Existing law authorizes a city or county to prepare a transit village plan for a transit village development district that addresses specified characteristics, including, among other things, demonstrable public benefits beyond the increase in transit usage that include any 5 specified benefits. This bill would require the transit village plan to address demonstrable public benefits beyond the increase in transit usage including any 6 specified benefits. The bill would add as a public benefit the minimization of the impact of goods movement on air quality, traffic, and public safety through the provision of dedicated loading and unloading facilities for commercial space.
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This measure would declare May 2014 to be American Stroke Month in California.
This measure would recognize the importance of access to local parks, trails, open space, and facilities for the health and development of all Californians and would declare the month of July 2014 as "Parks Make Life Better!" Month.
This measure would urge Congress to support legislation reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors of Alameda County to establish an independent hospital authority strictly and exclusively dedicated to the management, administration, and control of the group of public hospitals, clinics, and programs that comprise the Alameda County Medical Center. This bill would instead authorize the board to establish an independent hospital authority for the Alameda Health System, which was formerly known as the Alameda County Medical Center. The bill would make conforming changes with regard to legislative findings and declarations and would include additional legislative findings and declarations relating to the Alameda Health System. The bill would also make other conforming changes in existing law.