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Council recesses to closed session to discuss negotiations on multiple waterfront and city properties
Summary
The Redondo Beach City Council recessed to closed session to discuss negotiations over several waterfront and city-owned parcels; the meeting named city negotiators and outside advisors and returned to open session with no reportable action.
The Redondo Beach City Council recessed into a closed session to discuss negotiations with potential buyers or lessees for multiple waterfront and other city properties, Mayor Light said before the recess.
The council said the session was authorized under the Government Code as published on the meeting agenda and listed items F1 through F5, each described as "conference with real property negotiator." The properties named on the record included multiple addresses along the International Boardwalk, West Torrance Boulevard, the Fisherman's Wharf/Pier Plaza area, Joe's Scribe Shack at Portofino Way, a parcel on Vail Avenue, a parking lot at Belton Lane and Second Street and several other parcels cited by address and assessor parcel number (APN).
Why it matters: The parcels named include waterfront and harbor-front properties where lease or sale terms could affect waterfront access, harbor businesses and future economic-development plans. The council identified the city manager and city attorneys as participants and said waterfront economic-development staff and outside real-estate advisors would attend.
Council staff named to join the closed session included City Manager Wojcansky; City Attorney Joy Ford; Assistant City Attorney Cheryl Park; Waterfront Economic Development Director Greg Kapovich; Waterfront Economic Development Manager Catherine Buck; and outside leasing and real-estate advisers Brian Campbell, Larry Cosmont and Will Solholt.
The agenda item description read aloud on the dais listed specific addresses and APNs for: 100 and 130 International Boardwalk; 102 and 104 International Boardwalk; units at 127 West Torrance Boulevard; Pier Plaza addresses and Fisherman's Wharf parcels; 123 International Boardwalk; Joe's Scribe Shack at 230 Portofino Way; 3007 Vail Avenue; a parking lot at the corner of Belton Lane and 180 Second Street; parcels on Juliet Avenue; 1935 Manhattan Beach Boulevard; 807 Inglewood Avenue and a portion of North Pacific Coast Highway among others. Those details were read into the record before the council voted to recess.
Councilmember motions to recess and the second were recorded on the transcript; a roll-call vote followed and the motion carried. When the council returned to open session later in the evening City Manager Wojcansky reported there was "no reportable action this evening, Mayor." The council did not disclose any agreements, instructions or outcomes from the closed session at that time.
The legal basis cited for the closed session was the Government Code as listed on the published agenda; no statutory section number was read into the record.
The council plans to reconvene the regular open meeting at about 6 p.m.; any subsequent disclosures about the closed-session negotiations will appear in future public records if required by law.
