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 traff
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Unlike some landowners who lease out their sites to developers who aren’t local, the developer and his daughter came across as long time local residents who want to provide a good product that is still profitable. They were clear that the non-residential in the building will subsidize the low income units, and that’s why there’s commercial. Everyone had a lot of good ideas, but in the end, a relatively small parcel doesn’t have much space for deep setbacks or for short heights. Now if they had 10-acres for example, they could have deep setbacks, no commercial and 2-stories and be profitable.