Recommendation to declare ordinance amending and restating in its entirety Southeast Area Development and Improvement Plan (SEADIP) (PD-1), read and adopted as read.  (District 3)
We're going to hearing item number one. Please take a seat. Please take a seat. We're going to hearing at our number one. Thank you. All. I'm here for that. Yes. Hearing Item number one Report from Development Services Recommendation to receive supporting documentation of the record. Conclude the public hearing. Declare ordinance amending the Southeast Area Development and Improvement Plan. Incorporating the modifications by the California Coastal Commission. Read for the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading and adopt a resolution to submit amendments to the Long Beach zoning regulations and supporting material to the California Coastal Commission for Approval and Certification District three. Thank you. Thank you. I'd like to turn this over to the city manager. I thank you, Vice Mayor, council members. We have a report on this by our director of Development Services, Linda Tatum. Good afternoon, Vice Mayor, a members of the City Council. This item is a procedural matter. It is the return of an ordinance that the City Council adopted earlier this year to amend. The. Sea dip. Zoning and sea dip, which is SD one. It was designed to. Facilitate the low Cerritos Wetlands Restoration Project. That project was. Also approved by the. City Council. The city is required to. Submit a local coastal development. Program amendment to. The Coastal Commission. In order. To effectuate the ordinance changes. That is what this ordinance represents. The Coastal Commission heard the ordinance in August. They adopted the ordinance with the changes that Council is being asked to consider tonight. So that. Concludes. Staff's presentation, and I'm available to answer any questions you might have. Thank you. Find. And just a reminder, this item includes both the new ordinance, the revised ordinance and the resolution. Returning it back to the Coastal Commission for their final approval. Thank you. Mrs. Price, you have anything to say? I just asked my urge my colleagues to support this item. It's been through Coastal Commission. I want to thank Councilman Aranda for the work that he did on the Coastal Commission when this item came forth. And I ask for your support. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman, you have a. As noted by staff, it's a procedural effort here that we're doing, and it's basically affirming what the commission has already done and we'll continue from there. Thank you. The only public comment on this item. Please state your name. Very good. You work as it is. I support this with this one caveat. And I'm not quite sure, but I want to make sure that this has nothing to do, nothing to do, nothing to do whatsoever with the pending plan to redo the breakwater. I just because I've received communications back and forth and I quite frankly, wasn't sure. Okay. So this has nothing to do with the break of the breakwater. I fully support this. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Goodwin. Next public comment. Good evening. And Cantrell. And I'm representing citizens about responsible planning and the protect the Law Cerritos Wetlands. In September 2017, this council approved a new zoning plan for the southeast area. It's known as Southeast Area Specific Plan or C CIP. The city spent over $100,000 on a consulting firm, plus hours of citizens time in preparing this plan. However, instead of using this revised plan for the proposed new oil drilling project within the zoning area, the old outdated sea dip plan was used for the air and coastal. Commission applications. This has required a number of changes to CDEP to allow for different land uses in four parcels, including oil drilling in places where it was not allowed previously. We are confused by these changes to sea dip, since Sea Dip will now be updated by tonight's changes. Does that mean that C CIP will not be sent to the Coastal Commission for approval? If C sip is to replace c dip with all of these changes you're making tonight, be automatically transferred to c sip or we'll see cip also have to be amended to allow the oil drilling. Especially troubling is item M on page 28, which discuss an extension of Studebaker Road. The extension of Studebaker Road was removed from c cip. And must be removed from sea dip on August 18th. The Coastal Commission approved oil drilling on the most storied US Wetlands Authority, five acres and pumpkin patch with many requirements. What you will find listed in your staff report. It wasn't read to you tonight in the in this report. Although Coastal. Commission staff has worked very hard to attempt to modify and mitigate the potential. Harm. Which might be done by new oil drilling in an environmentally sensitive area. We find that most of these modifications are inadequate. There is an argument as to whether the five acres in the pumpkin patch are esher but there is no argument that the lost Cerritos Wetlands, the San Gabriel River, Alamitos Bay and the Pacific Ocean could be . You know, your time is up. By an oil. Spill. Thank you. Corliss Lee, of course. Thank you very much. Next, the next speaker. I see. