HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - No. 2010-148RESOLUTION NO. 2010-148
A RESOLUTION OF THE LODI CITY COUNCIL
AUTHORIZINGTHE CITY MANAGERTO PARTICIPATE
WITH THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY PARTNERCITIES IN
THE SMART VALLEY PLACES COMPACT
WHEREAS, the San Joaquin Valley (Valley) is recognized as integral to the
continued growth and sustainability of California, and the Valley's cities which will be the
focus for successfully accommodating future growth and implementing sustainability
face significant and daunting economic, revitalization, affordable housing, social,
environmental, public health, natural and fiscal resource, and other challenges; and
WHEREAS, the Valley region has assessed shared challenges and identified
shared planning principles for continued economic growth and urban development,
preservation of the rich agricultural land base and water resources, improved education
and health, broader prosperity, and to enable implementation of the essential elements
of long-term success; and
WHEREAS, the Valley's shared planning principles are appropriately
represented by the Smart Growth Principles adopted and established as the benchmark
for achieving a San Joaquin Valley Blueprint, the six major initiatives of the California
Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley Strategic Action Proposal, and the HUD -EPA -
DOT Livability Principles; and
WHEREAS, a direct partnership among Valley cities is the best and most
effective way to create and coordinate a pool of resources, templates, and best
practices, and use the local land use and zoning authority required that will lead to the
practical and measurable implementation of shared planning principles for long-term
San Joaquin Valley viability; and
WHEREAS, Smart Valley Places is being established as a direct partnership
among cities and other local and regional partners with the purpose to locally define and
implement a regional plan for sustainable developmentfor the San Joaquin Valley; and
WHEREAS, it is desirable that partner cities of Smart Valley Places enter into a
COMPACT and commit to each other to share planning principles and incorporate them
into their respective local policies and codes through a process that engages all
stakeholders and residents in order to comprise and facilitate the implementation of a
comprehensive regional plan for sustainable development; and
WHEREAS, the initial eligible partner cities for voting membership in the Smart
Valley Places COMPACT are the 16 federally defined and recognized Urbanized Areas
(50,000 population and over) in the eight counties of San Joaquin Valley region; and
WHEREAS, the expansion of voting membership in the Smart Valley Places
COMPACT network through the addition of cities and other partners is anticipated as
network organization and member performance capabilities increase over time to have
the ability to accommodate member expansion; and
WHEREAS, the Smart Valley Places COMPACT provides for governance by an
Executive Committee of City Managers appointed and empowered by their respective
City Councils to provide policy guidance and administrative oversight for Smart Valley
Places network related contracts, agreements, grant applications and awards, resource
allocations, evaluation of projects and programs, a multi -city Planners Steering
Committee, and any other network business; and
WHEREAS, the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley and the CSU
Fresno Foundation are designated to act as the initial regional lead and fiscal agents for
grant applications from and funding awards to the Smart Valley Places COMPACT cities
under terms defined in a contractual agreement approved by the Smart Valley Places
COMPACT Executive Committee; and
WHEREAS, the City of Lodi intends to locally incorporate the shared planning
principles of the Valley region and to work collaboratively with other Valley cities to
locally define and mutually implement a regional plan for sustainable development for
the San Joaquin Valley as outlined in the Smart Valley Places COMPACT; and
WHEREAS, a public meeting was held on August 18, 2010, at which time
participation in the Smart Valley Places COMPACT was considered by the Lodi City
Council.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Lodi City Council does hereby
agree and affirm that Lodi's participation in the Smart Valley Places COMPACT, in
conjunction with the other Smart Valley Places COMPACT partner cities referenced
herein, is both desirable and necessary to provide for continued economic growth and
urban development, preservation of the rich agricultural land base and water resources,
improved education and health, broader prosperity, and to enable implementation of the
essential elements of long-term sustainability in both Lodi and the greater San Joaquin
Valley; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Manager, or designee, is hereby
authorized to participate as a voting member of the Smart Valley Places COMPACT
Executive Committee and to execute all necessary grant documents, agreements,
MOUs and other documentation needed to carry out the business of Smart Valley
Places on behalf of the City of Lodi.
Dated: August 18, 2010
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I hereby certify that Resolution No. 2010-148 was passed and adopted by the
Lodi City Council in a regular meeting held August 18, 2010, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN
COUNCIL MEMBERS — Hansen, Hitchcock, Mounce, and
Mayor Katzakian
COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
COUNCIL MEMBERS —Johnson
COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
2010-148