Bill Text: CA AB1528 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 1528 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Public parks: City of Escalon: property sale.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-06 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV. [AB1528 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1528-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 1528	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Olsen

                        JANUARY 17, 2014

   An act to add Section 5096.343.1 to the Public Resources Code,
relating to local parks.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1528, as introduced, Olsen. Public parks: City of Escalon:
property sale.
   (1) Existing law, the Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean
Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2000 (the Villaraigosa-Keeley
Act) and the California Clean Water, Clean Air, Safe Neighborhood
Parks, and Coastal Protection Act of 2002, among other things,
authorized the issuance of grants to local governments from the sale
of bonds for the acquisition, development, restoration, and
enhancement of local parks, pursuant to the State General Obligation
Bond Law, in specified amounts. Existing law requires, among other
things, that a grant applicant agree to use a property only for the
purposes for which the grant was made and make no other use or sale
or other disposition of the property, except as authorized by
specific act of the Legislature.
   This bill would authorize the City of Escalon to sell, at fair
market value, a specified property known as the Robert Cabral
Regional Park property, which was acquired by the city with state
bond funds but unable to be developed for local park purposes, so
that the city may use the proceeds from that sale for the development
of another park within the city limits.
   (2) This bill would declare that, due to the unique circumstances
pertaining to the City of Escalon that the bill is intended to
remedy, a general statute within the meaning of specified provisions
of the California Constitution cannot be made applicable and a
special statute is necessary.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 5096.343.1 is added to the Public Resources
Code, to read:
   5096.343.1.  Notwithstanding any other law, consistent with the
requirements of Section 5096.343, the City of Escalon may sell the
31-acre property known as the Robert Cabral Regional Park property,
APN 247-130-34 and APN 247-130-35, which was acquired by the city
with state bond funds but was unable to be developed for local park
purposes, for the fair market value of that property, so that the
city may use the proceeds from the sale of that property for the
acquisition and development of another local park within the city
limits.
  SEC. 2.  Due to the unique circumstances of the City of Escalon
with regard to its ability to finance local park development during a
time of economic downturn, the Legislature hereby finds and declares
that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning
of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution.
Therefore, the special legislation contained in Section 1 of this act
is necessarily applicable only to the City of Escalon.