Recommendation to receive and file the Sustainable City Commission staff report on electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure policy, and direct City Manager’s Office and Department of Development Services to implement the recommendations contained within it, relating to EV infrastructure, as part of the triennial update to Title 18 of the Long Beach Municipal Code.  (Citywide)
Item 18. Report from Development Services. Recommendation to. Receive and file the Sustainable City Commission Staff. Report on electric vehicle charging infrastructure policy and drag the City Manager and Development Services to implement the recommendations relating to EV infrastructure as part of the triennial update to Title 18 of the Long Beach Municipal Code Citywide. Councilmember Richardson, would you like a staff report first? Yes. Staff report first. Amy Burdick. Madam Vice Mayor, members of the City Council, back in November, you asked that the Sustainable City Commission look at recommendations for expansion of electric vehicle infrastructure within the city. The Office of Sustainability in the Department of Development Services worked with the Commission to provide some recommendations to them, which they adopted in March. And that's attached to your staff report. If you so approve this, these recommendations that the Sustainable City Commission is forwarding, we would then implement them as part of the Title 18 update, which is required to be adopted by January of this coming January 2017. If you have any questions, I'm here to answer them. Councilmember Richardson. Great work and thank you. Councilwoman Mongo. Looking forward to it. And Council member Supernormal. Yeah. I have just a question of staff in terms of the location. Signal Hill is included here and I was just kind of curious why circle. Audi in the fourth district would get one station and then human Nissan in signal hill gets. Three. And if. So we were looking at the maps of where the available stations are. The Nissan Human actually provides three charging stations on their site. That is a service that they provide to their lessees of electric vehicle cars. It is not free. You have to go and actually provide. You can go and charge your electric vehicle there. But you do have to pay a fee. There is a statewide network, an informal network that advises all EV owners of where the nearest charging stations are, and they're clearly listed in that. I appreciate that clarification. Thank you. Thank you. And I have one question. I'm just scanning the report, see if it's jumping out at me. What is the number of charging stations that the plan includes? We currently have 107 throughout the city. What we're looking at is really beefing up the the private sector requirements in the future to exceed the state requirements. So that's the main thrust of our plan. What it would essentially require is that almost all new construction would have to require ev ready infrastructure, which is the conduit at a minimum for the EV, but not necessarily the charging stations. So the bigger your construction is, the more conduit and actually the more charging stations you would actually have to implement. And then thank you. And then my follow up question regarding the Southern California Edison program, their initial announcement of 30,000 or so new charging stations within the service area, are they still on track for that? And if so, how many would Long Beach get under that? We don't have that information. I can provide that to you. I'll have to talk to the Office of Sustainability. Who's tracking that? That would be great, because 30,000 sounds like a lot, but I have a feeling these scaled back. So if we could get that back to council in a certain way from that would be great. Is there any member of the public that wishes to address Council on Item 18? Seeing None members cast your vote. Motion carries.