Any person desiring a lot line adjustment between two or more existing parcels, where the land taken from one parcel is added to an adjacent parcel, and where a greater number of parcels than originally existed is not thereby created, shall file an application for a lot line adjustment with the department of community development, accompanied by such information as the department may require, and by a fee established by resolution of the city council. The application shall be accompanied by a plot plan, eight and one half inches by fourteen inches in size, in a form prescribed by the director of the department of community development, and shall contain the signature(s) of all owner(s) of record of the properties involved, current title reports for the properties, and a legal description of the proposed lot line adjustment.
(Ord. 795 § 1, 1983)
A. 
Within thirty days after an application for approval of a lot line adjustment has been filed, the director of the department of community development, following a review of the proposed lot line adjustment by the city engineer, shall approve or conditionally approve or deny the lot line adjustment. The director of the department of community development shall approve or conditionally approve a lot line adjustment if the lot line adjustment does not:
1. 
Create any new lots;
2. 
Include any lots or parcels created illegally;
3. 
Impair any existing access or create a need for access to any adjacent lots of parcels;
4. 
Impair any existing easements or create a need for any new easements serving adjacent lots or parcels;
5. 
Constitute poor land planning or undesirable lot configurations due to existing environmental conditions or current zoning development standards; and
6. 
Require substantial alteration of any existing improvements or create a need for any new improvements.
B. 
The director of the department of community development may impose such conditions of approval, to be satisfied prior to recordation of the lot line adjustment, as the director finds necessary to insure that the boundary adjustments involved are in full compliance with this title.
C. 
In any case where a lot line adjustment is approved, the department of community development shall file a certificate of compliance with the county recorder's office.
D. 
Approval or conditional approval of a lot line adjustment by the director of the department of community development or by the planning commission shall not become effective until thirty days following receipt of notification of approval or conditional approval from the director of the department of community development.
(Ord. 795 § 1, 1983)
If the applicant is dissatisfied with any action taken by the director of the department of community development, the decision may be appealed to the planning commission within ten days of the date of mailing a notice of the action taken by the director of the department of community development. Within thirty days after the filing of an appeal, the planning commission shall consider that appeal and may either approve, conditionally approve, or deny the lot line adjustment in accordance with Section 17.24.020. A denial of a lot line adjustment by the planning commission shall be deemed final.
(Ord. 795 § 1, 1983)
Within fifteen days of the approval or conditional approval of a lot line adjustment by the director of the department of community development or, in the event of an appeal, by the planning commission, the director of the department of community development shall forward notification of such action to the city council. At least three days prior to the meeting at which the city council is scheduled to consider the notification, the director of the department of community development shall provide to the applicant a copy of the notification, as well as notice concerning the time and place of the meeting at which the city council will consider the matter. Within thirty days of the receipt of such notification the city council shall (1) determine not to review the matter; (2) determine to review and approve the action of the director and/or the planning commission; (3) determine that the lot line adjustment should be denied, in accordance with Section 17.24.020, or (4) determine that conditions for approval should be imposed, other than those imposed by the director of the department of community development by the planning commission.
(Ord. 795 § 1, 1983)