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RESOLUTION 12-6821
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
HERA11OSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING A LIVING STREETS
POLICY FOR THE CITY OF HERMOSA BEACH
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA,
RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. In 2011, the Hermosa, Redondo and Manhattan Beach City Councils adopted
`Beach Cities Livability Plan,' a key component of the Blue Zones Project"m initiative
facilitate active lifestyles to improve health, well-being and longevity.
Section 2. The City of Hermosa Beach desires to complete the Blue Zones Communi
Pledge by aligning city policies to achieve this objective.
Section 3. A "living streets" policy will assist the city in its desire to complete the B11
Zones Community Pledge and to become a Blue Zones Community, by promoting the heal
and mobility of all Hermosa Beach citizens and visitors by providing high quality pedestria
bicycling, and transit access to destinations throughout the City, as well as ensuring streets
the transportation network is attractive and incorporates sustainability considerations.
Section 4. The City of Hermosa Beach City Council hereby adopts the "Living S
Policy" set forth in Exhibit 1 hereto.
Section 5. That the City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this Resolution
shall cause the same to be entered among the original resolutions of said City; and shall make
minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the proceeding of the City Council
of said City in the minutes of the meeting at which the same is passed and adopted.
PASSED, APPROVED,,* ADOPTED this I Ith day of December, 2012.
City Council and MAYOR of the City of
sa Beach, California
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Exhibit 1
City of Hermosa Beach
Administrative Policy #
SUBJECT:
Living Streets Policy
PURPOSE
Date:
Approved by: City Council
Authority:
Public Works Department
Community Development Department
Mayor,
The City of Hermosa Beach will improve livability and sustainability by adopting a 'living
streets' policy that promotes the health and mobility of all Hermosa Beach citizens and
visitors by providing high quality pedestrian, bicycling, and transit access to destinations
throughout the City.
In Hermosa Beach, living streets embody the following principles:
1. Streets and transportation networks and projects that are designed for people,
with beauty and amenities.
2. Streets and transportation networks and projects that provide for the needs of
drivers, transit users, bicyclists, and pedestrians, as well as users of all ages,
abilities and backgrounds.
3. Streetscapes that are inviting places — with engaging architecture, street
furniture, landscaping, and public art — and foster healthy economic
development.
4. Streets and streetscapes that integrate sustainable. management and
conservation principles addressing water, energy, materials, waste, plant life and
other resources.
STREET NETWORK / CONNECTIVITY
The City of Hermosa Beach is a highly urbanized, built -out City characterized by small
lots and a dense grid -based street network.
(A) Multi -modal. The City of Hermosa Beach will design, operate and maintain a
transportation system that provides a connected network of streets and facilities that
accommodate all modes of travel.
(B) Enhancement. The City will actively seek opportunities to repurpose or
enhance rights -of -way to enhance connectivity for pedestrians, bicyclists and transit
users. Alleys, pedestrian walk -streets, the Strand and the Greenbelt provide special
opportunities to enhance non -motorized uses and connections.
(C) Destinations. The City will focus resources on enhancing non -motorized
connectivity to services, schools, parks, civic uses, regional connections and
commercial uses.
(D) Development projects. The City will require large new developments and
redevelopment projects to maintain or enhance connectivity, such as through
interconnected street networks with small blocks and non -motorized connections. The
City will require smaller projects to maintain or enhance non -motorized connections
when practical.
(E) Regional connectivity. The City will work with agencies and neighboring
communities to incorporate living streets principles into regional transportation
networks.
(F) Environment. The City will focus on improving the function of storm water
and urban runoff management systems.
JURISDICTION
The City will broadly incorporate living streets principles into the design, construction
and operation of the local and regional transportation network.
(A) Applicability generally. This living streets policy is intended to cover all
development and redevelopment in the public domain, all street improvement
assessment districts, and private development and redevelopment that creates publicly
accessible streets and non -motorized ways within Hermosa Beach.
Street projects broadly include those involving new construction, reconstruction,
retrofits, repaving, rehabilitation, or changes in the allocation of pavement space on
existing public streets, or phases thereof.
Living streets may be achieved through single projects or incrementally through a series
of smaller improvements or projects over time.
(B) City government. Every City department, including Administration, Public
Works, Community Development, Community Resources, Police and Fire will follow the
policy.
(C) Private developers. The City requires all developers and builders of projects
on private property that create or affect publicly accessible streets and non -motorized
facilities and to obtain and comply with the City's standards.
(D) Permit authority. The City requires agencies that Hermosa Beach has
permitting authority over to comply with this policy, such as local and state agencies,
water agencies and special districts, all utilities, and service contractors.
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(E) Independent jurisdiction. The City encourages and will help agencies not
under Hermosa Beach's jurisdiction to comply with this policy, such as the Hermosa
Beach City School District and Caltrans.
(F) Regional entities. The City will work closely with regional agencies and
adjacent cities to promote compliance with this policy, such as Los Angeles County,
Caltrans, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Southern
California Regional Rail Authority, Southern California Association of Governments and
South Bay Cities Council of Governments.
EXCEPTIONS
Living streets principles and practices will be included in the projects to which the policy
is applicable, as well as other plans and manuals, except under one or more of the
following conditions:
(A) Maintenance. The project involves ordinary or emergency maintenance
activities designed to keep assets in serviceable condition, such as mowing, cleaning,
sweeping, spot repair, concrete joint repair, or pothole filling, or when interim measures
are implemented on temporary detour or haul routes.
(B) Council decision. The City Council exempts a project due to excessive and
disproportionate cost of establishing a bicycle or pedestrian way or facility, or transit
enhancement as part of a project.
