I am writing to you to express my opposition to the proposed LA Fitness facility At the Shops in Rossmoor. The building of this facility will increase traffic on Seal Beach Boulevard. At this time, the traffic is already very congested and it is difficult to get in and out of the center on Rossmoor Center Way. It is a normal occurrence to have to wait 2 cycles to get through the light to make that left turn. With an increase due to gym traffic, the wait will easily be much longer. Increased traffic also becomes a safety issue for children and adults who walk on Los Alamitos /Seal Beach Boulevard. The Seal Beach /Los Alamitos /Rossmoor areas currently have in excess of 30 gyms in a three mile radius. Many of those gyms are owned and operated by residents of the local area. A big box gym, will be detrimental to the livelihood of these owners. They are our neighbors and friends. I am not opposed to putting another business in the spot of the proposed gym and have nothing against LA Fitness but a business that has regular business hours (8:00 -5:00) would be a better fit. Please vote against the proposed LA Fitness facility!! Thank you for your consideration. Ellen Gong -Guy Rossmoor Resident Steven Fowler From: Connie Bambadji �� Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:50 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Say NO to LA Fitness Dear Mr. Fowler, I am writing to let you know that I am extremely opposed to an LA Fitness gym being built in the shopping center behind Sprouts Market. My children and I walk, ride bikes, and shop in the area of the neighborhood that will be most impacted by this gym. The shopping center is crowded as it is with the shops and restaurants that already exist. The traffic is already bad, and I know that this gym would bring in a lot more cars, people, and crime to the shopping center as well as the Rossmoor neighborhood. It is a fact that gyms as well as movie theaters bring more crime into neighborhoods. I know I don't live in Seal Beach, but I do shop in Seal Beach, and the success of the local shopping center depends on the Rossmoor homeowners. Until this point, we have seen the shopping center as an asset to the community. We eat there and shop there ... we keep it in business. An LA Fitness Facility will not be an asset to the shopping center or the neighborhood. There is an LA Fitness is West Garden Grove just 4.6 miles away. There is no need to build one in our community. I hope you will consider my input and value the patronage of our community. Please say no to LA Fitness... it is just too much negative for this community. Thank you, Connie Bambadji Steven Fowler From: Emi Wheaton Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:32 PM To: coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com; Steven Fowler Subject: La Fitness pros and cons Hi I am a Rossmoor resident living on Martha Ann. I absolutely love our community but here are some cons about this project. Traffic • Already heavy traffic on entire boulevard, especially during school drop off and pick up times • Due to the heavy traffic on the entire boulevard, drivers will then take a short cut through Rossmoor. Rossmoor is a residential neighborhood, not a major boulevard, but will become one if the gym goes in. • Even if you make an extra lane on Rossmoor Center Way, you can't do anything about the back -up due to customers walking into /out of Sprouts. It is already backed up and is extremely unsafe. It will only be worse. • How will emergency response vehicles get thru the congested traffic? • At its own cost, the school district has even begun a program offering low cost bus service to all the schools from Seal Beach, Los Alamitos, and Rossmoor due to the fact that there is already too much traffic • For the first time in decades, the district has had to stagger the start times of all the elementary schools to help with the congestion of traffic. Why do we want to add more traffic? Noise • EIR report should take into account slamming car doors, trunk lid, etc. • EIR report doesn't address conversation of gym clients in close proximity of residential properties • EIR doesn't mention car or motorcycle engines starts and revving near residential property • Car alarms sounding right next to residential property line to the west -these can reach the vicinity of 90 DBA and fifty percent duty cycle for minutes at a time -where is this accounted for? • Report fails to account for increase in noise due to replacement of landscaping on Seal Beach Blvd and Rossmoor Center Way. Is that why noise measurements at other LAF locations could not be used? • Report does not address the reflective properties of the building itself. Along Rossmoor Center Way, there is an existing cinderblock wall and the huge gym will create a reverberation chamber amplifying traffic noise and reflecting it into bedroom windows to the north. Hazardous Materials • Concentrated chlorine or oxidizer & acids are part of the routine cleaning of swimming pools /athletic equipment. There is no mention of a loading dock or storage for these materials. • Shouldn't the proximity to residences mandate the preparation of a hazardous materials and emergency response plan, given the use of toxic chemicals used? Parking • Effective May 31, 2017 no parking from the condos will be allowed, thus moving them onto streets of Rossmoor. These cars belong to Seal Beach residents and now are being forced to park in front of Rossmoor residences. Is this being a nice neighbor? • This parking issue is a community, city problem. The city created it? What is Seal Beach going to do about it? Aesthetics • Loss of landscaping on Seal Beach Blvd where left turn lane is extended will result in a more "industrial" look more akin to City of Industry or Santa Ana -Why is this no impact? • Is applicant saying the aesthetic improvement at the Shops which was part of its own redevelopment plan years ago be razed when it suits it desire for expansion? • Will applicant bull -doze trees & landscaping in the proposed project when it discovers that the parking is inadequate? Alternatives • Why should the community now be "held hostage" due to poor planning of the developer years ago? • Seems like an extension of the "boutique shopping" theme adopted elsewhere at the center could do much to provide revenue to the owner, and to the city. • Why aren't the natural addition of sheoes, sporting goods, or small hardware store not part of the roadmap? Public Safety / Crime • Large population of elderly persons in our community (including coming from Leisure World) who are driving and walking in and through Shops at Rossmoor. The added traffic and congestion from the LA Fitness will create a potentially dangerous condition to the elderly community. • Large population of school aged children in our community. There are four elementary schools (grades K -5 including pre - school aged children at the Child Development Centers at the various school sites) in Rossmoor. Children from Rossmoor, Los Alamitos, Rossmoor Highlands, Seal Beach (CPE and CPW) as well as surrounding cities attend the elementary schools as well as the two middle schools (Oak and McAuliffe) and Los Alamitos High School. Children drive, bike, walk and bus to school. • The Los Alamitos Unified School District has also implemented a "Walk to School" program encouraging children to walk to school in an effort to reduce and relieve traffic and congestion. • To respond to complaints and concerns about large amount of school - related traffic and safety of students, the Los Alamitos Unified School District instituted staggered start times /dismissal times for the schools. The staggered start/dismissal times are an effort to reduced and relieve traffic and congestion. • The Rossmoor /Seal Beach branch of the Orange County Library is situated along Montecito (on the curve between St. Cloud and Rossmoor Center Way). In addition to the general members of the community who visit the library, children visit the library. The library is located along the route of persons going to the proposed LA Fitness which will increase traffic and congestion in the area of the library which will threaten the safety of children. • Increased traffic and congestion from the proposed LA Fitness will result in delays in emergency vehicles (tire, police, ambulance) responding to the Shops at Rossmoor as well as the other businesses along Los Alamitos /Seal Beach Blvd., and the residents in Rossmoor, Ross moor Highlands, Los Alamitos and Seal Beach. • Increased crime from the proposed LA Fitness. Generally speaking, gyms attract organized crime including breaking into cars in the parking lot (knowing the owners are in the gym) and breaking into gym lockers. The LA Fitness will invite crime into the neighborhood. There are many friends and families in our community they agree with all of the above. We want to keep our community safe and quiet. Thank you. Emi & Michael Wheaton Steven Fowler From: Linda Ho Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:51 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Please say No to LA Fitness > Dear Steve, > As a nearby resident of the proposed location of LA Fitness in Seal Beach, I am very much opposed to the gym. The gym is so close to the residents and the parking lot will be a prime target of theft. Our community already is experiencing car break ins, the gym will make it so much worse. > Furthermore, there will be many more cars zooming by Montecito to take the shortcut to the gym. I fear for my children's safety when they bike along this residential road. Please say'No'to this gym. > Much appreciation, > Linda Ho > Sent from my Whone Steven Fowler From: karen Schultze Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:51 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Opposed to LA Fitness Dear Mr Fowler, I am not opposed to development, if it makes sense. The proposed LA Fitness location in the Shops at Rossmoor does not make sense for several reasons; unneeded, massive increase in traffic, decreased safety, increased crime, increased noise, and completely innappropriate placement within the shopping center. The community of Rossmoor does not need or want a massive gym. There are at least 2 dozen boutique gyms and a couple of large gyms servicing us well right now. It does not make sense. The traffic congestion on Seal Beach Blvd. And in the Shops at Rossmoor is already more than the streets can handle. Proposed traffic flow upgrades need to be made without adding more traffic. Customers already avoid the Shops at Rossmoor because of the traffic. Allowing a business that would severely increase traffic for such long periods of time does not make sense. The intersection between Sprouts Market and Pei Wei is already unsafe for pedestrians. I am surprised no one has been killed yet. The existing back up of cars coming from Seal Beach blvd onto Rossmoor Center Way is not safe either. Northbound cars get caught in the fast lane now because the turn lane is too short. That is not safe. This needs to be fixed now without adding more traffic. Southbound traffic backs up as well, blocking the entrance to CPK. This also should be fixed without added more traffic. Allowing an LA Fitness does not make sense. Massive gym parking lots bring crime with them. People leave thing in their cars and thieves know this. This will spill right into the neighborhood. It is right there at the edge of the parking lot. We do not need crime brought to our doorsteps. It does not make sense. Noise from the proposed LA Fitness would come from several sources and reverberate around the surrounding residences and buildings. From the 4 am arrival of the employees and deliveries to the midnight employee departures, noise will abound. Cars parking, doors and trunks slamming. Car alarms and locking beeps will mix with conversations on cell phones and to other members. Noise from the equipment like air conditioning will be there too. From 4 am until midnight. Right next to the bedroom windows of the condos. It does not make sense. A business with 9 to 5 hours would make sense. Possibly a medical office building. Something that would serve the community rather than harm it. The proposed LA Fitness does not make sense at this location. Please take these things into account when you make your decisions. Thank you for your time. Karen Schultze 4:50pm Apr 24, 2017. Steven Fowler From: MikE M Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:53 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Mike massion la fitness Hello Mr. Fowler I completely oppose the project with LA fitness in Rossmoor area. I moved to Rossmoor to get out of the parking headaches of hermosa beach. I'm raising my family here and I want them to ride bikes to the store with as little traffic as possible. Please do not let LA fitness put a gym where it's not needed. Thanks. Mike Massion Sent from my Whone Steven Fowler From: TARA KELLOGG Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:57 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: LA Fitness Project Steve and others, Our family is completely against the City of Seal Beach approving the LA Fitness proposal. It's approximation to our community and the negatives a gym like this brings with it (increased traffic, noise and crime) effect Rossmoor tremendously, not to mention the Seal Beach apartment and condo units bordering our community. Already parking is an issue with the overflow of these Seal Beach residences spilling over into Rossmoor streets. Traffic from Rossmoor Center Way frequently backs up onto Seal Beach Blvd. as well as congestion near the Sprouts center. Using that street as a throughfare will no longer be an option with the addition of a large fitness center. Please put your LA Fitness deep in the heart of Seal Beach where it belongs. Thank you, Steve and Tara Kellogg Oak Way Drive, Rossmoor Steven Fowler From: Heather Gomes Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:58 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: LA FITNESS Hello Steve, I am writing to voice my opposition to the LA Fitness mega gym, in the Rossmoor Shopping Center. I have lived in Rossmoor with my husband for 12 years. We bought our home here to raise our family in the quiet, charming neighborhood. We live extremely close to Montecito and have trouble at times parking in front of our own home ... AND this is before this mega gym gets built. No movement by these cars for days. The city of Seal Beach has provided minimal parking to the 4 Condominium Associations all located on Montecito. Add the addition of the potential 2,000 plus cars to the mix and this will create an extreme amount of parked cars on Rossmoor streets. This will create unnecessary foot traffic, noise in front of my home at undesirable hours of the night and morning. Also in turn creating more crime in our neighborhood. The EIR report should take into account the slamming of car doors, trunk lids, etc. and also should address car /motorcycle engines starts and revving near residential property. My children are now of the age when they can bike through the neighborhood safely to friends houses, library and restaurants. This will not be the case if this facility is built. It will bring in too much added congestion of cars to the community. That is a shame and one that can be avoided if we stop this development. I am asking you, a member of the Seal Beach City Council, to be the voice of the residents in and around your community, and please veto this development. As a Rossmoor resident, I would be happy to support the development of a much smaller business. One that would bring in less traffic and normal business hours of 9 /10am -7 /8pm . I just cannot support LA Fitness. Thank you for your time and consideration, Heather Gomes Steven Fowler From: Sharon Frickel Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:56 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Opposition the the LA Fitness in Seal beach/ rossmoor Hello, I am writing to you because I am opposed to the LA Fitness being put in Rossmoor parking lot . It's just not the right fit for our community. I have lived in rossmoor for 6 years and moved here for the quiet neighborhood and fantastic schools. This is going to cause much more traffic! There is plenty of traffic and congestion from the 4 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, and high school. We don't need more from a gym! It is overcrowded as it is during the day in that center. My kids and I like to bike and walk up to the center on the weekends and after school and if a gym is put there, that will be impossible and unsafe for us. I have avoided many car wrecks in there. I am also concerned about the crime and noise. We know that with gyms, there is more crime and break ins in cars. People from other communities are going to come to this gym. There is a gym right up the street. Also, the gym is open long hours and that will coarse lots of noise in the parking lot for our neighbors. Please find another spot for the gym. Thank you for reading this and taking it into consideration. Sincerely, A concerned rossmoor resident Sharon Frickel �.�_ -: '"tea:.. Steven fowler From: Michael Wheaton Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:52 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Against adding an to Fitness to Rossmoor Steve Fowler, Here are a few of the many reasons why adding LA Fitness to the Rossmoor shopping center is a very bad idea. Traffic • Already heavy traffic on entire boulevard, especially during school drop off and pick up times • Due to the heavy traffic on the entire boulevard, drivers will then take a short cut through Rossmoor. Rossmoor is a residential neighborhood, not a major boulevard, but will become one if the gym goes in. • Even if you make an extra lane on Rossmoor Center Way, you can't do anything about the back -up due to customers walking into /out of Sprouts. It is already backed up and is extremely unsafe. It will only be worse. • How will emergency response vehicles get thru the congested traffic? • At its own cost, the school district has even begun a program offering low cost bus service to all the schools from Seal Beach, Los Alamitos, and Rossmoor due to the fact that there is already too much traffic • For the first time in decades, the district has had to stagger the start times of all the elementary schools to help with the congestion of traffic. Why do we want to add more traffic? Noise • EIR report should take into account slamming car doors, trunk lid, etc. • EIR report doesn't address conversation of gym clients in close proximity of residential properties • EIR doesn't mention car or motorcycle engines starts and revving near residential property • Car alarms sounding right next to residential property line to the west -these can reach the vicinity of 90 DBA and fifty percent duty cycle for minutes at a time -where is this accounted for? • Report fails to account for increase in noise due to replacement of landscaping on Seal Beach Blvd and Rossmoor Center Way. Is that why noise measurements at other LAF locations could not be used? • Report does not address the reflective properties of the building itself. Along Rossmoor Center Way, there is an existing cinderblock wall and the huge gym will create a reverberation chamber amplifying traffic noise and reflecting it into bedroom windows to the north. Hazardous Materials • Concentrated chlorine or oxidizer & acids are part of the routine cleaning of swimming pools /athletic equipment. There is no mention of a loading dock or storage for these materials. • Shouldn't the proximity to residences mandate the preparation of a hazardous materials and emergency response plan, given the use of toxic chemicals used? Parking • Effective May 31, 2017 no parking from the condos will be allowed, thus moving them onto streets of Rossmoor. These cars belong to Seal Beach residents and now are being forced to park in front of Rossmoor residences. Is this being a nice neighbor? • This parking issue is a community, city problem. The city created it? What is Seal Beach going to do about it? Aesthetics • Loss of landscaping on Seal Beach Blvd where left turn lane is extended will result in a more "industrial" look more akin to City of Industry or Santa Ana -Why is this no impact? • Is applicant saying the aesthetic improvement at the Shops which was part of its own redevelopment plan years ago be razed when it suits it desire for expansion? • Will applicant bull -doze trees & landscaping in the proposed project when it discovers that the parking is inadequate? Alternatives • Why should the community now be "held hostage" due to poor planning of the developer years ago? • Seems like an extension of the "boutique shopping" theme adopted elsewhere at the center could do much to provide revenue to the owner, and to the city. • Why aren't the natural addition of sheoes, sporting goods, or small hardware store not part of the roadmap? Public Safety / Crime • Large population of elderly persons in our community (including coming from Leisure World) who are driving and walking in and through Shops at Rossmoor. The added traffic and congestion from the LA Fitness will create a potentially dangerous condition to the elderly community. • Large population of school aged children in our community. There are four elementary schools (grades K -5 including pre- school aged children at the Child Development Centers at the various school sites) in Rossmoor. Children from Rossmoor, Los Alamitos, Rossmoor Highlands, Seal Beach (CPE and CPW) as well as surrounding cities attend the elementary schools as well as the two middle schools (Oak and McAuliffe) and Los Alamitos High School. Children drive, bike, walk and bus to school. • The Los Alamitos Unified School District has also implemented a "Walk to School" program encouraging children to walk to school in an effort to reduce and relieve traffic and congestion. • To respond to complaints and concerns about large amount of school - related traffic and safety of students, the Los Alamitos Unified School District instituted staggered start times /dismissal times for the schools. The staggered start/dismissal times are an effort to reduced and relieve traffic and congestion. • The Rossmoor /Seal Beach branch of the Orange County Library is situated along Montecito (on the curve between St. Cloud and Rossmoor Center Way). In addition to the general members of the community who visit the library, children visit the library. The library is located along the route of persons going to the proposed LA Fitness which will increase traffic and congestion in the area of the library which will threaten the safety of children. • Increased traffic and congestion from the proposed LA Fitness will result in delays in emergency vehicles (fire, police, ambulance) responding to the Shops at Rossmoor as well as the other businesses along Los Alamitos /Seal Beach Blvd., and the residents in Rossmoor, Ross moor Highlands, Los Alamitos and Seal Beach. • Increased crime from the proposed LA Fitness. Generally speaking, gyms attract organized crime including breaking into cars in the parking lot (knowing the owners are in the gym) and breaking into gym lockers. The LA Fitness will invite crime into the neighborhood. Sincerely, Michael Wheaton Rossmoor Resident t & rr: 4i }.Ai x A` t 1, t �,e • 3 ,c ' kf/ �1 r st � •/� ;w � �"nryryRry.1's Kr«�C7 °4 • i7 r • 3 ,c Steven Fowler From: leland ja Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 2:18 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Attachments: IM G_6368.j pg Mr. Fowler, With regard to the proposed LA Fitness development, I'd like to kindly bring your attention to the attached panoramic photo. This photo was taken by me at the corner of Seal Beach Blvd. and Rossmoor Center Way from the Southwest corner. Notice: 1) The light is green for the eastbound traffic on Rossmoor Center Way while the southbound traffic at the intersection is completely blocking their path. Also note that: 2) With panoramic photos, moving objects often get distorted. The reason that the objects in this panoramic photo are not distorted is because these cars were at a complete standstill when this photo was taken. The traffic at this intersection is a complete cluster. Now I see that the latest EIR has "mitigation" for this current traffic problem by extending the LH turn lane going northbound, and eliminating a LH turn lane going southbound at the Islands Restaurant. (I believe this is adding another safety problem for southbound traffic because you'll have spillover from the LH turn lane at Town Center Drive while cars are speeding south to hit the lights to get onto the freeways, but that's not my main point.) My main point is from the West. There is no "mitigation" for traffic from the West at Montecito and Main Way. LA Fitness claims to be bringing a healthy lifestyle to serve the needs of the community. If residents from Rossmoor wanted to use LA Fitness, why would they drive out to Seal Beach Blvd from the North or from St. Cloud from the South, and then turn onto Rossmoor Center Way at Panera Bread to go to the gym? They wouldn't. They would enter from the West at Main Way from Montecito Rd. Once out -of -area transient traffic to LA Fitness realizes that the Panera Bread corner is a complete cluster (regardless of whatever "mitigation" the city does), they will come to the gym through Montecito too. A congested bottleneck on Seal Beach Blvd is one thing, but this will create a bottleneck in a residential community where children ride their bikes to school, and where my 82 -yr -old mother goes for her walks. The bottom line is that the proposed LA Fitness doesn't fit at this location. The traffic problem will be a burden for the residential streets in the community and the latest EIR does nothing to address that problem. Thanks for your consideration. Kind regards, Leland Jay Steven Fowler From: Jayme Olson Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 214 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness in Seal Beach Dear Sir I am a 40+ year resident of Rossmoor and Seal Beach. I grew up here and continue to live here. You can imagine the changes that I've seen. Some have been good and good for the neighborhood and others, apparently just for profit. That being said, the traffic in the area has reached capacity. When it is difficult to get across Montecito Road to get to the shopping center on foot, it's time to stop. There is just no more traffic capacity in the area. Please don't let this 60 year old neighborhood finally loose it's residential appeal - it's been amazing and we would hate to see the charm and safety of this area lost. My family says NO to to LA Fitness in Seal Beach. Regards, Jayme Olson Steven Fowler From: Lauren Davis Sosenko Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 2:11 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: Thomas Moore Subject: Concern about LA Fitness Hello Mr. Fowler, It is my understanding that you are receiving resident communications about the LA Fitness project that will be discussed at tonight's City Council meeting. We are so very lucky to have the businesses, jobs, and resources in the Rossmoor Center. The convenience and ease of these businesses increases quality of life for our residents and the neighboring communities. I love that my children can walk to Rite -Aid to get an ice cream cone when visiting their school friends who live in Rossmoor, and I love to buy fresh and healthy dinners at Sprouts on my way home from picking my kids up from school. However, I am very concerned that the traffic will become intolerable with the gigantic LA Fitness project proposed at the back of the center -- my kids will no longer be able to safely cross St. Cloud Dr /Montecito Rd, and I will choose to buy groceries at the Long Beach Trader Joe's to avoid nightmare traffic in the Center on my way home from work. I know the Council considered this request several months back, and I was heartened by the Council's decision to not approve the application. I strongly encourage the Council to again decline support for this project. Thank you, Lauren Sosenko Yale Lane Seal Beach, CA 90740 Steven Fowler From: Sent: T, Cc: Subject: Public Comments Sincerely, ce&lfr Ellery Deaton ellerydeatoasmishon behalf of Ellery Deaton <SealBeachDlstnctl @gmail.com> Wednesday, April 19, 2017 10:08 AM Crystal Landavazo Jill Ingram; Robin Roberts; Steven Fowler Fwd: LA Fitness Council Member, District 1 - -Old Town and Surfside City of Seal Beach - 211 Eighth Street, Seat Beach, CA 90740 (562) 743 -4355 For Information about Seal Beach, please see our city website: http: / /www.sealbeachca.gov NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this communication to the intended recipient, please advise the sender by reply email and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. - -- - - -- Forwarded message ---- - - - - -- From: ri bellamy Date: Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 9:38 AM Subject: LA Fitness To: Ellery Deaton < sea lbeachdistrictl(ctgmail.com> Good morning, I am have been reading about the opposition to the LA Fitness that may be allowed to operate in Seal Beach. I am in complete support of allowing LA Fitness to operate within the city. Seal Beach does not have full size gym and I find it unfortunate that residents would not want an increase in tax revenue for the the city? Why should we as residents drive into Long Beach or Los Alamitos to exercise? I also don't believe LA Fitness would be unfair competition for Anytime Fitness as I think Anytime Fitness fits a small niche that LA Fitness doesn't, unlike placing another coffee shop across the street from another coffee shop. One thought is that an increase from tax revenue from LA Fitness could support the city in building a new lap swim pool for residents. I know a lot of lap swimmers use the Belmont Shore Pool or the base to swim; again, why are we leaving our city to exercise? Thp ^k you for your time. Steven Fowler From: Sent: T. Crystal Landavazo Monday, April 17, 2017 9:28 AM Steven Fowler Suolect: FW: Website Contact Crystal Landavazo, Senior Planner City of Seal Beach - 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740 (562) 431 -2527, Ext. 1324 For Information about Seal Beach, please see our city website: http: / /www.sealbeachea.gov NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this communication to the intended recipient, please advise the sender by reply email and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. From: Patrick Gallegos Sent: Monday, April 17, 2017 8:41 AM To: Crystal Landavazo Cc: Sean Sabo Svc iect: Fwd: Website Contact FYI Begin forwarded message: From: "no- replyasealbeachca.pov" <no -reply c sealbeachca.gov> Date: April 14, 2017 at 6:54:12 PM PDT To: Patrick Gallegos <PGalleaosna,sealbeachca.gov >, Sean Sabo <ssabo(csealbeachca.eov> Subject: Website Contact Reply -To: "no- reptyct�sealbeachea.gov" <no- replygsealbeachca. Vov> Your Name: Gary Gumbert Your Email: Phone: I am in SUPPORT for the new LA Fitness in Rossmoor. To me nothing is more important th one's health. As a senior citizen I have become to realize that exercising regularly is key to li Message (limit to longer. Having a quality gym like LA Fitness come to our neighborhood would making it so 500 characters easier and convenient to get to the gym and as a result I would work out more. The city of Se Beach should welcome LA Fitness with open arms especially since they have such a large se population. Look how convenient it is to Leisure World. To me it is a no brainer but to have Fitness build a facility in our community. Gary Created:at: 4/1412 -017 6:54 PM >__ °_ -- Steven Fowler From: Caroline Bonti Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2017 7;51 AM Ta Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Caroline Bonti I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Caroline Bonti Steven Fowler From: Mariana Antunez Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2017 10:04 AM Tc Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Mariana Antunez I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Mariana Antunez Steven Fowler From: Michelle Gunderson Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2017 9:16 PM Tc Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Michelle Gunderson I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Michelle Gunderson Steven Fowler From: Sent: Tc Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Lyn Lyn Sunday, April 09, 2017 9:20 PM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Lyn Steven Fowler From: Darren Smith Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 6:38 AM Tr Steven Fowler Suoject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Darren Smith I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Darren Smith Steven Fowler From: AnnCrafton Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 7:38 AM Tr Steven Fowler Suoject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is AnnCrafton I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely AnnCrafton Steven Fowler From: Robert Heath Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 2:04 PM Tr Steven Fowler Sur.ject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Robert Heath I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and nced. