Redondo Beach

History

The South Bay area was originally inhabited by the Tongva tribe of Native Americans. Archeological work in the nearby Chowigna excavation show evidence of inhabitants as far back as 7,100 years ago. The Chowigna band of Tongva used the site of today's Hopkins Wilderness Park in Redondo Beach (formerly Nike missile site LA-57 from 1956 to 1963) as a lookout place. The wetlands located at the site of the retired AES power plant in Redondo Beach were a source of foods including halibut, lobster, and sea bass, and also of salt. The Tongva village of Ongovanga or Onoova-nga, meaning "Place of Salt," was located near a salt lake the old Redondo Salt Lake, "a spring-fed salt lake about wide and long situated about 200 yards from the ocean". Up through the 1700s, the Chowigna bartered salt from the lake with other tribes. The Chowigna were relocated to missions in 1854, when Manuel Dominguez sold of Rancho San Pedro, including the lake, to Henry Allanson and William Johnson for the Pacific Salt Works. In 1983, the city of Redondo Beach adopted a resolution "recognizing the Goodyear Airship Columbia (aka Goodyear blimp) as the "Official Bird of Redondo Beach." In 2022, the Redondo Beach government (along with the governments of Torrance, Carson, and Whittier) sued the California state government, seeking to block the California HOME Act (SB 9), which permits the construction of duplexes and fourplexes on lots. Former Redondo Beach mayor Bill Brand argued that there is no housing crisis in Redondo Beach. Bill Brand became mayor of Redondo Beach after spearheading the effort to block a 525,000 square foot mall project in King Harbor. Brand had also successfully negotiated a reduction in the number of apartment units in a mixed use development along PCH. The city has…

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , over 99% of it land. Redondo Beach was originally part of the 1784 Rancho San Pedro Spanish land grant of the Dominguez Rancho that later became the ten-mile (16 km) ocean frontage of Rancho Sausal Redondo. Redondo Beach has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csb) with mild winters and warm, almost rainless summers. The coldest months are December through March, and the warmest months are July through September. Redondo Beach has mild temperatures year round due to its coastal location.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Bladder kelp

  Macrocystis pyrifera (L.) C.Agardh · Phaeophyceae
  174,944
• House Finch

  Haemorhous mexicanus (P.L.Statius Müller, 1776) · Aves
  31,904
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  31,469
• Western Gull

  Larus occidentalis Audubon, 1839 · Aves
  30,291
• Black Phoebe

  Sayornis nigricans (Swainson, 1827) · Aves
  29,979
• wavy turban

  Megastraea undosa (W.Wood, 1828) · Gastropoda
  27,593
• Pacific Purple Sea Urchin

  Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (Stimpson, 1857) · Echinoidea
  26,585
• sun anemone

  Anthopleura sola Pearse & Francis, 2000 · Anthozoa
  25,904

Largest nearby schools

• Redondo Union High
  High · Redondo Beach · 3,005 students · 26.8:1 ratio
• Mira Costa High
  High · Manhattan Beach · 2,497 students · 23.3:1 ratio
• Phineas Banning Senior High
  High · Wilmington · 2,486 students · 19.9:1 ratio
• Palos Verdes Peninsula High
  High · Rolling Hills Estates · 2,290 students · 24.1:1 ratio
• Torrance High
  High · Torrance · 1,999 students · 23.5:1 ratio
• Lawndale High
  High · Lawndale · 1,921 students · 17.6:1 ratio
• Leuzinger High
  High · Lawndale · 1,896 students · 19:1 ratio
• South High
  High · Torrance · 1,841 students · 21.7:1 ratio

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