Beach Cities Health District’s Tom Bakaly calls for Healthy Living Campus detractors to meet
by Garth Meyer Beach Cities Health District CEO Tom Bakaly last week publicly called for a meeting with those behind the “STOPBCHD” signs seen in Redondo front yards in recent months. The invitation is the latest in a series from Bakaly to the group, led by Mark Nelson, a former member of the 15-person BCHD Healthy Living Campus working group – which disbanded at the onset of the pandemic as its work was largely complete. The Healthy Living Campus is the proposed project to replace the 1960 former South Bay Hospital. The BCHD board approved an Environmental Impact Report for it last September, all the while drawing criticism from surrounding neighbors. From the project’s inception in 2017, BCHD has adapted plans due to public comment, though not as far as STOPBCHD seeks. “We’re a public health district. We’re very interested in meeting with the community and figuring this out together,” said Bakaly. “My experience is, very little is ever going to get solved by not talking.” Nelson and STOPBCHD put out a statement earlier in June explaining the decision not to meet: “After discussions with other neighborhood quality-of-life groups and proponents, STOPBCHD.com is declining a meeting…
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