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          ASSEMBLY THIRD READING


          AB  
          1004 (Dahle)


          As Amended  April 20, 2015


          Majority vote


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          |Committee       |Votes |Ayes                   |Noes              |
          |                |      |                       |                  |
          |                |      |                       |                  |
          |----------------+------+-----------------------+------------------|
          |Natural         |9-0   |Williams, Dahle,       |                  |
          |Resources       |      |Cristina Garcia,       |                  |
          |                |      |Hadley, Harper,        |                  |
          |                |      |McCarty, Rendon, Mark  |                  |
          |                |      |Stone, Wood            |                  |
          |                |      |                       |                  |
          |----------------+------+-----------------------+------------------|
          |Appropriations  |17-0  |Gomez, Bigelow, Bloom, |                  |
          |                |      |Bonta, Calderon,       |                  |
          |                |      |Chang, Daly, Eggman,   |                  |
          |                |      |Gallagher, Eduardo     |                  |
          |                |      |Garcia, Holden, Jones, |                  |
          |                |      |Quirk, Rendon, Wagner, |                  |
          |                |      |Weber, Wood            |                  |
          |                |      |                       |                  |
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          SUMMARY:  This bill expands the California Tahoe Conservancy's  
          (Conservancy) authorization to engage in property transactions, or  








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          request the Director of General Services to act on its behalf, to  
          promote the state's planning priorities and sustainable  
          communities strategies.  This bill requires the Conservancy to  
          submit a progress report to the appropriate policy and fiscal  
          committees of the Legislature by January 1, 2018.


          FISCAL EFFECT:  According to the Assembly Appropriations  
          Committee:


          1)No additional state costs.


          2)Potential increases in future land sale revenue.


          COMMENTS:  


          1)Conservancy.  Since its establishment in 1984, the Conservancy  
            has acquired and manages nearly 4,700 parcels encompassing 6,500  
            acres for public access, water quality, and wildlife protection  
            purposes.  The Conservancy was created to maintain an  
            equilibrium between the region's natural endowment and its  
            manmade environment, to protect the natural environment,  
            including water quality, air quality, wildlife, and habitat  
            areas, to acquire, restore, and manage property, and to preserve  
            the scenic beauty and recreational opportunities of the region.


          2)Tahoe Livable Communities Program (TLC).  In December 2012, the  
            Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) and Tahoe Metropolitan  
            Planning Organization (TMPO) adopted the Lake Tahoe Sustainable  
            Communities Strategy (Lake Tahoe SCS).  The Lake Tahoe SCS seeks  
            to reduce per capita GHG emissions 12% by 2020 and an additional  
            7% by 2035.  To achieve these targets, the Tahoe SCS promotes  
            clustered development in the Basin's town centers.  The  
            Conservancy has developed the TLC to assist in implementing the  








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            Lake Tahoe SCS and other statewide planning priorities.  The TLC  
            will refocus the Conservancy's land acquisition and marketable  
            rights program to do the following:


             a)   Acquire and restore aging developed properties on  
               environmentally sensitive lands and retire or transfer the  
               development rights to town centers;


             b)   Sell, lease, or exchange vacant Conservancy land in these  
               town centers;


             c)   Acquire the remaining private properties in several of  
               Lake Tahoe's roadless subdivisions to remove the threat of  
               development.


            This bill would clarify the Conservancy's authority to sell,  
            exchange or transfer real property to implement the TLC.  A  
            component of the TLC will have the Conservancy engaged in  
            efforts to create more vibrant walkable town centers in the Lake  
            Tahoe region.  The Conservancy owns parcels in town centers that  
            could be developed into infill mixed-use development.  These  
            parcels would be exchanged for parcels in environmentally  
            sensitive areas.  The goal of this is to shrink the development  
            footprint in the Lake Tahoe region and to shift the existing  
            land use pattern from scattered auto-centric districts to  
            vibrant walkable and bike-able town centers.  This is a new  
            approach to achieve the Conservancy's mission and has not been  
            done before at any conservancy.




          Analysis Prepared by:                                               
                          Michael Jarred / NAT. RES. / (916) 319-2092  FN:  
          0000350








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