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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSupplemental Information Received After Posting Agenda - Item IRebekah Baird From: Robin Roberts Sant: Monday, September 11, 2017 2:35 PM To: Rebekah Baird Subject: FW: Item I Correspondence for 9.7.17 Attachments: Correspondence 9.7.17.pdf; image002.png From: Crystal Landavazo Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2017 5:22 PM To: Jill Ingram; Robin Roberts Subject: Item I Correspondence for 9.7.17 BCC: City Council Good Afternoon, The agenda packet delivered on September 7, 2017 contained all project correspondence up to September 6, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. The attachment to this email contains all correspondence received since that time. We will send an email at the end of each day with the correspondence collected from that day. Please let me know if there is any trouble opening the attachment. Respectfully, Crystal Landavazo, Interim Director of Community Development City of Seal Beach - 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740 (562) 431 -2527, Ext.1324 Je- For Information about Seal Beach, please see our city website: http: / /www.swlbeachca.gov NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential Information. If you are not the intended recipient of I cormunication, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this communication to Me intended recipient, please advise the sender by reply email and immediately delete Me message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. n ROSSMOOR COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT 3001 SLt1ME DRIVE, ROSSMOOR. C 90720 / [5621 4363707 / R*( (5621 4313710 September 7, 2017 Jill Ingram City Manager City of Seal Beach 211 81° Street Seal Beach, CA 90740 Dear Ms. Ingram, President Michael Maynard, representing the Rossmoor Community Services District has inquired about the City of Seal Beach's procedures for handling the public hearing on the Proposed Shops at Rossmoor LA Fitness Club Project scheduled for Monday, September 11, 2017. Specifically our question is dependent on the ultimate outcome of the public hearing. Will the Seal Beach City Council have resolutions prepared in advance to support or deny the appeal of the EIR and/or the CUP? The objective would be to hopefully bring closure to this issue Best Regards, Jame / D Ruth , General Manager Rossmoor Community Services District Cc: Seal Beach City Council Adele Brown Seal Beach, CA 90740 Schelly Sustarsic September 1, 2017 Seal Beach City Hall, 2118" St. Seal Beach, CA 90740 Dear Ms. Sustarsic, I have been a Seal Beach resident for 17 years and reside in a condo directly west of where LA Fitness wants to build. I have been a member of fitness centers for over 30 years and I feel the choice of location in the Rossmoor Center is the poorest choice this company could make. I don't need to list the negative reasons for the building as they have been presented at the City Hall meetings. I have a concern that has not been addressed at these meetings. It has been mentioned that the negative reasons have come from Rossmoor residents. Well, I wish to bring to your attention the number of Seal Beach residents that live closest to the proposed location. My condo has 54 units and the condo to the north of mine has 255 units. If you average 2 residents per unit (which is low) that totals over 600 residents. The condos to the south of my condo have approximately 170 units or over 300 residents. This means close to 1000 SEAL BEACH residents will be living in close proximity to the fitness center. Vote against this project. Sincerely, Adele Brown Adele Brown Seal Beach, CA 90740 Mike Varipapa September 1, 2017 Seal Beach City Hall, 2118' St. Seal Beach, CA 90740 Dear Mr. Varipapa, I have been a Seal Beach resident for 17 years' and reside in a condo directly west of where LA Fitness wants to build. I have been a member of fitness centers for over 30 years and I feel the choice of location in the Rossmoor Center is the poorest choice this company could make. I don't need to list the negative reasons for the building as they have been presented at the City Hall meetings. I have a concern that has not been addressed at these meetings. It has been mentioned that the negative reasons have come from Rossmoor residents. Well, I wish to bring to your attention the number of Seal Beach residents that live closest to the proposed location. My condo has 54 units and the condo to the north of mine has 255 units. If you average 2 residents per unit (which is low) that totals over 600 residents. The condos to the south of my condo have approximately 170 units or over 300 residents. This means close to 1000 SEAL BEACH residents will be living in close proximity to the fitness center. Vote against this project. Sincerely, Adele Brown Adele Brown Seal Beach, CA 90740 Ellery A. Deaton September 1, 2017 Seal Beach City Hall, 2118' St. Seal Beach, CA 90740 Dear Ms. Deaton, I have been a Seal Beach resident for 17 years and reside in a condo directly west of where LA Fitness wants to build. I have been a member