![]() ![]() ![]() Free condoms, STI testing available through new Long Beach health program.Long Beach’s Stacyee Dains tapped as LA Animal Services general manager.Wilson High’s Claire Beeli to serve as Long Beach’s first youth poet laureate.Long Beach youth-led neighborhood tours to return this summer.Pride 2023: 15 events taking place across Southern California in June.One such policy would require trucks to use designated routes on specific side streets in Long Beach, the staff report said, to reduce excess noise in neighborhoods and throughout the city. The plan also puts forth several plans to lessen the impact of transit-related noise, particularly related to freeway traffic and aircraft transportation. The noise element would also encourage developers to incorporate noise reduction features in the planning process, and consider installing courtyards or other open spaces in particularly noise-burdened communities to act as a sound barrier. One proposed policy, for example, would require developers to incorporate noise consideration into the planning process to prevent additional, unnecessary sound. It includes a total of 16 new noise-reduction strategies and more than 100 new policy guidelines.Ī major facet of the noise element update, the staff report said, will be its impact on future land development. The 100-page noise element update draft report, which was released in October, divides the proposed changes into six different sections, which focus on the noise plan’s interactions with other city policy guidelines, including the land use and housing elements. The policy document lays out updated policy guidelines for noise mitigation related to traffic, transportation, the Long Beach Airport, and new housing and commercial developments. Now, though, residents will have one final chance to give feedback on the finished noise element update during Tuesdat’s hearing. Progress didn’t resume until last year, according to the city’s website, when officials hosted several noise element study sessions, open houses and community meetings. ![]() The outreach and noise element update development process continued throughout 2019 - but was eventually stalled by the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. The city also hosted several community meetings and focus groups. That year, the city launched “Listen Up Long Beach,” a digital mapping tool that enabled residents to report excess noise issues. That largely included community outreach and engagement, the staff report said. It hasn’t been comprehensively updated since then - despite major changes in Long Beach’s population, city make up and traffic.Ĭity officials began the process of revamping the noise element to better suit Long Beach’s current needs in 2017. Long Beach developed its original noise element in 1975, which was later added into the City Charter in 1977. The noise element is one of nine state-mandated general plan areas for cities, according to a city staff report for the Tuesday, June 6, council meeting. The California legislature, in 1972, required that local cities and counties develop and implement noise ordinances because of the potential health impacts excessive noise could have on residents. The City Council this week will host a public hearing to determine whether to OK the first update to Long Beach’s noise ordinance - a document outlining noise regulations as it relates to land use - since it was originally created in 1975. ![]()
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