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Recommendation to declare ordinance amending Ordinance No. ORD-16-0013, which amended the Long Beach Municipal Code by adding Section 16.52.2220 relating to the designation of the property located at 6509 Gundry Avenue as a historic landmark, read and adopted as read.
DISCUSSION
At its June 21, 2016 meeting, the City Council adopted Ordinance ORD-16- 0012 designating the property at 260 E. San Antonio Drive, and Ordinance ORD-16- 0013 designating property at 6509 Gundry Avenue, as historic landmarks. As required by Section 2.63.060 of the Long Beach Municipal Code ("LBMC"), the City Clerk submitted both adopted ordinances to the Los Angeles County Recorder ("County Recorder") to be recorded as authorized by Public Resources Code Section 5029. Since 1979, the City Clerk has submitted and successfully recorded with the County Recorder approximately 34 ordinances designating historic landmarks. The County Recorder has, up until now, recorded the City's ordinances. However, the last two ordinances (ORD-16-0012 and ORD-16-0013), were rejected by the County Recorder and returned to the City Clerk because the County Recorder is now asserting that the Public Resources Code authorizes only the recording of resolutions, not ordinances.
Staff has made amendments to the format of ordinances and has prepared appropriate Resolutions to allow for recording with the County Recorder's office. The requested action will change the form, not the substance of the ordinances, and will not change the designation of the landmarks in the LBMC sections established for the two properties. The two Resolutions under consideration will become effective on the same date that the two Ordinances become effective in order to facilitate the proper recordation of the Resolutions with the County Recorder.
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. ORD-16-0013, WHICH AMENDED THE LONG BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING SECTION 16.52.2220 RELATING TO...
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