The regulations contained in this chapter shall apply to the subdivisions described in subdivisions (a), (b), (c) (d) and (e) of Section 66426 of the Subdivision Map Act and all other subdivisions as to which a final map or parcel map is not otherwise required by the Subdivision Map Act; provided, however, that no parcel map need be filed for a subdivision of four or fewer parcels resulting from a conveyance of land to a government agency, public entity or public utility when said subdivision has been approved by that agency entity or utility.
(Ord. 185 § 1, 1998)
Before land may be divided by a parcel map, a tentative map shall be submitted. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the tentative map shall be processed and acted upon by the subdivision review committee, planning commission and town council accordance with the provisions of Chapter 14.20 of these regulations.
(Ord. 185 § 1, 1998)
Within twenty-four months of the date of approval or conditional approval of a tentative map, the subdivider may cause a parcel map to be prepared and recorded in accordance with the tentative map as approved and in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the Subdivision Map Act.
(Ord. 185 § 1, 1998)
In accordance with Section 66463.5 the Subdivision Map Act, failure to file a parcel map within twenty-four months of the date of approval or conditional approval or conditional approval of a tentative map, or within any extended period of time granted by the planning commission in accordance with Section 14.28.050, shall terminate all proceedings. Before a parcel map may be thereafter filed, a new tentative map shall be approved in accordance with this chapter.
(Ord. 185 § 1, 1998)
A. 
Request by Subdivider. The subdivider or owner may request an extension of the expiration date of the approved or conditionally approved tentative map by written application to the planning department. The application shall be filed not less than thirty days before the map is to expire, and shall state the reasons for requesting the extension.
B. 
Review by Subdivision Review Committee. Within a reasonable period of time following submission of an application for an extension, the planning director shall schedule the application for an extension for a public hearing before the subdivision review committee. The subdivision review committee shall consider the extension application and make a recommendation to the planning commission.
C. 
Planning Commission Hearing and Action.
1. 
Notice. Following consideration of the application by the Subdivision Review committee, the planning director shall prepare a report with the recommendation on the application for an extension, and shall set the matter for hearing before the planning commission at its next regularly scheduled meeting. The matter shall be noticed in the same manner as a tentative map application, as specified in Section 14.20.090.
2. 
Action by the Planning Commission. The planning commission shall approve, conditionally approve, or deny the application for an extension of the expiration date, and shall make findings supporting its decision.
D. 
Time Limit of Extension. The time at which the tentative map expires may be extended by the planning commission for a period not exceeding five years or such additional time as may be authorized by the Subdivision Map Act.
E. 
Appeal of Extension. The subdivider or any interested person adversely affected may appeal any action of the planning commission on the extension to the town council in accordance with Section 14.20.110, except that any appeal shall be filed within fifteen days after the action by the planning commission.
(Ord. 185 § 1, 1998; Ord. 207 § 44, 2003)
The parcel map shall be prepared by or under the direction of a registered civil engineer or licensed land surveyor and shall conform to the requirements of the Subdivision Map Act and to all of the following provisions:
A. 
The general form and layout of the map, including but not limited to the size and type of lettering, drafting and location of acknowledgements, shall be determined by the town engineer;
B. 
The scale of the map shall be one inch equals forty feet or as otherwise permitted by the town engineer, but in any case the map shall show clearly all details of the subdivision;
C. 
All dimensions shall be shown in feet and hundredths of a foot. No ditto marks shall be used;
D. 
If more than three sheets are necessary to show the entire subdivision, an index map shall be included on one of the sheets;
E. 
The parcel map number, scale and north point shall be shown on each appropriate sheet;
F. 
A title sheet, designated as page number one of the parcel map, shall be provided; except that, where the size of the subdivision permits, in lieu of a separate title sheet, the information required to be shown thereon may be shown on the same sheet as the map of the subdivision;
G. 
The parcel map shall be so made and shall be in such condition when filed that legible prints and negatives can be made therefrom.
(Ord. 185 § 1, 1998)
The title sheet shall contain the following information:
A. 
Title, consisting of the words "Parcel Map" and followed by the parcel map name, if any, conspicuously placed at the top of the sheet;
B. 
