A 1925 Spite strip that still exists

I was researching a new job and went to the Navigate LA site to get some centerline tie information. I noticed a peculiar strip of land that was centered on one of the bounding streets of the property I will be surveying. I clicked on...

Let me back up some and start with a bit of history first.

Prior to 1923 this entire area was comprised of large tracts of ocean front property. Some of the tracts were by patents, others were Spanish land grants. In May 1890 a large tract of land was surveyed for an Anderson Rose by Wright and Nicholson which shows two large parcels separating the wetlands and drylands and was recorded with the county recorder in Book 70 page 2 of Miscellaneous Records in 1897.

Bk 70 Pg 2 MR

In 1923 a subdivision was created from lands that abutted the Anderson Rose land. A new street was created, Paderevsky Street, which was 25 feet in width.

Tract 6115

Sometime prior to 1925 Mr Rose’s interest in a portion of the Anderson Rose lands was transferred to Citizens Trust and Savings Bank who decided to subdivide. This is when the spite strip was created.

Tract No 9115

The above picture shows the intentional omission of this strip of land by the subdividers labeled
Not a part of this subdivision.

Back to Navigate LA and my clicking..

The Navigate LA site shows the different parcels of land a certain way. There is a blue highlighted line around a yellowish tinted area. I saw that there was such an area that was running down the center of Westlawn Avenue, which is now the name of Paderevsky Street.

I clicked on the strip which filled it in with a black background which is the normal way Navigate LA does a parcel you have an interest in.

Navigate LA Strip

I was then able to generate a parcel information page on the strip.

Zimas Report

I have only posted page one of the report but you get the idea.

Google Aerial of the Street

The centered street is Westlawn and the strip begins near the bottom of the picture. North is towards the lower left corner of the picture.

Why the city has not absorbed this strip is beyond me, maybe some over cautious legal council, after all, the land never was dedicated to the city, nor has it ever be formerly granted to them by another instrument, whatever the reason that’s just LA folks…