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Home My WebLink About19 - Covid-19 Update - CorrespondenceReceived After Agenda Printed May 12, 2020 Item No. 19 From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2020 1:26 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Beach Opening From: Riverdude42 Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2020 1:25:23 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Dept - City Council Cc: City Clerk's Office Subject: Beach Opening [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe Hello City Council, The opening of the beaches for activity based use was a great result for the citizens of Newport Beach, for which we are thankful for the councils efforts. However, there remains a number of resulting issues which are burdened on the residents of the beach areas. The parking situation remains unacceptable. To open beaches while keeping public lots closed, forces all visitors into our neighborhoods. While it is the councils position the "most" visitors follow rules and directions, I can attest from first hand knowledge this is far from the truth. This scenario was also commented on by all who live in the affected areas during the emergency meeting, yet was not even commented on by the council other than one council member. We are deluged with visitors who despite the stay at home order in place, flood our neighborhoods without masks, with no respect for social distancing and can not follow simple directional arrows on our sidewalks. assume the goal in closing the parking lots is to discourage visitors from bringing chairs, ice chests, etc to the beach. However, if that is the goal, the result is clearly visible that the beach is used in group clusters with all the amenities of home at their disposal. Rarely, if at all, do you see the beach being used in Corona del Mar as it was intended under the beach reopening directives. What is even more disturbing is what occurs as evening approaches. We then find a steady flow of vehicles cruising the Marguerite/Ocean Blvd streets, at the rate of 300-500 cars per hour. And this continues well into the night. In fact, last night there were still lines of cars at midnight. If you dispute these estimates, I challenge the city to conduct a traffic study so you can see for yourself what is going on. For those that exit the cars to walk on Ocean, virtually half are ignoring directional signs. A courteous hello and asking that they consider compliance, is typically met with hostility or laughter, all the while grouped together without social distancing or making any attempt to provide distancing as they pass one another. What is most disappointing is during the emergency meeting almost two weeks ago, it was stated there would be visible officials to ensure compliance with regulations. I can attest that has not been remotely the case here in CDM. And worse, I think we can be assured if higher level government agencies were aware of what the actual situation was in CDM, they would not be as tolerant as our elected local officials. And of course, all of this is occurring as the county reports little if any decline new cases and deaths. For the safety and respect for the citizens whom you represent, what is plan B????? Regards, George Ponce 214 Marguerite Avenue Received After Agenda Printed May 12, 2020 Item No. 19 From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, May 11, 2020 9:56 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Weekend Beach Activity From: Lynn Lorenz Sent: Monday, May 11, 2020 9:55:34 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Dept - City Council; City Clerk's Office; Leung, Grace Subject: Weekend Beach Activity [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Attention City Council and Grace Leung: There was way too much activity, too many cars and too many people at the beach this weekend. In this first "test" weekend, we did not farewell. How did the activity this weekend differ from a "normal weekend?" We are not following the Governor or the County health leaders' directives about limited beach activity. I hope that you can correct the problems in order to protect the citizens of Newport Beach and to carry out the Governor's orders. Respectfully, Lynn Lorenz Sent from my iPad Received After Agenda Printed May 12, 2020 Item No. 19 From: Rieff, Kim Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 8:15 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: Bike Path -----Original Message ----- From: cynthia.rosenfeld@gmail.com <cynthia.rosenfeld@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 8:14 AM To: Dept - City Council <CityCouncil@newportbeachca.gov> Cc: Brenner, Joy <JBrenner@newportbeachca.gov>; Diane Dixon <ddixon@dixonfornewport.com>; Herdman, Jeff <jherdman@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Bike Path [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Newport Beach city Council. I understand that you are meeting later today, and I would like to voice my support for further protections along the bike path. As Diane can confirm, I write to her every other day to report that the barricade here near E Street has been pulled aside or aggressively ripped apart and thrown onto the ground. Hoping that people will follow the rules is not working. As I type to you I can see five people on the closed bike path directly in front of my house, none of them are my neighbors. I I appreciate that the governors beach orders did not come with enforcement guidelines. I can imagine the challenges you face trying to be responsible for enforcing government regulations, protecting our public health and the friction that arises between those. Thankfully, the bike path situation has nothing to do with Sacramento. We can and should take action. I am deeply grateful for your concern for our public health, and I can tell you that your decisions and efforts are a matter of life and death. Thank you Cynthia Envoye de mon iPhone Received After Agenda Printed May 12, 2020 Item No. 19 From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 9:45 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: CITY COUNCIL SESSION- COMMENT RE AGENDA ITEM 19 --FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD From: Denys Oberman Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 9:45:06 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: O'Neill, William; Dept - City Council; City Clerk's Office Cc: Denys Oberman; Fred Levine; Laura Curran; Debbie Stevens; davidsherbeck@yahoo.com Subject: CITY COUNCIL SESSION- COMMENT RE