(a) Route 225 is from Route 101 near Santa Barbara to Route 101 near the Santa Barbara Central Business District.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the commission may relinquish to the City of Santa Barbara the entire Route 225 within the jurisdiction of the city, between the Route 101/225 separation at Las Positas Road and the Castillo Street interchange with Route 101, on terms and conditions that the commission finds to be in the best interests of the state, if the department and the city enter into an agreement providing for that relinquishment. The following conditions shall apply upon relinquishment:
(1) The relinquishment shall become effective on the date following the county recorder’s recordation of the relinquishment resolution containing the commission’s approval of the terms and conditions of the relinquishment.
(2) On and after the effective date of the relinquishment, Route 225 shall cease to be a state highway and shall be ineligible for future adoption under Section 81.
(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 536, Sec. 13. (AB 957) Effective January 1, 2012.)