I need a little help from the California Freepers on legislation AB328 and AB329

17 Feb 2005 | EDCOIL

[edcoil]

Chuck Devore, a new California assemblyman has introduced two bills to extend the existing land leases along the California coastline.

Brief history: The Irvine company owned the land and rented it to private citizens in a cove (called El Morro) on the Orange County coastline, north of Laguna Beach and south of Newport Beach.

Years ago, the city and state refused to allow the Irvine Company (a private developer that built most of orange county) to build on one of their prosperities unless it sold its private land on the beach to the government. I believe this is extortion; the state calls it “negotiations”. The land is no longer in private hands renting to private citizens. The state owns the land and leased it to private citizens.

The state now will not extend the lease, they want all the homes removed and plan on creating a “beach wonderland” at the expense of the taxpayers. They have also waived all the environment standards for their development – but not to private companies.

Personally, the state owns too much land and such ownership places a huge tax burden on future generations.

If you can, the website is: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.html

Searching for AB328 and AB-329 provides you a prompt to Send a comment to the Bills Author and click on the “support” button. If time permits, you might want to send an email to Gov. Arnold to ask his support as well.

Thanks for your time and effort.

[martin_fierro]

Boink.

[NormsRevenge]

Wow. Thanks!

Let me add this to the list of stuff that makes ya go .. hhhmmmmmm. ;-)

[NormsRevenge]

fyi

[calcowgirl]

AB 328

BILL NUMBER: AB 328	INTRODUCED	BILL TEXT

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members DeVore and McCarthy
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Cogdill, Keene, Tran, Walters, and Wyland)

FEBRUARY 10, 2005

   An act to add Section 5017 to the Public Resources Code, relating to 
state parks, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

   AB 328, as introduced, DeVore.   Crystal Cove State Park: El Morro
Village Mobilehome Park.

   Under existing law, the Department of Parks and Recreation within
the Resources Agency administers the operation of state parks in the
state.

   This bill would prohibit the Department of Parks and Recreation
from converting the El Morro Village Mobilehome Park located in
Crystal Cove State Park to a recreational vehicle campground and
day-use park provided specified conditions are met. Money generated
from a 30-year lease of the mobilehome park and day-use parking fees
would be deposited into the General Fund to be expended for the
purpose of reducing the deficit for the 2005-06 fiscal year.

   The bill would prohibit the Department of Parks and Recreation
from allocating money appropriated in the Budget Act of 2004 for the
conversion of the El Morro Village Mobilehome Park in Crystal Cove
State Park.

   The bill would declare that, due to the special circumstances
applicable only to the El Morro Village Mobilehome Park in Crystal
Cove State Park, a general statute cannot be made applicable within
the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California
Constitution, and the enactment of a special statute is therefore
necessary.

  This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.

AB 329

BILL NUMBER: AB 329	INTRODUCED	BILL TEXT

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members DeVore and McCarthy
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Cogdill, Keene, Tran, Walters, and Wyland)

FEBRUARY 10, 2005

   An act to add Section 5017 to the Public Resources Code, relating
to state parks, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the
urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

   AB 329, as introduced, DeVore.   Crystal Cove State Park: El Morro
Village Mobilehome Park.

   Under existing law, the Department of Parks and Recreation within the 
Resources Agency administers the operation of state parks in the state.

   This bill would prohibit the Department of Parks and Recreation
from converting the El Morro Village Mobilehome Park located in
Crystal Cove State Park to a recreational vehicle campground and
day-use park provided specified conditions are met. Money generated
from increased rent and day-use parking fees would be deposited into
the Deferred Maintenance Account, which the bill creates, in the
State Parks and Recreation Fund, and be continuously appropriated for
deferred maintenance of state parks.

   The bill would prohibit the Department of Parks and Recreation
from allocating money appropriated in the Budget Act of 2004 for the
conversion of the El Morro Village Mobilehome Park in Crystal Cove
State Park.

   The bill would declare that, due to the special circumstances
applicable only to the El Morro Village Mobilehome Park in Crystal
Cove State Park, a general statute cannot be made applicable within
the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California
Constitution, and the enactment of a special statute is therefore
necessary.

  This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.

[calcowgirl]

FYI - New Hit Piece

Los Angeles Times, February 27, 2005
Lawmaker's El Morro Bills Follow Gifts
The assemblyman whose legislation would halt eviction has received funds from trailer park residents and the leaseholder.
By David Reyes and Dan Weikel,

A freshman assemblyman from Orange County has introduced two bills to halt evictions of mobile-home tenants within Crystal Cove State Park after receiving about $66,000 in campaign donations and loans from residents, a businessman who holds the trailer park lease and his relatives.

State campaign records show the donations and loans were received by Republican Chuck DeVore of Irvine, who has found himself in the middle of one of Southern California's longest-running disputes over public beaches. At issue is the El Morro trailer park, located at the southern end of the 3.5-mile stretch of mostly undeveloped beachfront south of Corona del Mar. After buying Crystal Cove from the Irvine Co. 26 years ago, the state allowed tenants of El Morro to remain until this year. Now it wants to make good on plans to clear the site for public use.

Six weeks after taking office, DeVore introduced legislation to extend the leases of 275 El Morro tenants from 10 to 30 years and to delay state plans to convert the private trailer park to public use.Opponents of the measures question whether the bills are special-interest legislation designed to benefit DeVore's financial backers.

(snip)

DeVore received a series of loans from members of the family of Roberto G. Brutocao, DeVore's campaign finance chairman and, according to state officials, one of the signatories of the master tenant lease for the trailer park. Brutocao is also an executive with Suncoast Properties Inc., an Irvine company that manages the 32-acre trailer park.

According to DeVore's latest campaign statements, he still owes the Brutocaos about $29,000, out of an outstanding loan balance of about $150,000. Most of the debt is from DeVore lending his own money to the campaign. Brutocao could not be reached for comment.