FINAL: Redondo Beach Measure A Results

• Redondo Beach Election Results

Measure A is a ballot initiative that aims to rezone the land under the AES Redondo Beach power plant on Harbor Drive to a mixture of 30-40 percent commercial and institutional uses, with the remaining land designated parkland and open space, to force the California Energy Commission to perform an energy need analysis before it approves AES' application to build a new power plant on the land.

AES Redondo Beach must retrofit, retire, rebuild or obtain a special exemption to continue operating by 2020 due to regulations on once-through cooling plants that use ocean water to cool the superheated steam that spins the turbines to produce electricity. Parent company AES Southland has already filed an application with the CEC to rebuild a smaller plant in its place.

The initiative campaign was spearheaded by Measure A co-authors Councilman Bill Brand and slow-growth activist Jim Light, along with political action committees Building a Better Redondo and NoPowerPlant.com. Those people and groups support Measure A.

Measure A is opposed by AES; Mayor Mike Gin; councilmen Steve Aspel, Pat Aust, Steve Diels and Matt Kilroy; and the majority of candidates for Redondo Beach City Council. Opponents argue that if passed, Measure A would constitute an illegal taking of property and would lead to lawsuits that could possibly bankrupt the city.