A parcel map is required for subdivisions (to which this title
applies) that create four or fewer parcels; and those subdivisions
exempt from tentative and final maps by the Act or this code. No parcel
map is required for a land division of four or fewer parcels where
such land is conveyed to a public utility for a public use.
(Ord. 2189 § 1, 2020)
Pursuant to Section 66428, a subdivider may request the waiver
of a parcel map if the following conditions apply:
(a)
Each parcel created by the subdivision has a gross area not less
than forty acres or not less than a quarter of a quarter section.
(b)
The land consists of a parcel or parcels of land having approved
access to a public street or highway, comprises part of a tract of
land zoned exclusively for commercial or industrial development, and
has city council approval as to street widths and alignments.
(Ord. 2189 § 1, 2020)
(a)
A request to waive a parcel map must be filed on forms provided by
the director, together with required filing fees.
(b)
The director will review the application for compliance with the
provisions of this code and the Act. The director will report to the
planning commission and identify the extent to which the waiver request
complies with the required findings in this code, and recommend to
the commission to approve or deny the waiver request.
(c)
The planning commission will consider the application for a waiver
of the parcel map at a public hearing.
(d)
At the conclusion of the public hearing, the planning commission
must determine whether to approve or deny the waiver request. The
action of the planning commission is final unless an appeal is filed
in accordance with Title 21.
(Ord. 2189 § 1, 2020)
To grant a request for waiving a parcel map requirement, the
planning commission must find that the proposed subdivision complies
with this code with regard to area, improvement, and design; floodwater
drainage control; appropriate improved public roadways; sanitary disposal
facilities; water supply availability; environmental protection; and
other applicable regulations.
(Ord. 2189 § 1, 2020)
If the planning commission waives a parcel map requirement,
the city must issue a certificate of compliance required to complete
the subdivision of property to the subdivider.
(Ord. 2189 § 1, 2020)
(a)
A parcel map waiver expires twenty-four months from the date it was
approved.
(b)
The subdivider may request an extension for a parcel map waiver.
Such requests must be made to the director on forms provided by the
director, with the payment of any required fees, at least fifteen
days before the parcel map waiver expires.
(c)
The director can approve, conditionally approve, or deny an extension
request pursuant to this title. Any director's decision may be appealed
to the planning commission in accordance with Title 21. Any such extension
is limited to a total of eighteen months.
(Ord. 2189 § 1, 2020)
At a minimum, each parcel map submitted to the city must comply
with the following:
(a)
The parcel map must meet the requirements of the Act and be in the
form and contain the required data set forth in this section.
(b)
The parcel map must be prepared by or under the direction of a licensed
land surveyor or a civil engineer registered as such prior to January
1, 1982, and be based upon a property survey, and all statements on
the map must comply with Sections 66449 and 66450.
(c)
The scale of the map must be large enough (not smaller than the equivalent
of one inch for every one hundred feet) to show details clearly and
contain sufficient sheets of paper for accomplishing these requirements.
(d)
The title of each parcel map must include a name and a map number,
as secured from the county surveyor, conspicuously placed at the top
of the sheet, followed by the words "consisting of ______ sheets"
(showing the number thereof), followed by the words "in the City of
Monterey Park" or "partly in the City of Monterey Park and partly
in unincorporated territory."
(e)
Every sheet of the map must bear the title (but not subtitle), scale,
north arrow, sheet number, and the number of each adjoining sheet
in its proper location.
(f)
Below the title, a subtitle must appear consisting of a description
of all the property being subdivided. The subtitle must reference
any such map or maps of the property which were previously recorded
or filed in the county recorder's office; or which were previously
filed with the county clerk pursuant to a final judgment in any action
in partition; or which have been previously filed in the office of
the county recorder under authority of Section 66499.55; or by reference
to the plat of any United States survey.
(g)
Each reference in such description to any tract or subdivision must
be spelled out and worded identically with the original record thereof
and show a complete reference to the book and page of records of such
county.
(h)
The description must also include reference to any vacated area,
with the number of the ordinance of vacation included.
(i)
The name of the surveyor or engineer, survey date, and map scale
must be stated on the title sheet, below the subtitle. The map must
also show the basis of bearings by referencing to some recorded subdivision
map, county surveyor's map, or other record acceptable to such county
surveyor, or to a solar or polaris observation. The basis of bearings
must not to be in close proximity to the north arrow.
(j)
Lots must be numbered consecutively, commencing with the number "1,"
with no omissions or duplications.
(k)
Each lot must be shown entirely on one sheet.
(l)
Names of proposed streets must conform to a street name list approved
by the city council. The names of all proposed streets must be shown
without abbreviations.
(m)
All streets, highways, easements (except easements indicated for
privately owned public utility companies), and parcels of land shown
on the parcel map and intended for any public use must be offered
for dedication for public use.
