Long Beach is looking to the future, and with its proposed land use element (LUE) is planning for a city that will include tighter retail spaces and taller residential developments to help ease the growing burden of California’s housing crunch.
As city leaders move toward approving Long Beach’s next fiscal year’s budget three departments (public works, development services and parks, recreation and marine) presented overviews and took questions from the city council on their proposed budgets and the challenges they face in the coming year.
The City of Long Beach will enter into an exclusive negotiation agreement with the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach (GBALB) to hammer out a new five year contract to keep the city’s annual Indy Car race in Long Beach.
Mayor Robert Garcia and City Manager Patrick H. West revealed the proposed Fiscal Year 2018 budget during a news conference Monday, emphasizing investment in infrastructure and public safety.
The Long Beach City Council hosted a special study session Tuesday night to discuss the proposed 2018 fiscal budget for the city’s capital improvement projects.
The controversial gas tax bill that became law earlier this year could have immediate local impacts according to plans released by CalTrans that would expedite funding to road repair projects in Los Angeles County.
Since 2015, when JetBlue formally requested an international terminal be built at Long Beach Airport, the funds collected through consent decrees—agreements between airlines and the city prosecutors office to avoid going to trial for habitually violating the city’s airport noise ordinance—have steadily risen with this year’s total already sitting near $640,000.
You could call 2017 the year of parking. No, not because parking spots in downtown have magically appeared and you can now consistently park on the block you actually live on, but because the city council has taken a public stance to figure out how to remedy the growing problem of parking in impacted areas of Long Beach.
