Bill Text: CA AB45 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Coastal resources: coastal development permits: blue carbon demonstration projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-09-01 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB45 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB45-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
May 25, 2023 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 15, 2023 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Boerner (Coauthors: Assembly Members Connolly and Ting) |
December 05, 2022 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
The act requires that new development in the coastal zone comply with specified requirements, including, among other things, requirements intended to minimize energy consumption and vehicle miles traveled, and, where appropriate, protect special communities and neighborhoods that, because of their unique characteristics, are popular visitor destination points for recreational uses.
This bill would additionally require that new development minimize greenhouse gas emissions.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 30100.3 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:30100.3.
“Blue carbon demonstration project” means the restoration of coastal wetland, subtidal, intertidal, or marine habitats or ecosystems, including, but not limited to, wetlands and seagrasses, that can take up and sequester carbon. A blue carbon demonstration project is limited to all of the following:SEC. 3.
Section 30237 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:30237.
(a) The commission may authorize blue carbon demonstration projects in order to demonstrate and quantify the carbon sequestration potential of these projects to help inform the state’s natural and working lands and climate resilience strategies.New development shall do all of the following:
(a)Minimize risks to life and property in areas of high geologic, flood, and fire hazard.
(b)Ensure stability and structural integrity, and neither create nor contribute significantly to erosion, geologic instability, or destruction of the site or surrounding area or in any way require the construction of protective devices that would substantially alter natural landforms along bluffs and cliffs.
(c)Be consistent with requirements imposed by an air pollution control district or the State Air Resources Board
as to each particular development.
(d)Minimize energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and vehicle miles traveled.
(e)Where appropriate, protect special communities and neighborhoods that, because of their unique characteristics, are popular visitor destination points for recreational uses.