(A) From time to time the city determines that it may be desirable to transfer city-owned real property to another entity or individual.
(B) Since 1976, the city has utilized a "Policy and Procedure Memorandum" to provide advisory guidelines to the City Council, the Planning Commission and the staff regarding the procedures by which transfers of real property should be handled.
(C) The City Council finds and declares that there is now a need for the city to be able to distinguish certain transfers from others and that mandatory controls and procedures to govern the transfer of city-owned real property from the city to another entity or individual should be provided in the Municipal Code and the purpose of the following provisions are to provide authority for the City Council to make those distinctions and to set forth the mandatory controls and procedures.
(Ord. 632-C.S., passed 11-2-99)