Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Table 32-1 and Table 32-1A, all relating to removal of Conditional Use Permit Exemptions for alcoholic beverage sales, read and adopted as read.  (Citywide)
Hearing item two is a report from Development Services recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Conclude the public hearing and declare the ordinance amending Title 21 of the Long Beach Municipal Code to remove all conditional use permit exemption except for restaurants with alcoholic beverage service with meals only Flores with assessed resale of alcohol and existing legal non-conforming uses. Read the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading and Adopt Resolution to submit the amendment to Title 21 to the California Coastal Commission for their review and certification and accept the categorical exemption. S.E. Dash 15 Dash 051 City. Thank you, Mr. Modica. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of the Council. The staff report will be done by anybody. The Director of Development Services. Mr. Mayor. Members of the City Council. Back in April, the City Council asked for a. Short term moratorium. For us to look at the process, for. Us to issue conditional use permit exemptions for very specific uses that allowed alcohol sales. Those uses were essentially restaurants with alcohol, beverage service with meals, florists with accessory sale of alcohol, existing legal nonconforming uses in certain grocery stores if they were of a certain size. Since that time, we have done some research on what other cities have have in place for their issuance of conditional use permit exemptions and are suggesting that we come back to you tonight with a one change that would not allow us to provide any more exemptions for grocery stores of 20,000 square feet or more. That category seemed to provide the most room for interpretation, since there are a number of other retailers out there that may not be classically defined as a grocery store, but do carry grocery and HomeGoods components. So with that, we are suggesting that we still have the ability to continue to to issue conditional use permit exemptions for restaurant with alcohol beverage service related to meals that we would still issue them for florists that we would still issue them for legal nonconforming uses that may be in place, but that we not allow grocery stores to receive these exemptions. I can give you any more details. The Planning Commission also reviewed this and supported this. And so we are here presenting their recommendation to you as well. That concludes my staff report. Thank you. I have a motion by Councilman Richardson. Do you have any comment? Sure. Thank you. I just want to take a moment to thank our city staff, particularly Amy Burdick and Development Services and our city attorney's office. A few months ago, we did come with a recommendation to tighten up those exemptions so that major operators would have to go through some project to limit their impact on local neighborhoods. And they've done just that with a very tight timeline. I believe we gave them three months to get it done. So I want to say thank you for this, and I'll be urging my colleagues to vote in support of this. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzalez. I just wanted to thank staff as well. I know this is, you know, gone through its second hearing now and I'm just very excited to see this moving forward and I think Councilmember Richardson for bringing this forward as well. Thank you, Councilman. And yes, I also would like to thank. Our staff and Councilman Richardson for bringing this forward. And first of all, I want to take I want to thank the staff for bringing this back to the council, because. I believe in the change of the cups you process will minimize any potential impact, you know, and the properties and the residents. And I'm truly in favor of this. Thank you, Mr. City. Attorney. Mayor. Thank you. We need two separate votes on this hearing, item one on the ordinance, and then a second on the resolution. Thank you. And the first motion is on the ordinance. We'll have the resolution. Second, any public comment on and we can take public comment, I'm assuming, for both. Mr.. So any public comment on hearing him to. KC Nunn. So let's take the first vote. There's been a motion and a second. Please cast your votes. California councilman. Bush and Kerry nine zero. Thank you. And let's go ahead and take the they can get a motion in a second for the second part of the. The motion. The resolution has been in motion. And a second, please. Gordon Castro votes.