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1982-318RESOLUTION NO. 82R -318 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM EXPRESSING ITS DISFAVOR TO ADDING A 10 -LANE ALTERNATIVE TO THE SANTA ANA TRANS- PORTATION CORRIDOR STUDY (SATCS). WHEREAS, the City of Anaheim supports realistic and expedi- tious implementation of improvements on the Santa Ana Freeway; and WHEREAS, the adopted Stage I alternative from the Santa Ana Transportation Corridor Study (SATCS) includes expansion of the Santa Ana Freeway to 8 lanes while staying predominantly within existing freeway right -of -way; and WHEREAS, a 10 -lane analysis has been conducted and the over- riding conclusion is that it would add significant cost, disruption to homes and businesses, and delay completion of the SATCS by as long as one year as the trade -off for adding more car -lane capacity to the Santa Ana Freeway; and WHEREAS, the present 8 -lane alternative has the flexibility of being striped for 10 lanes (except under freeway interchanges) or ample median area for placement of an elevated busway at a later date; and WHEREAS, to date the consensus has been for the SATCS to focus on .realistic freeway improvements. The fiscal austerity facing the federal, state and local governments do not allow for more grandi- ose planning if Orange County is to expeditiously implement improve- ments on the Santa Ana Freeway; and WHEREAS, the goal of the 8 -lane alternative is to be fully implemented by the year 1995; and WHEREAS, it would be significantly beyond 1995 before a 10 -lane alternative could be fully implemented; and WHEREAS, the Multi -Modal Study has identified the future travel demands of the Santa Ana Freeway to be 14 lanes; and WHEREAS, the proposed 10 -lane alternative ignores elevated busways or double decking as a means of gaining 10 lanes or greater carrying capacity thereby precluding a comprehensive analysis of alternatives to the proposed physical widening of the Santa Ana Freeway; and WHEREAS, full analysis of a 10 -lane alternative would sig- nificantly change the scope and time horizon of the SATCS. -1- NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Anaheim that it is hereby recommended to the Orange County Transportation Commission that full analysis of a 10 -lane alterna- tive not be included in the Santa Ana Transportation Corridor Study ( SATCS). BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the SATCS should identify expansion of the Santa Ana Freeway beyond 8 lanes as a subject worthy of separate and comprehensive analysis as a long range solu- tion to the future travel demands of the Santa Ana Freeway. THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION is approved and adopted by the City Council of the City of Anaheim this 15th day of June, 1982. MAYOR OF THE CITY OF AHEIM ATTEST: CITY CLERK OF THE Y OF ANAHEIM JLW:fm -2- STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss. CITY OF ANAHEIM ) I, LINDA D. ROBERTS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 82R -318 was introduced and adopted at a regular meeting provided by law, of the City Council of the City of Anaheim held on the 15th day of June, 1982, by the following vote of the members thereof: AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Overholt, Kaywood, Roth and Bay NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None VACANCY: COUNCIL MEMBERS: One AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed said Resolution No. 82R -318 on the 15th day of June, 1982. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hznd and affixed the seal of the City of Anaheim this 15th day of June, 1982 . CITY CURK OF THE CITY ANAHEIM (SEAL) I, LINDA D. ROBERTS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original of Resolution No. 82R -318 duly passed and adopted by the Anaheim City Council on June 15, 1982.