Garth Meyer

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The coming native plant and walking paths-park at the “Redondo Beach/King Harbor” sign could open by the end of this year. The city council Tuesday night approved just under $1 million in Capital Improvement Project and Quimby Act funds – fees paid by developers for cities to create state-required parkland – to pay for the 2.5-acre space, a project that has woven through city hall for the entirety of City Manager Mike Witzansky’s career here; 19 years.

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by Garth MeyerJackson Browne walked onto the LowTide Stage Sunday evening, May 4, and looked out upon the crowd. “BeachLife,” he said into the microphone. “Who doesn’t like the Beach…? This is exactly how I imagined it would look.”Festival co-founder Allen Sanford concurred, following last weekend’s event, but he was prepared for an alternate reality just the same.

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11 RBUSD students advance to Invention Convention nationals Kindergartners through eighth-graders from the Redondo Unified School District competed in the 2025 Henry Ford Invention Convention, with 72 local students advancing to Southern California Regionals on March 29 at El Camino College. Up against 652 students at the Torrance campus, 11 of the 66 inventions advancing to nationals are from RBUSD, including one from a kindergartner.

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The Redondo Beach city council took in a strategic planning session April 30, assembling a list for staff to focus on for the next 10-12 months. New strategic goals included increasing Floor Area Ratio (buildable space) on Artesia Boulevard, Measure FP matters for the coming new police and fire stations, and continuing to be a leader in technology for the police department – working with its drone vendor to get FAA waiver for autonomous use.

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by Garth MeyerAfter a failed bond measure and a disbanded public-private partnership, the focus has shifted at Beach Cities Health District for its proposed Healthy Living Campus. The partnership to build an assisted living complex and tear down the old hospital ends May 1. In its place, the health district prepares a new request for proposals for a land lease of the hospital building and its parking lot. Potential uses would be anything deemed health-related, including affordable housing.