HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 1991-46RESOLUTION 91-46
A RESOLUTION REQUESTING A SEAT ON
THE BREVARD METROPOLITAN PLANNING
ORGANIZATION FOR THE CITY OF CAPE
CANAVERAL; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE
DATE.
WHEREAS, the Brevard Metropolitan Planning Organization is
responsible for the management'of a continuing, cooperative and
comprehensive transportation planning- process by means of a
cooperative decision making forum; and
WHEREAS, the Brevard Metropolitan Planning Organization is
responsible for initiating federally aided and other transportation
facilities and improvements including transit, rail, aviation and
port facilities; and
WHEREAS, the Brevard Metropolitan. Planning Organization is
responsible for developing an annually updated transportation
improvement plan to include long range goals in transportation
system management measures to identify improvements recommended
during the five (5) subsequent state fiscal years and to indicate
consistency with port, aviation and public transit
master /development plans; and
WHEREAS, the Florida Statutes which govern the Brevard
Metropolitan Planning Organization recognize that modes of
transportation other than highway and mass transportation. including .
air, intracity rail, water and pipeline have a'material impact on
future land use in transportation, accessibility of, urbanized
areas; and
WHEREAS, the Florida Statutes which govern the Brevard
Metropolitan Planning Organization provide for a method by which
the Metropolitan Planning Organization may appoint, as one of its
apportioned voting members, .a municipality; and
WHEREAS, the City of Cape Canaveral is located'in a geographic
area that is affected by the transportation process like no other
entity in the county; and
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WHEREAS, the City of Cape Canaveral,` being a neighbor to the
Port Canaveral, which is the largest zone of imports and exports in
Central Florida, all related to transportation needs; and
WHEREAS, in the last fifty (50) years, no- .transportation plan
has created the concern by region such as the Orlando Airport /Port
Canaveral Rail System has generated; and
-WHEREAS, currently an air transportation heliport system is
being developed with Port Canaveral for freight and passenger
transportation; and
WHEREAS, Port Canaveral is rapidly growing and each year an
impact is made to the geographic area in .which the City of Cape
Canaveral is located without representation of the residents,of
the geographical area; and
WHEREAS, the City of Cape Canaveral Is located near the
world's largest and newest space transportation facility, the
Kennedy Space Center, and the City of Cape Canaveral is the one
zoned region for homes in the geographical area; and
WHEREAS, the City of Cape Canaveral feels that the northend
of the barrier island and the County District #2 need serious
consideration of planning and decision making in the transportation
area, especially in the controversial AlA Road network, the only
access to the Brevard beaches and tourism related businesses; and
WHEREAS, the City of Cape Canaveral is the closest beach to
Orlando and Orange County; and
WHEREAS, major arteries pass through the City of Cape
Canaveral or by the City, such has State Route 5`2.8', State Route 520
and AlA; and
WHEREAS, the City of Cape Canaveral also has water.related
issues such as river, ocean, beach erosion, .waste water and potable
water.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED
SECTION 1. That the City of Cape Canaveral, by and through
the City Council, hereby requests upcoming realignment and
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reapportionment of the Brevard County Metropolitan Planning
Organization to include it, the City of Cape Canaveral, as a full
voting member of such body.
SECTION 2. That this resolution shall take effect
immediately upon its adoption.
ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Cape Canaveral,
Florida, this. 15th day of October , 1991.
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