EL SEGUNDO HERALD February 2, 2016 Page 7 Centennial Salute Community Briefs Police and Fire Square Off in Basketball Battle to Benefit Ed! There’s a battle brewin’ and it’s for a good cause. Tickets are available to watch El Segundo’s Finest battle El Segundo’s Bravest in a charity basketball game, all for the El Segundo Education Foundation. The ticket purchase is also good for admission to the Los Angeles D-Fenders game against the Austin Spurs immediately after the charity game! Attendees can also purchase Battle of the Badges pool squares for the 50/50 challenge. The 9-1-1 for Education—Battle of the Badges event is set for Sunday, February 12 from 1 to 7 p.m. at Toyota Sports Center (555 N. Nash Street, El Segundo). Spend a Sunday afternoon with local emergency responders, the D-Fenders and Beach Mex to help raise much-needed funds for El Segundo’s students and schools. There will be plenty of food, entertainment, prizes, raffles and fun for the whole family! ESPD Holding Missing Engagement Ring Caltrans Project May Cause Delays Near LAX Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) advises guests and employees that they may experience traffic delays for the next few weeks near the airport as Caltrans continues nighttime work to seal bridge surfaces on Interstate 105. Interstate 105 lanes and ramps in the LAX area may be closed nightly Sunday through Thursday as a Caltrans contractor applies a sealant to the surfaces of bridges (bridge decks). The work began in mid-January, but was temporarily suspended. Current plans call for lanes and ramps to begin closing as early as 7 p.m., with several lanes of Interstate 105 closed after 10 p.m. and reopening by 5 a.m. the following morning. The work resumed last week with westbound Interstate 105 reduced to one lane. Airport officials recommend departing travelers plan ahead and allow more time for possible detours around closed I-105 lanes and ramps. Caltrans will be responsible for detouring freeway traffic. Updates on real-time traffic conditions in and around LAX will be available by following the Los Angeles Airport Police (@LAAirportPD) and LAX Airport (@flyLAXairport) on Twitter. For more information on the project, contact Caltrans’ District 7 public information office at (213) 897-3656. SBWIB Hosts LAX Building for the Future During a special program at the Hawthorne Memorial Center (3901 W. El Segundo Boulevard) on February 7, LAX Consolidated Solutions will share Los Angeles World Airports’ vision for the proposed Consolidated Rent-a-Car facility (ConRAC) at LAX. The ConRAC will relocate existing rental car companies into one convenient location adjacent to the 405 Freeway with direct connection to the airport via the LAX Train. Hosted by the South Bay Workforce Investment Board (SBWIB), the discussion will cover workforce development, project labor agreements, insurance regulations and general construction. Registration is at 10:30 a.m., with a general session from 11-11:45, a lunch presentation from noon to 1:15, and networking from 1:15 to 2. To register for the event, go to https:// www.eventbrite.com/e/building-for-the-futurenew oppportunity-tickets-31048481845. • The El Segundo Police Department is currently holding what appears to be an engagement ring. The ring was located on October 19, 2016 in front of St. Antony Pharmacy (Grand Park Plaza, 310 E Grand Avenue, #105 El Segundo, CA 90245). Please contact the Department (310-524-2200) if you have any information. Herald in Antarctica Lance and Connie Wight of El Segundo recently visited their seventh continent, Antarctica and brought along a copy of the Herald. Antartica is on average the coldest, driest and windiest continent, and has the highest average elevation of all the continents. Lance and Connie were part of an Abercrombie & Kent tour group. Photo by David Choate. Planning Commission from front page request within “good taste”--not necessarily for a soloist, but for a band to come in--one, two, three people, give or take--for live music or entertainment, again within “good taste.” The intention of the tasting room was never to operate and still would never be to operate as a nightclub. That’s not the demographic or business we’re operating or trying to draw.” After Planning Commission Chairman Ryan Baldino mentioned he did not think it the City’s place to deem what was “tasteful,” he and his colleagues agreed that what really was at hand was that any entertainment, whether live, a disk jockey or pre-recorded, stay within the City’s noise and vibration code. Rubens, which is located at 909 E. El Segundo Boulevard where it shares half of the building with Howie’s Doggie DayCare and has permission to direct overflow parking to 1111 E. El Segundo Boulevard, operates its distillery from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and opens the tasting room at 4:30 p.m. “The employee count, in order to sustain demand and maintain growth as a small company in El Segundo…the request for additional employees during the daytime has been submitted so that way we’re able to keep up with what the requirements are on the production floor of the distillery and brewery--which again, as you said, is during the day and not at night when the tasting room is open because the two do not overlap,” Rubens said. Baldino complimented Rubens and also addressed the idea behind businesses not needing as much parking as City code might require due to employees using Uber and other modes of transportation such as biking, being dropped off or riding busses. “I want to congratulate Mr. Rubens,” Baldino said. “You’ve done a very good job of coming into El Segundo and being part of the community. I’ve seen you at many events. I appreciate that. As I said, I think this is the type of thing we need more of in Smoky Hollow and we’re trying to, as a city, redesign the entire zone of Smoky Hollow to bring it from the light industrial to the creative office and that’s going to mean more coffee shops and snack shops and breweries and what have you. You’re ahead of the curve on that, which is good. The problem is that what you want to do, which I think is great and I would like to see more of it, doesn’t comply with what our code allows. And you, I think, have done a good job of getting an extra parking agreement, working with your employees. However, with staff I really want to caution against this type of arrangement in the future be it in Smoky Hollow or anywhere because I just think it’s impossible to enforce this. Like my example, if someone wants to do something on Main Street, they’re stuck with $18,000 per parking space. And if they just say, ‘Well, all my customers are going to Uber, so I don’t need to pay that money…’ that’s not how it works and we may or may not have to do some type of parking in-lieu in Smoky Hollow, which we’ll get there and it is not before us now--but I’m very reluctant to see this type of agreement based upon a representation that may or may not be very viable as a reason the City is going to recommend to us that we not comply with what our code says. And I am all in favor of doing what’s best for the city and sometimes that’s not the way the code is written. So, I’ll now get off my soapbox and say that overall I’m in agreement. I don’t think the music is an issue in that side of town, next door to Chevron or Howie’s Dog Care. And the music will be in the evening hours when the businesses are not open.” In other news, the Commission voted 4-0 to approve parking modifications for 127 Penn Street and heard an initial scoping meeting regarding property owned by Mattel at 333 and 455-475 Continental Boulevard and 1955 E. Grand Avenue. Mattel, which has owned the property since 1985, was granted permission in 2004 to build another 14-story tower building on Continental across from the existing 14-story tower building and to tear down the two-story building on Grand and replace it with a six-story office building. The floor to aspect ratio (FAR) in effect when the plans were approved was 2.1. Those plans expired recently, say the City, which now requires Mattel to re-file an application. FAR for the site now is set at 1.6. Mattel, via an attorney, wants the previous application and FAR to regulate its current application and said Mattel is “seeking to preserve the rights that were in place when Mattel bought the property.” Another Mattel spokesperson, Sarah Sheehy, said Mattel has “no immediate plans to build.” The City website has more information on the application at http://www.elsegundo.org/depts/planningsafety/ planning/mattel/default.asp. The EIR for the project is in progress. On Thursday, February 2, the City will hold an informational meeting on the TopGolf project and draft Environmental Impact Report at 5:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at City Hall, 350 Main Street. • Whiting Street The early days of El Segundo on the 400 block of Whiting Street, looking south towards the refinery. Many of the Standard Oil executives lived in this area and it was known as “Executive Row.” Photo Provided by Julie Peterson Stolnack. •
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