Campus Clash: Healthy Living Campus draws flak in Redondo Beach
After five years of plans, modifications and opposition, the Beach Cities Health District’s proposed Healthy Living Campus approaches a decision point by Garth Meyer Last September, Beach Cities Health District CEO Tom Bakaly, and the district’s Community Services Director Melissa Andrizzi-Sobel, knocked on the doors of neighbors with blue and white StopBCHD signs in their yards. A few days later the two made follow-up visits to the homes they missed on their first outing. StopBCHD is a grassroots movement that is against the health district’s proposed Healthy Living Campus. Bakaly reported he and Andrizzi-Sobel went to 20 houses on their first trip, and talked to residents at 15 of them. “We had a great dialogue and interchange with all but three,” he said. “Three people were not happy to see me, let’s put it that way.” Last summer, the BCHD board unanimously approved an agreement with a San Diego real estate developer, to build a six-story, 217-unit senior assisted living facility. Revenue from the project would help fund the BCHD’s 40-plus, mostly free, community health programs. In November, an opponent of the Campus ran for an at-large seat on the BCHD board against two…
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