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by Mark McDermott  The Manhattan Beach City Council on Tuesday night unanimously approved a proposed four-story, 161-room, 81,771 square foot hotel and an accompanying 14,500 square foot  office and retail building on the former El Torito site along Sepulveda Boulevard.  The hotel takes advantage of “Sepulveda overlay”  zoning, enacted in 2019, that allows a height of 40 feet and will thus become the tallest building in the city’s Sepulveda corridor. The size and height of the project...

UpdatedTue, Jan 19, 2021 at 1:50 pm PT Replies(6) This is the development presently under consideration for a Master Use Permit sans CEQA. MB Poets, a group of nearby residents, oppose the project as it currently stands and wants the city to require an Environmental Impact Report. (City of Manhattan Beach) MANHATTAN BEACH, CA — A group of Manhattan Beach residents who live near a proposed hotel/retail/office development on Sepulveda Boulevard where the El Torito restaurant once stood simply w...