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Robert Heath Steven Fowler From: Silvia Espino Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 8:16 PM To Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Silvia Espino I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with uie in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Silvia Espino Steven Fowler From: Sent: T( Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Shellee Reeves Shellee Reeves Wednesday, April 12, 2017 3:23 AM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Shellee Reeves Steven Fowler From: William Breytspraak Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 6:25 AM To Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is William Breytspraak Frn writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, William Breytspraak Steven Fowler From: Sent: Tc Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Doug Lopez Doug Lopez Wednesday, April 12, 2017 7:24 AM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Doug Lopez Steven Fowler From: Sent: Tc SUL "ect: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Lauren Shaw Lauren Shaw b. Wednesday, April 12, 2017 7:59 AM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with ine in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely Lauren Shaw Steven Fowler From: Shannon Brennan I > Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 8:32 AM Tc Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Shannon Brennan ['m writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Shannon Brennan Steven Fowler From: Sean Berry Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 8:39 AM To Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Sean Berry I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Sean Berry Steven Fowler From: Karen Kuns Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 8:33 AM Tc Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Karen Kuns I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Karen Kuns Steven Fowler From: Angela Espeleta > Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 8:44 AM To Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Angela Espeleta I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Angela Espeleta Steven Fowler From: Sent: Tt Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Isabelle Reyngold Isabelle Reyngold Wednesday, April 12, 2017 11:29 AM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely Isabelle Reyngold Steven Fowler From: Sent: Tc Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Elizabeth Fanton Elizabeth Fanton Wednesday, April 12, 2017 2:35 PM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Elizabeth Fanton Steven Fowler From: Kip kruse Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 2:59 PM Tc Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Kip kruse I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Kip kruse Steven Fowler From: Sent: Tc Subject: Hello Mr. Fowler, Shannon Wednesday, April 12, 2017 3:32 PM Steven Fowler Fwd: LA FITNESS For the record, I sent the following message to all City Council members. Begin forwarded message: From: Shannon <beapkitty@yahoo.com> Date: April 12, 2017 at 3:25:12 PM PDT To: ssustarsiegsealbeachea.aov Subject: LA FITNESS Dear Council Member Sustarsic: I am a resident of Seal Beach and I strongly support the proposed LA Fitness Gym at the Rossmoor Center. Seal Beach has approximately 28k residents. The Seal Beach City Council has a responsibility to look out for the best interests of all their constituents. I have been following this issue for the past few months. I have read all the comments made by the Rossmoor Association on Next Door. I have seen the letters written by this group to the local newspapers. I listened to their comments made at the City Council meeting Monday night. I do not understand nor agree with their stance. Much of what was said Monday night was incorrect and misleading at best. Please vote to bring LA Fitness to the Shops at Rossmoor. Thank you. Shannon Brennan 13650 Del Monte Dr. 33 -C Seal Beach Steven Fowler From: Dina. Alcantar > Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 6:21 PM Tc Steven Fowler Sub)ect: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Dina. Alcantar I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Dina. Alcantar Steven Fowler From: Jill Gorski Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 9:41 AM Tc Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Jill Gorski I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Jill Gorski Steven Fowler From: Tim Ganatta Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 9:S6 AM T Steven Fowler Suuject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Tim Ganatta I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Tim Ganatta Steven Fowler From: Sent: To Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Sandra Mitchell Sandra Mitchell Thursday, April 13, 2017 1:57 PM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Sandra Mitchell Steven Fowler From: David Powell Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 4:27 PM T Steven Fowler Suolect: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is David Powell I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, D 'd Powell Steven Fowler From: Lucas Arriaga Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 4:46 PM Tc Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Lucas Arriaga I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Lucas Arriaga Steven Fowler From: Sent: To Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Betty J Hie Betty J Hie Friday, April 14, 2017 12:20 AM Steven Fowler Support for to Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Betty J Hie Steven Fowler From: Deni Baughn Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 5:11 AM Tc Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Deni Baughn Pm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens or our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Deni Baughn Steven Fowler From: Sent: T( Suvject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Richard Rakitis Richard Rakitis Friday, April 14, 2017 8:11 AM Steven Fowler Support for to Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Richard Rakitis Steven Fowler From: peter moon � Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 8:56 AM Tr Steven Fowler SuL'Ject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is peter moon I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, peter moon Steven Fowler From: Sent: Tr SuL,Ject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Vernon Ta Vernon Ta move� Friday, April 14, 2017 9:02 AM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely Vernon Ta Steven Fowler From: Sent: Tr Su6ject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Tony nguyen Tony nguyen Friday, April 14, 2017 9:01 AM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Tony nguyen Steven Fowler From: Zhanna Reyngold Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 10:03 AM To Steven Fowler Su bject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Zhanna Reyngold I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Zhanna Reyngold Steven Fowler From: lanie umali Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 1:41 PM To Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is lanie umali I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, lanie umali Steven Fowler From: Ronald Clements Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 1:46 PM Tc Steven Fowler SU6,wCt: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Ronald Clements I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Ronald Clements Steven Fowler From: Alan Chavez Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 5:55 PM Tc Steven Fowler Suk,Jc-ct: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Alan Chavez I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Alan Chavez Steven Fowler From: Sent: To Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Gary Gary Friday, April 14, 2017 6:21 PM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Gary Steven Fowler From: Henrietta Carter Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2017 2:31 PM Tc Steven Fowler Subject: Support for lA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Henrietta Carter Pm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Henrietta Carter Steven Fowler From: Dawn Maltz Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2017 8:18 AM To Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Dawn Maltz I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Dawn Maltz Steven Fowler From: Leslie Carter Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2017 7:28 AM Tc Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Leslie Carter I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with rue in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Leslie Carter Steven Fowler From: Lois corrigan Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 9:24 PM Ta Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Lois corrigan I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Lois corrigan Steven Fowler From: Debbie wrathall Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2017 12:44 PM Te Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Debbie wrathall I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Debbie wrathall Steven Fowler From: Shannon Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2017 5:49 PM Tc Sandra Massa - Lavitt Cc: Steven Fowler, David Powell Subject: Re: LA Fitness Hi Sandra, I did not know I could re -watch the Council meeting via the internet. I just finished watching public comment. Thirteen (13) people spoke in opposition to LA Fitness. Charles Kelly can't count!! Fake news!! Shannon > On Apr 16, 2017, at 3:05 PM, Sandra Massa - Lavitt <SMassaLavitt @sealbeachca.gov> wrote: > Thank you for your comments. You can access the video of the meeting through our web site. If you have a problem, the City Clerk can help you get there. Sandra > > Sent from my iPad >> On Apr 16, 2017, at 11:14 AM, Shannon <beapkitty@yahoo.com> wrote: >: Ilo, >> I support the LA Fitness in Seal Beach. I was not able to attend the last City Council Meeting but I did listen via the internet. I believe that approximately 10 -12 people spoke in opposition to the proposed gym. >> Charles Kelly's article in the 4 -13 Sun (front page) states DOZENS SPEAK AGAINST LA FITNESS PLAN. How can I get the exact number of people who addressed the Council? I would like to dispute this headline when I address the Council in May. >> We have enough fake news on a national level do we need it here in Seal Beach? >> Shannon Brennan >> Leisure World Steven Fowler From: Leeza Knoblach Sent: Monday, April 17, 2017 7:22 AM Tc Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Leeza Knoblach I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concems. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what [tic citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Leeza Knoblach Steven Fowler From: bev larson it: Monday, April 17, 2017 2:42 PM 10: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is bev larson I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, bev larson 1 Steven Fowler From: Mary Ann Hoyt it: Monday, April 17, 2017 4:16 PM 10: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness in Shops at Rossmoor - yes, please. Hi Steve - Just a quick note to let you know that I'm a SB resident who is looking forward to having the fitness center built. Particularly if traffic issues are addressed, like extra driveways and widening the road to relieve the bottleneck at Sprout's. I know there are many folks with concerns, but personally I and my friends see the positives. It's a shopping center, so businesses and traffic are a given. More amenities mean higher property values. And walking to my spin class would be awesome. Have a good day - Mary Ann Hoyt Steven Fowler From: Carly Ploeger it: Monday, April 17, 2017 7:51. PM lo: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Carly Ploeger I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Carly Ploeger 1 Steven Fowler From: Karen Shideler OW it: Monday, April 17, 2017 10:13 PM i o: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Karen Shideler I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Karen Shideler Steven Fowler From: Paul it: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 12:49 AM 10: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Paul I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach -a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Paul Steven Fowler From: David C. Powell Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 9:56 PM Tc Steven Fowler Subject: YES FOR LA FITNESS YES FOR LA FITNESS I am David Powell. I am a resident of Seal Beach. I am in favor of the LA Fitness Project (Project). I am addressing the parking issue. A number of City Council and Planning Commission members mentioned parking as the major reason for voting against the Project. This was reported in the Sun newspaper and other places. I reviewed the traffic study data at the Town Hall meetings. The required spaces for the Project is approximately 374. The Project's plan designates 400 parking spaces for the Gym. There is no parking problem there. Articles in the Sun newspaper quoted the total number of spaces in the shopping center and the number of spaces that would be left after the Project. The numbers are within the limits with over 336 extra spaces in the whole shopping center. Once again no parking problems. It appears that the parking problem in Rossmoor is an issue that City Council and Planning Commission have taken into consideration concerning this project. I contend that the parking issues of the unincorporated area should not be considered as relevant to this Project. Rossmoor does not want overflow parking from the condominiums to park in front of their homes. TF. sue is an Orange County issue. The condos want parking outside the of their complex. A very small portion of the condo parking problem is related to condominiums within the City of Seal Beach. It is still not the responsibility of the Shops at Rossmoor or LA Fitness. Are the Shops at Rossmoor and LA Fitness being held hostage for the sake of the parking issues in the unincorporated area called Rossmoor? Are the Shops at Rossmoor and LA Fitness being held hostage for the sake of the condominiums lack of parking? The Project meets parking codes without any variances! Do not hold the Shops at Rossmoor or LA Fltness Project responsible for neighboring parking problems. Please base your vote on these facts not opinions, emotions, biased statements, or disinformation. Steven Fowler From: Paul Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 12:49 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Paul I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Paul Steven Fowler From: David C. Powell Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 9:56 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: YES FOR LA FITNESS YES FOR LA FITNESS I am David Powell. I am a resident of Seal Beach. I am in favor of the LA Fitness Project (Project). I am addressing the parking issue. A number of City Council and Planning Commission members mentioned parking as the major reason for voting against the Project. This was reported in the Sun newspaper and other places. I reviewed the traffic study data at the Town Hall meetings. The required spaces for the Project is approximately 374. The Project's plan designates 400 parking spaces for the Gym. There is no parking problem there. Articles in the Sun newspaper quoted the total number of spaces in the shopping center and the number of spaces that would be left after the Project. The numbers are within the limits with over 336 extra spaces in the whole shopping center. Once again no parking problems. It appears that the parking problem in Rossmoor is an issue that City Council and Planning Commission have taken into consideration concerning ti its pr Oi i contend that the parking issues of the unincorporated area should not be considered as relevant to this Project. Rossmoor does not want overflow parking from the condominiums to park in front of their homes. That issue is an Orange County issue. The condos want parking outside the of their complex. A very small portion of the condo parking problem is related to condominiums within the City of Seal Beach. It is still not the responsibility of the Shops at Rossmoor or LA Fitness. Are the Shops at Rossmoor and LA Fitness being held hostage for the sake of the parking issues in the unincorporated area called Rossmoor? Are the Shops at Rossmoor and LA Fitness being held hostage for the sake of the condominiums lack of parking? The Project meets parking codes without any variances! Do not hold the Shops at Rossmoor or LA Fitness Project responsible for neighboring parking problems. Please base your vote on these facts not opinions, emotions, biased statements, or disinformation. Steven Fowler From: David C. Powel Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 10:27 AM To: Sandra Massa - Lavitt Cc: Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Thomas Moore; Schelly Sustarsic; Steven Fowler; marty.pott Subject: 9,000 Need LA Fitness I am a resident of Seal Beach. I live in leisure world among 9000 others. I like many of us have the silver sneakers program through my medical insurance. LA Fitness accepts silver sneakers. Therefore many of us will be allowed to access LA fitness free through our silver sneakers memberships. We live about 1 mile from the shops at Rossmoore and have eight passes per day that transport us to and from that shopping center. We support the LA fitness project. Thank you. Steven Fowler From: David Powell Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 10109 PM To: Sandra Massa - Lavitt Cc: Thomas Moore; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Schelly Sustarsic; Steven Fowler Subject: Vote for LA Fitness I live in Leisure World Seal Beach. I love LA Fitness! It would be great for us seniors in Leisure World and the Seal Beach community. Thank you Steven Fowler From: Norma Poe Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 6:00 PM To: Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Thomas Moore; Schelly Sustarsic; Steven Fowler; Sandra Massa - Lavitt Subject: LA Fitness My name is Norma Poe and I live in Seal Beach, Leisure World. I am writing to express my support for the LA Fitness project at the Shops at Rossmoor. Please approve this project. It will be good for my community and for Seal Beach as a whole. Thank you. Norma Poe Leisure World Mutual Steven Fowler From: DOUGHTERY Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 10:16 AM To: Steven Fowler Hi Steve, I wanted to let you know I am a Seal Beach resident along with my wife. We also have two adult children who live in Seal Beach. All of us are strongly in Favor of the new gym. We know there has been a strong campaign against it. However as we discuss with our neighbors we find they are almost also all in favor of it. Just wanted you to get some positive feedback. Thanks, Chris & Mike Dougherty Steven Fowler From: Alan Chavez iiiiiiiiisam Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:44 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA fitness Our family is in full support of having LA fitness in the Rossmoore Center! Alan and Lorraine Chavez, 602 Central Ave. Seal Beach California Sent from my iPhone Steven Fowler From: Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 4:52 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness for Seal Beach Dear Mr. Fowler, We are Seal Beach residents and feel that an LA Fitness Center would be a valuable and welcome addition to our community. We urge you to support it. Thank you. Sincerely, Betty and Casimir Buldan Steven Fowler From: Edie Marchand Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 6:39 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA FItness My name is Edith Marchand. I live in Leisure World, Mutual 4. I am writing to express my support of the LA Fitness Project at the Shops at Rossmoor. Please approve this project. Sent from my iPad Apr 221702:11p Microsoft P.1 Subject: LA FITNESS PROPOSAL JOW Montecito Road, 10 Seal Beach, CA 90740 April 22, 2017 ATTN: Steve Fowler, Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach, California TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN The dose pro3dmity of the gym to nearby condo bedroom windows is of great concern along with the added crime and faulty car alarms sounding in addition to added traffic congestion. Car alarms alone sounding next to our condos can reach the vicinity of 90 DBA and fifty percent duty cycle for minutes at a time. How has this been accounted for in your study? Also where does your report address the noise increase due to replacement of landscaping? The existing cinderblock walls along with a huge gym structure will create a reverberation chamber amplifying traffic and conversation noises into our bedroom windows. The LA Fitness gym would be better suited in a different location for many reasons. 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V a M p p 5 O C Y W Q J O d o e't g n r N V V HEE '- m a $ a_` $ c ° ¢ e L y o n m pQ L W `n O C p 2 Cm J LL Y c o v ¢ c J c o E — o Elm V - o o c d j 6 r 6 N ! > c o c W > J W 6 C V _ S d - - z g o a N (9 C W'q O Q v ° a m u a qo c y c mLL Steven Fowler From: Glenn Ducat Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 9:37 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Public Comment RE LA Fitness Center Project Attachments: LA Fitness Center in the Shops at Rossmoor.docx Steve, Below are my written comments re the LA Fitness Center project. (I have also attached a Word document with these comments.) I hope to address the Planning Commission in May. I am writing in SUPPORT of the proposed LA Fitness Center in the Shops at Rossmoor. I have lived in Rossmoor for 35 years. I believe the proposed facility will be a GREAT ADDITION to our community. Traffic - One way or another, Seal Beach MUST fix the existing traffic mess in the vicinity of Sprouts. If the LA Fitness Center project is NOT approved, then Seal Beach will have to foot the bill to make the improvements. I believe the extra lanes on Rossmoor Center Way and the lengthened turn lane on Los AI Blvd will go a long way toward resolving the traffic flow (or lack of flow) at the Sprouts corner. Straight -thru and right- hand -turn cars will be able to enter and exit the area much more efficiently than they can now. They will not have to wait behind left- hand -turn cars headed to Sprouts and adjacent stores. Extra Traffic - 1) The new facility WILL generate more car traffic to the area. However, the number of car arrival and departures from LA Fitness will be a SMALL FRACTION of the number of cars currently moving through the area. Because of the added lanes (discussed above), I believe car movement through the area will be far better than it is now, even with the extra traffic generated by LA Fitness. 2) Also, it is important to note that traffic to the fitness center will have no fewer than 4 alternative routes for arriving and departing the area. The extra traffic added to any single route will be miniscule. 3) How much extra traffic will there be? I went to the LA Fitness at Bellflower and Stearns. At the peak hour of 5:15 pm to 6 :15 pm on a weekday, there were, by my count, 210 clients and staff in the facility. If the average "dwell time" per client at the facility is 120 minutes (typical of my workout) the maximum number of arrivals and departures would be 2 X 1.75 = 3.5 cars per minute. Mind you, this is the maximum possible number of trips at the busiest time of the day. This is a tiny fraction of the number of cars moving through the Sprouts intersection at the busiest time of the day. In addition, these 3.5 cars per minute would be arriving and departing along 4 possible routes to the front of the facility. In other words, on average, one car per minute would be moving along paths to or from the facility ��r _,fie of the day. This is virtually nothing compared to the current traffic numbers on Rossmoor Center Way. (At peak hours I've counted as many as 32 cars per minute moving through the Sprouts corner alone.) 4) But here's another important point. Many of the car trips to the facility will actually NOT be new or additional car trips. People these days don't typically make single purpose car trips. They drop something off at the Post Office, head over to the dry cleaner, stop at Sprouts to buy something for dinner and grab a coffee along the way. My point is: if someone adds a stop at the gym, this is NOT an ADDED car trip. That car was already on the road moving through our community. This Is NOT extra traffic. Also, consider a person who is an "early morning exerciser." That person is going to work. If he or she stops at the gym on their way to work, they are not an EXTRA car trip; they are the same car trip one hour or so earlier. Because those cars are now shifted to non -peak traffic hours in the community, the use of the gym facility has actually smoothed out the traffic flow into and out of Rossmoor. By shifting car trips out of peak hours, traffic flow could actually be better. The same is true in the evening hour for people returning from work. Recommendation to the Planning Commission - Require the developer to add numerous bike racks at the facility. This will further cut down on the number of car trips. Clients coming from Rossmoor will constitute a large proportion of facility users and the availability of bike racks will enhance the value of the gym experience. Benefit to the Community - The opponents of the facility imply that the facility will be very heavily used. However, if you think about it, what would a high number of users mean? Ti- would mean that a Significant number of people in the community are using the facility. It will be something they WANT. In other words, it would be a favorable addition to the community. The opponents also suggest that the club would require 20,000 members to be viable. That is pure fantasy and reflects a basic misunderstanding or misrepresentation by opponents. LA Fitness is a "membership" club. As a member, I can go to any LA Fitness anywhere. The viability of their business model doesn't depend on membership at any single club. In fact, the three other nearest LA Fitness facilities are on Valley View above Lampson, at the Traffic Circle and on Bellflower at Stearns. All three are newly renovated facilities. All three will continue to attract clients FROM THEIR IMMEDIATE COMMUNITIES. It's not as if residents of Garden Grove or Downey are suddenly going to begin driving out of their way to Rossmoor to use "our" gym; they will continue to use the facility closest to them. Therefore, the majority of the users will be from Rossmoor, the Highlands, College Park and Los Alamitos, i.e. - the LOCAL community. Furthermore, the facility will not have a high visibility location, e.g., next to the freeway. Therefore, the presence of the club will not attract casual passers -by; it will serve locals who know it's there. Building Community - Almost nobody has spoken about the benefits in terms of building community. I use the Bellflower LA Fitness typically 3 times a week. I very often see the same people there every time I go. People meet new friends, talk, spend time together. It's a "community" (of users) within the community. It's a unique meeting space that promotes people getting to know one another, something that doesn't typically happen at Kohl's. Sprouts or Staples, for example. Crime - The opponents suggest that the facility will substantially increase crime and imply that Rossmoor will be over -run with criminals if the facility is built. That is nonsense. I have been going to LA Fitness facilities (or its predecessor facilities) for over 20 years and never been the object of a crime. I was curious about the claim of increased crime, so I talked to staff at the two clubs where I go and they indicated that occasionally (rarely), a client who uses a locker without putting on a lock is the object of theft. Well, duh. That's just stupidity or laziness on the part of the client. The club even provides small, free, lockable lockers for people to stash wallets, keys and the like. I also talked to the LB Police, East Division (near the Bellflower facility) and the Garden Grove Police Department (near the Valley View facility.) Both indicated that there had been reports of thefts from cars parked at the facilities and that most often it was because the victim left valuables in the car when they entered the gym to workout. Again, I'm not surprised. A lot of crime is "crime of opportunity." Think about police warnings at Christmas time: "Never leave wrapped packages in plain sight in your car." It's just common sense. As I said, I have been going to LA Fitness facilities for a very long time and never experienced or even heard about clients being the object of crimes. Building the center will NOT cause a massive crime wave to sweep over Rossmoor as the opponents imply. Benefits to Nearby Neighbors - Opponents focus on the impact to local neighbors of the future facility. Because of the numerous pathways to and from the facility, I do not believe the facility will cause any significant increase in local traffic. But on the positive side, the nearest neighbors will have a world - class workout facility within easy walking distance. That will be a HUGE benefit to many of those property owners either for themselves as residents or for their tenants. It will not be a negative; it will be a highlighted benefit. I would strongly urge LA Fitness to offer nearby residents (residents whose property immediately abuts the parking areas for the new facility) a free annual membership for one year and half price membership for the second year. They may just find that having the club within easy walking distance is a real asset. Impact on Local Businesses - I have argued that in today's world, people seldom make single purpose car trips. They typically make several stops to accomplish several things. 