(California Government Code)
TITLE 7. PLANNING AND LAND USE
DIVISION 1. PLANNING AND ZONING
Chapter 2.3 Long-Range Transportation Planning
65070. (a) The Legislature finds and declares, consistent
with Section 65088, that it is in the interest of the
State of California to
have an integrated state and regional transportation
planning process. It further finds that federal law
mandates the
development of a state and regional long-range transportation
plan as a prerequisite for receipt of federal transportation
funds.
It is the intent of the Legislature that the preparation
of these plans shall be a cooperative process involving
local and regional
government, transit operators, congestion management
agencies, and the goods movement industry and that
the process be a
continuation of activities performed by each entity
and be performed without any additional cost.
(b) The Legislature further finds and declares that
the last attempt to prepare a California Transportation
Plan occurred
between 1973 and 1977 and resulted in the expenditure
of over eighty million dollars ($80,000,000) in public
funds and did not
produce a usable document. As a consequence of that,
the Legislature delegated responsibility for long-range
transportation
planning to the regional planning agencies and adopted
a seven-year programming cycle instead of a longer
range planning
process for the state.
(c) The Legislature further finds and declares that
the Transportation Blueprint for the Twenty-First Century
(Chapters 105
and 106 of the Statutes of 1989) is a long-range state
transportation plan that includes a financial plan
and a continuing
planning process through the preparation of congestion
management plans and regional transportation plans,
and identifies
major interregional road networks and passenger rail
corridors for the state.
65071. The department may prepare a California Transportation
Plan consistent with federal and state law and specifically
identify in its budget the cost to prepare the plan.
The total state and federal funds expended by state
agencies for the purpose
of preparing, reviewing, and adopting the plan to be
submitted in December 1993, shall not exceed one million
dollars
(1,000,000).
65072. The California Transportation Plan shall include
all of the following:
(a) A policy element that describes the state's transportation
policies and system performance objectives. These policies
and
objectives shall be consistent with legislative intent
described in Sections 14000, 14000.5, and 65088. For
the plan to be
submitted in December 1993, the policy element shall
address any opportunities for changes or additions
to state legislative
policy direction or statute.
(b) A strategies element that shall incorporate the
broad system concepts and strategies synthesized from
the adopted
regional transportation plans prepared pursuant to Section
65080. The California Transportation Plan shall not
be project
specific.
(c) A recommendations element that includes economic
forecasts and recommendations to the Legislature and
the Governor
to achieve the plan's broad system concepts, strategies,
and performance objectives.
65073. The department shall submit the California Transportation
Plan to the Governor by December 1, 1993. The department
shall make a draft of its proposed plan available to
the Legislature, the commission, and the regional transportation
planning
agencies for review and comment. The commission may
present the results of its review and comment to the
Legislature and
the Governor. The Legislature intends to hold public
hearings and submit its comments to the department
and the Governor by
conducting joint hearings of the Transportation Committees
of the Senate and Assembly. The Governor shall adopt
the plan
and submit the plan to the Legislature and the Secretary
of the United States Department of Transportation.
65074. The Department of Transportation shall prepare,
in cooperation with the metropolitan planning agencies,
a federal
transportation improvement program in accordance with
subsection (f) of Section 135 of Title 23 of the United
States Code.
The federal transportation improvement program shall
be submitted by the department to the United States
Secretary of
Transportation, by October 1 of each even-numbered year.
(Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1177. Effective September
30, 1992.)