REDONDO BEACH – The Redondo Beach Harbor Commission adopted a management plan by the city’s Fire Department to regulate the use of the waterfront’s new transient vessel mooring field at its Oct. 13 meeting.
The same plan was presented to and approved by the Redondo Beach City Council in September.
Intended to attract short-term recreational vessels, the new transient mooring field is Redondo Beach King Harbor’s first in more than 25 years. The Fire Department’s management plan aims to establish and maintain a system of organization for a mooring field that can hold up to 25 vessels.
During the Sept. 16 Redondo Beach City Council meeting, Fire Department Chief Robert Metzger explained the purpose of the management plan.
“The city will manage the use of this mooring field in a manner that will protect the waters of the harbor,” Metzger told council members. “The mooring field will create safe mooring facilities for recreational transient boats.”
Specifically, the plan emphasized the use of a mooring field as a short-term recreational facility, with long-term tenants and commercial uses prohibited. Boaters seeking to replenish supplies or take refuge from inclement weather are also permitted to use the mooring field.
The plan also described the location of the mooring field...
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