Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Land Use District Map of the City of Long Beach as said Map has been established and amended by amending portions of Parts 6, 7,12 and 13 of said Map to reflect a change from PD-1 (SEADIP) (Southeast Area Development and Improvement Plan) to SP-2 (Southeast Area Specific Plan), I (Institutional), and R-1-S (Single-Family Residential, Small Lot); making conforming changes to the map, incorporating the California Coastal Commission recommended modifications, read and adopt as read.  (District 3)
Thank you. And there is an item related to the statue, I think later in the agenda as well. Thank you for that. Let's go ahead and move on to the hearings. We're going to have an item hearing, item 17, first. Report from Development Services recommendation received supporting documentation into the record to conclude the public hearing and adopt and impose the mitigation, monitoring and reporting program for the Southeast area. Specific plan to clear ordinance amending the Land Use District Map to reflect the establishment of the Southeast Area Specific Map plan. Read the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for the final reading. Adopt five resolutions amending the local coastal program implementation plan land use map. Amend the post certification coastal zone map amending the local coastal program and element of the city's general plan. Amending and restating the Southeast Area Specific Plan and authorizing Director of Development Services to submit the ordinance amendments together with the resolutions to the California Coastal Commission District three. Thank you. And then we can introduce the city manager to get the presentation first. Good afternoon, Mayor. Members of the Council, I'd like to introduce Christopher Coons, the deputy director for Development Services. He will start this presentation. Right. Good evening, council members and Mayor for this item which relates to the southeast area specific plan. And item 18, which relates to the pool, we do have presentations available to give you or if you don't want the presentations, pick up now and let us know. These are both routine matters. After when accidents take place in the coastal zone, they go to the Coastal Commission. They make changes to those items, and then they come back to this body for you to conform those changes. So that procedural matter that's in front of you this evening. And I have Patricia, a defender for our planning bureau manager, to answer any questions and provide the presentation. If you wish to see it. Mr. Vice Mayor. Can I. Help? Sure. Councilmember Price. Unless there's any objection by my colleagues, I don't think we need a presentation on this particular item. I do want to make just a few comments on it, though. These are some procedural steps that we have to take in order for this plan to move forward. I will share. I know I have some new council colleagues who perhaps haven't been as plugged into the history of this item. But the southeast area specific Plan C CEP was in its first formation in 1977, created as a specific plan for the southeast portion of Long Beach and over the past eight years that I've been in office. This is a project that I've been intimately involved with. My commitment to the residents throughout this process has been to work closely with city staff, and I want to just acknowledge our assistant city manager, Linda Tatum, who's very involved in this project. Before she assumed her current position and was invaluable in getting this project moved to this place. And of course, our entire city team led by Christopher Koonce. This plan will allow the preservation of the wetlands for the decades to come, as the plan was prior to this plan being passed. There were portions of the wetlands that actually had development on them, like an In-N-Out Burger that probably should never have gone on top of the wetlands. And so the passage of this specific plan will ensure that we have the wetlands to be able to restore. Working with my colleague on the Councilman Urunga, on the Cerritos Wetlands Authority, we do have a plan for the restoration of the wetlands, and this plan will make that possible and a reality. It will also place a burden on developers who wish to develop in this area to meet certain standards regarding environmental standards involving public access standards , open corridor standards. And these conversations have been had and some of them have been a long time to develop to get to the place that we're at now. I do want to point out one aspect about this grant this this plan that I think we sometimes forget when we're talking about the city's requirements in terms of housing . You know, there's often a misconception that that the southeast side of Long Beach is not contributing to the housing requirement of of the city. And so I would just want to turn over to the staff. You know, this particular specific plan alone, how many units does this create for the city of Long Beach? Good evening, council members. This is Patricia Defender for Planning Bureau manager. This plan does create capacity for approximately an additional 2500 dwelling units. And I'm sure, as most can appreciate, that that is not welcome news to folks who want to try to limit density. But I think some of the the ways that we've gone about designing the specific plan and the requirements for developers is going to create over the next 40 years a development and a community that will be filled with open space and mobility options and wetlands restoration and wetlands tourism, environmental tourism in a way that we've never seen . So I urge my colleagues to please support this item. It's certainly something that the council district team has worked very hard on, not just this team, but the teams that came before me. And I'm really, really grateful to be at this place. So thank you. All right, thank you. And I'll just offer my support. I would say these long range planning efforts are really, really good. Thank you, Councilwoman Price, for your hard work and for highlighting the housing