1 fully expect the new facility will increase business at stores in the immediate vicinity of the facility (Sprouts, Staples, Kohl's, Babies Are Us, coffee shops, restaurants) and the increase business will come not from "added" car trips, but from 'multi- purpose" car trips that are already taking place. For example, when I go to the Bellflower LA Fitness, I nearly always stop at the Trader Joe's across the street. If I went to our local club in Rossmoor Shops, I would probably stop at Sprouts to pick up those items I needed - i.e., more local shopping. Local businesses should be highly favorable toward the new development. Impact on Competing Workout/ Exercise Businesses - LA Fitness serves its clients with great equipment and facilities, but it may not be "for everyone." Many people like smaller, individualized workout experiences. Those people will not join LA Fitness. They will continue to go to smaller gyms or utilize personal "group" workouts in the Rossmoor parks. It is also unlikely that masses of people will switch from 24 Hour Fitness (or similar) to LA Fitness because typically these gyms have an initial membership fee and their clients will have developed friends and familiarity in their existing facility. Most likely, they will continue with their own facility. However, if they do switch, it will be because LA Fitness has something unique to offer that they are not getting where they currently work out. If LA Fitness does have an impact on other workout businesses, it will be because the LA Fitness "product" is better. It will force the other businesses to serve its clients better. That's how the market works. Rights of the Land Owner - I believe a strong case can be made for allowing a land owner to use his asset as he sees fit, PROVIDED, the proposed facility is completely compatible with the local community values. For example, I would not be in favor of an X -rated movie theater, a porn shop or a marijuana dispensary. They would NOT be compatible with the nature of our local community. The proposed facility, however, conforms to and is compatible with community interests. SUMMARY - I whole - heartedly support the approval of the proposed LA Fitness Center in the Shops at Rossmoor. The facility will serve predominantly local residents and be an asset. The proposed roadway changes that the developer has proposed are 100% necessary; either Seal Beach will have to pay for those upgrades or the developer will have to pay as part of the development; it is more appropriate for the developer to foot the bill. The roadway additions will solve the majority of the EXISTING traffic problems and the minimal extra traffic arising from the operation of the facility. The developer has land use rights and as a matter of principle, those rights should be respected. Local police departments serving other LA Fitness facilities have not reported outrageous increases in crimes and especially not criminal activities overflowing into the surrounding communities; thefts of items from cars parked at such facilities have increased, but those crimes are completely avoidable if clients use common sense. Respectfully submitted, Glenn Ducat PUBLIC COMMENTS PROPOSED LA FITNESS CENTER IN THE SHOPS AT ROSSMOOR. I am writing in SUPPORT of the proposed LA Fitness Center in the Shops at Rossmoor. I have lived in Rossmoor for 35 years. I believe the proposed facility will be a GREAT ADDITION to our community. Traffic — One way or another, Seal Beach MUST fix the existing traffic mess in the vicinity of Sprouts. If the LA Fitness Center project is NOT approved, then Seal Beach will have to foot the bill to make the improvements. I believe the extra lanes on Rossmoor Center Way and the lengthened turn lane on Los Al Blvd will go a long way toward resolving the traffic flow (or lack of flow) at the Sprouts corner. Straight -thru and right- hand -turn cars will be able to enter and exit the area much more efficiently than they can now. They will not have to wait behind left- hand -turn cars headed to Sprouts and adjacent stores. Extra Traffic— 1) The new facility WILL generate more car traffic to the area. However, the number of car arrival and departures from LA Fitness will be a SMALL FRACTION of the number of cars currently moving through the area. Because of the added lanes (discussed above), I believe car movement through the area will be far better than it is now, even with the extra traffic generated by LA Fitness. 2) Also, it is important to note that traffic to the fitness center will have no fewer than 4 alternative routes for arriving and departing the area. The extra traffic added to any single route will be miniscule. 3) How much extra traffic will there be? I went to the LA Fitness at Bellflower and Stearns. At the peak hour of 5:15 pm to 6:15 pm on a weekday, there were, by my count, 210 clients and staff in the facility. If the average "dwell time" per client at the facility is 120 minutes (typical of my workout) the maximum number of arrivals and departures would be 2 X 1.75 = 3.5 cars per minute. Mind you, this is the maximum possible number of trips at the busiest time of the day. This is a tiny fraction of the number of cars moving through the Sprouts intersection at the busiest time of the day. In addition, these 3.5 cars per minute would be arriving and departing along 4 possible routes to the front of the facility. In other words, on average, one car per minute would be moving along paths to or from the facility at the busiest time of the day. This is virtually nothing compared to the current traffic numbers on Rossmoor Center Way. (At peak hours I've counted as many as 32 cars per minute moving through the Sprouts corner alone.) 4) But here's another important point. Many of the car trips to the facility will actually NOT be new or additional car trips. People these days don't typically make single purpose car trips. They drop something off at the Post Office, head over to the dry cleaner, stop at Sprouts to buy something for dinner and grab a coffee along the way. My point is: if someone adds a stop at the gym, this is NOT an ADDED car trip. That car was already on the road moving through our community. This is NOT extra traffic. Also, consider a person who is an "early morning exerciser." That person is going to work. If he or she stops at the gym on their way to work, they are not an EXTRA car trip; they are the same car trip one hour or so earlier. Because those cars are now shifted to non -peak traffic hours in the community, the use of the gym facility has actually smoothed out the traffic flow into and out of Rossmoor. By shifting car trips out of peak hours, traffic flow could actually be better. The same is true in the evening hour for people returning from work. Recommendation to the Planning Commission — Require the developer to add numerous bike racks at the facility. This will further cut down on the number of car trips. Clients coming from Rossmoor will constitute a large proportion of facility users and the availability of bike racks will enhance the value of the gym experience. Benefit to the Community — The opponents of the facility imply that the facility will be very heavily used. However, if you think about it, what would a high number of users mean? It would mean that a significant number of people in the community are using the facility. It will be something they WANT. In other words, it would be a favorable addition to the community. The opponents also suggest that the club would require 20,000 members to be viable. That is pure fantasy and reflects a basic misunderstanding or misrepresentation by opponents. LA Fitness is a "membership" club. As a member, I can go to any LA Fitness anywhere. The viability of their business model doesn't depend on membership at any single club. In fact, the three other nearest LA Fitness facilities are on Valley View above Lampson, at the Traffic Circle and on Bellflower at Stearns. All three are newly renovated facilities. All three will continue to attract clients FROM THEIR IMMEDIATE COMMUNITIES. It's not as if residents of Garden Grove or Downey are suddenly going to begin driving out of their way to Rossmoor to use "our" gym; they will continue to use the facility closest to them. Therefore, the majority of the users will be from Rossmoor, the Highlands, College Park and Los Alamitos, i.e. —the LOCAL community. Furthermore, the facility will not have a high visibility location, e.g., next to the freeway. Therefore, the presence of the club will not attract casual passers -by; it will serve locals who know it's there. Building Community — Almost nobody has spoken about the benefits in terms of building community. I use the Bellflower LA Fitness typically 3 times a week. I very often see the same people there every time I go. People meet new friends, talk, spend time together. It's a "community' (of users) within the community. It's a unique meeting space that promotes people getting to know one another, something that doesn't typically happen at Kohl's, Sprouts or Staples, for example. Crime — The opponents suggest that the facility will substantially increase crime and imply that Rossmoor will be over -run with criminals if the facility is built. That is nonsense. I have been going to LA Fitness facilities (or its predecessor facilities) for over 20 years and never been the object of a crime. I was curious about the claim of increased crime, so I talked to staff at the two clubs where I go and they indicated that occasionally (rarely), a client who uses a locker without putting on a lock is the object of theft. Well, duh. That's just stupidity or laziness on the part of the client. The club even provides small, free, lockable lockers for people to stash wallets, keys and the like. I also talked to the LB Police, East Division (near the Bellflower facility) and the Garden Grove Police Department (near the Valley View facility.) Both indicated that there had been reports of thefts from cars parked at the facilities and that most often it was because the victim left valuables in the car when they entered the gym to workout. Again, I'm not surprised. A lot of crime is "crime of opportunity." Think about police warnings at Christmas time: "Never leave wrapped packages in plain sight in your car." It's just common sense. As I said, I have been going to LA Fitness facilities for a very long time and never experienced or even heard about clients being the object of crimes. Building the center will NOT cause a massive crime wave to sweep over Rossmoor as the opponents imply. Benefits to Nearby Neighbors — Opponents focus on the impact to local neighbors of the future facility. Because of the numerous pathways to and from the facility, I do not believe the facility will cause any significant increase in local traffic. But on the positive side, the nearest neighbors will have a world -class workout facility within easy walking distance. That will be a HUGE benefit to many of those property owners either for themselves as residents or for their tenants. It will not be a negative; it will be a highlighted benefit. I would strongly urge LA Fitness to offer nearby residents (residents whose property immediately abuts the parking areas for the new facility) a free annual membership for one year and half price membership for the second year. They may just find that having the club within easy walking distance is a real asset. Impact on Local Businesses — I have argued that in today's world, people seldom make single purpose car trips. They typically make several stops to accomplish several things. I fully expect the new facility will increase business at stores in the immediate vicinity of the facility (Sprouts, Staples, Kohl's, Babies Are Us, coffee shops, restaurants) and the increase business will come not from "added" car trips, but from "multi- purpose" car trips that are already taking place. For example, when I go to the Bellflower LA Fitness, I nearly always stop at the Trader Joe's across the street. If I went to our local club in Rossmoor Shops, I would probably stop at Sprouts to pick up those items I needed — i.e., more local shopping. Local businesses should be highly favorable toward the new development. Impact on Competing Workout /Exercise Businesses — LA Fitness serves its clients with great equipment and facilities, but it may not be "for everyone." Many people like smaller, individualized workout experiences. Those people will not join LA Fitness. They will continue to go to smaller gyms or utilize personal "group" workouts in the Rossmoor parks. It is also unlikely that masses of people will switch from 24 Hour Fitness (or similar) to LA Fitness because typically these gyms have an initial membership fee and their clients will have developed friends and familiarity in their existing facility. Most likely, they will continue with their own facility. However, if they do switch, it will be because LA Fitness has something unique to offer that they are not getting where they currently work out. If LA Fitness does have an impact on other workout businesses, it will be because the LA Fitness "product" is better. It will force the other businesses to serve its clients better. That's how the market works. Rights of the Land Owner — I believe a strong case can be made for allowing a land owner to use his asset as he sees fit, PROVIDED, the proposed facility is completely compatible with the local community values. For example, I would not be in favor of an X -rated movie theater, a porn shop or a marijuana dispensary. They would NOT be compatible with the nature of our local community. The proposed facility, however, conforms to and is compatible with community interests. SUMMARY— I whole - heartedly support the approval of the proposed LA Fitness Center in the Shops at Rossmoor. The facility will serve predominantly local residents and be an asset. The proposed roadway changes that the developer has proposed are 100% necessary; either Seal Beach will have to pay for those upgrades or the developer will have to pay as part of the development; it is more appropriate for the developer to foot the bill. The roadway additions will solve the majority of the EXISTING traffic problems and the minimal extra traffic arising from the operation of the facility. The developer has land use rights and as a matter of principle, those rights should be respected. Local police departments serving other LA Fitness facilities have not reported outrageous increases in crimes and especially not criminal activities overflowing into the surrounding communities; thefts of items from cars parked at such facilities have increased, but those crimes are completely avoidable if clients use common sense. Respectfully submitted, Glenn Ducat March 15, 2017 Steve Fowler Assistant Planner Department of Community Development 211 Eighth Street Seat Beach, CA 90740 Mr. Fowler, I have resided at Leisure World in Seat Beach for over three years. When I first moved here, there was a proposal to develop a gym at The Shops at Rossmoor. If I recall correctly, this project was voted down because of its potential adverse impact on the residents in that area in the form of parking, traffic, noise, etc. Gyms are by reputation parking hogs. Nothing has changed since this last application. Therefore, I do not approve of this project. Respectfully, lOYa- ,� Jot � c Harrison 40 Monterey Road, Unit 10 Seal Beach, CA 90740 Steve Fowler March 16, 2017 Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach Dept. of Community Development 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, Ca. 90740 My name is Sandy Tessier and I live at 4825 Ironwood and I am writing to you to ask you please vote against the proposed construction of an LA Fitness gym at the Shops at Rossmoor. The construction site at the back parking lot of the Shops at Rossmoor is definitely not an ideal location for a gym. I visit the Shops every day and I do enjoy shopping there. However, the access streets to the Shops are congested as it is and the addition of the gym would add greatly to the traffic problems of that area. The nature of the gym business requires many cars constantly coming and going all day, using this already crowded access road. As I understand the City of Seal Beach will not gain very much revenue from the gym and the impact on the community will be so very negative. I could go on and on, but I won't. Just know that I am a constituent in College Park East speaking on behalf of myself and my family (who lives in Leisure World) and many friends and families who live in Rossmoor. Please vote against this construction. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Sandy Tessier 4OW Ironwood Ave. C(zristine 2fieodore dl�Donnis Rd. Rossmoor, CA 90720 Steve Fowler Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach Department of Community Development 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, CA 90740 March 21, 2017 Dear Mr. Fowler, I am writing to state my opposition to the proposed LA Fitness Health Club addition to the Shops at Rossmoor. There are multiple health clubs available to local residents within a short distance of our community. The Shops at Rossmoor have provided needed shopping in our area but have increased the traffic considerably as well. I am greatly concerned about the additional traffic that this club would bring to our community and ask you to oppose this project. Sincerely, Christine Theodore Steven Fowler 'rom: Jennifer Yee Eng > �.mt: Sunday, March 19, 2017 4:33 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: No to LA Fitness at Shops at Rossmoor Dear Mr. Fowler, I am emailing to say that I OPPOSE putting an LA Fitness Club at the Shops at Rossmoor. I am a Rossmoor resident, and I am familiar with the area since the time of the bowling alley. The traffic in and out of the Shops of Rossmoor is too intense already due to the present retail shops in the area. The entrance at Rossmoor Center Way is always clogged up, due to people going in and out for Sprout's Market, and the eateries in that area. The alternate entrances are also clogged up due to In and Out, and Chik Filet. People who commute in and out of the area along St. Cloud or Bradbury are often impatient and angry, honking at those who patiently wait to turn into their residential streets. The presence of the LA Fitness will increase traffic further because people who use fitness facilities come in and out on a routine basis several times a week. The addition of these commuters will cause further obstruction of traffic for people who live in the area already, go to school in the area, and people who bike in the area. We don't need LA Fitness for the area residents in the Shops at Rossmoor. There are several parks in Rossmoor, and plenty of biking opportunities. 24 Hour Fitness and Pure Barre are a reasonable distance away. If anything, e traffic will be a deterrent to potential club customers. Why not put LA Fitness in a less populated, less traffic congested area? Such as Old Ranch? Sincerely, Jennifer Eng Rossmoor resident 1 /. < /;o tc e— <L t e tom° Y� -. ✓�n� -� C� -ivLa 6'��r'L�tsO'°c v . 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Despite their rosy language to "provide a great retail experience that is aligned with the needs and desires of our customers" I have an opposite view as to the experience and effect such a fitness center would have on the local community. My concerns center on a number of issues but the most critical negative impact would be from: 1. Traffic- Despite any and all efforts to direct traffic to Seal Beach Boulevard it is completely apparent that the majority of traffic will quickly find the shortest route is via Montecito Road through Rossmoor. I spoke to the traffic engineer, at length, and viewed their measures. I have absolutely no doubt that there will be a marked increase in traffic in Rossmoor with an expected increase in accidents /incidents and a seriously lowered level of safety for residents including children. Their "estimates" for traffic on Montecito are clearly "guesses" and ignore common sense. Traffic within the Shops at Rossmoor is already horribly congested and makes for a situation and place I try to avoid currently because of the danger of driving within it. This will be significantly worsened by the proposed construction and exploding amount of traffic 2. Safety- With the expected increase in traffic through Rossmoor and the knowledge that surge times for attendance at a fitness center seem to parallel school opening and closing times I have a very strong concern that should this fitness center be built there will be a corresponding decrease in the safety of school children, as well as residents, during those times particularly. 3. Crime - Fitness centers are known to be "hot spots" for crime. It is no secret that anyone entering a gym will likely be there for at least one hour. As such, it is all too common to have such places staked out by groups of criminals with the intent of car break -ins. Any female entering the gym without a purse almost certainly has one in their car and becomes a target. It would be impossible for Seal Beach to station a police unit at the fitness facility from 5 AM to 11 PM to prevent this. The location is secluded enough to make this a very real concern. My wife had exactly just such an incident at the 24 hour Fitness Center in Cypress recently. The Cypress police related that this is exceptionally common and opening such a center at the Shops at Rossmoor only invites a higher level of crime into Seal Beach and also into Rossmoor itself. I have a much longer list of additional negative impacts such a fitness center would have on my community, Rossmoor, but the above seem to be the most critical. Despite the letter from Marty Potts suggesting there is an ever - growing interest in such a fitness center to be built, I remain totally unconvinced there is any such interest. I am aware of an extremely strong concern in the community that such a center will be a severely negative influence. More traffic, more crime, more congestion in a space that is severely impacted currently does not match up with JLL's notion of an experience "aligned with the needs and desires of our customers ". I strongly urge you and the Planning Commission to do everything in your power to /de er fission to build this fitness center. James Wethe Los Alamitos, CA 90720 Steven Fowler From: Kalani Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 7:20 AM To' Steven Fowler SuIL7-ct: Fwd: LA Fitness Is One Step Away Mr Fowler I signed up for emails from LA Fitness to get apprised of the proposed new club which I am strongly against. I received this email which asks that people fill in their email and name and immediately sends a slanted email to you encouraging the project without giving the option for people to edit. You are likely getting inundated with emails and I thought you should know why. I find this misleading and in poor taste. If my work email was suddenly flooded by emails I would not be happy and at least want to know why. Shame on LA Fitness for doing this and for attempting to speak on behalf of the people that would be negatively impacted by this. As a resident I strongly oppose this project. Traffic going North on Seal Beach Blvd is horrendous. Our daily commute to our children's school has doubled in time in 4 years with a natural increase in traffic. LA Fitness would only cause more gridlock. Furthermore, we live at the beach and work out there! There are many local businesses that provide great fitness classes from yoga to barre to Pilates to dancing. We don't need a sweaty gym. - K.rl mi Robinson Begin forwarded message: From: LA Fitness Seal Beach <lafitnesssealbeach9gmail.com> Date: April 12, 2017 at 6:00:13 AM PDT To: MW Subject: LA Fitness Is One Step Away Reply -To: < lafitnesssealbeach(i.�gmaii.com> J° J =. Dear Neighbor, Thank.you for your supporting the plans to bring LA Fitness to Seal Beach. -- ' "+ ` "+ ` IR the placement of the proposed 37,000 sq ft. gym facility within our residential neighborhoods and the negative impact of this project on the quality of life of our residents, and Wh,' 3s, the Rossmoor Woman's Club is greatly concerned over the ingress and egress and increased traffic imp�aets of several thousand trips per day on the community, which is comparable to similar traffic patterns of gyms in the area, and Whereas, the Rossmoor Woman's Club is greatly concerned over the impact to our four elementary schools located in Rossmoor and the potential safety problems which this project might incur. Be it resolved that: The Rossmoor Woman's Club hereby opposes the construction of the LA Health Club Project. PASSED AND ADOPTED AT THE ROSMOOR WOMAN' CLUB GENERAL MEETING, ApriI12, 2017 Sincerely, Sandy Tessier Past President Rossmoor Woman's Club Seal Beach Steven Fowler From: Priscilla Zehmer Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 12:43 PM Tc� Sandra Massa- Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com Subject: LA Fitness development To Whom This May Concern 1 am a Rossmoor homeowner, and I am TERRIBLY concerned about the proposed LA Fitness development. My family will NOT be effected by many of the issues listed above, but our community members will be effected. My kids are grown and I don't have to worry about them riding their bikes, but we have many community members with kids on bikes. My family won't be crossing Montecito due to parking on the nearby streets, but many community members will be... These negative effects are too high a price to pay for conveinence and money!" LA Fitness is lying about their anticipated numbers... compare them to their biggest competitor which brings in 2,300 members per day ... this is not to be compared to an independent gym such as Rossmoor Athletic Club, we need to realistice. Please make the responsible and moral decision to keep our community safe, please bring a business without the high risk. One person killed in this unsafe area is one too many and the City of Seal Beach and the property owner will be held responsible. Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter. Priscilla Zehner Concerned Homeowner r Steve Fowler April 10, 20172017 Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach Dept. of Community Development 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach, Ca. 90740 My name is Mary Holzgang and I am a condo owner at 12200 Montecito Rd. and I am writing to you to ask you please vote against the proposed construction of an LA Fitness gym at the Shops at Rossmoor. The construction site at the back parking lot of the Shops at Rossmoor is definitely not an ideal location for a gym. My bedroom windows will end up being 50 -60 feet from the gym. Not something I and my neighbors look forward to sleeping near. I visit the Shops at Rossmoor a lot and I do enjoy shopping there. However, the access streets to the Shops are congested as it is and the addition of the gym would add greatly to the traffic problems of that area. It is hard enough to exit the condos as it is now. The nature of the gym business requires many cars constantly coming and going all day, using this already crowded access road. As I understand the City of Seal Beach will not gain very much revenue from the gym and the impact on the community will be so very negative. Please vote against this construction. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Mary Holzgang Steven Fowler From: Sent: Tc` cc�—' Subject: Attachments: FYI Yours, W Forwarded message Ellery Deaton Thursday, April 13, 2017 9:22 PM Jill Ingram Robin Roberts; Steve Myrter; Crystal Landavazo; Steven Fowler Fwd: Woman's Club on LA Fitness LA Fitness letter 4- 17.doc From: Sandy Tessier Date: Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 9:19 PM Subject: Woman's Club on LA Fitness To: "Contactgfitnessintl.com" <Contactaa fitnessintl.com >, "infoCmdcp.com" <infognadcp.com >, "info(aisepfunds.com" <infoasepEMds.com >, "smassalavittAsealbeachca.gov" <smassalavittna sealbeachea.gov >, "ssustarsic(a)sealbeachea.gov" <ssustarsic@sealbeachca.eov >, "edeaton(2sealbeachca.eov" <edeaton a,sealbeachca.gov >, "tmoore(2asealbeachca.gov" <tmoore(a�sealbeachca.eov >, "mvaripapa(c)sealbeachca.gov" <mvgp aapann sealbeachca.gov >, "clandavazoAsealbeachca.gov" <clandavazona sealbeachca.gov >, "sfowler @sealbeachca.gov" <sfowler ,sealbeachca.gov >, "+ buildingofficia (a,sealbeachca.gov" <+ buildinROfficia (c�sealbeachca.gov >, "bmckinneLosealbeachca.gov" <bmvkinney&a sealbeachca.gov >, "lmedina sealbeachca.gov" <Imedina=,,sealbeachca.gov >, ",A elle.Steel@ocgov.com" <Michelle.Steel@ocgov.com> Hello, Pleased be advised that at the last meeting of the Rossmoor Woman's Club the attached resolution was passed by a unanimous vote. Although our club bears the name Rossmoor Woman's Club be are comprised of women from all the surrounding communities including but not limited to; Long Beach, Cypress, Garden Grove and of course Seal Beach. ROSSMOOR WOMAN'S CLUB RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION BY THE ROSSMOOR WOMAN'S CLUB STRONGLY OPPOSING THE LA FITNESS HEALTH CLUB PROJECT IN THE SHOPS AT ROSSMOOR IN SEAL BEACH, CA. FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS: Whereas, the Rossmoor:Woman's Club, a 56 year philanthrgpicorganization, with 110 members serving the :h, has great reservations over Apr 19 17 03:50p Microsoft 1 p.2 RSs ✓� MlchmeJti Morton INM Mantedtn Rd 40 Seal Beach, CA 90740.2702 #,15-:, a?AT7 RE: LA FUNESS GYM PROPOSAL 1 I 1 .I ..ti .f 1111 :I I.t ti 1`t' 1 n Itl •1 Yf It t 111 A 1 I 'Al ail 1 I > 111•' 1 Ili • t °f 1 t'1 .111 11 " X11 L ! Eli I II E I I S: P. %11 Y 1 1 IM I, 1 Y L1 t:o •r Ila u.' xt n .l .1 u:ru t> .Ir• rt 1 UI :. 1.1 .. + -1 I.u. :u.: • �' u.' 