Recommendation to declare ordinance amending and restating PD-32, Douglas Park Planned Development District (PD-32 North and PD-32 South), read and adopted as read.  (District 5)
Thank you. Next, we're going to move on to we have three hearings. So let's go out and go through all three of those hearings, starting with hearing number 17. Report from Development Services recommendation to receive the supporting documentation under the record, conclude the public hearing and find the project exempt from secure and declare ordinance amending and re restating the Douglas Park Plan Development District North and South ordinances. Read the first time and later the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading District five. Oscar Orsi, the development services director, will introduce staff for a brief presentation on this item. Yes. Thank you, Mayor, Mayor and members of the City Council. This is the zoning code amendment to PD 30 to the Douglas Park Plan Development District to modify provisions to the development standards, to expand our uses, our uses, and also. To improve upon the standards and streamline the approval process. And with that, Christopher Kuntz will give you a brief presentation. Good evening, Mayor and Council. I can this relates to Douglas Park, which is our industrial area surrounding Long Beach's airport. The Plan Development District was first established in December of 2000 for. This gives you an idea of what we refer to as PD 32. It's just north of the airport. It's divided into a northern and southern area with the cover street serving as the division between the two. It has been updated a few times over the years, but why we're in front of you today is to make updates related to use and uses that did not exist as prominently in 2004 as they do today. So there are a number of users in Douglas Park and a number of sub areas. None of the allowed uses today would be deleted, but we are expanding additional opportunity to have uses that have reemerged. So these relate to aircraft manufacturing uses. I think it's an interesting little piece of history. Douglas Park exist because the aerospace industry and our partners, you know, basically exited Long Beach and then we developed Douglas Park with our development partners to refill those jobs and create jobs for the city. And we did that in a number of different fields. But the most exciting jobs that we're seeing right now and the highest paying ones are in the aerospace industry, but in a different form. So those are satellite companies and space related companies such as Virgin Orbit, Spin, Launch, Relativity Rocket Labs that you see on the trend. So this will effectuate those changes and make it easier for those types of users to move into Douglas Park. And we'll also address some rules that are outdated. Most businesses now have warehouse space associated with their use. They don't put their headquarters or R&D users in a separate building, then those locations that have warehousing. So this would provide for those uses as well as for certain fulfillment uses that, well, Amazon existed in 2004, not in the footprint that we see today and all the things that we buy online. And for manufacturers to be able to do that, they need sufficient space and we want to provide them that flexibility. So again, it's it's all about flexibility, but these are changes at the at the margin. So these are not uses that would be toxic or unattractive. So things like furniture making, paper products, wood products. We talked about aviation related uses. And then there is a difference between what's called third party logistics and being a manufacturer that also warehouses and delivers your products. We want to be able to have those manufacturing uses that produce high paying jobs in our city. So those are the changes in a nutshell. We do recommend that the city council approve the ordinance that is in front of you. The Planning Commission approved this item enthusiastically. We've been working both on the city staff side as well as with Service Regis, who is the major landowner in the area. And we all agree on the changes that are in front of city council this evening. So with that, I'd be glad to answer any questions you may have. Thank you, Mr. Coons. Is there any public comment on this item? Yes, I have. Deve Shukla. Hello. You should call again. Sorry for talking too much, but this is the reason why I called in today. Douglas Park is really important historically to the city. I mean, it's where we built the arsenal of democracy to beat the fascists the first time. And frankly, like what we've done with it is kind of a scandal. I mean, it's some of the best manufacturing land in the city and what are you chasing? And it goes off into space that should all be cleaned up, if nothing else, to deal with the fact that historically, how many emissions have come from that? 1.4. I mean, it's hard to take seriously how this city cohere, you know, from a policy perspective when you're talking about 1.5 million each year and what it's going to do when we tax oil in the wrong way, that captures not even all of the value. And then there's a place where the highest intensity of youth historically as well as currently still exists. And what are we doing? We're just subsidizing the hell out of it. But not in the right way. Not in a way where we can keep Jet Blue or anything. I mean, you know, it's really hard. It's really hard to take the city seriously when you're a full service city. You could have had a community choice aggregation program two years ago to help you optimize all this and have money on the table today. But now we'd rather keep subsidizing on sick and wrong people, frankly. And you've got to wonder why people don't want to live here. Why all those condos that are sitting empty might stay empty? What incentive is there when you're going to ruin this city within the next ten years? What incentive is there for me to say honestly? I mean, really? Thank you. Thank you. That concludes public comment for this item. Okay. Councilman Mongo. Thank you. We're really appreciative of all the great work that the services has done with all of the partners that are at Douglas Park. And we're really proud of the high wage jobs that have really been available to long term residents. And we really appreciate the businesses really focusing on local job fairs. And so in all of those ways, they're giving back. And so I appreciate my colleagues support on the side of. If you councilman's in Dallas, we'll call the. Police. District one. I just talked to. I. District three. I. District four. I. District five. I District six. By. District seven. I. District eight. District nine. All right. Ocean carries. It.