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RESOLUTION NO. 03-063
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SARATOGA
OF SUPPORT OF THE
SANTA CLARA WATERRESOURSES PROTECTION COLLABORATIVE
MEMORANDUM OF CONSENSUS
FOR MUTUAL COOPERATION TO JOINTLY DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT
WATER AND WATERSHED RESOURCES PROTECTION MEASURES,
GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY
WHEREAS, the Santa Clara Valley Water District ("SCVWD"), along with
representatives of the County of Santa Clara ("County"), the Cities in Santa Clara
County ("City," "Cities"), the Guadalupe-Coyote Resource Conservation District
("GCRCD"), the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, various
business and development interests, environmental and community
interests, and a representative of property owner's interests have formed and are members
of the Santa Clara Valley Water Resources Protection Collaborative ("Collaborative");
and,
WHEREAS, all Collaborative members share the water and watershed
resources protection goals of flood management, drinking water quality and
adequate quantity, surface and groundwater quality and quantity, and habitat
protection and enhancement; and
WHEREAS, it is recognized that the SCVWD, Cities and County through
Implementation of their National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
("NPDES") Permits, Best Management Practices and other means have
continuously acted to protect the watersheds, water quality and water resources
in Santa Clara County; and
WHEREAS, the SCVWD, Cities, County and GCRCD are committed to
furthering these goals through the implementation of existing policy, and the timely
adoption by the SCVWD, Cities and County of land development policy, guidelines and
standards developed collaboratively with other stakeholders; and
WHEREAS, in order to accomplish these goals, the Collaborative
recognizes the importance of the interests and principles of: delineation of
responsibility for administering collaboratively developed policies, guidelines,
and standards, as may be approved, to which SCVWD, County and City activities and
permit review shall conform; monitoring and accountability; and private creek-side
property owners; and
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WHEREAS, it is recognized that local control is the key principle to the
implementation of resource protection goals, that the Cities and the County are
the primary jurisdictions for land use planning and land use permit regulation; and
WHEREAS the broader stakeholder community has an important role in local
stewardship and enhanced resource protection; and
WHEREAS, the Collaborative has reached consensus on Foundational
Principles and Key Elements to guide cooperative efforts aimed at enhanced
water and watershed resources protection,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED to support the consensus of the
Santa Clara Valley Water Resources Protection Collaborative as set forth in the
Memorandum of Consensus to Jointly Develop and Implement Water and Watershed
Resources Protection Measures, Guidelines and Standards in Santa Clara County;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, to support the efforts of the staff representatives of the
Collaborative to develop and propose for future adoption by respective Boards of the
County and the SCVWD and the Councils of the Cities those water and watershed
resources protection measures, guidelines and standards that are developed in accordance
with the Memorandum of Consensus to Jointly Develop and Implement Water and
Watershed Resources Protection Measures, Guidelines and Standards in Santa Clara
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PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the
City of Saratoga on this 17th day of September 2003, by the following vote:
A YES: Councilmembers Kathleen King, Norman Kline,
Vice Mayor Ann Waltonsmith, Mayor Nick Streit
NOES: None
ABSENT: Councilmember Stan Bogosian
ABSTAIN: None
Nick Streit, Mayor
ity Clerk
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