Potter v. City Council

The petition herein sets forth that the respondent city of Port Hueneme in Ventura County, “is adjacent and west of the city of Oxnard, and adjoins the military reservation and installations of the United States Navy and . . . Coast Guard on its north and west boundaries”; that the Coast Guard has owned and operated said reservation of 43 acres for over 50 years, “at which time exclusive federal jurisdiction was ceded by the State of California to said area”; that prior to 1943, the United States Navy acquired 1,577 acres of land in said area, and developed various naval installations known…