BILL ANALYSIS
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SENATE THIRD READING
SB 1006 (Pavley)
As Amended June 21, 2010
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE :22-14
LOCAL GOVERNMENT 6-3 NATURAL RESOURCES 5-3
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|Ayes:|Caballero, Arambula, |Ayes:|Chesbro, Brownley, De |
| |Bradford, Coto, | |Leon, Hill, |
| |Davis, Monning | | Skinner |
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|Nays:|Smyth, Knight, Logue |Nays:|Gilmore, Knight, Logue |
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APPROPRIATIONS 12-5
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|Ayes:|Fuentes, Bradford, | | |
| |Huffman, Coto, Davis, De | | |
| |Leon, Gatto, Hall, | | |
| |Skinner, Solorio, | | |
| |Torlakson, Torrico | | |
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|Nays:|Conway, Harkey, Miller, | | |
| |Nielsen, Norby | | |
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SUMMARY : Expands list of the type of data and information the
Strategic Growth Council
(Council) must provide a local government regarding the
development and planning of sustainable communities to include
climate change adaptation strategies, projects, or activities;
and, expands the list of eligible applicants for urban greening
project and planning monies. Specifically, this bill :
1)Expands the requirement that the Council provide, fund, and
distribute data and information to local governments and
regional agencies that will assist in the development and
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planning of sustainable communities, to include providing
information regarding climate change adaptation strategies,
projects, or activities that do all of the following:
a) Protect, conserve, restore, or enhance natural ecosystem
functions;
b) Use effective approaches to protect communities from the
impacts of climate change, including practices that
utilize, enhance, or mimic natural processes and functions;
and,
c) Avoid or minimize, or both, environmental degradation
and emission of greenhouse gases.
2)Requires the Council to identify and review activities and
funding programs of member state agencies that may be
coordinated to address climate change.
3)Adds special districts and joint powers authorities to the
list of eligible applicants for urban greening projects and
plans.
4)Specifies that an eligible joint powers authority must contain
at least one member that individually would qualify as an
eligible applicant for the financial assistance.
5)Clarifies the definition of financial assistance to mean any
of the following:
a) A revolving loan;
b) A grant, only if the applicant lacks the fiscal capacity
to carry out the project without a grant in accordance with
developed criteria; or,
c) Planning grants and planning incentives, including
revolving loan programs and other methods to encourage the
development of regional and local land use plans that are
designed to promote water conservation, reduce automobile
use and fuel consumption, encourage greater infill and
compact development, protect natural resources and
agricultural lands, and revitalize urban and community
centers, as prescribed.
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EXISTING LAW :
1)Establishes the Council, requires the Council to take certain
actions with regard to coordinating specified programs of
member state agencies, and requires the Council to manage and
award grants and loans to support the planning and development
of sustainable communities.
2)Directs the Council to do all of the following:
a) Identify and review activities and funding programs of
member state agencies that may be coordinated to improve
air and water quality, improve natural resource protection,
increase the availability of affordable housing, improve
transportation, meet the goals
of AB 32 (Nunez), Chapter 488, Statutes of 2006, encourage
sustainable land use planning, and revitalize urban and
community centers in a sustainable manner;
b) Review and comment on the state's five-year
infrastructure plan and Environmental Goals and Policy
Report;
c) Recommend policies and investment strategies to the
Governor, Legislature, and appropriate state agencies to
encourage the development of sustainable communities;
d) Provide, fund, and distribute data and information to
local governments and regional agencies that will assist in
developing and planning sustainable communities;
e) Manage and award grants and loans to support the
planning and development
of sustainable communities, pursuant to the provisions of
this bill, for which specified implementation actions may
be employed; and,
f) Provide, no later than July 1, 2010, and every year
thereafter, a report to the Legislature that shall include,
but not be limited to, a list of applicants for financial
assistance, identification of which applications were
approved, the amounts awarded for each approved
application, the remaining balance of available funds, a
report on the proposed or ongoing management of each funded
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project, and any additional minimum requirements and
priorities for a project or plan proposed in a grant or
loan application developed and adopted by the Council.
3)Requires an applicant for financial assistance for a plan or
project pursuant to this bill to declare its intention to
follow a detailed budget and schedule.
4)Requires a project or plan funded pursuant to this bill to be
consistent with the state's planning policies and reduce (as
permanently as is feasible) greenhouse gas emissions
consistent with AB 32.
