Santa Monica’s City Council has found a remarkably efficient way to dispose of public property: eliminate some of the rules that made selling it difficult. On March 10, buried in Ordinance 2849, an innocuous-sounding overhaul of City purchasing procedures, the Council lowered the threshold for approving certain sales of City-owned real estate from five votes to four. It also removed specific requirements for public notice, findings of public purpose, and competitive sale procedures. What previously required broader political agreement and a defined public process can now potentially be accomplished by a bare Council majority.

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