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MAY/JUN 2016 WHAT’S NEW, WHERE CAN YOU WHAT’S SANTA MONICA? GO ON EXPO? HAPPENING, PEDESTRIAN MAP, SPECIAL TAP SANTA MONICA? SCRAMBLES CARDS & BBB BOGO! MEMORIAL DAY COMING TO TOWN CELEBRATION AT WOODLAWN The Newly Connected Santa Monica READ NEWLY CONNECTED » MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Free Fares: Expo Station Celebrations: Metro Presents COAST (Santa Thursday, May 19 - Saturday, May 21 Saturday, May 21 Monica’s Open Streets Event): Sunday, June 5 • Ride Expo for free Friday, May 20 Events will take place from 10 a.m. from 1 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. and all to 4 p.m. at all three Santa Monica Bike, bus, train or walk your way to day Saturday, May 21 stations: this free, engaging and fun way to explore your city. Enjoy two miles • Big Blue Bus is free all day • Downtown (Colorado/4th Street) of car-free streets and discover Saturday, May 21 • 17th Street/Santa Monica local food, music, shops, culture, • Breeze Bike Share is free all day College (Colorado/17th Street) dance and games with family Thursday, May 19 through and friends. • 26th Street/Bergamot Saturday, May 21 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Olympic/26th Street) MAY/JUN 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS COVER WHERE CAN YOU GO ON EXPO? PUBLIC WORKS EMPLOYEES SERVE US ALL THE NEWLY CONNECTED METRO EXPO LINE MAP SANTA MONICA RESOURCE RECOVERY BIG BLUE BUS CONNECTS TO AND RECYCLING DIVISION SPECIAL EVENTS: EXPO EXPO WITH BIG SAVINGS REACHES OUT LAUNCH & COAST EXPO: THE BASICS PURSUING EXCELLENCE THROUGH EQUITY WHAT’S NEW, ONLY IN SANTA MONICA: SANTA MONICA? LIMITED-EDITION TAP CARDS! LIVE AND LEARN COASTAL PLANNING FIFTEEN PLACES TO GO UNDERWAY IN SANTA MONICA ON EXPO CAMERA OBSCURA ART LAB: BABY MOCCASINS WHAT IN THE WORLD IS A METRO PRESENTS COAST: PEDESTRIAN SCRAMBLE? CITY OF SANTA MONICA’S OPEN FEATURED AT THE ART LAB STREET EVENTS HELLO, SUMMER COOKING WITH SANTA MONICA FARMERS MARKETS EVOLUTION OF BLUE TRAVEL SMARTER TAKE A RIDE OR A SUSTAINABLE SANTA MONICA COMMUNITY UPDATES STROLL ALONG THE ALL-NEW EXPO PATH WATER HEROES GET MORE KEEPING UP WITH SAFE THAN REBATES FOR THEIR ROUTES TO SCHOOL NEW CAR SHARE PROGRAM WATER-SAVING EFFORTS LETS YOU ZIP AROUND TOWN CONGRATULATIONS TO 2016’S KEEP SAVING SANTA MONICA! “MOST LOVED” CONTESTANTS! TEN THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT EXPO REAFFIRMING COMMITMENT TO LIGHT RAIL SERVICE LIBRARY LINES ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS GREAT THINGS ARE HAPPENING PEDALING FOR HEALTH WHAT’S HAPPENING, AT SANTA MONICA PUBLIC AND HAPPINESS SANTA MONICA? LIBRARY THIS SUMMER COME SEE THE NEW ON THE CALENDAR SANTA MONICA PUBLIC ESPLANADE BY THE SEA LIBRARY INFO ANNENBERG COMMUNITY ALSO OPENING SOON... BEACH HOUSE BACK PAGE SANTA MONICA CELEBRATES TECH TALK FIRE SERVICE DAY CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS CITY WI-FI CONNECTS MEMORIAL DAY AT BRIEFLY USERS EVERYWHERE IN WOODLAWN CEMETERY: SANTA MONICA HONORING THE FALLEN CITYNET WINS TECHNOLOGY BUY LOCAL SM JOINS SOLUTIONS AWARD LA CRAWL TO CELEBRATE EXPO! SEASCAPES PAST PICNIC ON THE PROMENADE CITY’S ONCE–TALLEST BUILDING HEAL THE BAY, PIER AQUARIUM IS STILL IMPRESSIVE CELEBRATE EXPO, SURFING AND MARINE SCIENCE MAY/JUN 2016 the city and interact with your friends and neighbors. Residents, commuters and visitors will experience greater flexibility with improved bike share, ride share, sidewalks and pedestrian crossings. Opt for a meditative ride to your favorite yoga studio with 500 Breeze bikes at 75 new locations and increased bike lanes. Reduce greenhouse gas emissions with high- efficiency car share options. Or find your flow with Downtown crosswalk “scrambles” (all-way crossings) that allow you to travel more safely along our streets. “It’s a great time to be living and working in Santa Monica. People egend has it that Route our coastal paradise to Downtown can move around our city and in 66 ends in Santa Monica LA—even in rush hour! and out of LA without owning a because the iconic highway car,” said Mayor Tony Vazquez. “This L could only be stopped And Expo isn’t just for whisking you $1.5 billion investment brings a new when the mighty Pacific stood in its to and from Downtown. All Santa level of regional accessibility to way. There’s even a sign on the Pier Monicans are conveniently within a Santa Monica, and we want to mark that reads: “End of the Trail.” But that half mile of the Expo Line. To make this transportation game-changer sentiment doesn’t capture why our using rail easy for those living more by energizing the community and vibrant city is the final stop on this than walking distance from a station, showing them how these options can famous road. Big Blue Bus (BBB) has expanded change their daily lives.” its service by improving frequency, Like