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CALIFORNIA TODAY
Newsletter of the Planning & Conservation League

September 2008

Volume 38, Number 3

Melanie Schlotterbeck

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Shifting Water Management to a New Normal

By: Mindy McIntyre

California water management is founded on one simple assumption: that weather in the future will be relatively the same as it has been in the past. Unfortunately, that assumption is wrong. Weve invested billions of dollars in water systems that rely on what we consider our normal weather pattern capturing water in periods of wet and average years to get us through our periodic dry spells. Yet, scientists are telling us that what we consider normal weather in California will actually be abnormal under climate change. Scientists are finding that the American West is getting drier, perhaps much drier. According to recent reports, the two large reservoirs on the Colorado River, a major source of water for areas in Southern California, may dry up by 2021. The California Drought Update released in April by the Department of Water Resources indicates that we can expect the same sort of drying throughout California. Though many policy makers have accepted that we need to reduce our production of greenhouse gases in order to combat climate change, fewer are willing to acknowledge that our water management must also change. Much of the water conversation in the Legislature focuses on a water bond to support old water strategies. The proposed water bonds would allocate billions of dollars for new dams to capture water in wet years. Yet, state and federal agencies have spent over $100 million studying those dams and, even based on past hydrology, the dams fail to provide benefits that are worthy of their price tags. No

one has even considered how these dams would work under a drier future. More of the same old water policies will not help California. Those policies simply do not make sense when climate change and drier conditions enter the equation. Fortunately, California does have options. The California Water Plan found that the state could make available enough water for over 16 million Californians with improved efficiency in urban areas and development of recycled water infrastructure. Increased agricultural efficiency, regional stormwater capture, and groundwater treatment and protection are also promising potential sources of water. These new water resources can be implemented quickly, and they cost just a fraction of the price tag for new dams. They have the advantage of being climateresilient, which means that they will be as effective or more effective as our climate becomes drier. Some leaders are already looking to shift the focus from old strategies to new policies that will work under our changing climate. This session Assembly Member Krekorian introduced AB 2153 and Assembly Members Laird and Feuer introduced AB 2175. Both measures would significantly increase water efficiency in the state. Unfortunately, AB 2153 did not move out of the Assembly this year, but AB 2175 is now in the Senate, and hopefully will move to the Governors desk. By taking advantage of untapped resources and using new policies, California will be better able to meet the water needs of our people, economy and environment.

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TRACI SHEEHAN, Executive Director TINA ANDOLINA, Legislative Director BARB BYRNE, Water Policy Assistant EVON CHAMBERS, Water Policy Assistant REN GUERRERO, Project Manager - Legislative Advocate CHARLOTTE HODDE, Water Policy Specialist DR. MONICA HUNTER, Central Coast Water Project Manager MINDY McINTYRE, Water Program Manager JONAS MINTON, Senior Water Policy Advisor GARY A. PATTON, General Counsel GERALD PEREZ, Administrative Manager JUSTIN SAYDELL, Sierra Nevada Americorp Member AMBER SCHMAELING, Membership & Development Coordinator MATT VANDER SLUIS, Global Warming Project Manager MELANIE SCHLOTTERBECK, Grants & Outreach Consultant

PCLs mission is to give an effective voice in Sacramento for both sound planning and environmental policy. Our presence in the State Capitol and our partnerships with hundreds of groups across the State ensure our success. It is this league of different interests that gives us all clout and, many times gives us all the umph that we need to push our legislative agenda to get the real change that we are looking for. This past year we authored and championed legislation essential policy reforms that tackled some of our critical issues including global warming, land use, and water. This past May, PCL hosted its first annual Lobby Day at the Capitol. Green LA and the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water (EJCW) partnered with us to mobilize members for a day of citizen lobbying followed by an evening celebration. Having activists from all over the State was central to the days success and a result of the hard work of our colleagues at EJCW and Green LA: Debbie Davis, Stephanie Taylor, Rafael Aguilera, and Jose Carmona. Each summer PCL welcomes interns and fellows PCLs Tina Andolina briefs Lobby Day participants. who want to get real world experience and learn about environmental policy and state level politics. They come to us with different skills and experience - from seasoned land use planners, to law students, to soon to be graduates. This past summer we had a wonderful team of interns and these hard-working individuals made some significant contributions to our program work. Thanks so much to Alison Haroff, Audrey Tucker, Chunling Wang, Erick Watkins, Julia Van Soelen, Julie Greene, Karina Solomonik, Kelly Coplin, Kristen Langford, Reyna Yagi, Tara Hansen, and Victoria Hassid. From writing press releases on our policy work, to arranging Local Climate Action Initiative Workshops; to commenting on SB 97 (which requires the state to prepare and develop guidelines for feasible mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions), to building our major donor program -- the summer interns were invaluable. Their accomplishments, and stick to-itiveness brought great energy to our office and were very much appreciated. Sincerely, Traci Sheehan Executive Director

