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THIRD READING
Bill No: ACR 55
Author: Skinner (D)
Amended: 7/6/11 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER COMM. : 6-2, 6/28/11
AYES: Pavley, Evans, Kehoe, Padilla, Simitian, Wolk
NOES: La Malfa, Fuller
NO VOTE RECORDED: Cannella
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 48-22, 6/16/11 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Eastshore State Park: renaming
SOURCE : Citizens for East Shore Parks
DIGEST : This resolution requests that the Department of
Parks and Recreation rename the Eastshore State Park as the
McLaughlin Eastshore State Park, and determine the cost of
appropriate signage showing this designation, consistent
with specified requirements, and, upon the receipt of
donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the
cost of that signage, to erect those signs at the park.
ANALYSIS :
Resolution Findings:
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1. The allocation of $25 million in state funds, combined
with funding from Eastbay Regional Park District's
Measure AA, provided the monetary assistance needed to
secure the acquisition of land now known as Eastshore
State Park.
2. This park is an 8.5 mile ribbon of parkland that
occupies the shoreline in the cities of Oakland,
Emeryville, Berkeley, Albany, and Richmond. Furthermore,
Eastshore State Park is a region that encompasses 2,002
acres of tidelands and accompanied by 260 acres of
upland area alongside the Bay of San Francisco.
3. The Eastshore State Park's emergence came from decades
of grassroots environmental activism by San Francisco
Bay area citizens fighting to halt the filling of the
bay. One of the most influential organizations involved
in the creation of Eastshore State Park is a group known
as the Citizens for East Shore Parks. This organization
was cofounded by an environmentalist by the name of
Sylvia McLaughlin.
5. Over the last four decades, Sylvia McLaughlin has been
influential in many other ecological efforts to
safeguard the San Francisco Bay region. Furthermore,
Sylvia McLaughlin cofounded Save the San Francisco Bay
Association in 1961, which is an organization that was
critically involved with protecting the San Francisco
Bay area's 2,000 acres from becoming a proposed
dumpsite. These grassroots actions subsequently lead to
the signing of the McAteer-Petris Act (Act) of 1965
(Title 7.2, commencing with Section 66600, of the
Government Code), which mandated the preservation of the
San Francisco Bay and the protection of the bay from
haphazard filling. The Act also established the San
Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, a
state agency entrusted to safeguard the San Francisco
Bay.
6. As a tribute to Sylvia McLaughlin's extensive
environmental activism and her strong role in saving the
San Francisco Bay, and in recognition of her efforts in
creating Eastshore State Park, the Legislature urges the
Department of Parks and Recreation to rename the
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Eastshore State Park as the McLaughlin Eastshore State
Park.
Background
Eastshore State Park is an 8.5 mile ribbon of parkland that
occupies the shoreline in the cities of Oakland,
Emeryville, Berkeley, Albany and Richmond. It covers 1,854
acres of tidelands and uplands alongside San Francisco Bay.
This state park was created through the allocation of $25
million in state funds as well a funding from the Eastbay
Regional Park District's Measure AA.
Sylvia McLaughlin, now 94, co-founded Citizens for East
Shore Parks which is one of the most influential
organizations involved in the creation of Eastshore State
Park. Ms. McLaughlin is a longtime, distinguished
environmental activist, first achieving prominence through
the Save the San Francisco Bay Association (Save the Bay)
which she co-founded in 1961. Save the Bay was
instrumental in the fight to limit indiscriminate infill of
the San Francisco Bay, in part through providing
significant support for the passage in 1965 of the Act.
The Act also established the San Francisco Bay Conservation
and Development Commission, a state agency entrusted with
safeguarding the San Francisco Bay.
This resolution requests that the Department of Parks and
Recreation rename the Eastshore State Park as the
McLaughlin Eastshore State Park, and determine the cost of
appropriate signage showing this designation, consistent
with specified requirements, and, upon the receipt of
donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the
cost of that signage, to erect those signs at the park.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: Yes
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/15/11)
Citizens for East Shore Parks (source)
Save the Bay
The Golden Gate Audubon Society
Trails for Richmond Action Committee
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ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the author, "Over the
last four decades, Sylvia McLaughlin has been influential
in many ecological efforts to safeguard the San Francisco
Bay region. Sylvia McLaughlin's participation in the
creation of Eastshore State Park has been more than
instrumental. ACR 55's intent is to rename Eastshore State
Park as a tribute to Sylvia McLaughlin's extensive
environmental activism, her strong role in saving the San
Francisco Bay, and in recognition of her efforts in
creating Eastshore State Park."
Bruce Beyaert, Chair of Trails for Richmond Action
Committee, writes, "Sylvia McLaughlin certainly has earned
this recognition and is a role model for all who know her.
The name McLaughlin Eastshore State Park with an associated
park brochure and interpretative exhibit will make future
generations aware that effective citizen action plays a
critical role in the creation of public parks and trails."
Save the Bay, Citizens for East Shore Parks and the Golden
Gate Audubon Society are similarly effusive in praise of
Ms. McLaughlin, lauding her as "a force of nature."
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall, Block,
Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan,
Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos, Carter, Cedillo,
Chesbro, Dickinson, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes,
Furutani, Galgiani, Gatto, Gordon, Hayashi, Hill, Huber,
Hueso, Lara, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Mitchell,
Monning, Pan, Perea, Portantino, Skinner, Solorio,
Swanson, Torres, Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada, John A.
Pérez
NOES: Bill Berryhill, Cook, Donnelly, Beth Gaines, Grove,
Hagman, Harkey, Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Logue, Mansoor,
Miller, Morrell, Nestande, Nielsen, Norby, Olsen, Silva,
Smyth, Valadao, Wagner
NO VOTE RECORDED: Achadjian, Conway, Davis, Garrick,
Gorell, Halderman, Hall, Roger Hernández, Huffman, V.
Manuel Pérez
CTW:do 8/16/11 Senate Floor Analyses
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SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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