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RESOLUTION NO. 2004-420
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CHULA VISTA ADOPTING THE 2005 LEGISLATIVE
PROGRAM
WHEREAS, Council Policy 300-01, dated January 1987, provides for the adoption of a
City Legislative Program; and
WHEREAS, the Legislative Program represents the City Council's position on items
likely to be acted upon by the State Legislature, Congress, or administrative agencies; and
WHEREAS, by adopting a Legislative Program at the beginning of each two-year
legislative session and amending it at mid-term, Chula Vista is able to take a proactive role in
sponsoring, supporting, or opposing bills related to the City's various legislative priorities; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to adopt an updated 2005 Legislative Program to guide staff
and the City's legislative consultant throughout the coming legislative session.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Chula
Vista does hereby adopt the 2005 Legislative Program as set forth in Exhibit "A".
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that staff and the Legislative Committee are hereby
authorized to implement this program.
Presented by
Approved as to form by
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David D. Rowlands, Jr. ~
City Manager
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Ann Moore
City Attorney
Resolution 2004-420
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PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Chula Vista,
California, this 14th day of December, 2004, by the following vote:
AYES:
Councilmembers:
Castaneda, Davis, McCann, Rindone and Padilla
NAYS:
Councilmembers:
None
ABSENT:
Councilmembers:
ATTEST:
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Susan Bigelow, MMC, City C rk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO )
CITY OF CHULA VISTA )
I, Susan Bigelow, City Clerk of Chula Vista, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing
Resolution No. 2004-420 was duly passed, approved, and adopted by the City Council at a
regular meeting of the Chula Vista City Council held on the 14th day of December, 2004.
Executed this 14th day of December, 2004.
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Susan Bigelow, MMC, City C rk
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2005 CHULA VISTA LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
A. Economic Development.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Enhance California's overall business climate with particular emphasis on streamlined
regulations and reduced costs of doing business (including the reactivation of Revenue and
Taxation Code section 5108 personal property tax rebates).
b. Strengthen existing business attraction and retention programs including: Enterprise
Zones, Recycling Market Development Zones and California Infrastructure Bank.
c. Continue and/ or enhance funding of State and Federal Economic Development agencies,
including:
i. California Trade and Commerce Agency
ii. U.s. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration (EDA)
iii. u.s. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block
Grant and Economic Development Initiative
d. Create new business assistance programs with eligibility criteria for which Chula Vista
would qualify.
e. Create or enhance programs which support cross-border commerce and Chula Vista
import/ export companies.
f. Increase the flexibility of the use of HUD Community Development Block Grant funds as
they relate to general economic development projects and programs.
g. Amend California redevelopment laws to allow agencies to extend the life of
redevelopment project areas.
h. Continue the Community Reinvestment Act and accountability to small businesses
development programs.
B. Energy.
1. Support measures that
a. Assist the City and its energy consumers in improving supply/demand conditions and
enhance conservation measures.
b. Require the Public Utilities Commission to implement the intent and spirit of AB 117
(statutes of 2002) regarding" community aggregation" and" public purposes goods fees".
c. Preserve local options to control and fund the supply and distribution of energy (including
the formation of a municipal utility district) or conservation programs.
d. Enhance the City's ability to enter into distributed generation agreements without having
to pay stranded transmission or distribution charges.
e. Impose fair and reasonable price caps.
f. Repeal the provisions in ABx11 (statutes of 2001) that suspend customer choice.
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g. Maintain the provision that municipal aggregation programs are available on an "opt-out"
basis, and allow Municipal Utilities to phase-in aggregation within a reasonable period.
h. Allow public agencies (not just municipal utilities) to participate in state power supply
programs.
i. Encourage the use of real time metering.
J. Increase incentives for in-state or local photovoltaic and other "green" alternative energy
sources.
k. Ensure transmission of energy is done through new or existing local generation sources
and/ or renewable SQurces.
Note: There is a growing movement to import energy from out of state that is generated using fossil fuels and
other nonørenewable sources. TItis has long-term impacts on air quality as well as fiscal implications related to
transmission congestion charges imposed on Chula Vista and other local ratepayers.
l. Implement efficiency-enhancing technologies (such as combined cycle generation) that
improve consumer choice and/ or enhance competition among energy providers,
particularly in service territories primarily dependent on Investor Owned Utilities.
