Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Sections 21.15.590, 21.15.1470, 21.15.2005, 21.15.2810, 21.25.502.A.3, 21.32.020, and Table 32-1; by adding Sections 21.15.245, 21.15.595, 21.15.707, 21.15.1054, 21.15.2195, 21.15.2273, 21.52.219.8, and 21.52.232; and by repealing Sections 21.15.510 and 21.52.213, relating to assembly uses, read and adopted as read.  (Citywide)
Now we're going to move to our hearings here. And one, would you please be. Hearing one report from Development Services recommendation to receive supporting documentation under the record, conclude the public hearing and adopt a negative declaration. Zero two Dash 18 Declare Ordinance Amending Title 21 of the Long Beach Municipal Code read for the first time and lead over the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading and adopt a resolution authorizing the Director of Development Services to submit amendments to the Long Beach zoning regulations to the California Coastal Commission citywide. Can I get a second? Thank you. Our first and second. Who do we need to have a report on this? Oh. It's a hearing. So, Linda Tatum. Sure. Good evening. I have a very brief. Please. Please be quiet as you leave. Have a very brief staff presentation regarding Re Lupa, and I'll start by defining what Lupa is. It's commonly referred to as Lupa, but is the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act is a federal law that was adopted in 2000 and just two. Just to clarify the origins of it, it was originally. Adopted by the federal. Government as a way to to make sure that prisoners or folks who were incarcerated, incarcerated were not unduly burden on their ability to practice their religious activities. And that was the genesis of this. But it has spread, and it now includes land use and zoning to make sure that religious institutions are treated fairly relative to other assembly type uses. So that's essentially why we're here tonight. It is based upon a complaint that the city received from the Department of Justice regarding our current zoning code. And the observation that they made is that our code has not been updated since probably 20 years to specifically address religious uses. So this was essentially a clean up. It gave us the opportunity to go back and update our code to treat assembly uses for religious institutions in the same way that we treat other assembly uses, such as a movie theater, a banquet hall and other types of uses where you have an assembly type characteristic. So fundamentally what this code does is it updates the definitions it goes through. I think we have commonly referred to a religious uses as churches, but we've currently it just based upon the number of different religious practices. We've eliminated the use of calling it churches and we now refer to them as religious institutions. So there are a couple of other just minor definition that we brought into current practice in terms of terminology. We also are making sure that we're upholding the the community standards for how assembly uses are treated and focusing on the potential impacts for those uses. And more specifically, we have cooperative cooperated with the Department of Justice that in the changes that we're proposing to the code and they have been accepting of those changes, we took this item to Planning Commission. We had no concerns or issues. They adopted it unanimously and they were very supportive of this change. And with that, we're asking for your support. To. Adopt this code amendment. And that concludes staff's comments. Thank you. And any public comment on this and you. CNN. Please cast your vote. Rock n. Roll cop. Yeah. Oh, that's right. Roll call. Excuse me. Councilwoman Gonzalez. Councilmember Pierce. Councilwoman Price. Councilmember City pronounced. Councilwoman Mongo. Vice Mayor Andrews. Here I am. Councilmember Rhonda. Councilman Austin. All right. Councilmember Richardson. Motion carries.