State Highway Route 710: alternative transportation improvement program.

Existing law generally provides that a city or county acting jointly with the transportation planning agency having jurisdiction may adopt a resolution requesting the rescission of a state highway route location within the city or county, and submit an alternative state highway project proposal. Existing law provides that the route location shall be rescinded if the California Transportation Commission concurs in the resolution, and in that case provides for the Department of Transportation to proceed with the sale of excess properties that were acquired for the rescinded route location. However, in the case of a city or county under the jurisdiction of a county transportation commission in those counties subject to the County Transportation Commission Act, only the county transportation commission may adopt the resolution and submit an alternative state highway project proposal. Existing law requires the California Transportation Commission to allocate the proceeds from the sale of properties from a rescinded state highway route location to fund the alternative state highway project if the project is approved by the commission. These funds are not subject to allocation pursuant to the north-south split and county shares formulas otherwise generally applicable to state highway funds if the expenditure for an alternative project is within the same county as the rescinded route location. This bill would require proceeds from the sale of the excess properties within a specified portion of the State Highway Route 710 corridor, less any reimbursements due to the federal government and all costs incurred in the sale of those properties, to be allocated by the commission to fund a transportation improvement program approved by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. These funds would not be subject to allocation pursuant to the north-south split and county shares formulas.