AB 694, as amended, Rendon. State Coastal Conservancy: low-cost accommodations.
Existing law establishes the State Coastal Conservancy with prescribed powers and responsibilities for implementing and administering various programs intended to preserve, protect, and restore the state’s coastal areas.
This bill would require the conservancy to develop, subject to the availability of funding, a program to assist, by loan or grant, private low-costbegin insert coastalend insert accommodations to meet their operation and maintenance needs in exchange for an easement or other legally binding instrument that protects the public benefit of the facility continuing to provide low-costbegin insert coastalend insert accommodations. This bill would create the Low-Cost Accommodations Program Account in the State Coastal Conservancy Fund and provide that moneys in the fund are available upon appropriation by the Legislature to fund this program.
This bill would require the conservancy, in consultation with the California Coastal Commission, the Department of Parks and Recreation, and other relevant coastal public landholders, to develop a document containing a list of potential low-cost accommodations projects in each region of the coast and information on grant or loan programs. This bill would require the conservancy to provide the document to the commission and would require the commission to provide the document to local governments with local coastal programs. This bill would require the commission to refer to the list of potential low-cost accommodations projects, as prescribed.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 31124 is added to the Public Resources
2Code, to read:
(a) The conservancy shall develop, subject to the
4availability of funding, a program to assist, by loan or grant, private
5low-costbegin insert coastalend insert accommodations to meet their operation and
6maintenance needs in exchange for an easement or other legally
7binding instrument that protects the public benefit of the facility
8continuing to provide low-costbegin insert coastalend insert accommodations.
9(b) The Low-Cost Accommodations Program Account is hereby
10created in the State Coastal Conservancy Fund. Moneys in the
11account
shall accrue interest and be available, upon appropriation
12by the Legislature, to fund the program developed pursuant to this
13section. The conservancy may accept and deposit in the account
14funds from public and private sources.
Section 31125 is added to the Public Resources Code,
16to read:
(a) The conservancy, in consultation with the
18commission, the Department of Parks and Recreation, and other
19relevant coastal public landholders, shall develop a document
20containing a list of potential low-cost accommodations projects in
21each region of the coast and information on grant or loan programs.
22The document shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
23(1) Specific projects that will increase low-cost accommodations
24at state parks in the coastal zone consistent with recommendations
25by the Parks Forward Commission.
26(2) Information on grant programs at the conservancy that assist
27public
agencies and nonprofits in providing low-cost
28accommodations in the coastal zone.
P3 1(3) Information on the program developed pursuant to Section
231124.
3(b) The conservancy shall provide the document developed
4pursuant to subdivision (a) to the commission. The commission
5shall refer to the list of potential low-cost accommodations projects
6as options for mitigation when considering coastal development
7permits that impact the availability of low-cost accommodations
8and when considering how to expend prior commitments of
9“in-lieu” public access fees. The commission shall provide the
10document to local governments with local coastal programs.
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