HomeMy WebLinkAboutContracts & Agreements_16-1965A G R E E M E N T
August 24, 1964
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THIS AGREEMENT, by and between such counties of the follow-
ing: Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside and Ventura,.
as shall execute this agreement in accordance with its terms, the
Southern California Rapid Transit District, and the California
Highway Transportation Agency, acting through its Department of
Public Works, and such cities in the area defined in Part I below
as shall ratify this agreement in accordance with its terms.
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Congress has added Section 134 to Chapter 1
of Title 23, United States Code, declaring it to be in the
national interest to encourage and promote the development of
transportation systems embracing various modes of transport,
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in a manner that will serve the states and local communities
efficiently and effectively, and which are based on a continuing
,comprehensive transportation planning process carried on co-
operatively by states and local communities.
WHEREAS, comprehensive planning for urban development is
Ineeded on a continuing basis and is consistent with national
(policy as expressed in Section 701 of the Housing Act of 1954,
!as amended, and
WHEREAS, the comprehensive character of the planning process
requires inventories and analyses of the following basic elements:]
1 Economic factors affecting development;
2 Population;
3 Land Use;
4 Transportation facilities;
5 Travel patterns;
6 Terminal facilities;
7 Traffic control features;
8 Zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations,
building codes, etc;
(9 Financial resources;
(10 Social and community -value factors, such as
preservation of open space, parks and recrea-
tional facilities; preservation of historical
sites and buildings; environmental amenities;
and aesthetics; and
WHEREAS, Federal -aid highway funds may be available for
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financing transportation elements of the planning studies, and
WHEREAS, Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency and local
agency matching funds or services may be available for financing
economic, demographic, and land use elements of the planning
studies.
NOW THEREFORE, the signatory and the ratifying parties do
agree as follows:
I. The intent of this agreement is to provide organiza-
tional and working arrangements for a continuing,
coordinated, comprehensive transportation planning
process in the Los Angeles Regional Transportation
Study (LARTS) area delineated on the attached map
and made a part hereof.
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A. As a forum for broad policy considerations and
recommendations .relating thereto there is herewith
established an AREA COORDINATING COMMITTEE.
B. Initial membership of this committee shall consist
of:
(1) A member of the Board of Supervisors or
designate of each county executing this
agreement,
(2) A member of the City Council or designate of
each City ratifying this agreement,
(3) Administrator or designate of the State
Highway Transportation Agency,
(4) A designate of the Southern California
Rapid Transit District.
C. A meeting of the Area Coordinating Committee shall
be held upon written notification by the
Administrator of the Highway Transportation Agency
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acting for the signatory parties jointly. This
meeting shall take place within 60 days of the
date of the execution of this agreement by the
Highway Transportation Agency. At this meeting,
the Area Coordinating Committee shall:
(1) determine rules for the conduct of its
business,
(2) determine the means of, augmenting membership
of the AREA COORDINATING COMMITTEE, the
REGIONAL COUNCIL OF PLANNING, and the REGIONAL
COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING, established by
part III,A and IV,A of this agreement, to
represent such other agencies public or
private as the committee may deem to be in
the public interest,
(3) consider the establishment of a citizens'
advisory committee and make such provisions
for action as it deems appropriate,
(4) consider the establishment of an Executive
Board to act for and in behalf of the AREA
COORDINATING COMMITTEE.
A. The counties signing this agreement and the cities
ratifying this agreement do hereby agree,
specifically, to the establishment of, and do
hereby establish, a REGIONAL COUNCIL OF PLANNING
composed, initially, of the Planning Directors
(or equivalent) of each of the counties and each
of the cities. They do further agree that this
REGIONAL,COUNCIL OF PLANNING may be augmented by
the AREA COORDINATING COMMITTEE as provided for
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in part II,C,(2) of this agreement.
This Council will consider the establishment
of an Executive Committee to act for and in behalf
of the REGIONAL COUNCIL OF PLANNING.
