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r _ All RESOLUTION NO. 697 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCILT E F 0 H TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS REQUESTING LAFCO'S RECONSIDERATION OF LOS ALTOS HILLS SPHERES OF INFLUENCE. WHEREAS, on February 9, 1972, the County Board of Supervisors of Santa Clara County adopted by Resolution; "A Plan for Regional Parks for Santa Clara County", including the lower portion of Adobe Creek contained in University 72-1 , and WHEREAS, at the LAFCO public hearing held October 4, 1972, no mention was made of the County Supervisors' resolution in favor of a park in this area, and WHEREAS, the Government Code of the State of California, as quoted by LAFCO in "Procedures for City Annexation", states that all interested parties shall be heard at the October 4, 1972 public hearing on annexation, the Town of Los Altos Hills was represented but was not given the opportunity to express its interest in the matter, and WHEREAS, the City of Los Altos has contradicted the spirit and intent of the "Gentlemen's Agreement" Memorandum of Agreement between Los Altos and Los Altos Hills of March 14, 1963 by ignoring mutual consent and expressing sentiment favoring an application for R-1H cluster planned unit development instead of the 1963 agreed upon 1/2 acre buffer zoning in the annexed portion, and WHEREAS, there is indication, according to counsel , in the State Code that Edwin Johnsen, builder, who signed the August 30, 1972 application for annexation as "proponent", may in fact be ineligible to be "proponent" since°ttthe State Code apparently does not include individuals as proponents, and WHEREAS, LAFCO assigned jurisdiction to Los Altos although unaware that Los Altos was delinquent in several respects regarding land use policies and procedures, including failure to file "proposed staged development plans", such plans having been referred to in a LAFCO letter to cities as "basis for subsequent LAFCO decisions"; Los Altos failed to pre-zone the parcel in question while in sphere of influence and unincorporated as outlined in items l .b and 2.a, pages 6 and 7 of "Urban Development Policies for Santa Clara County" under Section II thereof as adopted by LAFCO on December 1 , 1971 . NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Town of Los Altos Hills requests LAFCO to reconsider the annexation to Los Altos of the area in question, University 72-1 , and