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                                                                  ACR 117
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          Date of Hearing:   April 21, 2014

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
                               Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
                    ACR 117 (Ting) - As Introduced:  March 4, 2014
           
          SUBJECT  :  Hanren Chang Memorial

           SUMMARY  :  Requests the Department of Transportation (Caltrans)  
          to issue an encroachment permit, without charge, authorizing the  
          placement of memorial plaque, funded by nonstate sources, within  
          the right-of-way of State Highway Route (SR) 35 within the  
          vicinity of the pedestrian beacon between Vale Avenue and Forest  
          View Drive in San Francisco in memory of Hanren Chang.

           EXISTING LAW  charges Caltrans with 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.  

           FISCAL EFFECT  :  Unknown

           COMMENTS  :  According to the author, on the evening of her  
          birthday, March 2, 2013, Lowell High School student Hanren Chang  
          was struck by an alleged drunk driver on Sloat Boulevard (SR 35)  
          near Forest View Drive in San Francisco.  The tragic  
          circumstances of her death heightened public awareness of the  
          number of pedestrian fatalities along Sloat Boulevard and in San  
          Francisco.  

          As a result of Chang's death, a number of pedestrian safety  
          features were installed near the area of the incident, including  
          a newly erected pedestrian crossing beacon at the Sloat  
          Boulevard and Forest View Drive intersection. ACR 117 requests  
          that Caltrans issue an encroachment permit to enable the  
          placement of a memorial plaque, to be funded by nonstate  
          sources, dedicating the pedestrian crossing beacon in memory of  
          Hanren Chang.  

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 








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          None on file

           Opposition 
           
          None on file
           

          Analysis Prepared by :   Anya Lawler / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093