Speaker 1: Everyone vote, please. Great. Thank you. Okay. Hearing item number one is done. Thank you, Madam Court. Carrying out a number two.
Speaker 0: Item two is a report from Development Services. Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Conclude the public hearing and adopt resolution approving the draft downtown and transit oriented development. Pedestrian Masterplan as a technical appendix to the mobility element of the Long Beach General Plan and adopt the negative declaration. Ndee Dash one dash 16 districts one, two, six and seven.
Speaker 2: OC may a move that. Mr. Mayor.
Speaker 1: Yes? I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Is it okay if I moved it?
Speaker 1: Yeah. There's been a motion in a second. Let me Mr. West staff report.
Speaker 8: The staff report be given by Amy Burdick or Director Development Services.
Speaker 5: How much time do I have?
Speaker 1: We'll try to keep it to like last year.
Speaker 5: So this is also interesting because it also deals with the blue line. We received a grant a couple of years ago from Metro to do a study related to pedestrian access to the blue lines at the blue line stations in Long Beach. And there are eight of them, four in the downtown plan area, three in the new Midtown specific plan area. And then the Wardlow station is the last one. So this is actually also an implementation measure of our mobility element. And if you adopt this plan tonight, this will actually become a technical appendices to the mobility element and will set us up to get additional grant funding to do capital projects. So we had some plan goals here to increase equity in terms of investing in pedestrian improvements throughout the area, providing alternative transportation. Sustainability is obviously something very important in our planning world placemaking and leveraging public investment and then improving public health and safety through healthy, active living and mobility. So here are the eight metro stations, as I said, four in the downtown excuse me, four in midtown, not three. So we did a lot of community outreach in some very unusual manners, where we did a lot of stakeholder groups and focus groups, online surveys. But then we also did community events out in the street where we essentially created new crosswalks to help people get to the blue line. We stopped people on their way to and from the blue line and asked them what their issues were and how they traversed the neighborhoods surrounding these metro stations. Through that, we got an incredible amount of information and called that into 33 recommended projects, 13 of which are high priority. And there's a number of improvement types that we have managed to divide. These 33 pedestrian projects into. These include things called stitch streets, neighborhood greenways, green alleys, shared streets, streetlights, green belts and transit access projects. So that points to that last one points to Councilmember Gonzalez is issues related to pedestrian safety and safety on the blue line platforms and also how pedestrians and the blue line interact, hopefully successfully and not fatally. So this is an example of a shared street, which we are actually looking at this through a grant that we got from Metro as well on First Street between Long Beach Boulevard and Elm, where perhaps we have a median in the middle of the street and then closed that block for only transit. And then we can actually use that street for special events as well. So there is an idea here that's percolating that we can change the manner in the street because it does not have a lot of vehicular traffic and provide green space and open space to the neighborhood , but still keep transit moving. This is an example of a street lit concept on Long Beach Boulevard, where you essentially close the end of a T street and create either temporary or permanent greenspace for the neighborhood. We also looked heavily at the greenbelt along Del Mar near the Wardlow station. I think everyone who's visited there knows that it's extremely difficult for the pedestrian to access the Wardlow station. Once they do find a parking space somewhere on the street. So all of these and these are part of our 13 high priority projects that rolled up into the three projects identified in this study. We think that these equate to about $70 million in potential projects and that they could be implemented over time. And we're certainly using this plan to go after additional funding sources from Metro and Caltrans and then also the FTA. So we did do a negative declaration under Sequoia in order to support the planning initiatives. As I said, this would serve as a technical appendices to our mobility element. And then the Planning Commission did recommend approval to this to this body. That concludes our staff report.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Any public comment on this item? Saying none. I'm going to go in and close the hearing face. Marie Lowenthal.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just wanted to thank the staff for the work that they did. While maybe not as much work and taking multiple years the way that a specific plan would or the downtown plan did it is a lot of work. And I want to appreciate you, Ms.. Burdick, your staff, you have consistently for the last four, the decade that I've been here, have been very clear about making pedestrian mobility a very, very, very safe activity here in our city, with the idea that when we get the streets right and we get our public space right for really the most vulnerable and smallest mobile objects on the street, that we will have it right for every other mode. And so I appreciate the focus on the individual. And the master plan provides us with a blueprint for the future of our streets. It's very exciting for me to see and very exciting for me to be a part of this vote. But really just recognizing the amount of work in the hours that your folks put into it. Thank you.
Speaker 5: I appreciate that. And I do want to also acknowledge our our public works department, who played a huge role in this, and then also health department. Those three those two departments, as well as development services are really working in tandem on these mobility and life mobility lifestyle efforts. Thank you.
Speaker 2: You're welcome.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzalez.
Speaker 4: I do want to thank each of you public works and our team from our bike team, Nate and Chris and yourself Sean as well for the amazing work because this is really a big deal. I think the mayor, vice mayor and myself were really in awe of how this is just being re-imagined in a way we couldn't I didn't even think would be possible. And so I really appreciate the creative thought that has been put into this, because Long Beach Boulevard is definitely in need of a lot of love. And I think that these are really great plans to be able to allow pedestrians and residents to to utilize it in a different way. And so I just want to want to say thank you. I hope we can move forward with with many of these projects and appreciate the work.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Councilman Ringo.
Speaker 13: I'm beginning to feel that planning is very sexy. Mm hmm. I do want to. I threw myself off the counter. Yeah. I also want to thank staff for their work on this. And anything that increases access for the community to the blue line and beautifies a language boulevard along the way is is an excellent project for a while.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. There's a motion and a second. Members, please go and cast your votes.
Speaker 2: Supernova is.
Speaker 0: Pushing carries.
Speaker 1: Hearing item three.
Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and adopt resolution approving the draft Downtown and Transit-Oriented Development Pedestrian Master Plan as a technical appendix to the Mobility Element of the Long Beach General Plan; and 

Adopt the Negative Declaration ND-1-16. (Districts 1,2,6,7)