A.
This title shall be known as the "City of Roseville Subdivision Ordinance."
B.
The purposes and intentions of this title are:
1.
To provide policies, standards, requirements and procedures to regulate and control the design and improvements of all subdivisions within the city;
2.
To ensure that, insofar as possible, all proposed subdivisions, together with the provisions for their design and improvements, are subdivided in a manner that will promote the public health, safety, convenience, and general welfare in conformance with the general plan, and any applicable specific plan and specific plan design guidelines, any applicable development agreement, and other provisions of the Roseville Municipal Code;
3.
To preserve and protect to the maximum extent possible the unique and valuable natural resources and amenities of the city's environment, including topographic and geologic features, open space lands, streams, recreational areas, fish and wildlife habitats, wetlands (seasonal and perennial), historical and cultural places, and scenic vistas and attractions; and to maximize the public's access to and enjoyment of such resources and amenities through the dedication or continuance of applicable easements thereto;
4.
To relate land use intensity and population density to existing development, street capacity and traffic access, the slope of the natural terrain, and the availability of public facilities and utilities and open space;
5.
To provide lots of sufficient size and appropriate design for the purposes for which they are to be used;
6.
To provide streets of adequate capacity and design for the traffic that will utilize them and to ensure maximum safety for pedestrians and vehicles;
7.
To ensure adequate access to each building site;
8.
To provide sidewalks, and where needed, pedestrian ways, biking paths, and equestrian and hiking trails for the safety, convenience and enjoyment of the residents and employees of new developments and the general public;
9.
To provide adequate systems of water supply, sanitary sewage disposal, storm drainage, street lighting, electricity, natural gas, telephone, cable and other utilities needed for the public's health, safety and convenience;
10.
To provide adequate sites for public facilities needed to serve the residents and employees of new developments and the general public;
11.
To ensure that the costs of providing land for streets, alleys, pedestrian ways, easements, and other rights-of-way, and for the improvements therein, needed to serve new developments are the responsibility of the subdivider;
12.
To prevent land from being subdivided for any use or in any manner tending to create an increased detriment to the public health, safety or welfare which is actually or potentially dangerous by reason of being located in the 100-year future floodplain, proximity to excessive noise, inadequate access, inadequate water supply or fire protection, insufficient sewerage facilities, hazardous geological conditions, or critical soil conditions.
(Ord. 2747 § 1, 1993)