BCHD Campus: Planning Commission starts work on zone’s Floor Area Ratio
by Garth Meyer In a special meeting of the Redondo Beach planning commission Aug. 1, the panel discussed the draft General Plan Update, including Floor Area Ratio for the Beach Cities Health District campus. It concluded with a vote for city staff to bring examples to a second meeting on the topic next week. Floor Area Ratio (F.A.R.) refers to how big a development is permitted, relative to the size of the land it’s on. “We are at the gathering-information point,” Planning Commission Chair Gail Hazeltine said. In the draft Update, the BCHD campus is slotted for a .75 F.A.R., like the rest of the city’s land zoned as “public institutional,” with the exception of the Civic Center (city hall, police station and main library) and the police annex, at 1.25 F.A.R. The draft General Plan Update was created by an appointed committee, which worked on it for seven years. The BCHD campus on Prospect Avenue never had an F.A.R. assigned to it before. BCHD administrators say a F.A.R of .75 would be too restrictive for their proposed Healthy Living Campus. F.A.R. numbers are now in the hands of the planning commission, tasked with making a recommendation to the city council on what to keep or…
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