Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and adopt resolution amending the Local Coastal Program per the California Coastal Commission, to be consistent with the adopted Mobility Element of the General Plan.  (Districts 2,3)
Report from Development. Services. Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Conclude the public hearing and adopt a resolution amending the local coastal program. Per the California Coastal Commission to be consistent with the adopted mobility element of the general plan districts two and three. Thank you. Assistant City Manager Tom Modica. Thank you, Vice Mayor, members of the City Council. The staff report will be given by Amy Bodak, our Director of Development Services. Vice Mayor, Members of the City Council. You may think this is a familiar, familiar item to you, and that is correct. You, as the City Council adopted the mobility element back in October of 2013. It is a city wide policy level document that talks about all sorts of mobility and transportation efforts throughout the city. It is required to go to the Coastal Commission for Certification and Acceptance. When it was submitted to the Coastal Commission, the Coastal Commission had a hearing on this in February of 2015 and suggested some minor modifications to remove some outdated language that really talked about access to our shoreline. We've provided to you the information in the strikeouts and new language that are that are being proposed as part of the LCP. This language was frankly negotiated with Coastal Staff and Coastal Commission in order to meet the needs of the city of Long Beach and then also meet the intent of the Coastal Act. With your approval, we would be returning to the Coastal Commission for their final certification of the mobility element. We have been implementing the mobility element everywhere in the city except the coastal zone. With their acceptance of it, we will be able to implement the mobility element in the coastal zone as well. Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. Thank you. I would like to see if there are any public comments on this item prior to closing the hearing. Mr. City Attorney, is this this is a formal hearing, so I can take public comment at this time? That's correct. Okay. So any member of the public that wishes to address counsel on hearing item number one. Okay. Seeing none, I'd like to go ahead and close the public would close the hearing and take it behind the rails so that council members can deliberate on the item. There is a motion and a second council member Price Councilwoman Press. You have no comment. Okay. And as the second year Councilmember Your Honor. I thank you, Vice Mayor, as a member of the Coastal Commission. I'm very glad to see that the city of Long Beach is keeping track of their LCP, the local Kosovo program. And I'm sure that it will be coming to us, and I'll be reviewing it a second time as a member of the Coastal Commission. So I'm glad to see this forward. And I'm glad to see that the staff is on top of this and updating its plan as we go forward. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. Your Honor. I would like to make some comments. I'm pleased to see that this item is coming to council and I think back to 2006 and certainly inspired to think back to 2006, especially hearing the staff update on it when I had just arrived on the council. I remember the condition of our beaches. I think a lot of you do as well. Our water quality Heal the bay was giving us DS and FS at the time and thousands of tons of trash were washing up on our beach every winter. We had a beach bike path and some river paths, but not much of a bicycle network in the city at that time. And little, if any, access to the Queen Mary downtown or our business districts or parking management in the downtown park area was dysfunctional, which resulted in a horrible experience for visitors. And I think we all remember this. And now I sit here with new council members around me at the dais some nine years later, and after years of investing in stormwater infrastructure, we're receiving A's and B's up and down our shoreline. And it's something that we should all be very proud of. We have a bike infrastructure that's the envy of many a city in our state and our nation. We could do better, but we really are enviable in the position that we're in. And the best part is it's still growing with approximately 30 miles of bike paths expected throughout the city this year and next. So who would have thought? Who would have thought that we'd be hosting a sick Livia style event called Beach Streets on Saturday, eight years after take. After I asked the original creator of the event, Mayor Enrique Pena Llosa from Bogota, Colombia, to share his ideas for becoming a bike friendly city with our traffic engineers, architects and community leaders. And eight years ago, our city could not have imagined doing a similar Villa type event. Not that it should have taken eight years, but we are a densely populated urban city with a very tight network and very difficult to close our streets. And the fact that we're able to do that from an insight from an inspiring mayor, from another country, to be able to do that and to be able to do that well and see us through this Saturday is something that I think all of us should be very proud of. And so sometimes things take a very long time. We get inspired by people that we see doing great things in other places. We come back to our own great cities and we say, we can do that too. And I want to thank this city and our city staff for allowing us to all dream together based on an inspired event that we all saw in another country. From our new beach pedestrian path, which opened on Saturday to thousands of runners and walkers to the Mark Bixby bike and pedestrian path that is going to be built as part of the new Gerald Desmond Bridge. This city has truly made the commitment to improving our mobility network. I just want us to take a moment and feel proud of our accomplishments, inspired by all the possibilities that await us and thankful for the many individuals that made these changes possible. With that, there's a motion and a second. Mr. City Attorney, do I need to take public comment for the motion in second? Thank you. Members, please cast your vote. On price. Motion passes nine zero. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Can we go ahead and take item 16 at this time? Which we were going to take in the first place, but we weren't ready to.