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RESOLUTION N0. 4650
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA
OPPOSING H.R. BILL 12142, TITLE VIII, SECTION 801, AND
URGING THE MODIFICATION OF SAID BILL
The City Council of the City of Chula Vista does hereby
resolve as follows:
WHEREAS, the City Board of Appeals, by Resolution No. 13,
adopted on December 11, 1967, has recommended that the City Council
oppose H.R. Bill 12142, Title VIII, Section 801, for the following
reasons:
1. H.R. 12142 would reduce the building and housing code
requirements for low cost housing, thereby creating potential slum
areas and endangering the public welfare;
2. H.R. 12142 would make the Section of. Housing and Urban
Development a one-person code writing body;
3. If H.R. 12142 is passed, cities would be required within
three years to adopt these lesser housing requirements or they would
not be eligible for any of the Federal subsidy, aid or assistance pro-
grams including F.H.A. insured mortgages. This is complete federal
control of local construction;
4. H.R. 12142 is not needed and this was evidenced in a recent
HUD demonstration project which reported that substantial savings are
not necessarily made by removing the present building code restrictions,
and the present code requirements for fire resistance of apartment
buildings are not excessive;, and
WHEREAS, the City Council, having reviewed the recommendations
of the City Board of Appeals and examined H.R. 12142, concurs in the
opposition to said bill as presently written, and feels that the attempt
to develop a building code appropriate to the needs of all the variable
local communities throughout the United States is both totally impractical
and unwarranted intrusion into a matter which is the subject of local
regulatory devices.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the
City of Chula Vista does hereby oppose H.R. Bill 12142, Title VIII,
Section 801, and urges the appropriate modification of said bill.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk of the City of Chula
Vista be, and he is hereby directed to forward certified copies of this
resolution to the Honorable Senator Thomas Kuchel, the Honorable Senator
George Murphy, the Honorable Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin, the Honor-
able Congressman Bob Wilson.
Presented bey Ppproved as to form by
C E'. _ ~: ~ Grady, r,.~,' hief of George D Lindberg , City Atto
Building and Hou~'ng
ADG?Trr A?"D pPPR~ ~'ED by the CITY COLTr'CIL of the CITv fir, C'_'t;"L.~ ~`; ~~ 1
CAL1FORi-IA. this _ 2nd day or January , 1968 '~v the rolt~-.~in,~ ,~;~a~~-~~
to-fait ;
AYr."': Councilmen McAllister, flparling, McCorquodale, Anderson, Sylvester
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P~ ?'r;FF.?'' CL'nT_T_FY that the above and foregoing is a full, true anal corr=~r..r c;~n-~ ~,;
and that the same has nom ree-~ n-;;~d.d
or rp`aled.
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