Redondo Beach Residents eye Healthy Living Campus plans
Beach Cities Health District’s Healthy Living Campus plan would replace the existing South Bay Hospital with a 592,700 square foot development. Images courtesy BCHD There were a few common themes shared by residents attending Beach Cities Health District’s first scoping meeting for its planned Healthy Living Campus redevelopment, held at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center on Monday night. The meeting was the first step toward satisfying California Environmental Quality Act obligations, in which BCHD collected comments that would help shape a report discussing the project’s likely environmental impacts and ways to mitigate them. Largely, attendees were worried about traffic. Some spoke about construction-related traffic; others, the interactions between cyclists and cars. Many more were worried about potentially loading more cars onto Prospect Avenue, a lesser traffic arterial that’s already a busy throughway between the Beach Cities. A few other residents were worried about the facility’s potential strain on Redondo’s first responders and emergency services. But a few other concerns kept peeking through, though they were less environmental and more to the merits of…
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