Fred E. Basten Santa Monica Bay: The First 100 Years, A pictorial history of Santa Monica, Venice, Ocean Park, Pacific Palisades,Topanga and Malibu, Douglas-West Publishers: Los Angeles, CA, 1974, 227 pp., 1907, 1906, 1905
"In October, 1905, a board was elected to draft a charter for the City of Santa Monica. The following year, the charter was ratified at public election and in 1907 approved by the State Legislature. The original townsite had long since overspread its boundaries, particularly in the southeast where it had gone far beyond Pico Boulevard into La Ballona Rancho." p. 87