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Protecting the Laguna Coast

By: Dr. Elisabeth Brown and Harry Huggins

Surrounded by 18,000 acres of undeveloped parks and preserves, Laguna Beach is a village unto itself, a colony of artists and nonconformists. The greenbelt around the town took Laguna Greenbelt, Inc., and later other local environmental groups, more than three decades to achieve. Founder Jim Dilley settled in Laguna Beach to open a modest bookstore, Dilleys Books, in 1958. His ambition for local open space preservation had a profound environmental impact that reshaped regional open space planning. At a time when the hills and canyons of southern Orange County were open cattle ranches, Dilley started to work for a 10,000-acre greenbelt around the town a buffer from future development. He founded Laguna Greenbelt, Inc., in 1968. Dilley focused on creating a greenbelt by combining set asides from development into contiguous open space areas. This was a radical departure from previous county planning that often resulted in disconnected fragments. Scientists now know these fragments are unsustainable as wildlife habitat. In the 1960s, maps of proposed open space in the Orange County General Plan envisioned fingers of development intruding into preserved open space. Beginning in 1970, Dilley carried the greenbelt campaign to the County Board of Supervisors. Behind the group were Laguna Beach residents, and a growing coalition of other environmental groups, organizing around common issues. The Supervisors were surprised when developers faced organized opposition. In 1972, the conceptual Laguna Greenbelt became an area of special concern in the Countys General Plan, and soon after, the California Coastal Plan.

Orange County planners then adopted Dilleys approach to open space planning. As developments were approved in the ensuing decades, open space set asides were planned to be adjacent to each other. The resulting large blocks of contiguous open space - landscape sized areas - became wilderness parks, preserves, and ultimately part of the states first multi-species Natural Community Conservation Plan. The Laguna Greenbelt is half of that reserve. In the late 70s, Laguna Greenbelt spun off a group to advocate for a Laguna Coast National Park. Although the effort failed, the land did become Crystal Cove State Park, the northern arm of the greenbelt. Laguna Beach bought Sycamore Hills, Dilleys famous Buckle of the Greenbelt. Dilley died soon after, but the group continued. In the 1980s the organization flexed its legal and political muscles when a large development was proposed in Laguna Canyon, the core of the greenbelt. The group sued, and a huge demonstration of 8,000 people in the Canyon brought the developer to the table. After successful multi-party negotiations, the taxpayers of Laguna Beach passed a $20 million bond act to help buy the canyon. In 1993, Laguna Coast Wilderness Park opened, and Laguna Greenbelt began to train the first of hundreds of naturalists now volunteering throughout Orange County. The group expanded its public education about local natural history through regular guided hikes, self-guiding nature trails, newsletters, and field guides describing the coastal sage scrub ecosystem. This year we celebrate our 40th year of public advocacy for, and education about, Orange Countys wilderness. Dilleys greenbelt is now more than 18,000 acres and still growing. Laguna Greenbelt has been an Organizational Board Member of Planning and Conservation League (PCL) since the beginning, as we believe in the same intrinsic values of natural lands. Our relationship intensified when we worked cooperatively on PCLs water and park bond acts. We are still spending those funds to enlarge the greenbelt and are grateful to PCLs leadership in advancing park bond measures. CALIFORNIA TODAY Planning and Conservation League & PCL Foundation 3

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Public Meeting on Toll Road Through San Onofre

