Redondo Beach City Council shrinks, passes Legado project
Members of UNITE HERE Local 11, which stood in protest to the Legado Redondo project. Photo The main event began at 6:23 p.m. on June 14, but the final bell didn’t sound until the early hours of the next morning. At 1:40 a.m., nearly eight hours after its meeting began, the Redondo Beach City Council chose to approve the development of a 115-unit residential apartment, 23,800 commercial square foot mixed-use project at 1700 S. Pacific Coast Highway. The council’s split-vote decision comes with a set of conditions, the most significant of which is the requirement for Caltrans-recommended traffic mitigation measures be in place before Legado is able to demolish the current structures. “This has been a long night, and we don’t want people to say that this was done in the backroom in the middle of the night,” Aspel said after the vote passed. “We’ve got about 45 or 50 people here watching democracy in action.” That decision, however, is far from the result Legado CEO Edward Czuker and his team hoped for. The decision overwrote the company’s proposal for a 146 unit project that they felt was the most reasonable reduction possible. “Further reductions would do nothing but cut into the…
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