Bill Text: CA SCR147 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Historic Highway Route 79.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-09 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 181, Statutes of 2016. [SCR147 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SCR147-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SCR 147	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 2, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Anderson
   (Coauthor: Senator Stone)
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Jones)

                        JUNE 1, 2016

   Relative to Historic Highway Route 79.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 147, as amended, Anderson. Historic Highway Route 79.
   This measure would designate a specified portion of Highway Route
79 in the Counties of San Diego and Riverside as Historic Highway
Route 79 and request the Department of Transportation to determine
the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and,
upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to
erect those signs.
   Fiscal committee: yes.



   WHEREAS, Highway Route 79 is among the County of San Diego's last
three unsullied rural highways; and
   WHEREAS, Highway Route 79 begins in the community of Descanso and
then climbs and winds through some of southern California's most
historically significant natural and manmade sites; and
   WHEREAS, Highway Route 79 then travels through Cuyamaca Rancho
State Park, surrounding travelers with geological and geographical
landmarks; and
   WHEREAS, Highway Route 79 next winds past gold mines, communities,
and tiny towns that dot the primeval Cleveland National Forest; and
   WHEREAS, In 1600, those already old and overlapping trails that
would later become Highway Route 79 marked the way for Spanish
explorer Pedro Fages and those riding horses with him; and
   WHEREAS, A portion of Highway Route 79 served as a segment of the
 2,812 mile   2,812-mile  Butterfield
Overland Mail Route, which was the first transcontinental postal
delivery service in the country; and
   WHEREAS, In other states, several portions of the Butterfield
Overland Mail Route have been officially registered as historic
places, reminding today's travelers of the bravery, determination,
and adventurism of those who built and  travelled 
 traveled  this famous route in the 19th century; and
   WHEREAS, Highway Route 79 further winds through Julian, a
community that a handful of people founded and in which gold was
discovered in 1870; and
   WHEREAS, By 1908, when the state began paving Highway Route 79,
the route had already been used by army surveyors, pre- and
post-Civil War gold miners, American and European settlers, Chinese
workers, immigrants from the British Isles, and European immigrants
tired of the Austro-Hungarian wars; and
   WHEREAS, Highway Route 79 has outstanding natural, cultural,
historic, and scenic qualities; and
   WHEREAS, It is therefore appropriate to recognize a portion of
Highway Route 79 for its historical significance and importance in
the development of California and to designate that portion as
Historic Highway Route 79; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
portion of Highway Route 79 from where it intersects with Interstate
8 at  post mile L 0.044 at  Japatul Valley Road in the
County of San Diego to its intersection  with Interstate 15
  at post mile RIV 15.74 at Butterfield Stage Road 
in the County of Riverside as Historic Highway Route 79; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of appropriate signs consistent with signing
requirements for the state highway system showing the special
Historic Highway Route 79  designation,  
designation  and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources
for that cost, to facilitate the erection of those signs at
appropriate locations on Highway Route 79; and be it further
   Resolved, That the designation of Historic Highway Route 79
pursuant to this resolution shall have no impact upon the future
planning or development of adjacent private and public properties;
and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author for
appropriate distribution.