Help Rescue The Redondo Beach Waterfront; Revitalize, not Supersize
Breaking News! The lawsuit against the city by Redondo Beach Waterfront LLC (CenterCal Properties) is over! The short version is the city will be paying $2 Million Dollars to Redondo Beach Waterfront LLC (CenterCal Properties) in exchange for them dropping the lawsuit. While this is good news it is only the latest […]
Stop the Santa Monica-fication of Redondo Beach Re-elect Mayor Bill Brand, Re-elect Nils Nehrenheim and Todd Loewenstein, Elect Zein Obagi for District4 City Council, and Harden Sooper for City Attorney You must like Redondo Beach: you choose to live here. Outside developers like our city too, but they want to change our zoning to build […]
The 2017 Redondo Beach City Councilmembers who approved the CenterCal Harbor Mall. (From Left to Right Christian Horvath, Laura Emdee and Martha Barbee. Former Mayor Steve Aspel is in the middle and floating above is City Attorney Mike Webb overseeing it all). Exactly 4 years ago today on 1/31/2017 the Redondo Beach City Council rushed […]
Two years ago today justice prevailed when ROW, its leadership, and two Redondo Beach elected officials and a campaign volunteer were awarded just over $898,000 defending themselves from a malicious SLAPP lawsuit. The victorious defendants were Mayor Bill Brand, his volunteer Treasurer, Council Member Nils Nehrenheim, and ROW President Wayne Craig. Since that verdict, the […]
Rescue Our Waterfront and Building A Better Redondo filed an appeal today with the California State Supreme Court. It asks to overturn a lower-court ruling undermining the California Coastal Act and weakening citizen-led ballot initiatives. If this ruling were left unchallenged it would allow cities to approve construction projects in the coastal zone without […]
Meet the heroes of Redondo Beach who spoke at the California State Water Resources Control Board (the “Water Board”) workshop on 4/21/2020 to demand the as-scheduled closure of the toxic AES Redondo power plant (“AES Redondo“) by the end of 2020. In short, the closure of all coastal power plants using once-through ocean water cooling […]
The AES plant during one of two recent “healthy” start ups. Meet some of our new neighbors who just bought the AES plant! Now that the deal is closed we know they are pushing hard to keep this 60-year-old environmental hazard and eyesore open for the next several years. So let’s take a look at who […]
As the New Year begins, ROW continues to protect Redondo Beach Residents, because a majority of our elected officials will not. Specifically, the same three North Redondo City Council members scramble to retain power of the “Old Guard” regime at all costs, blocking everything Mayor Brand was elected to accomplish to benefit all Redondo Residents. The Combination […]
CenterCal Sued Again! Redondo Beach residents know CenterCal doesn’t pay their bills, their contractual obligations, their lawsuit judgments and has cost us millions. But do other cities? Buyer beware! In another stunning display of flagrant “If It Doesn’t Go Our Way, We’ll Refuse To Pay”. CenterCal has apparently turned on yet another of their “Paid […]