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7/28/65
RESOLUTION NOo 6202
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH EXPRESSING ITS OPPOSITION TO
THE LOCATION OF A COMBINATION NUCLEAR POWERED
• DESALINIZATION PLANT IN THE CORONA DEL MAR
AREA (PELICAN POINT)
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Water District is interested
in developing a supplemental water supply and has retained the
Bechtel Corporation to make a feasibility study of a proposed
combination nuclear powered desalinization m electric generating
plant to be located along the Coast of Orange County; and
WHEREAS, two sites have been selected for final study-
(1) a coastal site easterly of the Corona Del Mar district of the
City of Newport Beach, and (2) an artificial island offshore from
Sunset Beach; and
WHEREAS, the site near Corona Del Mar is less than 1,000
feet from the city limits of the City of Newport Beach and is in
equally close proximity to the highly developed Corona Del Mar
residential community; and
WHEREAS, the report prepared by the Bechtel Corporation
does not take into consideration the recent residential growth oc-
curring in the Corona Del Mar area; and
WHEREAS, the location of this immense industrial-type
facility near Newport Beach would be destructive of existing prop-
erty values and would be totally incompatible with the master
plans for future development of the surrounding area for residen-
tial and recreational uses; and
WHEREAS, the University of California is constructing a
major campus immediately adjacent to the City of Newport Beach
which will create an even greater need for preservation of the
toremaining coastal area for recreational purposes; and
WHEREAS, the State Legislature recognized the importance
of conserving the scenic and aesthetic character of the coastline
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by enacting the Shell-Cunningham Act which prohibits offshore oil
drilling from the Santa Ana River southerly to the Orange County
line;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of
the City of Newport Beach as follows-,
to That this City Council acknowledges the need for
the development of the proposed desalinization plant in Orange
County, but is unalterably opposed to the location of said plant
on a site adjacent to the highly developed Corona Del Mar district,
2. That this City Council respectfully requests the
Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Water District to reconsider
its selection of the site near Corona Del Mar as the preferred site
and to direct that exhaustive studies be made of all alternate
sites,
3. In evaluating any sites along the coastline or in
the tidal waters adjacent thereto, it is requested that careful
consideration be given to the problem of beach erosion,
4. The City Clerk is directed to transmit copies of
this resolution to the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan
Water District, Governor Edmund G. Brown, the Board of Supervisors
of Orange County, United States Congressmen James Utt and Richard
Hanna, United States Senators Thomas Kuchel and George Murphy,
the Atomic Energy Commission, the Office of Saline Water of the
Department of the Interior, and The Irvine Company, and to make
copies available to any other interested parties requesting same,
ADOPTED this 26th day of July, 1965,
Mayor
ATTEST,
City Clerk
2,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH)
I, MARGERY SCHROUDER, City Clerk of the City of Newport
Beach, California, do hereby certify that according to the records of the
City of Newport Beach filed and maintained in my office, the foregoing
Resolution No. 6202 was duly and regularly
adopted, passed, and approved by the City Council of the City of Newport
Beach, California, at a regular meeting of said City Council held at the
regular meeting place thereof, on the 26th day of July ,
19 65 , by the following vote, to wit:
AYES, COUNCILMEN: Parsons, Marshall, Gruber, Forgit
NOES, COUNCILMEN: Elder, Cook
ABSENT, COUNCILMEN: Stoddard
Dated this 2d day of September 1965
City Cler14 and Ex- Officio Clerk of the
City Council, City of Newport Beach,
State of California.
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