Recommendation to declare ordinance approving an application for a Development Agreement pursuant to Chapter 21.29 of the Long Beach Municipal Code; directing the City Attorney to prepare a Development Agreement embodying the application and key terms of the Development Agreement as approved by the City Council; and authorizing and directing the City Manager to execute, on behalf of the City of Long Beach, a Development Agreement with The Long Beach Project Owner, LLC and DEM Investment Company, LLC, for the Riverwalk Residential Development Project and Oregon Park construction, read and adopted as read. (District 8)
Report from Development Services Recommendation to declare ordinance approving an application and requesting the city attorney to prepare and the city manager to execute a development agreement for the River Walk Residential Development Project and Oregon Park Construction read and it as read District eight. City Public comment on this item who's come forward. And Cantrell and last week when the Oregon Park was discussed. It has been stated that the soccer field was to be artificial turf, but when the developer spoke in his rebuttal, he said he could go either way on this. And so I'm hoping that. As this park is developed. You will consider putting in a a natural grass field. If you put in an artificial field. It will have to be fenced to keep off. Drinks, food, bikes. Cars. All the things that destroy an artificial field. So that means that this will not be open for the children of the neighborhood to play on. There will have to be a locked gate to keep out. Any. This is what has happened in Hawaii and Gardens. If you go over to the field, they're behind the. Casino. You will find that they have a paid worker there to keep out anybody that's not on a team and all the team members are searched before they go on to the artificial sports field to make sure they have only water. The artificial turf is more fragile than a natural grass field. And there are other considerations, such as heat and injury risk, that makes natural grass much more. Usable for a large population of children, not just soccer players. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. My comments are going to be pretty much the same as my previous comment, so I'll keep it brief. The soccer field is another does the same thing. This is going to be a recurring theme with me. Again, I'm wondering why the city is specifying artificial turf. I'm having a lot of trouble with this one is that we have, again, a document that is contradicting itself. There's. At least within the city. We have two people. We have we have a councilperson that stating that is incorrect and we're using the same document, it seems to drive the the need for artificial turf. And the specifications is obviously going through the city and it is being requested from our planning department, whoever is he's getting his information from. If I'm incorrect on that, please let me know. I've also looked at the, uh, the documents that Mr. Parkin has said that drives the. The city has said that they are. The council has said that the the meeting minutes of September 3rd, 2013, was. The Council has decided that. They were that that it was artificial turf was done. I've looked at the video. I've also given it to federal prosecutors who live in California and a judge, a federal judge. And they've looked over the documents. And I'll be I'm just going to quote from what they said is that you have to be crazy to to even think that this is has any kind of intention whatsoever to. To go artificial. And I'm just telling you, this is what they're telling me. I've got 30 years of contract experience and I don't see any place at all where where they said that there was artificial was being driven from there. So I'm just trying to understand. Can you tell me where how I mean, any reason, even the slightest reason, even a phrase that says, look, we're trying to improve artificial surfaces for all of the cities on here. I don't see a single document, a single writing. I don't see a single even thing on the video that shows that. Are we see is a budget that's been approved for the different fields on this particular one. I don't know what's driving it, but I just got to understand, we have a mayor here, great, intelligent, good looking mayor. And he's saying that he wants to to, you know, going green is the way to go. It helps the environment. And now we're we're paving over it with artificial turf. That's what I'm saying. I'm just trying to be as polite as I can and as nice as I can. And I'm just kind of trying to understand the process of what we're going through. That's all. That's all I'm trying to do. Thank you. We have a motion on the floor in a second. Members, please go and cast your votes. Thanks, man. Motion carries. Thank you. Item 31 Report from Development Services Recommendation to Declare Ordnance. Finding that a transportation improvement fee credit is due and authorizing the city manager to execute an agreement providing for the Transportation Improvement Fee Credit Read and adapted as read.