All parcels of land intended or needed for public use shall
be offered for dedication to the City before any subdivision is approved,
typically, when the final map is filed. The subdivider shall grant
whatever land or easements the City determines are necessary to fulfill
the purposes of these regulations. Such dedication of parcels or easements
and improvements may be required for the following uses:
(a) Streets
and alleys, including future streets;
(b) Private
streets (conditional dedication) for emergency services;
(c) Pedestrian
and bicycle paths, or sidewalks;
(f) Natural
watercourses, storm drains and flood-control channels;
(g) Public
access, including access for maintenance or fire protection;
(h) Protection
of scenic and environmentally sensitive lands;
(j) Parks
and recreation facilities;
(k) Protection
of slope banks, areas subject to flooding, and other potentially hazardous
areas;
(l) School
sites as may be necessary in accordance with the Subdivision Map Act;
(m) Sites
to be preserved for public use as provided in the Subdivision Map
Act;
(n) Such
other public purposes as the City may deem necessary, provided the
amount of property required to be dedicated bears a reasonable relationship
to the increased need for public facilities created by the subdivision.
(Ord. 370 § 2, 2000)
If, at the time the final map or parcel map is approved, any
of the easements set out in Section 66477.2 of the California Government
Code are rejected, the offers of dedication shall be irrevocable and
the Council may, by resolution at any later date and without further
action by the subdivider, rescind its action and accept and open any
of these easements for public use. The acceptance shall be recorded
in the office of the County Recorder.
(Ord. 370 § 2, 2000)
The City may require that any dedication or offer of dedication
of a street shall include a waiver of direct access rights to such
street from any property shown on a final map or parcel map as abutting
thereon, and that if the dedication is accepted, such waiver shall
become effective in accordance with the provisions of the waiver of
direct access.
(Ord. 370 § 2, 2000)
Before a final map is recorded, or if dedication and offers
of dedication are supplemented by separate instrument, before such
instrument or instruments are recorded, a preliminary title report
shall be issued for the benefit and protection of the City. Any expense
involved in complying with the provisions of this section shall borne
by the subdivider.
(Ord. 370 § 2, 2000)