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AGENDA ITEM TRANSMI7°TAL FORM
Meeting Date: Meefing Type: Regular Ordinance #:
2/13/14
Consent Agenda: No Resolution #: 8-14
Originating Department: Council Member Paterno
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RESOLUTION 8-14, EXPRESSING OPPOSITION TO THE SOUTHEAST FLORIDA REGIONAL
PARTNERSHIP REGIONAL VISIONING PROJECT KNOWN AS SEVEN/50; URGING THE PALM BEACH
COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO WITHDRAW PALM BEACH COUNTY'S
PARTICIPATION THEREIN
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RESOLUTION NO. 8-14
A RESOLUTION OF THE VII.LAGE COUNCIL OF 'I�HE VII.LAGE OF
TEQUESTA, FLORIDA, EXPRESSING OPPOSITION TO THE
SOUTHEAST FLORIDA REGIONAL PARTNERSI�P REGIONAL
VISIONING PIiOJECT KNOWN AS SEVEN/50; URGING THE PALM
BEACH COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMNIISSIONERS TO
WITHDRAW PALM BEACH COUNTY'S PARTICIPATION TFIEREIN;
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
WHEREAS, T`he Seven/50 Project is a federally funded regional project studying
"sustai.nable development"; and
WHEREAS, the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council, along with regional partners
from Monroe County up into Indian River County, and including Pa1m Bea.ch County, are
participants in the Seven/50 Project; and
WHEREAS, the principles and goals of the Seven/50 Project are based on the
implementa.tion of regional regulation and governance over, among other things, educa.tion and
workforce development, housing, transporta.tion, and environmental protection, wbich tend to
prefer the nurturing of the collective good at the expense of individual rights; and
WHEREAS, the Seven/50 Project model would result in regional planning being
controlled, domi.nated, and determined by non-local concerns and interests, aad no longer
controlled by locally elected municipal or county officials; and
WHEREAS, such a regulation and governance model is the antithesis to local "home
rule" authority granted to local governments by the Florida. Constitution.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Village Council of the Village of
Tequesta, Florida tha.t:
Section 1: The above recitals are hereby a.dopted and incorporated into this
Resolution.
Section 2: The Village Council of the Village of Tequesta hereby expresses its
opposition to the Seven/50 Project as an af&ont to constitutionally granted local home rule
authority.
Section 3: The Village Council of the Village of Tequesta. urges the Pa1m Beach
County Board of County Commissioners to withdraw Pa1m Bea.ch County's support of, and
participation in, the Seven/50 Project for the reasons set forth in tlus Resolution.
Section 4: The Village Clerk is hereby directed to provide a certified copy of this
Resolution to the Pa1m Beach County Board of County Commissioners.
Section 5: This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon adoption.