Bill Text: CA SCR140 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Wesley Chesbro Pudding Creek Trestle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-05 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 151, Statutes of 2014. [SCR140 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SCR140-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SCR 140	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Evans

                        AUGUST 5, 2014

   Relative to the Wesley Chesbro Pudding Creek Trestle.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 140, as introduced, Evans. Wesley Chesbro Pudding Creek
Trestle.
   This measure would designate the Pudding Creek Trestle in
MacKerriker State Park in Mendocino County as the Wesley Chesbro
Pudding Creek Trestle.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, The Pudding Creek Trestle is a
pedestrian-equestrian-bicycle timber stringer bridge over Pudding
Creek in MacKerriker State Park, adjacent to the City of Fort Bragg
in Mendocino County; and
   WHEREAS, The trestle is 48 feet above sea level, with a total
length of 515 feet and a deck width of 12 feet; and
   WHEREAS, The trestle was built by the Union Lumber Company in 1915
as a logging railroad trestle; and
   WHEREAS, During the early years of the 20th Century, the Union
Lumber Company harvested timber from forests along Ten Mile River,
and the Ten Mile Railroad was constructed to transport logs from
those forests, and over Pudding Creek, to the Fort Bragg mill; and
   WHEREAS, For 32 years the Ten Mile Railroad existed as a working
railroad, hauling logs and transporting workers; and
   WHEREAS, After World War II, logging trucks replaced the railroad,
and the right-of-way, including the trestle, were converted for
truck use in 1949; and
   WHEREAS, All use of the trestle ended in 1983, and the Department
of Parks and Recreation acquired the unused logging road and nearby
headlands in 1995; and
   WHEREAS, In 2001, Senator Wesley Chesbro requested a report on the
structural condition of the trestle, and state engineers concluded
that with some structural modifications it could be safely used by
nonmotorized traffic, including pedestrians, bicyclists, and
equestrians, to provide easy access from Fort Bragg to the beaches at
MacKerricher State Park and to create the key link in one of the
longest public trails along the California coast; and
   WHEREAS, Senator Chesbro thereupon committed to securing funding
through the State Coastal Conservancy or from unallocated park bond
funds and gathered department heads from affected state and federal
agencies to form a working group to pursue the project; and
   WHEREAS, Thanks to Senator Chesbro's leadership, the Budget Act of
2003 provided $235,000 in Proposition 40 funds for preliminary plans
and working drawings to rehabilitate the trestle, in 2004, the
trestle project was awarded $1,939,000 in Proposition 40 funds for
construction, and in 2006, the project was awarded an additional
$1,666,000 to complete the project; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
Pudding Creek Trestle in MacKerricher State Park as the Wesley
Chesbro Pudding Creek Trestle; and, be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Director of Parks and Recreation and to the author
for appropriate distribution.