Redondo acts to stop State from allowing “single-family home lot becoming six on a lot”
Redondo wants to protect single family zoning to preserve single family homes such as this refurbished Victorian-style home built in 1918. Photo by Bruce Hazelton by Rachel Reeves The Redondo Beach City Council is continuing to push back against state lawmakers’ efforts to determine the city’s zoning and housing allocation. At its Tuesday meeting, the council unanimously agreed to advocate for the city’s right to judicially review state-mandated housing requirements and to oppose decisions about zoning made in Sacramento. Mayor Bill Brand said at the meeting that state lawmakers are “on a mission to basically strip communities of their local control over housing and land use,” he said. “The belief, really, and the overriding theme in Sacramento right now is that it’s local communities’ fault why we have a housing shortage in California. Most communities would argue it’s not so much a shortage as it is an affordability crisis, so many communities are pushing back … This goes back to the Willie Brown days where it’s very centralized control in Sacramento at the legislature,” Brand said. “The state is micromanaging what we’re doing with our zoning,” Councilmember Nils Nehrenheim…
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