Letters to the Editor 1-27-22
A locals call Dear ER: For over 80 years, Manhattan Beach has had a 30-foot height limit for residential construction in the beach area and a 26 foot limit in the rest of Manhattan Beach. This has kept high rise buildings from being built along the coast, as has happened in other local cities. A new large new apartment building is being proposed on Rosecrans that will be 50 feet high. That can now happen legally because our California State Legislature has passed laws, which Governor Newsom has signed, that take zoning rights and height limit controls away from cities. This also happened with Senate Bills 9 and 10, which basically ended single family zoning in the state. Elections have consequences. Thanks go to Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand, who is working on an initiative to be on this year’s ballot to restore local zoning control to cities. For many years the philosophy was that local governments knew best what the needs of their own community are. This is clearly changing now. The California State Government is taking away the rights of the locally elected officials to make decisions, and the Federal government is trying to take away the rights of the state governments to…
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