Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Subsection 21.27.130, Table 32-1, Table 32-2, and Table 32-2A of Chapter 21.32, Subsection 21.33.130.E, and Table 51.276-1 of Chapter 21.51, relating to the zoning regulations of the City of Long Beach, read and adopt as read. (Citywide)
Okay, great. So then there's no more public comment. So members, please go ahead. We'll go to the next item. And we're going to go ahead and do let's actually do the item 17 and then 18 to the two other hearings and then we'll go to 16. So let's start with item 17. Please report from Development Services recommendation to receive supporting documentation under the record, conclude the public hearing and find the project exempt from sequel to the ordinance approving a zoning code amendment to implement suggested modifications by the California Coastal Commission. Read the first time and later or the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading. Adopt a resolution adopting amendments to the local coastal program of the General Plan and adopt a resolution authorizing Director of Development Services to submit the local Coastal Program Amendment to the California Coastal Commission citywide. This is a public hearing. And the planning manager, Patricia Defender. Here will make the presentation for this item. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor. Vice Mayor, City Council members. This item is similar to a number of items you have seen recently. This item is a local coastal program amendment for zoning code amendments that were previously approved by the City Council on October 2019. As you've seen with those other recent local coastal program amendments, the council has to act on, the Coastal Commission's suggested changes in order for the zoned zoning code amendments to be effective in the coastal zone. This action would allow these amendments to be in effect in the coastal zone. These which are these amendments are already a fact in effect in the rest of the city. Just by way of some very quick background. The Development Services Department has undertaken a program to periodically update the zoning zoning code, a program known as the Omnibus Zoning Code Amendments. The goal of the program is to modernize the zoning code and ensure that the regulations are up to date updated, to be responsive to changes in development trends and best zoning practices. These periodic amendments are necessary since the zoning code has not been comprehensively updated in more than 20 years, and there are conflicts and outdated provisions throughout the code. As previously mentioned, these particular amendments were adopted by the City Council in October 2019. At that time. At the time of the adoption, the City Council also adopted a resolution directing the Director of Development Services to submit submit these ordinances to the Coastal Commission for a finding of conformance with the Certified Local Council program. The city did submit the amendments to the Coastal Commission and the Coastal Commission is requiring some modifications to those amendments. And that's what's before the Council this evening. The customary procedure the city council must take an action on these coastal commission modifications suggested modifications within six months of the date of the Coastal Commission's approval, which for this item was in March of this year. If the Council approves these modifications this evening, the coastal the local coastal program amendments will be resubmitted to the Coastal Commission before the deadline for final certification by the Coastal Commission. Just very quickly, I won't go over the detail or substance of these code amendments, but they were code amendments that involved establishing land use regulations for several new uses, including escape rooms, tutoring centers, animal related uses if established and revised or clarified development standards related to the distance between structures on residential properties. Parking requirements in historic landmark districts, measuring fence height in flood zones, gross floor area definitions and floor floor area ratio calculations, rooftop solar height exemptions , and some other development standards. It also made some modifications to administrative procedures, exempting hearing items continued to a date certain from re noticing. The these are the description of the modifications that the Coastal Commission was requesting and generally that require clarifying the exemption from additional parking requirements for historic properties undergoing residential expansion. Is precluded from use in certain parts of the coastal zone. If this if such an improvement would increase the size or degree of non-conformity with coastal resource protection and shoreline policies. He clarifies that the new uses that are introduced in the code by these amendments are allowed by right and are consistent with the allowable uses in the adopted land use plan. It adds a requirement for properties within the certified local coastal program to prevent rooftop solar collectors from adversely impacting public views of the beach, bay or ocean that are preserved in the Certified Local Coastal Program. It makes a as a footnote to development standards related to accessory dwelling units in the coastal zone. Notice of public hearing for this hearing was published in the Long Beach Press Telegram on July 19, 2021. Written notices were sent to the Coastal Commission. Other notification was provided as required by the code, including posting at City Hall and select libraries. On this slide is a summary of the actions that shows that the City Council is being recommended to approve, which involves concluding the public hearing and finding the project is statutorily exempt from secure, declaring and approving the Zoning Code amendments to implement the suggested modifications of the Coastal Commission to adopt the resolution. Adopting the amendments to the local coastal program and incorporating the modifications suggested by the Coastal Commission. And certifying the compliance with the coastal, adopting a resolution certifying compliance with the Coastal Commission March 2021 Action that concludes the staff presentation. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you. There's any public comment on this hearing? I believe so. Mr. Mayor, this requires three votes, one for the audience and one for each of the two resolutions. Yes. Thank you. And there's no public comment. Correct. Okay. We have a motion on the second councilmember ringer. No real comment other than that. Thank you to staff for updating our LCP for lovely. First May Richardson. Okay. Can I have somebody else second that. It's it's I think it's I think we're fine. Go ahead and let's take the first vote. Members cast your vote. Councilwoman Mongo. For smokers. Thank you. I'll take a motion for the second vote. Please cast your votes. Second vote. Karis Thank you. And we'll take the third vote.