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# Would The L.A. City Council Approve This Project If It Was Across The Street From Their Homes?
May 05 2025
Written by Casey Maddren.
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THE ENVIRONMENT - How would you like to have hundreds of diesel trucks driving up and down your street, spewing diesel exhaust, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Residents living on Redondo Beach Boulevard in the Harbor Gateway area have been trying for years to stop a massive distribution center from being built right across the street from their homes, but it seems that no one at LA City Hall is listening.
Back in 2018 I posted about the LA City Planning Commission's approval of this [toxic project directly across the street from residents' homes](https://horizonskyline.net/2018/07/10/harbor-gateway-community-fights-toxic-project) in the Harbor Gateway community. Developer Prologis had filed an application to build a 300,000+ sq.ft. warehouse which would generate hundreds of diesel truck trips every day, and would operate all night long. The LA Department of City Planning had allowed Prologis to slide by with low-level environmental review that didn't begin to address the impacts. Thankfully the State's then-Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, stepped in to let the City know that they weren't doing enough to protect the residents' health. The people who had been fighting the project were overjoyed, but it turns out the reprieve was only temporary.
The Prologis distribution center is back, and will be heard again by the City Planning Commission on Thursday, May 8. Given the CPC's record of approving pretty much everything that comes before them, it's likely the project will again be given the green light. The folks at LA City Hall do not seem to care that the residents are already subject to vehicle exhaust from the nearby 110 Freeway. Nor do they seem to care that the area ranks in the top 5% for pollution burden and vulnerability according to the California Environmental Protection Agency's screening tool. And apparently it makes no difference that, in addition to the residential buildings, the project site is surrounded by a public park, an LAUSD school, nursing homes, and two churches. This project will bring the trucks already travelling the freeway right into neighborhood, and air pollution has been shown to have [serious health impacts on children, adults and seniors](https://keck.usc.edu/news/traffic-related-pollution-linked-to-early-markers-for-cardiovascular-disease-in-children/).
Area residents will be showing up at [the CPC meeting](https://planning.lacity.gov/dcpapi2/meetings/document/78720) to voice their opposition. If you can make it down to City Hall, they'd appreciate your support. The meeting starts at 8:30 am, but it's hard to say exactly what time the item will be taken up by the Commissioners.
If you can't make it down, you can also submit comments to the following e-mail address.
cpc@lacity.org
Be sure to identify the project in the subject line.
Prologis Vermont Redondo Project, CPC-2017-1014-CU-ZAA-SPR
*(Casey Maddren is president of United Neighborhoods for Los Angeles (UN4LA \[[www.un4la.com](http://www.un4la.com/)\]) and a CityWatch contributor.)*
Casey Maddren is president of United Neighborhoods for Los Angeles (UN4LA \[[www.un4la.com](http://www.un4la.com)\]) and a CityWatch contributor.
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