by Garth MeyerOne of six lawsuits from the AES power plant site owners against the city was settled March 30, Leo Pustilnikov agreeing to dismiss claims that Redondo Beach engaged in a multi-year scheme to prevent development of the property.Pustilnikov, and fellow developer Ely Dromy, filed the suit three years ago saying the city tried to “zone out of existence any economically viable alternative use” for the 51-acre lot.The $120 million suit alleged violation of the
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Developers finally strong-armed the California State Legislature to build wherever they want, whatever they want, as high and ugly as they want, violating long standing land use and zoning protections for communities.
Their public voice is the YIMBY Movement, that is using force to silence the voices of community leaders and block any choice in how their neighborhoods will look and operate. The YIMBYs even went so far to bring unwarranted litigation against our city, weaponizing our legal system.
They use the ruse of “affordable housing” to fool the public. Nothing in the new YIMBY laws mentions “affordability.”
Join “My Neighborhood Voices” and “Wake Up California” to pass protective measures that will restore the people’s choices in how they wish to live their lives.
The people of Redondo Beach have made it clear, since at least 2004, that they choose to restore the AES ancient, historic, Old Salt Pond that is seeping back up from under the plant property.
The current owners can be amply compensated through the financing available from many state and national conservancy organizations.
Many years ago the “Trust For Public Land” conservancy met with the old guard city leaders, only to be rudely shown the door.
A new day has dawned in Redondo, where residents and neighbors are ready to step up and support the parkland that they have envisioned for years.
It can be done.
So much harm is being done by the drawn out legal battles that somehow seem to endlessly delay the removal of the neighborhood-disfiguring high tension transmission lines which follow 190th street inland.