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RESOLUTION NO. 262
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
TIBURON, MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA URGING THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO EXERT THE FULL
INFLUENCE OF HIS OFFICE TO EFFECT ALLOCATION OF
ALREADY AVAILABLE FUNDS, WHICH ARE UNDER THE AD-
MINISTRATION OF THE BUREAU OF THE BUDGET, TO
COMPLETE THE PURCHASE OF THE PT. REYES NATIONAL
SEASHORE TO THE LIMITS ESTABLISHED BY FEDERAL
LEGISLATION IN 1962.
WHEREAS, the Pt. Reyes Peninsula in Marin County, California
has been recognized throughout the world as a true "island in time" ;
and
WHEREAS, the Pt. Reyes National Seashore was created to
effectively preserve this unique area for all time and all generations
in its natural state; and
WHEREAS, the Pt. Reyes National Seashore is within two hour's
drive of any point within the San Francisco urban area where 3,000,000
people presently live and where 7,000,000 are anticipated in the next
30 years; and
WHEREAS, the income to the Land and Water Conservation Fund
is presently over 200 million dollars a year which funds are expressly
for the purchase of federal and state park lands to keep pace with the
burgeoning population; and
WHEREAS, land prices of the private property within the limits
of the Pt. Reyes National Seashore have escalated 400% in the past 7 year~.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
THAT the City Council of the City of Tiburon, Marin County,
California does respectfully urge the President of the United States to
examine the issue now brought before him.
IN THE LIGHT of the factors of urban population pressures and
the need for easily accessible open space of the kind requiring very low
improvement and maintenance costs; and
IN THE LIGHT of the geographical and geological uniqueness of
the area involved; and
IN THE LIGHT of overwhelming support from the entire San
Francisco Bay Area towards this acquisition; and
IN THE LIGHT of the already available funds requ~r~ng no new
taxes and of the clear bipartisan support for the bills now in Congress
supporting this appropriation; and then
TO BRING THE FULL INFLUENCE of the office of the President
to bear upon the Secretary of the Interior and upon the Director of the
Bureau of the Budget that they may work cooperatively with the House
Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the Senate Interior and
National Parks Sub-Committee to achieve full acquisiton of the presently
privately held 58% of the Pt. Reyes National Seashore before the end of
the 1st session of the 92nd Congress.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council
of the City of Tiburon held on October 15, 1969, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Bremer, Ellinwood, Fanning
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: Drohan,
Mayor
ATTEST' (~.
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, W ENCE D. ROSE, C~ty Clerk
Draft Date ]0/]5/69