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Home My WebLink AboutSupplemental Communication - Study Session - Updating City M City of Huntington Beach Study Session 3/6/2017 UPDATING CITY MUNICIPAL CODES PRESENTED BY CAPTAIN KELLY RODRIGUEZ, HBPD Updating City Municipal Codes The PD and City Attorney's Office have identified several codes to be modified and/or adopted to improve the quality of life for our residents and visitors The majority of changes include minor adjustments with a word or number change and others need complete replacement. Updating City Municipal Codes Municipal Codes Potentially Impacted: • 8.21.040-Littering/Dumping or Refuse or Waste Prohibited • 12.32.015-Fourth of July Parade Viewing • 12.32.020-Animals or Vehicles • 12.32.030-Signs • 12.32.040-Driving Over Unprotected Sidewalk • 12.32.050-Paved Sidewalk Crossing Excepted • 12.32.060-Prohibited Acts • 12.32.070-Definitions • 12.32.080-No Restriction on Free Speech • 12.32.090-Severability • 12.32.100-Nuisance • 12.32.110-Conduct On Public Property, Monument, Fountains and Law • 12.32.120-Begging and Solicitation Updating City Municipal Codes c-) Municipal Codes Potentially Impacted: • 13.08.005-Definitions/Beach Regulation • 13.08.005-Definitions/Smoking • 13.10.010-Purpose • 13.10.020-Definition • 13.10.030-Unlawful camping • 13.10.040-Storage of personal property on public and private property • 13.10.050-Permit for Special Events • 13.10.060-Posting copy of permit • 13.10.070-Power of the City Manager to make rules and regulations • 13.10.080-Current ordinance provisions • 13.10.090-Violations--Penalty • 13.10.100-Severability • 13.48.115-Definitions-No Smoking in Parks Updating City Municipal Codes Section 8.21 .040- Relates to dumping of refuse Recommended action: Add a littering component to include infections waste such as hypodermic needles, syringes, diapers. and other hazardous material. Section 12.32 - Relates to sidewalks and obstructing Recommended action: Add new language to help define the activity of these areas. Changes require several subsections to be re-numbered. Updating City Municipal Codes 12.32.015-Fourth of July Parade Viewing Recommended action: Change "public property to public way or public space." Change Municipal Code to 12.32.025 12.32.060-Prohibited Acts- solicitation/Begging Recommended action: Add, "Place or Public Way, or other place open to the general public," Updating City Municipal Codes 12.32.100-Nuisance Recommended action: Change Municipal Code to 12.32.130. Add "the Pier, Pier Plaza, the Civic Center, any Public Place or Public Ways," 13.08.005-Definitions/Smoke or Smoking Recommended action Update language to include e-cigarette, vaporizing, etc. Proposed New Municipal Code 12.32. 110-relates to : Conduct on Public Property, Monuments, Fountains, and Lawns. This code would prohibit the destruction of public and private property and forbid the misuse of public and private fountains, planters, bike racks, and benches from its intended purpose. This new section also provides a way to enforce the intentional throwing of objects that may adversely affect the public in the downtown area (100 to 500 block of Main St). Updating City Municipal Codes 13.08.005-Definitions/Beach Regulation Recommended action: add: "adjacent Beach Area" Adjacent Beach Area will include the mean tide of Pacific Ocean. Anderson st, Bolsa Chica, the beach service road, the Pier, Pier Plaza, walkways, guardrails, hills, raised banks, structures and beach parking lots. It extends from the tide line of the pacific Ocean to the west curb line of PCH from Warner to the Santa Ana River. Updating City Municipal Codes Repeal the following Municipal Codes 13. 10-Camping in Public Areas 13.10.010-Purpose and Intent 13.10.020-Definitions 13.10.030-Unlawful camping in Public Places 13.10.040-Unlawful Storage of Personal Property in public places 13.10.050-Violations-Penalty Proposed New Municipal Code 13.10-Camping in Public Areas This will be a new code complete with new definitions, provisions, and penalties. The code is based on research of other cities whose ordinances have faced and endured challenges. Proposed Municipal Code 13.10.040-Storage of Personal Property on public and private property. It is unlawful for any person to store personal property in any public area or the Civic Center 13.48.115-Definitions-No Smoking in Parks/Beaches Existing ordinance prohibits smoking on beaches, this ordinance expands the areas smoking is prohibited to include City parks Comments/Questions?