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Strong & Safe Community

A community thrives when it’s safe to explore visions, and safe for both young and old to walk the streets to markets, stores, and schools.
Police & Fire

• Provide our fire and police departments with the necessary resources to better protect our homes and families
• Proactively mitigate future threats that are not yet seen/aware, such as cyber security
• Evaluate instant notification (to TPD/TFD) from residents that opt-in for more connectedness with neighborhood private surveillance systems such as ring doorbell, Maximus Smart Security systems
• Create a coalition/committee consisting of local law enforcement, academia, and agencies to put security systems in place to mitigate incidences in schools, malls, parks, refinery
• Conduct "what-if" emergency drills and recruit experienced volunteers, especially as senior population increases to provide additional set of "eyes"
• Evaluate feasibility for industry-funded test case "smart city" concepts in a controlled location/sub-district for voluntary participation

Wildlife

• Consult with cities that have lived with wildlife such as mountain lions and coyote's such as Pasadena, La Canada, and Palos Verdes
• Where human safety is concern, consider trapping
• Work with Torrance Police Department, California Wildlife and review actual data and formulate update to coyote management plan as required
• Educate residents about living with coyotes in accordance with the local and state regulations
  https://www.torranceca.gov/government/police/general-info/living-with-urban-coyotes (Coyote Management Plan)
• Communicate and teach everyone how to haze coyotes
  • Safely watch children and pets
  • Remove food sources for coyotes
  • Maintain trees, shrubs so coyotes cannot hide

Refinery

• ​​Collect facts and data from actual sources with respect to all safety concerns to the local community
• The Torrancy Refinery Company needs to be safe for both the employees at the facility and the residents in the community and CAL/OSHA's requirements must be reviewed regularly
• Work with both AQMD, CAL/OSHA, and Torrance Refinery Leadership to jointly develop near-to-long term plans that balances the safest operation practical and maintain successful/profitable business operation that's a win-win solution with a keen focus on risk mitigation
• Investigate practical steps for a phased implementation or transition to safer and  improved process from  hydrofluoric acid (HF)/MHF
• With regard to toxic substances such as MHF/HF, there are opportunities to reduce risk in addition to engineering them out of the processes or investigate alternate alkylation processes such as ionic liquids (IL) aka ISOALKY, a proprietary alkylation technology developed by Chevron USA Inc. and now licensed by Honeywell International Inc.’s UOP LLC, that uses ionic liquids instead of HF or sulfuric acids as a liquid alkylation catalyst for production of high-octane fuels, per UOP.

 

​First Rate Education
School Systems

• Improve collaboration between the TUSD and the City Council
• Look for areas to improve operating efficiencies between TUSD and City
• Support to process to expect high standard for educators and students
• Prepare students for higher learning/education and their future as responsible citizens
• Provide an environment to develop leaders of tomorrow
• Attract families that desire the highest possible learning environment for their children
• Attract top notch educators and empower them with tools to teach

 

Business Friendly City
Pro-Business

• Attract and keep strong and innovative businesses (i.e. Costco, Target, Del Amo Fashion Center, Honda, Home Depot, SpaceX, Amazon, etc.)
• Create and maintain challenging jobs for the community
• Instill strong fiscal responsibility and accountability as foundation of the city's operating processes
• Create high-paying professions/jobs such as SpaceX, Amazon, or other start-ups
• Initiate Technology/Innovation Fairs/Competition annually with corporate sponsors to stimulate innovation with participants from South Bay high schools and  El Camino, CSUs (Dominguez Hills, Long Beach, L.A.), UCLA, USC.

 

Recreation and Athletics Friendly Community
Parks & Recreation

• Participate in all aspects of sports possible within geographic boundaries/constraints
• 5/10Ks, triathlons, inter-city competitions
• Improve streets to be bike friendly
• “South Bay Youth Summer Olympic Games” to develop athletes to their potential to compete at the international level
• Goal to have 20 Summer Olympic athletes from Torrance for 2028 Summer Olympic Games hosted in Los Angeles........ "20 for 2028"
• Closer relationship with TUSD with MOAs/MOUs for shared benefits and providing best use of all City facilities and parks, e.g., Hamilton Adult School/Baseball field

 

Cultural Exposure for Unified City

• Torrance is increasingly multi-ethnic/cultural based on 2010 census -- we must accentuate the strengths of our multi-culture community and collaborate on major city events
• Strategically pursue businesses that match the desires of a diverse community
  
• Utilize our “Olympic-like” events to attract international exchange students to participate along with cultural exchange events​

 

Strong and Robust Infrastructure
Streets, Lights, & Internet/Network Access-Friendly

• Effective street and city lighting
• Evaluate the possibility and practicality of city-wide free WiFi
• Strong cyber-security of city information technology with sensitive information
• Consider a defensive public street monitoring/surveillance to mitigate risks similar to Las Vegas, San Bernardino
• Simple communication to and from city leadership via the web
• Evaluate the incorporation of "Smart City" for the 21st Century lifestyle

 

Vision for the Future

• Establish a model city that attracts families desiring an ideal community to raise a family
• Safe and Secure Community
• Tighter collaboration between TUSD for First Rate Education
• Business Friendly; utilize technology to streamline processes
• Strong and Robust Infrastructure
• Accountability and Fiscal Discipline
• Incubate a "Silicon Valley South" community through creative and innovative ideas that attracts first class diverse and advanced technology businesses with high paying jobs
• Creation of a “South Bay Youth Summer Olympic Games” to develop future world-class athletes

 

Care for the Growing Senior Population

• Provide affordable housing and transportation  to complement the great Torrance hospitals, which are already improving their services to a larger aging population
• Leverage strengths of religious organizations to stand up inter-faith groups in the city that will cooperatively develop practical senior care
• Establish alternative and affordable local transportation​ such as mobile clinics to senior housing complexes​.....explore the possibilities of an inner-city Uber/Lyft on a single "call button" app...maybe even with a flip phone