HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 112668B - Council, Highway Commissions, TX Municipal League Oppose DOT Regulation - 11_26_1968RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the United States Department of Transportation has heretofore,
by directives dated October 13, 1967 and March 15, 1968, proposed various regu-
lations relating to the determination of highway routes and locations, together with
multitudinous requirements by which Public Hearings regarding such highway plan-
ning would be governed; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Transportation, acting through the Federal
Highway Administrator, has now promulgated through introduction into the Federal
Register, the establishment of a new Part 3 to Title 23 of the Federal Regulations,
which are offered in the guise of pern#ttina-the citizens of Texas greater opportun-
ity to express their wishes as concerns highway matters, but which would in realit
eliminate the prerogative of the Texas Highway Commission in exercising its au-
thority concerning the location, design and construction of highways; and
WHEREAS, the proposed regulations promulgated by the Department of Trans
portation would destroy the orderly process of highway planning, design and con-
struction within the State of Texas; and
WHEREAS, the Texas Highway Commission, by Resolution dated November 1,
1968, has expressed its opposition to such proposed regulations by the United
States Department of Transportation; and
WHEREAS, the 56th Annual Conference of the Texas Municipal League, by
Resolution dated November 12, 1968, joined the Texas Highway Commission in
expressing its opposition to such proposed regulations; NOW THEREFORE:
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
THAT the City Council of the City of Lubbock hereby joins the Texas Highway
Commission and the Texas Municipal League in expressing opposition to the pro-
posed regulations of the United States Department of Transportation relating to the
determination of highway routes and locations; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be forwarded to
the Texas Highway Commission, and to each United States Senator and Congress-
man from Texas.
IPassed by the City Council this grrh day of
ATTEST:
Lavenia Lowe, City ecretary-Treasurer
APPROVED:
red O. Senter, Jr., giity _l &orney