Recommendation to request City Manager to work with the Development Services Department to review current parking policies and opportunities to update existing parking regulations to improve efficiency in support of the Business Improvement District (BID).
as close to that time as possible. So I have two more requests. Let's try to see if we can get through these. I think they should be fairly quick and then we'll get to the other study session. So I'm going to do items eight and ten, which are the last two requests, and then we'll go to the study session. So item eight, please. Communication from Councilman Price. Councilwoman Zendejas. Councilwoman Allen. Councilman Austin. Recommendation to review current parking policies and opportunities to update existing parking regulations to improve efficiency, efficiency and support of the Business Improvement District. I'll turn it over to Councilman Price. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. May I fire if there's any public comment on this item? There is. You want to hear that first? Yeah. Let's go to public comment first and then I can offer some comments. Before I go to public comment, I just want to mention to my colleagues, this is a request for us to start a process of updating some of our parking requirements and zoning requirements in Belmont Shore area. But I'd like to go to public comment and then I'll I'll make some additional comments regarding that public comment. Our first speakers, Erin. Tiffany. Yes. Hi. Can you hear me? Yes. Please begin. Great. Thank you. Thank you for your counsel for hearing through my comment and considering this motion. I'm a resident of Belmont Shore. I'm also sorry. I don't know if you got my name at first. Erin Tiffany. I'm resident of Belmont Shore. I'm a business owner. I own rented Chicago pizza on Second Street. I'm also a building owner on Second Street, currently going through a leasing and development process. I'm also on the Belmont Shore Business Association board. I am also on the Parking Commission. And in addition to being practically involved in this in this motion. I'm also a graduate of school of policy planning and development with a master's degree from USC. And I've developed over a million square feet of retail properties. So this is something I've lived and breathed for the last 15 years. And the problem that I'm seeing in the community is that there's a lot of they can storefronts and then I have a lot of interest from different tenants that want to occupy those storefronts. And the zoning on Second Street in Belmont sure is pedestrian neighborhood commercial. So it's a pedestrian based, walkable community. And we want to encourage walkability. We want to encourage people to not bring their car and take their bikes and use other forms of transportation, whether it's scooters or busses or or what have you. And the problem that has happened is that the zoning and parking regulations in Belmont Shore on Second Street are outdated and they hold due to the city oftentimes will be holding you to when you're applying through planning. They have to follow the code and the code will say you have to provide a certain number of parking spaces or a certain number of, you know, whether it's a restaurant, 10,000 or fitness uses ten spaces per thousand square feet. And those are standards that are typically found in suburban car oriented districts. It's not something that you would find in a pedestrian oriented district. And so in certain areas of the city, such as Belmont Shore and Second Street, where we want to encourage pedestrian oriented development, it's counterintuitive to then mandate and require a significant level of parking, and there isn't any available land to add parking. So it's created this conundrum that has resulted in increased vacancy up and down the street, and the increased vacancy leads to quality of life issues. There's, you know, there's there's more people taking up space and occupying the storefronts on the sidewalk. And because they're not being actively used, they're not you know, they're able to people are able to kind of utilize those spaces and occupy them with lots of things and items. And if we could just reduce some of the parking standards or modify an update. I think your next speaker is Karen Blair. Hello. Karen Blair here. I'm also a member of the Belmont Shore Improvement Association and Parking Commission. And I just think that we really need to make all of Long Beach more business friendly. The business districts in Long Beach need a review of the current policies are in great need of the opportunity to update existing parking regulations to improve efficiency. The parking issues that have been created due to the road downsizing that has caused increased parking hazards and traffic jams from second and PCH to the peninsula to fourth and cherry. I would hope the city council has compassion and look at ways to combat climate change with new transportation efforts. Reexamining parking lots not only for public use. But as a revenue stream when business could use parking lots during the weekdays for their clients looking for further. Improvement in their clientele. We can look at diagonal parking and improving the bus service. To include small electric shuttles instead of the large busses that take