HomeMy WebLinkAbout431 - Urging County's Recognition as Metropolitan AreaRESOLUTION N0, 431
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA
URGING THE RECOGNITION OF ORANGE COUNTY AS A METROPOLITAN
AREA BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
WHEREAS, Orange County, California, has grown into a great meitropolitan
Larea with a population of more than 600,000, and
WHEREAS, the City of Costa Mesa, largest of the coastal cities within the
County, has attained urban character, and three nearby inland cities each have more
than 50,000 population, with a fourth adjoining city approaching a population of
50,000, and
WHEREAS, Census Tracts now on file with the Federal Government verify the
urban character of Orange County, and
WHEREAS, surveys by the California State Department of Employment show
when employment in the county to be more than 125,000, and
WHEREAS, the California State Department of Employment has seen fit to
recognize Orange County as part of what it now describes as the "Los Angeles - Long
Beach - Orange County Labor Market Area", and
WHEREAS, Orange County has grown from a population of 216,000 at the time
of the last county -wide Federal Census in 1950 to mw a than 600,000 today - as proven
by more recent Federal Censuses taken city -by -city and reasonable estimates of the
population in unincorporated county area - thus making Orange County the "fastest
growing county in our Nation's fastest growing State", and
WHEREAS, the designation of "Standard Metropolitan Areas" across the country
started with the 1950 Federal Census and the list has been added to, year by year, as
areas qualified for .such recognition, and
WHEREAS, Orange County is now included as part of the "Los Angeles - Long
Beach" Metropolitan Area without being mentioned as part of that area in official
Federal Government reports, and
WHEREAS, business and industry lookto the Federal Metropolitan Area reports
for valuable information on markets, production and employment, and
would give recognition to Orange.. County as a Metropolitan Area in its frequent reports
on such areas.
WHEREAS,
Orange
County's
growth .and
advantages as a site for industrial and
tradeexpansion
would be
better
known across
the country if the Federal Government
would give recognition to Orange.. County as a Metropolitan Area in its frequent reports
on such areas.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Committee on Standard Metropolitan
Areas, Bureau of the Budget, Office of the President of the United States, be, and
said committee is hereby, urged to recognise the development that has taken place in
Orange County in the past seven years by officially designating Orange County as one
of the "Standard Metropolitan Areas" of the nation, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we
1. Compliment the Honorable Thomas H. Kuchel, United States Senator, for
his forthright stand in urging such recognition for Orange County.
2. Compliment the Honorable Goodwin J. Knight, Governor of California,
for his action in including mention of our county in the designation
of the Los Angeles - Long Beach - Orange County Metropolitan Area in
Department of Labor reports.
3. Compliment the Honorable James M. Utt, Representative in Congress, for
his stand in favor of separate statistical reporting for Orange County.
4. Compliment the Honorable William F. Knowland, United States Senator, for
the action he has taken in forwarding to the eamnittee on Standard
Metropolitan Areas up-to-date information on Orange County.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we, through copies of this Resolution, urge our
elected representatives in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United
States, and the Vice -President and President of the United States, to assist in seaming
for Orange County the recognition to which it is entitled as a "Standard Metropolitan
Area",
PASSED AND ADOPTED, this 17th day of December, 1957.
&ofUheityIf' Costa Mee,
ATTEST:
City Clerk of the City Costa Mesa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS.
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, A. C. SWARTZ, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa, do hereby certify
that the above and foregoing Resolution No. 431 was duly and regularly passed and adopt-
ed at an adjourned regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, held
on the 17th day of December, 1957, by a unanimous vote of the members thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the
City of Costa Mesa this 18th day of December, 1957.
City Clerk and ex -officio VlerT of the
City Council of the City of Costa Mesa
By , /� ' / ` i/
Chief Deputy