Crews battle structure fire in Redondo Beach neighborhood

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• Redondo Beach may restrict camping near supportive housing for homeless
• California home engulfed in fire, spread to other buildings
• How California lawmakers have tried and failed to fix the state’s housing crisis
• Redondo Beach Fire Department was at the scene of a residential fire near King Harbor on Tuesday, officials said.
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POMPANO BEACH, Fla. – Firefighters responded to a fire at a luxury real estate sales office on Saturday night in Pompano Beach. Flames tore through a restaurant at the end of the Oceanside Pier, the longest wooden pier on the US west coast, and heavily damaged the closed diner and a neighboring business. The city, which currently has 28 total beds — 20 Pallet Shelters and eight bridge, or temporary, housing units — could soon see that climb to 83, Abaquin Ford has said.

Redondo Beach may restrict camping near supportive housing for homeless

The law’s stated intent calls for increasing access to “affordable housing,” a term that Kin said elsewhere in the text refers explicitly to housing restricted for low-income residents. Because SB 9 doesn’t require those kinds of developments, it fails to meet the state Constitution’s high standards to override local control over zoning in charter cities, Kin said. In defense of SB 9, lawmakers argued that all areas of the state needed to accept growth and often cited the origins of single-family-home-only zoning as a means of excluding Black and other nonwhite residents from neighborhoods.

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The fire had extended to nearby power poles and neighboring fences. Pompano Beach Fire Rescue personnel were still at the scene of the fire on Sunday morning. Moon said she first smelled the smoke and heard a bunch of people outside.

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In the judge’s defense, Webb, the Redondo Beach city attorney, said state lawmakers have written numerous other housing laws where their stated intent matched the language in the bill. Lawmakers could amend SB 9, he said, to mandate it produce low-income housing. Elmendorf said he expected Bonta, who has made enforcing state housing laws a priority while in office, to appeal the decision. State lawmakers also easily could change SB 9 to address Kin’s decision, he said. Michael Webb hailed the ruling as a victory for communities fighting against state overreach on housing laws.

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“SB 9 had all the bad impacts on disrupting the community with none of the positive features of ensuring affordable housing actually be built,” Webb said. Kin’s decision now applies to the five Southern California cities — Redondo Beach, Carson, Torrance, Whittier and Del Mar — that challenged SB 9, which passed in 2021. If his ruling is appealed and upheld, it would affect 121 communities known as “charter cities,” including Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, that have greater autonomy under state law.

Firefighters extinguished a two-alarm structure fire in a Redondo Beach neighborhood on Tuesday. LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. - A family in Redondo Beach experienced the worst night of their lives after their house was completely destroyed by a fire. He's previously reported for local outlets like the Argonaut and Pasadena Weekly. To the intersection of Kingsdale and Grant avenues regarding a fire that prompted occupants to leave their homes, KCAL reported.

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A house fire in Redondo Beach Tuesday that sent plumes of black smoke high into the air was extinguished by firefighters within minutes. A historic southern California pier caught fire on Thursday, burning for several hours until firefighters battling the blaze from boats were able to extinguish the flames. “The Legislature can address [the ruling] by putting the words in the initiative to match the intent, which is if you’re tearing down a single-family home, it would be replaced with affordable housing,” Webb said. Legislators reasoned that individual units in duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes would be more affordable than just one house on the land, and that more housing in general would ease affordability pressures. But, citing the costs to build, they did not mandate any units constructed under SB 9 specifically to be set aside for low-income residents.

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The fire displaced the family of three, but Rappaport said the Redondo Beach Firefighters Association will put them up in a hotel for a few days through the Association’s community relief fund. “The flames started to come through the roof and then I heard a bang,” Genel said. Oscar Genel, 42, a next door neighbor, said he was getting ready for work when a passerby knocked on his door and told him there was smoke coming from the neighbor’s home. Eight engines, two trucks, and a rescue unit responded to the two-alarm blaze, Rappaport said.

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Crews worked through the night to extinguish the blaze and limit its spread to the far west end of the pier, the city said in a statement. They removed some planks across the structure to protect the rest of the pier. Redondo Beach may soon restrict camping, or pitching tents, outside of permanent supportive housing for those who are homeless, expanding an ordinance that already prohibits camping at the city’s Pallet Shelters and in most public spaces.

Over the past four years, lawmakers have quietly chipped away at zoning communities for single-family homes only, opening the door to smaller backyard units. A Redondo Beach home was severely damaged Friday morning in a two-alarm house fire that saw responses from four different fire departments. Neighbors responded just as quickly as the professionals, taking care of the owners who have lived in the home for more than 20 years. While the empty restaurant and a “small food service structure” were “heavily damaged”, the city said that no further loss of the pier is expected. The city has closed the beach around the pier and urged the public to maintain a “safe distance”.

KCAL reported that residents attempted to contain the fire with water hoses but were unsuccessful. We’ll send you the latest headlines every morning and every weekday afternoon.

Firefighters from the Torrance, Manhattan Beach and Los Angeles County Fire Departments also responded. Redondo Beach firefighters received a report of smoke earlier that day, just after 8 a.m., behind the Kich’s home in the 1600 block of Harper Avenue, according to Redondo Beach Fire Chief Robert Rappaport. Rolf Kich watched Friday morning as firefighters worked on his Redondo Beach home, still in shock at what he was seeing. To request removal of your name from an arrest report, submit these required items to REDONDO BEACH, CA — Redondo Beach Fire Department was at the scene of a residential fire near King Harbor on Tuesday, officials said. Residents tried to use hoses and sprays in a desperate attempt to douse the flames but to no avail.

The city will soon add an additional 25 Pallet Shelters, 13 bridge housing units and potentially 20 studio apartments converted from rooms at the Pacific Coast Inn motel, Abaquin Ford has said. Bay Area NPR affiliate KQED recently surveyed 16 cities of varying sizes across California and found that between 2022 and 2023, the cities approved 75 lot split applications and 112 applications for new units under SB 9. Over the same period, those cities permitted 8,800 ADUs, the news organization found.

“Because the provisions of SB 9 are not reasonably related and sufficiently narrowly tailored to the explicit stated purpose of that legislation — namely, to ensure access to affordable housing — SB 9 cannot stand,” Kin wrote in a April 22 ruling. Belden called 911 and ran across the street to knock on doors to make sure neighbors in adjacent houses had gotten out. A family in Redondo Beach experienced the worst night of their lives after their house was completely destroyed by a fire.

Many have been battered by intense storms in recent years, requiring repairs and raising questions about the structures that have become a quintessential part of the coastal landscape. The pier in Oceanside, about 40 miles north of San Diego, stretches more than 1,900 feet, allowing visitors to walk out over the ocean waves. “We’ll take care of any needs they may have,” Allen said, indicating that would include a stay at a nearby hotel. I’m sure the shock will kick in later though,” Rolf Kich said, as neighbors tended to his wife and set up a pop-up shelter and chairs on the sidewalk across the street.