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REL:adg 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.