HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC RESO 11,532RESOLUTION NO. 11,532
A RESOLUTION REQUESTING LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA
CITIES TO FORMULATE AND PRESENT LEGISLATION
CURTAILING CERTAIN ENVIRONMENTAL SUITS
WHEREAS, the California State Legislature, in
the California Environmental Quality Act, has recognized
the existence of dangers to the environment and sought
to protect the environment from spoilage; and
WHEREAS, the benefits to the majority from the
completion of public works projects consists of improved
water quality, increased water supply for expansion of
agriculture to areas previously unproductive, thus com-
pensating for the urbanization of large areas formerly
agricultural; provision of flood control to prevent loss
of life and property, and the construction of essential
sources of energy supply to help meet the critical require-
ments of Californians in the future; and
WHEREAS, a numerically small but vociferous
minority seeks to hinder and delay almost every public
project of any magnitude for environmental reasons which,
in many cases, pale into insignificance in relation to
the above benefits
WHEREAS,
of public projects
to the citizenry; and
with increasing inflation, the cost
soars
in direct proportion
to the
amount of delay generated by excessive environmental
litigation;
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the City Council
of the City of National City urges its legislative spokesman,
the League of California Cities, to endeavor to devise
and present to the California State Legislature a program
of legislation designed to prevent or minimize the impact
on necessary public works programs of tactics designed to
deliberately delay the prompt resolution of environmental
suits. Such possible remedies as priority on trial
calendars, summary judgment procedures, the awarding of
judgment for attorneys' fees against unsuccessful environ-
mental plaintiffs, and the requirement of bonds to be
posted by an environmental plaintiff to compensate
successful defendants for damages incurred as a result
of rising costs, should all be considered along with any
other procedures to prevent such abuses.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 2nd day of July, 1974.
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