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Home My WebLink AboutSupplemental - Item J Closed Session from Gary MillerDecember 11, 2017 Seal Beach City Council On October 5 as a former member of the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) Board of Directors, I received a courtesy briefing at the invitation of OCTA regarding the Almond Avenue sound wall plans. Attendees were: ORA Executive Director Capital Programs Jim Bell, OCTA Director of Highway Programs Rose Casey, OCTA 1-405 Improvement Project Manager Jeff Mills, OCTA Public Outreach Acting Department Manager Christina Byrne, According to OCTA, east of Almond Park it is planned to relocate approximately 470 feet of the sound wail beginning approximately 100 feet east of the park and ending at approximately Primrose Circle. At the two extremities of the 470 feet, the relocation will be at zero feet. The lateral relocation is between approximately 0-8 feet. For approximately 175 of the 470 feet, Almond Avenue will be narrowed from 40 feet to between 36 and 40 feet. In this area where Almond Avenue will be narrowed to between 36 and 40 feet, there will be approximately 2 feet between the relocated sound wall and the north curb face of Almond Avenue. It was not clear to me what is planned in the remaining 295 feet of the 470 foot relocation, except that 295 feet of street should be at least 36 feet wide with a parkway of at least approximately 2 feet but 1 cannot say for sure. West of Almond Park approximately 1,550 feet of the sound wall will be relocated beginning approximately 300 feet west of park and ending at approximately Dahlia Circle. At the two extremities of the 1,550 feet, the relocation will be at zero feet. The lateral relocation is between approximately 0-8 feet. For approximately 975 of the 1,550 feet, Almond Avenue will be narrowed from 40 feet to between 36 and 40 feet, with a parkway of approximately 2 feet. Here again, it was not clear to me what is planned in the remaining 575 feet of the 1,550 foot relocation, except that 575 feet of street should be at least 36 feet wide with a parkway of at least approximately 2 feet. In this area west of the park most, if not all, of the street and parkway currently have a total width of 44 feet, 40 feet and 4 feet, respectively. When I pointed out relocating the wall 8 feet and reducing the parkway 2 feet the street would be 34 feet wide, the OCTA representative indicated the final design is still being developed. This 1,550 feet of Almond Avenue will parallel 10 northbound lanes of the freeway and if you applied the same design standards Caltrans is proposing for "Alternative 3 Modified" (attached) there would not be a need to relocate the 1,550 feet of sound wall. Attachment F CO (7cr� 13�avcd �pjnoy5 0 °apjnoyyNN b N C AID IX r K i I °an^o4S c ea i s I� _a��_ _® JaMWIIS JaPl^o45 'v +ap S 'a a M M lip az + i+ +� m Q QV e x CYK u m W on "x �< Seal Beach, California July 13, 2015 The City Council met in regular session at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers With Mayor Deston calling the insetting to order and Mayor Pro Tem Sloan leading the Salute to the Flag. ROLL CALL r Present Mayor Deaton Council Members: Sloan, Miller, Massa-Lavitt, Vanpapa City Stafr.. Craig A. Steele, City Attorney Jill R. Ingram, City Manager Patrick Gallegos, Assistant City Manager Chief Joe Stilinov ch, Seal Beach Police Department Chief Joe Bailey, Marne Safely/Uleguard Sean P. Cmmby, Director of Public Works VIctona L. Bealley, Director of FinencefCity Treasurer Jim Basham, Director of Community Development/Community Services Tina Knapp, City Clerk i APPROVAL OF AGENDA & WAIVER OF FULL READING OF RESOLUTIONS & ORDINANCES Council Member Miller requested that Items B and I be removed from the consent calendar for separate consideration. Sloan moved, second by Miller, to approve the agenda, as amended. AYES: Deaton, Sloan, Miller, MassaLavitt, Vanpapa _ NOES: _._Noce Motion carried r a National Night Out—August 4, 2015 CITY ATTORNEY REPORT Craig A. Steele, City Attorney The City Attorney reported that the City Council met in Closed Session. prior to the regular meeting and discussed the items identified on the agenda. The City Attorney noted that Council Member Vanpapa recused himself from discussion of Item A on the agenda due to his employer. The City Attorney reported that the City Council unanimously directed the City Attorney to file a legal California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) challenge to the adequacy: of an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) prepared by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and Orange County Transportation Autlgmy (OCTA) for the Id05 Improvements Project. The lawsuit will be filed in Orange; County Superior Court this week. The Cray's challenge will allege that Caltrans failed to follow CEQA and failed to identify, evaluate, and mitigate environmental impacts in a number of areas including traffic, noise, air quality, arid, specifically, the impacts on local residents as opposed to the regional parties the report addressed. The challenge will note that the report does not adequately evaluate, or identify and mitigate, the environmental impacts of moving the Almond Avenue r, sound wall and essentially stopping traffic at the Los Angeles County border. U The City's challenge will also allege that the EIR is essentially a rationalization for a project Caltrans and OCTA illegally pre -committed to several years ago, and not an adequate disclosure of the serious adverse environmental impacts the project will create. The City Attorney further reported that the City Council discussed Item B and mere was no reportable action. The City Council also discussed Item C and there cuss no reportable action on two of the cases identXled on the agenda. With regard to the third case in Item C, the City Council unanimously (Varipape N i $III _ ' I $ IS'I I Attachment E I W � ay J W z .,.,. pp PC BS y K R c a c W W J H f C c T � ns�INN 9$ss i N i $III _ ' I $ IS'I I Attachment E f W � J W � f $ i O _ � W W J H f t c i SS-p-. -'--- - C t o 2 f pp d � ' �ysp yy9xx E „iii � < s : e x tea0 5e5§ = ... az rnu� !: I s i i i e li _ II i W U c. s - I 4 sA; I tilt a� Re: FW: 405 Freeway Lane Configuration Summary Table Page 1 of 1 Re: FW: 405 Freeway Lane Configuration Summary Table From: Gary Miller <miller.sb.district4@earthlink.net, To: Michael Ho Subject: Re: FW: 405 Freeway lane Configuration Summary Table Date: Sep 10, 2012 10:41 PM Michael, the table below is for the 405 between Valley Yew and the 6057 Thanks, Gary —Original Message— From: Michael Ho Sent Sep 6, 2012 9:13 AM To: Gary Miller Subject FW: 405 Freeway Lane Configuration Summary Table Configuration General Purpose Lanes Carpool Lanes Toil Lanes Total Lanes Public Lanes Private Lanes cost Current w/o WCCP 6 1 0 7 7 0 $0 WCCP 6 2 0 8 8 0 $D ALT 1 7 2 0 9 9 0 $1.3 B ALT 2 8 2 0 10 10 0 $1.4 B ALT 7 0 2 9 7 2 $1.7B /here� r 6Lk0A IaneS cre th e n� r,o Itc tke v�e.a.�e. �-�: t11E two L16S eypress is es �vA GvIe. Z-�- a�'V7es5 \aales-) Y ( CI to, to i-1vt E M'e'r C) C Michael S. Ho, Deputy Director of Public Works/City Engineer City of Seal Beach - 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740 (562) 431-2527 Ext. 1322 For Information about Seal Beach, please see our city website: http,/I sealbeachca NOTICE: The communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. Ifyou am not the intended redpienl of this communication, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this communication to the intended reopienl, please advise Ne sender by reply email and immediately delete the message and any aaaohments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. http://webmail.eaftWinLnet/wam/printable jsp?msgid=6874&> ---609470202 10/5/2017