This measure would declare July 27, 2018, as California Bullying Prevention Day, also to be known as Rosie's Day.
The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a local agency to provide by ordinance for the creation of accessory dwelling units in single-family and multifamily residential zones. That law sets forth the standards that the ordinance is required to impose, including, but not limited to, parking, height, setback, lot coverage, landscape, architectural review, maximum size of a unit, and standards that prevent adverse impacts on any real property that is listed in the California Register of Historic Places. Existing law requires the local agency to ministerially approve an application for a building permit to create within a single-family zone one accessory dwelling unit per lot if the unit is contained within the existing space of a single-family residence or accessory structure. In this instance, existing law authorizes a city to require owner-occupancy for either the primary residence or the accessory dwelling unit. The Planning and Zoning Law also authorizes a local agency to provide by ordinance for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units in single-family residential zones. Existing law requires this ordinance to require owner-occupancy in the single family residence in which the junior accessory dwelling unit will be permitted, except in instances when the owner is another governmental agency, land trust, or housing organization. This bill would require, when a local agency or ordinance requires owner-occupancy pursuant to the above-described provisions, the lot that contains the accessory dwelling unit or the single family residence in which the junior accessory dwelling unit is located to be deemed to be owner-occupied if the lot or single family residence is owned by a trust in which at least one beneficiary of the trust is a person with a disability and that person occupies the primary residence, accessory dwelling unit, or any part of the single-family residence.
This measure would urge the United States Department of Justice not to direct its enforcement priorities towards California's lawfully and closely regulated cannabis industry, among other things.
(1) Existing law authorizes a governmental agency, as defined, to solicit proposals and enter into agreements with private entities for the design, construction, or reconstruction by, and to lease to, private entities for specified types of fee-producing infrastructure projects, including commuter and light rail. This bill would additionally include passenger rapid transit, subways, and heavy rail within the types of fee-producing infrastructure projects authorized pursuant to this provision. The bill would provide that all construction, alteration, demolition, installation, repair, and maintenance work on projects subject to these agreements shall comply with labor requirements applicable to public works. (2) Existing law creates the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, with specified powers and duties. Existing law authorizes the authority to enter into contracts with private entities that combine into a single contract all or some of the planning, design, permitting, development, joint development, construction, construction management, acquisition, leasing, installation, and warranty of some or all components of transit systems and certain facilities. Existing law authorizes the authority to award a contract under these provisions after a finding, by a 23 vote of the members of the authority, that awarding the contract will achieve for the authority, among other things, certain private sector efficiencies in the integration of design, project work, and components. This bill would eliminate the requirement to make the above-described finding by a 23 vote of the members of the authority in order to award contracts under these provisions.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations. Existing law requires that moneys collected by the commission from a gas corporation serving the Los Angeles Basin, pursuant to any settlement, unless restricted by a court for another purpose, abatement order, fine, or penalty relating to the well failure at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility be deposited in the Aliso Canyon Recovery Account. Existing law authorizes moneys in the account to be allocated, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of mitigating impacts on local air quality, public health, and ratepayers resulting from the well failure at Aliso Canyon. This bill would require that moneys collected by the commission, a state agency, or the Attorney General pursuant to any settlement, unless restricted by a court for another purpose, abatement order, fine, or penalty relating to the well failure at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility be deposited in the Aliso Canyon Recovery Account. The bill would additionally authorize moneys in the account to be allocated, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of promoting energy efficiency and decreasing reliance on fossil fuels in the Los Angeles Basin, the boundaries of which the bill would expand, as specified. The bill would require that priority be given to greenhouse gas mitigation projects that are located within the Los Angeles Basin.
This measure would encourage the federal government to maintain or restore full funding to integral international exchange programs, such as the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Existing law generally requires that not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, as specified, be paid to workers employed on a public work, as defined. Existing law sets forth the penalties for a violation of this requirement. Existing law prohibits a charter city from receiving or using state funding or financial assistance for a construction project if the charter city has a charter that does not require, or the charter city has not required within the last 2 years, compliance with these provisions on a public works contract, as specified. This bill would exempt from the requirement to pay a prevailing wage of per diem wages, until January 1, 2024, graffiti abatement work performed pursuant to a contract between the City of Los Angeles and a nonprofit community-based organization if the work is performed by specified individuals. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Los Angeles.
This measure would recognize the month of June 2018 as California's Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month and Thursday, June 21, 2018, as The Longest Day in California, and would urge all Californians to wear purple on this day to help spread global awareness of the Alzheimer's Association's vision of a world without Alzheimer's disease.
