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Date: December 3, 2024
To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Michelle Ramirez, Community Development Director
By: Anthony Maatubang, Associate Engineer | [email protected] Subject: Community Development - Approve Easement Quitclaim Deed between City of Torrance and Torrance Unified School District. Expenditure: None.
RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation of the Community Development Director that City Council approve an easement quitclaim deed between City of Torrance (City) and Torrance Unified School District (TUSD), thereby relinquishing the City’s water easements within the Hamilton Adult Education Center to the TUSD. The easement transfer will facilitate unrestricted site use for TUSD’s future development plans and align with shared goals to enhance school resources and infrastructure.
FUNDING
None required.
DISCUSSION
The Moneta Water Company and Ocean View Development Corporation, Inc. transferred the rights, title, and interest of a water distribution system including water mains, hydrants, valves, meters, fittings, services, and other appurtenances to the City through a recorded quitclaim deed in 1967 (see attachment). This transfer established City water easements, including several within the TUSD-owned property located at 2606 W 182nd Street (APN: 4095-019-900), enabling the City to maintain necessary access and control over its existing water infrastructure. The said property is where Hamilton Adult Education Center is situated.
Recently, the TUSD requested that the City relinquish all City water easements within the Hamilton Adult Education Center lot. The proposed quitclaim of the existing easements to TUSD would eliminate the encumbrance, granting TUSD unrestricted use of the property for future development aligned with school operations and community benefits. The water facilities within the Hamilton Adult Education Center will consequently be maintained by the TUSD.
ATTACHMENTS
1. Proposed Easement Quitclaim Deed to TUSD
2. 1967 Quitclaim Deed to City of Torrance
3. Property Legal Description (APN: 4095-019-900)
1 RECORDING REQUESTED BY
AND WHEN RECORDED RETURN TO:
Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo
12800 Center Court Drive, Suite 300
Cerritos, California 90703
Attn: Constance J. Schwindt, Esq.
MAIL TAX STATEMENTS TO:
Torrance Unified School District.
Attn: Chief Business Officer
2335 Plaza Del Amo
Torrance, CA 90501
APN: 4095-019-900
(Space Above For Recorder’s Use)
THE UNDERSIGNED GRANTOR(S) DECLARE(S): DOCUMENTARY TRANSFER TAX IS $ 0.00 This conveyance is exempt from the payment of a documentary transfer tax pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Code Section 11922. ______________________________________________________________________________
EASEMENT QUITCLAIM DEED
FOR A VALUABLE CONSIDERATION, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the CITY OF TORRANCE does hereby remise, release and forever quitclaim unto the TORRANCE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT a specific portion of that certain easement conveyed in the Quitclaim Deed recorded in instrument number BKD3765PG908 on September 13, 1967 in the Official Records of the Los Angeles County, attached hereto as EXHIBIT “A” which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, as it pertains to Assessor’s Parcel Number 4095-019- 900, being further described in Exhibit B attached hereto. The quitclaim set forth herein shall only apply to the specific easement described in Exhibit A and does not effect or change the rights to the underlying water distribution system.
ATTACHMENT 1
ATTACHMENT 1
2 Grantee:
TORRANCE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
a public school system created and
authorized by the California Constitution
By:
(Name)
Its: (Title)
By:
(Name)
Its: (Title)
Grantor:
CITY OF TORRANCE,
a municipal corporation ATTEST:
__________________________ _______________________________ George K. Chen Rebecca Poirier, MMC Mayor City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM:
PATRICK Q. SULLIVAN
City Attorney
By: _______________________________
Tatia Y. Strader
Assistant City Attorney
3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
A notary public or other officer completing this
certificate verifies only the identity of the individual who signed the document to which this certificate is
attached, and not the truthfulness, accuracy, or
validity of that document
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF __________________)
On _______________________, 20__ before me, ________________________________ (here insert name and title of the officer), Notary Public, personally appeared ___________________, who proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person(s) whose name(s) is/are subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their authorized capacity(ies), and that by his/her/their signature(s) on the instrument the person(s), or the entity upon behalf of which the person(s) acted, executed the instrument.
I certify under PENALTY OF PERJURY under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing paragraph is true and correct.
WITNESS my hand and official seal.
____________________________________
Signature of Notary Public
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LEGAL DESCRIPTION
THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE CITY OF TORRANCE IN THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
PARCEL A:
THE WEST 2 ACRES (MEASURED TO THE CENTER OF THE STREET) OF THE NORTHWEST ONE- QUARTER OF LOT 56 OF THE MCDONALD TRUST, RANCHO SAN PEDRO, IN THE CITY OF TORRANCE, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 15 PAGES 21 AND 22 OF MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY.
PARCEL B:
THE WEST HALF OF THE EAST 5 ACRES OF THE WEST 7 ACRES OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF LOT 56 OF MCDONALD TRACT, IN THE CITY OF TORRANCE, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 15 PAGES 21 AND22 OF MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY.
PARCEL C:
THE WEST HALF OF THE EAST HALF OF THE EAST 5 ACRES OF THE WEST 7 ACRES OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF LOT 56 OF THE MCDONALD TRACT, IN THE RANCHO SAN PEDRO, IN THE
CITY OF TORRANCE, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 15 PAGES 21 AND22 OF MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY.
EXCEPTING ALL OIL, AND GAS AND OTHER HYDROCARBONS EXISTING IN SAID PROPERTY BELOW THE LEVEL OF 500 FEET BENEATH THE SURFACE OF SAID LAND AND RESERVING TO NORMAN J.
SHEFFIELD AND GENEVA M. SHEFFIELD THE RIGHT TO EXTRACT SAID OIL, GAS AND OTHER
HYDROCARBONS BY SLANT DRILLING FROM LOCATIONS OUTSIDE THE SURFACE OF SAID PROPERTY,
BUT WITHOUT THE RIGHT TO ENTER UPON THE SURFACE OF SAID PROPERTY FOR THE PURPOSE OF
REMOVING SAID OIL, GAS AND OTHER HYDROCARBONS, AS SET FORTH IN FINAL DECREE OF CONDEMNATION, A CERTIFIED COPY THEREOF BEING RECORDED JANUARY 21, 1958 IN BOOK 5615, PAGE 440, OFFICIAL RECORDS.
PARCEL D:
THE EAST HALF OF THE EAST HALF OF EAST 5 ACRES OF THE WEST 7 ACRES OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF LOT 56 OF THE MCDONALD TRACT, IN THE RANCHO SAN PEDRO, IN THE CITY OF TORRANCE, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 15, PAGES 21 AND 22 OF MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY.
APN: 4095-019-900
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