Tucker builds on experience
City Council candidate Peter Tucker. Photo . At a recent Hermosa Beach City Council meeting, Peter Tucker was peppering an engineer with questions. He asked about drainage, elevation and angles. He brought up materials, costs and man-hours. Scenarios were played out, questions were settled, new ones were raised. It was an unusual level of involvement for the council member, who mostly steers clear of the squabbles that have engulfed the council in recent months. It was also a revealing one. As he runs for re-election to the city council in the Nov. 3 election, Tucker’s years of experience, as a contractor and building inspector, have given him valuable background in a town that is perpetually confronting issues of planning and development. “That’s a wonderful thing about Pete: he knows all the new things, and all the old things,” said David Garrett, a Hermosa resident who got to know Tucker through the construction industry. Building issues, Tucker said, are bound up with the community’s sense of identity. As a Hermosa resident for nearly 40 years, Tucker has a strong attachment to the town, and urges residents to think carefully about how decisions made today resonate in the…
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