HomeMy Public PortalAboutRES 73/07RESOLUTION NO. 7 -73.
A RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN COMMISSION FOR THE TOWN
OF GULF STREAM, PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA, RE-
LATING TO THE STATE COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING ACT
OF 19720 ITS COMPANION LEGISLATION, AND REGIONAL
GOVERNMENT.
WHEREAS, the Florida State Comprehensive Planning Act of 1972
authorized: (a) the establishment of particular geographical bound-
aries within the State of Florida (ostensively for the purpose of
state agency planning) and, (b) the creation of the Division of State
Planning to coordinate these regions, and
WHEREAS, the Governor and his administration have divided the
State of Florida into ten multi - county regions or "sub- states" in
which appointed regional councils and agents will assume authority
previously and properly reserved to elected municipal and county of-
ficials, and will assume control and regulation over land, business,
development, utilities, production, services, property and people,
which control and regulation has never been delegated to any govern-
ment by the people of Florida; and
WHEREAS, the Florida State Comprehensive Planning Act of 1972,
and its companion bill, the Florida Environmental Land and Water
Management Act of 1972, together with the funding bill to be intro-
duced in the 1973 legislative session to be known as the Florida
State Multi- County Planning Commissions Act of 1973 will establish
Regional Government in the State of Florida; and
WHEREAS, the ten regional divisions of the State of Florida and
their respective regional councils correspond in function, and regu-
lation with the recent division of the United States into ten federal
regions by virtue of Executive Order 11647 - Federal Regional Coun-
cils promulgated by the President on February 12, 1972; and
WHEREAS, the Federal Region - Sub -State regional government sys-
tem will seize the power and authority which properly belongs to mu-
nicipal and county governments and even to sovereign states, and will
bypass these traditional and constitutional governmental bodies, and
will usurp the rights and freedoms of individual citizens guaranteed
by the Constitution of the State of Florida and the Constitution of
the United States of America:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Town Commission of the Town
of Gulf Stream that:
1. We urge the repeal of the Florida State Comprehensive Plan-
ning Act of 1972.
2. We urge the repeal of the Florida Environmental Land and Water
Management Act of 1972.
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3. We urge the defeat of the Florida State Multi- County
Planning Commissions Act of 1973 and any other legislation in-
troduced to create, expand, implement, or fund regional govern-
ment in the State of Florida.
4. We request that a joint committee of the Florida House
of Representatives and the Florida Senate be created to conduct
a thorough investigation into regional government, and the con-
stitutionality of the actions of the federal agencies in rela-
tion thereto.
5. We urge every elected municipal official and every
county commissioner to join with us in respectfully requesting
our state legislators to take all necessary action to defeat re-
gionalism and return government to the people through their pro-
perly elected representatives.
6. We direct that a copy of this resolution be sent to
every State Legislator, County Commission, County Sheriff and
Municipal Government in the State of Florida.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 17th day of Mai , A.D.,
1973.
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