2. Oppose measures that:
a. Impinge on or restrict the City's ability to exercise land use review/control with respect to
the generation or transmission of power.
b. Erode the City's ability to acquire/generate power from alternative sources, operate as a
municipal utility, or enter into aggregation and/ or distributed generation arrangements.
c. Impose municipal departing load charges and other municipal exit fees, as well as attempts
to regulate or limit municipal rights under the state constitution.
d. Would allow the Public Utilities Commission or Investor Owned Utilities to limit local
participation in the use/ allocation of Public Purpose Goods Fees.
C. Environmental Protection.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Require an environmental impact report (EIR) for large projects/utility mergers.
b. Obtain funds for wetlands and riparian habitat acquisition & restoration, for acquisition of
land needed for multi-species habitat conservation planning, for acquisition, development
& maintenance of open space, greenbeJts, rivers, streams and trails, so long as these funds
are not provided at the expense of other, significant programs supported by the City.
c. Fund planning and land acquisition for Natural Community Conservation plans.
d. Obtain funds for comprehensive environmental management planning for San Diego Bay.
e. Prohibit the granting of new leases for oil and gas development in state-owned coastal
waters off San Diego County.
f. Encourage the installation of water/energy conserving fixtures in new & existing
buildings.
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g. Obtain funding for water conservation to include the construction of reclaimed water
distribution systemsr and fixture and irrigation system renovation and retrofit.
h. Encourage post-consumer recycled product use in manufacturing, residential and business
applications through incentives, educations, promotions, etc.
i. Ensure long-term agreements that provide recycling incentives and/ or profitable markets
for a broader range of products than are currently recycled.
j. Require "disposal warning" labeling on household hazardous materiaIs, which reduce the
use of toxic materiaIs, and which promote nontoxic alternatives to present materials.
k. Require minimum content standards for use of recycled materials in manufacturing
processes.
I. Provide funding for environmental enterprise incentives, specifically Recycling Market
Development Zones (RMDZ).
Note: The RMDZ program has been extended through 2006. Chula Vista and the City of San Diego have a signed
MOU for an RMDZ partnership. Program is being implemented.
m. Expand the bottle bill legislation to include more food and beverage packaging.
n. Expand the number of advance disposal fees and accompanying block grant programs to
provide recycling incentives and funding for household hazardous waste, universal wastes
and electronic wastes, particularly computer monitors and television CRTs.
o. Enact a statewide landfill ban on designated recyciables.
Note: This would encourage development of new feedstock capacity and strengthen/stabilize long-term markets.
p. Reauthorize the Federal Water Resources Act, including provisions to raise the
reimbursement limit and provide reimbursement for construction expenditures.
Note: With a revised reimbursement limit, OluJa Vista cocld be eligible for up to an additional $5 million for
further improvements along the Telegraph Canyon Creek flood control channel.
q. Modify the Clean Water Act to give the City of San Diego an exemption from current "mass
emission reduction" requirements.
r. Impacts associated with the construction and maintenance of draina~e facilities in urban
areas should be allowed to receive miti~ation credit for the inclusion of "Best Mana~ement
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s. Grant local agencies authority to file appeals with the State Water Quality Control Board
(SWQCB) concerning actions by a Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB).
t. Advance the use of low-emission and zero-emission vehicles through market incentives,
credits, rebates, publici private partnerships and other innovative solutions.
u. Create incentives for renewable power generation and distribution.
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v. Create incentives for energy-efficient building programs.
w. Develop and apply a standardized state/national definition of "greenpower".
x. Require "truth in labeling" with respect to green power generators and providers.
y. Improve the coordination of State, Federal and local agency responses to air quality control,
energy and environmental protection.
z. Establish green house gas emissions as a regulated pollutant
aa. Provide State or Federal funding to construct facilities to capture and treat the flow of raw
sewage entering San Diego from Tijuana.
bb. Encourage development of environmentally sound techniques for treating hazardous
waste to reduce its volume and eliminate any toxicity without infringing on home rule
authority over the decision of whether (or when) to implement such techniques.
cc. Provide funding from State, Federal or outside sources to study the water quality/toxic
pollution in San Diego Bay.
dd. Encourage development of water resource facilities and make improvements to the delta
without imposing unfunded mandates on local governments.
ee. Provide financial assistance to construct new and upgrade existing secondary treatment
facilities in San Diego County.