up too many parking spaces. No one rides the large busses, and we have areas that are painted red along streets that could be used for parking. Lastly, in business districts, we need Uber, Lyft. Drop off zones and bicycle zones and even scooter zones to all of these issues could improve the businesses in Long Beach. Plus the need. To look at the lack of business permits that are going on. And I realize COVID 19 happened, but we need to open up these permits. This is ridiculous that half of the buildings in Beaumont surely empty and we need to move on. And we need to get the business permits and allow these people like Aaron, Tiffany and others to continue to prosper as small business owners in this city. And we need to start now. So let's approve this and let's move on. Thank you. And your next speakers, Kurt Schneider. Good evening. My name is Kurt Snyder, and today I'm speaking as the president of the Belmont Shore Business Association. I've been a local resident for over 32 years. I own properties in our district as well as on a business in Belmont Shore. Personally witnessed the changes that have occurred in our retail district. During that span of time, buying habits have changes and we as a district should change to satisfy the wants and needs of our potential customers and residents if we are to remain relevant. Our current parking requirements imposed by the City of Long Beach are outdated. Based on the following how patrons get to our district. They use uber walking biking scooters which are were nonexistent when the requirements were set. Buying habits and who is frequenting the shore has changed. Our demographic has gotten younger in their wants of experiential retail, dining and entertainment have changed from what they used to be 30 years ago. 20 years ago. Ten years ago. Even five years ago. Over the past 20 years, the City of Long Beach has not changed parking requirements for potential retail restaurants, bars desirous of locating in Belmont Shore Retail District. Our city in our district has not changed with the times. Over 30% of diners are now using Uber, Lyft and taxis. This does not include walking, biking nor scooter. All of these modes of transportation are now viable and desirous for our local residents to use. Many cities are now lowering parking demand and attempting to wean the community off his addiction to using cars. And it's working. Our city has spent millions on bike lanes implementing scooter rental throughout the city, extra bus routes and other measures to change the transportation habits. We spent millions and millions on this. Why don't we have faith that these things work? We haven't changed the requirements. The demographics of Belmont sure has changed, as have the shopping and dining habits. It's true that younger people are moving to the shore. 20 years ago, Jennifer and I could have gone out to dinner on Second Street with a couple in the shore, and we still would have driven to a restaurant. Today we are walking or taking it over to our second street destination. The most frequent diners are going out to eat multiple times per week and are younger and more likely to use Uber walking, biking and scooters. When I bring up a problem, I always try to bring a solution as this is a problem that is overdue to be fixed. We're at a point where our district is tired and feels less prosperous. I believe if our city lessen the parking requirements, reflect changes in transportation and buying habits, we agree we can reinvigorate this district and in a few years exceed our most prosperous times. I renovated, developed and owned retail in many markets throughout the United States, and in almost all of those markets, there's more lenient parking requirements because, as Aaron stated, he brought out about being suburban versus a neighborhood retail area like we're talking about. They have less parking requirements. I think your next speaker is Wendy published. Hello. I'm Wendy Sublette. I am a licensed architect and a property owner on Second Street. I just want to reiterate things that have already been said. But the point I'd like to make is, you know, retail is really changing today. What will go in on Second Street will be food. Services and. Entertainment and small retail. I'm the owner of a 4000 square foot property that has been vacant for over four years. I am not going to put another. 4000 square foot retail. Tenant in that space. I can't. I have diligently worked to try and do it. And I am. My options are limited because I'm in the middle of the block, so I can't reduce the size and divided up into smaller units because it's too deep of a building. I've had many conversations with the planning department and you have a brilliant staff that is willing to think outside the box. We've talked about compact parking, shared parking in tandem parking, employee site parking, valet parking and a buyout program. They know about all the things that have been done in Pasadena and Burbank and Westwood and Santa monica. The ballet program at Abbot and Kenny is working fabulously. We have parking lots down at the beach. There's lots of options here. We just have to start thinking outside of the. Box and let your staff go at it. I just beg you to take the next step and do that. I thank you for taking the time to consider