(C) Administrative decision. The Directors of Public Works and the Community
Development Department jointly determine the project is not practically feasible or is not
cost effective and/or prohibitive.
Exceptions will be documented and made available for public inspection prior to a
discretionary decision or upon an administrative decision. Guidelines and procedures
for evaluating these factors may be established by the City.
DESIGN
The Hermosa Beach City Council declares it is the City of Hermosa Beach's policy to:
(A) Adopt guidelines. Adopt new living streets design guidelines to guide the
planning, funding, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of new and
modified streets in Hermosa Beach, while remaining flexible to the unique
circumstances of different streets where sound engineering and planning judgment
produce context sensitive designs.
(B) Implement guidelines. Incorporate the living streets design guidelines
principles into all City plans, manuals, rules, regulations and programs as appropriate.
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(C) Pedestrians. Provide well -designed pedestrian accommodations on streets
and crossings unless an equivalent alternative is available or physical conditions
preclude an alternative. Pedestrian accommodations can take numerous forms, such as
traffic signals, roundabouts, traffic calming measures like bulb -outs or curb extensions,
buffer zones, sidewalks, shared streets or shared -use pathways that provide a safe
pedestrian -friendly environment, and perpendicular curb ramps, among others.
(D) Bicycles. Provide well -designed bicycle accommodations along streets,
unless safety would be significantly compromised after considering bicycle
accommodating solutions. Bicycle accommodations can take numerous forms, such as
the use of bicycle boulevards, striping, slow speed or low auto volume streets, traffic
calming, signs, and pavement markings, among others.
(E) Special needs. Enhance the safety, access, convenience and comfort of all
users of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. The City understands that children, seniors,
and persons with disabilities will require special accommodations. The term "non -
motorized" in this policy may include a wide range of devices and alternative modes of
travel.
(F) Landscaping. Where physical conditions are conducive, landscaping shall be
planted whenever a street is newly constructed, reconstructed, or relocated.
CONTEXT SENSITIVITY
(A) Compatibility. The City of Hermosa Beach will plan its streets in harmony with
the adjacent land uses and neighborhoods.
(B) Process. The City will solicit input from local stakeholders during the planning
process.
(C) Placemaking. The City will design streets with a strong sense of place. We
will use architecture, landscaping, streetscaping, public art, signage and other elements
to reflect or enhance the community and neighborhood.
(D) Commerce. The City will coordinate street improvements with merchants
along retail and commercial corridors to develop or enhance vibrant and livable districts.
(E) Environment. The City will integrate natural features, such as topography,
drainage and trees into the design of our streets and rights -of -way. The City will
incorporate context sensitive sustainable storm water and urban runoff management
strategies into projects.
PERFORMANCE MEASURES
The City will evaluate this living streets policy using the following performance
measures:
Bicycles
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1. Increase in total miles of on -street bikeways defined by streets with clearly
marked or signed bicycle accommodation
2. Increase in number of bicycle parking facilities
3. Significant increase in bicycle ridership
Pedestrians
4. Increase in total miles of streets with pedestrian accommodation (goal — all)
5. Decrease in number and severity of pedestrian -vehicle and bicycle -vehicle
crashes
6. Decrease in number of pedestrian -vehicle and bicycle -vehicle fatalities (goal — 0)
Transit
7. Increase in new public transit facilities, including bus stop shelters
Environment
8. Improve storm water management, following National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) standards
Placemaking
9. Increase public art, landscape, street furniture, or other streetscape
improvements
10. Increase in sales tax revenue along improved streets or rights -of -way
The City will identify funds and create a methodology to collect data related to those
performance measures.
IMPLEMENTATION
(A) Project Team. The Director of Public Works and the Director of Community
Development will jointly oversee the implementation of this policy. The project team will
annually provide a written report to City Council evaluating the City's progress and
advise on implementation.
(B) Inventory. The City will maintain a comprehensive inventory of the pedestrian
and bicycling facility infrastructure integrated with the City's geographic information
systems (GIS) database and will prioritize projects to eliminate gaps in pedestrian and
bikeways networks.
(C) Capital Improvement Project Prioritization. The City will reevaluate Capital
Improvement Projects prioritization to encourage implementation of pedestrian, bicycle,
and transit improvements.
(D) Revisions to Existing and Creation of New Plans and Policies. The City of
Hermosa Beach will incorporate living streets principles into existing and future plans,
manuals, rules, regulations and programs, such as the City's General Plan, Specific
Plans, bicycle master plan, pedestrian transportation plan, Safe Routes to School,
Americans with Disabilities Act Transition Plan, street tree and landscape plan, and
sustainable storm water and urban runoff management transition plan.
(E) Staff Training and Coordination. The City will train pertinent City staff on the
content of the living streets principles and best practices for implementing the policy.
The City will also utilize inter -departmental project coordination to promote the most
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responsible and efficient use of fiscal resources for activities that occur within the public
right-of-way.
(F) Street Manual. The City will create and adopt a living streets design manual
to support implementation of this policy.
(G) Funding. The City will actively seek sources of appropriate funding to
implement living streets.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
CITY OF HERMOSA BEACH
I, Elaine Doerfling, City Clerk of the City of Hermosa Beach, California, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No.12-6821 was duly and regularly passed,
approved and adopted by the City Council of the City of Hermosa Beach at a Regular
Meeting of said Council at the regular place thereof on December 11, 2012.
The vote was as follows:
• AYES: Bobko, DiVirgilio, Fishinan, Tucker, Mayor Duclos
NOES: None
ABSTAIN: None
ABSENT: None
Dated: December 11, 2012
Elaine Doerfling, City Cle
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