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HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 1949-1008 RESOLUTION NO. 1O08 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA REGARDIZ?G FORMATION OF AN IRRIGATION DISTRICT TO INCLUDE UNINCORPORATED AREAS ADJACENT TO THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA AND TEE CITY OF NATIONAL CITY. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA. VISTA, DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: WHEREAS the City of Chula Vista is now a member of the San Diego Water Authority, and presently is receiving an entitlement of Colorado River Water for domestic, industrial and agricultural uses; and WHEREAS it has been brought to the attention of said City Council that certain owners of land in the unincorporated areas of San Diego County, now served with water by the California Water and Telephone Company, Sweetwater Division, adjacent to the City of Chula Vista and the City of National City are desirous of forming an irrigation district pursuant to the provisions of the Div. 11, Part 2, Chapter 1, Article 1, Part 2 of the Water Code of the State of California, said district to include three alternative areas; as follows: (a) Said unincorporated areas, the City of Chula Vista and the City of National City; (b) said unincorporated areas and the City of Chula Vista; (c) said unincorporated areas; and WHEREAS said owners of land in said unincorporated areas intended upon the formation of either of such irrigation districts to request the admittance of such district into the said San Diego Water Authority to secure an entitle- ment of Colorado River Water; and WHEREAS the City of Chula Vista is presently the owner of an entitlement of approximately 4400 acre feet of Colorado River Water; and WHEREAS the City of National City is presently the owner of an entitle- ment of approximately 4000 acre feet of Colorado River Water; and WHEREAS the admission into the San Diego Water Authority of an irrigation district including said unincorporated areas will result in an increased entitle- ment to be owned by the proposed irrigation district in the anount of approxi- mately 1300 acre feet over and above the amounts now individually owned by the Cities of Chula Vista and National City; and - 1 - • WHEREAS the City Council has been informed that for the year 1948 the con- sumption of all water distributed by the said California Water and Telephone Company, Sweetwater Division, approximately amounted to 35.5% in the said unin- corporated areas and 62% in both of the said incorporated cities; and WHEREAS the City Council of the City of Chula Vista, after consultation with the City Attorney of the City of Chula Vista and competent consulting at- torneys, retained by said City, have carefully considered the above facts and makes the following determinations, which said City Council believes to be in the best interest of the residents and land owners of the City of Chula Vista: SECTION 1. Said City Council finds that the formation of an irrigation district to include only the unincorporated area now served with water by the California Water and Telephone Company, Sweetwater Division, pursuant to autho- rity heretofore granted by the California Public Utilities Commission, in order to receive an entitlement or allotment of Colorado River plater, would best serve the interest of the residents and land owners of the cities of Chula Vista, National City and said unincorporated area. SECTION 2. Said City Council finds the securing of such additional entitle- ment to be of great importance to both said cities and said unincorporated area. SECTION 3. If after a sincere and earnest effort to form an irrigation dis- trict to include only the said unincorporated areas, it becomes apparent that it is impossible to form an irrigation district to include only the area described in Section 1 hereof, the City Council of the City of Chula Vista determines that it is to the best interests of the residents and. land owners of the City of Chula Vista that an irrigation district be formed to include the cities of Chula Vista, National City and said adjacent unincorporated area. SECTION 4. That the City Council of the City of Chula Vista determines that it is not to the best interests of the residents of the City of Chula Vista that such a district be formed to include only the City of Chula Vista and said adja- cent unincorporated areas. SECTION 5. That the said determinations of the City Council of the City of Chula Vista are based upon the following facts, in addition to the above recitals, which the said City Council believes to be true: - 2 - (a) That an irrigation district which would include the two cities and the unincorporated areas would receive a greater entitlement of Colorado River Water than the two cities are now receiving. (b) That it would be now difficult and undesirable to withhold from the said unincorporated areas Colorado River Water now being received, and now owned, by the said cities as members of the San Diego County Water Authority. That it has always been the objeftive of the City of Chula Vista to work in close harmony with adjacent unincorporated areas. (c) That the welfare of the residents of the City of Chula Vista is closely related to the prosperity and security of unincorporated areas adjacent to the City of Chula Vista. (d) That the City of Chula Vista anticipates that acquisition of the water distribution facilities of the California Tlater and Telephone Company may in the future become expedient or necessary by joint action of„the City of Chula Vista and the City of National City, and that for that reason no one of the said cities should alone be included in any such proposed irrigation district. (e) That by joining an irrigation district together with such adjacent unincorporated areas the City of Chula Vista would lose its present ownership of water and pool the same with the smaller acquisition contributed by the unincor- porated areas all of which may in the future be needed and used by such unincor- porated areas as the same develop. This is especially possible in view of the predominantly agriculture development which is most likely to take place in the said unincorporated areas. (f) That the creation of an irrigation district to include the City of Chula Vista results automatically in the creation of a taxing agency which will result in an additional tax burden upon the taxpayers of the City of Chula Vista, the amount of which in the future is not now foreseeable. ADOPTED, SIGNED AND APPROVED this 22nd day of March 1949. Mayor of th ity of Chula Vista, California. ATTEST: 2,441; Fa / Citr Clerk of the lt�,'of Chula Vista, Califor' a. - 3 STATE OF CALIFORNIA) COUTNT'Y OF SAN DIEGO) s s. CITY OF CHULA VISTA) I, HERBERT V. BRYAINNT, City Clerk of the City of Chula Vista, California, DO HEREBY CMRTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by the City Council of the said City and was approved by the Mayor of said City at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 22nd day of Match, 1949, and that it was -so adopted by the following votes: AYES: COUNCIIU10 meson - K drier Roester -Ri. s1 nd� N'aSlioLds NOES: COUNCII2 N None. ABSENT: • COUNCILMEN None. 416-/ArialKilrleild • City Clerk of the City Chula Vista, Californi-. - 4