Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by adding Chapter 18.78 relating to construction in the vicinity of abandoned oil wells, read and adopt as read.  (Citywide)
Thank you. Next up is item 12. Report from Development Services recommendation to receive supporting documentation under the record conclude the public hearing relating to ordinances regulating construction adjacent to abandoned oil or gas wells. Declare Ordinance Amending Title 18 of the Long Beach Municipal Code relating to construction in the vicinity of oil, gas wells and ordinance relating to methane gas mitigation. Read for the first time in laid over the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading citywide. Ten year motion in the second place. Gavin. I have a motion on the floor. Let's go. Turn over to staff and begin the hearing. Thank you, Mayor. Members of the City Council Development Services is delighted to bring these two ordinances for your consideration tonight that will allow the construction in the vicinity of oil and gas wells, as well as the establishment of methane gas mitigation standards. Next slide, please. Thank you. Current state regulations create barriers to development near the vicinity of oil wells. The proposed action creates tailored regulations specific to Long Beach that provide a more efficient process for applicants with the public, with a plot with public safety as a primary goal. The development of these regulations was a result of a multi-year effort that involved a survey of development standards in poor cities. The use of professional technical experts. Consultation from our local and regional construction and development partners. And the public's input. Next slide, please. If an applicant is proposing to develop in the vicinity of oil gas wells, they may elect to utilize the California Geologic Energy Management Division, Cal Jam for short standards. Or they may utilize the Long Beach standards. The proposed standards provide alternative equivalent regulations and approaches that allow construction near over wells subject to certain safety regulations that include locating and examining the conditions of the wells, as well as testing and monitoring those wells. Next slide, please. The proposed methane gas regulations will establish a prescriptive standard for the detection and mitigation for those projects proposed to be constructed over areas with detectable amounts of methane barrier. Next slide, please. As part of this effort, the city, with the assistance of our technical experts, created a localized GIS map that will assist the development community in identifying those areas in Long Beach, where detectable levels of methane gas are present. Next slide, please. As such, staff is recommending that the City Council adopt the ordinances relating to the construction in the vicinity of oil gas wells as well as methane gas mitigation standards. That concludes our presentation. Staff is happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you. Next slide, please. Thank you. I do have a motion and a second and a motion by Councilmember Ranga. I believe we have one member of the public that can speak. So why don't we do that? Member of the public? And then we'll come back to customary Ranga and record. That member of the public is in on the call yet. Okay, then let me go to Councilman Ranga. Yeah, it seems like every district in the city has some kind of oil well facility that has been abandoned. And this would be a great project for us to determine what we can do to or not do to create more development economic assistance for the city. So I very happy to support this this motion. Right. Councilman Price. Mr. Mayor, I agree. We certainly had a number of these issues arise during the development of Second PCH. And so I'm glad that the development services staff is bringing this item forward, and I'm happy to support it. Thank you, Councilwoman Sara. That was a second. I don't have any other comment and thank you for the presentation. And customers and ask do you have any comment or is that just a motion? I would comment. One of the things that I was glad to see included in the initial study checklist was that it looked into the environmental factors potentially affected by the project and found no impact from their results. The healthy and life safety matters from constructions near these wells were something that I was very concerned about, but I'm glad to see that it was addressed in the study. So thank you. Thank you. I have a motion by Councilmember Ranga, seconded by Councilman Price. I think Councilman Price. There was a second, I think. Right. And then and as to the roll call vote. District one. I. District two I. District three. I. District four. I. District five. I. District six. I. District seven. By District eight. All right. District nine. Motion carries. Thank you. Next step is we will do public commentaries and we have a I think we might have two of those.