By: Traci Sheehan

The Transportation Corridor Agencies (TCA) were formed in 1986 as a Joint Powers Authority to manage the financing, construction Join thousands of coastal activists and operation of new toll roads in Orange County. The San Joaquin and open space advocates to show your (73), the Foothill (241), and the Eastern (241/261/133) Toll Roads support for San Onofre State Beach. have all been built by the TCA. Now TCA wants to add a 16 mile The Secretary of Commerce hearing extension of the 241 Toll Road through San Onofre State Beach, will be on Monday, September 22 in Del which is actually located in San Diego County. Mar from 10:30 AM to 8:30 PM. One reason the toll roads have been able to afford to be built is Learn more at: www.SaveSanOnofre.org because TCA relied on existing local and county parkland through which to build the roads. These parks include, but are not limited to: Whiting Wilderness Park, ONeill Regional Park, Aliso and Woods Canyon Wilderness Park and many others. So it is no surprise that TCAs proposed extension passes through more protected natural lands in Orange and San Diego Counties. TCA touts that the 241 extension is the only way to improve traffic congestion in south Orange County, especially in light of the additional homes expected in the region. The Agencies expect a 70% decrease in the number of congested freeway segments once the extension is built. Others disagree. In fact, there is growing sentiment that the San Onofre Beach (above) and former State Parks Sector effort to relieve congestion should be focused to Fix the 5 First. Chief Dick Troy (left) on a public tour of the Park (below). By way of background, the southern extension of the 241 Toll Road, which consists of a six-lane highway four miles of which would run the length of the State Beach, has significant environmental impacts, including: Destroying 60% of San Onofre State Beach (the states 5th most visited state park); Substantial degradation of the world famous Trestles surf break; Bulldozing the 8,000 year old Panhe/Acjachemen Native American village and cultural site; Increasing water pollution entering the natural waterways; and Eliminating the 161 campsites at San Legislation to Clean Up Port Air Pollution Awaits the Governor's Signature Mateo Campground. In August, the California Legislature passed SB 974 (Lowenthal), The road impacts lands in the coastal zone and therefore required approval of the California the Clean Ports Investment Act. SB 974 is by far the most important Coastal Commission. In February 2008, over measure this year to improve air quality in California, particularly 3,600 people attended the Commissions hearing around our port communities. Supporters are pulling out all the in Del Mar on the proposed extension. Scores stops to ensure it is signed by the Governor. SB 974 collects up to of residents, surfers, environmentalists, families, $30 for each shipping container processed at Californias three largest Native Americans, campers, park enthusiasts ports and reinvests that money in infrastructure improvement projects and others protested the approval of the road. and air quality mitigation measures. Approximately 3,700 deaths in California each year are directly The Commission and staff did their linked to toxic emissions from goods movement, and the California homework and denied approval of the Air Resources Board estimates that over the next 14 years, the State extension. Upset about the denial of its project, TCA appealed the decision. Now, the will spend an additional $200 billion in health care costs directly related to goods movement pollution. SB 974 will provide a steady Secretary of Commerce will hold a hearing funding stream that is expected to generate nearly $300 million to determine the fate of the proposed 241 annually address this health crisis. extension and San Onofre State Beach.

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Filling in the Conspicuous Gap - Tejon Ranch

By: Dr. Michael White, Conservation Biology Institute

Encompassing 422 square-miles (thats 270,000 acres!), Tejon Ranch is the largest contiguous privatelyowned property in California, and surely one of the most beautiful. Tejon, the Spanish word for badger, was first applied to the region when Lt. Francisco Ruiz and his soldiers discovered a badger at the mouth of what is now known as Tejon Canyon in 1806. The Rancho el Tejon was established in 1843 through a Mexican land grant. General Edward Fitzgerald Beale and his family assembled Tejon Ranch between 1855 and 1866 from four Mexican land grants-Rancho el Tejon, Rancho la Liebre, Rancho los Alamos y Agua Caliente, and Rancho de Castac. Biogeographers have divided California into ten major regions, each supporting a distinct flora and fauna (plants and animals), and four of these regions converge on Tejon Ranch. Tejon Ranch straddles the Tehachapi Mountains, geographically the southern end of the Sierra Nevada, which meets the Great Central Valley, the Southwestern California region, and the Mojave Desert on Tejon Ranch. Each region brings its distinct biological elements, including oak woodlands, grasslands and wildflower fields, fir forests, pion-juniper woodlands, and Joshua tree woodlands, making Tejon Ranch one of the great melting pots of biodiversity in California. Tejon Ranch supports a myriad of conservation values prioritized by conservation practitioners. These include imperiled species, perhaps most notably the California condor, and some of the last remaining
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habitat for threatened and endangered species in the southern San Joaquin Valley, such as the San Joaquin kit fox. Tejon Ranch anchors a large and relatively intact landscape that provides habitat connectivity for wide-ranging species like mountain lions, as well as natural ecosystem functions such as watershed processes. Conservation of intact landscapes is increasingly important in light of global climate change, so that species distributions can shift with minimal resistance. In fact, recent research shows that places like Tejon Ranch may provide refugia for some species in a climate-altered future. Tejon Ranch lies in a conspicuous gap in the protected lands network in this portion of California. It sits between Sequoia National Forest in the southern Sierra Nevada, Los Padres National Forest in the Sierra Madre Mountains, and The Wildlands Conservancys neighboring Wind Wolves Preserve in the San Emigdio Mountains, and it is the key puzzle piece to link these protected areas as well as to maintaining connectivity between the east and west sides of the Central Valley. The recent Tejon Ranch conservation agreement, providing for the protection of as much as 240,000 acres of the Ranch, is a crucial step to completing this major link in Californias protected areas network.

