63-0304RESOLUTION NO. 63R -304
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM REQUESTING RECOGNITION OF ORANGE
COUNTY AS ONE OF THE STANDARD METROPOLITAN
STATISTICAL AREAS OF THE UNITED STATES.
WHEREAS, Orange County, California, has grown into
one of the great Metropolitan Areas of the State of California
with a population rapidly approaching one million people; and
WHEREAS, there are now three contiguous cities, to
wit, Anaheim, Garden Grove and Santa Ana, with populations in
excess of 100,000 people each; and
WHEREAS, the City of Anaheim, the largest city in
Orange County, with a population of 133,000, and the City of
Santa Ana, the second largest city in Orange County, with a
population of 126,000, are both in the top 100 most populated
cities in the United States; and
WHEREAS, there are now 24 incorporated cities in
Orange County representing 80% of the total population; and
WHEREAS, the non agricultural labor force of the area
exceeds 75% of the total population; and
WHEREAS, the combined population of the contiguous
cities of Anaheim, Brea, Buena Park, Costa Mesa, Cypress,
Dairyland, Fountain Valley, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington
Beach, La Habra, Los Alamitos, Westminster, Orange, Newport
Beach, Placentia, Santa Ana, Stanton, Villa Park and Tustin is
in excess of 50% of the total county population and exceeds a
density of 150 persons per square mile; and
WHEREAS, well in excess of 25% of the working popula-
tion of Orange County and its cities is employed or works within
the boundaries of Orange County and its cities; and
WHEREAS, all of the above statistical figures meet or
exceed the minimum criteria for establishing a Standard Metro-
politan Statistical Area; and
WHEREAS, Orange County is now and has been included
in the Los Angeles -Long Beach Standard Metropolitan Statistical
Area without being mentioned as a part of that area in official
Federal Government reports; and
WHEREAS, business and industry look to these Federal
reports for the necessary information on population, labor
force, employment, markets and production; and
WHEREAS, the many advantages of Orange County as a
site for industrial and trade expansion would be better known
if the Federal Government would grant recognition to Orange
County as a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area and include
Orange County in its frequent reports on such areas; and
WHEREAS, it has been the policy of the Federal Govern-
ment during the past years to add to the list of Standard
Metropolitan Statistical Areas, year -by -year, those new areas
that qualified for such recognition.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of
the City of Anaheim, Orange County, California, that the
Committee on Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Bureau of
the Budget, Office of the President of the United States recog-
nize the tremendous growth and development that has taken place
in Orange County and grant recognition by naming Orange County
as one of the Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas of this
Nation; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution
be sent to the President and Vice President of the United States,
our Senators and Representatives in the Congress of the United
States, the Governor of the State of California and our elected
Representatives in the State Legislature urging them to assist
in securing for Orange County the recognition to which it is
entitled as a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution
be forwarded to all local municipalities of Orange County, the
City of Los Angeles, the City of Long Beach, and the Los Angeles
County Board of Supervisors urging that they join with us by
adopting resolutions similar to this.
THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION is approved and signed by me
this 16th day of April, 1963.
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM
YOR OF TH C TY 0 ANAHEIM
I, DENE M. WILLIAMS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim,
do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was passed and
adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 16th
day of April, 1963, by the following vote of the members thereof:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Dutton, Chandler, Schutte, Krein
and Coons.
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None.
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None.
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of
Anaheim signed and approved said resolution on the 16th day of
April, 1963.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of the City of Anaheim this 16th day of April,
1963.
(SEAL)
CIT CLERK OF THE CI Y OF NAHEIM