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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute an exchange agreement, on behalf of the City of Long Beach (City) as both a municipality and as the Trustee for the State of California (State), and all related documents to convey to the State Lands Commission (SLC) the Queensway Bay Parcel (QWB Trust Termination Parcel) and immediately receive the parcel back no longer subject to the Tidelands Trust or granting statutes, and to convey to the SLC the Bixby Park Parcel, the Colorado Lagoon Parcel and the Marine Stadium Channel Parcel (Public Trust Parcels) and immediately receive these parcels back on a forty-nine year lease from the SLC subject to the Tidelands Trust;
Find that these activities are exempt from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Title 14, California Code of Regulations 15061 as a statutorily exempt project pursuant to Public Resources Code Sections 21080.11 and 15282(f), settlement of title and boundary problems and to exchanges or leases in connection with those settlements; and that these activities are consistent with the use classification designated by the City of Long Beach for the land pursuant to Public Resources Code Sections 6307, et seq.; and
Authorize City Manager to work with the SLC to pursue the enactment of legislation necessary to allow the State to transfer to City as Trustee, all right, title, and interest in the Public Trust Parcels as provided for in the Exchange Agreement. (Districts 2,3)
DISCUSSION
As authorized by the State Legislature, the City has been delegated the authority to manage the State-granted tidelands property (Tidelands) in Long Beach. Part of this authority requires the City to allow only those land uses consistent with the Public Trust Doctrine (Doctrine) to which all Tidelands is subject. Historically, the City has taken the position that the uses within the Queensway Bay Development (QWB) were consistent with the Doctrine and that the project was ...
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