Below the title shall be a subtitle consisting of a description of all property being subdivided by reference to such map or maps of the property shown thereon as shall have been last previously recorded or filed in the county recorder's office, or shall have been last previously filed with the county clerk pursuant to a final judgment in any action in partition, or shall have been previously filed in the office of the county recorder under authority of the Subdivision Map Act or by reference to the plat of any United States survey. The description shall also include reference to any vacated area with the number of the ordinance vacating such area, followed by the words "Town of Loomis, Placer County, California," followed by the month and year of recording. References to tracts and subdivisions in the description must be worded identically with original records and references to book and page of record must be complete;
C. 
Following the description shall be the name of the engineer or surveyor preparing the map and the sheet numbering;
D. 
Affidavits, certificates, acknowledgments, endorsements, acceptances, and notarial seals required or authorized by the Subdivision Map Act and by these regulations. The surveyor's statement, town engineer's statement and recorder's statement shall be shown on Sheet 1;
E. 
Where a field survey is required, the basis of bearings used in the survey, making reference to some recorded subdivision map or other record acceptable to the town engineer.
(Ord. 185 § 1, 1998)
The parcel map shall substantially conform to the tentative map approved or conditionally approved by the planning commission (including all approved modifications) and shall contain the following information and such additional information as stated in Section 14.24.050 as may be required by the town engineer:
A. 
The boundary line of the subdivision shall be designated by a bold border inside the boundary line. Such border shall be of such density to appear on a blue line print of the map without obliterating any figures, lines or other data;
B. 
Where a field survey is required, all survey data and information required by Section 14.40.120;
C. 
All lots or parcels intended for sale or reserved for private purposes with all dimensions, boundaries and courses clearly shown and defined in each case;
D. 
Each parcel shall be identified by a number;
E. 
The location and width of streets, alleys, pedestrianways and other easements and the portions thereof dedicated or offered for dedication to the town, including their recording references the names of streets;
F. 
The lines of public easements to which the lots are subject shown in fine, dashed lines; the lines, bearings and dimensions of easements deeded to the town;
G. 
All limitations on rights of access to and from streets and lots and other parcels of land.
(Ord. 185 § 1, 1998)
The following statements, filing fees, documents and other data, and as many additional copies thereof as may be required, shall be filed with the parcel map:
A. 
The names, addresses and telephone numbers of the record owners, subdivider and persons preparing the parcel map;
B. 
A filing fee as established by ordinance and/or resolution of the town council;
C. 
A separate irrevocable offer of dedication of property for streets, alleys, pedestrianways, equestrian or hiking trails, biking paths, drainage channels, sewers, other easements or for any public purpose or future public purpose when the dedication is not made by certificate on the parcel map. The offer shall be on a form approved by the town attorney and the town engineer for recordation in the office of the county recorder, and shall be in such terms as to be binding on the owner, his or her heirs, assigns or successors in interest, and shall continue until the town council accepts or rejects such offer;
D. 
A guarantee of title or letter from a title company doing business in the town, approved by the town engineer certifying that the signatures of all persons signing offers of dedication and the certificate required by subdivision (e) of Section 66445 of the Subdivision Map Act and signing all acknowledgments thereto appear and are correctly shown;
E. 
Where a field survey has been made, the engineer or surveyor under whose supervision the survey was made shall furnish the town engineer with a traverse sheet in a form approved by the town engineer giving latitudes, departures and coordinates and showing the mathematical closure;
F. 
The plans, profiles, cross sections, specifications and applicable permits for the construction and installation of improvements as required by Chapter 14.44;
G. 
A final grading plan. Submission of a final grading plan may be waived by the town engineer when he determines that the submission of such plan is not required for proper grading, flood hazard mitigation and erosion control of the subdivision;
H. 
The agreement to make improvements and the security for such improvements as required by Chapter 14.44;
I. 
All protective covenants, conditions, restrictions or affirmative obligations in the form in which the same are to be recorded when the approval thereof by an officer of the town has been made a condition of approval of the tentative map;
J. 
All other data required by law or as a condition of approval of the tentative map, including plans, reports, agreements, permits, fees, security or other requirement.
