HomeMy WebLinkAbout1977-033RESOLUTION NO, 77 -33
WHEREAS, the United States Congress enacted the Coastal Zone
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Management Act of 1972; and
® WHEREAS, the Congress found that the key to more effective protection
and use of the land and water resources of the coastal zone is to encourage
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the states to exercise their full authority over the lands and waters in
the coastal zones by assisting the states, in cooperation with federal
and local governments and other vitally affected interests, in developing
land and water use programs for the coastal zone, including unified
policies, criteria, standards, methods, and processes for dealing with
land and water use decisions of more than local significance; and
WHEREAS, the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation has been
recommended by the Governor's Task Force on Development of a State
Organizational Structure .for Coastal Zone Management to be the new
controlling (Section 306) agency of the State of Florida's Coastal Zone
Management Program; and
WHEREAS, the Florida Department of Natural Resources, as the State
of Florida's present controlling (Section 305) agency of the Coastal
Zone Management Program, has displayed a history of responsive co-
operation with local and regional agencies, particularly with technical
and financial assistance; and
WHEREAS, the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation has
developed a recent trend toward a centralized departmental policy-making
process, decreasing its recognition and utilization of the local and
regional agencies' expertise; and
WHEREAS, if the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation
were assigned the responsibility of the Coastal Zone Management
Program, the Department would have both regulatory and certification
power, negating balances necessary for responsive control; and
WHEREAS, The Congress finds and declares, through paragraph b.
of the Declaration of Policy of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972,
that it is the national policy to encourage and assist the states to
exercise effectively their responsibilities in the coastal zone through
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the development and implementation of management: programs to advise
wise use of the land and water resources of the coastal zone giving
full consideration to ecological, cultural, historic, and aesthetic
values as well as to needs for economic development; and
WHEREAS, the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation has
a mandated responsibility to be primarily ecologically concerned which
in turn represents a potential conflict to the Coastal Zone Management
Act's intent to ensure a balance between the ecological and economic
concerns within the coastal zone areas; and
WHEREAS, the Governor's Task Force on Development of a State
Organizational Structure for Coastal Zone Management established to
review the organization status of the State of Florida's Coastal
Zone Management Program, dial not directly solicit input from the local
and regional agencies presently charged with developing Coastal Zone
Management Programs for their locales and regions.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, that the Board strongly recommends that
the Governor ensure the continuity of the State of Florida's Coastal
Zone Management Program through the guarantee of State cooperation
with local and regional agencies, the guarantee of a proper balance
between regulation and certification, and the guarantee of a proper balance
between ecological and economic concerns, by maintaining the control of the
program within the assigned responsibilities of the Florida Department of
Natural Resources.
DONE, ORDERED AND ADOPTED, in Regular Session this 23rd day
of March 1977.
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Freda Wright, Cler
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA
William C, Wodtke, A.
Chairman
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