On January 25, 2016 the city's de facto Energy Czar addressed a Joint Commission Study Session, and explains that $410k grant was used to hijack the General Plan to transform "The Best Little Beach City" into a Carbon Neutral Commune Utopia. The General Plan for the City of Hermosa Beach, PLAN Hermosa, is really a Carbon Neutral Plan. The mentioned Brendel Group report is pure fiction. It would only be applicable in a communist utopia or Mister Rogers' Neighborhood of Make-Believe.