BILL NUMBER: AB 2189	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Irwin
    (   Coauthor:   Senator   Pavley
  ) 

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add Section 33204.8 to the Public Resources Code,
relating to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2189, as amended, Irwin. Rim of the Valley Trail 
corridor:   Corridor:  boundary revisions.
   Existing law establishes the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy in
the Natural Resources Agency and prescribes the functions and duties
of the conservancy with regard to the preservation, protection, and
management of specified lands in the Santa Monica Mountains Zone, as
defined. For purposes of providing a recreational trail corridor, the
zone includes trails and accessways generally following the Rim of
the Valley Trail, as specified. Existing law authorizes the
conservancy to revise the boundaries of the Rim of the Valley Trail
 corridor   Corridor  in the vicinity of
the City of Santa Clarita if it determines, based on relevant
scientific information and land use planning studies and after
holding at least one public hearing, that a boundary revision is
necessary, and to prepare and file a revised map showing the revised
boundaries, as prescribed.
   This bill would, pursuant to the same process and conditions, also
authorize the conservancy to revise the boundaries of the Rim of the
Valley Trail  corridor   Corridor  in the
vicinity of the City of Moorpark, and to prepare and file a revised
map, 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 1.    The Legislature finds and declares both
of the following:  
   (a) The boundary of the Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor within
the Santa Monica Mountains Zone should be determined exclusively upon
the best scientific and resource-based information regarding trail,
recreational, and environmental resources in the area.  
   (b) Landowners, local government entities, members of the public,
and other affected parties should be afforded maximum participation
in the process by which the Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor is
delineated. 
   SECTION 1.   SEC. 2.   Section 33204.8
is added to the Public Resources Code, to read: 
   33204.8.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares both of the
following:
   (1) The boundary of the Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor should be
determined exclusively upon the best scientific and resource-based
information regarding trail, recreational, and environmental
resources in the area.
   (2) Landowners, local government entities, members of the public,
and other affected parties should be afforded maximum participation
in the process by which the Rim of the Valley Corridor Trail is
delineated.


   (b) 
    33204.8.    (a)    (1) Notwithstanding
the requirements in Section 33105.5, if the conservancy determines,
based on relevant scientific information and land use planning
studies, and after holding at least one public hearing in the area
that would be affected by a revision of the boundaries of the Rim of
the Valley Trail Corridor, that a boundary revision within and in the
vicinity of the City of Moorpark, as described in paragraph (2), is
necessary, the executive director shall prepare and file with the
Secretary of State, the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources, and
the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and  Water,
  Water  a revised map showing the changes in the
boundaries of the Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor.
   (2) The conservancy shall determine potential boundary revisions
of the Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor for the area within the city
limits of the City of Moorpark; the area of the north of the city
limits and south of Broadway Road between Happy Camp Canyon Regional
Park and Grimes Canyon Road; and the area west of the city limits of
the City of Moorpark, south of Los Angeles Avenue, north of the
Arroyo Simi, and east of  the  Gabbert Canyon Drainage
Channel.
   (3) A revised map prepared pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be
supported by relevant scientific information, and shall be in
accordance with the purposes and objectives of Section 33204.3.

   (c) 
    (b)  Notwithstanding Section 33201, this section does
not affect the jurisdiction of the State Coastal Conservancy.