State Highway Route 12.

Existing law provides for the California Transportation Commission, except as otherwise provided by law, to adopt the location for a state highway on routes authorized by law. Existing law generally describes the various authorized routes in the state highway system. Existing law also describes the various segments of state highway routes that are authorized to be developed as freeways and expressways, and includes these segments in the freeway and expressway system. Existing law includes specified segments of State Highway Route 12 in the freeway and expressway system, including a segment between Route 101 near Santa Rosa to Melita Road near Santa Rosa. This bill would revise the description of this segment of State Highway Route 12 in the freeway and expressway system to instead refer to the portion of the segment from Route 101 in Santa Rosa to Farmers Lane in Santa Rosa, thereby deleting a porton of State Highway Route 12 from the freeway and expressway system. The bill would also state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to declare as surplus property approximately 55 acres of the right-of-way acquired by the Department of Transportation for the now abandoned State Highway Route 12 freeway alignment in the City of Santa Rosa and the County of Sonoma, and to transfer the property to local agencies for park and recreation purposes, to be known as the Southeast Greenway.