this because I am pretty desperate at this point to come up with a solution for the property that I own. So thank you. Thank you. That concludes public comment. For this item. Thank you, Councilwoman Pryce. Thank you, Mayor Garcia. First of all, I want to thank the council colleagues who signed on to the item with me. I really appreciate it. Parking has always been a significant issue in many parts of our city, and Belmont sure has not been immune to that. This item asks the city staff to look at what opportunities may be available to alleviate some of the parking pressures felt by the businesses and the residents. The parking regulations in the Shaw are constrained by a number of factors. One is access to the coastal area is important because of the proximity of Belmont Shore to the ocean. And so we want to make sure that people that are coming to visit the ocean and have access to the coast have ample parking. But also we have a business corridor that also takes up some of those that competition for parking spaces. Meanwhile, we have residential neighborhoods that are in very close proximity within 50 to 100 yards of these that the business corridor. And so we want to make sure that we're alleviating pressure for the residents as well. There are other areas of Long Beach. And before I go one, I want to thank our planning department, who they're getting a lot of the requests for commercial tenants and they're realizing that the parking regulations in the shore have been updated. And there are creative things that we can do within our current footwork and footprint in order to make some some parking mitigation changes. And so there's other areas of Long Beach and many other cities that have looked at creative solutions like shared parking, employee offsite parking and streamlined changes for new businesses so that there are practices in line to help the businesses and improve parking in Shaw without having too much of an impact on residents. The focus of improving parking in the past and since I've taken office have been evaluation of necessary red curbs or reevaluate where you should have those. We've tried to reduce streets we think impacts to parking. We did a comprehensive study in 2016 of parking. We added 150 new diagonal parking spots, which I disagree with one of the callers. I don't believe that that has resulted in any traffic or parking impacts in the in the area that the 150 diagonal spots were added. I think that's been an added benefit for people who are trying to visit the coast. And we are now exploring the possibility of a pilot program that would allow for electric shuttles to help transport transport people to and from the shore and around the shore. I think there are some creative and practical ways that we can look at managing the parking issue in Belmont Shore. And I know that in 2014, when I came into office, there was a raging debate about purchasing a private home in the shore and trying to get into a parking lot that is absolutely dead on arrival idea for me. That's not what this item is about. So this item is about exploring creative things like shared parking or tandem parking and looking at ways that we can help businesses work together to utilize parking in areas or businesses that aren't utilizing them at certain times. And so I'd ask staff to please work with our office as part of this item so that we can do a resident focus group meeting and then a business focus group meeting so that we can take all of that input into the final recommendations. And I'm hoping that that that's part of the motion. I'm hoping staff is agreeable to that, and our office will obviously coordinate both of those. But with that, I ask my colleagues to support this item. Thank you, Councilwoman. I have a second. Councilman Zendejas. I just want to add, you know, I. I have to tell you, like Councilman, I'm very. Excited about this item, to be honest, because I think it's absolutely the right thing to look at. And I'm not sure. And I was just checking. I think any time that we can rethink anything, we can rethink what the major businesses are today and make it more walkable. So I really I really think this is really great. I was curious. I don't know. Mr. Morgan knows, but how long has it been since we've actually look, I imagine that we haven't looked at the government. You're kind of broken standards for for for businesses, for for properties in a long time. I know, I know. We recently went through process for downtown and some other places, but how long has it been? Approximately 20 years. Yeah, a little bit longer. So the regulations. This is Christopher Coombs, Deputy Director Development Services. The regulations were adopted in 1988. There were some very minor changes in 94 and 95, but there hasn't been a comprehensive update since 88. The city did a study in 2015 really dealing with this, the public street and the public right away. But there hasn't been a look at the private parking regulations comprehensively since 88. Do we still require all businesses properties to actually have parking spots or parking adjacent to the business or behind? Is that a requirement? And the SHA still. Yes and no. So all businesses are required to have parking and part of what we're trying to do is look at what makes sense and what doesn't make