(Ord. 185 § 1, 1998; Ord. 207 § 45, 2003)
A. 
Where the subdivision creates four parcels or less, the parcel map may be compiled from available record data when the town engineer determines that sufficient survey information exists on filed maps and when the location of any boundary of the parcel map, either by monuments or possessory lines, is certain.
B. 
All other parcel maps shall be based upon a field survey made in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 14.40 of these regulations.
(Ord. 185 § 1, 1998)
A. 
The subdivider shall cause the surveyor's statement to be executed and shall file with the town engineer as many prints of the original tracing of the parcel map as may reasonably be required. A parcel map shall not be considered as having been filed unless and until it complies with all provisions of this article and the statements, filing fees, documents and other data required to accompany the parcel map have been submitted in a form acceptable to the town engineer.
B. 
Where offers of dedications of land are to be made in conjunction with the parcel map and are not made by statement on the parcel map, the subdivider shall transmit the instrument of dedication and the accompanying title report to the town engineer. The instrument shall include a plat showing the area being dedicated. In such cases, the parcel map shall not be considered as having been filed unless and until the offer of dedication has been approved for recordation as provided in Section 14.28.120.
(Ord. 185 § 1, 1998)
A. 
Dedications may be required to be made by separate instrument. After receiving the instrument of dedication and accompanying title report, the town engineer shall approve or disapprove the instrument of dedication as to its suitability for recordation. After approving an offer to dedicate, the town engineer shall record the offer in the office of the county recorder.
B. 
If the offer of dedication is subsequently rejected by the council, the town engineer shall issue a release from such offer, which shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder.
(Ord. 185 § 1, 1998)
A. 
Upon acceptance of the parcel map and accompanying documents, fees and materials for filing, the town engineer shall cause the same to be examined, and if found to be in substantial conformity with the approved tentative map and all amendments conditions, modifications and provisions made or required by the advisory agency and council, and if found to be complete, technically correct, in conformity with the improvement plans and specifications, and in compliance with the requirements of these regulations, planned street lines, other applicable specific plans and ordinance, shall execute the town engineers' certificate on the map. The town engineer may accept, conditionally accept, or reject on behalf of the own dedications and offers of dedication which are made by certificate on the parcel map. No final map shall be certified until the required improvements have been installed or agreed to be installed in accordance with Chapter 14.44.
B. 
Should the map or other accompanying documents, fees or materials be found to be incomplete or incorrect in any respect, the subdivider shall be advised in writing, by mail, of the changes or additions that must be made before the map may be certified.
(Ord. 185 § 1, 1998)
A. 
The requirement for filing a parcel map may be waived by the planning commission for projects not requiring a town council approval and by the town council for those projects requiring town council approval. An application for waiver of the parcel map shall be filed at the time of filing of the tentative map.
B. 
The parcel map may be waived only if the planning commission or town council determines that all of the following conditions are satisfied:
1. 
Findings. The parcel ma may be waived only if the planning commission or town council makes the following findings:
a. 
The subdivision conforms to all requirements of this chapter, other provisions of the Municipal Code, provisions of the Subdivision Map Act, and other applicable laws, regulations and standards, including, but not limited to, those with respect to area, improved public roads, sanitary disposal facilities, water supply availability and environmental protection;
b. 
The subdivision conforms to the general plan and any applicable specific or community plan;
c. 
The parcel map is not necessary to ensure the accuracy of the description of property, location of property lines and monumenting of property lines.
2. 
Conditions. In addition to the foregoing requirements of this section, the following conditions must be satisfied before a certificate of compliance for the property may be recorded:
a. 
The subdivider must comply with Section 14.28.100 and the requirements of the Subdivision Map Act.
b. 
Property descriptions and drawings showing information required by Section 14.28.080, and closure calculations must be submitted.
c. 
A preliminary title report or letter from a title company showing that the subdivider is the owner of the subject property must be submitted.
d. 
Certificates, statements and acknowledgments required by Section 66445 of the Subdivision Map Act.
e. 
A filing fee established by resolution of the town council must be paid.
f. 
Town engineer review and approval.
g. 
Recording of certificate of compliance.
(Ord. 185 § 1, 1998)