The Coastal Commission just approved a Hermosa Beach development — then attached conditions that read less like permit requirements and more like a property management contract.
At 2464 Hermosa Avenue, a 1953 triplex is coming down. In its place, the applicant wants to build a three-story, 5,513-square-foot structure with a main residence and two accessory dwelling units. The California Coastal Commission approved it this week, 270 feet from the beach, in a built-out residential neighborhood where this kind of redevelopment happens constantly.
So far, routine.
What isn't routine is what the Commission attached to that approval. Three of the eight special conditions imposed on this private development project are extraordinary in their reach — and together they form a picture of an agency that is no longer simply regulating the coastline. It is inserting itself into the internal operations of a private residential building.
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