HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council - 1760 RESOLUTION No. 1760
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH REQUESTING THAT
ORANGE COUNTY BE DESIGNATED A STANDARD
METROPOLITAN AREA.
WHEREAS, the federal government designates important
statistical areas across America as Standard Metropolitan
Areas; and
WHEREAS, Orange County, California - since 1949 - has
been lumped into the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area - now call-
ed the "Los Angeles-Long Beach Standard Metropolitan Area,"
with no mention of Orange County in its title; and
WHEREAS, if Orange County is separated from Los Angeles
County and designated a separate metropolitan area, the Orange
County, California, Standard Metropolitan Area would probably
be the 26th largest of the 204 big metropolitan areas of the
nation; and
WHEREAS, fast-growing Orange County, as long as it is
lumped into the so-called "Los Angeles-Long Beach"area, is
lost to the notice of researchers, industrialists, marketers,
investors and federal and state agencies who study the federal
government's list of metropolitan areas for economic ratings;
and
WHEREAS, statistics on Orange County, the fastest-grow-
ing major county in the nation, are needed in comparison to
other metropolitan areas in order to attract industry ald in-
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vestment and to aid in future planning and development by
local, state and federal agencies; and
WHEREAS, population estimates published by Orange
County Newsmagazine of Life, Business & Industry show that
Los Angeles County, on its own, is now rapidly moving ahead
of the 6-County Chicago Standard Metropolitan Area, and that
Orange County can now be separated from Los Angeles County
for statistical purposes without affecting the standard of the
Los Angeles Area as "Second Largest Market in the United
States" - ahead of the Chicago Area and second only to the
New York Area; now
IOW, THEREF0AE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council
of the City of Huntington Beach respectfully requests the
Committee on Standard Metropolitan Areas, Bureau of the Budget,
Executive Office of the President, Washington, D. C. , to
designate Orange County, California, as a Standard Metropoli-
tan Area; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we request the President
of the United States, the Director of the Bureau of the
Budget, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Labor,
the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and the heads
of other federal agencies concerned, members of the Senate
and House of Representatives, the Governor of the State of
California, public officials and civic leaders of both Los
Angeles and. Orange Counties, and the executives of the Sales
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Management Magazine and other publications to 3ain in this
recommendation, which will secure for Orange County the long
overdue recognition to which it is entitled.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach, California, at a regular meeting held on
the 15th day of April, 1963.
Mayor
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Res. No. 1760
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
County of Orange ) ss
City of Huntington Beach )
I, PAUL C. JONES, the duly elected, qualified and act-
ing City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, and ex-offic-
io Clerk of the City Council of said City, do hereby certify
that the whole number of members of the City Council of the
City of Huntington Beach is five; that the foregoing resolu-
tion was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of more
than a majority of all the members of said City Council at a
regular meeting thereof held on the 15th, day of April ,
19639 by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen:
Wells, Stewart, Welch, Lambert
NOES: Councilmen:
None
ABSENT: Councilmen:
Gisler
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City Clerk and officio Clerk of the City
Council of the City of Huntington Beach,
California