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RESOLUTION NO. 60-77 EXPRESSING THE ATTITUDE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AND THE POLICY OF SAID CITY AS TO ANNEXATIONS AND GIVING ASSURANCE THAT SANTA ANAH~ FROM THE BE- GINNING, DOES NOW AND WILL CONTINUALLY DOALL THINGS LAWFULLY IN ITS POWER TO PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CAMPUS AREA AND PERIPHERAL LAND. WHEREAS, there has been public expression of the desirabil- ity of locating a college or university on the Irvine Ranch Mesa Southeasterly of the intersection of Main Street and Newport Avenue since the middle 1930's which was then urged by some members of the Santa Aha School Board, by many far-sighted citizens in the City and tentatively approved by James Irvine, and WHEP~S, from the earliest discussion of the location of a new university campus in said area Santa Aha has officially expressed its desire for such location as being logical, econom- ical and ideally situated to serve the needs of Southern California, and WHEREAS, the City of Santa Aha has officially expressed its firm intention and desire to fully cooperate with the Irvine Company and follow the requests and suggestions of said Company in all matters relating to annexation, development and use of any of its land, and WHEREAS, it has traditionally been the policy of the City of Santa Ana to afford municipal services through annexation only to areas desiring such services from the City of Santa Aha, and WHEREAS, the City of Santa Aha believes the area now under consideration by the University of California to be the best possible site choice for a new University of California campus and views this selection as the culmination of a Santa Ana plan after more than twenty years. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT Pd~SOLVED: That the City of Santa Ana respects the intention of the University of California and the Irvine Company to study said area and reach any decision which they deem best suited to serve the new campus and the surrounding area which will constitute the University community and to arrive at the most efficient, economical and desirable manner of pro- viding necessary municipal services to said area by the incorpor- ation of said area as a new and separate city, by operating said area under the stewardship of the Supervisors of Orange County in an unincorporated status or by annexing said area to either of the two cities qualified and able to provide high quality municipal services to said area. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That the City of Santa Ana enter- tains no interest in annexing any portion of the land proposed for this community unless expressly invited so to do by the Board of Regents of the University of California and the Board of Directors of the Irvine Company by written communication, duly authorized by official action of the governing boards of said two organiza- tions, and that the City Council of the City of Santa Aha will by official expression resist any uninvited attempt to annex any of said land by any other city and will refuse to take any action to further any annexation of any of said area except on the official and expressed request as hereinabove set out.