the ocean that sits next to it, adding six new routes and extending In celebration of living carefree and Santa Monica represents horizons of existing ones to connect you with connected, the City of Santa Monica opportunity. And today the city builds one or more Expo Line stations. is excited to announce its GoSaMo on the California dream of living freely initiative—a mobility communications and fully by expanding local mobility So, consider trying BBB as your tool to educate, excite and equip options and providing residents, connection to the Expo Line during people to take advantage of new commuters, and visitors new choices the upcoming “Buy One, Get One” opportunities. Over the next few to explore everything from the Third (BOGO) promotion. Each week, buy months, city staff will make travel Street Promenade to the Main Street one BBB pass and get one for free, options more accessible through Farmers Market to Silicon Beach’s or purchase Stored Value and get educational activities related to the cutting-edge businesses. a matching amount for free (up to newly connected Santa Monica, and $20). To participate, you will need your choices for getting to, from and Starting May 20, a new to load all your passes on a TAP around the city. Expect to learn how transportation option is rolling into card. And don’t forget to ride in style to ride Expo, where to get a TAP town. The highly anticipated Metro with a limited-edition card featuring card, and how to connect between Expo Light Rail Line will commence commemorative art by three local Metro, BBB, Breeze and more. service to and from Downtown Santa Monicans. These great deals Santa Monica, offering riders a are available starting on May 13—and Explore these new opportunities, new way to navigate the city and only while supplies last—at Blue: the connect with Santa Monica at hands- beyond. Free of Southern California’s Transit Store and in City Hall. on activations and learn more at infamous gridlock, you can instead smgov.net/gosamo. view blossoming neighborhood In addition to Expo and BBB, Santa landscapes, read a bestseller or Monica’s growing mobility services catch a nap on a 46-minute ride from help you seamlessly move through “This $1.5 billion investment brings a new level of regional accessibility to Santa Monica, and we want to mark this transportation game-changer by energizing the community and showing them how these options can change their daily lives.” —Tony Vazquez, Mayor of Santa Monica MAY/JUN 2016 WHAT’S NEW, SANTA MONICA? COASTAL PLANNING UNDERWAY IN SANTA MONICA Photo by Joakim Lloyd Raboff he city is nine months into a two-year effort to incorporate findings from the Coastal Storm Modeling update its Local Coastal Program (LCP) Land System (COSMoS), a new tool that uses myriad data Use Plan, a state-mandated policy document sources to produce a sophisticated portrait of the future of T that every coastal jurisdiction must prepare to the coastline, taking into account anticipated sea level rise, ensure protection of coastal resources and open access tidal changes and storm system patterns. for all. This is the first time since its 1992 adoption that Santa Monica has reviewed and updated this document. Community outreach is an important component of all city planning processes, including this one. Several city During that time, many changes in our coastal area have boards and commissions have been consulted about the occurred—among them: more recreational facilities and LCP, and two public workshops have been held so far. universal access features at the beach and pier; street and The concerns and suggestions expressed by community sidewalk improvements for pedestrians and cyclists; new members are essential to the development of a viable city landmark designations; new parking facilities both draft document. A new phase of outreach will accompany in and adjacent to the coastal zone; and transformation the release of a policy outline memo that will identify the of the Civic Center into a vibrant, multi-use district key policy issues to be addressed in the LCP update. highlighted by the award-winning Tongva Park. With the arrival of the Expo Light Rail Line and a fleet of Breeze It is anticipated that the draft LCP Land Use Plan will be Bike Share bikes in Santa Monica—both certain to impact released for public review toward the end of the year. coastal zone access—it is time for a Local Coastal Program Find the latest project information, including recaps of that reflects today’s realities. workshops held to date, at smgov.net/localcoastalplan. A video of the “Adapting to a Changing Coastline” workshop Equally important, increased global awareness of Earth’s held on April 13 is available for viewing there. warming atmosphere has led to scientific research that both explains and projects the impacts of global warming on coastlines and weather patterns.