HomeMy WebLinkAbout9435 - East Coast Highway DevelopmentRESOLUTION NO. 9435
• A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH REQUESTING THE ORANGE COUNTY
TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION TO INCLUDE WITHIN
THE ORANGE COUNTY FEDERAL AID URBAN PROGRAM
THE DEVELOPMENT OF EAST COAST HIGHWAY FROM
BAYSIDE DRIVE TO MACARTHUR BOULEVARD
WHEREAS, the City of Newport Beach desires to improve
East Coast Highway from Bayside Drive to MacArthur Boulevard;
and
WHEREAS, East Coast Highway is important to transportation
planning in the County of Orange and of general County interest;
and
WHEREAS, the Federal -Aid Highway Act of 1978 provides
Federal funds for expenditure on the Federal -Aid Urban (FAU)
System of Highways and non - highway public mass transit projects;
and
WHEREAS, the FAU System consists of certain eligible
State highways, County roads and city streets located within
urban and urbanized areas of the State; and
WHEREAS, the California Department of Transportation
intends that funds be allocated to the urbanized and urban areas
on the basis of proportional population in conformance with the
Federal -Aid Highway Act of 1978; and
WHEREAS, the California Department of Transportation has
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specified that each urban and urbanized area must develop an
acceptable process for reviewing projects and recommending
priorities and that the appropriate regional planning agency
(SCAG) must concur with the process; and
WHEREAS, a FAU Process has been approved for the
County of Orange, in accordance with the above requirements,
which will establish a FAU Program,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council
of the City of Newport Beach hereby requests that the acquisition
of right of way and the improvement of East Coast Highway from
Bayside Drive to MacArthur Boulevard be included in the Orange
County FAU Program; said right of way and improvements to be
in accordance with the attached preliminary project statement.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, by this Resolution, the
City of Newport Beach will comply with the basic policies and
procedures of the Orange County FAU Program; and its share of the
cost of improvements and /or rights of way which is presently
estimated to be $871,000 will be available from Fiscal Year
1979 through Fiscal Year 1982.
ADOPTED this 25th day of September , 1978.
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