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RESOLUTION NO. 95-008
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF SANTA ANA TO
DESIGNATE THE ORANGE COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY AS
THE METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA HEREBY
RESOLVES, DETERMINES, AND ORDERS AS FOLLOWS:
WHEREAS, the federal Intermodal Surface Transportation and
Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) allows for the redesignation of
Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) to better facilitate
transportation planning and programming; and
WHEREAS, the list of duties for the MPO as specified in
federal law clearly specify the MPO as a transportation designation
without broad ranging authority over other necessary government
planning functions, including A-95 review or local land use
decision making; and
WHEREAS, Orange County, California, will become one of the
largest Metropolitan Planning Organizations in the United States if
it successfully separates from the largest MPO in the United
States, the six-county, 38,000 square mile, 15 million constituent
agency known as the Southern California Association of Governments
(SCAG); and
WHEREAS, transportation agencies in Orange County, California,
have consolidated into a single, countywide transportation
authority to increase accountability and to unify transportation
operations, transportation planning and transportation decision
making; and
WHEREAS, the consolidated transit and transportation agency in
Orange County is known as the Orange County Transportation
Authority (OCTA); and
WHEREAS, the OCTA is well-equipped to serve as the MPO for the
sixth largest county in the United States and is well-qualified to
serve as the Regional Transportation Planning Agency (RTPAi , the
state counterpart to the MPO designation; and
WHEREAS, state and federal law require careful, continuous
coordination among neighboring counties to facilitate better
regional planning, a regulation that mandates enhanced cooperation
among cities and counties after MPO redesignation occurs:
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the
City of Santa Ana supports the redesignation of Southern
California's Metropolitan Planning Organization and the designation
of the Orange County Transportation Authority as the federal
Metropolitan Planning Organization and state Regional
Transportation Planning Agency for Orange County and supports and
encourages appropriate legislation to designate the OCTA as the MPO
and RTPA for Orange County.
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Resolution No.
OCTA Authority
Page Two
95-008
Adopt this
Attest:
6th
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day of February , 1995
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Edward ~.! Cow
City Attorney
COUNCILMEMBERS:
Pulido Aye
Richardson Aye
Espinoza Aye
Lutz Aye
McGuigan Aye
Mills Abstained
Moreno Aye
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CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY & PUBLICATION
State of California
County of Orange
I, JANICE C. GUY, Clerk of the Council, do hereby certify the attached Resolution
~.~'~00 ~' to be the original resolution adopted by the City Council of the
City of Santa Ana on