Redondo Beach approves four-story residential building for PCH
By Garth Meyer A 49-unit residential building was approved for Pacific Coast Highway and Pearl Street Tuesday night by the Redondo Beach city council. The project, with commercial space on the ground floor, was denied by the city’s planning commission in December. The original proposal lacked a parking study, commissioners said in their decision, and neighbors maintained that it could impede response times from nearby Fire Station One. The developers then submitted a traffic study with their appeal to the city council, and got an indirect boost from the Redondo Beach Fire Department, which issued no opinion whether any added traffic would affect its work. The city council mainly cited tied-hands in its unanimous approval of the project. “My interpretation of the (current state law) is, with residential, we don’t have a say anymore,” Mayor Jim Light said. “Sacramento is forcing our hands here. That is where my vote is coming from,” said Councilman Brad Waller, whose constituents formed the bulk of public comment against the development. “Previously, a city could use subjective design standards (to deny a project), such as neighborhood compatibility,” said Marc Wiener, city…
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