HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 5540-1971RESOLUTION NO. 5540
CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
A RESOLUTION OPPOSING THE REPORT OF
THE REGIONAL PLANNING COMMITTEE'S
WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE WHICH
RECOMMENDED FINANCING OF THE
COUNTY'S PARK AND OPEN SPACE PLAN.
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of South
San Francisco that Council, having reviewed the inter-office
memorandum of March 12, 1971, filed by Daniel M. Pass, City
Planner, and Robert Maxey, Superintendent of Recreation and
Parks, concerning the report of the Regional Planning Com-
mittee's Ways and Means Committee's recommendation for the
financing of the County's Park and OPen Space Plan, does
hereby determine that said report expresses the policy position
of the City of South San Francisco and the Council does hereby
approve and adopt said report which is attached hereto as
Exhibit "A" and made a part hereof as if set forth verbatim,
and does further order that a copy of this Resolution with
the report attached be forwarded to the Board of Supervisors
of the County of San Mateo.
I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was
regularly introduced and adopted by the City Council of the
City of South San Francisco at a
he id on the 5th day of ADri~
the following vote:
regular
meeting
19 71 , by
AYES, COUNCILMEN Patrick E. Ahern, FrDnk J. ~.rt,,c~.lll, William A.
NOES,
ABSENT,
Borba~ .F; Frank. Mammini and .War,re0 SteiDkal~p..
None
None
City Clerk
EXHIBIT "A"
CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO
INTER-OFFICE ENOR NDUM
Dcde March 12, 1971
-. ~he Honorable Chairman and Members. of the COPIES TO:
TO: South San Francisco Planning Commission
T~e Regional Planning Committee's Way and Means Committee's
S~]E~-~f: "Parks and Open Space - Financing the Plan"
'~anieI M. Pass, City Planner and
~O1V~ Robert Maxey, Superintendent of Recreation ~ Parks
· he Superintendent of Recreation and Parks and the City Planner have reviewed
the submitted report of the Regional Planning Committee's Ways and Means Committee.
This rep6rt embodies recommendations for the financing of the County's Park and
Open Space Plan. .
" The report recommends that the plan be effectuated ~nd financed in two stages.
'The first stage, the 1970-1979 phase, would include the purchase and 'rudimentary
development of SlS acres of San Bruno Mountain. This purchase and development of
the San Bruno Mofintain "saddle" and adjacent smaller parcels of land constitutes
the only substantial value South San Francisco and North San Mateo County would
procure from the instant $40,000,000 Program.
~q~ile ~the SUbject report indicates that the Oyster Point Marina would remain
a municipal project, it recognizes that the Belle Air Peninsula would have regional
open-space significance. This recognition, however, cannot be interpreted as the
Ways and Means Commit{ee's acceptance of the General Plan of the City of South San
Francisco, since the General Plan clearly indicates that the Oyster Point Marina
and the Belle Air Peninsula are constituent components of South San Francisco's
incipient Shoreline Regional Park. It should also be noted that the acquisition
and development of the Belle Air Peninsula are not proposed under the initial stage
· of the County's Parks and Open Space Plan.'
In the humble opinion of the writers, the repo.rt of the Ways and Means Cgmmittee
does not subscribe to the principle that regional park and open space facilities
should_ be concentrated at centers of population. While most of the population of
the County of San Mateo is confined to North County, most of the proposed regional
parks would be located in the southerly part thereof.
In light of the above factors, the writers cannot recommend that the Planning
Commission endorse the report of the Regional Planning Committee's Ways and Means
Committee. In the absence of RPC's inclusion of the acquisition of the lands of
the California Golf. Club, and the r~maining private lands constituent to the Shore-
line Regional Park in the 1970-79 phase of the Parks and Open Space Plan, the
proposed $40,000,000 project does not merit the City of South San Francisco's support
.
Daniel M. Pass, City Planner
Robert lqaxeT, Supt. of Re'real'ion ~ Parks