HomeMy WebLinkAboutR-79-28 RESOLUTION
NO. R-79 ~'g
A RESOLUTION ENDORSING THE
STRENGTHENING OF THE REGIONAL
PLANNING COUNCILS.
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Sebastian, as follows:
The Council affirms the urgent need to solve regional
problems through workable approaches designed to
ensure coordinated actions and to minimize the
overlap of regional agencies. The City Council recog~
nizes that local governments are that level of govern-
ment closest and most accountable to the people. It
is further agreed that local governments should take
the leadership in meeting these challenges and not
pass these responsibilities on to the national or
state goverment.
We therefore support and call for the strengthening
of Regional Councils as those agencies which serve
as the vehicle for joint action on those problems
and challenges which cut across boundary lines and
must be dealt with in a larger geographic setting.
We fureAermore support Regional Planning Councils as
having been agencies which have provided a forum where
local governments can discuss and seek solutions to
regional problems in an effective and efficient manner.
We call for the continued utilization, through funding
and designation, by the state and federal government
of the Regional Planning Councils as the agencies to
undertake areawide planning and development programs.
It has been agreed that as agencies of local government,
Regional Planning Councils should possess characteristics
which will provide closer ties with the executive
and legislative branches of state government and that
the guidelines within which they operate should be
more clearly defined in order that the citizens of
the state may be better and more effectively served.
We further feel that as agencies of local governments,
it is important that the Developments of Regional
Impact process remain with the Regional Planning Councils
as first, Councils have accountability through the ballot
box. The most responsive agency is that which holds
its leaders directly accountable to the people it
serves. Second, the Regional Councils are comprehensive
in both their purpose and the work programs they carry
out. Third, the Regional Councils currently have on
staff the expertise necessary to undertake the
responsibilities of the regional agency with regard to
And fourth, the Regional Councils have the
~ DRI reviews.
greatest potential for efficiency because they are
now undertaking an array of planning programs that
are supportive of the DRI process. (e.g. land use
and housing, energy planning, economic development
coastal zone planning, etc.)
Pat Fldod,~ Jr., Ma)~'or
ATTEST:
The foregoing Resolution was passed and adopted
by the City Council of the City of Sebastian, Florida, this
~O~ day of November, 1979.
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