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It has been my experience that LA Fitness shows very little interest in addressing member and community concerns. I have been an LA Fitness member for 30 years. I attend several of the clubs in the Long Beach area. I have been in a battle with the LA Fitness Corporate office in Irvine and Peter Warren, the Long Beach area manager, since December when I sent him an email addressing several concerns. I have also tried to phone him. This past year in 2016 LA Fitness Corporate instituted a SafeSplash Swim School at club locations in the United States. This involves swim lessons for young children anywhere from babies to young adolescents. This takes place during paying members time and uses club facilities. At no time were members informed of this change in policy. This was an unprecedented move because it violates the LA Fitness contract with members which states "all guests must prove they are at least 18 years of age or older or are at least 14 years of age accompanied by a parent or legal guardian ". This brings in even more traffic to LA Fitness facilities in addition to traffic generated by paying members. They have created an uncomfortable atmosphere with teenage boys entering the women's locker room and visa versa. As a community member I am concerned that this also takes away funds from our Long Beach Recreation Department that offers swim lessons. Mr. Warren to date has not answered my email or phone calls. He also has not answered other members concerns. The corporate office ignores us. They refuse give us the names of higher up bosses or managers past Peter Warren to address member concerns. They are very secretive in the corporate office. LA Fitness does not care about its members concerns. This treatment also leads me to believe that they are just as unresponsive to community concerns. I hope that the Seal Beach City Council and Planning Commission looks into LA Fitness and its actual record. You can start with the Better Business Bureau. You will see all of the contract disputes members have with the corporate office. Don't let LA Fitness schmooze you! Why would anyone want a corporation to take up space in their city who feels that they owe nothing to their own paying members and the community in which they exist! They do not care about working to soften their footprint. It is quite the opposite. Please say no to LA Fitness. Sincerely, Marie Lutz fMKallin Ave. Long Beach, CA 90808 v Steven Fowler From: Amy Thomas Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:0 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Good afternoon Mr. Fowler, My name is Amy Thomas and I currently live in Rossmoor, directly behind the proposed LA Fitness site. I am extremely concerned about this proposal for many reasons. I understand that the city is looking at adding an LA Fitness to the already busy Rossmoor Center. For those, like myself who live in the area, the traffic already exceeds what the area is zoned for and can accommodate. When attempting to park at the shopping center, or walk to a shop with my children, the traffic congestion at the center is unacceptable. The Los Alamitos School District has been concerned with the amount of traffic schools alone have put onto the streets in this area. For the safety of our children and those that live in the community, they've lowered the bus fares to encourage parents to NOT drive their children to school. They have also promoted walk -to- school Wednesdays to decrease the amount of cars to and from schools. The addition of LA Fitness to the already congested area will only create and even bigger problem. In addition to the traffic issue, I am also concerned about the potential for an increase in crime rate as parked cars always bring break in's in Gym parking lots. This has been proven, documented and reported on by local and national media time and time again. We currently have a lot of options for fitness centers in this area. LA Fitness on Valley View and Chapman is not too far of a drive (only one more freeway exit). There is an Anytime Fitness on Westminster Ave in Seal beach, a Seal Beach cross fit on Los Alamitos Blvd, a Boeing Fitness center, the Joint Training base offers many inexpensive options for fitness as well as the City of Seal Beach and the City of Los Alamitos programs. Please consider the residents that will be impacted by this addition and vote NO on LA Fitness Thank you, ikAm and Jeff Thomas Brimhall Drive Rossmoor, Ca 90720 Dr. Amy T. Thomas Department of Anesthesiology University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine Steven Fowler From: Elizabeth S. Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 3:47 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: Thomas Moore Subject: Against LA Fitness in Rossmoor Hello Mr. Fowler, It is my understanding that you are receiving resident communications about the LA Fitness project that will be discussed at tonight's City Council meeting. We are so very lucky to have the businesses, jobs, and resources in the Rossmoor Center. The convenience and ease of these businesses increases quality of life for our residents and the neighboring communities. I love that my children can walk to Rite -Aid to get an ice cream cone when visiting their school friends who live in Rossmoor, and I love to buy fresh and healthy dinners at Sprouts on my way home from picking my kids up from school. However, I am very concerned that the traffic will become intolerable with the gigantic LA Fitness project proposed at the back of the center -- my kids will no longer be able to safely cross St. Cloud Dr /Montecito Rd, and I will choose to buy groceries at the Long Beach Trader Joe's to avoid nightmare traffic in the Center on my way home from work. I know the Council considered this request several months back, and I was heartened by the Council's decision to not approve the application. I strongly encourage the Council to again decline support for this project. Thank you, Elizabeth Stevenson Wisteria St Seal Beach, CA 90740 Sent from my iPhone Steven Fowler From: bigraccoon Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 1:25 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Opposed to LA Fitness at Rossmoor Shopping Center Dear Sirs, I am a 38 year Seal Beach resident, homeowner, & currently serve as a board member of the Rossmoor Park Homeowners Association. Last week at our homeowners meeting & EVERY monthly meeting for sometime our homeowners have spoken unanimously and strongly against the proposed LA Fitness. Myself & our homeowner have multiple concerns about this large building with its increased.traffic, noise, detriment to our families safety, and fear of many other untoward and adverse changes to our community and homes. The city should be representing its citizens & residents responsibly with care given to how their lives would be affected. LA Fitness is NOT a appropriate use for this property. If something is to be built next to our homes, please let it be something that is not so harmful to our families life and safety. My home is about 100 feet from the proposed LA Fitness. Please vote NO on the LA Fitness proposal. Your assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Craig Sandberg �Montecito Road 4W Seal Beach, CA 90740 (qmmm� Steven Fowler From: Ken Miller Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 9:54 PM To: Steven Fowler, Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Schelly Sustarsic; mjaripapa @sealbeachca.gov; tmooreedeaton @sealbeachca.gov; Crystal Landavazo Subject: LA Fitness Center I find it absolutely unbelievable that a project of that magnitude was ever even considered for that space. Its an absolute insult to this community of at least 3400 hundred homes & elementary schools where children walk, skate board & ride bikes all over. A gym of that size you typically see on major highways like Katella or PCH, not in the middle of a suburban neighborhood that is heavily trafficked already. Seal Beach is really socking it to the neighborhoods where their children attend our schools. Put it on PCH please !!! Nel Miller Salmon Drive, Rossmoor Steven Fowler From: Sent: To: Cc: Subject: Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: > Dear Steve, Melendy Fabian now Monday, April 24, 2017 11:57 AM Steven Fowler coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Fwd: Proposed LA Fitness Gym Facility Behind Sprouts > With all due respect, it is my opinion that building another gym > facility at this location will have a detrimental affect on the local populace due to a variety of reasons. Having been a past resident of Manhattan Beach, I have seen the negative impacts on local residents firsthand especially due to traffic congestion. This was one of the primary factors that prompted my family's relocation to CPE over nineteen years ago. > Since that time, we have initially enjoyed the commercial redevelopment of this area, including the various options for shopping, eateries, etc. However, we are at a juncture now where traffic on Seal Beach Blvd. and Katella Ave. has become burdensome, especially before and after work. Adding a LA Fitness Center to this community will only increase the bottleneck that residents currently encounter. >The parking issue is another concern. When overcrowding occurs, the answer in most cities, including the downtown area of Seal Beach, is to install parking meters or pay parking lots to enhance revenue for the city coffers. This always seems to be a natural progression when parking becomes a premium in an area. People then resort to parking in residential areas, thereby affecting street parking for friends or relatives visiting local residents. The only way to preclude this from occurring, is to build a multilevel parking structure that now becomes an eyesore for the local inhabitants and could cause a detrimental affect on the gym members, especially for an unaccompanied female. > Also, as it is, I can already visualize gym members utilizing the library parking lot because they are unable locate a viable spot dedicated for the gym. This will become an issue for library patrons since parking in that area is already at a premium. > These are just a few of a multitude of issues that will create a deleterious effect on our local community, especially given the fact that there are many options already available to us if we decide to purchase a gym membership. > Sincerely > Kevin and Melendy Fabian >Sentfrom my iPad Steven Fowler From: Lisa Mais Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 12:38 PM To: Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com Cc: Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official Subject: LA Fitness project SB Hi my name is Lisa Mais, I am addressing this letter to all involved in the LA Fitness Project. I have lived in Rossmoor for 24 years. I live right by Rush Park, very, very close to where they would like to build the LA Fitness. The negative changes that will impact all of Rossmoor, Rossmoor Highlands, College Park because of the this Project are SIGNIFICANT. The cons out way any of the Pro's. I attended one of meetings at the Old Ranch. I had many questions, but the one I ask over and over to the people there and put it in writing as well was (because no one would answer me): They said there was a need for an athletic club in the area. My question was who did they survey? Because they did not survey ONE person I know in Rossmoor. The project's potential impact on parking, traffic congestion and noise, crime and safety our communities residence are all the reasons why I STRONGLY do not want an athletic club in our area. Since the Shops at Rossmoor was built the traffic has become so bad that I try not to drive in that area between 2:30- 7:30PM daily. If you build this facility it will be intolerable. It is so obvious that SB Revenue will go up, the mall owner will see more profits and LA Fitness will profit the most all. I belong to both Anytime Fitness and 24 Hour Fitness. I use them both. I don't mind driving to them. We have many Fitness facilities in our area why do we need another one? This business is not the right fit for the location. Please make the responsible and moral decision to keep our community safe. Lisa Mais Scott Alan Rivers f 4 2 �7 116 Attu_ Steve Fowler, Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach Department of Community Development 211 Eighth Street Seal Beach. CA. 90740 April 24, 2016 Mr. Fowler: I am a ten -year resident of Rossmoor and I oppose the proposed LA Fitness project in the Shops at Rossmoor. First, I should note that I am a licensed California architect. I have BA in Architectural Design from Princeton University and a Master of Architecture degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. As a design critic, I've participated in design juries at Harvard, USC, SciArc and the Boston Architectural Center. As an architect, I've submitted and obtained planning approvals for numerous projects, both large and small, in varinirs jurisdictions. I've also assisted Planning staff in writing code and have authored design guidelines for large planned residential communities. As a result, I'm quite familiar with the Planning approval process when adjacent neighborhoods are involved. I've participated as an advocate for both residents and developers. In my experience, empathy and fairness offer the best results for all. For the past ten years, I lived in a house on the corner of Montecito and Woodstock Road in Rossmoor. Our driveway fronts Montecito Road. This makes me somewhat of an expert regarding daily traffic conditions along this portion of road. Most days during peak traffic hours, it can take up to ten minutes to safely exit our driveway. This is due to a seemingly endless chain of cars, drivers, taking their children to school and /or heading to work. There's virtually no pause to this Montecito traffic flow because it's not regulated by traffic lights. There's two lanes going each direction on Montecito with only stop signs to regulate this flow. As a result, traffic briefly hesitates but never stops. Another condition of living along Montecito is the speed and carelessness of many of the drivers. As you may know, parents often have to rush to get their children to school (I have two children myself so I know). Montecito and Foster are the two main feeder streets for the five elementary schools and within Rossmoor. For those parents traveling to our two middle schools, our high school and /or St. Hedwigs, Montecito is tha preferred route used to bypass the traffic lights of Seal Beach Blvd. Unfortunately, there is a high concentration of commuter traffic along this portion of Montecito Road. Montecito also serves as the main access road for a number of large condominium complexes near to the proposed LA fitness site. All of these households have people who go to and from work every morning/ evening. It's common knowledge, that commuters often drive at excessive speeds and cause accidents. Woodstock Road, Rossmoor, CA 90720 As a result of everything mentioned above, drivers pedestrians and bicyclists currently have to use extreme caution while navigating this portion of Montecito Road. In my opinion, any additional traffic on Montecito no matter how small only makes the problem worse. Existina Parki a Issues Along Montecito Road Street parking has become an issue for Rossmoor homeowners living on the West side of Montecito Road. Every night, drivers park their vehicles in front of our homes filling all available spots. As a result, homeowners have to deal with: the inconvenience having nowhere for their own house guests to park, the inconvenience of having nowhere to put out our trash cans on trash day, trash left on their lawns, damage done to landscape, broken sprinkler heads from the passengers carelessly exiting their vehicles, and unnecessary noise after hours (FYI, most Rossmoor homes only have single - glazed windows). So, who are these drivers parking in front of our homes? Based upon my own observation, it seems that most are residents or guests of the condominiums on the East side of Montecito. It is important to note that many of these condominium properties are in Seal Beach. So in effect, a Seal Beach parking issue has become a Rossmoor problem. This is not a fair condition and is a planning issue that the City of Seal Beach should acknowledge. Inadequacies Within the Traffic Study, The latest traffic study submitted by the developer was pretty typical: statistical data derived from tables and observation all packaged to support a desired conclusion. However, in my review I noted some problematic omissions which deserve further attention: Insufficient Plata Regarding Bicycle and Pedestrian Accidents - The traffic study data regarding bicycle and pedestrian accidents along Montecito and Bradbury is not adequate. Many bicycle and pedestrian accidents involving cars are considered minor and are not reported unless there is a physical injury. The developer's traffic study downplays the issue by only included information for one year, 2015. In the ten years that I have lived here, I have witnessed more than enough incidents to cause major concern. For more insight on what it's like for nearby residents, I suggest that you monitor the Rossmoor "Next Door" App. Nearly every other week, there are complaints posted about traffic and pedestrian /bicycle safety along Montecito and Bradbury. Generalized Trip Data - The traffic study trip data for fitness centers is based upon a National average. I have no doubt that the trip data for gyms in fitness- crazed Southern California far exceed the National average. Perhaps a more accurate study would base trips on local fitness clubs servicing the immediate area (ie. The 24 -Hr Fitness on Katella). Omission of Existing Traffic Hazards - Two existing condominium properties on the East side of Montecito have main driveway curb cuts far too close to the street intersection at Rossmoor Center Way. This is in violation of typical public works and transportation standards. In addition, there is another condominium driveway gate uncomfortably close to the congested Sprouts intersection. None of these hazards have been acknowledged in the traffic study. Incorrect Traffic Flow Forecast - The traffic study seems to imply that the majority of vehicle access to/ from the proposed facility will be from Seal Beach Blvd. This Is probably based on the idea that the destination is "the Shops of Rossmoor" in general. However, an honest study of a typical gym user's habits would indicate something different (I'm a longtime gym user, too). Gym users do not typically come to a mall to visit their gym and then multiple stores. During peak hours, most come just to squeeze in a quick 20 -30 minute workout or class before /after work and then head out. In the case of this project, can envision someone maybe stopping at Sprouts to pick up something but that's about it. My concern is that after many trips to the proposed gym, users will not have the patience to deal with the traffic delays of the "Sprouts intersection" nor the traffic light at Seal Beach Blvd. Instead, they will find a quicker route by driving through the residential neighborhood using Montecito, Bradbury and St.Cloud. In effect, what will likely happen is that the "main entrance" to /from this gym will be from the residential residential streets not from a commercial street. Typically, this is considered a bad idea by planners 2 because of the potential negative impact on the residential community (ie. added traffic /noise, potential for crime, lower quality of life). Yet, the traffic study focuses on mitigating traffic issues to /from Seal Beach Blvd. It practically ignores the reality that the "main entrance" to the gym will come from a residential street (that is shared with Rossmoor) and through a residential neighborhood (that is mostly Rossmoor). For this reason, I feel that the traffic study is a bit misleading and may be too partial towards the developer objectives. Inadequacies Within the Building and Site /Landscape Design As noted above, I d4 have experience as an architectural critic so I cannot remain silent,... This project is obviously a corporate prototype building and seems to have been "dropped" to fit onto this site. The site plan has been minimally developed. The sole intent being to meet tenant standards, code requirements and the needs of the property owner. As a result, the design is not at all site - specific nor sympathetic to the adjacent residential community. In.my opinion, it fails in the following ways: Building Setback - Most big -box commercial buildings are sited with significant setbacks to minimize their oppressive scale. However if you study the current plan by the developer, you will note a particularly terrible condition along Rossmoor Center Way. They intend to have a five -foot wide concrete sidewalk installed directly adjacent to a thirty -foot high building wall. There is a planter bed, but that hardly compensates for the claustrophobic pedestrian experience heading to /from the shops. Building Aesthetic - This building has a brutal, industrial aesthetic along Rossmoor Center Way to the North and facing the condominiums to the West: thirty-foot tall tilt -up concrete panels, no wall recesses, no doors, glass - block and fixed pane windows. This aesthetic is more appropriate for a parking garage. It does not complement the pedestrian- oriented, streetscape character of the adjacent commercial buildings (ie. Sprouts, Panera). It doesn't repeat any of the established thematic elements (ie. clerestory tower element, emphasis on the ground floor streetscape, brick/patterned walkways, awnings, patios flanked by raised planters,... ). Instead, it is a large box similar to Kohl's or Toys R Us,... EXCEPT for the fact that it is placed uncomfortably close to a residential neighborhood and abutting a major pedestrian thoroughfare for the community, Rossmoor Center Way. Lighted Sign - The developer's building elevations show lighted signage and lighted super - graphics, all within clear view of residential properties. This creates highly undesirable light pollution. It will also impact the property values of adjacent residential properties. The developer should omit all lighted signage that faces, or is in view of, adjacent residential properties and neighborhoods. Pedestrian Access - I may be mistaken, but 1 thought that the Shops at Rossmoor was supposed to be developed as a pedestrian - friendly mall. If so, then I would encourage the site design for this facility to include a direct, sidewalk path -of- travel access from Rossmoor Center Way all the way to the walkways in front of Home Goods. Currently, many people walk this path though the mostly empty parking lot. Seems like a good idea to include this pedestrian - friendly feature. Parking - Unfortunately, any new project proposed for this site will increase the off - street parking situation in Rossmoor (refer to my comments above "Existing Parking Issues along Montecito Road "). Seems to me that the developer should at least offer a partial solution to mitigate. Conclusion According to an article I read on fitness clubs, the most desirable location is: (1.) within 15 minutes by car of a residential neighborhood and (2.) sited within a shopping center. Based upon this, I understand the developer's interest in pursuing this site. While the community would gain yet another fitness club and the landowner and the developer would establish a profitable investment, far too many adjacent Seal Beach and Rossmoor residents would be impacted negatively by this poorly - planned venture. That is not fair, and it's not what good neighbors do. Let's be the better community we all are. I strongly encourage the City of Seal Beach to deny approval of this LA Fitness project. Best Regards, Scott A. Rivers Steven Fowler From: Sherri Witkowski Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 4:30 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: coalitonagainstlafitness@gmail.com Subject: Letter Against LA Fitness Attachments: Letter Against LA Fitness 4-20-17.docx Sent from Mail for Windows 10 I am writing to express my strong opposition to the proposed LA Fitness Project. There are many reasons this project is not a good fit for that site. You know these various reasons from hearing from the community at the City Council meetings so I won't list them again for you. There are many other types of businesses that are a good fit that would bring in more tax revenue than this elephantine gym. This proposed titanic -sized gym will create many impacts on the surrounding residents. You know this. Why are you ignoring the facts? Why are you ignoring the larger community that supports the Shops at Rossmoor and provides The City with tax revenue? Those in your community (Los Alamitos, Rossmoor and Seal Beach) can vote with their dollars and choose to no longer shop at The Shops at Rossmoor. We all survived before the shops were there. We can do it again. There are many other places we frequent during the week in our travels for work, children's activities, etc. and we can exercise our dollars to get you to understand THIS IS A BAD FIT FOR THE COMMUNITY. Have you read about the crime that follows the installation of every LA Fitness that is built? If you haven't, please go to Google and type in "LA Fitness Brings Crime" or "LA Fitness Equals Crime" and read all about it. That would be another reason for me to not venture into the Shopping Center. Whatever little amount you gain as a city by putting in this gym, you will lose several times over when you lose patrons and when the Seal Beach Police department must hire additional officers, hire more dispatchers, buy more patrol cars, etc. to deal with the crime. Please vote wisely on this project. Put in something that is a better ft for the site and the community. Thank you for helping to preserve the wonderful quality of our community. Sherri Witkowski,,= Copa de Oro Dr., Los Alamitos, CA 90720 Steven Fowler From: Robert Zato Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 9:24 AM To: Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Schelly Sustarsic; Mike Varipapa; Thomas Moore; Ellery A. Deaton; Crystal Landavazo; Steven Fowler; Steven Fowler; + buildingofficia @sealbeachca.gov, Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina Subject: LA Fitness Club Recently I was returning from Temecula along the I -15 freeway. I noticed a few LA Fitness buildings alongside the freeway as I drove home. Two were in shopping centers sandwiched between other businesses and I think one was sort of out by itself just off the freeway. The big difference with your proposal to put a LA Fitness center in the shopping center is that your choice of location could not be worse. It will be sandwiched in next to condominiums where people are CURRENTLY LIVING. The clubs I saw were alongside the freeway, away from private housing where they belong. Your choice for the Rossmoor Center could not be worse. How would you like to be living there and every night at 11PM (while you're trying to sleep) you're awoken by car doors slamming and people talking loudly as they leave the club. Please consider the people who are living in those condos! YOUR CHOICE OF LOCATION COULD NOT BE WORSE! Put the club out next to Seal Beach Blvd where it will not disturb people living in the condos! I live just down the street on Copa de Oro and I'm sure people will be parking in front of my house because there will not be enough parking by the club! Bob Zato Steven Fowler From: Zoe Sent: Wednesday, April 19,20173:2 PM To: Building Official; Thomas Moore Cc: Crystal Landavazo; medina @sealbeachca.gov, michellesteel @ocgov.com; Steven Fowler Subject: FW: LA Fitness Project SB To All Involved in the LA Fitness Decision, I'm a person who goes to the gym everyday and I'm happy to drive 3 miles to my gym. Although, a gym 1 mile away from my home would be conveinent, I do not believe this is the safest choice for our community. Luckily my kids are grown, for my piece of mind, but many families have young children and we need to come together as a community, as advocates for the kids of our neighborhood. A big corporate gym and the many cars it would bring to the area is not a safe fit for The Shops At Rossmoor. Please bring a business to the center without the negative impacts. Please think safety first. Thank you, Zoe Hagmann Steven Fowler From: Cheryl Roeder Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 12:16 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: No to LA Fitness Good afternoon Steve Fowler, My name is Cheryl Roeder, and I currently live in College Park East. I am a concerned Seal Beach resident. I understand that once again the city is looking at adding a LA Fitness to the already busy Rossmoor Center. For those, like myself who live in the area the traffic is already too much. Frequently you wait 2 -3 times just to turn in on Rossmoor Way, and sometimes 2 -3 times on St Cloud too. Due to of the heavy traffic I do not allow my children to ride their bike up to the center, instead we always drive. I know the Los Alamitos School District has been concerned with the amount of traffic parents put on the area that they've lower the bus fares to encourage parents to not drive their students. We've taken advantaged of this. Both my children ride the bus to help ease the traffic. Adding the gym would only make that problem worse. We currently have a lot of options for fitness centers. Pure Bare on Seal Beach, LA Firness on Valley View and Chapman, 24 hour on Patella, and many others that I haven't listed. Please vote NO on LA Fitness. Thank you, Cheryl Roeder Steven Fowler From: Emerson Fersch Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 1:57 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: Re: LA Fitness Dear Mr. Fowler I am a resident of Rossmoor, having just moved there about 3 years ago. I want to voice my opposition to the proposed establishment of the LA Fitness gym. My only question for any council person who supports the gym is this: Do any of them currently have or have had in the past children that attended) a school in Rossmoor? If so, they are aware of how difficult it is to get in and out of that neighborhood in the mornings and afternoons. It is actually absurd— I work in Long Beach and learned quickly that if I want to get out of the neighborhood in less than 10 -12 minutes, I need to leave well before 8am or well after 830. Adding gym traffic to the equation will only make it worse. This is an issue that affects all area residents equally, regardless of their exact address. I have actively trained at a gym for close to 30 years. I love working out at the gym. And I truly see the attraction to bring one to this center. That said, lhiu Iraffic in the area is bad enough already, and to add an additional high volume draw to the area will only make it worse. Thank you for your time and consideration. Emerson Fersch Saint Albans Dr Los Alamitos /Rossmoor Steven Fowler From: Lori Abbott Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 12:27 PM To: Sandra Massa- Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com; Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official; coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: LA Fitness Project To Whom It May Concern, I am writing to protest the establishment of an LA Fitness Health Club in the Rossmoor Shops complex. The location proposed is already adversely affected by excessive traffic. The current situation is a seven day problem that will be aggravated by more traffic in the Rossmoor area. Public studies have shown the majority of Health Club attendees come from outside of the area where the Health Club is located. Simply put the benefits that the Health Club will provide will not enhance or benefit the Rossmoor community but will only enrich LA Fitness. In the final analysis, I urge a reconsideration of a different location for the proposed LA Fitness health Club. Richard Martin Seal Beach Resident Steven Fowler From: Lori Abbott Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 12:19 PM To: Sandra Massa- Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com; Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official; coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: proposed LA Fitness Club To Whom it may concern, I am originally from Seal Beach, my parents are original owners in Seal Beach CPE, and still reside in Seal Beach CPE. I have seen many changes throughout the years and a increase of traffic 100% on Seal Beach blvd. While I don't oppose progress, a major chain health club of this size would increase the traffic and congestion to the area surrounding rossmoor and seal beach to unbearable levels. The Rossmoor center is already over run by to much traffic and has many Rossmoor residents shopping elsewhere to avoid the highly populated area. The small town feel is why so many families in Rossmoor,Seal Beach and the surrounding areas have chosen to make a home, and with a major chain health club that is open 24hours and so public, that feeling of a small community will be gone. I urge the a reconsideration of a different location for the proposed LA Fitness health club. Lori Abbott Rossmoor Resident Steven Fowler From: julie guntner Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 4:05 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: No to LA fitness Good afternoon, My name is Julie Saum and I am a Rossmoor resident. My husband, young daughter and myself live at4lftChristy Ln. near rush park. I am writing to let you know that we strongly oppose the LA fitness development. We are young family in our 30's who care very much about a healthy lifestyle. This is exactly why we oppose this development. Several times a week we walk up to the center for our shopping. We also ride bikes and run in the neighborhood as a family. A