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HomeMy Public PortalAbout20100609 - Resolution - Board of Directors (BOD) (2) Laver Sheet For Scanning By ECS ©rieinatine Department General Manager Laserfiche Template Board Of Directors Template Fields Document Date: 6/9/2010 Document Type: Resolution Preserve Name: Keywords (No More Than 4): Oppose Salt Ponds Development Project Name: Project Number: Vendor Or Other Party: i Name (First): Name(Last): Address: APN Number: Document No. 10-21 Additional Field: Additional Field: Additional Field: Additional Field: RESOLUTION 10-21 RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF MIDPENINSULA REGIONAL OPEN SPACE DISTRICT OPPOSING THE DEVELOPMENT OF REDWOOD CITY SALT PONDS The Board of Directors of Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District does resolve as follows: WHEREAS, a large housing development with up to 12,000 homes for 30,000 people has been proposed on a 1,436-acre salt harvesting site in Redwood City on the shores of San Francisco Bay; and WHEREAS, over 100 current and former elected officials from all nine Bay Area counties and organizations and agencies such as Audubon California, the Sierra Club and the West Bay Sanitary District are opposed to the plan; and WHEREAS, the salt ponds are part of the bay and, rather than paved, should be restored to tidal marsh for wildlife habitat, natural flood protection and cleaner water; and WHEREAS, the bay's salt ponds provide the best opportunity to restore a portion of the 150,000 acres of valuable wetlands destroyed by previous generations. WHEREAS, the land is zoned as a tidal plain where housing is not permitted; and WHEREAS, a floodplain at sea level is an in appropriate location for housing during a time of global warming; and WHEREAS, housing should not be built at sea level because climate change could lift the bay's water level up to 55 inches by the end of the century. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District opposes the development of Redwood City's salt ponds. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we, the Board of Directors of Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District do hereby adopt this resolution this, the 9th day of June, 2010. RESOLUTION NO. 10-21 PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Directors of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District on June 09, 2010 at a Regular Meeting thereof, by the following vote: AYES: RIFFLE,HARRIS,CYR,HASSETT,SIEMENS,AND DAVEY NOES: NONE ABSTAIN: NONE ABSENT: HANKO ATTEST: APPROVED: YVI Zcretary President Board of Directors Board of Directors I, the District Clerk of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of a resolution duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District by the above vote at a meeting thereof duly held and called on the above day. District Clerk