Redondo Beach, CA Building Setbacks & Zoning: Structure Height Limits (2026)

504(b) and (c) applies the identical 30-foot, two-story cap to the R-1A single-family zone. 402: the vertical distance measured continuously along a line at existing grade bisecting the width of the lot to the highest point of the building or structure. That grade-based, lot-bisecting method matters on Redondo Beach's sloped South Bay lots, since it is not a simple curb-to-ridge measurement. Multi-family zones step the limit up: the code's Article 2 development-standards sections for the R-2, R-3, and R-3A low-density multi-family zones, the RMD medium-density zone, and the RH-1 through RH-4 high-density zones each carry their own building-height subsection, with several capped at 35 feet and the RH tiers permitting up to 45 feet where a density bonus is granted for low- and moderate-income housing.

402. A limited set of features may project above the zone's height limit without counting as a story: mechanical equipment and screening up to four feet over, chimneys only to the extent building and fire codes require, whip antennae up to 10 feet over, and church steeples, bell towers, and flagpoles up to 15 or 10 feet over, several of which trigger Planning Commission or Administrative Design Review rather than a simple building-permit sign-off. 2500 instead, unless it is already part of a project subject to Commission-level review.