Recommendation to request City Manager to report back within 60 days with a report on how other cities with similar environments address coastal parking challenges as well as a review of the feasibility of residential parking permit programs to address the problem of non-residents parking in residential neighborhoods near our coastline, and the possible residential use of beach parking lots.
I item 16 is from Councilwoman Price, Councilmember Pearce and Councilmember Angle recommendation to request the city manager to report back within 60 days with a report on how other cities with similar environments address coastal parking challenges. Councilwoman Price. Thank you. I want to thank my colleagues for signing on to this item. This is a really important topic that we often get questions about for those of us who represent coastal communities. Parking is obviously very impacted in some of these communities and oftentimes people will ask us why other cities are able to offer preferential parking permits while the city of Long Beach does not allow those, other than the ones that are grandfathered in for homes that are located within a certain distance to the coastline. So what what the request is, is to have the city manager's office cause a report to be generated that will educate us on the parameters of preferential parking districts in coastal zones. Hopefully, the report could also cover some of the issues, regulations, limitations and opportunities that we have with beach parking lots in regards to residential parking access. And I think this would be a this hopefully could come back not just as a report, but perhaps not just as a TFF, but perhaps a report from the staff as an agenda item. Because I think this is a question that we often get asked, and it would be good if we had the same consistent information. So I'd really appreciate that. And I want to thank my colleagues for signing on and ask my other colleagues to support this item. It's very important to the residents who live along the coastline. Thank you. Councilmember Ringo. Thank you, Mayor. And I want to thank Councilmember Pearce Price for bringing this forward. It's very important that we brought this was brought up before. And as a member of the Coastal Commission, I raised the fact that there are some other jurisdictions up and down the coast that have these kinds of issues. And I say now to this item in support of having that kind of a study done in support and report so that we can make sure that Long Beach is on the right track and on the right side of of the Coastal Commission. So I would hope that city staff will be coordinating this report with the Coastal Commission staff to come up with a report that will show what we can and cannot do within the coastal zone in regards to not only residential parking but also overnight parking, which is the the major concern that is being raised in this item . So I'm in favor of moving forward with the study. Thank you. Thank you. Seeing no other council comments? Councilman Pearce. Yeah, I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to Councilmember Price for bringing this item forward and really working with my office ahead of time to kind of draft the the item. I know that parking is something that is intense for our communities and it's not very easy. And I also wanted to thank all the work that the staff has already done on this, and I really look forward to the item coming back. And so just thank you for this being a good process for the an agenda item that's not necessarily easy for everybody. So thank you. Any public comment saying none of the papers say I write. Okay, then hippos. Motion carries. Next item. Item 17 is communication from Councilwoman Price recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund in the Legislative Department by 25,000 to attend 12, offset by the Council District three. F Wise 16 office budget surplus.