HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 059-1973RESOLUTION NO. 59-1973
RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, REQUESTING THE REPEAL
OF TIIE FLORIDA STATE COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING ACT
AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAND AND WATER MANAGEMENT ACT
OF 1972; OPPOSITION TO THE PROPOSED FLORIDA STATE
MULTI -PLANNING COMMISSION ACT OF 1973
WHEREAS, the Florida State Comprehensive Planning Act of 1972
authorized: (a) the establishment of particular geographical boundaries
within the State of Florida (ostensively for the purpose of state agency
planning) and, (b) the creation of the Division of State Planning to
coordinate these regions; and
WHEREAS, the Governor and his administration have divided the State
of Florida into ten multi -county regions or "sub'=states" in which appointed
regional councils and agents will assume authority previously and properly
reserved to elected municipal and county officials, and will assume control
and regulation over land, business, developments, utilities, production,
services, property and people, which control and regulation has never been
delegated to any government by the people of Florida; and
WHEREAS, the Florida State Comprehensive Planning Act of 1972 and
its companion bill, the Florida Environmental Land and Water Management Act
of 1972, together with a funding bill to be intorduced in the 1973 legislative
sess 6nF'�to be known as the Florida State Multi=County Planning Commissions Act
of 1973 will establish Regional Government in the State of Florida; and
ITHBREAS, the ten regional divisions of the State of Florida dna their
respective regional councils correspond in function and regulation with the
recent division of the United States into ten federal regions by virtue of
Executive Order 11647 - Federal Regional Councils promulgated by the President
on February 12, 1972; and
Wi-IEREAS, the Federal Region - Sub -State regional government system
will seize the power and authority which properly belongs to municipal and
county governments and even to sovereign states, and will bypass these traditional
and constitutional governmental bodies, and will usurp the rights and freedoms
of individual citizens guaranteed by the Constitution of the State of Florida
and the Constitution of the United States of America.
NOW, THEREFORE, -BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COKfIISSIONERS
OF 14ONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, that:
Section 1. The above recitals are adopted.
Section 2. The Florida State Comprehensive Planning Act of 1972
and the Florida Environmental Land and Water D4anagement Act of 1972 are
hereby requested to be repealed.
Section 3. Opposition is declared to the passage of the proposed
Florida State Multi -County Planning Commissions Act of 1973.
Section 4. Request is made for the creation of a:joint committee
of the Florida House of Representatives and Senate to conduct an investiga-
tion into regional government, particularly as it usurps the power,
jurisdiction and authority of local governmental bodies.
Section 5. A copy of this resolution shall be forwarded to the
Legislative Delegation for A,Ionroe County and to the State Association of
County Commissioners.
DATED May 8, 1973
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