{"id":331257,"date":"2026-08-27T19:52:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T19:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331257\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T19:52:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T19:52:05","slug":"new-manhattan-beach-home-sparks-setback-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331257\/","title":{"rendered":"New Manhattan Beach Home Sparks Setback Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition has continued ahead of Wednesday&#8217;s hearing. In an Aug. 18 <a href=\"https:\/\/legistar.granicus.com\/daystar.legistar6.sdk.ws\/View.ashx?Format=pdf&amp;From=Granicus&amp;GovernmentGUID=MANH&amp;LogicalFileName=5d5e9cf7-cb23-45cd-bb56-d4bb27f00021.pdf&amp;M=F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">public comment<\/a>, another longtime Manhattan Beach resident argued that granting setback variances could make it harder for the city to reject similar requests in the future and gradually turn neighborhoods into an &#8220;urban canyon.&#8221; He urged commissioners to reject the application.<\/p>\n<p>City staff, however, noted that every home on the south side of 25th Street between Blanche Road and 23rd Street already has a front setback that does not conform to the current 20-foot requirement. Nearby setbacks range from zero to 15 feet, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manhattanbeach.gov\/home\/showpublisheddocument\/59459\/639229242677870000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Staff also pointed to other unusually shaped lots nearby that received setback reductions in previous decades, while stressing that variance applications are considered individually and do not establish precedent.<\/p>\n<p>The Planning Commission is scheduled to meet at 3 p.m. Wednesday at City Hall, 1400 Highland Ave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opposition has continued ahead of Wednesday&#8217;s hearing. In an Aug. 18 public comment, another longtime Manhattan Beach resident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-331257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}