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Strong Step Forward, Global Warming Plan Still Lacking

By: Matt Vander Sluis

On June 26th, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft AB 32 Scoping Plan, detailing how the state plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 in compliance with Californias landmark climate change legislation. CARB then conducted public meetings across the state to gather input. Based on our initial review, the Draft Scoping Plan is an important milestone in Californias fight against global warming and, to a large degree, reflects the urgency of the situation. It includes a strong commitment to expanding renewable power production, cleaning our vehicles emissions, increasing energy efficiency, improving water management, and many other actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, this Draft Scoping Plan is definitely a draft, and more progress is needed before its ready for adoption later this fall. Some public health benefits were included in the draft, but more are needed. If these provisions are poorly implemented,

some could dampen progress toward improving our air and water quality. Adequate safeguards need to be instituted to protect public health and improve the well-being of the states most polluted and economically disadvantaged communities. In perhaps its greatest single deficiency, the draft fails to include meaningful measures to reform Californias land use policies. Instead, it only encourages local governments to take action and offers various rewards for good behavior. This pat on the back approach to land use policy reform is unacceptable in light of the intense pressure placed upon local governments by developers and industries to continue business as usual decision making. PCL is working to ensure that the final plan includes strong enforcement measures to so that California grows smarter in the years ahead. A Final Scoping Plan will be released in October of 2008. For more information contact Matt Vander Sluis by email at mvander@pcl.org or by phone at 916-313-4515.
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Public Health -- a New Element?

By: Julia Van Soelen

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Across California, communities are being built and redeveloped every day. These same communities have a direct impact on the health of local residents. These direct impacts can contribute to chronic health problems such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension and asthma. In fact, every land use decision has some kind of human impact: a new factory may pollute the air and increase cases of asthma; conversely, locating housing near jobs and stores may increase the walkability and reduce traffic congestion. Unfortunately, current land use development and redevelopment practices rarely factor public health into the decision making process. Leaving it out compromises the health of local residents and the environment. Increasingly, cities are adding a Community Health and Wellness section to general plans, incorporating health measures into their land

use decisions, and improving communication between local public health officials and planning departments. Emphasizing this new element will engage residents traditionally under-represented in the decision making processes. Many of the same changes that positively impact human health also help ease developments impact on climate change, limit urban sprawl, and reduce encroachment on natural lands, agricultural land and important habitat. Changes in the built environment, or the physical features of cities and towns, can encourage walking and biking, reduce emissions from vehicles, and limit exposure to pollutants. Therefore, by using innovative planning processes, we have the potential to improve both the health of Californians and the environment. The Planning and Conservation League (PCL) has created a special program on this very subject to facilitate communication across a variety of sectors, including public health, land use, transportation, environmental justice, and the environmental movements. By collaborating with diverse partners, PCL will promote the integration of public health into planning processes statewide. To learn more contact Ren Guerrero by email at: rguerrero@pcl.org or by phone at 916-313-4508.

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Youve Got CEQA Questions, We ve Got Answers!

By: Justin Saydell

With the help of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), many individuals have been actively engaged in shaping their community for a healthier and more environmentally friendly landscape. Despite the obvious benefits that CEQA provides to Californians, the environmental review process can often be confusing and leave people wondering, How does the process work? In order to address such questions, the PCL Foundation added a Q&A Forum to our CEQA Monthly issues and our website. The forum will not only provide answers to common questions about the environmental review process, but it will also provide a mechanism for your CEQA questions. Submit your questions to Justin Saydell at jsaydell@pcl.org. To start the forum off, here are some general Q&As: Question: What does CEQA do? Answer: CEQA allows public agencies to make informed decisions about activities that could degrade public health and damage the environment. It provides Californians with a framework to hold public agencies accountable for decisions that may substantially alter the quality of their lives.

