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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1990-06-26 - AGENDA REPORTS - OPPOSE SUNSET HILLS INCORPORAT (2)AGENDA REPORT City -Manager Approval Item to be presented by: �i Lynn M. Harris yl *` 2Q A CONSENT CALENDAR DATE: June 26, 1990 SUBJECT: Resolution No. 90-124, A Resolution to the Local - Agency Formation Commission Opposing the Proposed Incorporation of Sunset Hills DEPARTMENT: Community Development BACKGROUND Resolution No. 90-124 is a resolution opposing the proposed incorporation of the new city of Sunset Hills. The proposed incorporation of approximately 27.8 square miles is located west of Interstate 5 (Golden State Freeway), immediately adjacent to the City of Santa Clarita, and is within the sphere of influence area requested by the City in September, 1989. The incorporation proposal was filed for the Local Agency Formation Commission's (LAFCO) consideration in November, 1989, several days before the City's own sphere of influence request was to be heard by the LAFCO (on November 14, 1989) and was cited by the LAFCO at that hearing as a partial reason for the denial of the City's request. The resolution contains 18 recitals setting forth the City's position in opposing the Sunset Hills incorporation proposal. If approved and adopted, Resolution No. 90-124 will be submitted to the LAFCO during the testimony portion of the public hearing for this proposal, scheduled for June 27, 1990. RECOMMENDATION 1. Adopt Resolution No. 90-124, opposing the proposed incorporation of Sunset Hills. 2. Direct staff to submit a certified copy of Resolution No. 90-124 ?`~ to the Local Agency Formation Commission at the Commission's regularly scheduled public hearing on June 27, 1990. Request Councilman Boyer to make a presentation to LAFCO in behalf of the City. Resolution No. 90-124 a�' Agenda Item: RESOLUTION NO. 90-124 A RESOLUTION OF OPPOSITION BY:THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, REQUESTING THAT THE LOCAL AGENCY FORMATION COMMISSION FOR LOS ANGELES COUNTY TARE ACTION TO DENY THE INCORPORATION OF THE PROPOSED CITY OF SUNSET HILLS WHEREAS; in November, 1989, the proponents of the proposed City ' of Sunset Hills filed (with the Local Agency Formation Commission) a request for incorporation of approximately 27.8 square miles of land located west of the Interstate 5 in the Santa Clarita Valley; and WHEREAS, in September, 1989, the City of Santa Clarita had requested this area to be included in the City's Sphere of Influence; and WHEREAS, we recognize that the Santa Clarita Valley is a single geophysical area and should be represented and planned as one integrated unit; and WHEREAS, we further recognize the existing and strengthening social, economic and geographic.interdependencies between this area and the City of Santa Clarita; and WHEREAS, the planning.area of the City of Santa Clarita general plan program encompasses the area of the proposed incorporation; and WHEREAS, the proposed incorporation would complicate planning, coordination and funding of capital improvement projects (roads, flood control, sewer, water, et al), as well as traffic and land use issues in interface areas, and would exacerbate existing difficulties experienced by the City of Santa Clarita and the County of Los Angeles; and WHEREAS, the proposed incorporation will require the City of Santa Clarita to expend additional resources to recognize and interact with a new jurisdictional entity; and WHEREAS, the proposed incorporation would preclude potential future annexation of the area to the City of Santa Clarita, thus denying the City growth opportunities, both economic and physical; and WHEREAS, the City of Santa Clarita has abiding interest in the development, existing and proposed, occurring in the area of the proposed incorporation as it directly impacts existing facilities and services within the City; and WHEREAS, development within the proposed incorporation area is and will continue to be served by extending services and systems from those already existing in the City of Santa Clarita; and 0 Resolution No. 90-124 Page 2 WHEREAS, with adequate planning and appropriate annexation, municipal services to this area can be more efficiently and economically provided by the City of Santa Clarita to meet future needs; and WHEREAS, per the LAFCO staff's fiscal analysis of this request the proposed incorporation does not have a tax and revenue base sufficient to support minimum municipal services and would experience an economic shortfall over the next four years; and WHEREAS, it is unlikely that the proposed incorporation would be able to attract, develop and support the additional commercial development required to offset such revenue shortfalls thereafter and in the foreseeable future; and WHEREAS, we support the residents of the Sunset Pointe neighborhood, who have announced their opposition to being included in the proposed incorporation and have requested annexation to the City of Santa Clarita; and WHEREAS, we support Newhall Land and Farm and Six Flags Magic Mountain, major land owners whose holdings comprise approximately seventy percent (70X) of the area proposed for incorporation, who have also announced their opposition to being included in the proposed incorporation; and WHEREAS, we support the LAFCO Executive Officer's finding, in the staff report dated June 27, 1990, that the proponents of the proposed incorporation have not demonstrated the need for a second city in the Santa Clarita Valley; and WHEREAS, we support the Executive Officer's statement that the City of Santa Clarita would be able to extend municipal services to the area in the future; and WHEREAS, we support the Executive Officer's recommendation to the Local Agency Formation Commission that the proposed incorporation request be denied. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita does hereby determine and find as follows: SECTION 1. This resolution is hereby adopted and the Local Agency Formation Commission for the County of Los Angeles is hereby respectfully requested to take action to deny the proposed incorporation of the City of Sunset Hills, pursuant to its powers as provided by the Cortese -Knox Local Government Reorganization Act of 1985 (Revised 1990). SECTION 2. The City Council hereby directs and authorizes the City Clerk of the City of Santa Clarita to submit a certified copy of this resolution to the Executive Officer of the Local Agency Formation Commission of Los Angeles County, at the LAFCO's regularly scheduled public hearing on June 27, 1990. Resolution No. 90-124 Page 3 SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this resolution and certify this record to be a full,.true, correct copy of the action taken. PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this day of 1990. Jo Anne Darcy ATTEST: George Caravalho, CITY CLERK I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita at a regular meeting thereof, held on the day of 1990, by the following vote of the Council: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: George Caravalho, CITY CLERK