The Hermosa Beach City Council plans to repeal a zoning plan that would have allowed a 250-room beachfront hotel. In 1984, the council rezoned the former site of the Biltmore Hotel and some

surrounding parcels to allow construction of a new hotel. A referendum in 1985 challenged the plan, however, and last month the 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled that voters had defeated

the proposal. Proponents of the hotel are hoping that the California Supreme Court will hear the case and reverse the outcome. But in the meantime, the City Council unanimously directed the

city’s Planning Commission to work on restoring the former commercial or residential zonings in the neighborhood. The Biltmore site, the only vacant beachfront property in the city, would