HomeMy WebLinkAbout2005-23 - Buck Gully & Newport Coast County-held Lands & EasementsRESOLUTION NO. 2005 -23
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
RELATING TO COUNTY -HELD LANDS AND EASEMENTS
IN BUCK GULLY AND THE NEWPORT COAST
WHEREAS, the City of Newport Beach and the County of Orange have worked
cooperatively to administer activities and lands in the city's formerly- unincorporated
southeastern region, including the Newport Coast; and
WHEREAS, the Newport Coast and Buck Gully include scenic easements and
properties owned and managed by the County of Orange are included in the county's
network of wilderness lands and open space; and
WHEREAS, Buck Gully and the resource preservation easement (OS 55E 109) are
enrolled within the Natural Communities Conservation Program (NCCP) of the Nature
Reserve of Orange County (NROC); and
WHEREAS, the City annexed land in the Newport Coast effective January 1, 2002,
while the County retained ownership of many properties, including land in Buck Gully
and five view parks (three along Newport Coast Drive and two along San Joaquin Hills
Road); and
WHEREAS, Buck Gully, an open space area with maintenance needs
commensurate with wilderness lands, is an area that the City seeks to maintain in order
consistent with the NCCP and NROC to protect the region's water quality and limit
potential damage from erosion and wildland fires; and
WHEREAS, the Coastal Greenbelt Authority (CGA) is a cooperative entity that
assists in the management and administration of these open space lands; and
WHEREAS, fee ownership of land within the CGA's boundaries is necessary for a
CGA member to have voting authority at the CGA; and
WHEREAS, both the County and the City are desirous of transferring certain scenic
easements, a resource preservation easement, and fee ownership of lands (as shown
in Exhibit A to this Resolution) from the County to the City to allow the City to manage
these easements and lands and to cause the City to become a voting member of the
CGA; and
WHEREAS, the City believes that such transference of easements and lands shall
include the maintenance responsibility for these same easements and lands and shall
include any revenues now held by the County but associated with the lands or
easements, including fuel modification or brush clearance annuities and revenue from
wireless telecommunications facilities; now, therefore be it
RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Newport Beach that it hereby
authorizes the acceptance of certain scenic easements, a resource preservation
easement, and fee ownership of lands in Buck Gully and the Newport Coast (as
shown on Exhibit A to this Resolution) and be it further
RESOLVED that it hereby authorizes City staff to work with the County to transfer
these easements and lands in an expeditious manner; and be it further
RESOLVED that it hereby authorizes the City's participation as a voting member in
the Coastal Greenbelt Authority (CGA) and the Nature Reserve of Orange County
(NROC); and be it further
RESOLVED that it hereby directs City staff to negotiate in good faith with the
County to achieve the transfer of currently- dedicated maintenance funds (including
fuel modification zone or brush clearance funds) and lease agreements and lease
revenue from wireless telecommunications facilities to the City.
ADOPTED this 26"' day of April, 2005.
ATTEST:
LAVONNE HARKLESS
City Clerk
STEVE BROMBERG
Mayor of Newport Be
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE } ss.
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
I, LaVonne M. Harkless, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing
resolution, being Resolution No. 2005 -23 was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by
the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the
26th day of April 2005, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Heffernan, Rosansky, Webb, Ridgeway: Daigle, Nichols, Mayor Bromberg
Noes: None
Absent: None
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF; I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
official seal of said City this 271th day of April 2005.
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City Clerk
Newport Beach, California