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HomeMy WebLinkAbout62-161 RESOLUTION NO. 62-161 REAFFIRMING THE INTENT AND SPIRIT EXPRESSED IN RESOLUTION NO. 60-77 ADOPTED A~RIL 18, 1960. WHEREAS the City Council of the City of Santa Ana heretofore adopted Resolution No. 60-77 expressing the atti- tude of the City of Santa And on the maintenance of the integrity of the campus of the University of California at Irvine and the University community that would surround the same; and WHEREAS the City Council of the City of Santa Aha does desire to reassure the Board of l%egents of the University of California and The Irvine Company of its intent to comply fully with the spirit and intent of said Resolution No. 60-77; and WHEREAS, said Rmsolution No. 60-77 was adopted by said City Council on the representation of The Irvine Company that the proposed site for the proposed University community would lie generally between MacArthur Boulevard and the proposed San Diego Freeway; and WHEREAS, on June 11, 1962, a Petition was filed with the City Council of SantAna for the annexation of approx- imately 3500 acres lying Easterly of and adjacent to the 93,000 acres of The Irvine Company, said Petition bmving been filed under the Uninbmbited Territory Act of 1939, and said City Council did thereafter adopt Resolution No. 62-110 designating the proceedings as the "Newport and Dyer S.E. Annex", and it was necessary under requirements of law to include within said annexation a connecting strip 300 feet wide from the Easterly boundary of Santa Aha to said 3500 acres to obtain contiguity; and said strip of land was located to follow a section line from Santa Aha along the shortest route to the Westerly edge of said 3500 acres, and in order to comply with the spirit and intent of Resolution No. 60-77 the City Council did locate said 300 foot strip across the lands of The Irvine Company Northerly of the proposed San Diego Freeway, which, according to the represen- tation of The Irvine Company prior to the enactment of Resolution No. 60-77 would constitute the Northerly boundary line of the proposed University co~unity, and it was imposs- ible to annex said 3500 acres without crossing the lands of The Irvine Company; and WHEREAS said 300 foot strip was located in such a manner as to be at least 8,000 feet North of the nearest portion of the University campus and not bisect any portion of said campus or of the proposed University community South of said proposed San Diego Freeway, all with the purpose and intent of not interfering with the orderly and planned de- velopment of the University campus or of the proposed Univer- sity community, and all with the further intent to comply fully with the cooperative attitude of the City Council as expressed in ~solution No. 60-77; and WHEREAS the annexation of the property described in said "Newport and Dyer S.E. Annex~ is necessary and de- sirable for the best interests and the welfare of all of the people of the City of Santa Aha, the County of Orange, and the State of California in that the owner of said 3500 acre parcel will expend in excess of $275,000,000°00 in building and developing a project known as Rossmoor Leisure World which will be a planned community of 40,000 senior~citizens, complete with a 500-bed hospital and with extensive and appro- priate recreational, commercial, and industrial facilities, all of which will result in great benefit to the general welfare of the residents of Santa Aha and of Orange County, and will not in any manner interfere with the planned de- velopment of the University campus or of the proposed Univer- sity coH~u~nity; and WHEREAS the City Council of Santa Aha, in order to implement Resolution No. 60-77 will not seek to provide any municipal services to said 300 foot strip, except as requested by The Irvine Company, or duplicate any services already provided to said 300 foot strip by The Irvine Company, or interfere with the natural land contours of said 300 foot strip, or interfere in any manner with the orderly and natural development, planning, or zoning by The Irvine Company of the land included within said 300 foot strip; and WHEREAS the City Council of the City of Santa Ana has the great responsibility of encouraging and making possible the development of Santa Aha and Orange County as a whole, and said responsibility is paramount to the desires of The Irvine Company to maintain huge land holdings Northerly of said 300 foot strip for agricultural purposes, prevent the expansion of the City of Santa Aha to include and cause the development for higher uses of hundreds of acres of undeveloped and uninhabited lands in Orange County located Easterly of The Irvine Company lands and the development of said hundreds of acres into pro- ductive areas providing population centers, homes, commercial, industrial and recreational benefits to the entire County of Orange, which could not be so developed without annexation to the City of Santa Aha. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That the City of Santa Aha reaffirms fully the spirit of Resolution No. 60-77 and reaffirms that the City of Santa Aha entertains no interest or intention in annexing, now or in the future, any portion of the land to be occupied by the University of California at Irvine, unless expressly invited so to do by the Board of Regents of the University of California, nor to annex, now or in the future, amy portion of the planned community center surrounding the University campus located Southerly of the proposed San Diego Freeway. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That the City of Samta Aha will not now, nor in the future, interfere with the planned development of the University of California at Irvine, nor seek to interfere in any manner with the planned development or annexation of any part of the proposed University city sur- rounding Freeway. said campus and Southerly of the proposed San Diego City of Santa Aha at of August, 1962. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the its regular meeting held on the 6th day Clerk of the~uncl'l STATE OF CALIFORNIA) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) CITY OF SANTA ANA ) SS I, HELEN BOYD, do hereby certify that I am the Assistant Clerk of the Council of the City of Santa Ana; that the foregoing Resolution was regularly introduced to said Council at its regular meeting held on the 6th day of August, 1962, and was at said meeting regularly passed and adopted by the following vote, to-wit: Royal E. Hubbard, He~ry H. Schluete~,.~ Dale H. Heinly, BobBrewer, A. A. Hall COUNCILMEN: COUNCILMEN: COUNCILMEN: None None AYES, NOES, ABSENT, ASSISTANT CLERK OF T~COUNCIL