For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:

(a) “Lead agency” or “public agency” means SANDAG.

(b) “Navy” means the United States Department of the Navy.

(c) “Old Town Center site” means the approximately 70.5-acres comprising the Naval Base Point Loma’s Old Town Center.

(d) “Project labor agreement” has the same meaning as in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of § 2500 of the Public Contract Code.

(e) “SANDAG” means the San Diego Association of Governments.

(f) “Site control” means a lease agreement, property transfer, or other property conveyance from the Navy to SANDAG related to transit and transportation facilities.

(g) “Site plan” means the site development plan approved, on or before December 31, 2022, by the Navy and SANDAG for the Old Town Center site that complies with the content requirements specified in subdivision (a) of § 65451 of the Government Code and § 65452 of the Government Code.

(h) “Skilled and trained workforce” has the same meaning as provided in Chapter 2.9 (commencing with Section 2600) of Part 1 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code.

(i) “Transit and transportation facilities” means a multimodal regional transportation facility, including a central mobility hub located in the Old Town Center site, and transportation linkages that connect the central mobility hub to the San Diego regional transportation system, as that transportation system existed as of December 31, 2020, and that connect the central mobility hub to the San Diego International Airport. A transit and transportation facility does not include a transit station or hub that is located outside of the Old Town Center site. The central mobility hub may include a multimodal transportation center that may include a high-frequency automated people mover service and one of the following:

(1) A nonstop, high-speed service to San Diego International Airport via a one-mile tunnel route.

(2) Service to San Diego International Airport via a 3.6 mile surface or elevated automated people mover route along the Pacific Highway, Laurel Street, and Harbor Drive with intermediate stops at the airport rental car center and the planned development at Harbor Island East Basin.

(3) An airport-like curb experience for auto-based travelers, an automated people mover station that would provide services to San Diego International Airport via a 2.6 mile surface or elevated route along the Pacific Highway, Laurel Street, and Harbor Drive, with intermediate stops at the airport rental car center and planned development at the Harbor Island East Basin.

(j) “Transit-oriented development project” means a project for the redevelopment of the Old Town Center site that substantially conforms to the description of the proposed action for the Navy Old Town Campus Revitalization at Naval Base Point Loma, California, set forth in the notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement published in the Federal Register on January 24, 2020, and that includes up to 10,000 residential units and up to 1,600,000 square feet of office and retail space, and one of the following:

(1) High-density mixed-use revitalization, including a transit center.

(2) Low-density mixed-use revitalization, including a transit center.

(Added by Stats. 2020, Ch. 291, Sec. 2. (AB 2731) Effective January 1, 2021.)