BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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GOVERNOR'S VETO
AB
2730 (Alejo)
As Enrolled September 2, 2016
2/3 vote
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|Committee |Votes|Ayes |Noes |
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|Transportation |9-2 |Frazier, Bloom, |Kim, Melendez |
| | |Brown, Chu, Daly, | |
| | |Dodd, Gomez, Medina, | |
| | |Nazarian | |
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|Appropriations |14-3 |Gonzalez, Bloom, |Bigelow, Chang, |
| | |Bonilla, Bonta, |Obernolte |
| | |Calderon, Daly, | |
| | |Eggman, Eduardo | |
| | |Garcia, Roger | |
| | |Hernández, Holden, | |
| | |Quirk, Santiago, | |
| | |Weber, Wood | |
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|ASSEMBLY: |55-23 |(June 2, 2016) |SENATE: |38-0 |(August 18, |
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SUMMARY: Directs proceeds from the sale of surplus property
originally purchased for the Prunedale Bypass to the State
Highway Account for highway projects in the State Highway 101
corridor in Monterey County, and exempts these proceeds from the
north/south split and county share formulas.
EXISTING LAW:
1)Allows Caltrans to acquire any real property that it considers
necessary for state highway purposes.
2)Allows Caltrans, whenever it determines that any real property
acquired by the state for highway purposes is no longer
necessary for those purposes, to sell or exchange it in the
manner and upon terms, standards, and conditions established
by the California Transportation Commission (CTC).
3)Requires Caltrans, to the greatest extent possible, to offer
to sell or exchange excess real property within one year from
the date that it determines the property is excess.
4)Generally requires state and local agencies, prior to
disposing of excess lands, first to offer property for sale or
lease to local public agencies, housing authorities, or
redevelopment agencies within whose jurisdiction the property
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is located. Requires Caltrans to give priority first to
entities agreeing to use the land for low- or moderate-income
housing then to entities for open-space purposes, school
facilities construction, enterprise zone purposes, and infill
opportunities, in that order.
5)Directs the proceeds from the sale of excess property to be
deposited first to the State Highway Account and then
transferred to the Transportation Debt Service Fund to pay
debt service on general obligation transportation bonds.
FISCAL EFFECT: According to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee, one-time revenue from the property sales, earmarked
for projects on the State Highway 101. Caltrans indicates that
there 112 parcels, totaling 304 acres, that would be disposed.
The estimated value of these properties is between $5 million
and $12 million. Absent this bill, these revenues would be
deposited into the State Highway Account and allocated as per
current law.
COMMENTS: The author introduced this bill on behalf of
Transportation Agency for Monterey County (TAMC). TAMC is
responsible for developing and maintaining a multimodal
transportation system in Monterey County. TAMC is hopeful that
the proceeds from the sale of properties related to the
Prunedale Bypass can be directed to "much-needed and
long-deferred highway improvements."
The Prunedale Bypass, a project to re-route State Highway 101
around the community of Prunedale, has been on the books since
the 1950s. In an effort to preserve right-of-way related to the
planned project, Caltrans bought over 140 parcels totaling 353
acres. The Prunedale Bypass has since been abandoned and is no
longer in the area's long-range plans.
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In the meantime, the area has moved forward with incremental
improvements to address growing congestion and safety concerns.
The Prunedale Improvement Project is the most ambitious of these
incremental improvements. The purpose of the project is to
improve safety along State Highway 101 and intersecting local
roadways, improve traffic flow along the corridor, and improve
accessibility to area homes, businesses, and services. The
Prunedale Improvement Project represents only a portion of the
broader improvements envisioned in the Prunedale Bypass project.
Like the bypass project, other projects elsewhere in the state
have similarly languished and similarly left property unused for
decades. In two of these cases, legislation was enacted to
facilitate the sale of the property and the return of the
proceeds to the corridor for which the properties were
originally purchased. Specifically, SB 791 (Corbett), Chapter
705, Statutes of 2008, authorized the use of revenues from sales
of excess properties for projects in a local alternative
transportation improvement program that replaced the
long-planned Hayward Bypass on State Route (SR) 238 and
improvements to SR 84. More recently, SB 416 (Liu), Chapter
468, Statutes of 2013, directed the revenue from the sale of
surplus properties in the SR 710 corridor in Los Angeles County
to local transportation improvements.
This bill gives Caltrans the opportunity to fully vet the
potential use of unused properties and to hold on to properties
that it may use in the near future. Furthermore, this bill
directs the proceeds from any of the Prunedale Bypass properties
it does sell to improvement projects within the State Highway
101 corridor, similar to situation presented in SB 791 and SB
416. This will ensure that this bill does not set precedent
beyond closing the books on these decades' old projects.
GOVERNOR'S VETO MESSAGE:
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This bill directs the Department of Transportation to
use the revenues from surplus property sold in
Monterey County towards local highway projects in the
county, rather than transfer the proceeds to the
General Fund.
These revenues are used to pay existing debt service
on transportation construction projects statewide,
which is an important purpose. Maintaining this
funding stream to the General Fund is even more
necessary when the state's budget remains precariously
balanced.
Analysis Prepared by:
Janet Dawson / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093 FN:
0005063