Christopher Truman jstart

Let’s talk about taxes!

In 2022, Torrance was in a tough spot. For a whole bunch of reasons, the city had been forced to reach into the rainy day piggy bank. At the lowest point, the unassigned balance in the SST sub-fund was down to just $514,074. In order to fill the piggy back up, a 0.5 cent sales tax increase was proposed, Measure SST. Safe Strong Torrance, 

This brought the Torrance sales tax to 10.25%, which is actually lower than the rates in cities like Gardena and Hawthorne. However, a few of our fun friends in city hall didn’t like this idea. I get it, increasing taxes isn’t fun and the city doesn’t want to scare away businesses. Unfortunately, all the nice stuff cities have costs money.

Clip of mattucci, Chen, Kaji not regretting their votes against SST

Precinct_ID	Area_Name	Area_sqft	Perimeter_ft
7150064F	PALOS VERDES AREA	906718.118164062	3930.80318081959
7150806A	PALOS VERDES AREA	490207.452148438	2726.02070703845
7150065B	PALOS VERDES AREA	568030.256835938	3096.44637083279
7150117A	PALOS VERDES AREA	577461.192382812	3228.15794911142
7150001A	INGLEWOOD AREA	694636.442382812	3850.32114947796
7150001B	INGLEWOOD AREA	500473.517578125	2923.41854458772
7150001C	INGLEWOOD AREA	864315.783203125	3955.25355765128
7150001D	INGLEWOOD AREA	872172.846679688	3958.06630486709
7150001E	INGLEWOOD AREA	530348.895507812	3838.6020791436

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	Hello Councilmembers and city staff,

	I wanted to call to your attention a situation with the Skylark Mobile Home park located at 1820 Torrance Blvd. You may remember that Bryant Téllez gave public comment at a previous meeting asking for support to protect the residents of the park. He is the president of Skylark Mobile Home Park HOA. He and the rest of the HOA board are cc'd on this email.

	The park sale listing is advertised with a prospectus that clearly indicates the opportunity to raise the rents nearly 100% to reach "market rate" for each lot and rental unit. The property has not been sold in 61 years and the previous owner recently passed away. Bryant has let us know that many of his neighbors are disabled, seniors on fixed income, or folks who would be unable to handle significant rent increases.

	See Loopnet sale listing below.
	The property analysis attached indicates that the income generated from the tenants could increase from $22,715 to $45,500. This would be an increase of ~100%.

	Listing: htt

	Variable,Label
	DP02_0019EA,Annotation of Estimate!!RELATIONSHIP!!Population in households!!Householder
	DP02_0126E,Estimate!!ANCESTRY!!Total population!!Arab
	DP02_0072EA,Annotation of Estimate!!DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION!!Total Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population!!With a disability
	DP02_0069PMA,Annotation of Percent Margin of Error!!VETERAN STATUS!!Civilian population 18 years and over
	DP02_0057PMA,Annotation of Percent Margin of Error!!SCHOOL ENROLLMENT!!Population 3 years and over enrolled in school!!High school (grades 9-12)
	DP02_0041MA,"Annotation of Margin of Error!!FERTILITY!!Number of women 15 to 50 years old who had a birth in the past 12 months!!Per 1,000 women 15 to 19 years old"
	DP02_0070PMA,Annotation of Percent Margin of Error!!VETERAN STATUS!!Civilian population 18 years and over!!Civilian veterans
	DP02_0125E,Estimate!!ANCESTRY!!Total population!!American
	DP02_0054PE,"Percent!!SCHOOL ENROLLMENT!!Population 3 years and over enrolled in school!!Nursery sc

	{
	"7150064F": {
	"Renter_Percent": 42.6
	},
	"7150806A": {
	"Renter_Percent": 42.6
	},
	"7150065B": {
	"Renter_Percent": 42.6
	},

	func testPlaceSearchByTextRequestGMPSRequestCreationWithProperties() {
	let placeProperties: [GMSPlaceProperty] = [GMSPlacePropertyName, GMSPlacePropertyPlaceID];
	let request = GMSPlaceSearchByTextRequest(textQuery:"pizza in New York" placeProperties:placeProperties)
	request.isOpenNow = true
	request.includedType = "restaurant"
	request.maxResultCount = 5
	request.minRating = 3.5
	request.rankPreference = .distance
	request.isStrictTypeFiltering = true
	request.priceLevels = [GMSPlacesPriceLevel.moderate.rawValue, GMSPlacesPriceLevel.cheap.rawValue]

	- (void)testPlaceSearchByTextRequestGMPSRequestCreationWithProperties {
	GMSPlaceSearchByTextRequest *request =
	[[GMSPlaceSearchByTextRequest alloc] initWithTextQuery:@"pizza in New York" placeProperties:@[GMSPlacePropertyName, GMSPlacePropertyPlaceID]];
	request.isOpenNow = YES;
	request.includedType = @"restaurant";
	request.maxResultCount = 5;
	request.minRating = 3.5;
	request.rankPreference = GMSPlaceSearchByTextRankPreferenceDistance;
	request.isStrictTypeFiltering = YES;
	request.priceLevels = @[ @(kGMSPlacesPriceLevelFree), @(kGMSPlacesPriceLevelCheap) ];