vertical-align: middle; That means moving unpopulated census blocks into different districts will give more than one district a direct involvement with the airport. At 116,000 square feet (10,800 square metres), it is the world's largest mural (according to the Guinness Book of Records). .census-table-census-item-header { .partytd.Republican { Silent film stars who lived in Long Beach included Fatty Arbuckle and Theda Bara. It doesnt matter what district youre in, we can all work together to make a difference for our city.. At a meeting last week, commission members offered their priorities for setting boundaries in Long Beach. } View information on upcoming public meetings including dates, agendas and minutes for City Council Meetings, Zoning Board Meetings and more. The city of Long Beach, California, held a primary election for city council districts 2, 4, 6, and 8 on March 3, 2020. [115] The school has participated in national championships in women's volleyball (5), men's volleyball (1), track and field (1), men's tennis (1; Division II), swimming (1; Division II), women's badminton (2), and women's field hockey (1). Production of Ford vehicles continued after the war until 1960 when the plant was closed due to a fire,[27] and January 1991 when the factory was demolished partially due to air quality remediation efforts. Pine Avenue near 4th became the center of a large shopping district. Ballot measures, Who represents me? Long Beach Transit provides local public transportation services within Long Beach, Lakewood, and Signal Hill. As of 2018, annual salaries were $36,170 for council members and $144,655 for the mayor. Huge picnics for migrants from each state were a popular annual event in Long Beach until the 1960s. The site includes five agricultural buildings, including a working blacksmith's shop, 4 acres (16,000m2) of gardens, and an adobe ranch house dating from around 1800. .votebox_legend { Due to fears on the coast, state officials persuaded the national government to remove Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans for internment in 1942 to inland facilities. padding-top: 3px; $5,000 to the LGBTQ Center Long Beach for their annual Black and White Ball on . A federal judge in Santa Ana Monday signed off final approval of a $50-million settlement of a class-action lawsuit involving the pipeline oil leak that gushed thousands . Long Beach City College operates two internet student-run radio stations, KCTY FM[83] and KLBC AM. Starting with the 2020 election, primary election is being held in March and runoff election is being held in November. Foster joins Josh Lowenthal and 8th District Councilman Al Austin, both of whom declared their candidacies after four-term Assemblyman Patrick O'Donnell said he was retiring last week. The other collegiate sports team in the city is that of Long Beach City College. [2], The city council is made up of 10 members, including the mayor. Click here to learn more about the city's mayoral election. The city and its residents have initiatives underway to preserve and reclaim part of its ecological heritage. [141], Long Beach City College is a community college established in 1927. Public policy. [180], Palacio Magazine (formerly Palacio de Long Beach) is a free quarterly,[181] bilingual magazine which runs stories focusing on community, education, art, health and wellness side by side in English and Spanish.[182]. The new coaster was also built on pilings over the ocean, but as the breakwater was built and the harbor expanded, the sandy beach extended. (Courtesy of the City of Long Beach), The one thing you notice most with the proposed maps compared to the current boundaries is around 30% of the population moves (districts), Paul Mitchell, principal at Redistricting Partners, said Thursday, Oct. 14. Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California.It is the 42nd-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 466,742 as of 2020. Under normal circumstances, the commission would have had six months to complete its work, but due to the late release of U.S. Census data, it had a little less than three months to approve a map. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was January 15, 2016. On the east side, Dr. [148] Most regular service bus routes begin or end at the Long Beach Transit Mall in downtown Long Beach. The economic base has changed over the years. padding-left: 0; Incumbents are bolded and underlined. [67] Pioneer Electronics, the U.S. affiliate of Japan-based Pioneer Corporation, is also headquartered in Long Beach along with SCAN Health Plan, a non-profit "Medicare Advantage" HMO for seniors. .inner_percentage, .inner_percentage.Nonpartisan, .inner_percentage.Independent, .inner_percentage.Constitution, .inner_percentage.unknown { The city is supported by a budget of $2.3 billion, and has more than 5,500 employees. .votebox-results-cell--check { Long Beach Community Concert Association[79] is a 49-year-old volunteer organization that provides quality musical entertainment appealing to seniors and others, four Sunday afternoons a year at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center[80] at CSULB. Here are Long Beach's new City Council districts. The final map could text-align: center; In the 1870s, as many as 30,000 sheep were kept at the ranch and sheared twice yearly to provide wool for trade. (Courtesy of the city of Long Beach), Long Beach's current City Council District map. KristinaDuggan.com - Home Long Beach completely surrounds the city of Signal Hill. The annual event includes a variety of races including a Kids Fun Run, a Bike Tour, 5K, Half Marathon and Full Marathon. La La Land features both a Long Beach apartment house and bar.