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RESOLUTION NO. 1113 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS OPPOSING LAND USE CONTROLS IN THE AIR QUALITY MANAGE- MENT PROGRAM OF THE ABAG ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN WHEREAS, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Clean Air Act as well ascertain State laws require that ABAG adopt an Environmental Management Plan; and, WHEREAS, the proposed plan incorporates a regional land use policy; and, WHEREAS, a regional land use policy is not a requirement of the aforementioned State and Federal Acts; and, WHEREAS, the Air Quality Maintenance Plan has sufficient broad goals to accomplish the air quality aspects of the plan without a regional land use policy; and, WHEREAS, regional land use controls are unnecessary complexities in air quality management and can be counter productive and cumbersome, thereby defeating the effectiveness of the Air Quality Maintenance Plan; and, WHEREAS, these land use policies will open local land use to regional, State and Federal interference and dictates, thus depriving individuals of their self-governing rights; and, WHEREAS, regional, State or Federal land use controls will destroy the local character of communities and bring them toward a state of uniform mediocrity; and, WHEREAS, the economic effect of these land use policies will be highly inflationary; and, usepolicies will be WHEREAS, the effect of these landeconomically discriminatory against poor, those of fixed incomes, the elderly and minority groups; and, WHEREAS, the land use policies will substantially and unnecessarily increase the cost and the complexity of local and regional government; and, WHEREAS, experience has proven that the stated goals of the land use policies are not attainable by regional policies . . . i.e., people live where they want and work where they want; and,