B. This Council is authorized to enlist the services
of technical planning personnel to perform regional
planning coordinating functions specified in
Item E below. The functions specified are in no
way intended to usurp or impinge upon the planning
responsibility for any phase of planning for any
agency with planning authority, in or beyond the
study area, but are intended only to accomplish
a meaningful coordination of local planning
activities.
C. Services of such personnel will be enlisted from
the staffs of local agencies solely on the basis
of specific and voluntary agreement of such local
agencies, with no commitment in this regard being
intended or implied by execution or ratification
of this agreement by any party.
D. This Council is authorized to investigate
possibilities for financing the services of
personnel referred to above in performing regional
coordinating planning functions specified. Such
possibilities will include, but need not be limited
to, Housing and Home Finance Agency 701 grants in
aid. This Council may make recommendations to the
Area Coordinating Committee established in part II
hereof; as to administrative arrangements and/or
agreements by which financing of the services
specified may be accomplished, but utilization of
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voluntary services for performance of specified
functions is not to be construed as necessarily
contingent upon securing such financial assistance.
E. Specified Functions:
(1) To coordinate and relate the work and results
of land use planning under way in the region
in order to develop a composite regional
land use plan and future land use estimates
by assimilation of local planning components.
(2) To coordinate local plans and future estimates
and, in the process, identify regional problem
areas,
(3) Through such coordinating activities attempt
to provide an adequate base of quantitative
and policy information in order that data
input for such studies as the LARTS Study
(Section VI) that may be based thereon will
be responsive to, and reflect the desires
and plans of, local jurisdictions:
(a) Develop future estimates and spatial
distributions of population, employment
and dwelling units by type, with due
regard for economic factors and forces
affecting growth and development.
(b) Analyze, and evaluate control regulations
(zoning, subdivision regulations, building
codes, etc.) for impact, consistency,
compatibility, etc., as a basis for
recommendations and as a basis for im-
provement in growth prediction.techniques.
(c) Consider such social and community -value
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IV.
factors as open space, recreational
facilities, historical sites, environ-
mental amenities and aesthetic considera-
tions in relation to growth, development,
and improvement programs, including
circulation systems, in a regional frame
of reference, and make evaluations and
recommendations relating thereto.
A. The counties signing this agreement, and the cities
ratifying this agreement do hereby agree, specifi-
cally, to the establishment of, and do hereby
establish, a REGIONAL COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING, to be
composed, initially, of either the County Road
Commissioner or Director of Public Works, or the
City Engineer (or equivalent) of each of the
counties, and each of the cities, respectively,
and do further agree that the Council may be
augmented by the Area Coordinating Committee as
provided in part II,C(2) of this agreement. They
do further agree, however, that the Area
Coordinating Committee, at the meeting referred to
in Part II,C, of this agreement, or at any later
meeting, may designate the Metropolitan Trans-
portation Engineering Board in lieu of the above
Regional Council of Engineering, for performance
of functions specified below. This Council will
consider the establishment of an Executive Committee
to act for and in behalf of the Regional Council
of Engineering.
B. The Council is to perform regional engineering and
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coordinating functions of the type specified In
Item C below. The functions specified are in no
way intended to usurp or impinge upon the
responsibility of any phase of engineering for any
agency with this authority, but are intended only
to accomplish a meaningful coordination of com-
prehensive transportation planning in the LARTS
area.
C. Specified Functions:
(1) The review and updating of circulation systems,
their physical and operational characteristics,
traffic control devices and related regula-
tions.
(2) The review, updating, and estimation of future
requirements for terminal and transfer
facilities, including all forms of parking
facilities at major centers.
(3) The review, analysis, and application of
traffic engineering features, including
techniques and regulations, aimed at maximum
safety and utilization of circulation systems.
(4) The updating, review, and analysis of past,
present, and planned disbursements for circu-
lation systems, in relation to source and
adequacy of revenues, revenue laws, and their
expenditure provisions.
(5) The review and coordination of such other
engineering activities as may be necessary
to the transportation planning process.
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V.
