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Hermosa Beach staff: housing element implementation broadly on track but data gaps and court ruling merit vigilance
Summary
City staff told the Planning Commission the city is broadly implementing its sixth‑cycle housing element but flagged gaps in ADU accounting, delayed waterfront/coastal plan work and the potential implications of a recent Redondo Beach court ruling; the commission voted to receive and file the report.
Hermosa Beach—s Community Development Director Lisonbee Becker told the Planning Commission on Nov. 18 that the city is making steady progress implementing its sixth‑cycle housing element (2021–2029) but that some tasks are behind schedule and that improvements to data systems are needed to accurately track unit production.
Becker, presenting a mid‑cycle assessment, described five program areas — conserving existing housing, supporting new production, removing governmental constraints, providing adequate sites and promoting equal housing opportunity — and said the city has advanced many of the 13 programs in the plan. "I'm just gonna give us, you know, an A minus, a B plus," Becker said, adding that the biggest shortfalls are accounting for ADUs and JADUs and launching a city‑owned site project that had a 2025…
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