BILL NUMBER: ACR 100INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Members Bonnie Lowenthal and Jeffries (Coauthors: Assembly Members Blumenfield, Bonilla, Buchanan, Eng, Furutani, Galgiani, Miller, and Solorio) FEBRUARY 6, 2012 Relative to the Mark Bixby Memorial Bicycle Pedestrian Path. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST ACR 100, as introduced, Bonnie Lowenthal. Mark Bixby Memorial Bicycle Pedestrian Path. This measure would designate the bicycle pedestrian path on the replacement Gerald Desmond Bridge on State Highway Route 710, in the County of Los Angeles, as the Mark Bixby Memorial Bicycle Pedestrian Path. This measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering those costs, to erect those signs. Fiscal committee: yes. WHEREAS, Mark Llewellyn Bixby was a member of one of the founding families of the City of Long Beach; and WHEREAS, Mark Bixby was a past president of the Long Beach Rotary Club, which was instrumental in raising money to build Rotary Centennial Park, located on Pacific Coast Highway (State Highway Route 1) and Junipero Avenue in the City of Long Beach; and WHEREAS, Mark Bixby was the director of the BikeFest Tour of Long Beach and was a vocal proponent of adding bicycle lanes to the replacement Gerald Desmond Bridge; and WHEREAS, Mark Bixby tragically lost his life in a plane crash in 2011 at 44 years of age; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the bicycle pedestrian path on the replacement Gerald Desmond Bridge on State Highway Route 710, in the County of Los Angeles, as the Mark Bixby Memorial Bicycle Pedestrian Path; and be it further Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to determine the cost of appropriate signs consistent with the signing requirements for the state highway system showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost, to erect those signs; and be it further Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the Department of Transportation and to the author for appropriate distribution.