Note: Funds from all sources should be pursued.
ff. Improve the efficiency of environmental regulations and enforcement actions of such
agencies as: Department of the Interior, Corps of Engineers, Department of Commerce,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environmental Protection Agency.
gg. Provide for streallÙined environmental permitting processes for public works projects that
are included within an adopted multiple species conservation plan that is in conformance
with the State's Natural Community Conservation Program.
2. Oppose efforts to:
a. Nullify or weaken the current climate change treaty (Kyoto Protocol) that requires the
United States to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 7% from 1990 levels by 2010.
D. Fiscal Support / Home Rule.
1. Support efforts that:
a. Permit retention and control by local governments of a greater portion of revenue
generated by Federal, State, and local taxes, fees and fines (e.g. vehicle code fines).
b. Require the Federal government and State to reimburse local governments for all mandated costs or regulatory actions or that allow cities to cease performance of unfunded
mandates.
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c. Retain maximum flexibility in the administration of Article XIIIB, J<IUC and XIUD of the
state constitution (XIIIB: the Gann Initiative-local expenditures are limited by population
growth and CPl factors; XIIIC & D: Proposition 218).
d. Expand local autonomy or the home rule authority to govern municipal affairs.
e. Enhance the quality of urban life by funding the creation, improvement, or expansion of
parks, libraries, community services and infrastructure, such as roads, flood control, etc.
f. Provide State/Federal funding for construction or renovation of public buildings such as
community centers, libraries, civic center, etc.
g. Expand the sales tax base to include mail order sales/home shopping sources, internet-
based commerce.
h. Provide that cities and school districts can issue general obligation debt with a majority
vote instead of the current 2/3-vote requirement.
i. Ensure that, upon dismantling of the South Bay power plant, the City/Agency receives in-
lieu revenues to replace any monies lost as a result of plant relocation.
j. Provide for fiscal reform in the form of greater reliability, certainty, and equitability of state
funding for local governments.
k. Reallocate sales and property taxes to the benefit of local governments.
1. Permit government agencies to pass through, to the consumer, the bank fees associated
with credit card transactions.
Note: The Oty would be better able to offer the convenience of credit card usage to area/residents, businesses if
local government were not prohibited from passing these bank COSΠto the consumer.
m. Protect cities' ability to fund capital improvement projects through tax-exempt bonds.
n. Increase the Industrial Development Bond cap.
o. Promote cooperative purchasing opportunities for local government, (i.e. master
agreements, California Multiple Award Schedules, State price lists) along with
opportunities to process and disseminate bids via electronic means.
2. Oppose efforts to:
a. Restrict the use of, or reallocate, city revenues such as Vehicle License Fee funds, Transient
Occupancy Tax revenues, and Business License Tax revenues.
b. Exempt residential users from the Utility users tax.
c. Reallocate fines and forfeitures to the detriment of cities.
d. Repeal Gas Tax exemption for local agencies.
e. Reallocate sales and property tax revenue to the detriment of cities.
f. Limit cities! authority to enact or împose mobilehome or residential rent control.
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g. Limit cities' authority to: enact and assess fees to recover the full cost of providing user-
specific services; recover the full costs of assessment district maintenance; license or lease
use of any property within the juriscliction of the City by telecommunication companies,
utilities or cable providers.
h. Infringe on home rule authority to act on local budget and fiscal matters or other municipal
affairs, or to impose unfunded mandates onto local government.
i. Overhaul the California Public Records Act in a way that would: restrict cities' control of
the means of access to information assets (e.g. computer databases, proprietary software),
limit cost recovery for providing such access, or violate the privacy of the parties from
whom the data was collected.
j. Limit imposition of franchise fees, taxes, or other compensation for use of public right-of-
way; local rate regulation; operational oversight; or right-of-way controls on cable or
satellite television operators and other telecommunications providers and utilities.
k. Preclude cities from collecting Utility users tax (UUT) revenue on cellular or digital
telephone use when negotiating UUT agreements.
E. General Government.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Subject the State Legislature to the same requirements for public meetings, advance
agenda, etc. as are currently imposed on cities through the Brown Act.
b. Limit to 1 % the amount of administrative costs the Board of Equalization may charge to
administer local sales taxes such as San Diego's half-cent sales taxes for transportation and
justice facility construction.
c. Facilitate increases in Open Space District assessments by an amount not to exceed the
Consumer Price Index (CPl) or higher if increased costs are beyond the control of local
governments (e.g. imposed by water districts).
d. Provide funding for the selection of Chula Vista as the site of a new collaborative campus
includin¡; participants such as the University of California, California State University,
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e. Provide funding for Chula Vista's SMART Community program, alternative fuels
programs, and other technology-based projects.
f. Fund school facility construction programs without increasing the fiscal burden of local
government.
g. Clarify the authority of school districts to impose facilities fees established by Ch. 887,
Statutes of 1986 (AB2926).
h. Maintain Chula Vista's central position in the 40th Senate District and 79th Assembly
District.
