BILL NUMBER: AB 2189	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 17, 2016
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JUNE 1, 2016
	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, Irwin. Rim of the Valley Trail 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 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 in the vicinity of the City of Moorpark, and
to prepare and file a revised map, as prescribed.


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.
  SEC. 2.  Section 33204.8 is added to the Public Resources Code, to
read:
   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 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.
   (b) Notwithstanding Section 33201, this section does not affect
the jurisdiction of the State Coastal Conservancy.