Expand<\/a><\/p>\nThe City Council will discuss a late-night public safety plan for Belmont Shore during its Tuesday, Nov. 11, meeting. The item was brought forth by Councilmember Kristina Duggan, who represents the area, asking the City Manager and staffers to return within 45 days with a plan for the commercial corridor.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of residents have contacted the Third District office, Duggan said, with detailed accounts of late-night disturbances, public intoxication and unsafe conditions.<\/p>\n
The proposed plan, according to the staff report, includes exploring options for a temporary one-year moratorium on the operation of bars and alcohol-serving establishments in Belmont Shore after midnight. It also suggests looking at the feasibility and cost associated with reestablishing Long Beach Police Department walking beats during high-traffic hours and reactivating the police sub-station in the area.<\/p>\n
As part of the LBPD East Division \u2013 which covers nearly half the city \u2013 current police staffing levels are not sufficient to manage a changing and increasingly regional bar scene operating until 2 a.m., according to the staff report.<\/p>\n
Long Beach has worked to improve safety in the area following several incidents connected to the bar scene over the last few years, officials said. The city and police department have added patrols, including bike patrols when possible, and have met with bar owners to review their operations and discuss ways to strengthen safety practices.<\/p>\n
The Belmont Shore Parking Commission also hired additional security to help address issues late at night, according to the staff report.<\/p>\n
While these steps have helped, officials said, most of the recent violent incidents have occurred after midnight, corresponding to late-night bar activity when only about four of the 250 businesses in the area remain open.<\/p>\n
To address this, Duggan has suggested a temporary midnight curfew to provide time to reassess security, enforcement and other patterns to develop long-term strategies for a safer nightlife environment that reflects the available resources.<\/p>\n
The city may also look into implementing additional DUI enforcement in Belmont Shore at regular intervals aligned with bar closing times to deter impaired driving, and enhancing targeted late-night enforcement of nuisance issues, including public drinking and unauthorized vendor operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cBelmont Shore is a special place where people enjoy coffee or breakfast in the morning, take lunch meetings, buy gifts and other retail items, bring their dog for a walk, have dinner or enjoy a drink, or watch a game with friends,\u201d Duggan wrote in the staff report. \u201cWhen one part of that experience begins to detract from every other part, the city has a responsibility to protect the overall health of the corridor and the neighborhood it serves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Long Beach City Council this week will consider ways to increase public safety measures in Belmont Shore…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,1610,1071,23,131,133,132,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-46625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-city-council","10":"tag-local-government","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-long-beach","13":"tag-long-beach-headlines","14":"tag-long-beach-news","15":"tag-los-angeles-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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