sense. So you see some empty storefronts in the store and then you also see some businesses that are doing really well. And if I'm an entrepreneur and I want to open up a business, if I find a place that is the same kind of business as me that went out of business, I can just open up. There is no change. But if where I'm going to be a clothing store and now I want to do a tapas bar, that's a change of use, then you have to make up the difference in parking, which obviously is difficult to do because you can't. There's nowhere to build new parking, so you can use offsite parking, but it's a very limited distance. So those are all things we'd be looking at. Can you share parking further away if the bank is open during the day and at different businesses open at night, why can't they be sharing that same parking? So we don't know the solutions because we have to do the work. So but but those are all topic areas that we're looking at. Okay, great. Well, before I turn this over, I just want to add, I've been talking about parking minimums and requirements to businesses. I mean, across the city. I think I've talked about it with folks and in the department and with Mr. Modica and Ms.. Tatum as well. And so I know this item is specific to Beaumont. Sure. And I obviously support that. But I just want to encourage the staff that we have got to move faster. I'm looking at the city wide. This is there is so much of the city that needs this type of work. And so I'm very thankful that Councilman Price brought this forward. It's important to do investment. Sure. And once we get Belmont Shore off the ground and focus there, I mean, this is this is a big issue and it's a big problem. And we've taken way too long to address parking minimums. And I think you guys know what my position is on this. I've mentioned it to you, but it'll be dramatically the burden to be dramatically reduced on on businesses and developments as it relates to those parking requirements. So the mayor the second on the motion is councilman's in the house. And so obviously I really strongly support this. And thank you, Councilman Price. Customers in the house. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for that. And a big thank you to Councilmember Price for bringing this forward. And I do note that this is Belmont Ward concentrator, but it really does affect the whole city as a whole because this is this gets the conversation started for all of our bids. Right. And so one of the things that I, I also would like to encourage staff to start thinking about in other other areas in the city, especially in the downtown area, which I represent along with Councilwoman Allen, is, you know, it's let's start looking at that also. And also, you know, right now we're living in unprecedented times and our businesses need our help more than ever before. And so this is our opportunity to step it up and help our businesses. And if parking is one of the one of the issues that's contributing to our businesses not being able to be as successful as they can, let's work really hard in in a fast moving motion. To help them succeed and make sure that not only they succeed, but that they thrive, especially through this recovery time. Thank you, Councilwoman Allen. Yes. Thank you, Mayor. I'm also very thankful that Councilwoman Pryce brought this forward. I'm also appreciate. The Cosigners Council members, Van de Haas and Austin. I absolutely welcome review of any policies that can improve our park or any of our parking options that are similar. We have some of the same problems in District two that I know that Belmont Shaw has with limited parking parking. And these residents and businesses need our help with this more than ever. So I am just extremely grateful that this was brought forward, that we are having these conversations. I look forward to seeing the solutions that are found and seeing if they'll be applicable in District two or citywide. So thank you so much. Thank you. Vice Mayor Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I certainly support a number of these amendments. The parking. We tested some of the city manager or Mr. Cootes. If we test some of these and the upland process that's I know we did the first phase, which is the Uptown Business District. What which which elements of this did we test in uptown? So Councilmember, because of the grant you helped us secure and support from Councilmember Orson during the uptown process, we had a phase one which is done and a Phase two, which we're in now. So there we did look at parking and at the issue about change of use and sort of how different scenarios are treated differently and how we can kind of bring new life to vacant storefronts. So we'll be able to use some of those lessons learned. But obviously what we're talking about in Councilmember Price's district is a smaller, more targeted effort to look at some policy interventions that can help us right now with the businesses and parking roles and the economic recovery in Uptown, we did a top to bottom review, so we did a whole visioning process with the community. We looked at uses, we looked at building form and what are buildings going to look like. We looked at housing related issues, so it's a very broad. We looked at mobility on the streets and and that was fantastic. That's. A