Bill Text: CA AB1644 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: California Military Base Reuse and Preservation Act of
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-09 - Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. [AB1644 Detail]
Download: California-2011-AB1644-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 1644 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 29, 2012
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Carter
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
An act to add Section 67840.8 to the Government Code,
relating to redevelopment.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1644, as amended, Carter. The California
Military Base Reuse and Preservation Act of 2012.
The Military Base Reuse Authority Act authorizes cities and
counties to establish an authority with specified powers and duties
relating to the transition of a military base to civilian use; the
Fort Ord Reuse Authority Act authorizes specified local agencies to
establish the Fort Ord Reuse Authority; and existing law designates
the local redevelopment authority recognized by the Department of
Defense as the single local reuse authority for other specified
military bases. Existing law requires that the board of a
military base reuse authority prepare, adopt, review, revise, and
maintain a reuse plan that provides for the future use and
development of territory of the former military base.
Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies on February 1, 2012,
and authorizes the designation of successor agencies to act as
successor entities to the dissolved redevelopment agencies. Existing
law provides for the continued application of specified provisions of
law relating to redevelopment under specified circumstances.
This bill would enact the California Military Base Reuse and
Preservation Act of 2012. The bill would make several legislative
findings and declarations relating to the granting of redevelopment
powers to communities affected by federal military base closures
and declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation providing the option of a successor entity to areas
affected by base closures and the deposit of funds to further
redevelop activities in the affected area .
The bill would require that a reuse plan contain several elements
relating to the economic, environmental, and low- and moderate-income
housing impacts of the military base closure, as specified. In order
to facilitate the implementation of these plan elements, the bill
would authorize a reuse authority, through a transfer from the
Department of Defense, to acquire and dispose of real property and
other former military base assets adjacent to, or near, the former
base.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the
California Military Base Reuse and Preservation Act of 2012.
SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) Since the Legislature first enacted legislation in 1989
, Assembly Bill 409 of the 1998-89 Regular Session,
to address military base closures in San Bernardino County,
the Legislature has adopted similar military base closure statutes
to provide redevelopment assistance to base closure reuse agencies
for Fort Ord, March Air Force Base, Hamilton Field, Mare Island,
Tustin Marine Corps Air Station, Alameda Naval Air Station, Castle
Air Force Base, Mather Air Force Base, McClellan Air Force Base, and
Norton and George Air Force Bases.
(b) The state has implemented a policy of granting additional
redevelopment powers to communities affected by federal military base
closures in furtherance of their need to redevelop and improve
military facilities that were conveyed to local communities and other
governmental and nonprofit organizations. Only through these
redevelopment efforts have the base closure communities been able to
begin to address many of the environmental and physical deficiencies
and other problems that remain on the former military base properties
after their closure.
(c) Extraordinary measures must continue to be taken to mitigate
the effects of the federal government's efforts to reduce the number
of military bases throughout the country and, in particular, the
adverse economic impacts of military base closures within the state.
It is in the best interests of the state to continue to support
statutory provisions mitigating the economic and social degradation
that is faced by communities in jurisdictions that include military
bases that have been ordered to be closed or to be realigned by the
Federal Base Closure Commission.
(d) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that
allows those areas affected by base closure to have a choice of a
successor agency similar to the one established in Section 3173 of
the Health and Safety Code and that would allow funds to be deposited
in the California Military Base Closure Fund to be used solely for
the sole purpose of redeveloping the affected area.
SEC. 3. Section 67840.8 is added to the
Government Code , to read:
67840.8. (a) The authority reuse plan specified in Section 67840
shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following elements:
(1) An evaluation of the economic impacts of the base closure.
(2) An evaluation of the environmental impacts of the base
closure.
(3) An evaluation of the impacts upon low- and moderate-income
housing opportunities.
(4) An implementation plan and financial plan to address the
economic impacts of the base closure.
(5) An implementation plan to address the environmental impacts of
the base closure.
(6) A low- and moderate-income housing element for implementation,
as may be necessary.
(b) In order to facilitate the implementation of the plan elements
specified in subdivision (a), an authority may, through a transfer
from the Department of Defense, acquire and dispose of real property
and other former military base assets adjacent to, or near, the
former base.