A. The valuable contribution of the existing LARTS
Advisory Committee (and Study .Director) to
cooperative, coordinated transportation planning
in the area is acknowledged and the jurisdictions
authorizing present representation thereon are
respectfully invited to continue this representa-
tion in order that the Committee may perform its
necessary continuing function within the framework
established by this agreement.
B. This committee is requested to continue to actively
coordinate general planning and transportation
planning aspects of the continuing planning process
at the operational level:
(1) To review and evaluate the results of studies
undertaken jointly or separately by LARTS or
the Regional Council of Planning or the
Regional Council of Engineering, or both;
(2) To advise and make recommendations with regard
to proposed studies, to either the preceding
groups or the Area Coordinating Committee as
appropriate;
(3) To base their recommendations upon the members'
intimate knowledge of the operational procedures
and working arrangements by which planning
and/or engineering is accomplished in the area;
(4) To provide liaison between the LARTS, the
Regional Council of Planning, the Regional
Council of Engineering and other such broadly
based representative groups.
(5) To assist in development and presentation of
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VI.
an effective information program aimed at
official and public understanding and
legislative and technical support.
A. The technical accomplishments of the Los Angeles
Regional Transportation Study (LARTS) are
acknowledged by the parties hereto,and the
California Department of Public Works, by
execution of this agreement,does agree to the
continuation of the LARTS which will provide the
means whereby the inventories and analyses of the
transportation elements of the coordinated com-
prehensive planning process may be accomplished.
The continued financial and technical participation
of the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads and the Housing
and Home Finance Agency will be sought, as well as
the technical counsel of the Automotive Safety
Foundation.
B. The District Engineer, District VII, Division of
Highways, shall continue to serve as Study Director
of the Los Angeles Regional Transportation Study,
shall be responsible for the staffing and direction
of the Study, and will make periodic reports to the
LARTS.Advisory Committee and the Area Coordinating
Committee,
C. The transportation elements to be inventoried and
analysed will include, but will not necessarily be
limited to,
(1) Transportation facilities including informal,
tion on physical features and operational
characteristics,
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(2) travel patterns, current and projected., by
mode and purpose,
(3) terminal and transfer facilities, their
adequacy and effectiveness, and relation to
present and future land use,
(4) traffic engineering and control features and
their relation to capacities of existing and
future facilities.
D. The LARTS will provide study procedures for
investigating the region as a whole, while retain-
ing the identity of, and data pertaining to,
Individual local communities; it will offer methods
and means whereby more effective community and
regional transportation and general planning may be
realized.
VII. This agreement may be ratified by any city wholly or
partially within the LARTS area, as defined herein,
which shall by resolution of its governing body agree
to be bound by its provisions and deposit a certified
copy of such resolution with the Director of Public Works,'
State of California. In the event of such ratification,
the Director of Public Works shall Forthwith notify al],
other parties.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the initial parties have
,executed this agreement by their respective officers, duly
authorized, on the dates indicated.
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RESOLUTION NO. 2408
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA
IN THE MATTER OF RATIFICATION OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN DEPARTMENT
OF PUBLIC WORKS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTIES OF LOS
ANGELES, ORANGE, SAN BERNARDINO, RIVERSIDE, VENTURA, SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT, RATIFYING CITIES, ET AL
The City Council of the City of Redlands hereby resolves:
That the agreement dated August 24, 1964, between the
Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, San Bernardino,
Riverside, the California Highway Transportation Agency, the
Southern California Rapid Transit District, and such cities
as shall ratify the agreement in accordance with its terms,
which provide organizational and working arrangements for a
continuing coordinated comprehensive transportation planning
process in the Los Angeles Regional Transportation Study area,
is herewith ratified effective the date of execution of the
agreement by the Department of Public Works; and the City
Clerk of the City of Redlands is authorized to deposit a certi-
fied copy of this resolution with the Department of public
Works, State of California, as provided in said agreement.
Adopted, Signed and Approved this day of
1964.
ATTEST:
APPROVED FOR FORM:
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s/ Edward_ F. TaXlor---
City Attorney
s/_ Waldo F. Burroughs
Mayor of•the City of Redlands