great model. That's that's not what we're talking about today with this particular council item. You know, the goal is to work with the council member in an expedient manner to look at some lower hanging fruit in terms of parking and some lessons already learned up in North Long Beach and elsewhere and other cities like Santa monica, Pasadena or West Hollywood and and apply that to the Belmokhtar situation. So so that's that's what we're looking at. And that's where we are today. Thank you. I would just offer something. So, one, you know, when we applied to the grant, this guy for the grant, we talked about testing things that will make it easier to deploy city wide because we already tested it. Right. So you can pick it up. It should make it easy to drop in any other area of town. Some of those elements, that's the first thing I would offer. And then the second thing I would say is Skaggs just engaged in a curve management study last year and it's incredible. We use our curve completely differently now than we did before because of Ride, Share and Micro-Mobility and all of those things. And I think I would ask, have we done a curve study in Long Beach Curve Management study in Long Beach? And if not, I think we should we should think about that, how the how the management, the curve can actually create more parking opportunities, particularly in business areas. So I'd like to see a curve management study, particularly in business areas of the city. So have we done that already? Mr. Coombs. Well, that would be done in concert with our public works department, and they have looked at aspects of curb usage, including very recently. So looking at how we do overlap zones, how we accommodate scooters and bikes and other micromobility mobility that we didn't have in the past. So they have addressed many of those issues, but they haven't done the big comprehensive study that I think you're you're referring to. So certainly we can as as resources are available, keep that in mind for the future. Okay. That's a that's an offer I just think is a big you know, we can certainly target, say, Belmont Shore. But there's I could tell you the curve management is going to be something we have to look at downtown, every business district. We have to think about that because the you know, everything has changed so much from the time that we established parking standards, all of those things. And we just have to think about it completely differently, I think. And it doesn't have to be a part of that part of this motion, or maybe it could be. But I think we have to really look at either pilot piloting a few areas of town to do a park and do a port management study and see what the impact is or some city wide study. But we we certainly need to do that. We could probably just pick up and learn from Wasco what did last year with with its current crop management study just wanted to offer off those. I'm hearing a lot of this across the region is really good stuff. Thanks, Councilman Austin. Thanks. And I obviously support this with the business districts in my district. We have very similar challenges with Bixby knows Bixby knows was not in the plan. I want to be clear on that. And we are watching and waiting for the results of that plan to be adopted and implemented so that we can look at it and implement it in other areas of the district. That was always the plan. And so, you know, when it comes to how city staff is focused in terms of resources, I believe that they're always looking at a city wide view and always looking to focus in all areas of the city. We were just fortunate to have a grant in North Long Beach to kind of kick things off. And so, yeah, when those results are ready to be implemented, I certainly believe that they will be implemented citywide. I'm happy to sign on to this. I know Councilmember Price has some unique challenges in third district, along particularly with our Belmont Shore. And honestly, I believe that, you know, the the 2020 may may have exacerbated some of our challenges with the parklets that are now in place. I don't know that they are going to go away. And so, you know, those are dark spots in many respects that we need to consider. And so I do like the idea of a curb management study, but also with in mind in mind that the that we were looking at more outdoor dining and possibly looking at having parklets year round in many of our business districts as well. So it's offer that I'm happy to support. Thank you, councilman and House. And then we'll go to Councilman Price and then a vote. