Recommendation to request City Manager to report back within 60 days on how the City can work with traffic and navigation app companies to reduce the prevalence of cut through traffic routed through residential neighborhoods.
If we don't just do a just a I'm sorry. You know, Councilman Price is actually here very kindly, but is actually not feeling well and hasn't been. And so she has one item which shouldn't take too long. So let me hear item 23. That way she can get better. And then we will go to the first to the hearing. So if the council doesn't mind, please let me do item 23. Communication from Councilwoman Price, Councilwoman Gonzalez, Council Member, Super Knob, Vice Mayor Andrew's recommendation to request the city manager to report back within 60 days on how the city can work with traffic and navigation app companies to reduce traffic routed through residential neighborhoods. Thank you very much, Councilman Price. Thank you. The item pretty much speaks for itself. This is an issue that other cities have dealt with in terms of how some of the applications that are used for navigation are routing traffic. As we all know, some residential streets are not appropriate for a high volume of traffic, whether it's because they don't have appropriate crosswalks, whether it's because the roads are narrow, whether it's because of the noise impacts to the neighborhood, whatever the case may be. A lot of our residential streets are not designed for cut through traffic. And I know that companies like Waze and I'm sure there are other companies as well, have worked in the past with our city, but as well as with other cities in collaboration to try to identify streets that would not be appropriate for rerouting commute traffic. So the request really is to have staff reach out to any of these app developers to see if there's a way that we can take some of our residential streets that are being used as cut through traffic alternatives out of circulation for these app developers. Thank you very much, Councilwoman Councilwoman Gonzales. Thank you. I think this is a good opportunity for us to do a little bit more research and report back. And and thank you for counsel to Councilmember Price for bringing it forward. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilman Ringa. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Councilmember Price, for bringing this forward. Being in the seventh District, we are highly impacted by a lot of this port traffic and are having this study would be a tremendous benefit to see that make sure that trucks are aren't directed to residential areas where streets cannot accommodate. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Pearce? Yeah. I want to thank my colleagues for bringing this forward. I do want to ask staff, you know, I had a couple of community emails on this item around the fact that we're all taxpayers and pay for all the streets. And so I'm just curious if there's been cities that have been successful at mitigating traffic through residential neighborhoods. And then I'll say one more thing. Seventh Street, while not a residential neighborhood, has a lot of homes and driveways. And so I'm just concerned about the impact of of kind of trying to offset some of that. Councilmember. Different cities had mixed success on this. So we'll give it a try and look at what streets are important to us. And certainly Seventh Street is one that we can add as well. Well, I mean, Seventh Street is a main thoroughfare, right. Like people take it from Cal State to get to downtown. And so I know we've had a crisis, an identity crisis on Seventh Street, but I just think it is worth a fuller conversation about how we absorb traffic on those streets. And if there's I know we're trying to do a seventh Street visioning again soon. So I just want to be considerate about those main thoroughfares as well. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. Good evening. So I just want a little clarification. I think this is a great item, and I know the intent is to, uh, to improve the quality of our neighborhoods. Right. Welcome, everybody. I got here a little late, but I wanted some clarity on on the app companies. Are we talking like ways that Google the for for like what ride share or is it all of the above for anyone that's using an app to get to Long Beach. The item is doesn't specify. So if there are if there is a particular interest we have, we can certainly talk about it and include it. I was thinking more the navigation apps like Waze or Google Maps that are routing routing traffic away from hazardous or, you know, not hazardous but congested areas. But certainly they can explore beyond that if that's something you're interested in, like rideshare apps. Right. And we're probably in an interesting time in our city's history with a lot of construction and infrastructure work going on. I'm sure that there might be a little bit of a I would just say it, like I said, an interesting point in time where we have to take that into consideration as well. But I'm looking forward to staff's report and I'm happy to support this. Thank you. There is a motion and a second is are public comment on this item saying none, please cast your votes.