Public improvements shall conform to the requirements of Chapter 16.24 and the City improvement standards. The Planning Commission may require any public improvements required for the orderly development of all public facilities. Off-site improvements to existing City streets may be required where a traffic study or other determinations of City justify this requirement.
Streets shall be designed and constructed in accordance with
City improvement standards and be dedicated in fee to City. The City
may reject such offers of dedication pending completion of the required
public improvements. The City is not obligated by this title to accept
dedications which do not conform to State, Federal, or local law,
including, without limitation, the Americans with Disabilities Act.
(Ord. 2006-03 § 2)
When the rear or side lines of any lot border a State highway,
City arterial, or collector street, the subdivider may be required
to dedicate a "no access" strip across the appropriate
line(s) of such lots, or dedicate a planting strip adjacent thereto,
or both.
(Ord. 2006-03 § 2)
All street names shall be approved by the Planning Commission
and no duplication of street names shall be permitted.
(Ord. 2006-03 § 2)
The design of lots shall be in conformance with the Zoning Ordinance,
this title, all City standards and the City General Plan.
(Ord. 2006-03 § 2)
The subdivider may be required to dedicate and improve walkways
on site or off site to provide access to schools, parks, and other
public areas.
(Ord. 2006-03 § 2)
Unless the proposed subdivision is part of a planned development
(PD) project, blocks shall be not more than 800 feet nor less than
200 feet in length and shall be of a width to contain two tiers of
lots of approved dimensions, except that the Planning Commission may
approve variations justified by existing improvements or physical
or natural features.
(Ord. 2006-03 § 2)
In all respects, the subdivision will be considered in relation
to the General Plan of the City.
(Ord. 2006-03 § 2)
Two copies of any proposed covenants, conditions and restrictions
shall be filed with the tentative map, and two copies of any revisions
thereof shall be filed with the Planning Director prior to recording
of the final map.
(Ord. 2006-03 § 2)
All lands within the subdivision subject to inundation or flooding
by storm or overflow or other causes shall be identified on the final
map. The limits of inundated area shall be clearly identified by distance
or elevation and shall be certified by a professional engineer or
surveyor.
(Ord. 2006-03 § 2)
The subdivider may be required to dedicate sites for schools,
parks, and other public areas as set forth in the General Plan or
as required by the Planning Commission.
(Ord. 2006-03 § 2)
The subdivider shall provide private easements for storm drainage
purposes conforming substantially to the lines of any natural water
course, channel, stream, swale or creek that traverses the subdivision.
Such easements shall be shown on the final or parcel map. All storm
drain improvements shall be in accordance with City improvement standards,
the General Plan, any CEQA mitigation measures and State or Federal
laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, the regulations
of the California Department of Fish and Game. The Planning Commission
may require covenants, conditions and restrictions for the subdivision
which provide for maintenance of these easements.
Where public drainage facilities are necessary on an area-wide
basis to permit safe, healthful and convenient development of the
area, the subdivider may be required to pay a pro rata share of such
facilities' cost, as determined by the City Council.
(Ord. 2006-03 § 2)
All grading and erosion control shall be in accordance with
applicable provisions of the California Building Code and an approved
Erosion Control Plan. Erosion Control Plan shall implement "best
management practices" that will prevent construction pollutants
from contacting storm water. All products of erosion shall be prevented
from moving off site into receiving waters.
Construction practices shall be in accordance with an approved
erosion control plan and methods contained in "Volume 3 of California
Storm Water Best Management Practice Handbook" (which is available
at www.cabmphandbooks.com) or other accepted erosion guidelines approved in advance by the
City Engineer.
(Ord. 2006-03 § 2)
The Planning Commission may find that secondary access to a
project is necessary, and require such access as a condition of approval.
The Planning Commission may consider, among other things, the size
of the project, its design, traffic volume, and location in determining
secondary access requirements.
All subdivisions requiring secondary access shall be designed
to provide more than one access route from existing streets or future
streets to the subdivision. Secondary access road(s) shall be constructed
to the boundary of the subdivision on a vertical and horizontal alignment
consistent with City improvement standards. Temporary cul-de-sac or
other approved turnaround shall be constructed in lieu of secondary
access(es) when approved by the Planning Commission.
When secondary access is part of phased development of a subdivision,
the Planning Commission may require security sufficient to guarantee
construction of the secondary access within the time specified by
the Planning Commission.
(Ord. 2006-03 § 2)
Standards for design and construction of City or private streets
shall conform to City improvement standards and be consistent with
the following:
A.
Street
stubs shall be required adjacent to unsubdivided property where, in
the opinion of the Planning Commission they are necessary. A cul-de-sac
turn around will be required where no street intersection exists within
100 feet of the property boundary.
B.
Reserve
strips, where required to control access over certain lot lines or
over the ends of street stubs or subdivision limits shall be dedicated
to the City.
C.
Alleys
with a minimum width of 20 feet shall be required in industrial, commercial
and in multiple family areas where necessary to control access to
thoroughfares and major streets.
D.
Streets
in any proposed subdivision shall connect to a State highway, to a
maintained City or County road, or to a road or right-of-way which
meets the standards of this title and the City improvement standards.
E.
Streets
intended for the exclusive use of lot owners in the subdivision, their
licensees, visitors, tenants and servants, may be private streets,
provided:
(Ord. 2006-03 § 2)