[167]. Pacific Coast Highway (SR 1) takes an east to southwest route through the southern portion of Long Beach. If. There were no incumbents in this race. In addition to its own police and fire departments, Long Beach provides: Long Beach held its elections for City Council on April (primary) and June (runoff) until the 2018 election. In 1866, Temple sold Rancho Los Cerritos for $20,000 to the Northern California sheep-raising firm of Flint, Bixby & Company, which consisted of brothers Thomas and Benjamin Flint and their cousin Lewellyn Bixby. The western portion of the Garden Grove Freeway (SR 22) provides a spur off of the San Diego and 605 Freeways to 7th Street in southeast Long Beach for access to the VA Long Beach Healthcare System, California State University, Long Beach, and the Alamitos Bay. The city is known for its waterfront attractions, including the permanently docked RMSQueen Mary and the Aquarium of the Pacific. 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Here are Long Beachs new City Council districts. Orange County Transportation Authority offers limited bus service to Orange County. Nine years later, dissatisfaction with prohibition and high taxes led to an abortive and short-lived disincorporation. More candidates surface in races for Long Beach Council Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California. With only mail-in ballots counted, Duggan jumped ahead 58% to 42%, and as votes continued to be tallied, that lead expanded, reaching 60% to 40% by the end of Tuesday night. background-color: #db0000; Many car chase and crash scenes have been shot on stretches of road near the Long Beach harbor and along the city's Shoreline Drive. Eventually the entire pier stood over the beach. Elections in 2023 | Nonpartisan primary for Long Beach City Council District 5 Megan Kerr and Ian Patton defeated Jeannine Bedard and Linda Valdez in the primary for Long Beach City Council District 5 on June 7, 2022. } [59] Non-Hispanic White Americans made up 30.0% of the city's population. Council members representing the odd-numbered districts, the mayor and other city-wide officials are elected at the same time. }

border-top: 1px solid #ccc; The Rancho Los Cerritos and Rancho Los Alamitos were divided from this territory. color: white; [168][169][170] The Pike[171] and SoundWalk art show[172] have also been featured. [53], The ethnic Cambodian population of approximately 20,000 is the largest outside of Asia. left: 0; The population density was 9,149.8 inhabitantsper square mile (3,532.8 inhabitants/km2). The downtown community itself should be one district, commissioners said. They include the Bob Marley Reggae Festival (February), the Cajun & Zydeco Festival (May), the El Dia De San Juan Puerto Rican Festival (Salsa music, June) the Aloha Concert Jam (Hawaiian music, June), the Long Beach Jazz Festival (August), the Long Beach Blues Festival (September, since 1980), and the Brazilian Street Carnaval (Brazilian music, September). The draft maps, both from the consultant and from the public, can be viewed at longbeach.gov/redistricting. Long Beach voters in Districts 3, 5 and 9 have cast their ballots to decide who should represent them on the City Council over the next four years. The San Diego Freeway also provides regional access to Long Beach Airport, which is on the north side of the freeway near Signal Hill. background: #4c4c4c; In August of the same year, just sixteen months after its much-publicized launch, Freedom Communications announced it would cease publication of the Long Beach Register completely,[184] citing lack of reader and advertiser interest.[185]. font-size: 20px; The fleet left in the 1990s, and now some residents are calling for it to be lowered or eliminated and the city has commissioned a $100,000 study for this purpose. The film Freedom Writers, although not shot there, was based on Long Beach Woodrow Wilson High School. } [3] The current Mayor of Long Beach is Rex Richardson (nonpartisan). The process accelerated when final census numbers were released last month since current state rules require the new districts to be set by Dec. 7. table#officeholder-table th, td { padding:5px; font-size: 16px; } Due to this and other factors, Japanese Americans now make up less than 1% of the population of Long Beach, but the Japanese Community Center and a Japanese Buddhist Church survive. About 19.3% of families and 22.