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 5 of said Map from Park (P) to Belmont Pier Planned Development District (PD-2), read and adopted as read.  (District 3)
Motion carries. I'm 30, please. Report from Development Services recommendation or declare ordinance amending portions of part five of the use district map from Park to Belmont Pier Plan Development District Red and Adopted Red District three. There's a motion and a second is I don't see any Christians in here. Okay. Please come forward. Speaking of this. I gave you guys two papers from two different groups. I'm not going to read those, but I just want to enter into the record of what I am going to do is read this way and I just have to get it in order. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be out of order. Okay, here we go. Partly because it's we're honoring Black History Month tonight here at the council. I decided to include this piece of history. But first to the BBC. Long Beach has adopted a healthy communities policy to reverse the inequitable distribution of public recreational facilities. And yet we now intend to build the Belmont Beach, an aquatic center, a poster child for racism so ingrained in the local public consciousness that it can be hidden in plain sight. A century ago, a small band of Long Beach residents stood up against racism at the pike. In late June of 1919, Alija Blain, who lived at 506 Locust Avenue, stood before the all white city council bearing a petition signed by 20 of the city's 120 42 black residents asking that a popular game on the pike midway be shut down. Lane argued that drown the N-word created race prejudice. City attorney George Hood Hooter Pyle explained that they knew of no legal method of prohibiting the game unless it could be shown that the sport created rheumatism, in which case the Humane Society might have it discontinued. The petition was referred to a committee. The game continued to be played up into the 1950s. Elijah Blaine, who I really think deserves a spot on the walk, was just a working class guy who risked everything he had and everything he was. At a time when blacks could only live in select parts of town, when the local KKK had more than 10,000 members locally, and when Beaches and our beloved Pike Plunge were for whites only. The rules may have changed, but are we still playing? A version of this scheme. The target is no longer a black man seated on a diving board, assaulted by numerous whites whose success in hurling the victim into a pool of water was cheered on by a crowd of their peers. Now it's drowning, not dunking whole communities, not single individuals that is perpetuated by those who look away from the victims and cheer on a status quo in which minorities and poor whites continue to be denied and denied an equal opportunity to learn to swim and to participate in aquatic recreation and sports. So we are 75% minority community. We have 225 meter pools built in 100 years. We have one Olympic pool. We are now going to have two Olympic pools. Look at the demographics, look at the economics and look at the demographics and ask yourself, you know what? What do you. Think? Thank you very much. There is a motion and a second. Please cast your votes.