Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by adding section 5.90.290 related to local enforcement and penalties for illegal marijuana businesses, read and adopted as read.  (Citywide)
Motion carries. Can't. Exciting, please. Communication from City Attorney Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code related to local enforcement and penalties for illegal marijuana businesses read and adopted as read citywide. Emotion in a second. Councilman Price. Do you have any comments? No. I ask my colleagues to support this item again. Please. Okay. Public, please come down. I really do. Clark has the address. I address this a few weeks ago, and though this measure has some merit to it, this is one of the I think the first time I'm going to suggest that you. Undertake an action tantamount to reconvening the Council of Trent. And going back and correcting. A very serious error that was made. The city did a good job of saying, hey, we don't want these facilities near our schools. We don't want these near our parks. As I mentioned two weeks ago, what was fair, what we failed to consider or is failed to take into consideration is the avenues and the byways by which those you're trying to protect go to and from schools, period, in the instant kit. And I don't know all of your neighborhoods. I know development your area rather well. And I do know kids patterns. All right. Kids don't don't go to banks. Kids don't go to shoe stores. Kids don't go to jewelry stores. All right? They don't go anywhere where mom and dad goes. All right. But what they do go in. I our area, I know is Rite Aid for ice cream and a block away of. However, a jack in the box. I know you have correlative locations in your district that. So what you've got to do. Is go back and provide those corridors that the kids take as safe zones, period. Somebody has a wet dream of opening up one of these right down in the middle of wells of of Belmont Shore. As he comes to read. You will see he is. The police records show perhaps the most irresponsible landlord in. They're not sure if not in the city. As is a major tentative is next door. Equally odious. And it responsible for five years, providing both of them, but providing sanctuaries to an insidious criminal element. One of them threatening to kill a shop owner because a block away, less than a block away because she reported that the use of crack cocaine. Another one biting the female biting somebody in the stomach. Both of them spitting at the branch librarian every time she goes out on the second street for a lunch or a break because they were banned from the library for that type of conduct. So what you've got to do is go back to the drawing board and redesign that your protections for the community. Thank you very much. Any public public comment saying now there's a motion and a second, please cast your votes. Motion carries.