Recommendation to request City Attorney to prepare an ordinance amending Long Beach Municipal Code Sections 10.12.010 to 10.12.030, relating to Speed Limits on City Streets, on the street segments listed in Attachment A.  (Citywide)
Thank you. I will be moving on now to the next item, which will be item number 25. Please report from Public Works recommendation or request city attorney to prepare an ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code relating to speed limits on city streets citywide. Mr. Modica. The item before you is related to speed limits. As mentioned, we are available for a staff report if you want it. Otherwise we're ready with the recommendation. Oh, I'm sorry. Councilman Price. To do this because I know it's a late night, but. Mr. Lopez, can you just talk real briefly about how it is specifically in Belmont? Sure. That we came up with these recommendations or perhaps you can expand on what I miss here. It's my understanding that this has been a multiyear process where data has been collected and the speed, the recommended speeds have been warranted through national standards for speed design and roadway design standards. And that this is something that has been in the process for a number of years to get to this recommendation. The reason and if there's anything you want to add to that, please. But the reason I'm asking that is because we do have business owners in Naples that have been asking for a reduction of speeds on Second Street through Naples. And that's something staff is looking at. But they have to collect the data and they have to make sure the warrants are there to recommend it. And it could not have been just added on to this item. Does that sound about right to you? Yes. Actually, we have Carl Hickman. That's our city traffic engineer. That's our local expert. So if I can have Carl Hickman help me answer that question, Carl. Sure. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. And council members. And to answer your question, Susie, basically, you know, many of most of those streets and the Belmont Shore residents district, they have similar characteristics. They were all originally posted at 25 miles an hour. They are very narrow there. The GM metrics are very similar. The usage that is there is very similar. So all of these things make it appropriate, appropriate to designate the entire neighborhood as a common district. All of the speed surveys that we collected there show an 85th percentile speed between 19 and 23 miles an hour. Actually, 14 of the 18 were actually 22 miles an hour or less. So because so many common conditions exist per the vehicle code, we're able to create their residence district and change the speed limits, have a reduction down to 15 miles an hour for the entire group of streets. And we're talking CVC Section 22, three, five, 8.3. That allows us to do that per state law, and that's how we're able to accomplish that in the Belmont Shore area. Okay. And so having said all of that, that your team is still looking at speed reductions on Second Street through the area of Naples, and that is a process where you're collecting data, doing speed surveys and establishing the necessary warrants to make that recommendation, correct? Yes, Councilwoman, we're actually in the process of reviewing all of the speed surveys in the entire city. These speed surveys are required so that PD has a formal and legal process to enforce our speed limits. We have over 300 engineering and traffic surveys that we have to maintain, and these require a renewal on the five year basis . And sometimes we can also extend them seven or ten years. But yes, to answer your question, we will be reviewing those roadways as well at second and other areas as well throughout the entire city. And this is the first step in the process. And I can remind you all that we did pass a Safe Streets initiative back in July of last year. And this is part of our process to see where there are areas in the city where we can formally and legally reduce our speed limits to make our city's streets safer. Great. Thank you. That's when Austin. Is there a public comment on this item? No these cats votes.