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RESOLUTION 3784
A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING ASSEMBLY BILL NO.
2050 AND URGING THE PASSAGE OF SUCH BILL BY
THE ASSEMBL Y AND THE SENATE AND THE
APPROVAL THEREOF BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
WHEREAS, Assembly Bill No. 2050 as introduced at the 1965 Regular Session
of the Legislature would enable the City of Santa Monica, the City of Los
Angeles, and the County of Los Angeles to work cooperatively, through a
Joint Powers Agreement, to construct and operate an off-shore causeway,
to be known as the Santa Monica Causeway, in Santa Monica Bay; and
WHEREAS, the Santa Monica Causeway would be of immense benefit to the
citizens of the Santa Monica Bay area, of the Los Angeles metropolitan area,
and of the State of California for the following reasons:
1. It would provide an off-shore right-of-way for the proposed new State
Route 60-1 Freeway extending from Topanga Canyon through the City
of Santa Monica, including that portion of the City of Los Angeles
lying between Topanga Canyon and the City of Santa Monica, without
dislocation of property owners, without bisection of existing com-
munities, and without removal of property from the tax rolls.
2. It would provide approximately 5 1/2 miles of new public recreational
beach, complete with ample space for parking and ancillary facilities,
helping to meet a critical need for additional recreational beach
facilities in the Santa Monica Bay area and the Los Angeles metropolitan
area to serve the present and future millions of California residents
seeking outdoor areas for recreation purposes.
3. It would provide vast areas of protected waterways suitable for all-
year cruising, sailing, and other aquatic recreation activities such
as water skiing. fast boating and speed boat regattas, in which there
has been an astounding increase in public interest in the last ten years.
4. It would complement and greatly enhance the usefulness and attractive-
ness of the present Marina del Rey berthing facility by placing protected
sailing and cruising channels and basins within easy reach of that
facility.
5. It would provide additional berthing space for large numbers of small
craft, alleviating a projected shortage of such facilities in the very near
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future.
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6. It would result in the creation of an attractive, complete new marine
community, including all residential, commercial, tourist, and
vacation facilities appropriate to such community.
7. It would result in the addition of property to the combined tax rolls
of the City of Santa Monica, the City of Los Angeles, and the County
of Los Angeles having an estimated market value of $600,000,000.00.
8. All of the foregoing benefits would be achieved without cost to the City
of Santa Monica, the City of Los Angeles, or the County of Los Angeles,
and without cost to the State of California over and above the amount
which the Department of Public Works would otherwise expend for an
inland alternative right-of-way for the proposed new State R'!ute 60-1
Freeway to serve the same area and the amount which the Division of
Parks and Recreation would expend for comparable unimproved beach
within the area.
NOW. THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF ARCADIA THAT THE CITY COUNCIL HEREBY
PLACES ITSELF ON RECORD IN SUPPORT OF ASSEMBLY BILL 2050 AND
URGES THE PASSAGE OF SUCH BILL BY THE ASSEMBLY AND THE SENATE
AND THE APPROVAL THEREOF BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA.
Adopted and Approved this 20th day of April
, 1965.
Attest:
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City Clerk
I hereby certify that the foregoing
of the City of Arcadia
held on the 20th day of April
resolution was
at a
, 1965.
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City Clerk
duly adopted by the City Council
regular meeting thereof,