AGENDA ITEM 19 --FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Mayor O'Neill and Members of the Council: First, let me say, Thank you for your willingness to serve during this challenging time. Making and committing to a sound path is critical ----balancing preservation of our community's physical and mental health, while Determining incremental steps to revitalization of our local economy. We have some distinctive characteristics that are not shared by all coastal communities: residential neighborhoods ,schools and churches immediately adjacent to the Beach and boardwalk; and an economy that thrives through both residents' and business activity, the latter including a Visitor component. This period of time requiring "shelter in place" has been extremely trying for your constituents, and you. We are coming up on an election year, and we in the community understand that it can be easy to jump on the Ideology bandwagon: State v Local v Federal control,etc. ---for politicians at local, county, state and federal levels. The residents of the coastal community, in particular the Balboa Penninsula , have been subjected to an unsafe and untenable situation. • The City has negotiated a "soft opening" of our oceanfront area after contentious interaction with the State Governor. • The City has failed to implement and manage to the Beach plan. Despite residents' concerted voice, the City has been largely unresponsive ---putting Our Health and welfare in peril. Specifically: ■ Beach and Board signage messages have been unclear and inadequate. ■ The Beach active only has NOT been enforced ■ The Beach night closure of 10:00 pm has largely not been enforced, or enforced only hours later after residents have been subjected to streams of people making noise, confrontational coming onto and off of, and partying screaming along the Beach and oceanfront Boardwalk plus side streets. ■ This has resulted in recurring Nuisance and Disturbance to our community's residents, who only want to stay safe and get a good night's sleep in the peaceful enjoyment of their home. ■ When residents have made requests for service to the lifeguards and most importantly, the PD, we have been almost completely stonewalled ---some nights NO RESPONSE, several nights response limited and only several hours later( eg. Midnight/1:00 am). Only one night was a timely sweep made, at about 10:30 am. The parking lot at the Newport Pier was filled with parked cars and overflowing at 8:00 pm on Sunday night May 10 ---weren't the public parking lots supposed to be closed? We ask ourselves, WHY? It is not costly or logistically complicated to have an Officer drive up and down the Penninsula on the school and along the sand, with bullhorn and lights stating that, The Beach is Closed -you need to leave the Beach now. 1-2 Officers up and down ---once proactive right before Closure time of 10:00, and return thereafter to Enforce. Is it policy or off -policy directive—if so, where is this coming from ---senior staff, City Council?? Is it directive as to practice, is it cultural or political resistance... Worse yet, is this Retaliation against members of the community who care about our City and seek responsiveness... The City does not derive Revenue from these night-time swarms of non -local people. In fact, allowing this actually augments health and safety risk, which in turn will delay our ability to progress economic recovery. WHY does The City want to put its residents and other constituents in harms way—we cannot even safely move within our own community. This is NOT "the 4th of July redux". PLEASE RECONSIDER AND ACTIVELY RESPOND TO PROTECT US ALL, WHILE RESTORING OUR COMMUNITY. Thank you in advance for changing the direction, and doing the right thing. Denys H. Oberman Resident and Community Stakeholder NOTE—This message is not intended to represent the views of the entity with electronic signature, below. It is Personal and Not Conrfidential Regards, Denys H. 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From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 2:47 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Active recreation and beach use recommendations to City Council From: Cindy's Email Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 2:46:48 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Active recreation and beach use recommendations to City Council [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor O Neill and City Council Members Last week after careful deliberation you voted to reopen our beaches for active recreation and placed restrictions on permitted activity and allowed beach equipment You hoped that the public would adhere to the reasonable plan that you put in place beginning last Friday May 6. Unfortunately -the public needs to be reminded and we need enforcement of your guidelines. This week large groups were gathering at Big Corona Beach.. Walkers were ignoring directional signs for walking and not keeping social distancing.. Few were wearing masks in spite of being in close proximity to each other. Groups were bringing large coolers, tents, umbrellas and other non permitted items onto the beach certainly giving the impression that they were not intending on only using the beach for active recreation. Our community desperately needs our access to the beach and we do not want the potential for increased virus spread to rollback the gains we have made. Please help our community meet the goals for reopening our community, our schools ,and economy by guiding us with increased enforcement of your guidelines. Recommendations for improving compliance might include but not be limited to.. Increased police or sheriff presence in the afternoon daily. A community policing model. Increased signage in multiple languages and/or graphics illustrating expected or prohibited behaviors. Parking restrictions .. 2 hour parking limits during the day in the "residential Flower Streets". This will aid in keeping beach capacity to a social distancing Ievel.Many other coastal beach cities have successfully implemented this.. Hermosa Beach.Manhattan Beach. Santa Monica among others. Lowering daily rate for parking to encourage use of the lot when the Iotreopens..The city should derive revenue from the parkinglots rather than provide free parking on city streets. On many days this past summer the beach was at capacity and the lot was very underutilized. We community members will support your efforts to keep us safe as we all work toward recovery. Thank you Cynthia Hollern 1921 Altura Drive Corona del Mar