Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to extend the Open Streets Initiative program including outdoor dining through parklet and outdoor activity permits, in compliance with applicable Safer at Home Health Order for Control of COVID-19 (Health Order); and, extend the intermittent closure of certain non-arterial, neighborhood streets as identified, to through vehicular traffic, beginning January 1, 2021 and assess and extend quarterly as need and funding allows, through any point of the Health Order; Authorize City Traffic Engineer to review and adjust identified neighborhood street boundaries and closure hours, as necessary, for the purpose of increasing outdoor activities, and strengthening economic recovery, while maintaining appropriate physical distancing and adherence to the current Health Order, beginning January 1, 2021 and assess and extend quarterly as need and funding allows, through any point of the Health Order; and Adopt resolution authorizing the temporary closure of Pine Avenue from First to Fifth Street, to through vehicular traffic for increase
Councilman. Mongo, I thank you. Thank you. Item 26, please. 26. Item 26 Report from Public Works. Recommendation to extend the Open Streets Initiative program, including outdoor dining through Parklet and Outdoor Activity Permit authorized city traffic engineer to review and address identified neighborhood street boundaries and closure hours as necessary and adopt a resolution authorizing the temporary closure of Pine Avenue from first to Fifth Street City Way. Okay. I have a motion in a second or any public comment on this item. Yes, we have. Alex Sharon. I thank you, Mayor, and members of the City Council and thank you to staff for bringing this item forward. Speaking tonight on behalf of the Long Beach Restaurant Association, we want to signal our strong support for the item in particular. Thank you to John Keisler and his team for engaging the borough in developing this and other measures. The Bureau looks forward to working with the city in deploying us and making sure that it's a success citywide and agree with the discussion on one of the last items about making sure that as we go forth in these recovery efforts attached to or related to COVID impacts and we make sure we're doing it holistically, the borough has been tasked and has test me with making sure that we grow the membership so that it represents the entire city of Long Beach. And so if there are restaurants in the council members neighborhoods that they would like us to engage with, we stand ready and will do outreach as necessary and look forward to supporting this item and making sure that all restaurants in Long Beach can take advantage of it. Thank you very much. Thank you. With that, I have a motion to second count your anger. Any comment? I think we need to continue. Thank you. Okay. Councilman Austin. Okay. I stand in support. I'd love to see this continued and possibly after we we are we are back and healthy as a society, as a city, post-COVID. I'd like to see these. These street closures and open streets concepts expanded to other areas of the city. And when we talk about economic equity, this is one of those areas that we need to be looking at as well. So but it does have my support. I'm happy to support. Thank you. Okay. We have councilman's in Dallas and then we'll go to a vote. Thank you, Mayor. I am so glad that we are taking this step and our Open Streets initiative. I think it has been a great help for a lot of our restaurants in our city. I get so happy to see that so many people have been able to take advantage of this. This is something I've been passionate about for four years, and someone as someone who represents a part of Long Beach where residents have much less access to open and public space. I'm so glad that we have looked at this part of as a solution this year for this pandemic. I know that personally. It's been so nice for me to have space on time just a few blocks away from my home, to be able to be outdoors safely and physically, at least at the time that that was permitted. So I'm hoping that after this this time, we are able to go back to that. The Open Streets Initiative has given our downtown neighbors the space for art and amazing ways to activate our community and draw foot traffic to our north playing businesses. I hope that we'll continue to pursue these kinds of pedestrian friendly projects as a city, and I'm excited to see this one remain in place while we are under this health order. So thank you to two public works and thank you for everyone. Also the city staff that worked on this and continues to work every day on this. So thank you. Thank you. Let's go to roll call. Councilwoman Sandy has i. Councilwoman Allen, i. Councilwoman Price. Councilwoman. I. I. Councilman Sabrina. All. Councilwoman. Mango. I. Councilwoman Sara. I. Councilmember Oranga. Hi, Councilman Austin. Hi. Vice Mayor Richardson. High motion carries.