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HomeMy WebLinkAboutEmail Comment from Woody Woodruff1 Gloria Harper From:Jill Ingram Sent:Thursday, July 16, 2020 4:08 PM To:Gloria Harper Subject:FW: Concerns of parking loss on Main st Hi Gloria, forwarding for public comment. Thank you, Jill Jill R. Ingram, ICMA-CM City Manager City of Seal Beach - 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740 (562) 431-2527, Ext. 1300   Civility Principles: 1. Treat everyone courteously; 2. Listen to others respectfully; 3. Exercise self-control; 4. Give open-minded consideration to all viewpoints; 5. Focus on the issues and avoid personalizing debate; and, 6. Embrace respectful disagreement and dissent as democratic rights, inherent components of an inclusive public process, and tools for forging sound decisions. For Information about Seal Beach, please see our city website: 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: Lisa Woodruff [mailto:lisaswoodruff@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 2:47 PM To: Schelly Sustarsic; Sandra Massa-Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Thomas Moore; Joe Kalmick; Tim Kelsey; Jill Ingram; Les Johnson Subject: Concerns of parking loss on Main st I have concerns on what’s going on regarding Main st. At this point we’re still a small family oriented Main st. All day long, we have the young families stroll between the toy store, the kite store, and the shell shop, the kids trifecta, the locals call it. I can tell you, they’re not all going to make it through this time. The city’s plan to take away parking from all the businesses and giving it to a select few, for personal use, will guarantee their demise. Along with so many other retail and service businesses. People 2 come here because we have a great business mix and family atmosphere. If it only goes back to being a bar town, it will once again not only kill the street, but kill the property values, like they were in the 70s, when we were a bar town. People joke now, that maybe these family businesses should have sold alcohol and then maybe our district 1 and 3 councilmen would have cared what happened to them. We have already lost large amounts of parking because bars and restaurants have converted their parking lots into outside drinking and dining. I don’t want anybody to go out of business, it’s not fair to take away parking that is suppose to be for all the businesses, especially when most of the businesses never had the option of take out, like the bars and restaurants. Are we going to reward them when it’s common knowledge that they didn’t social distance, people would be inside shoulder to shoulder, even when they were given outside area on our sidewalk. In fact, people have said that we have had our council people in some of these establishments when this had happened. One of the biggest reasons we’re back in a shutdown is because of what happened In bats and restaurants and would drink and not follow state mandates, and now we’re all suffering. But the council wants to reward this behavior like the local bar that had karaoke till 11 pm at night, which kept up local residents two blocks away. I think it’s time, you have emergency meetings for the majority of the businesses on our street, which are not bars or restaurants. The very least you can do, is make sure that no tables or umbrellas on the sidewalk or park lets in the street block the visibility of the other businesses on the street. Our store fronts are our advertising. Especially when we’re closed, that’s why businesses are on a main st. and not in industrial parks. But I ask you to do the right thing, and start being concerned with the majority of them, rather than just stealing resources from them and giving them to a select few bars and restaurants that some council people prefer over the majority. These businesses can’t take anymore street closures and loss of parking. Thank you for your concern on this matter. Woody Woodruff 562-212-5245 Sent from my iPad 3 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.