discussion. You're absolutely right. It is difficult to have a discussion about housing, but I think our land use element is 26,000 units and that's almost 10% of it. So that is important to note, and thank you for your leadership on that. So is there any public comment? Comment. We had three public comment and a Christianson and Cantrell and Marlene Alvarado. It's a lot of trash talk tonight, folks. I'm here representing the Los Cerritos Wetlands, a land I'm sorry, task force from Sierra Club. And I also live in the third. And I got pretty much the same description that you just got of this. I'm going to take this off of this rezoning. It talks about it in one way, but I think of it in a very different way. I think of the zoning that was is here in place now, CDEP, which limits the height of housing to three stories of all buildings, really. And how from the very beginning and that was a community generated zoning. From the very beginning it was attacked by business after business developer after developer who didn't really respect the community members, who designed that for their desire to protect the low cerritos wetlands. And I don't want this to come off the wrong way. But, you know, when I went to the first CEP meeting, I sat next to a guy who was all in favor of it, and he said, I wonder, I wonder about low income housing. I said, Go ahead and ask. In someone from development services who answered that question says Long Beach doesn't do that. And I think it's very important when we talk about our need for more density and our state mandates in all the units we need supposedly to provide for future residents, that that we understand that we're we're really involving a lot of developers who really want to make a lot of money doing this. And just like wetlands restoration, this is business to leave something alone, to leave the land alone, to leave the wetlands alone, rather than to add more visitor centers, more bike trails, giant berms to protect industry that's already there. And we'll come to call the in and out as this seascape does, a recreational area to zone the in and out recreational is pretty stunning. And, you know, we need housing for the poor. We need housing for people who have very little income. We do not need seven storey high rises in a liquefaction zone, in a tsunami zone, you know, next to our wetlands. And so I'm afraid this will perhaps solve some problems. I realize today, you know, when when the as that sea rise goes, all of the people who are living in Belmont Shore and on the peninsula can just move into the high rises because they are, you know, above ground. That's a plus. That's a plus for those guys who are down on the peninsula, I guess. But as for the majority of residents in Long Beach and those of us who fought for a long time to protect what's already in the wetlands, this isn't this . No benefit. Sorry. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. Ann Cantrell speaking for the Sierra Club Cerritos Wetlands Task Force and I attended all the meetings on C set back before. Councilwoman Price was on the council when Frank Kelner held similar meetings on this and C dip which proceeded which is now our zoning had some problems to it. It allowed housing development on the wetlands. And it allowed oil development on the wetlands. So see, CIP still allows oil development on the wetlands. And it is creating 2500 new dwelling units surrounding the wetlands. Sea dip only allowed three storey buildings. See? SIP. Will allow seven story buildings surrounding the wetlands. And the oil. Production. Is addressed briefly in c cep as saying. Modification nine will modify C Chapter C CIP C CIP Chapter five to incorporate the oil production standards recently certified by the Coastal Commission for C Dip, among other revisions. The Coastal Commission staff. It's said, and I quote, Oil released into the wetlands area will contaminate soils and vegetation and result in a range of effects for wildlife from habitat exclusion to death. Required cleanup measures would likely result in the complete loss of affected wetland areas. Wetland channels could also provide a direct pathway to marine waters. If an oil spill reaches the San Gabriel River, Alameda Bay or the Pacific Ocean, impacts to marine habitat and species, coastal recreation and other coastal resources could be devastating. Therefore, because the ability to effectively contain and clean up an oil spill does not exist at this time. Staff finds that the proposed project is inconsistent with the second requirement of the Coastal Act. This was when Bump Wanted was getting their permits to act for oil production in the wetlands. Thank you. Time's up. Thank you. Sea has not solved anything. Thank you. Thank you. Next week, the police. Hi, I'm Marlene Alvarado from the First District, and I have been actively involved in the wetlands here for many years, and I see this whole thing part of a capitalist system that exploits the land, and it's exploiting the environment, especially with the oil. My God. Oh, we're having catastrophic temperatures right now. And and we're still producing oil out of a wetlands, the last seawater wetlands here in Long Beach. It's tragic. And as with no added, you're going to build high rises of seven stories when the law had previously said they could only do three. There's another item here that I want to talk about and has a lot to do with renters. And the problem is you can't make money off of poor people. And so we're going to have expensive seven story buildings in a dangerous zone. And. You guys are going to go along with it. But you're holding up neoliberals who really believe that capitalism is going to be the answer when it's really going to be our destruction, because we can no longer exist in the system exploiting wetlands, exploiting poor people. It's you know, our city is a sellout to developers and real estates. And that's what I want to say. Thank you. All right. I think that concludes public comment. Members, please cast your vote. Motion carries. Thank you. I think we have a hearing number 19 next. 1818 is next.