Dear ER
Only 5% to 20% of BCHD’s Healthy Living Campus services are targeted at District residents. The other 80% to 95% services are designed for non-residents from outside the District, outside the County, and outside the State. Yet BCHD believes district residents should pay all the bills, provide all the land, and suffer all the environmental damages of a high density, non-resident development. BCHD is pushing its bond measure and a change in the City of Redondo Beach’s proposed General Plan. Both the bond and their desired high density development are primarily for the benefit of non-taxpayers of the District (Hermosa, Redondo, Manhattan Beach).
$10 million of the bond is for allcove, an LA County SPA8 program that spans from Long Beach to Catalina Island to LAX. Of that 1.4 million population, 91% are non-residents of the District and pay no taxes to support BCHD.
The other $20 million of the bond is to prepare the site for the private developer who will own and operate 100% of the assisted living facility. That facility will have 80% non-resident tenants according to BCHD’s consultant’s zip code level assessment. Why is BCHD taking $20 million of taxpayer funds to subsidize a private developer?
Mark Nelson
Redondo Beach
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