The recorded enforcement notice's "LEGAL DESCRIPTION" block gives only the parcel number and street address, while the Attachment A field named to supply the legal description is blank.
The City recorded an enforcement notice against 4880 T Street that lacks a formal legal description in the property record. Although the document identifies the site by its street address and assessor's parcel number 01101350100000, it omits the lot, block, or subdivision details typically used to define property boundaries. The City's notice explicitly points readers to "Attachment A" for the legal description, yet the produced version of that attachment leaves the legal description field entirely blank. This occurred despite Sacramento County assessor guidance stating that parcel numbers are assessment tools and should not be used to define property lines. As a result, the notice recorded in the county property records relies on tax and mailing identifiers instead of a formal legal description.
Stated simply, the City recorded a title-affecting notice whose legal-description line contains only tax and mailing identifiers, then pointed the owner to an attachment that was supposed to carry the real legal description but did not. The City recorded a Notice of Pending Enforcement Proceeding against the property EX.10. The recorded instrument's "LEGAL DESCRIPTION" block identifies the premises only by assessor's parcel number and street address: parcel No. 01101350100000, also known as 4880 T Street in Sacramento M122. It gives no metes-and-bounds description, lot or block, subdivision-map reference, or reference to a prior recorded instrument.
The City's own packet treats the legal description as something separate from the parcel number and address. The Notice and Order face page states, "See Attachment A for legal description of property" M124. The produced Attachment A is headed "Legal Property Description for 4880 T ST," repeats the parcel number, and leaves the dedicated "Legal Description:" field blank M126. This card is narrowly limited to description sufficiency of the City’s recorded packet; it does not claim the Recorder was required to reject the instrument.
The lower executed copy on M122, signed by Peter Lemos for Case 23-009185, gives only the assessor's parcel number and street address in the "LEGAL DESCRIPTION" block. The blank ***SAMPLE*** copy stacked above it is not the executed instrument.
The produced Attachment A repeats parcel No. 01101350100000 and leaves the "Legal Description:" field blank M126. The document the City named to cure the description does not do so.
Sacramento County's assessor page describes assessor parcel numbers and parcel maps as assessment tools and warns that assessor parcel maps are not legal documents or surveys and should not be used to define property lines COUNTY.SacAssessor.ParcelMapsFAQ. This supports the narrow factual point that the City placed assessment and mailing identifiers in a field it labeled "LEGAL DESCRIPTION."
GC § 27201 addresses acceptance for recording; it does not adjudicate the substantive sufficiency of the City's description. HSC § 17985 authorizes recording a notice of pending enforcement but does not itself supply missing description content.
The City placed a pending-enforcement proceeding into the real-property record (EX.10 / Recorder Doc 202305081060), yet the executed notice’s “LEGAL DESCRIPTION” block contains only the assessor’s parcel number and street address M122. The Notice and Order then points to Attachment A for the legal description M124, and that Attachment A leaves its "Legal Description:" field blank M126.
Anticipated City defense: The strongest City answer is that parcel number plus street address is sufficient for identification under SCC § 8.100.720(A)(1)(a)(1) and that the County Recorder accepted the instrument.
Answer: This card does not claim a statute required metes and bounds, and it does not claim recorder acceptance was invalid. The narrower point is that the City labeled the field "LEGAL DESCRIPTION," promised an Attachment A legal description, and produced a blank legal-description field in the attachment it served and recorded against the property M122 M124 M126.
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