Building a Better Redondo The Initiative - Notice of Intent - Title and Summary

The Land Use Initiative

Note: Nov. 2008 The Land Use Initiative (Measure DD) passed and
is now apart of the Redondo City Charter.

The language of the Initiative was carefully crafted with help from legal experts in land use laws. It gives the people of Redondo voting rights when it comes to dense, large-scale development - a right they have not had in the past.

"The people of Redondo Beach, whose quality of life and property rights are at stake, should have the power to decide … whether a proposed major change in allowable land use is worth the added congestion and density it will cause." -Quote from BBR Initiative

The Initiative - Text of the entire document
pdf format (129KB/10 pgs.)

Notice of Intent & Title and RB City Attorney's Summary - Text
pdf format (80KB/3 pgs.)

More details about the Initiative/Measure DD here:
- Brief Synopsis
- Why Do We Need Measure DD?
- Facts & Myths
- Measure DD vs. Opposition Measure EE
- Voting Examples in other Cities
- Traffic Report by BBR

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When the initiative was made public, Redondo's City Attorney correctly summarized the initiative. Months later we were surprised when the City informed us of a typographical error in the initiative.

However, as evidenced by City Attorney Webb's summary of the initiative, the meaning and intent of the initiative are clear even with the typo.

The corrected version of the initiative is posted below for your information. Please see the highlighted paragraph which was out of its proper order in the original version.

The Initiative - Text of the entire document, with corrected highlights
pdf format

Note: The Redondo City Council, who opposed the Land Use initiative, decided to authorize the original version of the initiative with the typo intact for the November '08 ballot citing legal reasons.

Questions or comments about the initiative, please contact us at: info@buildingabetterredondo.org

"Without initiatives and referendums, elites would barely bother at all to take note of public opinion on issues they disdained - from supermajority requirements to raise taxes to term limits. They serve as a reminder that the experts' sometimes have to pay attention to good old common sense." - John Fund of The Wall Street Journal

"There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction”
- John F. Kennedy

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Archive: Initiative 1 (Spring 2007)