Sandbox: They are coming for your tomatoes
by Grace Peng The Redondo Beach City Council is poised to finalize a new set of Objective Residential Standards (ORS) for new homes at its upcoming, August 15 meeting. Why we are doing this is a long and maddening story. But the bottom line is that my yard will be illegal. Most two/three-on-a-lot yards will be illegal, and we won’t be able to re-landscape existing R2/R3 yards to meet our evolving needs. In 2003, Redondo Beach adopted a set of vague Residential Design Guidelines, which are subject to personal interpretation, and yield unpredictable results based on who is making the decisions. Redondo promised in its 6th Cycle Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) Housing Element (HE) to streamline residential approvals by making the design standards objective. The State provided the city with funds to hire a consultant to guide us through this technical process. Redondo has paid $212,035 so far to Cityworks Design (two-thirds paid by the state, one-third from our city coffers) to help our Planning Commission rewrite our Residential Design Guidelines to make them objective instead of subjective. We could have saved much time and money by eliminating all the standards that are…
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