HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution_32-97/98_07/23/1998 RESOLUTION NO. 32 - 97/98
A RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF
THE VILLAGE OF TEQUESTA, PALM BEACH
COUNTY, FLORIDA, REQUESTING THE PALM
BEACH COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS TO MODIFY THE COUNTRY CLUB
DRIVE RIGHT -OF -WAY FROM EIGHTY FEET TO
FIFTY FEET ON THE PALM BEACH COUNTY
THOROUGHFARE IDENTIFICATION MAP WITH THE
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENTS ANTICIPATED
IN COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT ROUND
99 -1.
WHEREAS, the Palm Beach County Comprehensive Plan in the
Traffic Element contains the Thoroughfare Identification
Map which indicates Country Club Drive right -of -way to be
eighty feet; and
WHEREAS, the Country Club Drive right -of -way is
maintained by the Village of Tequesta; and
WHEREAS, the Village of Tequesta through its f
Comprehensive Plan and other actions has taken
appropriate steps to indicate the right -of -way for
Country Club Drive to be fifty feet and has placed
irrevocable easements totaling thirty feet in width to
effectively minimize the right -of -way available for f
roadway purposes on Country Club Drive to be fifty feet;
and
WHEREAS, Country Club Drive is bounded by single - family
• homes on each side of the roadway; and
WHEREAS, traffic traversing on Country Club Drive has
increased over the years and is anticipated to increase
in the future with new development primarily external to
the Village of Tequesta; and
i WHEREAS, residents of the Village of Tequesta are j
concerned that anticipated increases in traffic may give
rise to Palm Beach County proceeding with four - laning
Country Club Drive despite the intentions of the Village
to the contrary, since said roadway appears on Palm Beach
County's Thoroughfare Identification Map as having eighty
feet of right -of -way which can facilitate the provision
of five lanes within such right -of -way.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF
THE VILLAGE OF TEQUESTA, PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA, AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The foregoing recitals are hereby ratified
and confirmed.
Section 2. The Village Council of the Village of
Tequesta hereby requests that the Palm Beach County Board
of County Commissioners take the necessary steps to
reduce the available right -of -way pertaining to Country
• Club Drive from the current listed eighty feet to fifty
feet to be indicated upon the Thoroughfare Identification
Map.
Section 3. The Palm Beach County Board of County
Commissioners are requested to make said change in the
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anticipated Comprehensive Plan Amendments scheduled with
round 99 -1 in calendar year 1999.
Section 4. The Village Manager or his designee is hereby
requested to forward copies of this Resolution to the
Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners, the
County Administrator for Palm Beach County, and Traffic
Engineer Charles Walker, Palm Beach County, the Tequesta
Country Club Community Association, and the Tequesta
Country Club Point Property Owners' Association.
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THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION WAS OFFERED by Councilmember
Mackail , who moved its adoption. The motion
was seconded by Councilmember Hansen , and upon
being put to a vote, the vote was as follows:
FOR ADOPTION AGAINST ADOPTION
Alexander W. Cameron
Carl C. Hansen
Ron T. Mackail
Elizabeth A. Schauer
The Mayor thereupon declared the Resolution duly passed
and adopted this 23rd day of July, A.D., 1998.
MAY OF Z'TA
Elizabeth A. Schauer
ATTEST:
J ann Mangani to
Village Clerk
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