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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all documents necessary for a Lease by and between Danari Broadway, LLC, a California limited liability company, and the City of Long Beach for office space at 100 Broadway, Suite 400, for the relocation of the Code Enforcement Division. (District 2)
DISCUSSION
The Code Enforcement Division (CED) of the City of Long Beach is committed to maintaining and improving the quality of life in the City's neighborhoods, commercial corridors and industrial areas. CED is responsible for the enforcement of the Long Beach Municipal Code as it relates to substandard buildings, property maintenance, inoperative vehicles, weed abatement and land use violations. In addition, CED proactively conducts inspections on major corridors, in selected community code enforcement areas, and in all residential buildings containing four or more units. CED is currently located at 100 Long Beach Boulevard in the former Southern California Edison building, also known as City Hall East. Plans for the closure of this facility, as envisioned in the Financial Strategic Plan and the Fiscal Year 2006 (FY 06) Proposed
Budget, have necessitated the relocation of CED to an alternative site. A survey of current City-owned and City-leased facilities found no available office space to accommodate the forty-four staff members of CED. consequently, a search for potential new office space was conducted and an available site was identified at 100
Broadway, Suite 400 (see Exhibit A). Located across from City Hall on the south side of Broadway between Pacific Avenue and Pine Avenue, the proposed site is optimal for the deployment of resources from the newly consolidated CED as well as coordination with the Department of Planning and Building and the Office of the City Prosecutor. This site was selected, based on the following operational considerations:
Customers who meet with inspectors to discuss their property violation cases can go directly acros...
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