Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Use District Map of the City of Long Beach as said Map has been established and amended by amending portions of Part 22 of said Map from CCA (Community Commercial Automobile-oriented) to R-4-N (Medium-Density, Multiple Residential) and CCA (Community Commercial Automobile-Oriented) to R-3-T (Multi-family Residential, Townhouse), read and adopted as read.  (District 8)
Thank you. With that, we're going to go and move to the hearing aid. Can you please call with the U.N.. Report from Development Services recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Include the public hearing, declare ordinance approving a zone change. Read the first time lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading and approve a site plan review to allow the construction of 18 for sale. Three story townhomes located at 4800 Long Beach Boulevard, District eight. Thank you. I was trying to develop the service staff. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Members of the city council. Mr. Koonce is here to give you a brief presentation. Good evening. Members of the Council. Agenda item number eight as well as agenda item number nine are two important projects in Council Member Austin's district. I'm particularly excited and we should all be excited about these projects because they represent what's called missing middle housing, which is housing that is accessible to working folks in our community, that is built at a higher density than a single family home, but is of an elegant size and density that blends well into our existing communities, such as the corridor of Long Beach Boulevard. In this case, this is a former redevelopment property that's been vacant since 2013. It's been discussed for development since as early as 2007. So the community has been incredibly patient in this project moving forward. It's located in the Adams neighborhood of the Greater North Long Beach area near the Union Pacific Railroad, right of way between 49th and the railroad. The two adjacent properties are also zoned K and have single family homes. The area surrounding the property is a mix of multi-family as well as single family residences. What's proposed here are 18 townhouses. There will be three bedroom, three bath units located in buildings over the 48,000 square foot site. The buildings are oriented towards Long Beach Boulevard with a generous amount of landscaping, as well as some townhomes facing the corridor. And there's a third building with two additional units behind the primary building. That project in front of council involves a number of planning actions. Zone change from K to are four an as well as a zone change on adjacent lots from K to our three T, which will provide a consistent pattern of development. It also includes a passing tentative track map. This will subdivide the parcel and allow for a subdivision airspace. These are ownership units, which is an important benefit of this project. The Planning Commission previously approved this project and the staff site plan review approval occurred back on December 11th of 2019. When the Planning Commission heard this item on June 18th, there was nothing but positive comments from the public and from the commission themselves. So with that, that concludes the staff report and I'm glad to answer any questions on this item. Thank you very much. Consider us and this is your end. Would you like to speak on it? Yes. Thank you very much. And I just want to say thank you to our city staff, particularly our Development Services Department, for their presentation and their diligent work on this project, as well as our economic development department, who is overseeing the sale of these properties. I also like to thank City Ventures for their work and their partnership. And while we have two separate hearings this evening, one for the 4800 block of Long Beach Boulevard and the other for the 5100 block of Long Beach Boulevard. Many of my comments will pertain to both proposed developments. These projects have been in the works for a very long time, has been mentioned. These two locations were acquired by the city's redevelopment agency and most of the previous uses were cleared more than a decade ago with the intent to build more housing along the corridor. When the state eliminated redevelopment in 2011, the city could not move forward with any name for a few years until going through a process and getting a long range property management plan approved by the state of California for former redevelopment properties. Finally, four years ago in 2016, we approved the purchase and sale agreement with City Ventures to develop housing on these two sites. Since that time, City Ventures has developed plans, made numerous time with the community and nearby neighborhood associations, and engaged in many discussions with development services and economic development teams about parking and open space requirements and how they will have the housing cancel out. They were also preparation for seaboard environmental documents before I went to the Planning Commission where it was unanimously recommended. I believe at the end of the day we will have a great project that will bring new for sale housing that is desperately needed while transforming Lombard Boulevard. The corridor in Virginia Village. These developments will build 56 new net zero energy homes. That means the development is fully electric, reduced rooftop solar panels with the and will provide energy used on site. This is the type of sustainable, responsible housing development we should be encouraging throughout our city. We also have significant need for new housing, including homeownership opportunities. These townhomes will allow family families to become first time homebuyers. The staff report mentions there is an expressed need to satisfy a local shortage for units for larger families, which is three bedroom townhomes will address. We witnessed this demand for such housing when 131 new homes were just built all down the street from this project at the Riverdale, and they were sold in a record time just last year. Again, I want to thank everybody who is involved in making this happen, and particularly the city ventures for spending time and engaging the community , including when we shared a virtual town hall just two weeks ago. I received positive feedback. Many residents were asking to be put on the list when they go on the market, which leads me to one question for the applicant. If this project is approved. This Boston, you have one main issue. This is a presentation. Okay. But I do have a question. How soon do we expect to have be able to break ground on this project when this after this vote this evening? And is somebody available to answer that question? Either way, since my time is moving, I like to move to close the public hearing. Adopt a mitigated negative negative declaration, declare the ordinance approving a zone change. Read the first time laid over the next regular meeting and approve a site plan review. Tentative track map to allow for construction of 18 three storey townhomes and 4800 block of London School of Art. Thank you. Gasping on that is my motion. Yes. Yes. Do we have a second? You it. You second this motion. USA. USA seconded the motion. Do you want to speak on issue? As a council member. Austin said it all very, very well. Thank you. Okay, Brian, is there any other excuse me, Councilwoman Richardson would like speak also? I'm sorry. I was just giving up the second set of complaint that councilwoman up. Right. And I was just queuing up 2 seconds. Okay. Thank you. I think everyone, we have any public comment on this that. We do have public comment online, but we have. Can you tell the applicant? Do you have anything to add? Our senior vice president can hear me. Okay. Yes. This is temporary to tell senior vice president of development for City Ventures. I just wanted to say we are so excited to get going on these projects. We have been working on them for several years. And, you know, following the success of our Hudson project, we think these are going to be absolutely fantastic. And we have construction drawings, to answer your question, ready to go into plan Czech in September. And so we will be processing our plans through the city and hoping to get going on the projects as early as early next year. Great. Thank you. Thank you very much. We have a first and second grade. Could you please cover for the vote? District one. I district to. I District three. I. District Court. I. District five i. District six. And. Seven. I. District eight. District nine. All right. Chris. Thank you very much. Now we're going to move on to item of the hearing excuse me here at 9:00. Could you please cover the hearing? But I'll start with you and administer this hearing.