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Opponents urge council to keep 1,000‑foot buffer and reject dispensaries near schools; planning commission recommendation due Feb. 11
Summary
Multiple residents urged the council to preserve a 1,000‑foot buffer between cannabis dispensaries and sensitive uses, to exempt parks and safe‑routes‑to‑school areas, and warned against easing the thousand‑foot rule; planning commission recommendations are scheduled for the Feb. 11 council meeting.
Multiple Redondo Beach residents used the public‑comment period to urge councilmembers to preserve strict limits on retail cannabis locations, to protect schools, parks and safe‑routes‑to‑school, and to reject changes that would allow multiple dispensaries close together.
Speakers at the council meeting repeatedly raised concerns about the planning commission’s draft recommendations. Joan Irvine, a past local advocacy leader who said she opposed Measure E in an earlier election, and several residents argued that dispensaries…
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