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RESOLUTION NO. 1549
A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 2050 AND URGING
THE PASSAGE OF SUCH BILL BY THE ASSEMBLY 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 Ceu.seway, 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-
communities, 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 future.
6. It would result in the creation of an attractive, complete new marine
commercial, rcial tourist, and
residential, �
community, including all s , �
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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 $600,000,000.00.
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of Los nge g an estimated market vallue
8. All of the foregoing benefits would be achieved without cost to the City
of Santa Monica, the City of Los Angeles, or the County of Los Angeles,
and without cost to the State of California, over and above the amount
which the Department of Public Works would otherwise expend for an
inland alternative right -of -way for the proposed new State Route 60 -1
Freeway to serve the same area and the amount which the Division of
Parks and Recreation would expend for comparable unimproved beach
within the area.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DOWNEY
THAT THE CITY COUNCIL HEREBY PLACES ITSELF ON RECORD IN SUPPORT OF ASSEMBLY
BILL 2050 AND URGES THE PASSAGE OF SUCH BILL BY THE ASSEMBLY AND THE SENATE
AND THE APPROVAL A THEREOF BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 27th day of April, 1965.
ATTEST: Pliiin.tAacA 191'1
Mayor
City Clerk
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was duly adopted
by the City Council of the City of Downey at a regular meeting held on
the 27th day of April, 1965, by the following vote:
AYES: 5 Councilmen: Dickerson, Temple, Corbin, Dunnum, Morton
NOES: 0
ABS$NT: 0
City Clerk
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