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Bill No: ACR 46
Author: Butler (D), et al.
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMM. : 8-0, 6/14/11
AYES: DeSaulnier, Gaines, Harman, Huff, Kehoe, Lowenthal,
Pavley, Simitian
NO VOTE RECORDED: Rubio
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 5/19/11 (Consent) - See last page
for vote
SUBJECT : Encroachment permit for Venice Japanese
American
Memorial Marker
SOURCE : Venice Japanese American Memorial Marker
Committee
DIGEST : This resolution requests the Department of
Transportation to issue an encroachment permit permitting
the erection on State Route 1 in the City of Los Angeles at
the Intersection of Venice and Lincoln Boulevards a
monument to memorialize the internment of Americans of
Japanese descent during World War II.
ANALYSIS : Existing law charges the Department of
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Transportation (Caltrans) with the responsibility of
maintaining and operating state highways, including
monuments and plaques placed in the highway right-of-way.
An encroachment permit allows someone other than Caltrans
to conduct activity, including installing permitted
structures, in the highway right-of-way. Caltrans issues
encroachment permits for the installation of billboards,
mailboxes, fences, monuments, and other such structures.
Caltrans encroachment guidelines authorize "no-fee" permits
to be issued for the placement of memorial plaques or
markers within the right-of-way for commemorating persons,
events, or historical places, provided a request for the
plaques is made by the California Legislature through a
concurrent resolution.
This resolution requests Caltrans to issue an encroachment
permit permitting the erection on State Route (SR) 1 in the
City of Los Angeles at the Intersection of Venice and
Lincoln Boulevards a monument to memorialize the internment
of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II.
Background
On April 25, 1942, hundreds of Japanese Americans reported
to 933 Venice Boulevard, near the intersection of Lincoln
and Venice Boulevard, in response to Civilian Exclusion
Order No. 7, which ordered the evacuation of people of
Japanese ancestry, "alien and non-alien" alike, out of the
Malibu, Santa Monica, West Los Angeles, and Venice areas.
Over the next three days, approximately 3,000 Japanese
Americans lined up at this intersection for the day-long
bus ride to the Manzanar War Relocation Authority in the
Owens Valley.
The Venice Japanese American Memorial Marker Committee,
consisting of educators, newspaper publishers, artists, and
former internees, has continued the campaign launched by
the Venice Peace and Freedom Party and the Free Venice
Beachhead, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the
United States on September 11, 2001, to erect a memorial
marker at the northwest corner of Venice and Lincoln
Boulevards to commemorate the Japanese American evacuation
and internment that itself followed in the aftermath of
Japan's attack on the United States naval base at Pearl
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Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: Yes
SUPPORT : (Verified 6/27/11)
Venice Japanese American Memorial Marker Committee (source)
Free Venice Beachhead
Japanese American Citizens League, Culver-Venice Chapter
Los Angeles City Councilmember Bill Rosendahl, District 11
New Media Academy students at Venice High School
Nikkei Student Union at UCLA
Social and Public Art Resource Center
Venice Arts Council
Venice Hongwanji Buddhist Temple
Venice Japanese American Community Center
Venice Peace & Freedom Party
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 5/19/11
AYES: Achadjian, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall, Bill
Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford,
Brownley, Buchanan, Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos,
Carter, Cedillo, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Davis, Dickinson,
Donnelly, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani,
Beth Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gatto, Gordon, Grove,
Hagman, Halderman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Roger
Hern�ndez, Hill, Huber, Hueso, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones,
Knight, Lara, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mansoor,
Mendoza, Miller, Mitchell, Monning, Morrell, Nestande,
Nielsen, Norby, Olsen, Pan, Perea, V. Manuel P�rez,
Portantino, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Swanson,
Torres, Valadao, Wagner, Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada,
John A. P�rez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Alejo, Gorell
JJA:mw 6/27/11 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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