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Focused Coronado Legislative Goals 2024
1. Improve Beach Water Quality and Ocean Pollution Safeguards a. Prevent Cross-Border Pollution Flows Impacting Coronado and other South Bay Communities
i. Support the current suite of projects by the EPA and International Boundary Water Commission to design and construct infrastructure to reduce transboundary flows of untreated wastewater (sewage), trash, and sediment that enter the U.S. from Mexico via the Tijuana River, its tributaries, and across the maritime boundary along the San Diego County coast.
ii. Support Federal and State legislation that provides continued and adequate funding for these pollution prevention projects. b. Ensure Fair and Accurate Water Quality Testing Procedures of Local Ocean Waters
i. Monitor any new or reviewed requirements by County, State or Federal agencies for testing water quality and water body closures and advocate for accurate testing procedures that properly inform our residents and visitors without creating unnecessary closures of local beach resources.
2. Increase Infrastructure Funding
a. Support Federal and State legislation and grant programs that provide funding for recycled water, wastewater and storm water infrastructure. b. Support legislation to provide funding for National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit compliance and other mitigation measures and projects to reuse, divert, or treat urban runoff. c. Increase access to funding programs for major capital projects such as utility undergrounding, solar panels, vehicle charging stations, parks rehabilitation, coastline remediation, fire station construction and climate resiliency.
3. Increase The Supply And Affordability Of Housing While Retaining Local Decision-Making. Secure Long-Term, Sustainable Funding Tools For The Construction Of Housing At All Income Levels And Ensure Cities Retain Flexibility To Achieve Local And State Housing Goals.
a. Support legislation that amends Regional Needs Housing Allocation law to reduce barriers and provide cities with full credit for housing units contained and/or constructed at directly adjacent Federal military installations.
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b. Support legislation to prevent the attribution of military installation jobs to adjacent local jurisdictions.
c. Require HCD and Regional Planning Agencies to consider growth limitations imposed by other state and regional planning agencies, such as the Coastal Commission and airport authorities, when analyzing Housing Elements for compliance.
d. Advocate for state legislation that allows cities to provide funding to neighboring jurisdictions that have affordable, developable land to receive RHNA credit for those units produced via offset agreements. e. Oppose legislation that takes a punitive approach to City General Plan Housing Element reform and the imposition of any extraordinary powers in State agencies with regard to City Housing Elements.
f. Oppose legislation, or other agency actions, that would usurp local control of land use decision-making.
g. Oppose legislation that would impose State-mandated development standards or procedures that are contrary to the Coronado General Plan or local land use policy.
h. Support reform legislation of the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) process to provide cities with more flexibility meeting State housing law and more direct authority into the methodologies used to assign housing units to respective cities.
i. Oppose legislation that penalizes a city if units identified in the Regional Housing Need Assessment are not constructed.
4. Safeguard Local Revenues and Support Fiscal Sustainability a. Protect, increase, and modernize revenue streams for local priorities.
Oppose efforts that would reduce or eliminate funding for cities, including unfunded mandates.
b. Oppose the “Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act” which would jeopardize the ability of state and local governments in California to levy taxes and fees to support critical services. The measure is scheduled to appear on the November 2024 ballot.