Bill Text: CA AB3139 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: State highways: property leases.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-09-17 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 443, Statutes of 2018. [AB3139 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB3139-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Assembly  March 19, 2018

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 3139

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Introduced by Assembly Member Bonta

February 16, 2018

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An act to amend Section 18030 104.16 of the Streets and Highways Code, relating to street lighting. state highways.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 3139, as amended, Bonta. Street Lighting Act of 1919. State highways: property leases.

Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of the state highway system, including associated property. Existing law authorizes the department to lease certain property, including the area above or below a state highway, and certain property held for future highway purposes, to public agencies under specified terms and conditions, including specific provisions governing leases of airspace and other property in the City and County of San Francisco for purposes of an emergency shelter or feeding program, and at a lease cost of $1 per month and payment of an administrative fee not to exceed $500 per year.

Existing law also requires that a lease be offered on a right of first refusal by the department to the city and county or a political subdivision of the city and county and authorizes leases of property for park, recreational, or open-space purposes, subject to certain additional terms and conditions, including a requirement for the department to lease property located within a priority development area to the city and county for up to 10 parcels, at a specified below market value lease amount, and a requirement, applicable to all leases, for the lessee to be responsible for all associated maintenance costs. Existing law also requires that a lease authorize the lessee to subsidize its maintenance costs through a limited revenue generation model, with any revenues generated above the maintenance costs to be shared with the state and requires the City and County of San Francisco or a political subdivision of the city and county, in consultation with the department, to follow all applicable health, environmental, safety, design, and engineering standards.

This bill would make these provisions applicable to any airspace under a freeway or real property acquired for highway purposes located in the City of Oakland.

Existing law, the Street Lighting Act of 1919, authorizes a city council to order a street lighting system, as defined, to be maintained in or along city streets and to assess the lands abutting the streets for the cost of the system. Existing law authorizes the city council of any city when in its opinion the public interest or convenience requires to take one or more actions, including, to order any street lighting system to be maintained in or along the whole or any part of any one or more of the streets in such city, or to order electric current or energy, gas, or other illuminating agent to be furnished for such street lighting system.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NOYES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 104.16 of the Streets and Highways Code is amended to read:

104.16.

 (a) Any airspace under a freeway, or real property acquired for highway purposes, in the City and County of San Francisco, Francisco or the City of Oakland, that is not excess property, shall be offered for lease on a right of first refusal by the department to the city and county City and County of San Francisco or to the City of Oakland, as applicable, or a political subdivision of the city or city and county, for purposes of an emergency shelter or feeding program, or for park, recreational, or open-space purposes.

(b) (1) The lease amount for emergency shelter or feeding programs shall be for one dollar ($1) per month.

(2) For up to 10 parcels, the lease amount for park, recreational, or open-space purposes shall be 30 percent of the fair market lease value of the applicable parcel.

(3) Any property leased pursuant to paragraph (2) shall be located within a priority development area.

(4) The lease amount may be paid in advance of the term covered in order to reduce the administrative costs associated with the payment of the monthly rental fee. The lease shall require the payment of an administrative fee not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500) per year, unless the department determines that a higher administrative fee is necessary, for the department’s cost of administering the lease.

(c) In the case of a lease for park, recreational, or open-space purposes, in order to offset any potential loss of revenue, the department may include parcels leased pursuant to this section in a mitigation bank to be used to advance future development projects or highway projects within the city and county. City and County of San Francisco or the City of Oakland.

(d) The city and county City and County of San Francisco or the City of Oakland or a political subdivision of the city or city and county, in consultation with the department, shall follow all applicable health, environmental, safety, design, and engineering standards.

(e) Any lease shall require the lessee to fund and construct all associated infrastructure, and to accept full responsibility for liability related to those uses. The lease shall require the lessee to be responsible for all maintenance costs associated with those uses, except as otherwise provided in the lease. The lease shall authorize the lessee to subsidize its associated maintenance costs through generation of revenue under a limited revenue generation model, such as from limited parking facilities located on the leased property, if any revenues generated that exceed the associated maintenance costs are shared with the state, at a rate not less than 50 percent of those excess revenues, with that amount to be deposited in the State Highway Account.

(f) As used in this section, “priority development area” means an area identified in a sustainable communities strategy developed pursuant to Section 65080 of the Government Code.

(g) The Legislature finds and declares that the lease of real property pursuant to this section serves a public purpose.

SECTION 1.Section 18030 of the Streets and Highways Code is amended to read:

18030.

When in the opinion of the city council of a city the public interest or convenience may require, that body may do one or more of the following:

(a)Order a street lighting system to be maintained in or along the whole or any part of one or more of the streets in the city.

(b)Order electric current or energy, gas, or other illuminating agent to be furnished for a street lighting system.

(c)For any of the purposes expressed in subdivision (a) or (b) of this section, the city council may determine and declare the district to be benefited by any improvement and fix the exterior boundaries thereof and assess, either partly or wholly, the costs and expenses, including all incidental expenses, of the improvement, or of any one or more of the items thereof, upon the lands in the district.