Recommendation to determine the application serves the public convenience and necessity, and receive and file the application of American Petroleum Corporation, dba Pacific Union 76, for an original application of an Alcoholic Beverage Control License, at 1410 West Pacific Coast Highway.  (District 1)
Very much. Thank you all again. Next item, we're going to go back on the consent calendar. We pulled one of the items, one of the numbers off consent we believe was number eight. So and just as a reminder, also, item number six was taken off the consent calendar, which I mentioned. So now this is item eight, which we pull off the consent, if we can read that item. Communication from police recommendation to determine the application serves the public convenience and necessity and receive and file the application of American Petroleum Corporation for an original application of an Alcoholic Beverage Control License. District one. Okay. And I'm going to turn this over to Councilman Pearce, who's going to speak on behalf of Constable Gonzales. Thank you. On behalf of Councilwoman Gonzales, who couldn't be here tonight, I'd like to make the following motion. I move that we find the original application of an ABC license by American Petroleum Corp. DBA Pacific. Union 76. Located at 1410. West Pacific Coast Highway does not meet the public convenience and necessity. And protest the issuance of the ABC license on the basis of overconcentration. So yes. That's it. As for your support. If I may have an opportunity to speak, I'm representative. Public comment. Now. Okay, you can go. Come on up. Thank you very much, Councilwoman Andrews. I'm the applicant's representative. My name is Michael Pauls. I understand that the speaker card is not appropriate in my business. Stressed to 6475 East Pacific Coast Highway. I number 135 in the city of Long Beach. We've have been going forward with this process for over a year. We had contacted the counsel office. We had an opportunity. We'd worked with planning with Jorge Ramirez. Officer Barajas. This is a long time business owner in the city of Long Beach who is being forced to make this change. He has operated a minor automotive service repair garage, which was so common with these types of gas stations over the years. But because of the sophistication of business of vehicles these days, he's being forced to close that enterprise and open up a convenience market. He wishes to move forward with a a national brand franchise, which was the wish of the Planning Commission. A national brand franchise is contributing money toward his business. This is an over $750,000 development, and without the national franchise, it becomes very difficult to secure the necessary financing. We're in plan check at this point in time, we spend a substantial amount of money on the project. The beer and wine sales is significantly restricted at this site, and we were in agreement. It's 8:00 in the morning until 10:00 in the evening with no single sales, two cooler doors. It is simply just a placeholder with which to be able to secure a franchise which will be able to keep the business open. He needs this to remain competitive. Other businesses in the area also have beer and wine sales, which are unregulated with respect to the types of product and that they sell. And what I would simply ask this this census tract, by the way, has no residents. So any any any business who wants to establish alcohol in the census tract would have to come before this body for a letter of necessity and can being its or caldara. Finding the census tract in the daytime has a huge population regarding all the people that work there from 8:00 in the morning until 5:00 in the afternoon or the various hours in which they do work. So Alcoholic Beverage Control does recognize that, and they recognize the issue that we're having. What we would like to do is and we would like to ask and I realize the Councilmember, Lena Gonzalez, had asked you to speak on her behalf because she's not here this evening. And we reached out to her office. But we would like to ask if this item could be continued so that we may have an opportunity to speak to Ms.. Gonzalez, Councilwoman Gonzalez, and to be able to dialog with her regarding the importance and the restrictions and responsibilities that this business owner, who again, has been a business owner in this community for over ten years, would would would like to share with the councilwoman. So if at all possible, and we ask you to please assist this business man to simply provide us an additional 30 days, an additional two weeks, whatever the council deems fit, so that we might be able to reach out to the councilwoman , her staff, and let her understand that that we are not trying to impact this community in a negative fashion at all. So we thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Much to the man. So I have a few notes I just want to share. I know that the councilwoman met with the business roughly around a year ago and her concerns are that there's overconcentration that there are four approved ABC licenses in the area which should have none. That there's future development. The gas station sits next to a lot that's undergoing review by Counsel Office for Future Activation. And the reason why this item cannot be delayed is that all responses for the application must be received by. November 10th, and our next. Council meeting is not until the 15th. Also, in reference to the census track, I understand there's about 100 residents in that census tract, but there are several that are 300 feet away. There are no schools or residences within a reportable 600 feet. However, Cabrillo High School is half a mile and there are residents less than 300 feet. And so being that this is Councilmember Gonzalez is item and she's request council to deny it. I'm going to support her in that. And I ask. That. Other council members do the same. Thank you. May I have the opportunity to respond to some of that? No. You know, you can't. No. There was no information that was provided. So we'll just have to wait until you like to see. We have to go into any more public comment. But you've had your 3 minutes to. Mr. Andrews. Thank you, sir. Appreciate that very. Much. Yes, thank you. Any more public comments on this item? You don't. You. Don't you speak. Don't you not? Okay, fine. We'll kick off the motion, please. Councilman. Oh, yes. I mean. Yes. Okay. Bush and Kerry's.