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AGENDA REPORT
CONSENT CALENDAR
DATE: June 12, 1990
SUBJECT: Placerita Canyon Nature
DEPARTMENT: Parks and Recreation
BACKGROUND
City Manager Approval
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Item to be presented by:
Jeff Kolin
Ownership Status
Several questions were. raised regarding the status of the Placerita Canyon
Nature Center State Park at the City Council meeting of May 22, 1990. Staff
contacted John Weber, Assistant Director with the Los Angeles County Parks and
Recreation Department for the Northern Region for information on the status of
the proposed transfer in ownership of the Placerita Canyon Nature Center. Mr.
Weber was very helpful, and provided the following information regarding the
status of the Placerita Canyon Nature Center Park.
The Placerita Canyon Nature Center Park is currently owned by the State .of
California, and operated under a permit by the County of Los -Angeles Department
of Parks and Recreation. The Department. of Parks and Recreation has been
discussing the transfer of ownership for-Placerita Canyon Nature Center from the
State to the County for a number of months. The County is also pursuing the
transfer in ownership of Tapia Park, a Los Angeles County Park; to the adjacent
Malibu Creek State Park. Originally, the concept: wasfor an equal trade
arrangement where the County.would transfer ownership of Tapia Park to the State
of California, and the State of California would transfer ownership of Placerita
Canyon Park to the County of Los Angeles.
Mr. Weber indicated that the current proposal is to proceed with the transfer of
ownership of Tapia Park from the County of Los Angeles to the State of
California, creating a larger Malibu Creek State Park facility. Mr. Weber is
recommending that the Placerita Canyon Nature Center State Park remain a State
facility until some questions with adjacent private land ownership and use are
resolved. He has indicated that it is his .feeling that the transfer of
ownership is several years away from taking place.
He is suggesting that the adjacent land -use conflicts would be easier to.resolve
if the park remained.in State ownership, and that it would be inappropriate, at
this time, for the County to assume the ownership of this park. When the
transfer does. take place, it was Mr. Weber's opinion that the State would
require that the agreement include a reverter clause that would require the
property to be returned to the State of California, if it were used for. any
purpose other than park and recreation purposes. Such reverter clauses are
standard in park dedication and transfer agreements throughout the State. The
County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation has indicated that it
will ask the State of California to renew the County's permit to operate the
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Agenda ltem:
Placerita Canyon Nature Center. Staff has requested that the City of Santa
Clarita be provided with the opportunity to review a draft of the agreement when
it is prepared for the transfer of the Placerita Canyon Nature Center from the
State of California to the County of Los. Angeles. This would provide the
opportunity for the City to insure that a reverter clause is included in the
agreement.
It is recommended that the City Council receive and file this report on the
Placerita Canyon Nature Center Park.