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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Grayson</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title>An act to add Section 54222.3.3 to the Government Code, and to add Chapter 6.8 (commencing with Section 21189.60) to Division 13 of the Public Resources Code, relating to land use.</ns0:Title>
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<ns0:Subject>California Environmental Quality Act: surplus land disposal requirements: exemption.</ns0:Subject>
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<html:p>Existing law requires a local agency to declare land either “surplus land” or “exempt surplus land,” as supported by written findings, before the local agency may take any action to dispose of it consistent with an agency’s policies or procedures and defines terms for these purposes. Existing law generally requires a local agency, before disposing or negotiating to dispose of surplus land, to provide a written notice of the availability of the surplus land to specified entities and housing sponsors. Under existing law, land declared by an agency of the state or any local agency as “exempt surplus land” is not subject to these requirements.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would exempt land that was or will be conveyed by the federal government to a local reuse authority in accordance
with a military base closure and realignment, as specified, from these requirements. The bill would also limit the time to bring an action to challenge the application of this exemption to within 90 days after the local reuse authority’s approval of a disposition and development agreement, purchase and sale agreement, or similar agreement regarding the disposition of all or any portion of the land by the local reuse authority and not at the time of each subsequent conveyance or phased conveyance of the land.</html:p>
<html:p>The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) 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. CEQA 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.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would provide that specified environmental review documents satisfy the requirements of CEQA for any project within the portion of the Concord Naval Weapons Station included within the boundaries of the area plan for the Concord Community Reuse Project, as provided, that meets specified conditions, including a requirement that the project applicant has negotiated a project labor agreement, as defined, for the project. To the extent the bill imposes new duties on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would make
legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Concord.</html:p>
<html:p>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.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.</html:p>
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<html:p>The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:</html:p>
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(a)
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The Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act (Public Law 100-526) and the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-510) establish a comprehensive federal framework governing the closure, realignment, and disposal of military installations and related real property.
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(b)
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The federal base closure and realignment process is designed to mitigate the economic impacts of base closures by promoting timely economic redevelopment, private investment, job creation, and replacement of lost military employment at former military installations, including through economic development conveyances and related federally authorized disposition mechanisms.
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(c)
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Established in 1942, the Concord Naval Weapons Station is a former military base that was placed on the Base Realignment and Closure list in 2005.
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(d)
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The Navy declared approximately 4,972 acres of property at the Concord Naval Weapons Station to be surplus to the needs of the federal government, in accordance with the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990.
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(e)
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The Navy intends to convey through an economic
development conveyance approximately 2,350 acres of the Concord Naval Weapons Station to the City of Concord as the designated local redevelopment authority for redevelopment for the purpose of short- and long-term job generation.
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(f)
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The environmental impacts of the proposed reuse of the former Concord Naval Weapons Station have been analyzed through an environmental impact statement prepared by the Navy pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 4321 et seq.) and an environmental impact report certified by the City of Concord pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (commencing with Section 21000 of the Public Resources Code).
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(g)
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In 2010, after a multiyear process with substantial public input, the City of Concord adopted a three-phase reuse plan for the Concord Naval Weapons Station, and after that the City of Concord adopted the
Concord Reuse Project Area Plan to incorporate the reuse plan policies and goals into the city’s general plan and adopted an addendum to the previously certified environmental impact report.
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(h)
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The Concord Reuse Project Area Plan anticipates no fewer than 10,000 housing units with 25 percent of units affordable to lower income households, up to 6,100,000 square feet of commercial building space, community facilities such as school sites, neighborhood parks, and sports facilities, as well as approximately 2,500 acres of open space.
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(i)
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As California continues to grapple with a shortage of new housing, the state has an interest in facilitating the building of new homes, not just for the housing, but for the jobs and economic development that such projects bring to a region.
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(j)
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It is the intent of the Legislature to
enact measures to facilitate the creation of housing and community development that the Concord Reuse Project Area Plan envisions, that will be an economic driver, not just for the City of Concord, but for the greater East Bay region of California.