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just have a quick question for city staff. I'm wondering if this could possibly lead to a change in the definition of r r r turnout streets north north claim was not recommended to have diagonal parking. And but if we are seeing more walkable solutions, if we're thinking about, you know, more people using bikes and more micro mobility, can can those possibilities of those streets be reevaluated? So, Councilmember I. Hesitate to give you the bureaucratic answer, but that falls within Public Works Minister Eric Lopez, and he's not at the table with us right this moment. So we'd be glad to connect you and I'll work on those important issues. But I think that would be a separate, discrete item from from what we're talking about today. And the city manager, Tom. Okay. I wanted to weigh in a little bit here because we've kind of talked about two different issues tonight. So the item in front of you is really dealing with some of the private parking requirements that users are required for their part for their businesses. So we're seeing a challenge when someone comes in and they want to take over a new space. The code says you have to provide X amount of parking if that parking doesn't wasn't already provided on your site. So that's kind of the issue there. In the past, we've really focused a lot on public spaces. So there's been studies in Belmont. Shaw Pretty intense ones about, you know, how many more spaces can we give up for public looking at meter rates, looking at all kinds of different options? And we've done that in Belmont. Sure. And spent a lot of time there. And we've been investing in some of those solutions. We also did that pretty intensely in in downtown and in Alameda Beach through the through a parking study there. So those are kind of the public side. And then we can look at the options for how you provide public parking. This is more focused on relaxing and some of those parking requirements that we're placing on private business. So those two kind of work in concert with each other. But they are they are unique and different. Thank you so much for that levitation. Councilman Mongo. Thank you. I just want to say how deeply we need this. I've met with business owners multiple times related to some of the uses that we have and some of the challenges with the uses. I mean, we had a play center that wanted to go in in the seventh District and then in the fifth District. And they were being moved around their development services to facilities that might meet their parking needs because they were classified as a gym, but they were not a gym. They were a little group of people who have 5 to 6 preschoolers come in and play with musical instruments and play with balls. But that was the only classification. And so we have to come up with something that also gives our planning department some jurisdictional value to bring forward a recommendation that's within some parameters as an exception, because I would say that that business would have been one of those exemptions that the planning department would have supported or it could have gone to the Planning Commission. But I recognize they don't want to do one offs, but there are times where the code just doesn't explain the new types of businesses and quite frankly, these codes that are only updated every ten, 15 years. And even if we updated them every three years, there's a rapidly changing. A commercial market right now, and we need to be available to respond to that. Thank you. Great item. And and then Councilwoman Price to conclude. Thank you very much. So a couple of things. I just I appreciate the city manager's comments, but I just I want to make my intent very clear. It's not to relax any parking standards for businesses. It's to think creatively about how they can provide the parking that is required so as to not put more pressure on the residents and the residential streets. So I think that we have the same intent, but I just wanted to make sure that that that soundbite isn't misconstrued because I don't think that's anyone's intent. Councilman Richardson or Vice Mayor Richardson's comment about the curb study. I love that idea. In fact, I love it so much. I brought an item about three years ago that you all supported called the Read Curb Audit for parking impacted areas. And I think that we haven't received a report back on it. It's been a couple of years, if I'm not mistaken, but that's exactly what we were thinking, because just by shortening some of the red curbs, we're able to squeeze in two or three more spots. And that's huge. I know it doesn't sound like a lot, but if we can pick up 20 or 30 spots along the business corridor at Belmont, sure, that's huge for us. Our parklets right now take up at least two spaces each, which is why the PARKLET program, one of the reasons the PARKLET program probably will not become a permanent program in Belmont. Sure, it's also a traffic safety issue, but it's also an issue with parking. And the Belmont short area is is we have some constraints that other districts may not have, council districts one and two may, but we have our coastal access constraints. We those are you know, we can't make exceptions because we're we're in that coastal zone and it providing access to the public is our most important function for. So we don't have a lot of movement there. And so for us, if we can pick up a couple of spots through a curb audit where we don't need something , that's a huge deal for us, we can get two spots back that were previously a temporary parklet. That's huge for us. So, so I look forward to that. I mean, maybe I can ask the city manager, do you know what the status is on the red carpet audit item that we brought for parking impacted areas? Yes. So we reported back on that in December 2019. We did some quick estimates of what it would take to do that. That's a pretty intense study. At the time, it was estimated about six months and about 170,000. So we provide that back to the council. That's one that was not funded. And so