Park confirmed for Redondo Beach land near AES power plant
by Garth Meyer After two years of design and planning, a two-and-a-half-acre park of native plants is coming to the land under the powerlines just up from the AES plant, on the hill where city officials held a ceremony to mark the shutdown of the power plant on New Year’s Eve, 2023. “I was ecstatic when I got the news yesterday,” said Mayor Jim Light, who announced it at the city council meeting Tuesday night, Jan. 4. “We were bogged down in nitpicky design details.” The city has a current five-year lease for the park acreage, owned by Southern California Edison (SCE), just south of the large power-line bases, by the intersection of Pacific Coast Highway and 190th Street. Because SCE will need access to the lines, no development will take place inside a 50-foot radius of the bases. The pedestrian park will consist of a walking path and native plants – the ground landscaped to appear as it looked before European/American settlers arrived, though denser. The list of plants was developed by South Bay Parkland Conservancy. Light was part of that effort, before he was mayor. He and the late Mayor Bill Brand first proposed a park on the SCE ground 15 years ago, in public comment at city…
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