Redondo Beach, Assemblyman Hadley seek park funding
Anderson Park in North Redondo Beach. An Open Space Acquisition Fund, set up by Councilmembers Christian Horvath and Laura Emdee, looks to create more park space throughout the city. Photo courtesy Laura Emdee The Redondo Beach City Council and local assemblyman David Hadley are working towards a statewide ballot which would grant Redondo Beach as much as $13 million for the purchase of parks. Assembly Bill 2444 would benefit cities across California. But a provision within the bill would specifically benefit Redondo Beach, allocating funds for the purchase of land zoned for public utility use to be converted into open space or parkland. Such funds could enable Redondo to purchase part of the AES property currently on the market. “The legislature and I believe that the state can play a role in creating open space,” said Hadley. “We have a history of putting ballot measures before the voters on whether we want to put funds toward parks and open space. For me, the South Bay has more often been a payer of those kinds of taxes than a beneficiary of that kind of space. If we can make sure that the taxpayers, the people who fund open space are also benefiting from it directly in the…
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