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 32.7% of those under age 18 and 11.0% of those age 65 or over. [22] In 1932, the even larger Wilmington Oil Field, fourth-largest in the United States, and which is mostly in Long Beach, was developed, contributing to the city's fame in the 1930s as an oil town. Councilman Robert Garcia won election as mayor. } [58] Since the second half of the 20th century, the city has been a major port of entry for Asian and Latin American immigrants headed to Los Angeles. [99], Rancho Los Cerritos is a 4.7-acre (19,000m2) historical site owned by Long Beach in the Bixby Knolls area near the Virginia Country Club. Currently, downtown is split between the First and Second districts. The minor league American Basketball Association team, the Long Beach Jam, played in the Walter Pyramid (a pyramid-shaped gym) on the Long Beach State campus) from 2003 to 2005. padding-left: 10px; The mayor and city council, the legislative branch of city government, are responsible for appointing two officials, the city manager and the city clerk. Southeast Long Beach While the 5th District could emerge from the redistricting process relatively unchanged, the same cannot be said for the 3rd and 4th Districts, according to the draft maps released Wednesday. Roberto Uranga - Ballotpedia Douglas Aircraft Company (later McDonnell Douglas and now part of Boeing) had plants at the Long Beach Airport where they built aircraft for World War II, and later built DC-8s, DC-9s, DC-10s, and MD-11s. General election for Long Beach City Council District 3 Kristina Duggan defeated Kailee Caruso in the general election for Long Beach City Council District 3 on November 8, 2022. [32], Long Beach suffers from some of the worst air pollution in the entire United States. The school has appeared in national championships in men's gymnastics (6), football (5), women's soccer (3), and men's doubles and singles tennis (1 each). Long Beach State is three miles away from the Pacific Ocean and is known for their resources of the arts, such as the Carpenter Performing Arts Center. To manage Rancho Los Cerritos, the company selected Lewellyn's brother Jotham Bixby, the "Father of Long Beach". Election 2022: Long Beach's 5th Council District is tight, 3rd and 9th Gradually the oil industry, Navy shipyard and facilities and port became the mainstays of the city. Jesse James' West Coast Choppers custom motorcycle shop was in Long Beach, and much of the Monster Garage cable TV show was shot in Long Beach. Founded in 1949, California State University, Long Beach is a comprehensive public university in the tree-filled Los Altos neighborhood. The national average was 8.7 percent in 2016. Its pleasant, relaxing atmosphere provides for community open space while educating citizens about what the land was like prior to industrialization and urbanization. In the California State Senate, Long Beach is split between the 33rd district, represented by Democrat Lena Gonzalez. float: left; The allocations to FiSCs are estimates of the revenues collected from and services provided to central city residents and businesses by these overlying independent governments. .mw-body #mw-content-text .votebox .race_header h5.votebox-header-election-type { Once this happens, no sex offender will legally be able to live in the vast majority of Long Beach. } padding-left: 0; Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo High School has been a very popular place to shoot movies as well, with 24 films shot per year, and is being used to shoot 20th Century Fox's musical comedy-drama, Glee. Coastal Research Center, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California. Gone in 60 Seconds (1974 film), Gone in 60 Seconds (2000 film), and Speed[166] were shot in Long Beach. Most did not return to Long Beach after their release from the camps. Early voting results show Kristina Duggan appears on track to become the new representative of Long Beach's 3rd City Council district after taking an early lead over her opponent, Kailee Caruso in Tuesday night's election. The Alamitos townsite was kept as a separate entity, but at first, it was primarily run by Lewellyn and Jotham Bixby, although I.W, Hellman (who had the largest single share) had a significant veto power, an influence made even stronger as the J.W. padding-bottom: 3px; font-weight: 100; Departments then submit their budget proposals to the city manager, who submits a proposed budget to the mayor. [162] One advantage for Long Beach is that the video and film industry uses a zone that extends 30 miles (48km) from Beverly Blvd. width: 100%; The city of Long Beach, California, held general elections for mayor, city attorney, city auditor, city prosecutor, and city council on November 8, 2022. The 1917 film Cleopatra, starring Theda Bara, was shot at the Dominguez Slough just west of Long Beach, and Moses parted the Red Sea for Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 version of The Ten Commandments on the flat seashore of Seal Beach, southeast of Long Beach. [150] In addition, during the summer, a 49-passenger water taxis called the AquaBus is provided. The Word with Jackie Rae } The 1200ft Palos Verdes hills block west to east airflow and a significant amount of the coastal moisture that marks other coastal cities, such as Manhattan Beach, Santa Monica, and Newport Beach. On the exterior of the Long Beach Sports Arena is one of the artist Wyland's Whaling Walls. He failed and was bought out by a Los Angeles