Proposal to curtail bank, office use in downtown Mahattan Beach shut down

A move to restrict all offices and banks in downtown Manhattan Beach in favor of storefront retail was shut down at the city's Planning Commission meeting last week, with several local realtors calling the proposal “discriminatory.”The proposed amendments to the zoning code commercial regulations would have prohibited office and bank use on the ground-floor level on Manhattan Beach Boulevard, Highland Avenue and Manhattan Avenue in the downtown commercial zone, and Highland Avenue and Ro