HomeMy WebLinkAbout74-010RESOLUTION NO. 74-10
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA ANA SUPPORTING THE ENACTMENT OF FEDERAL
LEGISLATION TO NULLIFY THE RECENT PARKING AND
CARPOOL REGULATIONS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTEC-
TION AGENCY AND POSTPONING FURTHER REGULATIONS
UNTIL CONGRESS HAS STUDIED THEIR IMPACT AND
ALTERNATIVES.
W~EREAS, the City Council of the City of Santa Ana
vigourously supports the objectives of the 1970 Clean Air
Act and all efforts to implement such objectives towards
cleaning up the environment; and
WHEREAS, the federal Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) promulgated certain regulations on November 12, 1973,
entitled the California Transportation Control Plan; and
WHEREAS, the California Transportation Control Plan
contains within its provisions regulations which would create
and impose both economic and administrative chaos in and
upon the public and private come, unities of the City of Santa
Ana and elsewhere in the State of California; and
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana, along with 180 other
petitioners in the State of California, including 8 counties
and 67 other cities, has filed with the federal Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Petitions for Review, which
petitions challenge both the constitutional as well as sta-
tutory authority for said EPA regulations; and
WHEREAS, EPA claims and purports to be acting pursuant
to authority it claims to have been granted by the provisions
of the federal "Clean Air Act" (42 USCA Sections 1856 et seq.);
and
WI~EREAS,
Review could
litigate and
the legal issues raised by said Petitions for
take several months and be extremely costly to
finally resolve in the courts; and
WHEREAS, as a matter of constitutional law, economic
necessity and practical expediency, said legal issues can and
should be resolved quickly by the immediate nullification of
the parking surcharge, the management of parking supply and
the preferential bus/carpool lanes provisions of EPA's Califor-
nia Transportation Control Plan; and
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana is seeking ways and means
of improving the quality of its total environment, which ways
and means will include consideration of the social and economic
impact of its policies upon the residents, the businesses and
the industries of the community.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That the City Council of
the City of Santa Ana hereby approves, endorses and urges the
immediate enactment of federal legislation in the language and
form as that contained in Section 202(c) of the former Senate
Bill S2589 of the 1973 session of Congress at the earliest date
practicable after Congress convenes in 1974.
RESOLUTION NO. 74-10
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PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City
of Santa Ana at its regular meeting held on the 21
day of January , 1974.
ATTEST:
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss
CITY OF SANTA ANA )
I, FLORENCE I. MALONE, do hereby certify that I am the
Clerk of the Council of the City of Santa Ana; that the fore-
qoing Resolution was introduced to said Council at its
regular meeting held on the 21 day of January ,
1974, and was at said meeting passed and adopted by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES,
NOES,
ABSENT,
COUNCILMEN:
COUNCILMEN:
COUNCILMEN:
Griset, Evans, Markel, Garthe,
Yamarnoto, Patterson, Ward
None
None
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL