Resolution 174-1988
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Mayor Gene Lytton
RESOLUTION NO. 174 -1988
WHEREAS, the Secretary of the Department of the Interior is
again proposing the inclusion of portions of the Florida Keys in
the Coastal Barriers Resources System, and
WHEREAS, the designation as barrier islands would forever
and in perpetuity preclude the issuance of flood insurance in
those areas so designated, and
WHEREAS, the designation as barrier islands would forever
and in perpetuity preclude federal disaster recovery fund
expenditures in those areas so designated, and
WHEREAS, the areas contemplated for designation do not in
any way whatsoever conform to the established and accepted
definition of barrier islands in the scientific community, and
WHEREAS, the Florida Keys are not isolated and barren but in
fact contain a thriving community of approximately 70,000
citizens, and
WHEREAS, over 92% of the land mass in Monroe County is in
some form of public ownership with an extremely large portion of
that majority in various forms of preservation, and
WHEREAS, Monroe County has enacted very stringent Land
Management Regulations that impose extreme open space ratios on
the miniscule percentage of land mass remaining in private
ownership, now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, as follows:
1. That the Board of County Commissioners does hereby
reaffirm its total and absolute opposition to the designation of
ANY PORTION of the Florida Keys as barrier islands.
2. That the Board of County Commissioners does hereby seek
and implore the Honorable Governor, State of Florida, its
Legislative Delegation, the Honorable Larry Plummer and Ron
Saunders and its Congressional Delegation, the Honorable Lawton
Chiles, United States Senator, the Honorable Robert Graham,
United States Senator and the Honorable Dante Fasce11, Member of
Congress to actively and publicly oppose the proposal of the U.S.
Department of the Interior to designate portions of the Florida
Keys as barrier islands.
3. That copies of this Resolution be spread to the
individuals indicated in Section 2, above, and to the Secretary,
U.S. Department of the Interior, and the Chairman of the Coastal
Barriers Study Group - National Park Service.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of
Monroe County, Florida, at a regular meeting of said Board held
on the 19th day of April, A.D. 1988.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
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MAY CHAIRMAN
(SEAL)
Attest :DANNX 1.. KOLH.AGE, Clerk
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