Recommendation to direct City Manager, or his designee, to report back to the City Council within 90 days regarding the current program and municipal codes related to Parklets in the City of Long Beach. This report should include: • Details of the current program and procedures including costs associated; • Ways to modernize the program to allow other non-restaurant small businesses opportunities to create the same public/private space in front of their establishments; • Insight on what cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and others are doing regarding similar programs; • Opportunities to make this program more cost-effective for small business owners.
Great. Thank you. Item number eight and nine or both of the Parklets will take photos up. Communication from Councilwoman Gonzales. Councilwoman Mango Vice Mayor Richardson. Recommendation to direct the city manager to report back within 90 days regarding the current program and municipal codes related to PARKLETS in the City of Long Beach. Councilman. Yes, I first would just like to thank my colleagues, Councilmember Mongo and Vice Mayor Richardson, for joining me on this item. Everyone knows how very popular parklets are they've become in the city, and we want to capitalize on the moment, the momentum and interest for that. We as a city know that our current municipal code only states that parklets are to be used for dining experiences. And so we want to expand on that and look for ways in which we can look at alternative uses. And in the next item, you'll see one of those alternative uses being put in front of us. And so I hope to have that your support on that as well. But studies in both San Francisco, New York City have shown substantial increases in pedestrian traffic and engagement once parklets were installed. And for that reason I hope that we have your support here and see how we can expand our opportunities here and I think quite cogent from the DBA for sticking with us here and also just being very helpful in placemaking and in doing everything they can for parklets. Councilman. Mango. This is a great opportunity for our local businesses. I look forward to hearing the report back and I am very, very supportive of these. I think that. The more we can embrace the amazing outdoors and the real estate available. To us, the better it will be for our local businesses. Q Vice Mayor Richardson, very supportive. Lima, good work. I really want to see that outdoor gym parklet thing. It's a pretty cool idea. And I know, you know, last round in the Knight Foundation there were with this night City Challenge, there were some cool ideas around interesting parklets. So I think this is consistent with with some of that and then with our work around sort of bringing Wi-Fi outside, smart corridors uplink, things like that, I think, you know, we can think about doing more stuff outdoors, more parklets in nontraditional spaces. So I think it's a good idea and I support it. Thank you. Very supportive. Just one. One thing to add, Mr. West, I know it's been discussed, but the one thing I just want to make sure is that we're pleased. We need to expand to ensure that future parklets at least have a public component, public option component. And I know that every parklet that we have in the city currently is attached to a private enterprise, which we love, and we love that restaurants have additional space for for patrons, but we yet to have a parklet in the in the city that is open to the public and that is actually public space or seating or activities for the public to use. And so I know that if you go to all the great cities that the councilwoman mentioned, all of them have some really, really cool public parklets. And so if we can work and try a pilot or two somewhere around the city that we can actually have a public parklet as well. Two of the other amazing parklets that we all love, that would be great. So we can add that to the conversation. That's wonderful. Is there any public comment on this? No. No further comment. Members, please cast your votes.