Local restaurant owner and involved community member John Morris – owner of Smooth’s Bar & Grille – delivered a presentation yesterday about the decline of Long Beach’s shoreline over time and his solutions to reverse and improve the process.  Click here to download the presentation.

Morris argued that diverting the LA River into the port would greatly improve the quality and cleanliness of local beaches.

Some of the other key points of Morris’ presentation were his ideas to establish closer community partnerships and to institute a one-time container fee to fund city projects that would create and improve parks, marinas and beachfront facilities, and renegotiate the city’s contract with tidelands in order to expand them.

Disclosure: Smooth’s is an advertiser with lbpost.com.