Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by adding Chapter 10.51, regulating the operation of electrically motorized boards in business districts in the City of Long Beach, read and adopted as read.  (Citywide)
Thank you. Next item, please. Item 13. Communication from City Attorney Recommendation to Declare Ordinance Amending the Long Beach Municipal Code Relating to relating. Regulating the operation of electrically motorized boards in business districts. Read the first time and lead over for the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading Citywide. Councilmember Price. Thank you. I want to ask my colleagues to support this item. This is an issue of pedestrian safety in only the designated corridors that have been identified. And actually, I think we may add on to those tonight through the course of our discussions. But this is a really important safety issue for those business corridors that want to be pedestrian friendly and offer alternate areas for people on bike, skateboards and hoverboards to move in. It's just not safe to have them on the same sidewalks as the pedestrians. So I urge your support on this item. Thank you. Councilwoman Gonzales. Yes. I want to thank Councilwoman Price for bringing this forward and for the language from our city attorney. I do have a couple questions. There are a few areas listed. It does say business improvement districts, but it does not include, when you look at the details, Pine Avenue. Can we include that into this first? Reading the mayor or members of Council Councilmember Gonzales The answer is no. Unless we take it back and do a new first reading next week. What we could do is adopt it tonight and then do an amendment to this ordinance and add any streets or areas. And we could bring that back in a couple of weeks to add the Pine Avenue. If you have specific locations on Pine Avenue you'd like to add. But adding it tonight would I would bring it back as a new first reading next week. So it's the council's discretion on how would you like to handle that. Well, what would be I mean, what would be the I mean, we would just delay we're delaying it anyway. Well, no. If you move forward this evening with first reading as written, it would come back as second reading next week. And then within a week or two after that, we could bring back an amendment to this ordinance, adding the exact location or any of the other locations that council may want to add to this. So you could move forward this evening as is, and we will bring it back and we can talk to your staff and get the location and bring back an amendment to this ordinance right away. Okay. Can you do that, if that's okay with our motion of. I'm sorry? Yes, absolutely. Okay. Great. Thank you. And then I have another just quick question. I appreciate that. Thank you very much. City attorney and Councilman Pryce. I just know a lot of our Point Avenue residents are in downtown. Residents have been very concerned with skateboards. And, of course, this would add to that as well. And so we want to make sure that that's covered. So I appreciate that and look forward to that. My second question, though, is there have been some other like verbiage of of hoverboards, but I've even seen two wheels, self-balancing. Would that have any? I think there was something else. It was called an electronic scooter. So I don't know if that language specifically would need to be in that amendment later on just to ensure that people all know that we're covering the same thing. Yes, we've looked at the state legislation and there is a specific exemption for the Segway type vehicles. And that was asked that we include that exemption for Segways for the downtown specifically, but in other areas and also for those type of emblems that would or are used by mobility impaired folks that need assistance. Those would be allowed under this ordinance. But we believe that the definition meets the hoverboard description and we would. Yes. Based on the state. Perfect. Great. Thank you to answer my questions. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Richardson. I'll be supporting this. I just have a question. As I just scan this ordinance, I see a number of areas called out. What are these areas? Many members of the council. These areas are identical to the existing ordinance where it is posted for these skateboards. And so these are the areas that are currently existing in our code that and as we just discussed with the councilperson for the First District. These obviously could be expanded to include other areas if the city council would desire to amend this at a future date. Well well, I just noticed that some of the new bids aren't represented, but I'm actually okay. Our business district hasn't asked for this. I'm okay with it as as it is. So it did. So to be clear, because our business district has Jordan High School right at the heart of it. And I wouldn't want to give any kids any tickets if a kid is riding down with a hoverboard down Atlantic in the Uptown Business District because it's not called out. That kid is not subject to this, am I correct? That is correct. They're not prohibited in that area. Thanks. Israeli public comment on this item. Please come forward. Don. Don are speaking again. I just want to reinforce what Councilmember Gonzales said. Pine Avenue is a very key business district. And so everything from eighth Street on down to Ocean Boulevard, actually Shoreline Drive, even the entire length of Pine Avenue should be included in there. I can understand why all the other business districts, but not Pine Avenue. So please, please do include that. Thank you. Who are these guys? Now you have to identify yourself for the record. Hello. My name is Kiana. I live in the third district. Second Street is a great place to walk around and shop and eat. But when people ride skateboards, invite bikes, it makes it unsafe for walkers, same as for the hoverboards. Please support this item and vote for it. I want to thank the smart and Pretty. Councilwoman Third District. For bringing this item. Thank you. Did your mom write that? Yeah. Do you want to say anything? Say something? No, she didn't write it. Oh, you guys are. You guys are so cute. And the other public comment. This is what happens when working moms don't have childcare. And excuse me, I know she didn't want it because they didn't talk long enough. And they didn't. And and that'll be all. There are no further questions. Larry, could you clear Cassie address. I'm not a skater, dude or into that world, but I've seen on the news, as most people have, some of these hoverboards exploding, catching the fire. I don't know if. What we're exploring here. What if you're covering those? I would certainly want to include in there any prohibitions. Bringing them into any public building. And or on public transit if they're subject to being exploding or catching fire, so forth. I think it's you've got to put the foot on the neck of that instantly and so forth. So if these if that type of device has would have a potential for exploding or catching fire, then it should be banned from the appropriate city office and all city facilities, I should think, and certainly on any Long Beach transit busses. Thank you. Public comment. CNN, please cast your votes. And then, Madam Clerk, please read the next item, please. Motion carries in. That concludes our regular today.