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TO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Phil Batchelor Contra
County Administrator
Costa
DATE: April 1, 1987 County
SUBJECT: Legislation: Assembly Bill 374 County
(McClintock, Baker et al)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt a position of opposition to AB 374 by Assemblyman
McClintock, Baker, and others, which would require a 2/3 vote of
a Board of Supervisors to authorize new High Occupancy Vehicle
(HOV) lanes, and would phase out all HOV lanes by January 1, 1989
unless a Board of Supervisors, by a 2/3 vote, requested that they
be continued.
BACKGROUND:
Currently, the State Department of Transportation will not
implement HOV lanes on a state highway over substantial local
. opposition. AB 374 does two things which have the potential to
severely damage the Board' s Transportation Systems Management
(TSM) Program. First, the bill would require a 2/3 vote ( 4 votes
in counties other than San Francisco) of the Board of Supervisors
to implement HOV lanes on any state highway in a county. This
allows two members of the Board of Supervisors in any county to
block the installation of HOV lanes on any state highway in that
county. Second, it eliminates all existing HOV lanes in a county
by January 1, 1987 unless the Board of Supervisors in a given
county requests that the HOV lanes be continued. This has the
potential of creating a patchwork of HOV lanes which might be
allowed in one county, but would have to stop at the county line
if a neighboring Board of Supervisors was unable to muster the
2/3 vote to continue them. In the Contra' Costa, Alameda, San
Francisco commute corridor this could create chaos and confusion
on highways such as Interstate 80, 680, and 580 .
For these reasons, the Transportation Planning staff in the
Community Development Department recommend that the Board oppose
AB 374 and this office concurs in that recommendation.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
_Y RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
_ APPROVE OTHER
S 1 GNATURE S : G/� G
ACTION OF BOARD ON April 7, 1987 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT Z� AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES. AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: County Administrator ATTESTED APR 7 1987
Director, Community Development - -- -- -
Transportation Planning PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
D. J. Smith ASSOC1dteS SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Jackson/Barish & Associates
Larry Naake, CSAC Director BY ( ��j�s ,DEPUTY
M382��/Memblymen McClintock, Baker