development of this size is in conflict with our ability to continue living this type of healthy lifestyle. The increase of traffic will directly affect our ability to continue with these activities in the vicinity of the proposed development. We will not become members of the fitness center and, in fact, will go out of our way to avoid additional traffic in that area should the fitness center be built. This means that I will take my shopping business elsewhere, where it is less congested. I urge you to reconsider this development. It is not an appropriate location and it has not taken the residents into consideration. Thank you, Julie Guntner Saum Sent from my iPhone Steven Fowler From: Elizabeth Schulz Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 4:52 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: L. A. Fitness My husband and I have lived in Rossmoor since 1959. We have seen many changes and additions to the Rossmoor Shopping Center. Change and progress are needed and most of the time are welcomed. However, building an L. A. Fitness behind Sprouts is most unwelcome. We are opposed to the increase in traffic (already out of control), noise and safety issues and increased crime to our neighborhood. We hope that the Seal Beach City Council will be a good neighbor to our community and reject the L.A. Fitness proposal to build in the Rossmoor Shopping Center! Steven Fowler From: Crystal Landavazo Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 11:44 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: FW: NO on the LA Fitness Project! Comments. Crystal Landavazo, Senior Planner City of Seal Beach - 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740 (562) 431 -2527, Ext. 1324 For Information about Seal Beach, please see our city website: httu:llwww.sealbeachca.gov NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this communication to the intended recipient, please advise the sender by reply email and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. From: Felice Sussman [mailto Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 1:59 PM To: Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Crystal Landavazo Subject: NO on the LA Fitness Project! The proposed LA Fitness is a BAD project for our community- -the increases in traffic, noise, and crime and the threat to the safety of our children are all compelling reasons to REJECT this development. Even the developer's (ILL) senior vice president, Marty Potts, thinks it's a bad fit for our community. Here is a direct quote from him in the OC Register's Sunday newspaper from April 9, 2017 (Local section; article by Susan Christian Goulding): "Commercial properties and residential properties just don't live together well ". Thank you in advance for rejecting this project on behalf of our community. Felice Sussman In Steven Fowler From: Jeff AbramsO Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 5:32 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: No No No on the LA Fitness Gym in Roosmoor Hello, My experience as a lifelong Gym member at 24 Fitness and Bally's and even back to Jack La Lanne was the surrounding stores, neighborhoods and people will be majorly inconvenienced to a large degree, They will have a lesser quality of life. The residents of Roosmoor already have too many thefts.. I am a 2 time car theft victim. But worse, there will be a group of people that we laughingly call Gym Rats. Sad truth be told, many people use the Gym for their most basic hygiene and sometimes live in their cars. The traffic is already out of hand for us Roosmoor residents. No No No on this project Jeff Abrams Roosmoor resident for 17 years Steven Fowler From: Donald Martin Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 6:14 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Parking in Roosmoor Dear Mr Fowler We moved to Rossmoor in 1992 because of the wonderful community it is and was. I am watching this wonderful place being destroyed before my very eyes. Please note we are very much against the development of the 24 hour fitness plan. I respect the right of the owner to develop the property however this is simply not good for this community! Very truly yours Donald Martin Orlando Road Los Alamitos,CA 90720 Steven Fowler From: Laurie Purcell MEMENIMM Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 7:48 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness I am totally OPPOSED to the new LAFitness moving into the Rossmoor shopping center. it's a negative from the traffic situation, crime, parking, and too many people!!! Enough already!! Laurie Purcell Coleridge dr 90720 Steven Fowler From: Sally Allen Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 11:32 AM To: Steven Fowler Cc: coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: L.A. Fitness proposal As a resident of Seal Beach, I strongly oppose the new development proposed by L.A. Fitness in the Rossmoor area. My opposition is focused on the addition of more vehicle congestion along Seal Beach Blvd., which is already an issue, and the fact that there will be even more congestion due to people getting to the gym site at the end of the work day or prior to work. Prior to work is when students are going to their schools. And, it has already been noted that because of the amount of students, starting times have had to be staggered. As a resident of Old Town, I try to time my access over the bridge to get to businesses as much as possible at times where there is less traffic. But, even so, getting from the Bridge to Katella with the many stop signs is already time consuming. With more traffic due to L.A. Fitness it will cause even more issues. We do not need added congestion along Seal Beach Blvd and this will only be heightened with the addition of L.A. Fitness and the size of the "complex" they are proposing. Already we have Anytime Fitness in Seal Beach which accommodates a great number of members and is open 24 hours which is a bonus. L.A. Fitness is not offering this time frame thus there will be a greater impact of users during their open hours since there are specified times of use. With Anytime Fitness' hours, those who use have a greater ability to use the facility at all hours. Also, Anytime traffic flow getting to the facility is not impacted by going down Seal Beach Blvd. for access and attracts those coming from Westminster. I strongly oppose permitting of the new gym due to what I have mentioned but also feel many of the other issues raised in comments are also applicable to my position. Please do not vote for this new facility!! The only advantage I can see would be added revenue to the city. But, at what cost to the inconveniences and frustrations of those of us in the community and who live here. Sally Allen 1•, Iftil` Street Seal Beach 90740 Steven Fowler From: Chellebird Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 3:40 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Good afternoon Mr. Fowler, My name is Michelle Muckey and I currently live in Rossmoor, right behind the proposed LA Fitness site. I am very concerned about this proposal. I understand that the city is looking at adding an LA Fitness to the already busy Rossmoor Center. For those, like myself who live in the area, the traffic is already too much. I know the Los Alamitos School District has been concerned with the amount of traffic schools alone have put on the area, so they've lowered the bus fares to encourage parents to not drive their children. My older son attends Oak and we have taken advantage of the cheaper bus fare to help ease the traffic. Adding this gym would only make that problem worse. In addition to the traffic issue, I am also concerned about the potential for the crime rate to increase as it will bring in people from out of the area. Also, a parking lot full of cars will encourage and entice petty thieves. We currently have a lot of options for fitness centers in this area. LA Fitness on Valley View and Chapman is not too far of a drive (only one more freeway exit). Please consider the residents that will be impacted by this addition and vote NO on LA Fitness. Thank you, Michelle Muckey Steven Fowler From: Karen Quinn Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 11:38 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Proposed LA Fitness Project As one who has grown up in Rossmoor, since 1959, 1 have seen so many changes and most brought about by Seal Beach. Some good and some not so good, but this is over the top. LA Fitness is not coming to Seal Beach it is coming to a small, already maxed out shopping center dropped right in the middle of a residential neighborhood of approximately 10,000 people. I worry about the children, and the more elderly folks along with the rest of us. It is not appropriate and will make a bad traffic area into an even worse problem. Karen Quinn Rossmoor Resident Steven Fowler From: Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 12:04 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: Opposition to proposed LA Fitness Club Mr. Fowler, I am opposed to the proposed site where the LA Fitness Club is to be built. I live in Rossmoor and do not want to see my community burdened with the increased heavy traffic it will bring to Montecito and other streets in Rossmoor. We already have heavy traffic issues doe to School drop off and pick ups and vehicles leaving the shopping center currently. The LA Fitness' claim of 6500 members, is vastly under represented, there will be thousands more members that will most defiantly impact the neighborhood. You don't need to be a traffic engineer to realize this. Because Seal Beach has not rectified the long standing problem with the condominium properties parking issue on Montecito, those resident's vehicles will be displaced onto the Rossmoor community. This is not acceptable. I am very disappointed at the attitude and lack of respect the ownership group has taken in their attempts to mitigate some of these issues. It seems they don't really care about these concerns. Again, I am in opposition to the LA Fitness Proposal (Rossmoor Center) for these reasons: Traffic Noise Public Safety /crime Parking Submitted by, Tony DeMarco Bostonian Dr Rossmoor, CA 90720 Steven Fowler From: Cunningham Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 12:35 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: EIR L.A. Fitness Attachments: L A Fitness Letter.docx Good day Mr. Fowler: I have attached a letter regarding the proposed L.A. Fitness Center for Rossmoor Shops and the Environmental Impact Report. My wife and I appreciate your consideration in this matter. Respectfully, Gary & Joyce Cunningham Woodstock Road Rossmoor, CA 90720 April 22, 2017 Steve Fowler Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach Dear Mr. Fowler: I hope you are doing well. I am writing this letter in regards to the proposed L.A. Fitness Center that is planned for the Rossmoor Shops Center. We, my wife and I moved into our Rossmoor community in November of 1987, 3 months after we were married. We have raised our 2 children here and we are very happy living in the Seal Beach, Rossmoor, and Los Alamitos community. We are very distressed about this proposed gym that will be interfering in our specific area. The very much additional traffic, crime, noise and other unwanted aspects that it will bring along, at all hours, will really upset our lives, homes and community. I attended a planning meeting and spoke up against this proposed Fitness center. Many many objections were brought up at this meeting not only by the people of Rossmoor that attended but also Seal Beach residents (that have to take their children to the Los Al schools and pass by on Seal Beach Blvd). Not one resident spoke in favor of this proposal. We are still at a loss why this proposed fitness center is even being brought up again since it failed the first time. The EIR presented at the planning meeting (April S) was a very leaky document at best as you should know since you were at this meeting. The traffic indicated in the report didn't even use the area concerned traffic patterns. Bottom line, widening the left turn lane at SB Blvd. and Rossmoor Center Way will alleviate nothing. It is already a major problem and that is not even taking into consideration the widening of Rossmoor Center Way at Panera Bread and Sprouts only to that intersection. Thus creating a huge bottleneck there! This makes no sense. I indicated in my 5 minute address that the people coming and going to the Fitness Center (and more than likely all people coming to the Rossmoor Shops) will take the path of least resistance and drive in by using St. Cloud — Montecito —and Bradbury thus thru the back door (All Traffic in Rossmoor) to Rossmoor Center Way. We in Rossmoor have no representation here all we can do is write letters and protest. Seal Beach will get additional tax base revenue and we will get all the crime and traffic. This is very unfair. All the neighbors on our block Woodstock (Montecito) are vehemently against this. We implore you for your help in denying this proposal. Respectfully, Gary and Joyce Cunningham Woodstock Road Rossmoor, CA 90720 Steven Fowler From: Zoe Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 12:48 PM Cc: Kevin Pearce Subject: LA Fitness Project I'm a person who goes to the gym everyday, and I'm happy to drive my 3 miles as opposed to the conveinience of driving 1 mile from my home in Rossmoor. The negative impacts LA Fitness would bring, such as decrease in safety, increase in crime, increase in traffic ... is too high a price to pay for convenience, especially when another business can be placed in the same location without the negative impacts. There are over 25 gyms within a 3 -4 mile radius of the center. Many with a Seal Beach address. LA Fitness would create a huge risk for these smaller businesses to go under. These smaller gyms were here first, the owners working hard to build their membership and become successful to provide a living for themselves in a already competitve industry. I am not affiliated to any of these independent gyms, I knowwi it would be terrible if the city does not watch out for the preexisting businesses in their city. I did meet a gym owner at the Seal Beach 10k race and he is truly concerned. I believe another business would be successful in this location without placing a threat to preexisting businesses, home owners in Rossmoor and the many other issues of concern already mentioned. Please make a responsible and moral decision on the impacts you will make on our communities. Make this a win win situation where the mall owner can make money th a different business and keep our kids and families safe all at the same time. Thank you, Zoe Hagmann Steven Fowler From: REA BACOL , Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 1:18 PM To: Sandra Massa- Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com; Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official; coalitionagainstlafitness @gmaiI.com Subject: Proposed LA Fitness Project Dear Sir /Madam, Please hear my plea regarding the proposed LA Fitness project behind Sprouts in Seal Beach. I live on Mainway in Rossmoor near the intersection of Mainway and Montecito /St. Cloud. I witness cars, that are not familiar with our streets, blowing through this crosswalk and stop sign without stopping or even slowing down. It happens constantly! The traffic in this area has increased by leaps and bounds in the last several years, regardless of what the reports say. Please don't add to this disaster by bringing this gym to fruition. In addition to the traffic, the parking on our streets will be directly affected by the gym. The condominiums on Montecito that have Seal Beach addresses use the parking lot behind Sprouts for their overflow. On any given day or night you will find 70 -90 cars parked in that lot. What do you think happens to all those cars when they are refused parking in that lot? I'll tell you because it's happened before. They end up Parking on all of our streets causing a traffic and parking nightmare! Is it really so much to ask that we are able to park our own cars in front of our own homes? Rossmoor is not a newly planned community with wide driveways and 2 & 3 car garages. This neighborhood was established in the 50's and most driveways are wide enough for 1 car only. Had we bought our home, 20 years ago, in downtown Seal Beach or any beach community, this would have been expected. But not here. Please stop the LA Fitness project! Sincerely, Rea Bacol Rossmoor Resident Steven Fowler From: Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 10:50 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness I again want to note my opposition to the proposes LA Fitness in the Rossmoor Center. A fitness center such as that has no business being built right next to residential areas. The noise from people in the parking lot (doors shutting, people talking, door alarms beeping) will all be non stop from 4:30 until after midnight since employees will be at the club earlier and later than the proposed hours. This does even include engine noise. Our residences will be at risk for break -ins since gyms are notorious for being a magnets for theft. One residence who lives immediately across from this site is 95 years old. Parking in Rossmoor is not an option for most of us, in fact the opposite side of Montecito from the Regency and Chateau is a complete NO Parking At Any Time zone. We who live in the Regency and Chateaus are Seal Beach residents. You would not allow this to be built in downtown Seal Beach, why are you allowing this to be built here? We have just as must right to our peace and quiet as other Seal Beach residents do. The city planning commission and council need to hear our voices and abide by our wishes and needs. Thank you Beth Piburn Montecito Rdn April 24, 2 Steven Fowler From: Dave Colacino Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 6:35 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: L.A. Fitness Good Morning. I would like to express my great concern over the proposed L.A. Fitness project. Traffic is already gridlocked on Seal Beach Blvd. Extending turn lanes is not a solution. A project this size is not a good fit for the community and will further degrade the quality of life for local residents. The Shops at Rossmoor is a busy place, with that many more expected visits per day, I feel it will be unmanageable. Crime and noise seems to follow these places. If the decision makers lived in the vicinity, I'm sure they would agree and would see this as a very large problem and a bad idea. There are plenty of small gyms in the vicinity for our community, and there are plenty of large gyms like L.A. Fitness in the surrounding cities. Thanks for your consideration. Dave Colacino Rossmoor Steven Fowler From: Jane Kelleher Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 6:48 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: No on LA Fitness Morning Steve, LA Fitness is not a good fit for Los Alamitos /Rossmoor /Seal Beach. We don't want to be a Huntington Beach or 2nd St. with all the crowds and noise and traffic! Thank you, Jane Kelleher Dogwood Ave. Seal Beach, CA 90740 Steven Fowler From: Sent: Monday, April 24, -2017 7:25 AM To: Steven Fowler Cc: Kevin Pearce Subject: LA Fitness Dear Mr. Fowler, Please take into consideration the negative impact this will have on our Community, I live about 100 yards away from the proposed site, this will drop my property value and will make my way of life a living nightmare, so I ask you to put yourself in my shoes and ask yourself, would I want LA Fitness in my backyard? Thanks Jim D'Ambrosio Sent from my iPhone Steven Fowler From: rangeflamingo Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 8:12 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Project Dear Mr. Fowler, I am writing to you about my concerns for the proposed fitness center in the back of the Shops at Rossmoor My family and I live on the corner of Main Way Drive and Montecito in Rossmoor. The house we live in has been in the family for 50 years. Living on the corner allows us to see quite a bit of action concerning traffic. Last week Los Al School District was on break, but the traffic did not let up. I counted 121 cars going through this intersection from 3:45 to 4:10 on Monday. I did not count the kids on bikes, the kids on skateboards, or the parents with kids in strollers.... not to mention just plain pedestrians. Imagine how many more cars would have been counted if classes were in session as this is the time that parents pickup children from the after - school day care programs at each school site. The study that was done didn't even come close to this count, Besides the numerous close calls between cars on a daily basis, there are many actual accidents here. There won't be any reports on this accidents as the parties involved will exchange information, maybe take a cell phone picture, then move on. But the accidents do happen regardless if reported. One block from us is Rush Park. It is a park which serves the community....notjust Rossmoor, but Seal Beach also. It is home to family picnics, baseball games, soccer practice, movies at night, the list goes on... The point is that Rossmoor meshes very well with the other local cities. It's streets are already full of cars welcoming families. The added traffic from this fitness club will not only impact the shopping center, it will be a huge detriment to the surrounding streets. I urge you to consider how much your Seal Beach Community uses Los Alamitos /Seal Beach Blvd and the surrounding streets of the center. There is a real concern for safety not only for cars, but for the citizens on the streets. Thank you so much, Nedra D'Ambrosio Main Way, Rossmoor Steven Fowler From: Peter Lipschultz Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 9:32 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: Kevin Pearce Subject: LA FITNESS PROPOSAL Dear Fowler, After much thought, I feel the LA Fitness project would not add to my community well being in the long run. It is too large a project for the area-- - considering the closeness of the many residences nearby. My condo in the Rossmoor Park Condominiums would be directly impacted with increased traffic, noise and pollution. Also the point that the project would not be facing a major access street would be an added strain on a quiet residential neighborhood. Please do not recommend this project to the City Council!! Thanks for your consideration of these points. Peter Lipschultz Rossmoor Park Condominiums Malmo Montecito Rd Seal Beach Steven Fowler From: Ed Buse Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 12:00 AM To: Steven Fowler Cc: coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com; Ed Buse Subject: LA Fitness As longtime Rossmoor residents, we are strongly opposed to the development of the LA Fitness in the Shops of Rossmoor. Traffic: Seal Beach Blvd. is already too busy. The projection of over 2,000 car trips for the gym per day, Seal Beach Blvd will make it worse. To avoid traffic, cars will take shortcuts behind the center and through our neighborhood streets.The EIR has suggested traffic improvements for getting in and out of the center; this is what we need now, we do not see it fixing the traffic problem long term. This traffic will also add more pollution, which can be a contributor to health issues. Crime: With more cars passing through the neighborhood, it exposes our residents' to crime and also at the "proposed" gym location and parking lot. There are many crime related news articles specifically for LA Fitness throughout the country. There have been a lot of car burglaries on streets near the proposed development, more cars in the area can also increase crime. Safety: Having additional traffic going through the shopping center and our neighborhood streets, safety all around is something to think about. Especially for our residents; who are active on foot and on bike, children riding to and from school, or my family who enjoys to walk or ride bikes and go to get something to eat. Location: Trying to squeeze a 37,OOOsf monstrosity gym, adding traffic and noise, behind a shopping center within a hundred yards of condominiums and apartments, next to 3,400 homes... a building this size does not belong there. Purchasing a home in our neighborhood may not be as desirable with a gym so close, therefore our home prices will go down. This gym will have a huge negative impact for our neighborhood, and it is not a good fit for the Shops of Rossmoor. We, like many other Rossmoor residents, support Seal Beach. Please take time to listen to all of our concerns and support us in maintaining our quality of life in our small community and say /vote NO to LA Fitness! Thank you for your time, Ed & Lisa Buse Steven Fowler From: Melissa Burns Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 3:39 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: NO to LA Fitness Melissa Bums Dear Mr. Fowler, I am writing to let you know that I am extremely opposed to an LA Fitness gym being built in the shopping center at the end of my street. I live on Brimhall Drive in Rossmoor. My street exits at Montecito right by the library. My children and I walk, ride bikes, and shop in the area of the neighborhood that will be most impacted by this gym. The traffic is already so bad, and I know that this gym would bring in a ton more cars and people. I know I don't live in Seal Beach, but I do shop in Seal Beach, and the success of the local shopping center depends on the Rossmoor homeowners. Until this point, we have seen the shopping center as an asset to the community. We eat there and shop there ... we keep it in business. I hope you will consider our input and value our patronage. Please say no to LA Fitness... it is just too much for this community. Thank you, Jennifer Burrell Steven Fowler From: Aly Hale Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:05 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: Home Subject: LA Fitness Dear Mr. Fowler, I am writing to let you know that I am extremely opposed to an LA Fitness gym being built in the shopping center behind Sprouts in the Rossmoor Shopping Center. I live on Silver Fox Rd in Rossmoor. My family and I will be directly impacted by building this gym. Not only do we walk to the shopping center often, we also shop in the area that will be most impacted by this gym. The traffic is already horrific in our neighborhood. I know that this gym would bring in a ton more cars and people. Not to mention the safety concerns the increased traffic and people will bring! I know I don't live in Seal Beach, but I do shop in Seal Beach, and the success of the local shopping center depends on the Rossmoor homeowners. Until this point, we have seen the shopping center as an asset to the community. I hope you will consider our input and value our patronage. Please say no to LA Fitness... it isjust too much for this community. Thank you, Aly Hale Steven Fowler From: Elizabeth Kline Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 3:37 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA fitness Hello I would like to voice my concern for the proposed fitness center behind sprouts. I own a home right off of Montecito Rd and Bradberry. I can't even begin to tell you how upsetting the thought of more traffic flowing in and out of this area is for me and my family. The streets are already congested with the parking situation at the condos /town homes we have had family members forced to park a block down the road in the PM hrs. On my way home from dropping off my kids a few months back I saw a car nearly run a kid on their bike down, the child was forced to crash in order to prevent the person from hitting them this was at main way behind the shops. During the lunch hours the Rossmoor center is so congested I won't even go near it. I ask you not only to not stand in favor of the fitness center but challenge you to take part in coming up with a solution to the already congested traffic problem we home owner face everyday. There is a LA fitness already off valley view, it's huge and the parking lot was completely full, the thought of all that traffic make me feel unsafe and the thought of letting my kids ride their bikes to school is definitely out of the question. Please hear me out, I vote no on the fitness center! Thank you for you time. Elizabeth Kline Steven Fowler From: on behalf of Archie Lappin Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 3:37 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: LA fitness Hi Mr. Fowler, I am a Seal Beach resident and I'm very concerned about the possible Seal Beach LA Fitness. I believe this will increase traffic congestion to the surrounding neighborhoods. I oppose the development and hope the new facility develops elsewhere. The Shops at Rossmoor have several large corporate businesses and traffic is very heavy there already. I believe the new facility is short- sighted and profit centered versus community and safety minded. Sincerely, Archie Lappin go Camelia St. Seal Beach, CA 90740 Steven Fowler From: Jennifer Burrell Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 3:26 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Dear Mr. Fowler, I am writing to let you know that I am extremely opposed to an LA Fitness gym being built in the shopping center at the end of my street. I live on Brimhall Drive in Rossmoor. My street exits at Montecito right by the library. My children and I walk, ride bikes, and shop in the area of the neighborhood that will be most impacted by this gym. The traffic is already so bad, and I know that this gym would bring in a ton more cars and people. I know I don't live in Seal Beach, but I do shop in Seal Beach, and the success of the Iocal shopping center depends on the Rossmoor homeowners. Until this point, we have seen the shopping center as an asset to the community. We eat there and shop there ... we keep it in business. I hope you will consider our input and value our patronage. Please say no to LA Fitness ... it is just too much for this community. Thank you, Jennifer Burrell Steven Fowler From: Andrea How Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 3:26 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: Kevin Pearce; Art Howe Subject: LA Fitness Proposed Project Hello Steve, I am writing as a Rossmoor resident, to voice my opposition to the development of an LA Fitness mega gym, in the Rossmoor Shopping Center. My husband grew up here, his parents are original homeowners in Rossmoor, and l was lucky enough to be introduced to this charming community when we began dating over 20 years ago. We are small business owners in Los Alamitos and spend much of our time and money in and around Los Alamitos and Seal Beach. We also have 3 children in the Los Al school district, and feel blessed to raise them in such a wonderful community. As development and traffic only increases in Southern California, the residents of Rossmoor, Los Alamitos and Seal Beach, by opposing this development, are doing our best to preserve all the wonderful benefits that our small community still has to offer, including local schools, parks and eateries we can safely walk and or bike to. While business development progress is inevitable, we must be careful stewards of the land we all have to live in and around. The Seal Beach shopping center, as you know, is already host to a plethora of large stores and restaurants, and inclusion of a 37,000 square foot national chain gym will only make the current traffic situations worse. Traffic in and around the shopping center is already stretched to its limits, and while there are many reasons why I oppose the development of this gym including noise, potential for increased crime and parking congestion, the increased car traffic that this gym will inevitably bring is my biggest concern. My children are now of the age when they can bike up to the shopping center to visit our wonderful Rossmoor Public Library, pick up an ice cream cone from Rite Aid after eating lunch at Chipotle. While traffic in the shopping center is already intense, I trust that they can safely manage the ins and outs of biking through the center. Add in another potential 2000+ cars to the mix though, and I can no longer see myself as a responsible parent, allowing them to bike up to the center unsupervised. That is a tragic shame and one that is avoidable if we stop this development. On Tuesday March 28t', at a LA Fitness open house meeting at Old Ranch Country Club, head developer Marty Potts told me, in response to the safety concerns of my children biking and walking through the center, "I wouldn't let my kids bike through the center as it is!" Thus he acknowledged that the traffic situation was already bad, and the development of the LA Fitness would only make a bad situation worse. This is unconscionable. I am begging you, a member of the Seal Beach City Council, to please heed the warnings of the residents in and around your community, and please veto this development. As a Rossmoor resident, I would be happy to support the development of a much smaller scale business in that area, one which would bring in less traffic and hold more traditional business hours. I just cannot support LA Fitness. Thank you for your time and consideration, Andrea Howe ProofPoint Steven Fowler From: Kevin Pearce <coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 3:26 PM Subject: EVEN MORE Comments from Online Petition Against LA Fitness Project Here is a compilation of even more comments from the online petition that the Coalition has organized. Please be assured that we have nothing against LA Fitness, itjust isn't a good fit for the community and our quality of life. I hope you take the time to read them. There are so many people against this proposed building for many valid and permanent reasons if the project goes forth. Robin Woodson Los Alamitos, CA 3 days ago I do not want a gym at this location, too much traffic already in this area! I love Rossmoor, lets keep it a wonderful community to live in and enjoy a good quality of life. Please vote NO on the gym! 0 Report J_. Reply H bill Strickland Los Alamitos, CA 3 days ago REASON FOR SIGNING The traffic on our streets at the present is over capacity on Montecito, Towne Center and inside the parking lot. One can hardly cross Montecito without taking their life in their hands. God help any child that should try to cross. I'm sure that the owners of the property want to receive income from it but we would hope that the area and the neighbors that live here deserve some consideration. 