Resolution 13110CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 13110
SUPPORTING BAY TRAIL PLAN
WHEREAS, the Bay Area is a special place to live, in
large part because of the close inter-relationship of cities with
the San Francisco Bay; and
WHEREAS, in 1989 the Association of Bay Area Governments
(ABAG) adopted a plan for a biking and hiking route that would
circle San Francisco Bay, providing connections to existing parks,
open space and other recreation facilities and creating links to
existing and proposed transportation facilities while avoiding
adverse effects on the environment of the bay; and
WHEREAS, the plan for this route - which became known as
the Bay Trail - was developed over a two year process by an
advisory committee to ABAG that included representatives from a
broad range of interests, including Federal, State, regional and
local government agencies, environmental and recreational
organizations, private landowners and business interests; and
WHEREAS, according to the plan, the Bay Trail when
complete will be a continuous 400-mile hiking and biking corridor
that will link all nine Bay Area counties, pass through 47 cities
(including Alameda), and cross major toll bridges in the region;
and
WHEREAS, to date, half the ultimate length of the Bay
Trail has been developed including many popular segments such as
those through the Bay Farm Island shoreline parks and along Crown
Memorial State Beach that provide inexpensive recreation, exercise
and sightseeing opportunities; offer a transportation alternative;
serve as a ',petting for environmental education and wildlife
viewing; and incrase access to the outdoors, the Bay and numerous
points of interet-it; and
WHEREAS, to mark the 10th anniversary of the adoption of
the Bay Trail plan, ABAG has requested the Alameda City Council to
adopt this resolution of support.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the
City of Alameda hereby supports the Bay Trail Plan and the efforts
of the public agencies, trail groups, private sector institutions,
and individuals who are working through the ABAG to bring this
trail into reality.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk is hereby
directed to forward a Certified Copy of this Resolution to Mary
King, ABAG President and Alameda County Supervisor.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly
adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in regular meeting assembled on
the 15th day of June , 1999, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers DeWitt, Johnson, Kerr and Acting Mayor
Daysog - 4.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Mayor Appezzato -
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City this
16th day of June , 1999.
Diane Feisch, Cit.!' Clerk
City of Alameda