McDonalds Project Set to Move Forward
Unsafe conditions currently exist on inglewood Ave when making left turns with no left turn pocket -
Hawthorne Police 2022-2024 Accident Report
Total of 11 traffic accidents reported in the immediate adjacent vicinity:
- 2 pedestrian injuries
- I bicycle & vehicle encounter
- 2 rear end crashes,
- 4 perpendicular (right or left turns on or off of Inglewood Ave.)
- 1 side swiped crash
- 1 single car impact
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CRITICAL CONSIDERATION:
ALL CRAHSES OCCURED AT THE SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION OF 135th St OR 132nd St HAVING NO POCKET LEFT TURN LANES. PROPOSED PROJECT HAS NEITHER TRAFFIC SIGNALS NOR LEFT TURN POCKETS LANES IN THE PROPOSAL.
write and thank our City Council for their commitment to Public Safety - Let them hear your concerns
Key points are are safety issues highlighted in yellow which
The Hawthorne Municipal Code is the very specific about safety issues. Safety issues are the key to the reconsideration of the Conditional Use Permit. We stand firm on public safety.
Appeal
The city council is the appeal authority in this matter
The Hawthorne Municipal Code allows for a reconsideration of the planning commission's decision and allows for new evidence to be considered. Public safety issues were not fully addresses in theapproval meeting. Safety issues are the is key to overturning the Conditional Use Permit. Please stay focused on this issue.
commission claimed they were bound by SB743
Stated Goals of SB743
- Better measure transportation-related environmental impacts of projects
- reduce greenhouse gas emissions, traffic-related air pollution
- required to use VMT as the metric for evaluating transportation impacts
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KEY REASON FOR DENIAL IS THE APPROVAL WAS GRANTED BASED ON SB743 AS SUPERCEEDING PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES.
SB743: Main concern is environmental
Safety Concers were Not Addressed
CEQA / SB743
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and SB 743 are not intended to repress public safety. Issues of life and public safety rise above the scope of CEQA and SB743. We believe that the commission was misguided in their understanding of how SB743 is implemented. A review of the hearing and discussion among the commissioners will reveal how they actually sympathize with our position and would have supported our cause but they stated “their hands were tied by the state” because of SB743. There is no strong case that can be made wherein the state disregards public safety, imposing dangerous traffic conditions onto the community in order to promote an environmental cause. Public safety is expressly stated throughout the Hawthorne Municipal code as it pertains to the granting of a Conditional Use Permit and for that we are truly thankful. Now we plead with the city council to adhere to the public statements each one of the councilmembers made about public safety being your number one concern and deny the McDonalds drive-thru. People’s lives and the public's safety are riding on your decision.
Per City staff's recommendation to council
possible outcome options of council's review
1) Allow to CUP to proceed as approved
2) Allow CUP to proceed with certain changes
3) Overturn the approved CUP
4) Sent it back to planning to reassess design options