HomeMy WebLinkAbout2002-15 - Big Canyon Creek Restoration Scoping ProjectRESOLUTION NO. 2002- 15
A RESOLUTION OF THE NEWPORT BEACH CITY COUNCIL
IN SUPPORT OF THE BIG CANYON CREEK
RESTORATION SCOPING PROJECT
WHEREAS, Upper Newport Bay is one of Southern California's most treasured
environmental resources; and
WHEREAS, Upper Newport Bay's wetland resources are home to more than six listed
or endangered species worthy of the City of Newport Beach's active protection; and
WHEREAS, Upper Newport Bay, as an urban estuary that receives stormwater and
other drainage from more than 154 square miles of urbanization, agriculture, and open
space; and
WHEREAS, Big Canyon Creek, which enters the Bay west of Jamboree Road between
San Joaquin Hills Road and Eastbluff Road at the city -owned Big Canyon Nature Park, has
specific challenges that impact the Bay as a receiving water, including contaminated and
high- nutrient runoff from area residences and a golf course, erosion from slopes, and
intrusion of non - native habitat; and
WHEREAS, Community Conservancy International has proposed a Restoration
Scoping Plan that would access funding from the State Coastal Conservancy to address the
issues facing Big Canyon Creek; now, therefore be it
RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Newport Beach that the City hereby
states its formal and enthusiastic support of CCI's grant proposal for Big Canyon Creek
and that it encourages the State Coastal Conservancy to favorably review and fund the
Restoration Scoping Project.
ADOPTED this 22nd day of January, 2002.
MAYOR
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I, LAVONNE M. HARKLESS, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing
resolution, being Resolution No. 2002 -15 was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by
the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the
22nd day of January, 2002, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to
wit:
Ayes: Heffernan, O'Neil, Bromberg, Glover, Adams, Proctor, Mayor Ridgeway
Noes: None
Absent: None
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
official seal of said City this 23rd day of January, 2002.
(Seal)
City Clerk
Newport Beach, California