City of Long Beach - File #: 21-0545

• File #: 21-0545
• Version: 2
• Name: CA - Moratorium-Building Permits
• Type: Emergency Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 6/7/2021
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 6/15/2021
• Final action: 7/6/2021
• Title: Recommendation to declare ordinance imposing interim regulations (moratorium) in accordance with Chapter 21.50 of the Long Beach Municipal Code on the issuance of building, construction, occupancy permits, or other entitlements for new stand-alone residential construction along transportation corridors in areas that are designated by the 2019 General Plan Land Use Element Update as the Neighborhood-Serving Corridors or Centers PlaceType on Willow Street, west of the I-710 freeway to the City terminus; and Santa Fe Avenue, between Pacific Coast Highway on the south and Wardlow Road on the north, in the West Long Beach area of the City; declaring the urgency thereof; and declaring that this ordinance shall take effect immediately, read and adopt as read. (District 7) (Emergency Ordinance No. ORD-21-0020)
• Sponsors: City Attorney

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/6/2021	2	City Council	approve recommendation and adopt	Pass
6/15/2021	1	City Council	approve recommendation to declare Emergency Ordinance No. ORD- , read, and adopted as read and laid over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading	Pass
6/15/2021	1	City Council	approve recommendation to declare an emergency to exist	Pass

TITLE
Recommendation to declare ordinance imposing interim regulations (moratorium) in accordance with Chapter 21.50 of the Long Beach Municipal Code on the issuance of building, construction, occupancy permits, or other entitlements for new stand-alone residential construction along transportation corridors in areas that are designated by the 2019 General Plan Land Use Element Update as the Neighborhood-Serving Corridors or Centers PlaceType on Willow Street, west of the I-710 freeway to the City terminus; and Santa Fe Avenue, between Pacific Coast Highway on the south and Wardlow Road on the north, in the West Long Beach area of the City; declaring the urgency thereof; and declaring that this ordinance shall take effect immediately, read and adopt as read. (District 7) (Emergency Ordinance No. ORD-21-0020)

DISCUSSION
On May 18, 2021, the City Council adopted a minute order pursuant to an agenda request which initiated a moratorium relating to the issuance of building permits, construction permits, or other entitlements for new residential stand-alone construction along commercial and transportation corridors in areas that are designated by the 2019 General Plan Land Use Element Update as the Neighborhood-Serving Corridors or Centers PlaceType on Willow Street, west of the 1-710 freeway to the City terminus; and Santa Fe Avenue, between Pacific Coast Highway on the south and Wardlow Road on the north, in the City of Long Beach. The moratorium was initiated pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 21.50 of the Municipal Code, "Interim Prohibition of Uses."

The attached ordinance, which has been prepared for Council's consideration, establishes a twelve (12) month moratorium period to be effective in the geographic areas described above. During this time, the Development Services Department and the Planning Commission will undertake a study of potential amendments to the Zoning or Building regulations of the City relating to the construction of stand-alone resi...