State Lands Commission: grant of trust lands: City of Redwood City.

(1) Under existing law, the State Lands Commission has jurisdiction over certain public lands in the state, including tidelands and submerged lands. Existing law authorizes the commission to enter into an exchange, with any person or any private or public entity, of filled or reclaimed tidelands or submerged lands or beds of navigable waterways, or interests in these lands, that are subject to the public trust for commerce, navigation, and fisheries, for other lands or interests in lands if the commission finds that specified conditions are met, as prescribed. This bill would grant and convey in trust to the City of Redwood City, in the County of San Mateo, and to its successors, all of the rights, title, and interests of the state, acquired and held by the state acting by and through the commission, subject to the common law public trust, pursuant to a specified agreement approved by the commission, in specified lands known as the Maple Street Site (Trust Addition Lands) , as described. The bill would require the City of Redwood City to hold these lands in trust for the same purposes and subject to the same conditions, restrictions, and requirements of certain other grants of public trust lands, as described, pursuant to a specified statute, as amended. The bill would require the City of Redwood City, on or before January 1, 2024, to submit to the commission a trust lands use plan describing any proposed development, preservation, or other use of the trust lands, and to, thereafter, submit to the commission for its approval any proposed changes to, amendments to, or extensions of the trust lands use plan. The bill would require the termination of an existing interim trust lease between the commission and the City of Redwood City covering those lands on January 1, 2020. By imposing new duties on a local government with regard to providing for the use and management of those trust lands, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Redwood City. (3) 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. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.