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The North Health Facility located at Houghton Park will offer youth violence prevention and development programs alongside medical services to residents in North Long Beach, according to Ana Lopez, community impact division officer for the Long Beach Health and Human Services Department.
The facility will also feature a public health clinic with two exam rooms with a focus around sexually transmitted disease testing. In 2019, Long Beach health officials reported a dramatic increase in rates of STDs. North Long Beach was identified, among other communities, as having one of the highest STD counts.
The center also features four drop-in meeting rooms for program leaders to meet with local residents. Lopez explained that the spaces could be used to host representatives from CalFresh, health insurance enrollment or other supportive services to allow them to set up appointments and meet with residents.
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The crosswalk features a temporary bulb-out with traffic barriers, which shortens the distance people have to walk to cross the street. It also acts as an extension between the park and Indiana Avenue a nearby residential street that was closed off to traffic during the pandemic to free up more room for pedestrians.
“It’s a passive demo project,” Long Beach planner Alejandro Sanchez-Lopez said of the crosswalk. “It’s really for residents to stop by and read, witness and enjoy it on their own time over the next 30 days or so.”
The city is conducting these small-scale demonstration throughout the year in order to collect feedback from residents, which will then be used to guide larger, more complex construction projects further down the line. This is all being gathered as part of a major redevelopment plan in North Long Beach called UPLAN LB, which had its first community meetings in 2018.
Nestled against a tree by the intersection of Studebaker Road and Spring Street is a memorial filled with candles and flowers honoring Kylee Sooter, a 29-year-old Long Beach woman who died in a high-speed crash that was so violent it jarred the neighborhood.
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Kylee was heading to work at a medical research center Thursday morning when she lost control of her car, hitting a planter box so fast that it caused her car to become airborne.
Kylee’s family said she must have suffered an epileptic seizure behind the wheel, causing her to accelerate out of control.