Bill Text: CA AB2008 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Transit village plans: goods movement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-07-07 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 88, Statutes of 2014. [AB2008 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2008-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2008	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Quirk

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

    An act relating to transportation planning. 
 An act to amend Section 21094.5.5 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to the environment. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2008, as amended, Quirk.  Regional transportation plan:
sustainable communities strategy: urban freight.  
California Environmental Quality Act: infill projects: goods
movement.  
   The California Environmental Quality Act requires a lead agency,
as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the
completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it
proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect
on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds
that the project will not have that effect. The act also requires a
lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project
that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions
in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no
substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a
significant effect on the environment.  
   The act requires the Office of Planning and Research to prepare,
develop, and transmit to the Natural Resources Agency, and the
Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to certify and adopt,
guidelines for the implementation of the act by public agencies. The
act requires the guidelines to include statewide standards for infill
projects to promote specified goals and priorities.  
   This bill would require the guidelines to be revised to include as
a statewide standard for infill projects the goal of minimizing the
impacts of goods movement on air quality, traffic, and public safety
through the provision of dedicated loading and unloading facilities
for commercial space.  
   Because a public agency would be required to consider the above
goal regarding goods movement for infill projects as required by the
guidelines, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
 
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.  
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.  
   Existing law requires certain transportation planning activities
by designated regional transportation planning agencies, including
development of a regional transportation plan. Certain of these
agencies are designated by federal law as metropolitan planning
organizations. Existing law requires metropolitan planning
organizations to adopt a sustainable communities strategy, subject to
specified requirements, as part of a regional transportation plan,
which is to be designed to achieve certain targets established by the
State Air Resources Board for the reduction of greenhouse gas
emissions from automobiles and light trucks in the region. 

   This bill would state the intent of the legislature to enact
legislation that would require a sustainable communities strategy to
include consideration of greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the
delivery of urban freight. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program:  no
  yes  .


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 21094.5.5 of the  
Public Resources Code   is amended to read: 
   21094.5.5.  (a)  On or before July 1, 2012, the 
 The  Office of Planning and Research shall prepare,
develop, and transmit to the Natural Resources Agency for
certification and adoption guidelines for the implementation of
Section 21094.5 and the Secretary of the Natural Resources 
Agency, on or before January 1, 2013,   Agency 
shall certify and adopt the guidelines.
   (b) The guidelines prepared pursuant to this section shall include
statewide standards for infill projects that may be amended from
time to time and promote all of the following:
   (1) The implementation of the land use and transportation policies
in the Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act of 2008
(Chapter 728 of the Statutes of 2008).
   (2) The state planning priorities specified in Section 65041.1 of
the Government Code and in the most recently adopted Environmental
Goals and Policy Report issued by the Office of Planning and Research
supporting infill development.
   (3) The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions under the California
Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Division 25.5 (commencing with
Section 38500) of the Health and Safety Code).
   (4) The reduction in per capita water use pursuant to Section
10608.16 of the Water Code.
   (5) The creation of a transit village development district
consistent with Section 65460.1 of the Government Code.
   (6) Substantial energy efficiency improvements, including
improvements to projects related to transportation energy.
   (7) Protection of public health, including the health of
vulnerable populations from air or water pollution, or soil
contamination. 
   (8) Minimization of the impact of goods movement on air quality,
traffic, and public safety through the provision of dedicated loading
and unloading facilities for commercial space. 
   (c) The standards for projects on infill sites shall be updated as
frequently as necessary to ensure the protection of the environment.

   SEC. 2.    No reimbursement is required by this act
pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution because a local agency or school district has the
authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to
pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act, within
the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code.  
  SECTION 1.    It is the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation that would require a sustainable communities
strategy to include consideration of greenhouse gas emissions
resulting from the delivery of urban freight.