Redondo Beach council introduces ordinance to remove parking minimums in Artesia–Aviation corridor

The Redondo Beach City Council on Oct. 14 introduced for first reading Ordinance No. 3306-25, a measure to remove minimum off-street parking requirements for nonresidential properties in the Artesia and Aviation Corridors area plan and to establish a limited process for allowing parking at the front of a property only under specific findings.

Community Development Director Mark Weiner told the council the proposal implements direction the council gave in prior meetings to encourage development and revitalization along the Artesia–Aviation (ACAP) corridor by eliminating on-site parking mandates for nonresidential uses. He described two procedural options staff drafted for how a property might be allowed to locate parking at the front of a lot: one that would require an administrative use permit (AUP) or a conditional use permit (CUP) and all three prescribed findings, and a second, circulated as a blue-folder alternative, that would require only an AUP and two of the three findings. "It really, in my opinion, makes more sense to have it be the 2 of the 3 findings rather than all 3," Weiner said about the blue-folder version.

Under either option, staff said, any parking placed at the…