CA Welf & Inst Code Section 7205


The Director of General Services with the consent of the State Department of Developmental Services is hereby authorized to transfer to the City of Costa Mesa and to convey to said city all of the state’s rights, title and interest, and upon such terms and conditions and with such reservations and exceptions as in the opinion of the Director of General Services may be in the best interest of the state, and subject to such use or uses as may be agreed upon by the city and the State Department of Developmental Services with the approval of the Director of General Services, in all or any part of the real property consisting of approximately five acres lying at the southwest corner of the Fairview State Hospital property in Orange County, being a parcel of land lying within Lot A of the Banning Tract, in the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, City of Orange, State of California, as shown on a map of said tract filed in action No. 6385 in the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the City of Los Angeles, being an action for partition entitled Hancock Banning et al. vs. Mary H. Banning, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the most southeasterly corner of Parcel G as shown on a record of survey filed in Book 53, pages 34 through 36, of records of Surveys in the office of the County Recorder of Orange County, California; thence along the boundary of said Parcel G northwesterly along a curve concave southwesterly having a radius of 540.00 feet through a central angle of 23 degrees, 01 minutes, 33 seconds, an arc distance of 217.01 feet, thence north 34 degrees, 32 minutes, 30 seconds west, 97.50 feet to a point on a line parallel with and 280.00 feet measured at right angles northerly of the north line of Fairview Farms as shown on said record of Survey; thence departing from the boundary of said Parcel G north 89 degrees, 27 minutes, 30 seconds east along said parallel line 936.97 feet; thence south 0 degrees, 32 minutes, 30 seconds east, 280.00 feet to said north line of Fairview Farms; thence south 89 degrees, 27 minutes, 30 seconds, west, 800.00 feet to the point of beginning. The conveyance of such property shall be subject to the following conditions:

(a)

There shall be excepted and reserved in the state all deposits of minerals, including oil and gas, in the property and to the state, or persons authorized by the state, the right to prospect for, mine, and remove such deposits from the property.

(b)

If the city shall cease to use the property for public purposes, all right, title, and interest of the county in and to the property shall cease and the property shall revert and rest in the state.
Last Updated

Aug. 19, 2023

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