City of Long Beach - File #: 17-0806

• File #: 17-0806
• Version: 2
• Name: DS - Appeal of SEASP EIR D3 (4 of 6)
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Second Reading
• File created: 9/11/2017
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 10/3/2017
• Final action: 10/3/2017
• Title: Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending section 21.37.010 by repealing PD-1 (Southeast Area Development and Improvement Plan); and amending Section 21.37.210 to add SP-2 (Southeast Area Specific Plan); and by repealing Ordinance ORD-06-0001 related to the Southeast Area Development and Improvement Plan (PD-1), all relating to the establishment of the Southeast Area Specific Plan (SP-2), read and adopted as read.
• Sponsors: Development Services

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/3/2017	2	City Council	approve recommendation and adopt	Pass
9/19/2017	1	City Council	declare ordinance read the first time and laid over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading	Pass

TITLE
Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending section 21.37.010 by repealing PD-1 (Southeast Area Development and Improvement Plan); and amending Section 21.37.210 to add SP-2 (Southeast Area Specific Plan); and by repealing Ordinance ORD-06-0001 related to the Southeast Area Development and Improvement Plan (PD-1), all relating to the establishment of the Southeast Area Specific Plan (SP-2), read and adopted as read.

DISCUSSION
On June 1, 2017, the Planning Commission conducted a public hearing on the Southeast Area Specific Plan (Specific Plan or SEASP) (Exhibit A - Specific Plan) and formally recommended the Specific Plan to the City Council for adoption (Exhibit B - Planning Commission staff report). The Planning Commission’s action is the culmination of over 13 years of study, community visioning and planning exercises, and exhaustive public and environmental review. The purpose of the update is to enhance the quality of life, improve the functionality and visual appearance of public and private improvements in the area, and provide an overall framework for resource protection, mobility, growth, and development for the southeast area of the City into the future.

Existing regulations for the SEADIP area (Exhibit C - PD-1 SEADIP) were adopted in 1977. In 2004, the Third District Los Cerritos Wetlands Study Group first recommended changes to this oldest planned development district in the City. In 2006, the City Council directed staff to update these regulations because they were no longer meeting the needs of Long Beach residents and property owners in terms of mobility, activity and amenities, land use, the need for employment and housing and, most importantly, of maintaining, restoring, and protecting our wetlands. The existing PD-1 is a set of restrictions and allowed uses but is not a plan in today’s understanding of that term. PD-1 contains no vision for the future and does not contemplate the redevelop...