California Coastal Commission certifies Redondo Beach’s Measure C
Jim Light, left, looks over to Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand as the California Coastal Commission certifies Measure C. Photo There were checks and subpoenas, yelling and shouting, low faces and waved signs – and at the end of the day, cheering. Thursday, was a long, strange day in the Redondo Beach Public Library’s second-floor meeting room. But around 10 p.m., 13 hours after the meeting began, the California Coastal Commission approved of Redondo’s harbor-rezoning Measure C, closing a six-year-long chapter in the waterfront saga. “The people won one,” Mayor Bill Brand said afterward, as both Redondo Beach and Coastal Commission staff ushered out, hugging, high-fiving Measure C supporters. The Coastal Commission decisively chose to accept Measure C as it was passed by the voters in March 2017, disregarding recommendations by Coastal Commission staff to amend the measure’s language. Had the commission voted to add the amendments, the modified measure would have needed approval by Redondo Beach voters before taking effect. The 2017 election to pass Measure C was cast as a battle for Redondo’s future. In 2012, the Redondo Beach City Council chose CenterCal Properties as its…
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