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Residents urge action on Waymo depots and demand ethics review over Ocean Avenue placements
Summary
Public commenters and phone callers pressed the council to pursue enforcement against Waymo’s local operations and asked the council to open an ethics review into alleged undisclosed plans to move people into Ocean Avenue properties; city staff described swift enforcement actions at the Ocean Avenue site and a closed‑session potential litigation item names Waymo.
Santa Monica — A sizable portion of public comment at the Dec. 9 City Council meeting focused on two sharply different community concerns: resident complaints about Waymo’s local vehicle charging/parking operations and phone callers alleging undisclosed placements of severely mentally ill individuals into Ocean Avenue properties and requesting a formal ethics review.
Residents from Mid City Neighbors and the Euclid neighborhood described what they said were unpermitted Waymo depots and new routing that has pushed vehicle activity onto small residential streets. "In…
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