when there's funding to move forward or if the council wants to reconsider that or reprioritize something else, then we could get started on that effort. Yeah, I appreciate that. You're right. We did we did get a report back that said thank you, but we don't have the money to do that right now. So so it really hasn't gone anywhere. So that might be something if the council's interested, but we can look at as a city because I think that would be really valuable. And I agree with Vice Mayor Richardson and Councilman Austin that this curb management issues is huge. And if we can pick up a lot of parking and parking impacted areas, and that could be the pilot, the parking impacted districts could be the pilot. So that could work. And then I'm open to any updating of parking regulations in any other district. I didn't want anyone to think that it was limited to Belmont. Sure. It's just we have a very specific need right now, and I'm trying to stay in my lane and not dictate what everyone else should be doing in their districts, which is why this item was narrowly tailored to address a need that we have in our district. But any other district that wants an update like this for your own district, I'm going to obviously very much support. I just left it off of my item because I don't want to get involved in everyone else's business through my own issues in my district that I'm trying to resolve. So thank you very much for your support. And this is time, if I can add real quick, we do do these red curb evaluations all the time, so the item asks us to really look holistically and go and bring someone on to look at every red curb. Our traffic team definitely works with council offices. If you say in this street, can you come out and take a look? We go through, we do those parking counts. We picked up a number of street or a number of parking spots in District two that way in the last couple of years. And so we've done some of that work, but we do it more on a case by case basis. That's easier for us to manage with internal staff. But you know, we certainly could do it citywide, but that does require us to bring on some more. So I just want make sure, you know, that is an option on some areas if you do have requests for those. Roll call vote, please. Mr. Mayor. I also killed after Councilman Price. Yeah, that was after I had seen that. So you're right. Go ahead, Councilman. Mongo. Thank you. I'm sorry. Something that Mr. Modica stated brought a question to my eye. So Councilman Pryce brought forward an item asking for a citywide red curb audit in 2019. City manager brought back a report that said it would be very expensive to do citywide. Mr. MODICA Did you provide a price that it would be just to do parking impacted areas of the city? The request at the time was to look at citywide. And so that's the estimate that we provided was 170. The when is it that you determine that items brought forward during the year that say we would need this amount of money to do it, get folded into your budget proposal. So sometimes that happens. Yeah. So we consider those as part of the budget when one kind of innovation that we've done in the recent past is to create a section called unfunded needs so that we are reporting back during the budget process whether those items made it in or made it or did not. And so we do our best to go through all the two from fours and the ones that we have a funding source or a grant or others or or we feel just we that is at the top of the priority list. We can fund those in the budget and then we like to identify those for you to say so that you know when you're going through your budget, whether or not it was funded, I'd have to check on this one specifically, but we do try to include that as a list of items. So if this item was passed with unanimous vote of the council and several other items were passed by the unanimous vote of the council, and I was the budget chair at that time and. It wasn't mentioned, and I guess I just don't know. Like there were lots of things included in the in the city manager's proposed budget. I guess I would like to understand. What? Just to better understand, when is it that the city manager determines that one thing is the higher priority? They're all I mean, most of us support each others items with the unanimous vote, even if we may not agree in in principle for the funding component, we may agree in principle, but might not agree that it should be funded. But sometimes you still fold those into your city manager recommendations. And then on the flip side, we might agree or disagree in principle, but since it's not been funded at this time, maybe you will be supportive at this time and see what it does cost and what comes of it. What is it that we could do to kind of. Flesh out what that looks like or that process is there. I mean, I'm not budgetary anymore, so maybe it's a better question for Mr. Austin if he wants to maybe collaborate on an earlier phase of the budget. But some of these items do get put into your budget recommendation and many do not. What do you determine to be the differentiator of the highest priority of the city? I think it's just. That residents would say parking. I think it's just the amount of money that we have. Normally, when we get a amount to do one time dollars, we get