California Public Resources Code

§ 33204

PRC § 33204Div. 23 · Ch. 3

Statute text

The conservancy may, in accordance with the priorities of the plan, do the following:

(a)Award grants or make interest-free loans to cities, counties, resource conservation districts, and recreation and park districts for the purpose of restoring areas which, because of scattered ownerships, poor lot layout, inadequate lot size, inadequate park and open space, incompatible land uses, or other conditions, are adversely affecting the Santa Monica Mountains environment or are impeding orderly development. Any funds over and above eligible project costs which remain after completion of a restoration under this subdivision shall be transmitted by the city, county, resource conservation district, or recreation and park district, as the case may be, to the state and deposited in the fund and shall be available for expenditure, when appropriated by the Legislature, for the purposes of funding the programs specified in this division.

(b)Undertake, or award grants or make interest-free loans to any state agency, city, county, resource conservation district, or recreation and park district for the purposes of undertaking, the acquisition of critically needed buffer zones to ensure that the character and intensity of development surrounding lands acquired by the federal government as part of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area is generally compatible with, and does not adversely impact, the recreational and natural resource values of the national recreation area. In the acquisition of interests pursuant to this subdivision, the conservancy shall place principal reliance on acquisition of development rights and other less than fee interests.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1616, Sec. 7.