Boaters concerned CenterCal’s 2nd & PCH will greatly affect parking

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1. CenterCal is famous for ignoring the community and the environmental impacts of their projects. In Redondo, people were so upset that CenterCal was ignoring their concerns that by the last public visioning session, CenterCal did not allow public comment. At the scoping meeting for the EIR, CenterCal and City did not even provide chairs at the meeting and prohibited public input again… they made you submit your comments in writing so that the others could not hear your concern. In the end, despite thousands of comments from the public, CenterCal pressed ahead with its plan and with a very flawed EIR. It took resident action to get the Coastal Commission to void the development permits and a judge to throw out the EIR and order the city rescind its project approvals. The Coastal Commission unanimously voted the project had substantial issues with compliance with Redondo’s Local Coastal Program and with the California Coastal Act. The judge threw out the EIR because it violated CEQA. Rather than quietly go away, CenterCal instead sued the city and residents who opposed their project. A judge recently through CenterCal’s one suit against the residents as “frivolous” and awarded the resident attorneys nearly $900K in legal fees. CenterCal tried to get the resident approved Measure C thrown out, but a judge upheld the initiative. The Coastal Commission later certified the Measure C zoning with no changes.

   All this shows that CenterCal is willing to violate the law with its projects and when it does not get its way they are willing to sue the bejesus out of their opponents.

   CenterCal is bad news for any community.

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