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The City of Benicia was granted certain waterfront lands within the city limits in trust in 1855. Additional sovereign tide and submerged lands were later granted to the City for the establishment, improvement, and conduct of a harbor, facilities incidental, necessary, or convenient for promoting and accommodating commerce and navigation, recreational facilities, and incidental facilities to accommodate these uses, including snack bars, cafes, restaurants, motels, launching ramps and hoists, storage sheds, boat repair facilities with cranes and marine ways, administration buildings, public restrooms, bait and tackle shops, chandleries, boat sales establishments, service stations and fuel docks, yacht club buildings, parking areas, roadways, pedestrian ways, and landscaped areas.
- AB 691 Sea Level Rise Impact Assessment
- Annual Financial Statements
- Boundary Agreements, Exchange Agreements, Title Settlements
- Granting Statutes
- Staff Reports
Climate Plan Adaptation Plan (October 2016)
The City is required by Section 6306 of the Public Resources Code to complete an annual financial statement and standardized reporting form for trust lands on or before December 31 of each year.
Below is a list of reports the City has submitted:
| Settlement / Agreement Number | Description |
|---|---|
| AD 226 | Agreement for the settlement of a title dispute between the City of Benicia and the California State Lands Commission |
| BLA 49 | Boundary Agreement between the State of California, the United States, and the City of Benicia |
| BLA 56 | Boundary Agreement between the State of California, the United States, and the City of Benicia |
Legislative granting statutes for the City of Benicia, Solano County.
| Statute Year | Chapter | Description | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 329 | An act to amend Section 1 of Chapter 2018 of the Statutes of 1965, relating to the conveyance of certain tide and submerged lands of the state to the City of Benicia. | |
| 1967 | 1030 | An act to convey certain salt marsh, tide and submerged lands to the City of Benicia, in furtherance of navigation, commerce, and fisheries upon certain trusts and conditions, and providing for the government, management, use and control thereof. | |
| 1965 | 2018 | An act to convey certain salt marsh, tide and submerged lands to the City of Benicia, in furtherance of navigation, commerce, and fisheries upon certain trusts and conditions, and providing for the government, management, use and control thereof. | 1st Extra Session |
| 1964 | 18 | An act to convey certain tide and submerged lands, situated in Solano County, to the City of Benicia, in furtherance of navigation, commerce, and fisheries upon certain trusts and conditions, and providing for the government, management, use and control thereof. | 1st Extra Session |
| 1935 | 580 | An act ceding to the United States of America certain tide and submerged lands of the State of California upon certain trusts and conditions. | |
| 1897 | 81 | An Act relinquishing to the United States of America the title of this State to certain lands. | |
| 1868 | 216 | An Act amendatory of and supplemental to an Act entitled an Act to repeal the several Acts incorporating the City of Benicia, and to provide for the Government thereof, approved April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. | |
| 1859 | 292 | An act to repeal the several Acts incorporating the City of Benicia, and to provide for the Government thereof. | |
| 1855 | 187 | An act to cede certain property to the City of Benicia. | |
| 1854 | 96 | An act supplementary to the Act incorporating the City of Benicia. | REPEALED by Chapter 292 |
| 1851 | 83 | An act to incorporate the City of Benicia. | REPEALED by Chapter 292 |
All staff reports relating to the grant held by the City of Benicia, Solano County.
| Meeting Date | Staff Report | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2013-02-22 | 43 | Termination of dredging lease PRC 4941.9 and issuance of a new general lease – dredging |
| 2009-04-09 | 25 | Amendment of dredging lease |
| 2008-06-24 | 37 | Termination and issuance of a new dredging lease |
| 1997-02-12 | 75 | Consider amendment to compromise title settlement agreement |
| 1995-03-01 | 45 | Consider compromise title settlement agreement |
| 1978-02-23 | Asst. EO Report | Report regarding Dean F. Collins, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Committee 21-77 |