Amended in Assembly March 18, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2185

Introduced by Assembly Member Gonzalez

February 18, 2016

An act to begin delete amend Section 14400 of end delete begin insert add Sections 31124 and 31125 to end insert the Public Resources Code, relating to begin delete conservation. end delete begin insert coastal resources end insert begin insert . end insert

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2185, as amended, Gonzalez. begin delete California Conservation Corps: nonresidential programs. end delete begin insert State Coastal Conservancy: low-cost end insert begin insert accommodations. end insert

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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.

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This bill would require the conservancy to develop, subject to the availability of funding, a program to assist, by loan or grant, private low-cost coastal 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-cost coastal 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.

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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.

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Existing law establishes the California Conservation Corps in the Resources Agency with the mission to, among other things, increase awareness of our natural resources, including instilling basic skills and a healthy work ethic in California youth, building their character, self-esteem, and self-discipline, and establishing within them a strong sense of civic responsibility and an understanding of the value of a day’s work for a day’s wages. Existing law requires the corps to develop nonresidential programs in urban communities, and authorizes it to develop those programs in other than urban communities, that have high concentrations of ethnic-minority youths, high levels of youth unemployment, and a need for conservation work.

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This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  begin delete no end delete begin insert yes end insert . State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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begin insert SECTION 1. end insert   

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begin insert Section 31124 is added to the end insert begin insert Public Resources
Code end insert begin insert , to read: end insert

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(a) The conservancy shall develop, subject to the
availability of funding, a program to assist, by loan or grant,
private low-cost coastal 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-cost coastal accommodations.

(b) The Low-Cost Accommodations Program Account is hereby
created in the State Coastal Conservancy Fund. Moneys in the
account shall accrue interest and be available, upon appropriation
by the Legislature, to fund the program developed pursuant to this
section. The conservancy may accept and deposit in the account
funds from public and private sources.

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begin insert SEC. 2. end insert   

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begin insert Section 31125 is added to the end insert begin insert Public Resources Code end insert begin insert ,
to read: end insert

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(a) The conservancy, in consultation with the
commission, the Department of Parks and Recreation, and other
relevant coastal public landholders, shall 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. The document shall include, but not be limited to, the
following:

(1) Specific projects that will increase low-cost accommodations
at state parks in the coastal zone consistent with recommendations
by the Parks Forward Commission.

(2) Information on grant programs at the conservancy that assist
public agencies and nonprofits in providing low-cost
accommodations in the coastal zone.

(3) Information on the program developed pursuant to Section
31124.

(b) The conservancy shall provide the document developed
pursuant to subdivision (a) to the commission. The commission
shall refer to the list of potential low-cost accommodations projects
as options for mitigation when considering coastal development
permits that impact the availability of low-cost accommodations
and when considering how to expend prior commitments of
“in-lieu” public access fees. The commission shall provide the
document to local governments with local coastal programs.

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SECTION 1.  

Section 14400 of the Public Resources Code is
amended to read:

14400.  

The corps shall develop nonresidential programs in
urban communities, and may develop those programs in other than
urban communities, that have high concentrations of
ethnic-minority youths, high levels of youth unemployment, and
a need for conservation work. Expenditures for programs in other
than urban communities shall not exceed 15 percent of total funding
for programs under this section.

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