BILL NUMBER: ACR 100	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Bonnie Lowenthal and Jeffries
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Blumenfield, Bonilla, Buchanan, Eng,
Furutani, Galgiani, Miller, and Solorio)

                        FEBRUARY 6, 2012

   Relative to the Mark Bixby Memorial Bicycle Pedestrian Path.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 100, as introduced, Bonnie Lowenthal. Mark Bixby Memorial
Bicycle Pedestrian Path.
   This measure would designate the bicycle pedestrian path on the
replacement Gerald Desmond Bridge on State Highway Route 710, in the
County of Los Angeles, as the Mark Bixby Memorial Bicycle Pedestrian
Path. This measure would also request the Department of
Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing
this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering those costs, to erect those signs.
   Fiscal committee: yes.



   WHEREAS, Mark Llewellyn Bixby was a member of one of the founding
families of the City of Long Beach; and
   WHEREAS, Mark Bixby was a past president of the Long Beach Rotary
Club, which was instrumental in raising money to build Rotary
Centennial Park, located on Pacific Coast Highway (State Highway
Route 1) and Junipero Avenue in the City of Long Beach; and
   WHEREAS, Mark Bixby was the director of the BikeFest Tour of Long
Beach and was a vocal proponent of adding bicycle lanes to the
replacement Gerald Desmond Bridge; and
   WHEREAS, Mark Bixby tragically lost his life in a plane crash in
2011 at 44 years of age; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
bicycle pedestrian path on the replacement Gerald Desmond Bridge on
State Highway Route 710, in the County of Los Angeles, as the Mark
Bixby Memorial Bicycle Pedestrian Path; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of appropriate signs consistent with the signing
requirements for the state highway system showing this special
designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources
sufficient to cover the cost, to erect those signs; and be it further

   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Department of Transportation and to the author
for appropriate distribution.