2007 Comprehensive Plan

CITY OF LONG BEACH COMPREHENSIVE PLAN City of Long Beach Saccardi & Schiff, Inc. April 2007 CITY OF LONG BEACH COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Long Beach City Council City Manager Planning Advisory Board Saccardi & Schiff, Inc. Eschbacher Engineering, P.C. Adopted April 4, 2007 Long Beach City Council Leonard G. Remo, President Robert S. Tepper, Vice President Denise Tangney James P. Hennessy Thomas R. Sofi eld, Jr. City Manager Edwin L. Eaton Planning Advisory Board Damian Sciano Helen Alessi Frank Baxter Simon Berger Mike Byrne Steve Candon Queen Harvey Lisa Hayes Jeff Jones Thomas Marry Joel Tropp Saccardi & Schiff, Inc. John J. Saccardi, AICP, Principal Syrette Dym, AICP, Project Manager Jill Gallant, AICP, Project Planner Cari Varner, Project Planner Eschbacher Engineering, P.C. Robert M. Eschbacher, P.E., President TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE Page I. EXISTING CONDITIONS . .I-1 A. Community Structure . .I-1 B. Community Character. .I-2 C. Public Facilities. .I-11 D. Traffi c, Parking and Transportation . .I-23 E. Public Policy . .I-25 F. Areas Subject to Change. .I-27 G. Socio-economic Factors . .I-35 II. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES . II-1 A. Land Use and Community Character Vision . II-1 B. Public Policies Vision . II-1 C. Visual Character Vision . II-1 D. Economic Development Vision . II-2 E. Housing and Neighborhood Stabilization Vision . II-2 F. Historic and Cultural Resources Vision . II-2 G. Community Facilities and Services and Infrastructure Vision . II-3 H. Parks, Recreation and Open Space Vision . II-3 I. Waterfront and Environmental Vision . II-4 J. Traffi c, Transportation, and Parking Vision . II-4 III. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PROPOSALS . III-1 A. The Land Use Plan . III-1 B. Plan Proposals. III-6 IV. IMPLEMENTATION . IV-1 A. Public Policies. IV-1 B. Zoning. IV-1 C. Capital Facilities and Improvements . IV-3 D. Funding Sources . IV-3 E. Other Actions . IV-9 V. NEXT STEPS . V-1 City of Long Beach Comprehensive Plan PREFACE The City of Long Beach Comprehensive Plan was also completed. These areas include the evolved from a 15-month planning process. bayfront, oceanfront, Long Beach Boulevard The planning consultants, Saccardi & Schiff, and other specifi c areas throughout the city in Inc. worked closely with the Long Beach City need of alternative planning concepts to address Manager, City Council, Planning Advisory Board underutilized or undeveloped properties that could and various City departments to develop the plan. impact the future shape of the city. An extensive public participation was undertaken, including six community charrettes that focused The existing conditions analysis resulted in a on the goals and objectives of individual topics. set of preliminary goals and objectives. These preliminary goals and objectives were presented Under current New York State Law, the local at the six neighborhood charrettes for discussion governing body, in this case the Long Beach by Long Beach citizens. With citizen input, these City Council, is responsible for undertaking and goals and objectives were refi ned to form the basis potentially adopting the Comprehensive Plan. The of the plan proposals. The plan proposals make governing body can utilize other entities within recommendations for the Areas Subject to Change the community to assist in the formulation of and address the functional areas studied in the plan proposals. In Long Beach, the City Council existing conditions Technical Memorandum. The authorized the Planning Advisory Board to work plans result in a Proposed Land Use Map. with professional planning consultants and to host the six community charrettes to garner public input. The last section of the Comprehensive Plan provides [Meetings were held on a regular basis, leading a series of implementation techniques including up to a draft plan that was the subject of a public zoning changes to guide proper development and hearing and review in accordance with the State modernize the City’s Zoning Ordinance, public Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA)]. sector initiatives to sustain the City’s infrastructure, and identifi cation of programs available to fund The City Council determined the Comprehensive plan proposals. Plan would not have a signifi cant effect on the environment and adopted the Plan on April 4, The Comprehensive Plan provides an overall guide 2007. for the city’s growth over the next 15 or so years. It provides the context within which the City can The plan encompasses a set of plan proposals and make rational land use decisions. This Plan will not potential implementation programs designed to be utilized to replace the need for future detailed shape the physical environment of this built up city studies or site-specifi c environmental reviews; the within the context of revitalization, redevelopment, Plan will be utilized to provide reference and policy and limited new development opportunities. The guidance for subsequent analyses, as required by initial step of the comprehensive planning process SEQRA. The City of Long Beach Comprehensive was an analysis of citywide existing conditions Plan is intended to be fl exible to respond to changing that resulted in a Technical Memorandum economic and social conditions, yet fi rm enough to presented to the City in May 2005. The Technical provide a solid basis for the critical choices that Memorandum incorporated documentation and will inevitably arise. analyses of community structure and character, land use and zoning, housing, economic conditions, infrastructure, community services and facilities, transportation, demographics and public policy. A preliminary analysis of Areas Subject to Change Saccardi & Schiff, Inc. Nassau County. Principalde Nassau County. ofHempstead, in Town on abarrierislandinthe The cityislocated and manmadeenvironment. including itsgeographiclocation,naturalfeatures an understandingofthebasicstructurecity, The comprehensiveplanningprocessbeginswith parking andtransportation. space, waterfrontandenvironment,traf facilities andservices,parks,recreationopen historic andculturalresources,community economicdevelopment, visualcharacter, policy, socioeconomic conditions,infrastructure,public landuseandzoning, community character, relation toanumberofrelevanttopics,including, Plan outlinestheexistingconditionsofCityin This initialchapteroftheComprehensive City. trends, andontheconstraintsdesiresof on bothexistingconditionsandrecognizable based onbothcurrentandprojectedinformation, as statedinasubsequentsectionofthisreport,are The proposedgoalsandobjectives, Plan process. is anecessarycomponentoftheComprehensive thoroughunderstandingof existing conditions A CONDITIONS I. EXISTING Saccardi & Schiff, Inc. Saccardi &Schiff, City ofLongBeachComprehensivePlan A. Community Structure A. 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