Redondo Beach sets new housing plan after court loss
by Garth Meyer The Redondo Beach city council approved a new Housing Element Tuesday night, looking to retain as much local control over zoning as possible. The move came in reaction to a loss in court last year which nullified the city’s previous housing plan. That plan included what are known as overlays – areas that keep open the possibility of alternative development uses. The new plan has no overlays. Instead, it increases density allowed on four of Redondo’s five designated new-housing sites, and eliminates a sixth. In addition, the new plan states that new development on these sites requires 50% of its floor space be residential. Of the individual spots previously chosen for future housing, “North Tech,” at Marine Avenue and Inglewood Avenue, is off the list because the judge ruled it unlikely that housing would be built there, due to a lease between a Vons store and the landowner. Of the five sites kept in the plan, the one at Kingsdale Avenue and Artesia Boulevard had its allowed density increased from 55 to 65 dwelling units per acre, and height from four to five stories. Similar increases were made for the site south of the Transit Center (Kingsdale Avenue and 182nd)…
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