Recommendation to request City Manager to work with Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design certified members of the LBPD and report back with specific recommendations on how individual public spaces such as parks can discourage crime through environmental design.
I am 15 five. Item 15 Communication from Councilwoman Price. Councilmember Pearce. Councilmember Super. Councilmember Richardson Recommendation to request City Manager to work with Crime Prevention through Environmental Design. Certified members of the Lab PD and report back with specific recommendations on how individual public spaces can discourage crime through environmental design. But any public coming in this. Councilman Price, thank you. Yes, we have a really great team and the police department that helps residents and businesses try to protect themselves against crime through some environmental changes that they might be able to make at low cost in their properties. Things like trimming down shrubs, adding additional lighting, things that are relatively simple to do and within the control and the power of the business or resident owner. And so I'm hoping that we can extend that concept to our own properties. I realize we have a lot of parks and a lot of beach space, and this is something that would take place over a long period of time. The purpose of this item is to get the process started and to identify a process. Maybe it's a multiyear process, maybe it's a process that is focused on police divisions in terms of the areas that are viewed at in a particular order. Maybe we start with parks, maybe we start with beaches. I really defer to the city manager on how he would like to allocate resources to look at this. But we have the expertize and the specialty in our police department to be able to take a look at some of our public spaces and determine how we can make them safer for residents, whether that includes additional lighting, whether it includes trimming of bushes that are overgrown. Of course, we will never be able to make an open environment free of potential hiding or other hazards. But we can certainly take a look at what we already have and audit the areas too, to make them as safe as possible. And I think about just there's so many nooks and crannies and areas where safety can be compromised and figuring out ways to perhaps close off some of those areas or sign them better, you know, that type of endeavor, I think, would be very worthwhile in in terms of environmental design. So I urge my colleagues to support this item. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Pierce. I feel. Like I'm seconding everything tonight, but I love Sub10. I want to second this item. I guess I did have some questions, but I think we've left it open enough for staff to come back with some options. I know that in the first budget that I participated in, we had the million dollars for Tidelands, that we looked at our beaches and we hopefully have tackled that with different lighting. The other thing I would say is that at Bixby Park, I want to just say how much I appreciate PD. They came down with our community members, our parks director, and did a full walkthrough along with my staff, where we identified what trees needed to be trimmed . The pergolas needed to come down where there was additional lighting that needed to be. So. Maybe one of my suggestions is just that community folks know that this is an option. I understand doing an entire park system is probably pretty challenging and maybe there's an online request or some online process that you can request this and I know we've done this for businesses along Fourth Street as well. So definitely support the direction that this is going. Thank you. Thank you very much. So I've already called for public comment to go. Please call for the vote and I've already done. That very briefly. I know this pushes the envelope. But I would suggest. Building a jail cell. And having to run the numbers, see what it cost to keep somebody there. So when people come down, they recognize what the alternatives are for some of the things they might be considering. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Good. Now we're going to go to public comment. Sorry. Oh. Excuse me. Okay. Okay. Please, members, please get your vote. Count Andrews or Vice-Chair Andrews? Yes.