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Laguna Beach facilities workshop spotlights options for City Hall, police and three fire stations
Summary
City staff and consultants presented site and building options for City Hall, the police department and three fire stations, emphasizing seismic upgrades, response-time tradeoffs and parking impacts. Residents urged prioritizing fire facilities; no formal decisions were made.
City officials and consultants presented alternatives Wednesday night as part of a facilities master‑plan workshop that examined City Hall, the police station and Laguna Beach’s three principal fire stations.
Gavin Kern, assistant city manager, opened the presentation and said the workshop is intended to gather public feedback on broad concepts before the plan returns to the City Council. Charlie Williams, an LPA consultant, said the work is based on a facilities‑condition assessment of 26 city properties and on interviews with staff and community groups.
The consultants described three broad approaches for the downtown “village entrance” site that includes City Hall, the existing downtown fire station and the police station. One option retains the historic one‑story City Hall façade while concentrating additional administrative and police space behind it and in a new subterranean level. Another option would split City Hall and the…
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