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Section 54222.3.3 is added to the
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(a)
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This article shall not apply to the disposal of all or any portion of land that was or will be conveyed by the federal government to a local reuse authority in accordance with the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act (Public Law 100-526), the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-510), or any successor federal law governing military base closure and realignment.
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(b)
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An action challenging the applicability of this section to any land shall be brought within 90 days after the local reuse authority’s approval of a disposition and development agreement, purchase and sale agreement, or similar agreement regarding the disposition of all or any portion of the land by the local reuse
authority and not at the time of each subsequent conveyance or phased conveyance of the land.
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Chapter 6.8 (commencing with Section 21189.60) is added to Division 13 of the
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<ns0:Num>6.8.</ns0:Num>
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<html:p>For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:</html:p>
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(a)
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“Applicant” means a public or private entity or its affiliates, or a person or entity that proposes a project in the plan area, along with its successors, heirs, and assignees.
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(b)
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“City” means the City of Concord.
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(c)
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“CNWS” means the Concord Naval Weapons Station.
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(d)
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“CNWS environmental review documents” means and refers to the following:
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(1)
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The Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Disposal and Reuse of the Former Naval
Weapons Station Seal Beach, Detachment Concord, prepared by the U.S. Department of the Navy issued in August 2017.
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(2)
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The Final Environmental Impact Report for the Concord Community Reuse Project Plan prepared by the city (State Clearinghouse No. 2007052094) certified in February 2010.
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(3)
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The Final Environmental Impact Report Addendum and Initial Study of Environmental Significance for the Concord Reuse Project Area Plan approved in January 2012.
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(e)
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“Concord Community Reuse Project” means the Concord Community Reuse Project, approved by the city on February 23, 2010, that established the planning process for civilian use of the former CNWS.
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(f)
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“CRP area plan” means the area plan for the Concord Community Reuse Project adopted and incorporated into
the city’s 2030 general plan in 2012, that covers the inland portion of the former CNWS, the North Concord/Martinez Bay Area Rapid Transit Station, and the Diablo Creek Golf Course.
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(g)
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“Plan area” means the approximately 5,000-acre inland portion of the CNWS included within the boundaries of the CRP area plan.
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(h)
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“Plan documents” means the Concord Community Reuse Project and the CRP area plan.
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(i)
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“Project labor agreement” means the same as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 2500 of the Public Contract Code.
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(a)
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Notwithstanding Section 21166, the CNWS environmental review documents shall be conclusively presumed to satisfy the requirements of this division for any project within the plan area that satisfies the following conditions:
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(1)
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The project does not involve an expansion of the geographic boundaries of the plan area.
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(2)
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The project does not increase the total number of residential units within the plan area by more than ____ percent of the units identified in the CRP area plan as of ____.
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(3)
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The project does not increase the square footage of commercial space within the plan area by more than ____ percent
of the commercial space identified in the CRP area plan as of ____.
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(4)
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The project will not result in any reduction of the aggregate 25 percent affordability requirement for the plan area.
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(5)
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The project applicant has negotiated a project labor agreement for the project.
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(6)
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The project is subject to legally binding agreements with local homeless service providers.
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(b)
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For purposes of this section, a project within the plan area shall include, without limitation, all of the following:
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(1)
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Revisions to the plan documents.
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(2)
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Approval and revision of a specific plan covering all or a portion of the plan area.
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(3)
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Approval of a disposition and development agreement for conveyance of property within the plan area to developers.
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(4)
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Approval of entitlements, permits, and other approvals for development within the plan area, including, but not limited to, subdivision map approvals, design approvals, affordable housing plans and agreements, tree removal permits, development agreements, improvement agreements, and assessment and financing districts.
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<html:p>The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique circumstances, described in Section 1 of this act, in the City of Concord.</html:p>
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No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII
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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.
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