Recommendation to declare ordinance amending Table 41-1C of Chapter 21.41, and Section 21.45.114 (2), (5) and (8), all relating to alcoholic beverage manufacturing and accessory tasting rooms, read and adopted as read.  (Citywide)
Thank you, Danny. Appreciate it. Okay. So we're going to begin with our hearings and we have the first hearing, which we're going to do, I believe we want to have it read. Be great report from Development Services. Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Include the public hearing and declare ordinance amending sections of Title 21 of the Long Beach Municipal Code relating to alcoholic beverage manufacturing and accessory tasting rooms read for the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading. I don't believe an oath is required, so with this, I'm going to turn this over to Mr. Modica. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of the Council, the staff report tonight will be given by Carey Tai, our current planning officer. Mr. Mayor, I'm going to do it for Kerry. Carey is going to be sitting here answering all the technical questions. The short staff report. Is that you asked us to look at potential revisions to the Alcoholic Beverage Manufacturing Ordinance to to create more flexibility and to reduce some inconsistencies that exist between our downtown plan and our ABM ordinance. So we did. Come up with some proposed. Flexible flexibility, submitted those to the Planning Commission. The Planning Commission did approve them unanimously. And now we are before you. We are reducing the parking requirements for ABM'S and we are allowing them to to get a consistency. Issue eliminated with the downtown plan, allowing accessory. Tasting rooms to. Remain open on Friday and Saturdays until 11:00. Or ask. For later hours through an AUP. Process and then allow facilities that are over 6000 square feet to. Go through an AUP. Process instead of a Q P. Process. We originally. Anticipated that most of these uses would be of the 6000 square foot or. Lower range. We do have some that are coming in that are a larger size. We do need a little bit of control over them to. Make sure that the interface with the neighborhoods are not creating nuisance. But other than that, we do believe that these. Amendments provide the flexibility that you are looking for. With that. Kerry or I are here to. Answer any. Questions. Thank you. Are there any public comments on this hearing? Please come forward. This is just on hearing, number one. Nothing else, please. Good evening, Mayor. Councilman. Um, my name is Kellen Carlson, a lobbyist beer company. For the last year and a half, I've been working all throughout the city to try and find a location, and I really want to support the recommendation of lowering the parking. I know in the Planning Commission, what about doing this thing with the cities of Denver, Minneapolis, Portland, for suggestions which are built a bit differently than our city, which is somewhat landlocked. And what we have, Victoria, is what we have. And the biggest concern or problem we've encountered is parking our warehouse warehousing districts. And what we have for brewery facilities are very limited on what parking is there as they were built for warehousing requirements ten, 20, 30 years ago. So I just want to really support the recommendations. I don't know exactly what the reduced parking is, but I really want to support that and move that forward. Thank you. Thank you so much. And thank you for opening up a business and window open up in Long Beach. Next speaker, please. Hi, my name's Belinda Delgadillo. Thank you so much for listening to our comments and I'm just here to support the amendment as well. I think it'll bring tremendous growth for the city and an opportunity, as we've seen in San Diego, growth in tourism, bringing a new customer base to the area and and really supporting local businesses, which is what I've seen in breweries. So, yeah, I'm just here to show my support for that. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. And our last speaker. Hello. I'm Dan from Liberation Brewing Company. We're hoping to open. In town in the new year. And I just wanted to stop by and then. My support for amending this this bill here. It, it. It's been a great process working with the planning department and the city. They've been very receptive and getting on the phone with us and helping us through everything. And I just wanted to say that we're looking forward. To working. With the city. And. The continued evolution of this this measure. Thanks so much. Great. Well, thank you, Councilman Price comments. I want to thank staff for putting together these amendments. I'm very supportive of encouraging more businesses like these to come to the city of Long Beach and have seen the benefits of these businesses in my district and citywide. So thank you for everyone who's here and thanks to staff for putting this together. I asked my colleagues to support this item. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor Richardson. Thank you. I completely support this. I think it makes a lot of sense. Thank you to Ms.. Bolek and her team for walking me through this and making sure that we have a good, sound policy. And to you brewers out there and they're looking for a location has plenty of space in north Long Beach thanks. Thank you councilwoman Councilmember Pearce. Everybody knows the second district is where all the breweries are. Come on, guys. I just wanted to thank staff so much for all your work on this and for the council members that were on this item previously for your leadership. Thank you. Thank you. And I'm just going to add and say that the beer economy is real. It's growing. There's been incredible success in a bunch of of breweries that have been safe and very positive for the community that have opened up across the city. There certainly are a large amount in downtown. There's been incredible success in Alamitos Bay and what's happening over there along the shore and the coastline. And now we know that there is interest up in north Long Beach and in the Bixby Knolls area and now in parts of a councilman uranium district, which I think is where liberation brewing is is going, I believe. So there is there is a lot of interest. And I'm just grateful that the staff has been so expeditious in looking at this and the council's been so supportive of supporting these businesses. This is a very good thing for business. And it's all about anytime you can cut the red tape a little bit and make things easier is always a good thing. So thank you all. You can please go ahead. And Castro votes. Motion carries.