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Carelessly. And my address is on file. I am also a member of carp, continuing on monitoring sensors and shut off valves will have little use in a large earthquake. Your yes vote tonight is saying that you are willing to add the following 15 modifications to sea dip in order to allow oil drilling. Please consider carefully what you are voting for. Here are just a few. Modification five environmentally sensitive habitat areas as defined in the Coastal Act shall be protected against any significant disruption of habitat values and only users dependent on those resources shall be allowed with these areas. And the carp comment on that is, I repeat, that oil drilling will be disrupting the habitat areas. The pumpkin patch contains wetland, obligate plant and animal species, which will be permanently destroyed by both drilling and industrial uses. Modification seven. All development that would be adversely impact archeological or paleontology or logical resources shall include reasonable mitigation measures. And the question is what are these measures and reasonable to whom the local Native Americans do not find digging in, drilling on or degrading their sacred lands as reasonable? Modification eight The scenic and visual qualities of coastal areas shall be considered and protected. And here's the carp comment. Most people do not consider a 160 foot drilling rigs and 18 foot block walls as scenic or visual qualities. Modification nine All development shall minimize risks to life and property in areas of high geologic flood and fire hazard. And the carp comment is both. Both of these proposed drilling areas are near the Newport-Inglewood fault area in a tsunami and flood zone. The best way to minimize risks to life and property in these areas is to not allow oil drilling. Modification ten All development shall assure stability and structural integrity and neither create nor contribute significantly to erosion, geologic instability or destruction of the site or surrounding area. And the carp comment is it will be impossible to drill hundreds of feet down next to an earthquake fault, extract oil and then force water back into the void and guarantee geologic stability. So there's several more on here, and I don't think I can get through them in the next 15 seconds. But you might want to look intensely at this report and realize what you're signing up for. This isn't something to take lightly, and you don't want to commit to something you can't do. So thank. You. Thank you very much. Speaker. And Christensen protect the Long Beach Low Cerritos wetlands. It said in the agenda item that you've read all the enclosed materials, but I'm just going to highlight some of our statement from Protect the Long Beach Low Cerritos Wetlands. And it really has a lot to do with environmental racism. So we would hope that people could find a moment to listen. The city's stated intent is to amend Sea Sick to comply with a new oil drilling project that that you guys already approved over the objections of many tribal members. Given the fact that oil production facilities proposed for both the site, the new sites were completely altered the surface areas and allow for toxic chemicals to be used and stored on these sites. Given the fact that oil drilling operations would extend for miles under the low cerritos wetlands and include the instruct extraction in re injection of millions of gallons of water. Given the fact that the construction of massive storage tanks, pipelines, methane burn off towers will disrupt damage and destroy wildlife and habitat. Given the fact that the operation of these on any new or other new oil accessories will extend the life and massively increase the volume of fossil fuel extraction from the Sea City area, pollute air and water and involve spills, possibly on a scale that cannot be contained. Given the fact that fossil fuels contribute to global warming and sea rise, one must conclude that all of the above are to be sacrificed in order to promote new oil drilling operations in the coastal zone and in and adjacent to the low cerritos wetlands over and adjacent to the Newport-Inglewood fault in an area subject to liquefaction. And in an urban area because Caesar proposes housing 4000 new residents. Actually, it's apartments, I think, more or more along the edge of the low cerritos wetlands. Place is central to the identity and continued existence of tribal peoples. The history, the health, the future of tribal peoples is rooted in the connection to specific lands and waters. The connection is one of stewardship, not exploitation or extraction of resources. To remove is to disconnect the people from the land, to remove the evidence and erase the tribal history of the land, and to devalue the meaning it has to present and future generations. Directly to Coastal Commission staff member Kate Hucker Bridge Chief Anthony Ramos. You honored a couple of chiefs tonight. Here's another one. Chief Anthony Morales. Gabriel Nino. Tonga. San Gabriel. Band of Mission Indians voiced his tribe's opposition, his tribal council's opposition to the proposed amendments to the LCP, which is what you're voting for tonight. Chief Morales raised concerns that proposed oil and gas production activities would adversely impact sacred sites and anti ancestral mean. He called them genocide. Fine. Thank you for telling me that. Uh, good evening, Mayor Garcia and council members. My name is Michael Assad, on which the beautiful mineral sport bump. I'll keep it brief. I just wanted to say thank you to the city staff for their diligent work and coordinating with Coastal Commission staff to get this LCP approved at the Coastal Commission and under a year. That's truly remarkable. So we say thank you. I also wanted to say thank you to all the public support we got here at city council hearings at the Coastal Commission, especially by the CWA, the nation, the coast, Reno's Wetlands, Land Trust and the El Dorado Audubon Society. Um, so I wanted to thank all of them as well, and we urge you to support the staff recommendation and the Coastal Commission's actions on this. Thank you. Thank you very much. Is there any more public comment on this item? If not, please take a vote. Motion carries. Thank you. Now we'll go to a hearing. Number three.