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2/24/81
RESOLUTION NO. 81-28
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA ANA SUPPORTING PUBLIC
RECREATIONAL FACILITIES AT BOLSA CHICA
WHEREAS, the Ocean Resources of Southern
California are underutilized and provide vast potential
opportunities for recreational solitude and peace; and
WHEREAS, there are only very limited sheltered
coastal areas suitable for small boat use and there is a
shortage of public berths and public launching facilities to
serve the thousands of boating enthusiasts in Orange County
and Southern California; and
WHEREAS, boating and related industries are an
integral part of the economy of Orange County where 8800
employees earn wages in excess of $127 million per year and
where more than $45 million is spent at the retail level by
boating enthusiasts; and
WHEREAS, because of a shortage of 10,000 boat
slips and berths in Orange County, it is becoming
increasingly difficult for brokers and dealers to sell boats
because buyers have nowhere to put them; and
WHEREAS, citizens of our city have petitioned
officials of Orange County to provide an ocean access
channel, public boating waterways, public berthing for 1800
small recreational craft, public launching facilities and
other recreational facilities; and
WHEREAS, it is our belief and expectation that
such facilities, including the provision of additional ocean
tidal flow, will benefit the water quality and tidal
flushing of the State Fish and Game Ecological Reserve at
Bolsa Chica as well as the public waterways of Huntington
Harbour; and
WHEREAS, it is our belief and expectation that
these facilities will provide otherwise unavailable
resources for the restoration of nearly 400 acres as salt
marsh wildlife reserve; and
WHEREAS, it our belief and expectation that public
recreational facilities as proposed in the Bolsa Chica
project would provide excess tax and Marina leasehold
revenues, according to the Fiscal Impact Analysis, and would
be capable of self-amortization;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA that this Council respectfully
petitions the public officials of the State of California
and the public officials of Orange County to take necessary
steps to provide for ocean access along the coast of
California and in particular at Bolsa Chica where there is a
feasible opportunity for new public recreational boating.
RESOLUTION NO. 81- 28
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that any plan for Bolsa
Chica that does not provide for a new navigable ocean
entrance is unacceptable in that it would limit, and in
fact, deny the opportunity for the people of Orange County
and of Southern California to reach and enjoy the vast ocean
open space which is theirs and which has the potential of
contributing toward the health and well being by its
provision of tremendous solitude and peace.
ADOPTED this 17th day of
1981, by the following vote:
February ,
AYES:
COUNCILMEN: Bricken, Griset, Luxembourger, Ward
NOES:
COUNCILMEN: Marke], Serrat0, Yamam0t0
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None