5)Directs the Council to manage and award financial assistance
to a city, county, or nonprofit organization for preparing,
planning, and implementing urban greening projects that
provide multiple benefits, as specified, and are not
mitigation actions required under existing law.
6)Specifies that this financial assistance shall be funded by
the $90 million in Proposition 84 funds allocated for urban
greening projects.
7)Allows up to 25% of the moneys allocated for urban greening by
Proposition 84 to be used
to award revolving loans or grants to a COG, countywide
authority, metropolitan planning organization, local
government, or nonprofit organization for the purpose of
creating urban greening plans.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee:
1)Minor costs, ranging from the tens of thousands of dollars to
a couple hundred thousand dollars, to the council to provide
information on climate change adaptation to local governments
and JPAs. (Proposition 84 bond funds).
2)Cost pressure of an unknown amount but potentially in the
millions of dollars resulting from expansion of the types of
entities that may receive financial assistance from the
Council. (Proposition 84 bond funds)
COMMENTS : According to the author, "California is at the
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forefront of climate change solutions that achieve significant,
near-term reductions in the carbon pollution that is causing
global warming. Notwithstanding these essential mitigation
measures, California is already experiencing dramatic,
unavoidable climate change impacts due to carbon pollution
already committed to the atmosphere and oceans.
These climate change impacts include documented sea-level rise,
increased erosion, increased weather severity, altered water
cycles, reduced snowpack and earlier snow melt, increased
wildfire occurrence and severity, altered rainfall patterns,
disrupted food supply, and migration of plant and animal
species. These impacts could expose the state and local
governments to trillions of dollars in costs.
Thus, in addition to mitigation, state and local governments
must strategically plan to adapt to these and other unavoidable
climate change impacts. Social, cultural, and economic
resilience to these impacts is fundamentally rooted in
ecological resilience and attention must be given to addressing
the impacts of climate change on natural ecosystems. The state
has recognized the importance of adaptation in developing the
California Climate Adaptation Strategy, which summarizes the
best known science on climate change impacts in seven specific
sectors and provides state-level recommendations on how to
manage against those threats."
This bill requires the Council to develop and distribute
information to local governments and regional agencies that will
assist those entities to develop and implement climate change
adaptation strategies that protect natural ecosystem functions,
use effective approaches to protect communities from the impacts
of climate change, and avoid or minimize environmental
degradation and emission of greenhouse gases.
Existing law allocates the $90 million Proposition 84 provides
for urban greening projects.
It requires the Council to develop and implement a grant program
for urban greening projects that provide multiple community
benefits, and provides that the multiple benefits include, but
are not limited to, tree canopy, urban forestry, local parks and
open space, greening of existing lands and structures,
multi-objective storm water projects, urban streams, various
public gardens and orchards, heat island mitigation and energy
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conservation efforts, and non-motorized urban trails. Existing
law allows up to 25% of the moneys allocated for urban greening
by Proposition 84 to be used to award revolving loans or grants
to a COG, countywide authority, metropolitan planning
organization, local government, or nonprofit organization for
the purpose of creating urban greening plans. SB 1006 adds
joint powers authorities and special districts to the list of
eligible applicants for these funding opportunities.
Support Arguments: The sponsors, Audubon California, Defenders
of Wildlife, and The Nature Conservancy, state that "in addition
to reducing emissions, state and local governments must
strategically plan to help people and nature adapt to the
current and expected impacts from climate change. Social,
cultural, and economic resilience to these impacts is
fundamentally rooted in ecological resilience and SB 1006 plays
a critical role in catalyzing innovative actions to address the
impacts of climate change on natural ecosystems and in so doing,
protect human communities." Supporters also believe that
expanding the list of eligible funding applicants for the urban
greening projects and plans is critical.
Opposition Arguments: Opposition, including the California
Building Industry Association, believes that provisions of the
bill directing the Council to adopt climate adaptation
guidelines for non-state (local and regional) agencies conflict
with actions and processes already underway by the Climate
Adaptation Advisory Panel, and furthermore, are drafted in a way
that focuses solely on achieving environmental benefits without
accounting for or considering economic factors. Opposition
believes that the direction to the Council to develop climate
adaptation guidelines for local and regional governments is
premature and has the potential to conflict with the work of the
Climate Adaptation Advisory Panel.
Analysis Prepared by : Katie Kolitsos / L. GOV. / (916)
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