Redondo Beach City Council approves power plant zoning ballot language, AES submits repowering plans to CEC
photo Just hours after AES Southland submitted its long anticipated plans for a new 12-acre power plant to the California Energy Commission (CEC), the Redondo Beach City Council officially ordered a zoning initiative measure placed on the March 5 ballot. The ballot measure will give citizens a vote on potentially outlawing power generation at AES’s 50-acre waterfront property. The council also voted to establish a subcommittee, which will include Mayor Mike Gin and council members Matt Kilroy and Steve Diels, to write the argument against the initiative for inclusion on the ballot. The city attorney was also directed to prepare an impartial analysis of the measure. “The council should have some responsibility of informing the public, so that’s what the subcommittee will do,” said Diels. “It will be the language that ends up on the ballot with the arguments that would inform voters that the submission really is not going to accomplish what the proponents say it will.” Per state law, initiative proponents Building a Better Redondo and NoPowerPlant.com will be writing the argument for the ballot measure. “It will be a team effort between me, Jim Light and NoPowerPlant.com,” said…
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