95-040 RESOLUTION NO. 95R- 40
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ANAHEIM TO DESIGNATE
THE ORANGE COUNTY TRANSPORTATION
AUTHORITY AS THE METROPOLITAN
PLANNING ORGANIZATION FOR ORANGE
COUNTY
WHEREAS, the federal Intermodal Surface Transportation
and Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) allows for the redesignation
of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) to better
facilitate transportation planning and programming; and
WHEREAS, the list of duties for the MPO as specified in
federal law clearly designates the MPO as a transportation-
focused organization without broad-ranging authority over other
necessary government planning functions, including local land-use
decision making; and
WHEREAS, Orange County, California, will become one of
the largest Metropolitan Planning Organizations in the United
States if it successfully separates from the largest MPO in the
United States, the six-county, 38,000 square mile, 15-million-
constituent agency known as the Southern California Association
of Governments (SCAG); and
WHEREAS, transportation agencies in Orange County,
California have consolidated into a single, countywide
transportation authority to increase accountability and to unify
transportation operations, transportation planning and
transportation decision making; and
WHEREAS, the consolidated transit and transportation
agency in Orange county is known as the Orange County
Transportation Authority (OCTA); and
WHEREAS, the OCTA is well equipped to serve as the MPO
for the sixth-largest county in the United States and is well
qualified to serve as the Regional Transportation Planning Agency
(RTPA), the state counterpart to the MPO designation; and
WHEREAS, state and federal laws require careful,
continuous coordination among neighboring counties to facilitate
better regional planning, and such regulations mandate enhanced
cooperation among cities and counties after MPO redesignation
occurs.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of
the City of Anaheim that the City of Anaheim supports the
redesignation of Southern California's Metropolitan Planning
Organization and the designation of the Orange County
Transportation Authority as the federal Metropolitan Planning
Organization and state Regional Transportation Planning Agency
for Orange County.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the city of Anaheim
supports and encourages appropriate legislation to designate the
OCTA as the MPO and RTPA for Orange County.
THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION is approved and adopted by the
City Council of the City of Anaheim this 21st day of
March , 1995.
OF THE CITY O~ ANAHEIM
CITY CLERK OF
10966.1\EEGAN\March 1, 1995
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution
No. 95R-40 was introduced and adopted at a regular meeting provided by law, of the Anaheim City Council
held on the 21st day of March, 1995, by the following vote of the members thereof:
AYES: MAYOR/COUNCIL: Tait, Lopez, Zemel, Feldhaus, Daly
NOES: MAYOR/COUNCIL: None
ABSENT: MAYOR/COUNCIL: None
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed said Resolution No. 95R-40 on the
21st day of March, 1995.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Anaheim
this 21st day of March, 1995.
(SEAL)
I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original
of Resolution No. 95R~,0 was duly passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Anaheim on
March 21, 1995.
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM