1990-093-Supporting The Bay Area GreenbeltRESOLUTION 1990 -93
RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN COUNCIL
SUPPORTING THE BAY AREA GREENBELT
WHEREAS, the greater Bay Area is a special place to live, providing a unique
quality of life; and
WHEREAS, we recognize that the Bay Area is a special place because of the current
balance between urban areas and the diverse, highly valuable open space in the nine Bay
Area Counties; and
WHEREAS, a metropolitan greenbelt is a large system of protected and productive
open space which guides the growth of cities and is essential to the social economic and
ecological well being of the region and its residents; and
WHEREAS, the existing Bay Area Greenbelt, by physically separating communities,
enhances civic identities and, if protected, promotes a more compact, efficient pattern of
development; and
WHEREAS, public policy in each of the nine Bay Area counties already designates
much of the Greenbelt for agriculture, open space, watershed or other Greenbelt uses; and
WHEREAS, without official protection for the Greenbelt, the region will in the next
few years permanently lose large expanses of its open space.
RESOLVED, that the Town Council hereby supports the official protection of a
permanent Bay Area Greenbelt.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Town Council of the Town
of Los Gatos held on the 7th day of May, 1990 by the following vote:
COUNCIL MEMBERS:
AYES: Joanne Benjamin, Eric D. Carlson, Brent N. Ventura and
Mayor Thomas J. Ferrito
NAYS: Robert L. Hamilton
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
SIGNED:
e R OF TOWN OF LOS GATOS
ATTEST: ATOS, ALIFORNIA
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CLERK OF THE TOWN OF LOS JATOS
LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA
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