Redondo city council nears call on F.A.R. for BCHD campus
by Garth Meyer F.A.R. was again front and center Tuesday night as the Redondo Beach city council took more testimony on Floor Area Ratio; what should be allowed for developable space at the 11-acre Beach Cities Health District campus, site of the former South Bay Hospital. The night concluded with a council vote for staff to evaluate an increase of the F.A.R. to 1.25, as staff earlier suggested. A few dozen members of the public spoke at the meeting, including Planning Commission Chair Gail Hazeltine on why the group recommended to the council a .5 F.A.R for all Public Institutional zones in the city – a smaller number than the BCHD campus is currently built at. In other public comment, a man called for term limits for BCHD boardmembers, and former city councilmember Christian Horvath returned to give his view. State law requires the city set an F.A.R. for the land. A 1.0 F.A.R would permit a one-story building the size of the whole lot, a two-story building on half of the lot or a four-story building on a quarter of the lot. The planning commission sent the matter to the city council this summer, with a unanimous vote, to put all Public Institutional land at .5 F.A.R. (except for…
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