In City of Santa Barbara v. Davis (1904) 142 Cal. 669, the California Supreme Court refused to entertain a challenge to a city ordinance approving a land purchase on the ground that the city might not follow its declared intent to use the land for a firehouse. (Id. at p. 672.) The Court found the city's action "not open to review . . . on any such ground as that the city council did not in fact intend to carry out the purpose of the purchase as clearly indicated by the ordinance itself." (Ibid.)