This bill was last on the Senate Floor May 28th
SB 1916 by Senator Liz Figeroa-Active
· Would expand the regulatory reach of the California Coastal
Commission into an area that the California Costal Act has expressly
identified as
the regulatory jurisdiction of the State Water resources Control
Board and
regional water quality boards.
· Allow unprecedented designations as Environmental Sensitive
Habitat
Areas (ESHA) for areas with common sagebrush & chaparral and
for open spaces
with weeds and grasses. No livestock allowed in or adjacent to
an ESHA.
· Unprecedented limits of all improvements to no more than
10,000
sq.ft. 'Disturbed area' even in rural neighborhoods that characteristically
have always had orchards, horse facilities, tennis courts, ponds,
etc. Note
that a tennis court is 7,000 sq.ft. and a required hammerhead
driveway is
3,000 sq.ft., so that you could not have a house also!
· No grading at all for horse corrals, barns, arenas, etc.
Restricting
horse facilities so close to homes that it conflicts with public
health codes
for 50 foot distance from homes, resulting in no horses allowed.
Only one
ancillary structure and it can not exceed 750 sq.ft. A structure
is
defined to include fences & corrals.
e mail State Senator Liz Figueroa at
http://www.democrats.sen.ca.gov/senator/figueroa