of fitness centers for over 30 years and I feel the choice of location in the Rossmoor Center is the poorest choice this company could make. I don't need to list the negative reasons for the building as they have been presented at the City Hall meetings. I have a concern that has not been addressed at these meetings. It has been mentioned that the negative reasons have come from Rossmoor residents. Well, I wish to bring to your attention the number of Seal Beach residents that live closest to the proposed location. My condo has 54 units and the condo to the north of mine has 255 units. If you average 2 residents per unit (which is low) that totals over 600 residents. The condos to the south of my condo have approximately 170 units or over 300 residents. This means close to 1000 SEAL BEACH residents will be living in close proximity to the fitness center. Vote against this project. Sincerely, Adele Brown Adele Brown ONOW Seal Beach, CA 90740 Sandra Massa -Lavitt September 1, 2017 Seal Beach City Hall, 211 a St. Seal Beach, CA 90740 Dear Ms. Massa -Lavitt I have been a Seal Beach resident for 17 years and reside in a condo directly west of where LA Fitness wants to build. I have been a member of fitness centers for over 30 years and I feel the choice of location in the Rossmoor Center is the poorest choice this company could make. I don't need to list the negative reasons for the building as they have been presented at the City Hall meetings. I have a concern that has not been addressed at these meetings. It has been mentioned that the negative reasons have come from Rossmoor residents. Well, I wish to bring to your attention the number of Seal Beach residents that live closest to the proposed location. My condo has 54 units and the condo to the north of mine has 255 units. If you average 2 residents per unit (which is low) that totals over 600 residents. The condos to the south of my condo have approximately 170 units or ovbr 300 residents. This means close to 1000 SEAL BEACH residents will be living in close proximity to the fitness center. Vote against this project. Sincerely, Adele Brown Adele Brown Seal Beach, CA 90740 Thomas Moore September 1, 2017 Seal Beach City Hall, 211 8' St. Seal Beach, CA 90740 Dear Mr. Moore, I have been a Seal Beach resident for 17 years and reside in a condo directly west of where LA Fitness wants to build. I have been a member of fitness centers for over 30 years and I feel the choice of location in the Rossmoor Center is the poorest choice this company could make. I don't need to list the negative reasons for the building as they have been presented at the City Hall meetings. I have a concern that has not been addressed at these meetings. It has been mentioned that the negative reasons have come from Rossmoor residents. Well, I wish to bring to your attention the number of Seal Beach residents that live closest to the proposed location. My condo has 54 units and the condo to the north of mine has 255 units. If you average 2 residents per unit (which is low) that totals over 600 residents. The condos to the south of my condo have approximately 170 units or over 300 residents. This means close to 1000 SEAL BEACH residents will be living in close proximity to the fitness center. Vote against this project. Sincerely, Adele Brown Steven Fowler From: Pat Kearns ND Sent Thursday, September 07, 2017 4:23 PM To: _.. Ellery Deaton; Thomas Moore; Sandra Massa- Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Schelly Sustarsic _ Cc - - Jennifer Robles; Crystal Landavazo; Steven Fowler Subject Approval of growth to Shops at Rossmoor Dear Council People, I know you will have a huge crowd of Naysayers at your meeting Monday night, 9- 11 -17, I'm sorry I won't be there. I have written to you before on this subject and I'm very concerned that interfering with the "Shops at Rossmoor" full buildout saddles the City with Commercial property that is not performing to its full potential as a source of revenue for Seal Beach. You and staff know only too well how the EIR has addressed the mitigation issues and points the way to a safer and more desirable full service center. This is a project that is not being developed to hurt our neighbors. The latest flyer by CALAFSB is very splashy but their bullet points are completely unfounded and misleading, There are very few Rossmore houses near the "Shops At Rossmoor" and the Center has been there in various configurations since the first Rossmoor houses were built. Rossmoor has been a premium community since the first house sale, no matter how the Center was configured. And it will continue to be after LA Fitness is in full operation. Please drive through Rossmoor prior the Monday night or google the map of Rossmoor. The two Parks and four schools are nowhere near the Center. In fact, because of the 4 -story Condos on Montecito Rd. people on that street can not see nor hear what is happening within the Center. The Rossmoor community has a very active home owners association that can and should control the traffic in their community to control parking violations, risk to children walking, skating, bicycling and playing