Recommendation to request Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine to develop a 9th District Open Space Master Plan focused on creating more park and green space throughout the district in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services and the North Long Beach HEAL Zone Initiative.
Item 14 Communication from Councilmember Richardson recommendation to require I'm sorry. Recommendation to request Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine to develop a ninth District Open Space Master Plan, focusing on creating more park and green space. Throughout the district in the partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services and the North Long Beach Hills Zone Initiative. There's a motion in a second if there's any public comment on the item. I'm going to have counsel for Richardson. Did you have any comments? Sure. Just briefly, this is another yet another Hill's own initiative as we approach the end of the third year of The Hill's own grant. There are a number of projects that the Coalition for Healthy North Long Beaches wanted to work on, but we haven't necessarily had the entire set of funding. What we're doing today is we are going I'm going to partner with them with our parks and recreation infrastructure dollars to be smarter about how we think about open space in the ninth District. I think this is particularly timely given we just looked at medical marijuana maps, how today, you know, when we consider an issue like this , it, you know, has major impacts in certain areas, you know, like the ninth district. But hopefully through, you know, establish an open space master plan, we can be better positioned to expand greenspace opportunities so that in the future we have these discussions, you know, there will be more value placed on on certain neighborhoods because they will have an amenity such as such as a park. So that said, in the ninth district, we have far less open space than other districts. The ninth district has 1.2 Park Acres per 1000 residents and this is the lowest in the city, compared a share with only the sixth district, which also has 1.2. In comparison, the highest amount of acreage per 1000 residents is 21.7 Park Acres, which is in the third district and 18.1 Park Acre acres per 1000 residents in the fifth District. So it's a major disparity when you compare 1.1. 2 to 21.7. So that's that's the purpose of what we're doing today. We really want to expand open space opportunities in the district for the long term. That said, I encourage the Council to support my motion. Okay. There's a motion and a second. Councilman Oranga. You had we making this motion? You didn't have to provide all the statistics because the ninth district deserves the space and a very happily gladly support this. And you stole some of the thunder that I was going to say in regard to the discussion that we had earlier regarding medical marijuana and the ability to open more, more , more, more dispensaries and and processing plants. And it was heavily on you and in the first. So having this kind of study would would provide you with a better view as to where your district stands on that. And I think it was very helpful for you, so I'm glad to support it. Thanks. Thank you. Please vote. Motion carries six zero. Next item, please.