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RESOLUTION NO.
4247
RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO
SUPPORTING SB 347 PROVIDING FOR CONTINUANCE OF THE
SAN FRANCISCO BAY CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
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WHEREAS, the San Francisco Bay is a sinqular recreational
and open space asset - a key to a pleasant human environment for
the people of the Bay region, and
WHEREAS, San Francisco Bay forms an essential link in the
ecological life -chain and weather system, and
WHEREAS, its waters have been filled in the last 100 years
to the point where its once 680 square miles of clear waters subject
to tidal action have now been reduced to approximately 400 square
miles of often polluted and turbid waters, and
WHEREAS, the Bay Conservation and Development Commission has
demonstrated that it is the most effective body yet devised to
achieve bay conservation, and
WHEREAS, public funds in the amount of $750,000 have been
invested in BCDC's study of the Bay, and
WHEREAS, such study and the excellent Bay Plan which re-
sulted from it, would be nullified by certain legislative
proposals now pending before the Senate Governmental Efficiency
Committee, thereby placing the Bay in immediate jeopardy of
continued fill development, and
WHEREAS, failure of this Legislature to act on extension of
BCDC's life prior to the close of the 1969 session would, in the
absence of legislation establishing a successor agency, result
in the demise of BCDC and its Bay Plan, and
WHEREAS, Senator Nicholas Petris has introduced Senate Bill
347, which would effectively extend the life of the BCDC and
its authority and control over Bay shoreline areas,
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the City
of Palo Alto does hereby support SB 347, as amended in committee
through April 22, 1969, and urges its expeditious approval in and
by the Senate Governmental Efficiency Committee and its prompt
passage by the current session of the State Legislature.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council of the City of
Palo Alto does hereby support prompt and vigorous action to
determine ownership and establish jurisdiction of the ands
underlying the Bay and the surface rights thereon, and to that
end endorses actions recently filed on behalf of the State Lands
Commission and urges maximum possible cooperation between
federal, state and local agencies in this endeavor.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk of the City of
Palo Alto is hereby directed to send copies of this resolution
to the Governor, the honorable Senators Marks, Petris, Moscone,
Alquist, Bradley, Collier, Lagamarsino, McCarthy, Sherman, Short,
t.ay, Danielson, Song and Dolwig, and to the honorable Assemblymen
Milias, McCarthy, Knox and Mulford, and to the Assembly Committee
on Local Government and to the Senate Committee on Governmental
Efficiency.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED: April 28, 1969
AYES: Arnold, Berwald, Clark, Comstock, Dias, Gallagher, Gullixson,
Pearson, Spaeth, Wheatley
NOES: None
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AP. V D AS TO FORM:
I
ty Attorney
APPROVED:
Mayor