in their streets; and working with the County to control crime within the Community. Seal Beach has always operated to provide for the basic safety needs for its citizens and its neighbors. The City of Seal Beach should take advantage of this major development, the Property and Sales taxes will be substantial. Utility fees will also improve the revenue for this service. Planning and building permits are added income. This project and others proposed for this Center, as- well -as the many finishing or just finished in Old Town will continue to add revenue to the city, which could go along way in improving risk and crime management. I understand the will be a risk and crime management "town hall" meeting later this month. News reports in the "SUN" are scary, and show the need for such a meeting and more effective action. Added income is important to the City. Thank you for your consideration, Pat Kearns 400hol� Seal Beach,CA. 90740 Steven Fowler From: lames Wethe.ejrtasttttNI0O@NdL=tr Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 8:31 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; Michelle.Steel @ocgov.com Subject: Opposition to LA Fitness Attachments: LA Fitness Appeal.docx Dear Elected Officials - I am writing to you to strongly oppose the LA Fitness appeal for a use permit to build in the Shops at Rossmoor. I have attached a letter which outlines the very basics of my concerns. I would appreciate it if you would take the time to read my letter and understand that I kept the letter to one page in consideration of the value of your time. Certainly I have many other concerns and would be happy to discuss them with any of you should you so have an interest. Sincerely, James Wethe 4011� Rossmoor, CA 90720 September 4, 2017 Dear Elected Official 1 am writing to you today to let you know my feelings about the upcoming appeal regarding placing a LA Fitness gym in the Shops at Rossmoor. I could not be more opposed to this plan. I am sure you have heard the arguments against this proposal before but please indulge me as I summarize some of my concerns: Traffic- Already a nightmare in the Shops at Rossmoor and their traffic mitigation plan is so seriously flawed that it ignores simple common sense. Rossmoor /Seal Beach will be severely negatively impacted by the increased car volume with no solution. Noise- There is no measure that will limit or curtail the significant noise pollution that those who live virtually on top of the proposed site will have to suffer. Crime- Situated in the back portion of a busy shopping center with extended hours and known issues of cars being broken into occurring at other fitness center locations in the area. This type of facility invites criminal activity whether they accept that fact or not and the location makes this much more likely. Safety - The adjacent residential streets would be even more crowded than they currently are... and significantly so. This is a family /residential neighborhood and the idea of markedly increased traffic is a major concern and a severe "worry" for all who live here regarding safe passage of children, the elderly, and virtually everyone who lives here. I could continue endlessly about these and even more concerns but I have purposefully limited this letter in the hope that you will both read it and understand the reasoning behind my strong opposition to the appeal regarding LA Fitness. Quality of life and a "small town feel" are key to me and my family and mimic the values our neighbors in Seal Beach state are the goals for their own community as well. Please uphold the denial regarding LA Fitness in the Shops at Rossmoor... please do not destroy the quality of life for those of us who live here. Sincerely, James Wethe IMWlMMIlWMWdMM Rossmoor, CA 90720 Steven Fowler From: Nita Woolston <4mwmmmdmjmmmmw Sent Thursday, September 07, 20171:23 PM To: Steven Fowler Subject: NO LA FITNESS. Dear Mrs Michelle Steel. Please say NO TO L.A.FITNESS The location ware they are planing to build is Not Facing Seal Boulevard THE BUILDING WILL BE BETWEEN THE BACK OF SPROUTS MARKET AND THE RESIDENCES OF ALONG MONTECITO ROAD. This is a very bad location for a Gim with all the cars coming and going at all hours , like from 5:00 AM. To 11:00 P.M., No enough road space for the cars, trucks that they bring the products for the stores ,noise and the worse of all is the safety for the children that have to go to school in the Rossmoor. . The location is NOT the wright one for this kind of business Please NO FOR L.A.FITNESS. Thank you Sincerely Encarnacion P. Roehm August 16, 2017 To the Seal Beach City Council regarding the proposed LA Fitness in Rossmoor: This letter is to voice my objection to the LA Fitness in Rossmoor. I don't believe I have anything different to add that others have not already said. It's a terrible location; the traffic is already awful trying to enter or leave that area; there are several gyms within a few mile radius, etc. I'm sure you've heard these, and more. I do want to add this though. When does quality of life trump corporate greed? Thank you in advance for your consideration in this matter. 5U& %Yc4ff