0 Report .x Reply °- Jeff Mille r Rosamoor, CA 4 days ago REASON FOR SIGNING The traffic and the increase in crime that will come because of all the people coming and going. 0 - Report IHI Reply f] Helen Kurata Seal Beach, CA 4 days ago REASON FOR SIGNING I DO NOT want more traffic coming in to this already busy area. Having lived in the area before Sprouts, Cal Pizza Kitchen, etc. we're built, the traffic has increased 10, 20, 30 fold!! By diverting cars to the backside (St. Cloud) you would bring more cars into a residential area. I'm surprised more resident on St. Cloud haven't become involved. If you were to actually view the traffic pattern that occurs going into the shops at Rosamoor, you can see there is usually a backlog of cars turning south in front of Sprouts. Cars always stop to let pedestrians coming in & out of Sprouts get to theirs cars in the lot. NO L.A. FITNESS AT THE SHOPS AT ROSSMOOR!!! M Report IN Reply J= Lori Scott Los Alamitos, CA 4 nays a.R:- - - - -- . -- -- - -- REASON FOR SIGNING Don't want Gym here '07 Report Reply Kim Carasso Seal Beach, CA 4 days ago REASON FOR SIGNING I am signing this petition because traffic at this intersection is already horrible. Addition an additional 1,200 cars daily will create a complete traffic nightmare that will adversely affect neighbors' abilities to enter /exit their neighborhoods, create delays in kids being able to get to the 4 local elementary schools and result in delays in emergency vehicles who must access Seal Beach Boulevard to transport patients to the local /nearest hospital. All of these will adversely affect property values - -who wants to live somewhere where it takes 20 minutes to travel one mile ?i? In addition, there are already THREE LA Fitness locations within a 4 mile radius of this planned site and more than 30 different fitness centers /trainers, etc. Do we REALLY need another? Can this area sustain another large gym? Will it destroy all of the mom and pop businesses that give Seal beach and Rossmoor its small -town feel? There is an appropriate project for the space, but this just isn't it. Vote NO on LA Fitness at the Shops at Rossmoor!!! Report x Reply J Jack Rice Los Alamitos, CA 6 days ago REASON FOR SIGNING The construction Old Ranch Towne Center and the expansion of the Shops at Rossmoor have had a tremendous negative effect on the traffic and general ®quality of life for residents of the immediate area. To 500 or more :cars per�day is simply, __.._ laughable. Please don't allow this to happen. Thank you. 1 Report 9 Reply 19- Kathy Rice Los Alamitos, CA 6 days ago REASON FOR SIGNING This area simply cannot tolerate any additional traffic in the Shops of Rossmoor. Additional traffic will impact the general quality of life of those who live in the adjacent areas. 0 Report Reply 19 Amanda Baltz Los Alamitos, CA 6 days ago REASON FOR SIGNING I don't want increased traffic 0 El Reply W Report Amy Lounsbury Los Alamitos, CA 1 wk ago REASON FOR SIGNING I'm a resident of Rossmoor and do not want to see the congestion or have our residents property values diminished with the late night noise to residents next to the proposed site!!!!!!! 0 Report M Shelly Bolander Seal Beach, CA 1 wk ago REASON FOR SIGNING It's just not a good fit. They are building a 25,000 sq. ft. fitness center just 3 miles away. There is another large 24 Fitness Center 4 miles away. This is not needed and not healthy for the close proximity of homes. More traffic, noise, pollution and crime is not needed in Rossmoor. Report Reply 1'�1 Elizabeth Schulz Rossmoor, CA 1 A ago REASON FOR SIGNING Our quality of life will be forever impacted by LA Fitness. Not to mention safety for all! — — Cnahtinn A vamct- Y = Q= FIYnPCC 5_ Steven Fowler From: Otto Hefner Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 3:13 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness in Shops of Rossmoor Dear Mr. Steve Fowler, I have lived n Leisure World for over 17 years and I do not want to see LA Fitness built behind Sprouts in the Shops of Rossmoor. There are many reasons that concern me, some are traffic, safety and crime. This type of business is not a good fit for our community and especially the residents, like myself, who it will affect. I hope the city will vote against the LA Fitness. Sincerely, Leni Gauss Steven Fowler From: Kimberly Baldwin I Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:21 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: I oppose having a 24 hour fitness in my backyard My name is Kim Baldwin and I am a Rossmoor resident. I am against the building of the LA Fitness in the shops at Rossmoor for many reasons, however traffic and safety top the list. I have seen the parking lot of the 24 hour fitness on Bellflower and Spring and there is no way The Shops are Rossmoor can accommodate that amount of traffic. The Shops at Rossmoor are already tough to navigate around Sprouts and Staples and I park behind those shops because it is almost impossible to park in the front. Furthermore it can take up to seven minutes to drive down Seal Beach Blvd. between St. Cloud Dr. and Bradbury as it currently is. It won't be long before the gym members go "the back way" through St. Cloud and Montecito and add congestion and additional wear and tear on Rossmoor streets that were not built with that kind of traffic in mind. By going to the proposed gym via Rossmoor streets, they will be impacting our safety. Think of the kids that walk and ride their bikes to school or the park. Non residents won't take the time to take a second look for kids, they will be rushing off to hit the gym. I strongly urge you to please deny LA Fitness' bid to violate our community. Say no to LA Fitness and show that you hear the overwhelming number of people that are reaching out to you. After all, it's people that make our community special, not a corporate franchise. Thank you. Kim Baldwin Yellowtail Dr. Rossmoor. Steven Fowler From: Melissa Burns Sent: Monday, April 24, 20174 20 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: NO TO LA FITNESS Mr. Fowler, I am writing to let you know that I am extremely opposed to an LA Fitness gym being built in the shopping center at the end of my street. I live on Copa de Oro Drive in Rossmoor. My street exits at the first stop sign at Montecito where most of the traffic will turn into this development to avoid the center traffic. . My four young children and I walk, ride bikes, and shop in the area of the neighborhood that will be most impacted by this gym. This area is already impacted during peak travel times, and it will only worsen. I know that this gym would bring in a ton more cars and people. I am greatly concerned for the safety and well being of my children and other children that live in this neighborhood if this project is allowed to go through. I know I don't live in Seal Beach, but I do shop in Seal Beach, and the success of the local shopping center depends on the Rossmoor homeowners. Until this point, we have seen the shopping center as an asset to the community. We eat there and shop there ... we keep it in business. I hope you will consider our input and value our patronage. Please say No to LA Fitness ... it is just too much for this community. Thank you for your consideration and time. Sincerely, Melissa Burns $MCopa de Oro Drive Rossmoor Steven Fowler From: Larry cahn MI Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 3:10 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Lafitness in Rossmoor Please do NOT allow LA fitness to build in the Rossmoor center. It will impact my Rossmoor neighborhood with increased traffic, increased noise and increased crime. The single lane entrance and exit between the Chinese restaurant and the sprouts will force entering and exiting from the LA fitness through our neighborhood. Even with the planned increase in lanes from Los Alamitos blvd can not account for the single lane next to the sprouts. The intersection is already so poorly planned that there is backup onto Los al blvd and the roadway in front of sprouts is an accident waiting to happen due to foot traffic into and out of sprouts. We the residents of Rossmoor do not want the LA fitness! Mary Cahn Sent from my iPad Steven Fowler From: Ponchak.Terry Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 2:59 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Concerned Resident Importance: High Good afternoon Mr. Fowler I am writing to express my concern about the proposed LA Fitness project at the Shops at Rossmoor in Seal Beach. My family are residents of the area and we are extremely concerned about the impact on traffic, crime, and parking that this project would worsen. Already, this shopping center causes unresolved traffic congestion in the center, on Seal Beach Blvd., and on St. Cloud. I have seen the traffic studies and having been a gym member for many years, the conclusions are not realistic. The amount of visits and traffic generated by the gym would make a congested situation far worse, especially at the four way stop near Panera Bread and Sprouts which is the direct entry point to the Seal Beach residents in the condos. Additionally, crime is likely to increase in the neighborhoods around the gym because of the gym demographic as well as the number of people from out of area that the gym would attract. This gym would be the closest to a neighborhood and residents of any in LA Fitness' current profile. Again, the many Seat Beach residents in the condos would be the most negatively affected. Lastly, the gym would disrupt a delicate parking ecosystem currently in place between the Seal Beach condo residents and the homeowners in Rossmoor. Currently, condo residents use the overflow parking in the shopping center due to the lack of available spaces in the facilities themselves. With the elimination of that parking, Seal Beach resident condo owners would be forced to park on the streets of Rossmoor neighborhoods. Unfortunately, this likely scenario would lead to residents in Rossmoor electing to permit their street parking, which would cause a parking crisis and dramatically reduce the property values of the Seal Beach condos. Mr. Fowler, please relay our concerns and please eliminate this project or any other similar projects unless solid thoughtful remediation is confirmed for each of the concerns listed. In lieu of the elimination of this project, some thoughts: 1. Dedicated crossing guard in the center at the 4 way stop by Panera Bread and Sprouts 2. Force LA Fitness to employ a dedicated armed security guard during business hours patrolling outside the facility 3. Add a Seal Beach police patrol dedicated to the center and Montecito street 4. Allow permitted parking for the residents of the condos free of charge Thank you for listening. I hope to have a positive resolution of this concern. Terrance Ponchak Steven Fowler From: Otto Hefner Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 2:58 P To: Steven Fowler Cc: Otto Hefner Subject: LA Fitness gym Dear Steve Fowler, As a resident of Leisure World, I do not approve of an LA Fitness in the Shops of Rossmoor. If the city really needs a gym, there must be other empty spaces they can build it on, because we do not have room for one on this side of town and near Rossmoor and Los Alamitos. The traffic on Seal Beach Blvd. is already terrible from the 405 all the way to Katella, I drive it almost daily, for Dr. appointments and my shopping, and it can take me 10 -20 minutes up or down the Blvd. Also, adding more cars will make it more unsafe than it already is for us residents who drive, walk, shop or dine there. I have a nice gym here and I plan to continue going there. Thank you, Otto Hefner Steven Fowler From: Amanda Ingalls Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:27 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Dear, Mr. Fowler: I am writing to let you know that I am extremely opposed to an LA Fitness gym being built in the shopping center at the end of my street. I live on the middle section of Brimhall Drive in Rossmoor. My children and I walk, ride bikes, and shop in the area of the neighborhood that will be most impacted by this gym. The traffic is already so bad, and l know that this gym would bring in a ton more cars and people. I know I don't live in Seal Beach, but I do shop in Seal Beach, and the success of the local shopping center depends on the Rossmoor homeowners. Until this point, we have seen the shopping center as an asset to the community. We eat there and shop there ... we keep it in business. I hope you will consider our input and value our patronage. Please say no to LA Fitness... it is just too much for this community. Thank you, Amanda Ingalls Steven Fowler From: Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:25 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Proposed LA Fitness in Seal Beach Dear Mr. Fowler, I am writing regarding the proposed LA Fitness that the Rossmoor Center investors want to build behind Sprouts. I live on the corner of Walker Lee Dr. and Montecito in a home that my family and I love and we are already experiencing more theft and car break -ins in the last few months. We just had our cars broken into last week. They used the gadget you can buy on the internet that mimics your key fob to your car and opens your car without setting off the alarm. I could not imagine all the traffic and more theft and cars speeding down Montecito with the proposed LA Fitness going in here right in our backyard. Kids ride their bikes around here and mothers walk their babies in strollers and it would not be safe with more than 1,000 more cars traversing through here every day. There are families' homes it will directly affect with the hours that LA Fitness would be open from 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. They will be hearing car alarms being activated and going off and car doors slamming at all hours but the six hours that LA Fitness will be closed. It will diminish their quality of life. I understand that the investors want to put a business in there, but the LA Fitness is definitely NOT the right ft for the space. I am begging you to please do NOT vote in the LA Fitness. We are very good neighbors and I hope you feel the same about us here in Rossmoor. I love Seal Beach! Please, please, please do not let them build the LA Fitness right in our own backyard. It is literally half a block from my home. I have heard my friends who are Seal Beach residents on the Hill and in CPE do not want this also. We have three LA Fitnesses that people can go to and work out within a Few miles all around us and a 24 Hour Fitness within three miles from the proposed LA Fitness. I also support all the small gyms in Seal Beach and Los Alamitos that are trying to make it and not be put under by a corporate company. I always love to support the small business owners. My dad is a small business owner and I was raised watching my dad work hard in his business to help it grow and create relationships with his customers he has had for years and I would love for the small gyms to have the same success story. Thank you so much for reading this and taking my letter to heart! Feel free to contact me if you have any questions! We're neighbors! Gina George, CSR Network Deposition Services Steven Fowler From: Stephen Baldwin Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:30 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: No on LA Fitness I am a Rossmoor resident and I do not support LA Fitness becoming a part of The Shops at Rossmoor. A gym of this size would bring far too many people into the area causing traffic, crime (cars in gym parking lots seem to be frequently vandalized) and chaos. Please vote NO and protect this area of Seal Beach and Rossmoor. Thank you, Stephen Baldwin Yellowtail Dr., Rossmoor Steven Fowler From: Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 2:53 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: L A Fitness This is just another objection to the fitness center. Having lived in Rossmoor since 1966 we have seen many changes. Some good and some not so good. But, this is not a good change. There is so much traffic on all roads leading into the subdivision right now that the entrances are, for the most part, two light changes to turn left off Seal Beach Blvd. The easiest entrance is at St. Cloud (Montecito) which gives access to the shopping center. It also goes through the center of the subdivision. It is nearly impossible to cross from the housing side to the shopping center without taking your life in your hands. Children and adults walk and bike along that road ..... it is scary. If the fitness center goes in there will have to be stoplights installed at some time in the near future. Anyway .... we are dismayed that the city of Seal Beach and whomever owns that piece of property cannot find some other less intrusive business to occupy that area. Thanks for letting us have our say even though we know that it will do no good. Bill and Donna Strickland f"ODruid Ln Rossmoor CA 90720 Steven Fowler From: Jeanne Beesley Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 2:47 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Comments to draft EIR for the LA Fitness at the Shops at Rossmoor Hello, I have reviewed the draft EIR for this project and also attended one of the informational open houses. As a Rossmoor resident who patronizes The Shops at Rossmoor, I don't feel that the proposed changes on Seal Beach Blvd, or the road that runs between Sprout's and Pei Wei, will be sufficient to mitigate the extra traffic that the fitness center will bring. This 4 -way intersection is already incredibly congested, and a danger to pedestrians crossing the intersection and also to those crossing from the parking lot to Sprout's as a result of traffic backing up into the intersection. The proposed changes will do nothing to remedy this situation. In my opinion, the shopping center parking was very badly planned originally, requiring all traffic entering the parking lot to pass in front of the shops, where pedestrians are crossing. The added traffic from the fitness center will only make this situation much, much worse. Personally, I will avoid shopping at the center if this project is built, especially at Sprout's, since that is where the congestion will be worst. Unless the planners can come up with a real solution that won't add to the congestion at this intersection, this will be a very poor addition to the Shops at Rossmoor. Please be considerate of the Rossmoor and Los Alamitos residents, who must live with your decisions Thank you, Jeanne Beesley Steven Fowler From: Sent: Monday, April, 2017 2:44 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: To your attention - LA Proposal Dear Mr. Fowler- As a teacher and parent, I am greatly concerned about the proposed development of a 37,000 square foot/70,000 member gym (state wide) in a partially residential area. This type of business does not belong in the neighborhood. It would be better suited in a larger commercial area. According to West Garden Grove police department and various statistics online, the LA Fitness in West Garden Grove has brought more crime into the area. Just a few months ago, a couple from Santa Ana was arrested for breaking into cars. It is a real problem according to online statistics. That sort of issue will be too close to our residents. I have immense concern for the children in the area who walk to school, bike to Rite Aide or the library. This type of facility would bring in 2,000 members a day (according to statistics from 24 Hour Fitness management that is comparable to this proposed LA Fitness). The hours of 5 AM to midnight will be unfair to those who live on Montecito (some of which are Seal Beach residents). I realize that the lot will be cleared of cars, and parking will need to be on Montecito. That, in itself, is going to be a burden on Rossmoor residents. I feel a medical building or a preschool would be much better amidst our community of Seal Beach and Rossmoor. Lastly, we were told that the infrastructure surrounding will need to be changed. This cost will be weighed upon Rossmoor and Seal Beach residents. I can't believe this to be true! None of this seems fair or right. It is time our community starts to care more about our welfare. I am amazingly grateful for the Council members who cared enough about the community and its people to have voted this proposal down last year. I have nothing against a gym. It is quite definitely the wrong place for this though. Thank you so very much for your time. Sincerely Stacey Butler Community Member Steven Fowler From: Jamie Ponchak Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 2:41 PM To: Steven Fowler Cc: coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com Subject: to Fitness Dr. Mr. Fowler, Please do not allow the building of an LA Fitness center down the street from me. My husband and I moved here 4 years ago because it was peaceful, not over - crowded, there is plenty of parking and it was safe for our kids to play outside without a lot of traffic. We have busted our butt to be able to afford this neighborhood only to watch it become less desirable due to one move on your part. If this LA Fitness goes in, all of the reasons why we move here are gone. I will no longer allow my kids to ride their bikes up the street for fear that speeding gym goers will run them over. It could take me twice as long to simply get out of the neighborhood to run a quick errand to Target, let alone sitting with thousands of gym patrons trying to get back into the neighborhood. The parking that is being taken away from the condo's will make it so our amble parking currently will be gone. Please listen to what the people have been crying out for. There is a reason for it. People wouldn't take precious time out of their busy schedule to tight what they don't truly believe in. Jamie Ponchak IftTucker Lane, Rossmoor, CA Steven Fowler From: Cheri Real Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 2:37 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: opposing LA Fitness To whom it may concern, I oppose the addition of the fitness building for many reasons. The main reason I am in opposition is my concern for safety. I drive Montecito every morning to drop my daughter off at Rossmoor Elementary school: One morning I was stopped at the corner of Montecito and Bradbury, waiting for cross traffic. My daughter and I were talking and before I could honk my horn a car had hit a teenager crossing the street on his bike. My 7 year old daughter and I both screamed in horror as we watched this poor boy be thrown off his bike, over the car, and slam to the ground, right in front of us and we couldn't stop it or help him. I crossed the intersection and pulled over to offer help and call for an ambulance. For the 3 years we have been driving this route I have seen several close calls and this was by far the worst. I can't begin to imagine how many more accidents or close calls will occur if we add more traffic to the area. Please take the safety of the children into account and consider how the extra traffic will affect the safety of the kids that walk or bike to school. I believe this is a terrible location and the children will suffer with the additional traffic. Sincerely Cheri Real Steven Fowler From: Iry Cuevas Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 2:23 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: No To L.A. Fitness Dear Mr. Fowler .... please do all in your power to stop construction of L.A. Fitness in the Rossmoor Center of Seal Beach .... ['in sure you are now aware of all the noise, traffic, and safety issues and concerns raised by neighboring homes and condos adjacent to the proposed facility. It would seem the negatives far outweigh any positives that developers are offering. If something must be built there, why not devote the space to something smaller, and more neighbor friendly? There are already several smaller fitness facilities in Seal Beach who will be adversely affected by this behemoth competitor. Thanks for your attention and consideration. Iry Cuevas I�Montecito Rd. Bridaecreek Villas Condos Seal Beach, CA 90740 Steven Fowler From: Janice Manis Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 2:11 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Opposition to LA Fitness Development Dear Mr. Fowler, I have been a Rossmoor resident since 1981 and love my neighborhood. My family and I have also enjoyed the benefits of proximity to Seal Beach. However, I am distressed by the planned development in Seal Beach (LA Fitness) that directly borders and will negatively impact the community. The LA Fitness development may appear to be a solid addition on architectural blueprints and great tax revenue for the city of Seal Beach and Orange County but I can tell you that the reality will be worsening traffic, increased air pollution, parking nightmares, increased crime, and poorer quality of life for residents living nearby. Any sane person living, working or visiting this area would know this. The irony of this project is that it will not impact any non -high density housing areas (i.e., private homes) in Seal Beach but it will be a nightmare for Rossmoor and the Seal Beach residents living in apartment abutting the development. My questions: • Is this development gaining support/approval because it is in North Seal Beach and will have no direct impact on the city or its residents other than the benefit of increase revenue, or • Is it because Rossmoor is unincorporated and Seal Beach has turned a blind eye to the impact of this project — even though it will be housed in the Shops at Rossmoor — further irony. • Why has the Orange County building department not realized the impact on Rossmoor? I can assure you that this development would never get approved in Los Angeles County based on its environmental impact. Parking, traffic flow, pollution, crime, and diminished urban forest and landscaping would be major red flags barring approval. It is puzzling that the Seal Beach LA Fitness project, which required an EIR, appears to be moving forward even though it has not addressed EIR issues raised by the Seal Beach Planning Council. Also, LA Fitness will be placed between commercially (behind a Sprouts Market) and residentially zoned areas. The loss of parking will result in Seal Beach apartment residents parking in Rossmoor. This alone does not make sense for a development - there should not be a negative impact because of displaced parking spaces. How can this development be approved just considering the parking problem alone? And, why didn't Seal Beach require adequate parking for these residents when the buildings were approved for construction years ago? Access to the LA Fitness site is also a nightmare as proposed along Los Alamitos Boulevard which is already problematic. The reality is that the planned 1,700 fitness members will find more convenient ways to enter along the residential streets of St. Cloud /Montecito bisecting high density housing to the east (Seal Beach) and homes to the west (Rossmoor) from 5 AM to 11 PM, seven days a week. Fitness members will not use the already strained Los Alamitos Boulevard corridor or entry to the Shops at Rossmoor. I am a recently retired, law school chief operating officer with 35 years of experience in both real estate and property development. Based on my experience, this project, as proposed, is simply wrong for the surrounding community. I am certain that you have heard from others in my community but I invite you to visit the area where the project is proposed, do a 360 degree look at what surrounds the development and then imagine that you live in this area that is about undergo a significant, negative change. What is the right thing to do? Thank you for reviewing my email and please let me know if you have any questions. Best wishes, Janice Manis Apr 19 1 f U3.5Up Microsott X Z2 / i51 --D, L5 V, /�4 F-C� A4, tj � , VT--b�- P, At-) ri 6e& Cqj CA Steven Fowler From: Leslie Medina Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 4:17 PM Tc Steven Fowler Subject: FW: Please so NO to proposed LA Fitness Behind Sprouts From: Tracy Pearce Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 4:11 PM To: Sandra Massa- Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel(aocgov.com; Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official Subject: Please so NO to proposed LA Fitness Behind Sprouts April 11, 2017 Dear Seal Beach City Council Members and Planning Commissioners, I am writing this letter to strongly ask you to vote no on the proposed LA Fitness Project behind Sprouts. For many reasons this project is not good for our community. This proposed monolithic gym WI.. create vast and permanent impacts on the surrounding residents and beyond. These impacts will also immediately and permanently affect emergency services, traffic congestion, our local environmental and air quality, noise, and perhaps an