WHAT HAPPENED: Parking for the Strand project...
WHAT HAPPENED:
Parking for the Strand project has been expanded to include 100
more spaces.
WHAT IT MEANS:
The 225,000-square-foot multi-use project will include a 152-room
Residence Inn and eight high-end shops. It will take up both sides of
5th Street between Pacific Coast Highway and Walnut Avenue.
The project was approved to include a subterranean parking
structure with 405 spaces. Now the developer plans to construct 100
more spaces.
The City Council agreed last night to use Downtown parking fees
the city collects from businesses, also known as parking in-lieu
fees, to pay for the additional spaces. The new spaces are estimated
to cost $1.75 million. The council will pay $500,000 upfront and
$1.25 million over 25 years.
WHAT HAPPENED:
A section of the municipal code that regulates live music at
businesses was amended to include pre-recorded music.
WHAT IT MEANS:
The amendment states that noise caused by pre-recorded music
cannot exceed a range of 10 feet from the exterior of any business.
Other musical entertainment is limited to a range of 50 feet.
The police department receives about 40 calls per week about
disturbing music. Of these, four or five calls concern business
establishments. Officers handle noise complaints by asking the
manager or owner to lower the volume.
WHAT HAPPENED:
The mayor awarded four firefighters for going out of their way to
improve the living conditions of a diabetic woman.
WHAT IT MEANS:
Capt. Mike Perry, Engineer Chico Sanchez, Firefighter Paramedic
John Legg and Firefighter Paramedic Bryan Russell were treating a
diabetic woman for low blood sugar when they suggested that she eat
something and found that she had no food in her home. Meals on Wheels
had already delivered her food for the day, she said.
Using $75 from the Huntington Beach Firefighters Assn., the men
purchased and delivered food for her and tidied up her refrigerator
and cabinets.
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