Question: How can I get notified about an upcoming CEQA decision? Answer: Public notifications must be presented in a newspaper or general circulation within the area affected by the project, a posting on and off site in the immediate area of the project or a direct mailing to property owners near the project. Agencies must post a regular meeting agenda at least 72 hours in advance. CEQA also requires that agencies provide written notices directly to anyone requesting one on a particular project. Question: Does CEQA address climate change issues? Answer: Senate Bill 97, signed by the Governor in August 2007, requires the Office of Planning and Research to prepare, develop and transmit guidelines for feasible mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions or its effects. These guidelines must be adopted by the Resources Agency on or before January 1, 2010. The guidelines will provide direction on the analysis and mitigation of greenhouse gases in CEQA documents.

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Meet Bill Center, Our Board President

By: Gerald Perez

Just like the streams that flow down from the foothills, Bill Center has long been part of the local watershed. I backpacked extensively in the Sierra in my teens and early twenties. Becoming a river guide and getting involved in the fight to save the Stanislaus from being flooded by New Melones Dam committed me to fighting for river protection and ultimately pulled me into the broader political scene. Broader seems an understatement for the Fort Bragg, California native. His infectious smile and determined attitude are a force to be reckoned with. He was a founding Board Member of Friends of the River and the Great Valley Center and was elected as an El Dorado County Supervisor in 1991. Now, having to follow in the wake of past PCL Board President John Van de Kamp, whom Bill replaced earlier this year, he looks forward to a long and progressive tenure. PCL is well positioned to push California into being a real leader in land use and water use reform to reduce the enormous carbon footprint that we

have from our post World War II sprawl, he explains. It is a huge challenge, but we have the organizational infrastructure in place to affect how AB 32 (the Global Warming Solutions Act) is both implemented and built on. And it has to be done. Looking back at his success, Bill recalls, Im proudest of the protection we have secured for the South Fork of the American River, which in the 70s had four dams planned for just the reach between Chili Bar and Folsom Reservoir, and five more upstream. In 1982 we achieved 20 year protection for the Chili Bar reach through state legislation, and since then have made the South Fork a critical part of the economic and political fabric of the region so its long-term protection is assured by more than laws - it has become a integral part of the community, and vice versa. Bill and his wife Robin have lived and worked in the Sierra foothills for over 30 years, running their campground, rafting trips and nature expeditions. PCL Board Member Lynn Sadler notes, More than anyone I know, Bill has taken the research and development provided by Mother Nature and successfully applied that to the business of his life.

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Let s Discuss Californias Sustainability

By: Melanie Schlotterbeck

On February 7, 2009, the Planning and Conservation League (PCL) and the PCL Foundation will host their annual Environmental Legislative Symposium. The 2009 theme is Steps to a Sustainable California: Building Momentum for Real Change. Discussing the sustainability of our state is a topic that deserves long overdue attention. As climate change grips the headlines nearly everyday -- our lives and environment have the potential to suffer serious consequences. We need to make changes to our lives and our state to ensure a sustainable future. This Symposium will offer 15 sessions, including cutting edge policy discussions, MCLE courses, and How To workshops. From California wildfires, to public health; water needs,

to global warming -- our sessions will cover major environmental themes. As always our How To... workshops will help you organizationally; this year youll learn how to tell your story, engage the next generation and more! Our keynotes include Secretary A.G. Kawamura* (Department of Food and Agriculture), former Assembly member Fran Pavely,* and Jakadi Imani (Ella Baker Center). Learn more at * tentative www.PCL.org.

TELL US YOUR MEMORIES... The PCL History Project has begun. We are calling on friends, past and present Board members, colleagues, and admirers to submit their accounts of PCLs recent and long-past accomplishments. We will accept photographs, stories scribbled on napkins, verbal accounts - anything goes and will be added to the organizational legacy bank. PCLs partnerships have always been the keys to our success and our memory is no different! The first stage in this project will be unveiled at the 2009 PCL Symposium. During the months leading up to the Symposium on February 7th, check our website and your copy of Cal Today for highlights of these stories. To submit something please call Charlotte Hodde at 916-313-4523.

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