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CONSENT
Bill No: ACR 126
Author: Davis (D), et al
Amended: 8/2/10 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 9-0, 8/10/10
AYES: Lowenthal, Huff, Ashburn, DeSaulnier, Harman, Kehoe,
Pavley, Simitian, Wolk
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 71-0, 4/26/10 (Consent) - See last page
for vote
SUBJECT : El Salvador Community Corridor
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution recognizes a portion of Vermont
Avenue in the City of Los Angeles as the El Salvador
Community Corridor and requests the Department of
Transportation to erect appropriate signs on State Highway
Route 10.
ANALYSIS : The Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is
the agency responsible for the state highway system,
including the regulation and erection of signs within the
highway right-of-way.
Existing law, enacted by AB 2823 (Benoit), Chapter 238,
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Statutes of 2004, allows Caltrans to place and maintain
signs on state highways directing motorists to communities
within the geographical boundaries of a city, county, or
city and county if all of the following conditions are
satisfied:
1. The name of the community is culturally unique and
historically significant.
2. The name of the community has resulted from the
influence of a culture over a significant period of
time.
3. The general public and media commonly recognize the name
of the community.
4. The community is located within a city, county, or city
and county.
5. Signs are consistent with the signing requirements for
the state highway system.
6. The geographical boundary of the community is within
three miles of the state highway exit.
7. Trailblazing signs are installed on the appropriate
streets or roads leading to the community prior to
installation of signs on the state highway.
8. The city, county, or city and county provides funds from
nonstate sources that cover all costs for the placement
and maintenance of signs.
9. The governing body of the city, county, or city and
county in which the community is located adopts a
resolution that does the following:
A. Designates the name of the community that is to be
used on directional signs.
B. Defines the geographical boundaries of the
community.
C. Requests Caltrans to post signs on state highways.
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This resolution:
1. Recognizes the area of Vermont Avenue between Adams
Boulevard and 11th Street in the City of Los Angeles as
the "El Salvador Community Corridor."
2. Requests that Caltrans determine the cost of erecting
appropriate signs, consistent with the signing
requirements for the state highway system, and, upon
receiving donations from nonstate sources sufficient to
cover that cost and determining that all of the
conditions established by AB 2823 have been met, to
erect those signs at the eastbound and westbound exits
to Vermont Avenue on State Highway Route (SR) 10.
Related legislation . This resolution is modeled after AB
516 (Cedillo), Chapter 100, Statutes of 2001, which
required Caltrans to erect signs on SR 10 recognizing the
"Byzantine-Latino Quarter," which is also located in the
Pico Union neighborhood and appears to overlap with a
portion of the El Salvador Community Corridor.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: Yes
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the author, this
resolution is needed "to help the Salvadoran Community
provide existing and future property owners with an
assortment of community services that will help increase
its economic livelihood, improve its social cultural
well-being, and encourage community pride."
The author notes that Los Angeles is one of only two cities
in the United States without a majority population. People
from 140 countries, who speak approximately 86 languages,
currently call Los Angeles home. There are over 500,000 El
Salvadorans living in Los Angeles, a large majority of
which live in the Pico Union area of the city, where the El
Salvador Community Corridor is at least partly situated.
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Beall, Bill Berryhill, Tom
Berryhill, Blakeslee, Block, Blumenfield, Bradford,
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Brownley, Buchanan, Caballero, Charles Calderon, Carter,
Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Coto, Davis, De La Torre, De Leon,
DeVore, Emmerson, Eng, Evans, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong,
Fuentes, Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gilmore, Hagman,
Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Hernandez, Hill, Huber, Huffman,
Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Lieu, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal,
Ma, Mendoza, Miller, Nava, Nestande, Niello, Nielsen,
Norby, Portantino, Ruskin, Saldana, Silva, Skinner,
Smyth, Solorio, Audra Strickland, Swanson, Torlakson,
Torres, Torrico, Tran, Villines, Yamada
NO VOTE RECORDED: Arambula, Bass, Fuller, Furutani,
Monning, V. Manuel Perez, Salas, John A. Perez, Vacancy
JJA:mw 8/16/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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