CC RESOLUTION 2460RESOLUTION NO. 2460
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, OPPOSING
PROPOSITION 20 ON THE NOVEMBER, 1972
BALLOT, KNOWN AS THE "CALIFORNIA COASTAL
ZONE CONSERVATION ACT ".
WHEREAS, Proposition 20, entitled the "California Coastal
Zone Conservation Act" has qualified as an initiative measure for the
November, 1972 General Election; and
WHEREAS, Proposition 20 would, if enacted, create a
state commission and six large subsidiary regional commissions for the
purpose of drafting state and regional master plans for the purpose not
only of establishing state planning control over ocean and shoreline con-
servation matters, but also to establish state planning control over the
broad subjects of land use, transportation, recreation, public services,
public utilities, population density, oil and mineral production; and
WHEREAS, the "coastal zone" within which these state - created
plans apply, as defined by the act, encompasses not only the ocean and beach
and beach front property, but in addition would extend inland to the crest of
the coastal mountains for most of the State and would extend five miles inland
in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego Counties; and
WHEREAS, the regional commissions would be composed of
political appointees chosen by the Governor, the Senate Rules Committee
and the Speaker of the Assembly and a few selected councilmen and supervisors,
none of whom would be subject to election or recall by the region -wide con-
stituency they would be governing; and
WHEREAS, the State Commission would be composed of
political appointees chosen by the Governor, the Senate Rules Committee
and the Speaker of the Assembly and of regional commission members from
each of the six regional commissions; and
WHEREAS, Proposition 20 would for four years impose a
regional commission permit system on all citizens living within or owning
property within approximately three - fifths of a mile of the ocean, a strip
called the "permit area "; and
WHEREAS, regional commission permits would be
exceedingly difficult to obtain under the procedures provided by Proposition
20, a fact which purposely would result in a virtual four -year moratorium
on private and public improvements in the permit area; and
WHEREAS, the Proposition's extremely broad definition
of "developments I' which would not be allowed without regional permits,
included the placement or erection of any solid material or structure, the
discharge or disposal of any dredged material, the discharge or disposal of
waste gas, liquids, solids or heat, as well as grading, dredging, mining,
mineral extraction and the removal of any materials, acts which would
change the density or intensity of land use, including any division of land
by lot splits, subdivision or otherwise, changes in the intensity of use of
water, changes in access to water, construction, reconstruction, demolition
or alteration of the size of any private, public or utility structure, including
roads, pipes, telephone lines and electrical lines; and
WHEREAS, purported exemptions from the regional com-
mission permit requirements are so qualified by the language of the
proposition that they are largely illusory; and
WHEREAS, administration of this permit system will require
the appointment of huge regional bureaucracies to cope with the great volume
of permit applications which under this act would be generated by the normal
economic and social activities of the highly developed urban and industrial
areas that lie within the permit area; and
WHEREAS, neither the huge new regional staff, nor the
regional commission it serves, would have the kind of knowledge and
expertise regarding local conditions and problems that a planning and permit
body should have; and
WHEREAS, planning and permit agencies which already exist
in the framework of elective local government are fully capable of coordinating
their activities according to any state -wide criteria or any state -wide master
plan that may be developed, and stand ready to participate in the creation and
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administration of a system that would intelligently establish state -wide
criteria and priorities as a guide to local planning and permit admini-
stration; and
WHEREAS, the City of El Segundo has supported past
proposed legislation that would have created an effective state and local
partnership for the establishment of planning and permit criteria and
priorities in the coastal zone, and supports legislation this year which
the Legislature still may pass; and
WHEREAS, Proposition 20 is drafted in a manner that will
necessarily promote extensive litigation to test its many ambiguities; and
WHEREAS, the effect of Proposition 20 would be to make
the planning and permit processes less accessible to the people it would
affect, and to insulate the decision makers from the electorate; and
WHEREAS, Proposition 20 would place all of the City of
El Segundo under the immediate land use control of appointive state and
regional commissions not familiar with the needs of the citizens of the
City of El Segundo; and
WHEREAS, Proposition 20 would substantially curtail
appropriate and necessary public development and redevelopment; and
WHEREAS, Proposition 20 would create a form of de facto
moratorium on coastal economic and social activities in a manner that
might result in serious social consequences; and
WHEREAS, Proposition 20 would, in many instances, bar
both large and small property owners from making appropriate use of
their property, but would do so without providing compensation for their
loss;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That the members of the City Council of the
City of El Segundo oppose the enactment of Proposition 20 on the
November, 1972 ballot, the so- called "California Coastal Zone Conservation
Act ".
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SECTION 2. That the City Council of the City of El Segundo
urges that the citizens and elected representatives of the City of El Segundo
oppose said Proposition 20.
SECTION 3. That the City Clerk be and she is hereby
authorized and directed to furnish certified copies of this resolution to
Senator Robert S. Stevens, Assemblyman Robert Beverly and to the League
Of California Cities.
SECTION 4. That the City Clerk shall certify to the passage
and adoption of this resolution; shall enter the same in the book of original
resolutions of said City; and shall make a minute of the passage and adoption
thereof in the records of the proceedings of the City Council of said City, in
the minutes of the meeting at which the same is passed and adopted.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 25th day of
September, 1972.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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Mayor of the City of El Segundo, a fornia
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. )
I, JANE D. HOUGH, , City Clerk of the
City of El Segundo, California, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the
whole number of members of the City Council of the said City
is five; that the foregoing Resolution, being Resolution No. 2460
was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved
and signed by the Mayor of said City, and attested by the City
Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of the said Council
held on the 25th day of September , 197 2
and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen McGill, Nagel, Stephens and Mayor Balmer
NOES: Councilmen None
ABSENT: Councilman Morgan.
WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City
this 18th day of October , 1972
i y Clerkâof-Me City of El SegundF--
California
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