2. Oppose efforts to:
a. Mandate district elections in all cities andj or school districts.
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b. Impose border crossing fees on the U.s.jMexico international border.
c. Impose greater restrictions on local government through amendment of the Brown Act.
d. Divide cities among multiple Congressional, State or Supervisorial districts.
F. Housing & Community Development.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Exclude redevelopment agencies from competitive bidding statutes and fair market value
restrictions for resale of public properties to permit joint development of public facilities by
private developers upon findings of public benefit
b. Extend the following three Federal Low-Income Housing Programs:
i. Mortgage Credit Certificate Program for low/moderate income home buyers;
ii. Tax Credits for low income housing programs; and,
iii. Continue funding for HUD HOME and HOPE Programs.
c. Change Federal banking regulations to exempt banks from having to count financing or
Letters of Credit for low income housing in their risk capital limit calculations.
d. Provide additional or enhanced State/Federal or other assistance to first-time homebuyers,
including efforts to increase funding for the City's Mortgage Credit Certificate program.
e. Support principles for housing element reform legislation as recommended by the
SANDAG Housing Element Advisory Committee and approved by the SANDAG Board.
f. Prevent the loss of affordable housing units through federal funding for acquisition of at-
risk units by non-profit agencies; and special section 8 subsidies for affected low-income
tenants.
g. Encourage the use of alternative dispute resolution measures as opposed to costly and time
consuming litigation in condominium and townhouse construction defect challenges.
Note: The proliferation of lawsuits over alleged construction defects has led to a substantial withdrawal from
condominium! townhouse construction by the development industry throughout California. These attached
homes are a critical element in the first-time home buyer market.
h. Develop Federal and State participation and financial support for programs to provide
adequate housing for the elderly, handicapped and low-income persons throughout the
community.
i. Maintain and create tax incentives for private revitalization of existing commercial,
industrial and housing resources where such assistance benefits the City.
j. Allow local jurisdictions to adopt the International Residential Code as an alternative to
state-mandated codes as a means of reducing the cost of new housing.
Note: warring factions in the building industry are marupulating current state codes in a power struggle. This
addition to the Legislative Program is suggested as a means of neutralizing that power struggle while still meeting
the safety needs of the public.
2. Oppose efforts to:
a. Grant the State or Federal government approval or veto authority in the implementation of
local redevelopment and rehabilitation projects.
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b. Prohibit any state agency from making subventions, financing, insurance or any other kind
of assistance, available to any city or county that has in effect any rent control measure.
G. Land Use Planning.
1. Support efforts that:
a. Strengthen local governments' powers and capacity to prepare, adopt and implement plans
and programs for orderly growth, development, beautification, and conservation of their
planning areas.
b. Are consistent with the doctrine of "home rulel1 and the local exercise of police powers,
through the planning and zoning processes, over local land use.
c. Expand the land use, conservation, and growth management policies of municipalities to
the unincorporated territories within their spheres of influence.
d. Broaden local government's power to require developers and subdividers to provide the
on-site and off-site facilities and infrastructure needed by their projects.
e. Maximize the authority of the City to exercise local control over general plan decisions.
f. Require special districts and school districts, including community colleges, to adopt
facility master plans which are consistent with City and County general plans and growth
management programs, and to adopt five year capital improvement programs and
financing plans which are consistent with their facility master plans.
g. Limit Coastal Commission authority over land use decisions outside the Coastal Zone,
including those that are tied to Federal permits such as Habitat Conservation Plans and
Incidental Take Permits pursuant to the Federal Endangered Species Act.
h. Provide local government incentives and funding priority for facilitating smart growth
principles in their planning programs.
2. Oppose efforts to:
a. Abridge local govemments' ability to effectively plan, or regulate local land use including:
amendments to the laws governing the local agency formation commission (LAFCO);
legislation which would financially overburden local governments in their efforts to amend
planning policy, regulate land use through removal of incompatible developments,
redevelop blighted areas, or annex territories which are within a city's spheres of influence.
b. Site airports that would adversely impact the Chula Vista area.
c. Politicize the adoption of State Mandated Building and Life Safety Codes.
d. Introduce major changes to Building, Energy or Accessibility code requirements without
providing sufficient time and resources for local government and industry training.
H. Library.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Provide continued, augmented or full funding for the: California Public Library Fund
(PLF), Library of California and California Library Services Act (C15A), including
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Transaction Based Reimbursements, literacy programs and library services for all age
groups.
b. Provide for continued andj or augmented funding of the Federal Library Services and
Technology Act.
c. Fund library construction andj or renovation.
d. Provide programs at both the State and Federal level that guarantee for libraries the largest
possible discount in rates for telecommunication services, intemai connections and access
to the Internet.
e. Preserve existing provisions that exempt libraries from having to act as censors of literature
or information.
1. Parks & Recreation.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Provide StatejFederal funding for such City programs as those supporting: the arts, child
care, after school programs, gang prevention and diversion, and drug prevention and
intervention in a community-based recreation setting.
b. Provide funds for construction of new parks as well as renovation of deteriorating park
and recreation facilities.
J. Public Employer-Employee Relations.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Protect the rights of cities to establish conditions of employment, including hours, wages,
employee benefits, the meet-and-confer process, appeal procedures, and management
rights.
b. Reform California Workers' Compensation Program to reduce public costs and tighten
restrictions.
c. Amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to ensure that executive, administrative and
professional employees still qualify as exempt.
2. Oppose efforts to:
a. Impose restrictions on the scope and authority of charter cities to control their own health
plans or retirement systems.
b. Mandate the inclusion of local government employees in the Social Security System andj or
Medicare.
c. Increase workers' compensation benefits without also making needed reforms.
d. Mandate changes, impose limitations, andj or other benefit plans, wages, hours, or
working conditions that are properly determined through the meet- and-confer process.
e. Mandate binding arbitration in public employee disputes.
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f. Reduce local control over public employee disputes and impose regulations of an outside
agency (such as PERB).
g. Prohibit employers from testing employees or employment applicants for illegal
substances.
K. Public Liability.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Change the legal principal of "joint and several liability" to protect the City against "deep
pocket" liability.
b. Reinforce public entity design and discretionary act immunity.
c. Prohibit recovery by a plaintiff for injury where those injuries were caused as a result of
avoiding a police pursuit.
d. Minimize governmental financial exposure to frivolous lawsuits and improve liability
protection for governmental agencies and their personnel.
e. Expand the existing list of "hazardous activities" so that public entities and public
employers are not liable for injuries to any individual(s) who participate in these activities
(e.g. skateboarding, roUerblading).
2. Oppose efforts to:
a. Further erode government immunity.
b. Force the City to accept risks it would not normally accept in the ordinary course of
business (e.g. mandating acceptance of below-grade or low-grade sureties on performance
bonds or labor and materials bonds).
c. Repeal Proposition 213 (1996) that prevents uninsured motorists from collecting damages,
other than property damages, through litigation.
Note: Trial Lawyers Assoc. hopes to repeal this measure protecting cities, among others, from undue liability.
L. Public Safety.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Strengthen present State and Federal laws that give local governments the power to further
restrict or regulate prostitution.
b. Increase penalties for the manufacture or sale for profit of dangerous drugs.
c. Prohibit the sale and brandishing of replica or facsimile firearms.
d. Toughen drunk driving laws, penalties or enhancements.
e. Strengthen the City's ability to regulate public displays of material that is harmful to
minors.
f. Legalize alternative methods of police enforcement activities.
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g. Provide greater authority for police or other local agencies to control graffiti, curfews,
juvenile crime and alcoholic beverage control.
h. Provide funding for local public safety staffing, programs or equipment, as well as
programs that foster interdepartmental or inter-agency cooperation.
i. Develop a uniform "junk gun" ban that does not restrict the type of weaponry used by off-
duty law enforcement officers.
j. Protect local governments' ability to establish/determine the level of Emergency Meclical
Service (EMS) provided within their own boundaries.
k. Provide reimbursement to local government for "first responder" costs associated with pre-
hospital treatments such as those provided by local fire department personnel.
