HomeMy WebLinkAbout7801 - California Coastline InitiativeRESOLUTION NO. 7 8 ® 1
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH EXPRESSING ITS OPPOSITION
TO THE CALIFORNIA COASTLINE INITIATIVE
WHEREAS, the City of Newport Beach is a coastal community
Is encompassing recreational ocean shoreline, a protected recreational
bay, and an estuarine area of recreational and environmental signi-
ficance; and
WHEREAS,-.the City Council of the City of Newport Beach has
an intense interest in conserving the natural features of these
coastal resources within the City's boundaries by regulating land use
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and development along the ocean and bay shorelines; and
WHEREAS, the California Coastline Initiative would change
the existing method of regulating land use by local government through
the creation of a statewide California Coastal Zone Conservation
Commission and six regional commissions; and
WHEREAS, the statewide and regional commissions would be
responsible for developing and submitting to the Legislature for
consideration by December 1, 1975, a California Coastal Zone Conserva-
tion Plan; and
WHEREAS, in addition, said commissions would inherit strong
new regulatory control over essentially all development within those
coastal areas presently regulated and controlled by local government,,
thereby adding a new level of planning and land use regulation to
the existing governmental framework; and
WHEREAS, if adopted, the California Coastline Initiative
would constitute an infringment on the right of local government to
regulate and control land development within its boundaries;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the
City of Newport Beach hereby expresses its extreme opposition to the
California Coastline Initiative as an improper attempt to usurp the
ity and right of local government to plan and controlland use
within its boundaries.
ADOPTED this 28th day of August, 1972.
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8/24/72