City of Santa Cruz

Contact

Jeff Plovnick
Public Land Management Specialist
916.312.4747
GrantedLands.Public@slc.ca.gov

For questions regarding Dredging Notices and Financial Reports, or to submit forms, email GLSubmissions@slc.ca.gov

 The City of Santa Cruz was granted certain sovereign tidelands in trust in 1872 for public use. In subsequent granting statutes, the City was also granted in trust sovereign submerged lands lying between Santa Cruz Point and the west jetty of the small craft harbor (in 1969), and three parcels of land (in 2010) that were acquired and held by the Commission through a Title Settlement Agreement.

City of Santa Cruz

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:

2025 not yet posted

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

Settlement / Agreement NumberDescription
AD 537Title Settlement in the city of Santa Cruz involving certain parcels along the San Lorenzo River and Pacific Ocean.

Legislative granting statutes for the City of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County.

Statute YearChapterDescriptionNote
2010377An act relating to tidelands and submerged lands.
19691292An act to convey certain tide and submerged lands to the City of Santa Cruz, in furtherance of navigation, commerce and fisheries upon certain trusts and conditions, and providing for the government, management, use, and control thereof, and reserving rights to the state.
1968902An act to quitclaim to and confirm in the County of Santa Cruz and the City of Santa Cruz all interest of the state in and to certain parcels of land in the County of Santa Cruz and declaring such lands to be free of any trust applicable thereto for commerce, navigation, and fisheries.
1872342An Act supplementary to and amendatory of an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the Town of Santa Cruz, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

All staff reports relating to the grant held by the City of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County.

Meeting DateItemDescription
2009-08-1143Consideration of a proposed settlement of Santa Cruz Seaside Co. v. City of Santa Cruz, et al., Superior Court Case No. CV 156815 (County of Santa Cruz), involving a proposed title settlement and land exchange agreement and issuance of a 49-year general lease – public agency use – of lands acquired by the Commission to the City involving certain parcels along the San Lorenzo River and the Pacific Ocean
1983-11-216Consideration of substantial improvement
1981-09-2924Consideration of proposed wharf improvements
1981-08-205Item pulled from agenda
1980-12-1632Consideration of proposed beach erosion control
1975-10-2936Approval of project on the Municipal Wharf at Santa Cruz
1974-04-2429Approval of survey and maps of the grant