I. Increase municipal funding for the removal of abandoned vehicles.
2. Oppose efforts to:
a. Preempt local public safety ordinances.
b. Reduce State/Federal funding for public safety programs.
c. Reduce or impair the authority of local agencies to control graffiti, curfews, juvenile crime
and other public safety issues.
d. Change/remove date, and/or shift to the employer, the burden of proof related to all
illness presumptions.
M. Public Works & Transportation.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Provide funding to complete missing freeway links (e.g. SR-125 and 1-905) and other critical
transit corridors or transportation projects.
Note: Construction of the Sweetwater segment of SR~l25 has begun. It is in the City's best interest to ensure that
completion of the project remain a high priority for the State.
b. Reduce municipal costs associated with CalTrans projects.
c. Allow local agencies flexibility in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act to
provide the greatest benefit to the local disabled population, rather than committing scarce
resources to achievement of 2% maximum sidewalk and driveway slopes.
d. Revise speed limit laws to allow for radar enforcement of residential street speed limits
(e.g. at levels below the 85th percentile as determined by a traffic study).
e. Require CalTrans to allow cities an exemption from CalTrans' public work project
requirements if that required work is a result of improper maintenance on CalTrans' part
or, require CalTrans to pay for such additional work if it is included as part of a local
agency's public works project.
f. Amend PUC regulations to prohibit utilities from locating cables directly into concrete
sidewalks and require said cables to be placed 24"-36" below sidewalk surfaces.
Note: Engineering and Public Works staff report an on-going problem in finding telephone cables embedded in the
concrete sidewalks. Sidewalk reconstruction becomes virtually impossible without damaging the cable lines.
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g. Exempt all city vehicles and transit drivers from the Biennial inspection of Terminals
program requirements for "drivers hours of service" during emergencies, similar to the
exemption granted to gas and electric companies.
Note: This program was intended to regulate the times that commercial truck drivers spend on the road, but has
no exemptions for dty vehicles other than those operated by the Fire Department It unnecessarily restricts city
public works vehicles and hampers local governments' ability to respond to emergency situations such as flooding
or earthquake damages.
h. Increase the priority given to public works facility funding from State and Federal sources
to projects (including but not limited to roads, bridges and light-rail transit facilities) that
are linked to implementation of "smart growth" policies (e.g. jobs/housing balance, transit
oriented development, etc.)
i. Allow cities to collect fees for use of the public right of way from currently exempt users
such as telecommunications companies.
j. Provide funds to assist cities in meeting the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (NPDES) requirements.
k. Provide fair share allocation of clean water grants and bond funding to communities in
southern California.
Note: A disproportionate share of these funds currently go to northern California.
I. Support efforts to require public and private utilities to design. locate and screen utility
cabinets. boxes. pedestals and backfIow preventors adiacent to the public right-of-wav in
aestheticallv acceptable manner to local jurisdictions.
m. Place a greater emphasis on providing infrastructure funding to cities that do 'smart
growth' planning.
2. Oppose Efforts to:
a. Further restrict development impact fees for roads, bridges, and public facilities levied
against developers of property.
b. Further restrict fees and assessments levied against individuals or entities receiving a
special benefit.
N. Redevelopment.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Amend the State Community Development law to allow a jurisdiction to combine tax
increment from all projects for use in a specific project.
b. Extend the life of redevelopment project areas, as well as the time during which debt may
be incurred or issued in those project areas.
c. Facilitate the formation of Business Improvement Districts and extend the life of those
districts.
d. Increase funding/ incentives to redevelop brownfield projects
e. Adjust Redevelopment Agency members pay (more than $30 per meeting, up to 4 times
per month).
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f. Provide funding for urban waterfront restoration projects and the enhancement of the
waterfront within the southern San Diego Bay.
g. Provide funding for the Chula Vista Nature Center.
h. Facilitate the recommissioning, redesign or relocation of the 5m Di2go Unifud Port District
South Bay Power Plant and assist with the redevelopment of this bayfront property.
i. Coordinate Federal Coast Zone Management Act, Environmental Protection Agency (EP A)
regulations and State Coastal Zone Act, in an effort to eliminate duplicate efforts.
j. Allow certain land uses under the State Tidelands Act that are conducive to providing jobs
in the "high tech industry".
2. Oppose efforts to:
a. Discontinue State supplemental subvention for redevelopment agencies.
b. Further control or restrict the use of tax increments in redevelopment projects.
c. Reduce the number of San Diego Unified Port District Commissioners andj or require
commissioners to be elected members of the city council that they represent.
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