increase in crime. MOST importantly, this proposed plan presents numerous SAFETY issues for children, the elderly, pedestrians and all other citizens who use the roads. The Los Alamitos Unified School District, Rossmoor, and the County of Orange are constantly looking at the traffic impacts within and outside our community. At its own cost, the school district has even begun a program offering low cost bus service to all the schools from Seal Beach, Los Alamitos, and Rossmoor. For the first time in decades, the district has had to stagger the start times of all the elementary schools to help with the congestion of traffic. It just completely baffles me why the decision n :rs in the city of Seal_ Beach think that it will be okay to add in approximately 2,000 more car trips a mindAhis by Sprouts, it is the entire Seal Beach Blvd/Los Alamitos Blvd and the surrounding streets on the west side of The Shops at Rossmoor that are half in the city of Rossmoor and half in Seal Beach. It is already a nightmare trying to get children to /from all of the schools in the district, from elementary to the high school. So, as a city, you should be doing everything in your power to help with the traffic, not make it worse The interesting marketing that the developers came up with say the LA Fitness will fill a void of a gym in the neighborhood. There is no void, there are 33 gyms in a 3.5 mile radius. There are several gyms with Seal Beach addresses that are small local gyms. It is not fair to those gyms to put in an enormous gym that 90% of the community doesn't want and has detrimental, long- lasting impacts for everyone that lives around there. Ple make the right decision to help preserve our quality of life, Tracy Pearce 20 year Rossmoor resident Steven Fowler From: Jill Ingram Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 7:33 AM To Steven Fowler; Crystal Landavazo SuL,�ct: Fwd: LA Fitness Proposal Jill R. Ingram, City Manager CITY OF SEAL BEACH 211 8th Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740 (562) 431 -2527 ext. 1300 Begin forwarded message: From: Joseph McGlinchey Date: April 11, 2017 at 7:19:57 AM PDT To: Sandra Massa - Lavitt <SMassaLavitt cr,sealbeachca.aov >, Mike Varipapa <MVaripapagsealbeachca.gov >, "Ellery A. Deaton" <Edeaton(a sealbeachca.eov >, Thomas Moore <tmooregsealbeachca.gov >, Schelly Sustarsic <ssustarsic@ ealbeachca.gov> Cc: Jill Ingram <iingram(c) seal beachca.gov> Subject: LA Fitness Proposal To the Attention of the Seal Beach City Council: I am sure that you have been inundated by emails and letters from the opponents of the proposed LA Fitness project in The Shops at Rossmoor Center, so I wanted to take a minute to assure you that there are plenty of Rossmoor residents who welcome what we view as being an asset to the local community. My wife and I belonged to the Rossmoor Athletic Club for many years before it closed, and we really miss the convenience of a nearby health club that is open at times for people who work full -time a long distance away from our homes (in our case, my wife and I work 9 hour days in downtown Los Angeles). Currently the nearest fitness centers are at least a 20 minute round -trip commute from my home in Rossmoor which in my case takes up at least 2 hours of commuting time per week (100 hours over the course of the year) that results in added traffic on Seal Beach Blvd, Lampson Avenue and Katella Avenue. I am one of hundreds of individuals in the Rossmoor community who are in this unfortunate situation. The reaction that you are getting from opponents of the project is similar to those who support the LA Fitness Project on the Nextdoor website. As soon as anything positive is posted regarding the benefits to the Seal Beach and Rossmoor community, it is drowned out by the same vocal opponents who throw out statistics and theories of increased crime, homeless issues, child endangerment, and unmanageable traffic issues with little factual basis and no studies to support their opinions. I have studied the EIR from start to finish and am convinced that the small increase in traffic due to the LA Fitness project will be alleviated through the improvements at the Rossmoor Center Way / Seal Beach Blvd area. The = elephant sitting in the corner of =the =room is the loss of the illegal parking for = residents =of_ the residents across Montecito in Rossmoor who will have cars parked in front of their houses just as I experience near the corner of St. Cloud & Yellowtail. Yes, cars will be parked within a couple of hundred feet of the condos & townhouses from 5 AM - 10 PM, but cars are currently parked next to these residences 24 hours a day. Perhaps the location of the LA Fitness location in West Garden Grove will alleviate concerns of noise driving the residents out: https:l/www.google.com/maps/place/l 1932+ Valley+View+St +Garden +Grove +CA +92845/c@ 33.7892196,- 118 0272143 285m /data =i3m1 !1 e3!4m5!3m4!1 sOx8Odd2f291 db7217d:Oxbc6dcc65c338dec5! 8m2! 3d 33.7895702!4d- 118.0272286 There are single -home residences immediately abutting the LA Fitness building to the east and a senior living facility immediately to the north. There have never been any issues as far as I know with the larger West Garden Grove LA Fitness, and I don't foresee issues with the proposed location on the commercially zoned property in Seal Beach. I hope that the Council will take the opinions of those who are working out -of- the -area during the day /early evening (downtown LA in my case) who cannot attend City Council meetings due to family commitments. Thank you in advance for your consideration. in this matter. Joseph R. McGlinchey Attorney At Law Yellowtail Drive. Rossmoor. CA Steven Fowler From: Jill Ingram Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 9:37 AM Tv Steven Fowler cc: Crystal Landavazo Subject: FW: once again, the Facebook page is generating false letters of support FYI Jill R. Ingram, City Manager City of Seal Beach - 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740 (562) 431 -2527 Ext. 1300 i For Information about Seal Beach, please see our city website: http:ihvww.sealbeachca.gov NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this communication to the intended recipient, please advise the sender by reply email and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you From: Mike Varipapa Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 8:57 AM To: Jill Ingram Sr !ct: Fwd: once again, the Facebook page is generating false letters of support FYI Thanks, Mike Begin forwarded message: From: Susan Taylor Date: April 7, 2017 at 8:04:17 AM PDT To: Mike Varipapa <MVaripapagsealbeachca.gov> Cc: "Michelle. Steelgocgovxom" <Nfichelle.Steeb @,oc ov.com> Subject: once again, the Facebook page is generating false letters of support I am emailing again to officially protest the Facebook page created by LA Fitness. There is a sentence on the page that states "LA Fitness is coming to Seal Beach ". This beggs the question ... has it already been approved without the official government channels? If you as officials are tallying and presenting this feedback you are being misinformed and need to look into this further. I know that you are in favor of this being built. I would think that you especially would be concerned about the implications of this statement. I was able to visit this site, as well as other indivduals using my email and stating that I was a Seal Beach resident. Poof! I was then directed to a form letter to Steven Fowler. I didn't write on but others are being tallied as genuine feedback from real people�Fhave many email addresses for different pages for - - -- research purposes and my own privacy. Anyone can use any name or email address. There is no way to authenticate if these are actual people. Again, I urge you to look into this further. I have also contaced Travis Allen to express my concern. Susan Taylor Steven Fowler From: Kevin Pearce <coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2017 10:28 AM To Steven Fowler; michelle.steel @ocgov.org; Michelle.Steel @ocgov.com; Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Schelly Sustarsic; Mike Varipapa; Thomas Moore; Ellery A. Deaton; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina Subject: No to LA Fitness I haven't heard of anyone talking about green space. All the folks who live in the Seal Beach condos have absolutely zero green space in their neighborhood. They use Rossmoor parks and the parking lot where they want to put the gym. The poor kids who live just north of the parking lot use it for walking to school, walking to shopping, skate boarding, riding bikes. Are there any requirements that Seal Beach provide green space for so many kids and families? Maybe this area should become green space if it is used or could be used as such. The minor improvements to the entrance and exit at Seal Beach Blvd still doesn't take into account the Truck Parking. The drawings I saw show roads but my photos show truck parking. Where will these trucks go? Will they make another dedicated lanejust for them on Rossmoor Center Way and in the exit behind Sprouts? The first truck was parked there for a long time. I saw it when I drove past one time and it was still there when 1 returned so I snapped the photo. The second photo shows typical truck parking behind sprouts. Since the lines are not drawn on the pavement I don't know if they are in the planned access /egress lanes. they are also parked so close to the road that they are a turning hazard when you try and look right. Nia Hartman I� 4 4c, REASON FOR SIGNING I do not think LA Fitnes would be good for our neighborhood. It will impact parking, it will cause traffic, and I worry about all the people coming in. 1 Report Reply 9- Kevin Oon Melville, NY 6 days ago REASON FOR SIGNING I want a safe and quiet neighborhood for my family. I want less traffic on our roads. 1 - - - - - - - - - --- _ -------- Report Reply 1 Emily Oon Seal Beach, CA 6 days ago REASON FOR SIGNING The proposed site for LA Fitness is directly opposite my bedroom windows. I have an 8 month old that I just finally got sleeping well. The last thing I need is added noise and pollution outside his window, and added traffic when I take him for walks in the neighborhood. 1 Report J_ Maria Pura Mayor Cypress, CA 7 - -ys ago REASON FOR SIGNING I'm signing because I'm convinced the increased traffic will endanger the pedestrians who walk around that area and especially endanger our many children who BIKE there frequently. The increase in cars will increase the chances of their having accidents. Also, the increase in "people" will increase issues like petty theft, mugging & introduce more burglaries in the neighborhood. 1 Report Reply Damian Mccann Los Alamitos, CA 1 WK ago REASON FOR SIGNING I am signing because the area is too small for this size of building and business to occupy - does not make sense given the traffic dynamic that it would also cause 1 Report J_ Reply J Diane Rush Rossmoor, CA ago °.c 01i FOR S;GN;NG Formerly lived near a large gym which invited drug traffic and other crime to our neighborhood. 1 Report z Reply Ix _. Nancylacono Rossmoor, CA 1 wk ago REASON FOR SIGNING I am totally against a fitness center going into the center. It is NOT what need regardless of what Mr. Potts and his team say! 1 Report Re,y geoffrey king Los Alamitos, CA 1 wk ago REASON FOR SIGNING I'm already concerned about the congestion and traffic in the area. 1 ]_ Reply Report Los Alamitos, CA 1 wk ago REASON FOR SIGNING I ou not want this built 1 Report Reply [HI Randy Ho Los Alamitos CA 2 wks ago REASON FOR SIGNING I feel the addition of LA Fitness in the Rossmoor Center will reduce quality of life due to increase in traffic ar,' decrease in safety, especially through the back streets of St. Cloud which is close to a lot of homes w .e kids ride bikes. Steven Fowler r•om: ,nt: To: Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Zhanna Reyngold Zhanna Reyngold Wednesday, March 15, 2017 11:21 PM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Zhanna Reyngold Steven Fowler •.om: Dana Lawrence ;nt: Monday, March 13, 2017 7:04 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Dana Lawrence I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an undcrutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Dana Lawrence Steven Fowler From: Kevin Pearce < coalitionagainstlafitness @gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 4:27 PM To Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com; Schelly Sustarsic Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official Subject: MORE Comments from Online Petition Against LA Fitness Project Here is a compilation more comments from the online petition that the Coalition has organized. Please be assured that we have nothing against LA Fitness, njust isn't a good fit for the community and our quality of life. Ellie clarke Seal beach, CA 3 days ago REASON FOR SIGNING Don't need another gym and too much traffic in the area already — we need more parks and green space please!! 1 Report Reply J =: Bernard Goldberg Los Alamitos, CA 5 days ago REASON FOR SIGNING The traffic would burden an already crowded area. 1 REr. Report E Doug Carasso Newport Beach CA 6 , _ys ago REASON FOR SIGNING LA Fitness would ruin the peaceful area. It's already getting kind of crowded with businesses. But LA Fitness would likely bring in many more, and at all hours of the day and night. There will be too much traffic, which will lead to congestion and danger to the many children walking in the area, including the parking lots. I strongly urge the city to put the LA Fitness somewhere else, somewhere less crowded with businesses already. I mean, we already have, right next to each other, Ralphs, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Target on one side, among many other businesses, and a host of businesses on the other. Too much! Please stop the madness! Please look out for the residents of this area. Let us enjoy living here. Don't make this location all about how many businesses can possibly fit in a few -block area. 1 Report Reply Ly Alice Baldwin Los Alamitos, CA 6 days ago REASON FOR SIGNING it is not appropriate for this space. too much traffic, people will be using residential streets to get to facility. 1 Report Ei Reply D S ,mer vance Steven Fowler r•om: Richard A Copeland :nt: Thursday, March 16, 2017 9:58 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Richard A Copeland I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Richard A Copeland Steven Fowler 1�•om: Una Carrigan nt: Friday, March 17, 2017 12:06 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Elna Carrigan I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Elna Carrigan Steven Fowler C•om: .nt: To: Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Jack Brunner Jack Brunner Friday, March 17, 2017 7:31 AM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Jack Brunner Steven Fowler From: Brent Dickerson Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 20173:08 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Club at the Shops at Rossmoor Dear Mr. Fowler: As an original resident of Rossmoor (since 1959!), I would like to write in strong support of the proposed LA Fitness Health Club addition to the Shops at Rossmoor. I believe that an LA Fitness location would be a good fit for the Shops at Rossmoor, adding vibrancy to the mall's demographics as well as drawing in additional consumer support to all of the businesses in the mall. In addition to having been a resident of Rossmoor for nearly 60 years, 1 have also been a member of LA Fitness and its predecessor companies at the Long Beach Traffic Circle location for over two decades. I believe that many of the objections, though expressed as pertaining to the likes of traffic congestion and noise, actually derive from a cloaked prejudice against athletes and those interested in physical fitness. While some may mentally equate members of fitness clubs with rowdy sports fans at ballgames or exuberant ballplayers, this is a patently incorrect characterization. I know through long personal experience that, despite the great diversity in age, race, and culture, members of the LA Fitness location I am familiar with are studiously courteous in their behavior — indeed, they are most assuredly better - behaved than typical shoppers at a mall. They are moderate in the use, content, and volume of their speech, clean and well - groomed, and much more inclined to keep to themselves than to chat up strangers. Club members are focused — they are there for a reason, to optimize their physical well - being; and they are serious about it. Beginners and the disabled or aged are treated with respect and indeed given silent encouragement —we were all beginners once! In all honesty, you could hardly ask for a better set of people to be coming to the Shops at Rossmoor. And not to be forgotten is that many if not most members will themselves be Rossmoor residents: The Club will serve as an additional resource to knit together and enhance our fine community. As to the question of traffic: For decades, I have passed the intersection of Rossmoor Center Way and Montecito every workday morning at some point approximately between 7:35 -7:45 AM. This is the nearest non -mall intersection to the site of the proposed LA Fitness. Some would assert that children going to school would be impacted by traffic at this time. This is inaccurate. Never do I see a significant number of vehicles with children at that intersection at that time, and never do I see pedestrian children there. The vast majority of the sparse number of vehicles observed are single- occupancy vehicles, clearly employees on their way to work (like myself). The few people who would be going to a fitness center at that early time of the day would have only the most minimal impact on traffic. Any impact of club traffic and parking will be diminished by the nature of the business. Members do not all come and go at particular set times. Indeed, when they perceive particular times of heavier use at a club, this very situation prompts them to change their time of arrival to periods when there are fewer members competing with them for use of the weights and machines. Attendance is consequently well scattered throughout the open hours —there are no times when crowds of people try to jam in all at once. 1 As one of the earliest Rossmoorians still to live in the community, and as someone familiar with fitness clubs, their members, and the Shops at Rossmoor, I fully support the addition of LA Fitness to the Shops at Rossmoor, and very much look forward to opening day! - -Brent C. Dickerson Steven Fowler room: nt: To: Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Paul Paul Friday, March 17, 2017 8:30 AM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Paul Steven Fowler "OM: Isabelle reyngold nt: Friday, March 17, 2017 10:26 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Isabelle reyngold I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Isabelle reyngold Steven Fowler "•om: :nt: To: Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Linda sherren Linda sherren Friday, March 17, 2017 1:12 PM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilizcd lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Linda sherren Steven Fowler '•om: .nt: To: Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Kathleen Stillwell Kathleen Stillwell Friday, March 17, 2017 2:14 PM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Kathleen Stillwell Steven Fowler From: Suleeporn Vongratana NIONEMM >nt: Saturday, March 18, 2017 4:01 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Suleeporn Vongratana I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Suleeporn Vongratana Steven Fowler '-om: Dennis Maxwell - Ludkowski .nt: Saturday, March 18, 2017 8:04 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Dennis Maxwell - Ludkowski I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Dennis Maxwell - Ludkowski Steven Fowler --om: Sheila Newsome .nt: Saturday, March 18, 2017 11:39 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness (38) Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Sheila Newsome I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Sheila Newsome Steven Fowler From: Josie Chambers ant: Saturday, March 18, 2017 11:42 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness (37) Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Josie Chambers I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Josie Chambers Steven Fowler '-om: Abigail burris ..nt: Saturday, March 18, 2017 2:40 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness (35) Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Abigail burris I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Abigail burris Steven Fowler crom: Hannah Davis mt: Saturday, March 18, 2017 6:27 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness (35) Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Hannah Davis I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Hannah Davis Steven Fowler prom: Judith Jasmin :nt: Saturday, March 18, 2017 7:04 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness (34) Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Judith Jasmin I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Judith Jasmin Steven Fowler '-om: Bill Harrison nt: Sunday, March 19, 2017 12:13 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness (33) Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Bill Harrison I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Bill Harrison Steven Fowler Tom: Elaina Alvarez ;nt: Sunday, March 19, 2017 12:21 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness (32) Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Elaina Alvarez I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Elaina Alvarez I Steven Fowler From: nt: To: Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Mark Orland Mark Orland no Sunday, March 19, 2017 8:20 PM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness (31) I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Mark Orland Steven Fowler From: Dennis Moore nt: Monday, March 20, 2017 5:31 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness (29) Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Dennis Moore I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Dennis Moore Steven Fowler From: Jacquilynn Kolbush ant: Monday, March 20, 2017 7:30 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness (28) Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Jacquilynn Kolbush I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Jacquilynn Kolbush Steven Fowler From: Scott Levitt ent: Monday, March 20, 2017 10:35 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Scott Levitt I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Scott Levitt Steven Fowler From: Crystal Yanasheski nt: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 2:47 PM to: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Crystal Yanasheski I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Crystal Yanasheski Steven Fowler r•om: John Priester MEMNS nt: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 5:23 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is John Priester I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, John Priester Steven Fowler corn: Luisa McKenna nt: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 8:26 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness (24) Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Luisa McKenna I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Luisa McKenna Steven Fowler From: nt: To: Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Diana Frederick Diana Frederick Wednesday, March 22, 2017 7:58 AM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness (23) I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Diana Frederick Steven Fowler From: ,ent: To: Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Kathryn blanchard Kathryn blanchard Friday, March 10, 2017 10:20 PM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Kathryn blanchard Steven Fowler From: Karen jacobsen :nt: Saturday, March 11, 2017 10:10 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Karen jacobsen I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Karen j acobsen Steven Fowler From: Laura Ellsworth nt: Saturday, March 11, 2017 3:22 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Laura Ellsworth I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Laura Ellsworth Steven Fowler rrom: Steve breeze nt: Saturday, March 11, 2017 4:54 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Steve breeze I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Steve breeze Steven Fowler Grom: ent: To: Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Al C. Al C. Sunday, March 12, 2017 12:25 PM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Al C. Steven Fowler From: Victor M Maryinez ;ent: Sunday, March 12, 2017 12:50 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Victor M Maryinez I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Victor M Maryinez Steven Fowler Crom: nt: To: Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Fannie Smith Fannie Smith Sunday, March 12, 2017 2:13 PM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Fannie Smith Steven Fowler crom: Teri O'Keefe ant: Monday, March 13, 2017 8:43 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness, Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Teri O'Keefe I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Teri O'Keefe Steven Fowler Crom: Dianne E Hart Bob ent: Monday, March 13, 2017 8:57 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Dianne E Hart I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Dianne E Hart Steven Fowler '•om: Aubree Woznicki ;nt: Monday, March 13, 2017 9:04 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Aubree Woznicki I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Aubree Woznicki Steven Fowler crom: John Priester ,ent: Monday, March 13, 2017 9:27 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is John Priester I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, John Priester Steven Fowler '•om: Jay Van De Velde ,nt: Monday, March 13, 2017 10:03 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Jay Van De Velde I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Jay Van De Velde Steven Fowler srom: Kieth huff mt: Monday, March 13, 2017 10:10 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Kieth huff I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Kieth huff Steven Fowler prom: Lisa Kaminski mt: Monday, March 13, 2017 10:08 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Lisa Kaminski I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Lisa Kaminski Steven Fowler From: Sunny Zoldi Riehl ,ent: Monday, March 13, 2017 10A8 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for to Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Sunny Zoldi Riehl I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Sunny Zoldi Riehl Steven Fowler -om: Shellee Reeves ,nt: Monday, March 13, 2017 11:22 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Shellee Reeves I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Shellee Reeves Steven Fowler From: steven dombkowski ;ent: Monday, March 13, 2017 11:38 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is steven dombkowski I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Steven dombkowski Steven Fowler prom: Cynthia Chapman .nt: Monday, March 13, 2017 1:02 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Cynthia Chapman I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Cynthia Chapman Steven Fowler r•om: Josh Kee :nt: Monday, March 13, 2017 1:04 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Josh Kee I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Josh Kee Steven Fowler From: Linda Krieger y ,ent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 2:28 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Linda Krieger Fm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Linda Krieger Steven Fowler '•om: ent: To: Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Fran Espeleta Fran Espeleta Friday, March 24, 2017 11:28 AM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness 3/24/17 I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Fran Espeleta Steven Fowler Chris Marshall Saturday, January 21, 2017 8:35 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness - yes for the project I've been a resident of Rossmoor for over 20 years, and I'm hoping an LA Fitness goes into the parking area behind Sprouts. The land will eventually be used for something, and a facility like LA Fitness would be a positive addition to the community. There are residents of Rossmoor who have little to do but complain about anything new, and there numbers dominate the blogs and comment boxes, but they don't fully represent Rossmoor residents. In conversations with other Rossmoor residents, we welcome the thought of an LA Fitness being constructed at that location. Thank you, Chris Marshall Sent from my Wad Steven Fowler - *Im: Jason Reed ,A: Saturday, January 21, 2017 7:28 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness I own a home in the Rossmoor community. Please approve the building of the LA Fitness. I look forward to a fitness center within walking distance of my home. Jason M Reed J�Wallingsford Rd Rossmoor, CA 90720 Steven Fowler gym: Jason Delmonico A: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 2:59 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Dear Steve, I was happy to read an article in the Sun this week which mentioned that LA Fitness is once again going to try and come in to the Shops at Rossmoor. I was very disappointed when they got chased away by residents of Rossmoor who are concerned about parking issues and traffic. I believe that LA Fitness will be a great addition to our neighborhood. I am currently an LA Fitness member (and live in CPE) and would love to see an LA Fitness in such a convenient location. I usually attend the one on Valley View and the one in Long Beach on Bellflower. I do not care for the layout of the LA Fitness on Valley View. Although they recently remodeled the facility on Valley View, I don't care for the way the TV's are set up and also that there is no separate cycling room. I think that LA Fitness will be a great addition to the Shops because it will create greater community within our community. At both gyms that I attend, I notice that people do not only go to work out but also to socialize, meet up and converse. Friendships are formed with people who attend the same classes together or work out at the same time. There is really a sense of community within the gym community. They gym will potentially encourage neighbors to get to know neighbors through meeting at the gym. 