Speaker 0: And then we'll go will be we'll be going on to the rest of the agenda as well. And we also have we also have public comment, which we'll do right after the hearing. Okay. And so with that, we'll begin the hearing and turn it over to the clerk to begin that pass.
Speaker 1: Report from Development Services recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record and conclude the public hearing. Approve Zone Change Designations to Park for properties located at Rosa Parks Park District six Cambodian Killing Fields Memorial District six, NAACP Freedom Park District six, Davenport Park Expansion District eight Declare ordinance amending the use district map read for the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading District six and eight.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Mr. Modica. Yes, thank you, Vice Mayor. The staff report for this will be given by Linda Tatum, our planning beer manager.
Speaker 3: Good afternoon, Mayor, and members of the City Council. This proposal is a request for zone changes for four properties to reflect their current and their future use as city parks. As a part of this action, no physical construction or any change of the use is proposed as a part of this action. However, this action is really just the first step to ensuring that these properties remain as public parks and used as public parks and are recognized as a part of the city's Parkland inventory in perpetuity. And just to give you a little bit of background, in 2015, the State Department of Finance approved the City of Long Beach's, what we call the the long range management plan. And that plan articulated the city's path for disposing of successor agency properties for either sale, development or public use. Several properties on that long range management plan had been acquired specifically for the purpose of adding to the city's parks inventory, and that included the four parcels that we've just described for you earlier.
Speaker 7: These four properties.
Speaker 3: Will be subject to both city and state requirements for a process which designates properties as city parks and making sure that they remain as parks in perpetuity. So this rezoning that's being requested tonight is the first stage or the first step in that process. We will come back to you subsequently with another ordinance that officially dedicates these as city parks, and that establishes the second phase. And it will complete the the designation of these as parks in perpetuity. And I would just like to note that this hearing or this item was considered by the Planning Commission in February of this year , and they unanimously recommended of the rezoning action to the city council and a sequel to the California Environmental Quality Act. Is or this project or this proposed rezoning is exempt from sequel. So a categorical it's it's exempt under section 15308 of the California Environmental Quality Act. So in conclusion, I recommend that the City Council affirm the Planning Commission's recommendation to rezone the following four parks from their current zoning to park, which is a zoning designation of P four Park. The first of those is the Rosa Parks Park, and that's located at Alamitos, right where Alamitos and Orange terminate and merge that sort of around 100 and at 16th and 15th just north of orange that currently is zoned are for and the request is to rezone it to P. The second one is the Cambodia Killing Fields Memorial. That's at 15 1501 East Anaheim Street, that's 15th and Peterson that current zoning is a community community commercial we're requesting that that be rezone to P four park. The third is at 2300 Martin Luther King Avenue. That's the ACP Freedom Park. The proposal is to rezone that one from commercial to P. And lastly, we have the Davenport Park expansion that's located at 5550 North Paramount Boulevard. That's at 55 way. And the request is to rezone that property from moderate density residential to P four Park. That concludes staff's presentation and we ask that the City Council consider a positive recommendation for this rezoning request.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Linda. So at this point, we'll go to public comment. Is there any public comment on this hearing? Saying none. We will close the hearing and take it back behind the rail. Councilman Austin, would you like to speak to this?
Speaker 5: So moved. I'd like to just encourage support. I want to congratulate and thank staff for their great work on this and let it be for everyone to know how excited we are to move with phase two at Davenport Park in eighth District.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Councilman Pierce.
Speaker 8: Yes. I also want to thank staff and I want to provide a fact for us since it's mental health month that a physician diagnosed depression was 33% higher in residential areas with fewer greenspaces. So I'm happy to see us adding greenspaces to other part of town and thank you staff for everybody working on this.
Speaker 2: What a great fact. Thank you so much. Any other seeing no further comments here? Member Members, please cast your vote on the hearing.
Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Land Use District Map of the City of Long Beach as said map has been established and amended by amending portions of Parts 10, 16, 29 and 30 of said map, read and adopted as read.  (Districts 6,8)