HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-2 - Creating the Ad Hoc Transit, Transportation, Parking and MobilityRESOLUTION NO. 2024-2
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, CREATING THE
AD HOC TRANSIT, TRANSPORTATION, PARKING AND
MOBILITY COMMITTEE
WHEREAS, Section 200 of the Charter of the City of Newport Beach ("Charter")
vests the City Council with the authority to make and enforce all laws, rules and
regulations with respect to municipal affairs subject only to the restrictions and
limitations contained in the Charter and the State Constitution, and the power to
exercise, or act pursuant to any and all rights, powers, and privileges or procedures
granted or prescribed by any law of the State of California;
WHEREAS, California Vehicle Code, Sections 21100 et seq., states that a city
may adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution to supplement the
provisions contained therein, including, but not limited to, regulating traffic, parking,
assemblages on the highways, operation of vehicles for hire, processions or
assemblages on the highways, bicycles and electric mobility devices, street closures,
and other rules and regulations to regulate local transit, transportation, parking and
mobility;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested by the Charter, the City Council
adopted the Newport Beach Municipal Code, which has been periodically updated from
time to time, and includes various provisions that regulate local transit, transportation,
parking and mobility including, but not limited to, Title 12, Vehicles and Traffic; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to create the Ad Hoc Transit,
Transportation, Parking and Mobility Committee ("Committee") to analyze transit,
transportation, parking and mobility enhancements that can be implemented citywide to
foster and improve connections and movement of residents and visitors between major
activity areas, communities and villages, and to review, seek and identify potential
funding sources to support such enhancements, including, but not limited to, public and
private grants and partnerships.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach resolves as
follows:
Section 1: The City Council hereby creates the Committee, which shall be
comprised of three (3) councilmembers appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the
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appointment of the following Council Members to the Committee: (1) Mayor Pro Tern
Joe Stapleton; (2) Council Member Noah Blom; and (3) Council Member Lauren
Kleiman. The term of the appointed members of the Committee shall be indefinite
pending City Council action or expiration of the Committee as set forth in this resolution.
Section 2: The sole purpose and responsibility of the Committee shall be to
make recommendations to the entire City Council regarding potential transit,
transportation, parking and mobility enhancements after the Committee has worked with
City staff to: (1) analyze transit, transportation, parking and mobility enhancements that
can be implemented citywide to foster and improve connections and movement of
residents and visitors between major activity areas, communities and villages; and (2)
review, seek and identify potential funding sources to support such enhancements
including, but not limited to, public and private grants and partnerships.
Section 3: The Committee shall function as an ad hoc committee and shall not
be subject to the Brown Act.
Section 4: The Committee shall expire upon making its recommendations to
the entire City Council, at a noticed public meeting of the City Council.
Section 5: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
resolution is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not
affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this resolution. The
City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this resolution and each section,
subsection, sentence, clause or phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or
more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
Section 6: The recitals provided in this resolution are true and correct and are
incorporated into the substantive portion of this resolution.
Section 7: The City Council finds the adoption of this resolution is not subject
to the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2)
(the activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change
in the environment) and 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section
15378) of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Division 6,
Chapter 3, because it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the
environment, directly or indirectly.
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Section 8: This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by
the City Council, and the City Clerk shall certify the vote adopting this resolution.
ADOPTED this 9t" day of January, 2024.
Will O'Neill
Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
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Aaron C. Harp
City Attorney
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE } ss.
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
I, Leilani I. Brown, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do hereby certify that the
whole number of members of the City Council is seven; the foregoing resolution, being Resolution
No. 2024-2 was duly introduced before and adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting
of said Council held on the 91h day of January, 2024; and the same was so passed and adopted by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES: Mayor Will O'Neill; Mayor Pro Tem Joe Stapleton, Councilmember Brad Avery,
Councilmember. Noah Blom, Councilmember Robyn Grant, Councilmember
Lauren Kleiman, Councilmember Erik Weigand
NAYS: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of
said City this 101" day of January, 2024.
Leilani I. Brown
City Clerk
Newport Beach, California