'aging the LA Fitness to the shops will also provide convenience for those of us with busy lives and steady business to existing shops and restaurants. It is so close to schools and shops that we can exercise and get our shopping done all in one convenient center after dropping off kids or before picking up kids from school. It is also close enough that I, and others may be encouraged to bike to the gym. LA Fitness will also bring added revenue to our little community without tearing up undeveloped land. I often drive through the back parking lot and it is fairly empty except for the residents who park there from the condos next door. There should still be plenty of parking for those residents as well as gym members. In reality the condo should provide it's own parking for it's residents and they should not be spilling over into the shopping center on a regular basis. Please fight hard to bring LA Fitness into our community. It would be a great asset to this area and promote a healthier lifestyle for those of us who already live in the area. Kind regards, Debi DelMonico Oleander St. Seal Beach Steven Fowler '-om: Hartmut Schroeder loommmmonanow .rt: Sunday, January 08, 2017 10:56 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitmess Dear Mr. Fowler, My wife and I have been residents of Rossmoor for the past 27 years. We remember when the property in question was a Family Fitness business and a Super Saver movie theatre. Family Fitness later became 24hour Fitness and moved to Katella. We were both members then and are looking forward to having another Fitness Studio located in Rossmoor. I understand that another EIR is planned but I cannot imagine that a fitness business can be disrupting for the immediate neighborhood. I know that the NIMBYs are everywhere but this project should be supported and not torpedoed. Maybe the protesters can be enrolled at a discount so that they find something productive to do with their spare time. Sincerely, Hartmut Schroeder 4W Martha Ann Drive Rossmoor Steven Fowler Dear Sirs: I am having a difficult time understanding the controversy regarding this project. There use to be a Rossmoor Gym in that area for years of which I was a member for years. I so regretted seeing them close their doors. I think an LA Fitness would be a great business to return to the area. I know I would use it. You would think it was a tattoo shop or bar, of which I would object to, because of the kinds of people /problems they attract. Thank you for your attention. Rosemary Frenkiel Jcamellia st. Seal Beach, ca 90740 Sent from my Wad Saturday, January 07, 2017 10:21 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA fitness Dear Sirs: I am having a difficult time understanding the controversy regarding this project. There use to be a Rossmoor Gym in that area for years of which I was a member for years. I so regretted seeing them close their doors. I think an LA Fitness would be a great business to return to the area. I know I would use it. You would think it was a tattoo shop or bar, of which I would object to, because of the kinds of people /problems they attract. Thank you for your attention. Rosemary Frenkiel Jcamellia st. Seal Beach, ca 90740 Sent from my Wad Steven Fowler From: S1bkwood2 it: Thursday, January 05, 2017 7:48 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness I am a 22 year resident of Rossmoor. There have been lots of changes in those years. When we moved in, the only nearby shopping was at the tired old mall with little to want me to shop there. Now it is wonderful to have two malls across from each other on Seal Beach Blvd. Most of our shopping is within walking distance. Last year I was disappointed to learn that LA Fitness would not be coming to the Shops at Rossmoor. I drive to Long Beach to work out at the location on Stearns. It would be good to have one nearby. And it would draw more customers to the Shops. Some people never want anything to change, I am not one of them. The talk of traffic being greatly increased is simply not true. People come and go throughout the day and evening to gyms. Perhaps residents of Rossmoor should pay more attention to how they drive through the tract and endanger pedestrians before they proclaim that children will not be safe with traffic going to the gym. Thanks for considering my opinion. san Barrett Sent from AOL Mobile Mail Steven Fowler From: Anthony Rudisill it: Wednesday, January 04, 2017 4:49 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Mr. Fowler, I have been a resident of Rossmoor for 46 years. I am also a member of LA Fitness. At present, the most convenient location for me is in Garden Grove, on Valley View St. just North of Chapman Ave. I am aware of the concerns regarding the traffic situation in the area of Sprouts. In my regular trips to LA Fitness - Garden Grove for over 3 years, I have noticed that traffic in the gym area is never congested. I believe that gym visits last much longer then grocery shopping, which may account for the difference in congestion levels. I suggest a visit to the Garden Grove location by yourself or a staff member to observe the level of traffic in the area. I think the slight added traffic caused by a fitness center in the proposed Seal Beach location would be more than offset by the benefits. The presence of a nearby fitness center can be a positive factor for many busy people whose time is limited but who value regular exercise. Thank you for your consideration. Anthony Rudisill ®Montecito Rd., Rossmoor Steven Fowler �� -cram: Glenn Ducat .ant: Sunday, January 29, 2017 12:54 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Comment on LA Fitness Proposed Project Steve, I am a resident of Rossmoor. My comments re the Proposed LA Fitness Project in the Rossmoor Shops are given below: I am writing in support of the proposed project. I feel like it could be a significant improvement to the community and be a mechanism to improve traffic flow in the areas. 1. As I understand it, one of the major objections to the proposed project has to do with traffic. I agree that traffic around Sprouts is difficult. The new project offers some options to IMPROVE traffic around Sprouts. I think there are several options to improve traffic flow. Independent of the outcome of this project, Spouts should CLOSE one or two of the first two access points from the parking lot in front of the store. This would alleviate the congestion at the North /South intersection of Rossmoor Center Way in front of Sprouts /Behind Panera. An alternative would be to close this N/S intersection to rough traffic, i.e., only allow traffic from Los Al Blvd to continue over to Montecito without turns at the entrance to Sprouts and Pei Wei. This would "force" traffic" away from the front of Sprouts and improve safety and traffic flow. 2. OK. Let's understand this. The opponents of the project complain that traffic would be severely increased. But, there is a second half of this complaint. Namely, if a LOT of people use the proposed project (i.e., more traffic), that means that a LOT of people WANT TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE FACILITY because it is a benefit to them and, therefore, the community. My personal impression is that a significant fraction of the people who would use the facility will be coming from Rossmoor anyway. In other words, these people would be traveling in cars through the community on their way to fitness centers currently located elsewhere, i.e., not NEW car trips, just trips to a different end point. And then, many of these folks would combine their fitness trip with a trip to Sprouts, some place they already travel to. It will be a dual purpose trip rather than a single purpose trip. This would result in no more NET traffic than is already experienced and would improve net sales at Sprouts and other surrounding businesses. 3. Duration of Stay: My experience is that visitors to fitness centers stay roughly two hours. In other words, they arrive, park and do not reappear as "traffic" for another two hours. Therefore, the number of visitors to the fitness center, would not create as much traffic as visitors to Kohl's, Sprouts or Home Goods. r 4. Traffic Flow: Traffic flow in the area needs to be improved. The only way to get this improvement is to approve the new project which will provide the "money" to provide the improvements. 5. The developers have WISELY made the front of the facility on the SOUTH. This will redirect traffic flow from away from Rossmoor Center Way and distribute traffic flow out toward many outlets toward the South. Regardless of the outcome of this project, the owners of Sprouts should be ENCOURAGED to open an entrance /exit from the back of their store. This has been done at Trader Joe's over on Bellflower and improves the movement of cars away from the front, congested entrance, the exact problem being experienced at Sprouts today. 6. Use of Property: This is a philosophical point - I believe property owners should be allowed to develop their properties as they see fit - WITHIN BOUNDS. In other words, developers should be free to develop their properties as THEY see fit as long as the new facility is not at odds with CONVENTIONAL COMMUNITY NORMS and PROVIDES A COMMUNITY BENEFIT. The proposed project is not a porn shop or the like. It will succeed or fail in the based on it's "benefits" to the community. Is the traffic resulting from Staples, Sprouts, Panera or Kohls more "beneficial" than traffic from a new fitness facility ?? It's not up to "government" to decide. It's a "decision" for the free market plane. 7. Provisional Approval: The city could "approve" the project "provisionally" by requiring the developer to set aside a specified amount of funds for "unforseen" traffic mitigation improvements that become apparent only after the project is build and operational. I hope these comments are beneficial to the reviewers. If you have any questions, please call me at low b Thanks, Glenn Ducat, Rossmoor Resident z Steven Fowler z�om: William Nottingham 4llllllllll Emma .ent: Monday, January 30, 2017 8:47 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Re: In support of LA Fitness project: Attachments: Seal Beach LA Fitness- Word.docx William and Susan Nottingham � Pasco Bonita Los Alamitos, CA 90720 January 27, 2017 Steve Fowler, Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach Department of Community Development 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740 Dear Mr. Fowler: We are writing in support orthe application by LA Fitness to build a club in the Shops at Rossmoor. As 30 -year residents of neighboring Rossmoor Highlands, we believe this project would be an asset to the whole community. In our case in particular, however, it would help us to maintain our health. We are long -time LA Fitness members who now must drive busy Seal Beach Boulevard to reach the nearest club branches in Los Altos or Garden rove. A club at the shopping complex would allow us to simply walk there. The traffic, noise, safety and parking mitigation that the project has promised seems quite reasonable to us. So we hope Seal Beach officials will see their way clear to approve this project as soon as possible. Sincerely yours, William and Susan Nottingham On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Steven Fowler <sfowler(@ssealbeachca.gov> wrote: William, i cannot open this attachment. Can you please save and send it as a PDF, word document or copy and paste it into the body of the email. -fit a n ks, Steve Fowler Assistant Planner City of Seai Beach 562 - 431 -2527 Ext. 1316 From: William Nottingham [mailto: Sent: Fridjy,,�anuary 27, 2017 4:59 PM To: Steven-Fowler ,Subjeqt: 6Ih" suPpdrt ofaf, Fitness project: Please see our attached letter in favor of the LA Fitness project in the Shops at Rossmoor. 2 William and Susan Nottingham 1 Paseo Bonita Los Alamitos, CA 90720 January 27, 2017 Steve Fowler, Assistant Planner City of Seal Beach Department of Community Development 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740 Dear Mr. Fowler: We are writing in support of the application by LA Fitness to build a club in the Shops at Rossmoor. As 30 -year residents of neighboring Rossmoor Highlands, we believe this project would be an asset to the whole community. In our case in particular, however, it would help us to maintain our health. We are long -time LA Fitness members who now must drive busy Seal Beach Boulevard to reach the nearest club branches in Los Altos or Garden Grove. A club at the shopping complex would allow us to simply walk there. The traffic, noise, safety and parking mitigation that the project has promised seems quite reasonable to us. So we hope Seal Beach officials will see their way clear to approve this project as soon as possible. Sincerely yours, William and Susan Nottingham Steven Fowler -rom: Susan Taylor Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2017 3:36 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Project Hello, I am shocked that we are once again dealing with the LA Fitness organization and AEW shoving this fitness club into our communities. This was a slick move by the property owner and the City. I have reviewed the "new" EIR. What's changed? Have you actually spent the time and resources to discover REALITY at this center? I have lived in Rossmoor for over 20 years. I have seen the decline in the quality of life since the Old Ranch Center and the Shops at Rossmoor arrived. By the way...why wasn't this development called "The Shops at Seal Beach "? It's not even located in Rossmoor and yet, the City profits from our name. If you are receiving form letters from people who are for this facility being built I caution you ... these are generated without any authenticity monitoring. I made up a name on Facebook and was able to get right to the letter ... from a non - existent person! Don't trust the results. On LhaL subject, I know of hundreds of residents who are against this project whose comments have not been published. Have you honestly piblished ALL of the emails and letters you've received, or just a sample? IF this is built, it will be part of YOUR legacy in the position you hold in Mr. Bashram's absence. I lope you are ready for that. Sincerely, Susan Taylor Steven Fowler prom: Karen Swenson Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 8:05 AM To: Sandra Massa- Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com; Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official Subject: Karen Swenson Please, do not allow tax greed to destroy the safety of Rossmoor. A neighborhood like each one of you would like to reside in will become far less safe due to huge amounts of traffic along our small Rossmoor streets as resourceful drivers try to avoid congested Seal Beach Blvd. Please, do not greedily change a neighborhood for tax revenue. Karen Swenson resident of Rossmoor since 1981 Steven Fowler From: Sent: To: Subject: Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Laurie Shaw Laurie Shaw Friday, March 17, 2017 12:25 PM Steven Fowler Support for LA Fitness I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Laurie Shaw Steven Fowler From: Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2017 4:15 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: L.A. Fitness Mr. Fowler, As long time residents of Seal Beach we want to express our concerns regarding the approval of the LA Fitness project. For many obvious reasons this project should NOT be approved because of location, parking, school, traffic and noise concerns. Our family supports a NO vote on the LA Fitness project. Dale and Jeri Woodward College Park East Steven Fowler From: Joel navarro Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2017 8:31 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Joel navarro I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach, Sincerely, Joel navarro Steven Fowler From: Sylvia Uselton Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2017 6:47 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Support for LA Fitness Dear Steve Fowler, My name is Sylvia Uselton I'm writing to voice my strong support for the LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. This project will not only make the community better through encouraging exercise, bringing new amenities, and making use of an underutilized lot, but it will also have little impact on traffic, parking, and other related concerns. This project will make Seal Beach a brighter, healthier place to live. It's exactly what the citizens of our city want and need. Please stand with me in supporting LA Fitness coming to Seal Beach. Sincerely, Sylvia Uselton Steven Fowler From: Desiree Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2017 4:07 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Feedback on LA Fitness Rossmoor location Hello Mr. Fowler, I am a resident of Rossmoor (25 years) and would like to voice my strong concern about the proposed building of a fitness center behind Sprouts. The main concern is traffic congestion and risk to pedestrians both inside the center and on the access road Los Alamitos Blvd. At the current time, I go shopping to the Rossmoor center for food almost daily and have noticed a significant increase in traffic throughout the day, with very short turnaround time since most shoppers are in and out of the Sprouts lot very quickly. The entry roads are single lane which makes turns hazardous for pedestrians esp for the disabled and those with limited mobility and families with children. Adding a fitness center /gym will increase traffic even further. It will be a matter of time before dangerous accidents occur, with busy working folks getting in and out of a gym at rush hour to get to work. During the school year, the traffic on Los Alamitos Blvd is even more congested with parents rushing children to school then leaving for work. I urge you to reconsider a fitness center. Instead a set of offices may be more suitable. office workers go there for an entire working day and would not create the type of congestion that a gym might. Thank you for your attention and consideration, Desiree Lie FANWorgrove Lane Rossmoor, 90720. Steven Fowler prom: Alice Baldwin Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2017 2:36 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: STOP LA FITNESS Please do all you can to keep LA fitness from going to into the Shops at Rossmoor. It is too big a facility w too much traffic to go where they are planning. It will severely impact Rossmoor and the Seal Beach residents who live in the condos. PLEASE TO DO NOT ALLOW LA FITNESS TO BE BUILD THERE. THERE ARE OTHER PLACES IN SB WHERE IT WOULD BE MORE APPROPRIATE. Sincerely, Alice Baldwin Steven Fowler °rom: pete wu Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 2:05 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: NO to LA Fitness Hi Steve, My name is Pete and my family and I live on the hill. Seal Beach Boulevard is already bad enough throughout the day due to the old drivers from Leisure World, commuters, distracted cell phone using drivers, and those who can't decide which shopping center they want to turn into. And I haven't even brought up those who can't seem to find where their on -ramp is. Having LA Fitness go into the Rossmoor Shopping Center would make the traffic exponentially worse Please consider turning down the request to put up a location in Seal Beach from LA Fitness. Thank you, Pete Wu Steven Fowler 'rom: Zoe Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 3:16 PM To: Sandra Massa- Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Fllery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com Cc: Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official Subject: LA Fitness Project SB Hello to all involved in the LA Fitness Project, Many of us Rossmoor homeowners have evaluated the Pros and Cons of this project. Pros: SB revenue Mall owner optimize land profitability Conveinence Cons: Increase in traffic (how many people will want to sit in a 250 ft. lane) Increase in crime Increase in noise for those who live nearby Increase in neighborhood exposure to criminals Decrease in safety Decrease in safely crossing Montecito for those parking on nearby neighborhood streets now impacted with more traffic decrease in safety for kids riding bikes Decrease in safety for the elderly ** *Nearby homes at risk for property devaluation, lower comps, decrease in home values * ** As we can all see this project is all about money, while putting lives at risk! This business is not the right fit for the location. Please get your planning teams working on bringing a business without all of these very serious negative effects on the community! I live in the middle of Rossmoor. My family will NOT be effected by many of the issues listed above, but our community members will be effected. My kids are grown and I don't have to worry about them riding their bikes, but we have many community members with kids on bikes. My family won't be crossing Montecito due to parking on the nearby streets, but many community members will be... * *I go to the gym every day and I am happy to drive 3 miles away to keep the negative effects away from my community. These negative effects are too high a price to pay for conveinence and money! ** LA Fitness is lying about their anticipated numbers... compare them to their biggest competitor which brings in 2,300 members per day ... this is not to be compared to an independent gym such as Rossmoor Athletic Club, we need to realistice. Please make the responsible and moral decision to keep our community safe, please bring a business without the high risk. One person killed in this unsafe area Is one too many and the City of Seal Beach and the property owner will be held responsible. Zoe Hagmann Steven Fowler 'rom: Sent: To: Subject: Dear Mr. Fowler janet Thursday, April 06, 2017 3:37 PM Steven Fowler LA Fitness proposal I wish to express my OPPOSTION to the proposed LA Fitness to go in behind Sprouts at the Shops at Rossmoor. All large gyms face a major street: ex. Valley View, Katella, Bellflower, etc. This is the first time LA Fitness is attempting to put one in a residential area. As an Official for the Seal Beach Orange County area you have the ability to help keep the charm and quaintness of our Rossmoor Community or to make life very uncomfortable for those who have lived here for many years. Our lives are in your hands, in your Vote. Seal Beach and Rossmoor are very special, quaint areas and we wish to keep them like that. I was in the audience of a 4 hour meeting last night with over 50 people expressing their concerns over this project. You were there too and heard the concerns and passion of our community. Some of my concerns are: • Traffic —over 610 cars in and 610 out in addition to the cars already entering Rossmoor Center Drive. Coming in on Rossmoor Center drive is already a traffic tie up. • The Traffic Report given last night was extremely faulty. The numbers anticipated and what was counted just Jon't add up. The EIR Committee asked for this to be re -done as all could see it was not truly representative of what would be actual numbers. Crime element —all LA Fitness gyms have had multiple reports of break ins and theft of wallets, purses and laptops. • Noise element —for all those who live surrounding this area will be affected by loitering noise, Air Conditioners going 18 hours a day. Think of it as if it were going to be put next to your bedroom window. If that were the case how would you vote? Imagine putting it on the greenbelt on Electric St. next to the Red Car. I'm pleading with you to Vote NO for this project. It just isn't the right fit for our community. Thank you for reading this. Janet Wagoner Silver Fox Rossmoor, CA 90720 Janet'Wagoner Steven Fowler crom: Suzi Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 6:06 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Project at the Shops at Rossmoor April 6, 2017 Dear Mr. Fowler, My name is Suzi Han. I am a teacher in Los Alamitos, as well as a resident. I want to voice my serious concerns with the prospect of LA Fitness coming to the Shops at Rossmoor location. In no way am I against LA Fitness; my concern is with the location. The location is literally nestled between two family communities and a shopping center already riddled with too much traffic and congestion. Pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorists all share congested roadways coming in and going out. I've witnessed many drivers speeding in Rossmoor to get to /from the Shops, which is a danger to everyone. I have personally witnessed two pedestrians being hit by cars. I rarely send my children out to ride bikes to the Shops because I fear for their safety. Next year, I planned to have my daughter ride her bike to school; if LA Fitness moves into the Shops, we will be seriously reconsidering for safety reasons, along with many of our other neighbors. Putting an LA Fitness in the Shops will only create MORE traffic, MORE danger for our children and pedestrians, and MORE stress for concerned mothers and teachers in our community. My concern is for the safety of our residents and our children. Please RECONSIDER moving LA Fitness into our neighborhood. Thank you! Sincerely, Suzi Han Steven Fowler From: Kelley Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 7:03 PM To: Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Steven Fowler; Ellery A. Deaton; Thomas Moore; Mike Varipapa Cc: Crystal Landavazo; Schelly Sustarsic Subject: LA Fitness & Median Removal I've read there is a proposal to remove the medians on Seal Beach Blvd to widen the lanes to accommodate more cars going to the new gym. There is a safety issue for your constituents. As an example, the current Seal Beach Blvd center medians end before the Chik Fil A. There is a double - double yellow dividing line there; i.e. Four yellow lines. People so urgently need their Chik Fil A that they make illegal left turns over the FOUR YELLOW lines all day long. This affects safety as residents turning left at Bradbury Lane from Seal Beach in the marked turn lane have cars stopping short and illegally turning left into ChikFilA drive through via the gas station. We need more medians to stop this dangerous situation.... not fewer medians leading to more illegal left turns and uturns in this busy corridor of shops. Steven Fowler From: Kim Carasso Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 7:09 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Opposition to Proposed LA Fitness Per my Councilwoman's directive, I am forwarding a copy of the letter I sent to each council person in opposition to the proposed LA Fitness. Please include a copy in all materials submitted for any Environmental Impact and Planning Commission meetings. Thank you, Kim Carasso Dear Councilwoman Sustaric I write to express my opposition to the proposed LA Fitness project at the Shops of Rossmoor. The entrance to my community is off Plymouth (the entrance that gym members would likely use). The traffic at this intersection and the entrance to the shops is already awful. If we add additional traffic associated with the gym, I cannot imagine the log jam. Between all of the morning traffic with parents dropping off kiddos at the Los Al schools and gym traffic, the intersection will be a quagmire. You can guarantee and increase in accidents from people becoming angry at waiting for the lights and attempting to run through as a result of impatience. I also worry about what happens when the gym fails. I saw when because it is my understanding that the gym proponents advised residents at a recent meeting that they expect virtually all of the membership to come from local residents(I suspect that they made this argument to offset the concern about traffic as they claimed most will walk or ride bikes to the gym - -not sure what they base that assumption on), but that their estimate for the number of members necessary to make the gym profitable is about double the number of proposed members. Doesn't make much sense, does it? If that is true, the gym goes under in short order. Then what? A giant vacant building with a limited use remains and becomes a nuisance -- attracting people dumping unwanted furniture, vagrants, graffiti and crime. Given the fact Marie Callendar's has sat vacant now for two years, I don't think my concerns are unfounded. I understand that the parking lot is a huge piece of real estate and can and should be used for something. A proper retail or mixed use project, that includes a parking structure and includes another means of egress /ingress would make sense. It's just that the proposed concept fails the take into account the impact on the surrounding homeowners -- including the Seal Beach residents who will be adversely and directly affected. Traffic studies will bear out our concerns. Similarly, the concerns about membership potential needs to be assessed. There is absolutely no valid reason in allowing this project go in if it is doomed to fail - -that serves no purpose for anyone. Please heed the concerns of your constituents and vote no. Thank you, Kimberly A. Carasso 41IMMantucketPI Steven Fowler =rom: Dana Soule Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 7:24 AM To: Sandra Massa - Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Steven Fowler; Brian McKinney; Leslie Medina; michelle.steel @ocgov.com; Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore; Crystal Landavazo; Building Official Subject: LA Fitness To all involved in this project, My name is Dana and I have lived in Rossmoor for pretty much all of my life. I went away for college, moved back home with my parents, and then got married and bought a home in this dream location. Over the course of the last 10 years I have been overwhelmed with everything that has gone on in the Rossmoor Shops. I feel as though our small, family, oriented community has been taken over by money and big business and no one cares. At what point do we say no ?!? Which leads me to LA Fitness.... Before you move forward with this approval, PLEASE sit back and realize the impact we will all have. I'm under the impression none of you live in Rossmoor and you have no pride for the little community that most of us have. This is my life, my parent's life, my sister and her kid's life, my kid's life, etc. We give so much to this tiny community and have gotten NOTHING over the course of the last 10 years. PLEASE ... I beg of you ... this is the ONE thing you can give us back. PLEASE SAY NOI l l I Thank you, Dana Soule 1 Steven Fowler --om: �r .nt: Wednesday, March 1S, 2017 11:50 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: LA Fitness Absolutely do not want or need this in our community! Sent from my iPhone Steven Fowler '•om: Julio Ibarra �® ;nt: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 5:27 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: Fitness club in Rossmoor Dear Mr Fowler, Both my wife Paloma and myself are extremely concerned with the idea if building even more businesses in the Shops at Rossmoor Center. We have been residents of Rossmoor since 1986 and we have never been more unhappy than with all the commercial construction that has occurred in the last several years. We moved to Rossmoor because of the schools and it was a peaceful neighborhood with relatively little traffic and it was not hard to get in and out of the neighborhood. Every day is getting harder, more traffic not only in Los Alamitos but in the turns to the shopping areas on both sides of the street that sometimes ends up blocking the traffic because the lines are so long to turn into the shopping areas. We are sure that the traffic is going to be even worse with the fitness center and we absolutely oppose to it. If our voices count please write us down as opposing the project. The last issue that bothers us is the increase in crime in the neighborhood. I am not sure if this is due to the fact that we have much more traffic entering Rossmoor than ever before but we are very concerned about this. We are Captains of the neighborhood watch and it worries us to see what is happening in our residential area. There is nothing good for us. Traffic, crowds, potential increase in crime... Sincerely, Julio and Paloma Ibarra Coleridge Dr. Steven Fowler '•om: Thomas Purcell NOMMUNNIMM mt: Friday, March 24, 2017 11:37 AM To: Steven Fowler Subject: from Tom Purcell, Rossmoor, No on the LA FITNESS facility My Name is Thomas Purcell and I live in Rossmoor. I am against having an LA Fitness facility in the Rossmoor Shopping Center. There will be more traffic, more noise and more police involvement. Thank you for your consideration in this matter. Thomas Purcell =Coleridge Drive Los Alamitos, CA 90720 (Rossmoor) 1