Recommendation to declare ordinance amending and restating Title 18 in its entirety, and adoption and local amendments to the 2016 Edition of the California Building Standards Codes and the 1997 Edition of the Uniform Housing Code known as the Long Beach Building Standards Code, read and adopted as read.  (Citywide)
Thank you. Okay. With that, we are going to begin by going to hearing to we can read that. Report from Development Services and fire recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing and declare ordinance. Adopting and amending the 2016 addition of the California Building Standards Code and the 1997 edition of the Uniform Housing Code by amending and restating Title 18 of the Long Beach Municipal Code in its entirety. Read the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading and declare ordinance. Amending and restating Title 12 related to Long Beach Oil Code in its entirety. Read for the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading and declare ordinance amending certain sections of titles three, eight, ten and 21 of the Long Beach Municipal Code read for the first time and laid over for the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading and adopt resolution making, making expressed findings and determinations relating to the adoption of more restrictive code provisions where appropriate, and adopt resolution authorizing the Director of Development Services to submit a Zoning Code Amendment and Local Coastal Program Amendment to the California Coastal Commission for approval and accept categorical exemption C 16, two, one, one and C 16 to 2 for city wide. Great. Thank you. With that, I might turn this over to the staff. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The staff report for this item will be given by Oscar Orsi, our deputy director of development services and his team. Thank you, Mayor and council members. Our building official, Mr. David Karem, is here to give you a brief presentation. Good evening, honorable mayor and. Members of the city council. I'm David Coram, the city building official, and I'm honored to present to you the 2017 proposed amendments to the Long Beach Municipal Code. The Code Amendments package presented to you comprises of the Building and Safety Code updates, including Title 18. All code updates included in Title 12 and Zoning Code updates, including Title 21 and some administrative updates to Title three, eight and ten of municipal codes. Every two years, the State of California adapts the latest. Edition. Of the California Building Standards Code and Uniform Housing Code to establish a uniform standards for construction and maintenance of residential and nonresidential buildings, plumbing, mechanical, electrical. Fire and life safety systems. Green building and energy codes. This desert state published a new building codes July 1st, and that gives the city of Long Beach and local jurisdiction under 80 days to amend the state regulations based on the local climatic, geological and topographical conditions. According to Sea of Long Beach staff from the Building and Safety Fire Code Enforcement Planning, an Office of Sustainability. Has compiled. The necessary amendments and code cleanups. Under one package that is being presented to you for this first hearing tonight. These amendments have been through several public. Hearings, and more specifically, the zoning code. Amendments have also been presented to the Planning Commission prior to the Council meeting. Upon the final reading. And at the next City Council. These amendments will become effective January 1st of 2017. In summary, majority of the proposed amendments are state mandates regulations such as building fire and model water efficiency. Landscape ordinance. Some are based on direction received from this body, the city council, such as expedited and streamlined permitting process for electric vehicle charging stations. And some are based on recommendations received from the staff to make the Long Beach Municipal Code more consistent. And they are in a cleanup in nature. With this introduction, our team is prepared. To answer any questions that you may have. And with me, I had a general building. Superintendent of building and safety. Thank you. With that, I'm going to go ahead and ask, is there any public comment on this hearing? Casey, no public comment on this hearing. I'm going to close the hearing and go back to the council. Mayor, I'd just like to point out there's five separate actions required on this. Okay. So we'll take a vote on on on all five separately, correct? Okay. Great. So. But we only need. But we can do. But the public comment and the motion could be for. All right. Okay. So, Vice Mayor Richardson, any comments? No. Okay. Councilwoman Price. I have no comment. And Councilmember Pearce. Yeah, I just wanted to highlight something that was pointed out to me about the stations, which I think is really exciting. The fact that we've had a lot of community members asking for more stations in the city and that this is going to help us get to scale in a really exciting way. So new development will be in the city required to have that and so I just a shout out for Sierra Club folks make sure you read this in detail. It's exciting news. Okay. Thank you. See no other comments. We'll go ahead and take each vote separately. So do we want to read? Do you want to read each different motion? And we'll take the vote. Recommendation to receive supporting documentation and to the record conclude the hearing and declare ordinance. Adopting and amending the 2016 addition of the California Building Standards Code and the 1987 addition of the Uniform Housing Code by amending and restating Title 18 of the Long Beach Municipal Code in its entirety. Read for the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading. Please cast your votes.