TITLE
Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal code by amending Subsections 21.54.120.B.2 and 21.54.130.A, and Table 54-1 of Chapter 21.54, all relating to billboards, read and adopted as read. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
On May 3,2016, the City Council held a public hearing on certain proposed amendments to the City's billboard regulations. The amendments related to the use of Caltrans issued credits for billboards proposed to be constructed adjacent to certain landscaped freeway segments. The amendments are more thoroughly discussed in the City Council letter that was submitted with the agenda material for the May 3, 2016 hearing.
At the conclusion of the hearing, the City Council voted to adopt the amendments, but also requested that the City Attorney's office prepare a further amendment to the billboard regulations that would raise the allowable height of a new billboard from 40 feet above the nearest freeway lane, to 50 feet above the nearest freeway lane. This proposed amendment would apply in the case of a new freeway orientated billboard, whether electronic or non-electronic. No other changes to the existing billboard regulations were proposed. Since the change in billboard height was not discussed in the May 3,2016 Council letter, this matter, together with the original proposed amendments, are being placed on the Council's agenda for first reading.
SUGGESTED ACTION
Approve recommendation.
BODY
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH AMENDING THE LONG BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE BY AMENDING SUBSECTIONS 21.54.120.B.2 AND 21.54.130.A, AND TABLE 54-1 OF CHAPTER 21.54, ALL RELATING TO BILLBOARDS
Respectfully Submitted,
CHARLES PARKIN
CITY ATTORNEY
BY:
MICHAEL J. MAIS
ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY