A. 
Any person proposing to create a major subdivision shall file a tentative map pursuant to this chapter. The City Council shall not approve a final map unless prior thereto a tentative map of the subdivision shown thereon shall have been filed with and reported on by the Planning Commission.
B. 
If a parcel map is authorized for a major subdivision pursuant to the Subdivision Map Act or Section 18.40.080, the City Engineer shall not approve such map unless prior thereto a tentative map of the subdivision shown thereon shall have been filed with and reported on by the Planning Commission.
(Ord. 459 § 16.03.010, 1979)
All tentative maps shall be in the form and shall contain and be accompanied by the date specified by the rules and regulations prescribed by the Planning Commission and approved by the City Council and shall be accompanied by either a negative declaration or a draft environmental impact report prepared in accordance with rules and procedures adopted by the City Council pursuant to CEQA.
(Ord. 459 § 16.03.020, 1979)
There shall be filed with each tentative map a grading plan showing any grading proposed for the creation of building sites within the subdivision or for construction or installation of improvements to serve the subdivision. In the event no such grading is proposed, a statement to that effect shall be filed with the tentative map.
(Ord. 459 § 16.03.030, 1979)
A. 
A preliminary soils report, prepared by a registered civil engineer and based upon adequate test borings, shall be submitted to the City Engineer for every subdivision with respect to the subdivision lots and adjoining roads.
B. 
A preliminary soils report may be waived by the City Engineer, providing the City Engineer finds that, due to the knowledge the City has as to the soils qualities of the soils in the subdivision, no preliminary analysis is necessary.
C. 
If the City has knowledge of, or the preliminary soils report indicates, the presence of critically expansive soils or other soils problems which, if not corrected, would lead to structural defects, a soils investigation of each lot in the subdivision may be required by the City Engineer. Such soils investigation shall be done by a registered civil engineer, who shall recommend the corrective action which is likely to prevent structural damage to each structure proposed to be constructed in the area where such soils problem exists.
D. 
The advisory agency may approve the subdivision or portion thereof where such soils problem exists if it determines that the recommended action is likely to prevent structural damage to each structure to be constructed and a condition to the issuance of any building permit may require that the approved recommended action be incorporated in the construction of each structure.
(Ord. 459 § 16.03.040, 1979)
The Planning Commission is authorized and directed to carry out the following actions:
A. 
Hold a public hearing on tentative map filed with it;
B. 
Publish notice of the time and place of any public hearing once in a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated within the City at least 10 days before the hearing, and mail a notice of public hearing to each owner of real property, as such owners are shown on the last equalized assessment roll, within 300 feet of the boundaries of the proposed subdivision at least 10 days before said hearing; provided, however, notice as specified in this subsection shall not be required in cases where the question before the Commission is a request for an extension of time for filing a final map or a modification to a previously approved resolution of conditional approval not affecting any design or improvement;
C. 
Investigate each tentative map filed with it pursuant to this chapter or the Subdivision Map Act, and the improvements proposed to be constructed and installed in or to serve the subdivision, and make its report with respect to the design and improvements of the subdivision and the kind, nature, and extent of the proposed improvements;
D. 
Obtain the recommendations of the following:
1. 
The City Engineer and the City Planner, with respect to the design of the proposed subdivision and the kind, nature, and extent of the proposed improvements, and
2. 
The Chief of the City Fire Department, with respect to appropriate fire flow, fire hydrants, and connections to be installed, wherever such installations are proposed, and
3. 
Such other agencies as may be required by the Planning Commission or the secretary thereof;
E. 
Within 50 days of the filing of the tentative map, the Planning Commission shall, after public hearing thereon, by resolution, recommend approval, conditional approval, or disapproval of the tentative map to the City Council and file such recommendation with the City Clerk. Should the Planning Commission recommend disapproval of the tentative map, such disapproval shall be reported directly to the applicant within 50 days of filing of the tentative map and shall be final unless appealed pursuant to the provisions of Section 18.12.100.
The report of the Planning Commission shall include findings and recommendations on the findings required by the Subdivision Map Act.
F. 
A copy of the recommendations on any tentative map submitted to the Planning Commission shall be submitted to the subdivider a minimum of three days prior to consideration by the Planning Commission. Submittal shall be accomplished by mailing a copy of the recommendations first class.
G. 
If the Planning Commission recommends approval or conditional approval of a tentative map, it shall prescribe, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, the kind, nature, and extent of the improvements to be constructed or installed in or to serve the subdivision for which the tentative map is filed; provided, however, if the Planning Commission does not prescribe the kind, nature, or extent of the improvements to be constructed or installed, improvements shall be constructed and installed in accordance with the City specifications.
(Ord. 459 § 16.03.050, 1979)
A. 
After a tentative map is filed with the City Clerk, unless an appeal is filed, the City Clerk is directed, unless otherwise directed by the City Council, to place it on the agenda of the first Council meeting after the Planning Commission approves its minutes of the meeting in which it considered the tentative map, or the agenda of the first Council meeting within 30 days after the date of the Planning Commission's adoption of its resolution reporting upon the tentative map if the Planning Commission has not approved its minutes within that time.
B. 
If no appeal is filed, the City Council shall consider the tentative map at the time set forth in subsection A of this section and shall, by resolution, approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the tentative map and shall make such findings as are required by Section 18.12.070. The City Council may, by resolution, adopt by reference the findings and recommendations of the Planning Commission, or may modify such findings and recommendations as they consider appropriate in view of the evidence presented.
(Ord. 459 §§ 16.03.060, 16.03.070, 1979)
A. 
The City Council shall find that the proposed subdivision, together with the provisions for its design and improvement, is consistent with any general plan required by Article 5 of Chapter 3 of Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government Code, or with any specific plan adopted pursuant to Article 8 of said chapter, division and title, or it shall disapprove the tentative map.
B. 
The City Council shall not approve the tentative map if it makes any of the following findings:
1. 
That the proposed map is not consistent with applicable general and specific plans;
2. 
That the design or improvement of the proposed subdivision is not consistent with the applicable general and specific plans;
3. 
That the site is not physically suitable for the type of development;
4. 
That the site is not physically suitable for the proposed density of development;
5. 
That the design of the subdivision or the proposed improvements are likely to cause substantial environmental damage or substantially and avoidably injure fish or wildlife or their habitat;
6. 
That the design of the subdivision or the type of improvements is likely to cause serious public health problems;
7. 
That the design of the subdivision or the type of improvements will conflict with easements of record or easements established by court judgment, acquired by the public at large, for access through or use of property within the proposed subdivision; in this connection, the City Planner may approve a map if he or she finds that alternate easements, for access or for use, will be provided, and that these will be substantially equivalent to ones previously acquired by the public;
8. 
That all requirements of CEQA have not been met.
(Ord. 459 § 16.03.080, 1979)
Whenever the City Council finds that the real property to be divided is of such size or shape or is subject to such title limitations of record or is affected by such usage that it is impossible or impractical in the particular case for the subdivider to conform fully to the requirements of this chapter, the City Council may waive or modify such requirements as it deems reasonably necessary; provided, however, any such waiver or modification shall be in conformity with the spirit and purpose of the Subdivision Map Act and of this chapter. The City Council may waive or modify such requirements upon such reasonable conditions as it deems appropriate.
(Ord. 459 § 16.03.090, 1979)
After filing of the tentative map and prior to approval of the tentative map, the City Planner may require the subdivision to be flagged by the subdivider. Such flagging shall consist of flags at all lot or subdivision corners, centerlines of streets, and at such other points as may reasonably be required by the City Planner.
(Ord. 459 § 16.03.100, 1979)
A. 
If the subdivider is dissatisfied with any action of the Planning Commission with respect to a tentative map he or she may appeal to the City Council as provided in Section 66452.5 of the Subdivision Map Act. Notice of any hearing by the City Council on any appeal by any subdivider shall be given in the manner provided for by Section 18.12.050.
B. 
