Long Beach’s City Council is likely to give three companies permits allowing them to provide kitesurfing lessons in the waters near Belmont Shore.

Kitesurfing companies have done business in Belmont Shore before, but today’s issue is set to come to the council in the aftermath of a California Coastal Commission decision clarifying kitesurfing rules for the area. The commission acted last July to allow up to three companies to offer kitesurfing and paddleboard lessons and to provide equipment rentals.

The companies would be allowed to meet with customers on the beach between Claremont and La Verne avenues, but they would not be able to sell merchandise or build permanent structures.

“We’re all going to have kiosks right on the beach,” said Jesse McCourt, who owns Off the Hook Kiteboarding.

Although traditional surfers have lamented the fact that breakwaters block big waves from Long Beach’s coastline, McCourt said the breakwater and local winds often create perfect conditions for people who are curious about kitesurfing.

“We have very smooth, calm, flat water. It makes it ideal for learning and teaching,” he said.

Off the Hook Kiteboarding is one of three companies with permit applications set to go before the council on Tuesday. The others are SoCal Kitesurfing and Captain Kirk’s. SoCal Kitesurfing has been in business in Belmont Shore for about eight years, owner Bart Miller said in an email.

Miller also echoed McCourt’s assertion that the breakwaters create desirable conditions for kitesurfing.

“This brings lots of tourism and interest to the city as each windy afternoon participants and spectators alike are enthralled with the spectacular kitesurfing,” he said in an email.

Captain Kirk’s previously served kitesurfers, but has been denied permission to do business at Belmont Shore for about two years, owner Kirk Robinson said in an email.

According to Robinson, Long Beach officials denied Captain Kirk’s permission to operate at Belmont Shore following a change in the city’s Marine Operations leadership. Long Beach’s current head of Marine Operations had a somewhat different version of events.

In Robinson’s account, Captain Kirk’s had been allowed to do business by working with another now-defunct kitesurfing firm, but was not allowed to continue on its own because the company was technically a subcontractor to a company that had obtained a permit.

Long Beach Marine Division manager Elvira Hallinan, however, said Long Beach officials did not deny Captain Kirk’s a permit as much as they wanted to make sure that any granting of permit on the part of Long Beach officials would run afoul of the Coastal Commission’s authority.

Tuesday’s council vote may solve Captain Kirk’s problem and allow Robinson’s firm and the other two kitesurfing operators 18-month permits. The request for council action is including in Tuesday meeting’s consent calendar, which is a package of relatively routine decisions that council members typically approve at once with little, if any, debate.