HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 091373B - Coucil And Parks & Rec Board Endorse Canyon Lake Site As New State Park - 09_13_1973RESOLUTION
WHEREAS the State Parks and Wildlife Commission is actively seeking a
site for a large State Park in the High Plains Area of West Texas; and
WHEREAS Lubbock County contains the greatest concentration of population
on the High Plains and should be one of the areas considered; and
WHEREAS the Lubbock area's major topographical feature is Yellowhouse
Canyon; and
WHEREAS an Engineering feasibility study for the City of Lubbock Canyon L,
Project proposes an 8800 acre recreational site southeast of Lubbock, Texas, whi
includes a 1600 surface acre lake and identified as lake No. 8 on the Canyon Lakes
Project plat attached hereto; and
WHEREAS the City of Lubbock is actively engaged in construction of Phase I
(in town lakes) of the Canyon Lakes Project which would add to and compliment a
large State Park and Lake 8 in this lake system; NOW THEREFORE
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
THAT the City Council and the Parks and Recreation Board of the City of
Lubbock endorses the lake site described above as the site of a new State Park and
urges the State Parks and Wildlife commission to consider such property in its
deliberations.
Passed by the City Council this 13th day of September, , 1973.
MORRIS W. TURNER, MAYOR
ATTEST:
venia Lowe, City Secretary -Treasurer
PPROV E D AS TO FORM:
- I Fred O. Sen er, Jr., Attorney