Page 6 November 17, 2016 EL SEGUNDO HERALD Smoky Hollow from front page street, eight-foot parking lanes on both sides of the street, a 10-foot-wide travel lane with a bike sharrow on each side, and a 12-foot center turning lane. Franklin Avenue, which has areas that are 40 feet wide and 50 feet wide, is the one section for which MIG proposes an “inclusive street,” which can have six-foot-wide sidewalks, parking lanes with room for a visually-appealing planter, and 11-foot multimodal lanes in each direction. During the meeting, many business and property owners from Smoky Hollow and El Segundo community members queried MIG staff about concept details and mentioned other issues they find irksome such as oversize vehicle parking in the district, cars being worked on at auto shops occupying street parking, skateboard traffic on Grand, and fast vehicle speeds. “People really fly down Grand,” said one audience member. City staff responded by saying that the oversize vehicle parking issue will go before City Council in January and that the “enforcement issue” for auto shop customer cars occupying street parking spaces is “being worked on.” Parking permits were mentioned, as were paid metered parking and in-lieu parking fees paid by developers when a building doesn’t provide the required number of on-property parking spaces to meet City code. MIG staff noted that road diets contained in several of the concept plans should work at reducing vehicle speeds. Those road diets, which include fewer traffic lanes on most streets if approved, are suitable for the district, said MIG staff, who noted that all intersections in Smoky Hollow received a C grade or above for Peak Hour Traffic Conditions in a 2015 study. Building Floor Area Ratio (FAR) was lightly touched upon as the meeting neared conclusion. FAR is the key difference between the east and west portions of Smoky Hollow, with the east containing nearly all 1.0 FAR buildings and the east 0.6 FAR buildings. The audience voted equally at 24 percent to make all of Smoky Hollow a 1.0 FAR or to have no FAR. Having no FAR on the east and 0.6 on the west polled next at 21 percent. Keeping the existing FAR received 18 percent of the vote. The City and MIG are moving toward a Specific Plan Draft and Environmental Impact Report, which the City would like to have by next summer at the latest. • Windy City from page 5 road since the 1979 Pirates. For once, there will be no more talk of the 1945 team that lost the World Series to the Tigers. There won’t be any more talk of the ’84 team that lost in the NLCS to the Padres, or even the 2003 team that tragically lost it all in the NLCS to the Florida Marlins because of the infamous “Bartman game” (okay, people may still talk about that one). Now, the Cubs and their fans can talk about what they did do. “There’s no curses – there never was a curse,” said Cubs General Manager Jed Hoyer. “It’s about having the best team and playing well over seven games in a World Series, and we did that. Enjoy it. The Cubs are no different than any other team. When we’re the best team, we can win, and we were the best team.” There certainly is something to be said about a team that had gone over a century without a championship. Almost everyone you know who enjoys and loves the game of baseball has a story about someone or maybe even knows someone who has been waiting their entire lifetime for a Cubs championship victory. Maybe that someone is even you. The team has been mocked, displayed in television shows and movies…and despite not winning, the Chicago Cubs have been one of the most popular and recognizable teams in the nation. Well, they are not the loveable losers any longer. The Chicago Cubs are the 2016 champions of Major League Baseball and with such a young group of core players, don’t expect them to go anywhere any time soon. – Asixlion@earthlink.net finished or reached any conclusions,” he told the audience. Community members who didn’t make the meeting can take an online survey on the City website homepage to weigh in by November 30. The survey includes a link to the PowerPoint presentation delivered on November 3. Online survey responses received by November 15 will be included in the first result tabulation. The last update to the Smoky Hollow Specific Plan was completed in 1986. The goal of the workshops is to create an updated plan that addresses present and future concerns in terms of the types of building uses allowed in the district, what the buildings presently look like, and how to create a more walkable and easier-to-move-in area. Though the area remains fairly industrial, Smoky Hollow has become home to technology businesses and associated entrepreneurs in recent years, moving from its heavy association with aerospace to the renaissance it now enjoys. Many of the tech businesses and agencies have moved from the Westside or Venice to Smoky Hollow due to its funky, eclectic vibe. MIG staff noted that “great bones remain” in the district and that regional demand for office space, particularly in coastal areas, has shifted movement to Smoky Hollow. During the November 3 meeting, MIG reported that findings from a technical study note differences between the east and west side of the district that spans from El Segundo Boulevard to the south, Sepulveda Boulevard on the east, nearly to Main Street on the west with a zig-zag pattern, and Grand Avenue on the north with another zig-zag pattern. MIG is known for its approach and focus “on planning, designing and sustaining environments that support human development.” To that end, MIG staff discussed the benefits of wider sidewalks, one-way streets, loading lanes, bike lanes, cycle tracks, turning lanes, travel lanes, fewer lanes on El Segundo Boulevard and Grand Avenue, and perhaps closing some of Franklin Avenue to create a walk street. With parking identified as the top issue in Smoky Hollow at the first public workshop in March, MIG presented concepts that have the potential to add 186 public parking spaces. For the north/south streets, the voters’ favorite option included angled parking and one-way streets with a travel/loading lane at 56 percent of the respondents. However, 31 percent voted to keep the north/south streets the way they are with 11 percent preferring for the concept to make the sidewalks wider. MIG staff told the audience why back-in parking is now the preferred method for angled parking--but in a straw vote, those present were 15 in favor of back-in and 14 in favor of head-in parking. MIG staff noted that the north/south streets can’t be “painted with a broad brush” due to the positioning of driveways, saying that each block would have to be looked at more closely if those became one-way with angled parking added. They also pointed out that “no three streets in a row would go the same way” if one-way streets were adopted. For El Segundo Boulevard, which borders the Chevron Refinery, the most popular concept was the one with the “cycle track,” which received 59 percent of the vote. That option calls for three traffic lanes—one in each direction and a turning lane in the center with a 10-foot cycle track on the southernmost side closest to Chevron. From the cycle track out into the roadway, there would be a curb, and then a travel lane, the center turning lane, another travel lane for those heading toward the ocean, and then a parking lane. For the “chunk” of Grand Avenue in Smoky Hollow, the vote was closer on two concepts with 49 percent favoring three lanes (one going east, a turning lane in the center, and a lane going west) with parking and bike sharrows. Forty-six percent wanted to leave the road the way it is, with two lanes flowing in either direction, one of which parking is allowed in until peak hours. The three-lane concept that was slightly favored includes six-foot-wide sidewalks on both sides of the C e r t i f i e d a n d L i c e n s e d P r o f e s s i o n a l s handyman BILL’S HOME & APARTMENT MAINTENANCE CONTRACTOR QUALITY at Handyman Prices. We cover everything from A-Z. Bill Henrichon Cell: 310-890-7531 Office: 310-542-3470 billhenrichon@sbcglobal.net Henrichon & Associates Inc. 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