Any interested person adversely affected by any action of the Planning Commission with respect to a tentative map may appeal to the City Council as provided in Section 66452.5 of the Subdivision Map Act. Any such appellant shall be subject to the same procedural requirements and shall be entitled to the same notice and rights regarding testimony as apply to the subdivider under Section 65452.5 of the Subdivision Map Act.
C. 
Whenever the City Council holds a hearing on an appeal from the action of the Planning Commission and thereafter takes no action because a motion on the item failed to carry by the required vote, the City Clerk shall set the matter for a noticed public hearing de novo if such hearing is requested by the City Council. Such a request must be made within 30 days of the date when the motion on the item failed to carry. If no such request is made within such period, the decision of the Planning Commission shall be deemed sustained.
(Ord. 459 §§ 16.03.101—16.03.103, 1979)
Within three years after the approval or conditional approval of the tentative map, the subdivider may cause the subdivision or any part thereof to be surveyed and a final map to be prepared in accordance with the tentative map as approved or conditionally approved and in accordance with the Subdivision Map Act and this chapter; provided, however, that if prior to the expiration of said three years the subdivider files with the Planning Commission a written application for an extension, the Planning Commission or, on appeal, the City Council, may at any time 90 days prior to the expiration of said three years grant an extension not exceeding three years. In the event the Planning Commission denies a subdivider's application for extension, the subdivider may appeal to the City Council. Following the hearing on an appeal from the decision of the Planning Commission, the City Council shall grant or deny the extension or grant the extension subject to specified conditions.
(Ord. 459 § 16.03.104, 1979; Ord. 546 § 1, 1981; Ord. 596 § 1, 1982)
A. 
If a subdivider desires to revise or alter a proposed subdivision for which a tentative map has been approved by the City Council, the subdivider may file with the Planning Commission a revised tentative map on payment of the fees prescribed in Chapter 18.76.
B. 
A revised tentative map shall conform to the following requirements:
1. 
The proposed subdivision shown on such map shall generally conform to the street and lot pattern shown on the approved tentative map.
2. 
The proposed subdivision shown on such map shall include only one contiguous area consisting of all or a portion of the subdivision shown on the approved tentative map together with such additional land, if any, as the subdivider desires to include.
3. 
The map shall contain all of the information required on tentative maps and shall be accompanied by such data as is required to be filed with tentative maps.
C. 
A revised tentative map may be filed within 18 months after the approval of the tentative map by the City Council or, if an extension of time is granted, within the period specified.
(Ord. 459 § 16.03.105, 1979)
A. 
Where a subdivider desires to refile a tentative map after proceedings thereon have terminated by reason of the expiration of the time allowed for filing the final map, such tentative map may be refiled in accordance with procedures specified in this chapter, upon payment of the fee prescribed, provided the Director determines that all of the following conditions are present:
1. 
No part of the land included within the subdivision shown on the approved tentative map has been sold or transferred.
2. 
Establishment of the street pattern or lot design shown on the approved tentative map has not been made impractical or impossible by the installation of utilities, establishment of easements or rights-of-way, or the construction or establishment of buildings or structures on land within the subdivision or adjacent thereto.
3. 
No final map or parcel map conflicting with the design or location of streets shown on the approved tentative map has been recorded or filed for record.
4. 
Establishment of the street pattern or lot design shown on the approved tentative map has not been made impractical or impossible by the approval of any other tentative map.
5. 
No plan or ordinance has been adopted, no regulation established and no annexation to a city or incorporation of a city has taken place since the approval or conditional approval of the approved tentative map which would require any change in the size, shape or design of the lots or the location, alignment, width or improvement of the streets within the subdivision or adjacent to the boundaries thereof.
6. 
No inspection of the property by any City officer or department will be required other than to determine that the above enumerated conditions are present.
7. 
No extension of time shall have been granted for such tentative map pursuant to Section 18.12.110.
8. 
Not more than two years shall have elapsed since the expiration date of the original tentative map.
B. 
The Director may require an affidavit of the subdivider that the conditions specified in paragraphs 1 and 2 of subsection A are true.
C. 
A tentative map filed pursuant to this section shall expire 36 months from the date on which the first tentative map expired.
(Ord. 596 § 2, 1982)