Recommendation to receive supporting documentation, including the petitions, into the record, conclude the public hearing, and request City Attorney to prepare an amendment to the Long Beach Municipal Code, to expand Preferential Parking District “U” as recommended by the City Traffic Engineer.  (District 4)
Hearing item number one, turn this over to our clerk. I don't I don't believe an oath is required on this first hearing. Report from Public Works recommendation to receive supporting documentation, including the petitions into the record. Conclude the public hearing and request the City Attorney to prepare an amendment to the Long Beach Municipal Code to expand preferential parking district. You as recommended by the City Traffic Engineer District for. Mr. West, Mr. Modica. He's. Mr. Mayor, the staff report we were given by Eric Wickstrom, our traffic engineer. Good evening. Honorable mayor, vice mayor, council members here tonight before you requesting your approval of the expansion of preferential parking district you in Council District four. The residents of San Vicente Avenue between Merida Street and Los Santos Drive have requested expansion of the preferential parking district to their block to provide parking relief from overflow parking created by Cal State Long Beach students. The residents have requested this parking district. To take place for one hour parking restrictions from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday. The survey, conducted by the Public Works staff, indicated that 83% of the existing on street parking was occupied at the time, and of that 83%, 96% was occupied by vehicles, not registered to vehicle, not registered to vehicles residing within 400 feet of the street. We here before you. After that survey was conducted, a petition was circulated with an 83% approval rating of residents requesting that the preferential parking district be expanded. In addition to that segment of San Jacinto Avenue. We're also requesting that the segments of Garfield Street and Fair Brook Street between Sava Center and Los Santos Drive and Fanwood Avenue between Merida Street and Los Santos Drive, be added to this preferential parking district expansion. Those two streets would not be signed for preferential parking at this time, but they would allow us to expand preferential parking , should overflow parking move to those further streets. That concludes my report, and I'm available to answer any questions if needed. Thank you. I'm going to get any public comments on the hearing. Any public comments on this hearing? Okay. Then I'm going to go ahead and close this hearing with counsel comments. I have a motion and a second councilmember supernova. Thank you and thank you to our city traffic engineer. You covered everything there and there are a lot of stats. But if you missed the one, the one most pertinent, this is a street that's heavily impacted by Cal State, Long Beach student parking. And that number was 96% of the cars on the block did not belong to the residents. So I think that that says it all. So we look forward to getting this done and especially getting it done this summer. So the signs are up in time for the when the fall classes start. And also I should mention that the city traffic engineer did say this, but the other streets that are added to this preferential parking district don't necessarily have to have this restrictions in place. This just allows them to to run a petition if they decide to do so in the future. So I hope my colleagues will support this motion. Thank you. Councilwoman Gonzalez. Okay. With that, please. Councilmembers, go ahead and cast your vote on this hearing, item number one. Councilmember. Motion carries. And moving on to hearing item number two. I don't believe an oath is required for this hearing as well. Madam Clerk.