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Planning commission hears mid‑cycle housing update and legal briefing after Redondo appellate ruling
Summary
Hermosa Beach staff presented a mid‑cycle assessment of the city’s sixth‑cycle housing element and legal counsel summarized the New Commune DTLA v. Redondo Beach appellate decision — which decertified Redondo’s housing element — prompting discussion about the city’s overlay zones, site inventory and the need to monitor feasibility and data systems.
Hermosa Beach’s Planning Commission on Nov. 18 received a mid‑cycle implementation update on the city’s sixth‑cycle housing element and a legal briefing on a recent California Court of Appeal decision that decertified Redondo Beach’s housing element.
Community Development Director Lisonbee Becker reviewed progress across five program areas — conserving existing housing, supporting affordable production, reducing development constraints, expanding ADU accounting, and land value recapture — and said the city’s regional housing needs allocation (RHNA) for the cycle is 558 units. Becker said the city currently shows 384 units in various stages of the pipeline, with 116 completed at mid‑cycle, but that Hermosa is underperforming in very low, low and moderate income categories and needs better unit accounting for ADUs and inventory tracking.
The legal briefing by Interim Assistant City…
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