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Hermosa Beach planning commissioners receive mid-cycle housing-element status report; staff flags ADU accounting and site gaps
Summary
City staff told the Planning Commission Hermosa Beach is broadly implementing its 6th-cycle housing element but is behind on city-owned-site projects, coastal plan submission and accounting for ADUs; commissioners voted to receive and file the report and pressed staff for clearer buffers and timelines.
Hermosa Beach planning commissioners on Nov. 18 received a mid-cycle assessment of the city's 6th-cycle housing element implementation and pressed staff for clearer accounting of small-unit production and contingency planning after a recent court ruling nearby.
Community Development Director Lisonbee Becker told the commission the element (covering 2021'29) remains in place and that the city's regional housing needs allocation (RHNA) for the cycle is 558 units. "As you can see from the table, the city's regional housing needs allocation was a total of 558 units across all income categories," Becker said during the presentation. She said the city has 184 units in the pipeline and has completed 116 mid-cycle, but is underperforming in the very-low, low and moderate-income categories.
The report outlined five program areas:…
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