SECTIONS 22050-22057 - California Statutes

PUBLIC RESOURCES CODE

SECTION 22050-22057

22050. The commission may:
(a) For purposes of this division, accept any gifts, donations, or
bequests from individuals or organizations, or accept grants of
funds from private or public agencies.
(b) Appoint committees from its membershp.
(c) Contract for or employ any professional services required by
the commission or for the performance of services which in its
opinion cannot satisfactorily be performed by its officers and
employees or provided by other federal, state, or local governmental
agencies.
(d) Do any and all other things necessary to carry out the
purposes of this division.

22051. Within nine months of the first meeting of the commission,
the commission shall make a detailed study of all factors that may
significantly affect or cause irreversible modification of the
present and future status of the zone and its relationship with the
region, and any other factors, including, but not limited to:
(a) The zone as an airshed resource for the region, considering
climatology and meteorology.
(b) Open space, including scenic easements, parks, and natural
preserves, and fire hazards and fire prevention.
(c) Watersheds, floods, and flood damage prevention.
(d) Beaches, estuaries, lagoons, coastal bluffs, springs, creeks,
lakes, fish, wildlife, and natural plantlife of the zone and the
effects of development thereon.
(e) Recreation, including beaches, parks, and other facilities for
sport fishing, surfing, pleasure boating, picnicking, camping,
mountaineering, hiking, and horseback riding.
(f) Inventory of Indian settlements and other historical and
archeological sites, fossil beds, unusual plantlife, and geological
formations for possible future preservation and utilization.
(g) Water supply, water quality, and waste disposal, including
sewage plants and outfalls and thermal and radioactive pollution.
(h) Solid waste disposal, including the effect of sanitary
landfill activities.
(i) Geology, erosion, soil types, land stability, and grading
practices.
(j) Proposed transportation plans, including present and projected
traffic patterns, and new methods of solving transportation
problems.
(k) Projected population and related housing development within
the zone and the impact thereof on the zone and region.
(l) Power and desalination plants.
(m) Exploration and exploitation of oil and gas and other minerals
and natural resources.
(n) Present land uses and known proposals for change, including
impact of land appraisal and tax policies.
(o) Present ownerships, including the administration of publicly
owned properties.
(p) Present regulation of land and water uses and activities of
all levels of government.
(q) Present laws affecting the zone.

22053. The commission shall analyze the interrelations of the
studies prepared pursuant to Section 22051 in order to ascertain what
is needed for balanced conservation and development, determine a set
of policies and priorities based on this analysis, and prepare a
proposal for further legislative action to provide for implementation
of these policies.

22055. The existence of the commission shall terminate on the 61st
day after the final adjournment of the 1972 Regular Session of the
Legislature.

22056. In the preparation of its studies, the commission may ask
for current land use information, studies, and plans of cities and
counties. Federal governmental agencies are requested to, and state
and local governmental agencies shall, comply with the requests of
the commission for such information. The commission shall make its
studies available to cooperating governmental agencies upon request.

22057. The commission may appoint technical advisory committees,
whose members shall serve without compensation, and prescribe their
membership, powers, and duties.