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WILLOWICK GOLF COURSE The City Manager of Santa STATUS SUMMARY Aha distributed a status surnrnary of the pending agreements between Santa Ana and Garden Grove relative to the Willowick Golf Course. He stated that the Santa Aha City Council had tentatively approved the memorandum of agreement calling for the City's de-annexation of Willowick and the acquisition of three parcels of land for Garden Grove to round out the property Santa Aha would need to develop a park site in the Willowick Area, and had requested the City Attorney to research the legal ramifications. The City Manager of Garden Grove stated that the basic concern has been the need for retaining the Golf Course as perpetual open space; that his Council had retained the legal firm of O'Melveny and Myers to answer any concerns that the cities might have; that the Willowick de-annexation was one of a series of items for mutual cooperation. The Santa Ana~City Attorney stated that several legal points had been raised and discussed; i.e., the matter of obtaining the consent of the bond holders to the entire transaction, including a determination regarding purchase of the park site parcels or a long-tera~n lease agreement; that research had indicated a 50-year open space easement for Willowick would probably not be enforceable. Pat Randolph, Attorney, stated that Garden Grove had retained him to develop the best binder that the golf course would remain open space; that research had established the most effective way to be the 50-year open space easement; and that the trustee for the Garden Grove Willowick Recreational Facility, Inc. , Crocker National Bank, had given written consent to the proposed easement. He stated that the bond holders' consent would be necessary to effect the sale of the park site parcels in Santa Aha and to impose the open space easement on their secured interest in Willowick; that in the event Garden Grove violated the easement, Santa Aha could enforce it and that bondholders' consent would not be necessary for Santa Aha to require that Garden Grove use the property for open space only; and that the easement would not affect Garden Grove's right to condemn the easement. The City Attorney of Garden Grove, referring to the possibility of condemnation by Garden Grove, stated that he would be willing to recom- mend that the Garden Grove City Council approve a formula whereby a pre-determined value amount for the entire transaction would be stipulated for payment to the City of Santa Ana as an extra protection in the event a future Council might initiate condemnation proceedings. Mr. Withers stated that other factors of the proposed agreement regarding expenditures of funds for street alignrnents, storm drains and improve- ments to the golf course would not necessarily be binding on future Councils. Councilman Patterson requested: (1) Some security regarding the legislative agreement cornrnitments by Garden Grove; (2) Some indica- tion of what the fair market value would be at a future date, up to five years; (3) Comment on the possibility of the three parcels being severed from the golf course to become part of Santa Aha sooner than the lease arrangement would provide. CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 88 MARCH 19, 1973