Measure C doesn’t apply to Waterfront project, judge rules
Lawyers from all sides of a lawsuit between the City of Redondo Beach and CenterCal contended they have issued at least a partial victory last Thursday during a Superior Court hearing — including intervenors siding with the City from activist organization Rescue Our Waterfront. The next step will come later this year when voter-approved Measure C will be heard by the California Coastal Commission for possible certification. The decision handed down by Judge James Chalfant came in a case brought by Redondo Beach Waterfront, LLC — a CenterCal company formed to lead the construction of the Waterfront – Redondo Beach redevelopment project. CenterCal sought to have Measure C, which rezoned the waterfront in 2016, declared invalid, and to have the City stop enforcing the measure. In a tentative ruling in December, Judge Chalfant found that the City would not be able to apply Measure C to CenterCal’s project. A supplemental briefing, discussed at last week’s hearing, stated that the California Coastal Commission’s decisions on hearing Measure C would only have an impact on the City, not CenterCal’s project. He also determined that CenterCal had a vested right to the project through the…
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