R-89-649
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CITY OF CLERMONT
RESOLUTIONS
No. 649
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CLERMONT,
LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDA, SUPPORTING THE RAILS TO TRAILS
PROGRAM IN SOUTH LAKE COUNTY AND ENCOURAGING OTHER
CITIES, PRIVATE CITIZENS AND THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL
RESOURCES TO DO THE SAME.
WHEREAS, the State of Florida has established the Florida
Recreational Trails System to encourage the development of regional
recreational trails for bicycling, hiking, horseback riding and
canoeing; and
WHEREAS, the Lake Rails to Trails Program
organiza tion brought together by the common goal
network of quiet trails in Lake County; and
is a citizen
to create a
WHEREAS, the Lake Rails to Trails Program advocates the
preservation of abandoned railroad corridors as linear parks, and
is desirous of preserving the remaining lands of the winter Garden
to Mascotte corridor; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Natural Resources has expended the
three million dollars budgeted to purchase these lands for the
acquisition of two other railroad corridors within the State, thus
leaving the purchase of the Winter Garden to Mascotte corridor in
doubt; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Clermont supports the
Rails to Trails Program and is desirous of insuring that the
remainder of the winter Garden to Mascotte corridor be preserved,
as it has been within the city limits of Clermont,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the city
of Clermont, Lake County, Florida, that the Council supports the
establishment of a Florida Recreational Trails system in south Lake
County, and has established that part of the Winter Garden to
Mascotte corridor lying within the city limits of Clermont as a
part our municipal parks system, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of
Clermont requests that the Department of Natural Resources include
money in its budget to purchase the remaining winter Garden to
Mascotte corridor and encourages those private citizens and other
entities owning such lands to follow the example of the City of
Clermont and dedicate them as part of the Lake Rails to Trails
Program.
DONE AND RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CLERMONT, LAKE
COUNTY, FLORIDA, THIS ¡¿'He. DAY OF ~ ,1989.
CITY OF CLERMONT
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ATTEST:
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~i?H E. VAN ZILE, CITY CLERK