Delta Protection Commission: executive director: comprehensive long-term resource management plan: determination of consistency.

Existing law, the Johnston-Baker-Andal-Boatwright Delta Protection Act of 1992, requires the Delta Protection Commission to review and maintain a comprehensive long-term resource management plan for land uses within the primary zone, as defined, of the Delta. Existing law authorizes any person who is aggrieved by any action taken by a local government or other local agency in implementing the resource management plan to file an appeal with the commission, or for the commission to review, in the absence of an appeal by an aggrieved person, the action taken. Existing law requires the commission to review the action on the grounds that the action as to land located exclusively within the primary zone is inconsistent with the resource management plan, the approved portions of local government general plans that implement the resource management plan, or specified law. Existing law requires the appeal to be heard by the commission, as prescribed, unless the commission, either itself or by delegation to the executive director, determines that the issue raised on appeal is not within the commission's jurisdiction or does not raise an appealable issue. This bill would require the executive director to determine a discretionary project located in the primary zone to be consistent with the resource management plan provided that the project satisfies at least 4 of 5 specified criteria.