to do a fraction of our overall needs. So we start first with the requirements like legal requirements, mandated requirements. You know, I'll give an example. You know, we need water in our parks and we never have enough water for our parks. And so we try to take a small amount of that because we know that that's a priority. If we were to fund all of that, we wouldn't have enough money for anything else. So I do wish we had when we get those big one time dollars, we go back and look at those priorities. But the process is there. We provide the reports throughout the year. We now include it in the budget, which we didn't before, to make sure that people know. We can also highlight that with the Budget Oversight Committee moving forward and certainly if you have a different priority, then, you know when kind of what staff brings forward as were most urgent needs, that's what the budget process is for. Well, I appreciate that. I just know that. And I could I could be wrong. But I thought I had heard Councilwoman Allen once comment that one of the major things that she hears from residents is their concerns about parking. And if it's a number one priority in her district, then maybe we should look at and it's a high priority for residents and the third district, maybe we should look at and potentially what just the parking impacted areas. Having a red card, albeit a red curb audit would cost because if it's a really high priority to a lot of residents and it enables people from different parts of the city to drive to work, they know that there was a lot of communication about I'm a patron and I Uber or I'm a patron, but but really we also need people from different parts of the city who need jobs to be able to get to the job centers, wherever those are. So I'd have to I wouldn't be able to take that pulse and see if it's still a concern of residents in certain areas. But. I have consistently heard from people in the store downtown all over the place that parking is a top priority for them. So I would be interested in parking impacted areas, having that red curb steady number and be supportive of those districts while I don't have them in my side of town unless you're around Long Beach City College when they're in session. I would say that that's probably a high priority for those residents and I would want to be supportive. Thank you. Councilman Price. I won't take long. I just. I did want to correct Mr. Mota. I know it's been. It was December, October of 2019 when I brought the item. And it did specifically ask for parking impacted areas. It was not for a citywide audit. It was specific to parking impacted areas. And then within two months, we got basically the report back, which I just looked at that said, you know, this is going to cost, it's not feasible, it's going to cost us a lot of money. So I get it. I understand we have restraints in terms of what we can and can't spend and what the priorities are. But I agree with Councilwoman Mongo that we we really I do ask city staff to think about the individual priorities of each district, you know, instead of global priorities that may be, you know, more advocated for or more championed. I think it's important to look at the different districts because here we are two years later talking about an item that is a major issue and the cost associated with it is high, but it's certainly not that high. And I understand it's not a priority for the city management team, but some of the issues that might be a priority for the city management team may come at a higher cost. They may not be serving the needs of every district. So if we could find ways to try to address the priorities, especially when they're not a huge number in all the districts in some way, I think that would be ideal because sometimes the major priority issues that cost a lot of money are really great priority issues for the city, but may not address a need that's much lower cost than in one of the districts. And so I'm trying to say a little bit of money could go a long way in some districts so I appreciate it. Thinks thank you, Councilman Austin. I guess I'd like to just maybe reference a friendly or offer friendly to include in the staff work to identify or look to identify any sort of planning grants that may be available to assist with the this sort of separate in these parking impacted areas of our city. I think I mean, obviously, the up plan was was referenced and that was staff resources were where were were have they actually been paid for by bye bye through a grant? And so I would just ask that we we look at doing the same in terms of identifying resources to help address these problems. So that that would be a friendly just just a recommendation. There's a I'm assuming, Councilman Price, that you agree with that friendly. Absolutely. Great. So let's go ahead and then do a roll call vote, please. District one, district two. I District three. I. I. Strict for. All right. District five, District I, District six I, District seven. I. District eight. My. District nine. Yes. Motion carries. Thank you. We need to move on to the study session I mentioned. We're going to do it before seven. There is still one item that requested to be moved up. So. Item ten Indigo it is Captain Mango. Are you. Are you on? Guzman Mango. Yes, I am on, sir.