Overdevelopment Update and Call for Building Moratorium
*This message is provided courtesy of “Save the Riviera” a group fighting against overdevelopment in our community*
Why should we care? BECAUSE this is in our own backyard, and will affect the quality of our community life for decades to come!
TOMORROW, Tuesday, at 6pm, Redondo Beach City Council will discuss a potential Moratorium of Mixed Use Development Zoning projects. This affects all of us, with projects like the just-approved Cape Point/Sea Breeze (which was ok’d with absolutely no regard to the safety of pedestrians at Prospect and PCH, nor bicyclists, nor motorists). Up next, the massive Legado development at old Bristol Farms site, with 149 rental apartments. With plenty others to come, up and down PCH!
It’s vitally important that we all show up and speak out – new faces especially! If you haven’t said anything before, now’s the time. It doesn’t have to be lengthy or eloquent: “Stop these mixed use projects. They don’t work in our community. We want a moratorium on them now,” is plenty good to let the elected officials know where you stand.
Doesn’t matter if you’re a Torrance or Redondo resident (actual Redondo residents are obviously counted more heavily; it makes sense: that’s who can vote these folks into – AND OUT OF – office, as they continue to cram too many, too big projects into too little spaces)! Riviera/Torrance neighbors can help elect candidates whose views of quality of life mirror our own. We can have a say in what Redondo Beach will be.
You have a right to be heard. Now’s your chance to be heard!
If you CANNOT attend tomorrow’s City Council meeting, please email a very short letter in the morning, just to say what you would if you’d attend the hearing: “I can’t attend in person tonight because _________ [I had to go to my child’s sporting event or I don’t have a babysitter or I have to work] but I want a moratorium on these mixed use projects. They don’t work in our area. They are too dense, bring too much traffic and are incompatible with our beach community.”
Email your note to the following (Mayor, City Council and Planning Staff):
steve.aspel@redondo.org, jeff.ginsburg@redondo.org, bill.brand@redondo.org, stephen.sammarco@redondo.org, christian.horvath@redondo.org, laura.emdee@redondo.org, Anita.Kroeger@redondo.org, Aaron.Jones@redondo.org
We really hope to see many of you tomorrow night, at City Council, 415 Diamond Street (off PCH), at 6 pm.
Save The Riviera