Council looks to expand remote-controlled delivery ordinance
Apr. 27, 2021 at 6:00 am
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A possible amendment to municipal code could soon allow remote-controlled delivery devices in the Zero Emission Delivery Zone program to serve businesses in all parts of Santa Monica.
In late 2020, City Council took up discussion on imposing a year-long moratorium on autonomous delivery vehicles in Santa Monica shortly after city leaders began to see an increasing number of unpermitted devices on local streets. Citing safety and a need to be proactive rather than reactive, Council agreed to partner the vehicles with a separate Zero Emission Delivery zone project that covered the Downtown and Main Street areas.
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Council vetos improvised weapons ban
Apr. 15, 2021 at 6:00 am
Council has rejected a proposal to ban items from public gatherings that could become weapons if a peaceful protest became violent.
The proposal would have banned otherwise legal items from protests including sticks/poles larger than three inches in diameter, any length of metal pipe, all baseball bats, any aerosol spray (including tear gas, mace, pepper spray, smoke canisters or bear repellent), slingshots, catapults, chains longer than 20 inches, all blades, martial arts weapons, containers of noxious liquid, all glass bottles, open flames, shields, bricks or laser pointers.
“There are items that people can have ordinarily in the course and scope of their lives that are fine to have but within the context of showing up in a protest, you have to ask how is that contributing to the expressive conduct,” said Interim Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks. “If we want to promote peaceful protest, and we want to encourage const
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City Council sets priorities ahead of budget process
Mar. 16, 2021 at 6:00 am
Santa Monica City Council has set the community priorities that will guide the city’s budget process through 2023 during a meeting Saturday that featured hours of debate on the most significant problems facing the city.
“As you know well, this week marks the one-year anniversary of our lives in the pandemic. And what I want you to hear from me today is that while we are looking back on the one-year anniversary of the pandemic and all of the emotions that brings up within the community, we also are in a moment where we will begin to see, quite soon, the very earliest stages of our community recovery,” Interim City Manager Lane Dilg said Saturday while she outlined the recent restructuring of city services and finances.