(n)
Where easements for conveyance to privately owned public utility
companies are reserved, a certificate to that effect must be shown
on the parcel map. In no event may this certificate show the erection
of any dwelling house, building or other structure (excluding all,
or portions, of a fence) upon, over or across any public utility easement
without the express permission of the public utility companies occupying
such easement.
(o)
All of the following certificates and acknowledgments must appear
on the title sheet of a parcel map:
(1)
Owner's certificate and acknowledgment and offer of dedication, if
any;
(2)
Certificate of the city clerk of approval by the city council and
acceptance of offer of dedication;
(3)
Certificate of approval of the director or city surveyor if the director
is registered after January 1, 1982;
(4)
Certificate of the subdivision engineer with that engineer's state
registered engineer's number or of the subdivision surveyor with that
surveyor's state licensed land surveyor's number; and
(5)
Such other affidavits, certificates, acknowledgments, endorsements,
and notarial seals as are required by law.
(p)
The parcel map must particularly define, delineate, and designate
all lots intended for sale or reserved for private purposes; all lots
offered for dedication for any purpose; and any private streets with
all dimensions, minimum lot sizes, boundaries and courses clearly
shown and defined in every case.
(q)
Lots offered for dedication other than for streets or easements must
be designated by number.
(r)
Private streets must be designated by name and include the words
"not a public street."
(s)
Sufficient linear, angular and curve data must be shown to readily
determine the bearing and length of the boundary lines of the subdivision
and of the boundary lines of every block, lot, and parcel which is
a part thereof. Wherever practicable, all lots and blocks must be
shown in their entirety on one sheet.
(t)
Arc lengths, radii, and central angle and radial bearing of each
curve at intersection with a line not tangent to such curve must be
shown.
(u)
The parcel map must fully describe and show the location of any stakes,
monuments, or other evidence to determine the boundaries of the subdivision.
Each adjacent corner of each adjoining subdivision or portion thereof
by lot and block numbers, tract names and place of record, or by section,
township and range or other proper designation must be shown and identified
on the map.
(v)
The location, size, and depth of all monuments placed in making the
survey must be shown, and if any points were reset by ties, that fact
must be noted.
(w)
The boundary of the subdivision must be indicated by a distinctive
symbol applied on the front side of the tracing and inside such boundary
line. This symbol must be capable of transfer to a blue-line print
of the map and must not to obliterate any line, figure or other data
appearing on the map.
(x)
All lines shown on the map that do not constitute a part of the subdivision
itself must be clearly distinguishable from those lines which are
a part of the subdivision, and any area enclosed by such lines is
labeled "not a part of this subdivision."
(y)
City boundaries that cross or adjoin the subdivision must be clearly
designated and located in relation to adjacent lot or block lines.
(z)
The parcel map must show the line of high water in instances where
the subdivision is adjacent to a stream, channel, or any body of water.
The parcel map must also show any area subject to periodic inundation
by water, as required by the engineer.
(Ord. 2189 § 1, 2020)
(a)
All parcel maps, together with any required reports or other relevant
information, must be filed with the director on forms provided by
the director.
(b)
Upon deeming a parcel map application to be complete, the city planner
will forward the application to other appropriate city departments
for review and comment. The director is responsible for checking the
parcel map as to correctness of surveying data, plans and specifications
of improvements, certificates of dedication, acceptances of dedication
and acknowledgments, and such other matters that require checking
to ensure compliance with the provisions of law and this code. The
director must review the parcel map for consistency with this code,
the General Plan, any applicable specific plan, and the city's development
policies.
(c)
If the director determines that the parcel map conforms to all the
requirements of this code and the Act, and provided the subdivider
has posted all bonds or deposited money in a form acceptable to the
city or negotiable bonds as required by this title, the director must
approve the parcel map and forward it to the county recorder for filing
in compliance with Section 66540. Otherwise, the subdivider will be
notified and given the opportunity to make necessary changes and resubmit
the parcel map, along with any other required information.
(Ord. 2189 § 1, 2020)
The city council must act on a parcel map in either of the following
circumstances:
(a)
When a dedication or offer of dedication is required. In this instance,
the director must forward the parcel map to the city clerk who must
then place the item on the next city council agenda for acceptance
of dedications; or
(b)
When improvements are required pursuant to this title or other regulations
remain incomplete and the subdivider is requesting deferred completion.
The director cannot approve the map unless the subdivider enters into
a subdivision improvement agreement with the city and agrees to post
security in the form of faithful performance and labor and materials
bonds to guarantee the improvements, and the city council approves
of the agreement and the security.
(Ord. 2189 § 1, 2020)
Recordation of a parcel map has the effect of eliminating any
lot lines within the boundaries of the subdivision that existed before
recordation of the parcel map.
(Ord. 2189 § 1, 2020)