syndicate that called itself the "Long Beach Land and Water Company". In 1914 the Pike Amusement Zone undertook several upgrades and a new roller coaster named the Jack Rabbit Racer was opened in May 1915 becoming the second largest racing coaster in the country. The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) offers bus service to San Pedro. The median age was 33.2 years. .votebox-results-metadata { In the city, 29.2% of the population was under the age of 18, 10.9% from 18 to 24, 32.9% from 25 to 44, 18.0% from 45 to 64, and 9.1% was 65 years of age or older. } There were 176,032 dwelling units at an average density of 3,422.2 per square mile (1,321.3/km2), of which 67,949 (41.6%) were owner-occupied, and 95,582 (58.4%) were occupied by renters. A major video and film artist (such as former CSULB student Steven Spielberg) screens and discusses their own work as well as the ten productions that most influenced their cinematic vision.[89]. In a newsletter to constituents this week, Mungo Flanigan said she has a home in Cal Heights, which is now part of the new 5th District, but moving would be a big decision that would be made once the lines were finalized. [5], The city of Long Beach, California, held a special election for city council on April 14, 2015. The Long Beach City Council is comprised of 9 council districts. display: inline-block; Jason Ruiz covers City Hall and politics for the Long Beach Post. padding: 0.5em 1em; Boeing built the Boeing 717 until 2006 and the C-17 Globemaster III strategic airlifter until 2015, the plants were leased by Mercedes-Benz and Relativity Space. padding-right: 10px !important; [63] The aerospace industry played an important role. Incumbent Laura Doud won election outright against Daniel Miles in the primary for Long Beach City Auditor on June 7, 2022. About 25% of those were cast by registered Republicans while over half were Democratic voters. The Metro A Line also offers connections to the Metro E Line at both the 7th Street/Metro Center Station and Pico Station with service to Santa Monica. Oil and Three Coastal California Counties."

 padding-left: 10px !important; After nearly a year of meetings and public testimony, the Long Beach Independent Redistricting Commission unanimously approved a new map Thursday night that will lock in City Council district boundaries for the next decade and force two council incumbents to make decisions about their political futures. [64][65][66] Even after greatly reducing the number of local employees in recent years, Boeing is still the largest private employer in the city. [2] The city council is made up of 10 members, including the mayor. [131][132][133], The Long Beach Fire Department (LBFD), ISO Class 1, provides fire protection and emergency medical services to the City of Long Beach. [116] Their cheer team were national champions in 2003, 2004 and 2006. Cities | The discovery of the Long Beach Oil Field, brought in by the gusher at the Alamitos oil well #1, made Long Beach a major oil producer; in the 1920s the field was the most productive in the world. 		display: inline-block;        padding-left: 0.25em; As of the 2000 census, there were 163,088 households, out of which 35.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.2% were married couples living together, 16.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.9% were non-families. [55] Non-Hispanic Whites were 29.4% of the population in 2010,[52] down from 86.2% in 1970. Joann Ariola NYC Council District 32 on Twitter: "I was back at the  [11] Long Beach is approximately 20 miles (32km) south of downtown Los Angeles, and is part of the Gateway Cities region. 	.results_row { Gutierrez said the commission was able to unite the citys Cambodian population and preserve its historic Black core in Central Long Beach, among other neighborhood unifications. Epson America, Inc. the U.S. affiliate of Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, is headquartered in Long Beach. [156] Long Beach was the nation's first large city to relax restrictions on cabs by allowing them to offer variable, discounted fares, free rides and other price promotions to lure customers while keeping maximum fares in place. A primary was scheduled for June 7, 2022. 	} The five proposed City Council district boundary maps released Wednesday evening, Oct. 13, all have one thing in common  more than 25% of the population will be part of a different district once the process is done. Of all households, 29.6% were made up of individuals, and 7.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. These include California buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum), California sagebrush (Artemisia californica), and California poppy (Eschscholzia californica). [6] The city held the election to fill the District 4 seat of former council member Patrick O'Donnell, who won election to the California State Assembly in 2014.[7]. Lena Gonzalez, Susan Price, Stacy Mungo, Roberto Uranga, and Rex Richardson won election to the city council. It features events centered on the ocean and the beach. Long Beach City Council members could be drawn out of current districts  


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