The final or parcel map and any accompanying data or additional information required by the City shall be prepared by or under the direction of a registered civil engineer and licensed land surveyor authorized to practice in the State of California.
(§ 2 Exh. B, Ord. 938, eff. July 3, 2008)
The form and content of the final or parcel map shall conform to the Subdivision Map Act, City standards, this chapter, and applicable standards imposed by the County of Orange for maps as established by the County Surveyor and Office of the Recorder. The final form and content of the final or parcel map shall be to the satisfaction of the City Engineer.
(§ 2 Exh. B, Ord. 938, eff. July 3, 2008)
The City Engineer shall review all final and parcel map submittals for conformance with this chapter, and may deem them incomplete and return all or portions of a submittal for reasons which include, but are not limited to the following: incomplete submittal or filing; untimely submittal or filing; nonconformance with the tentative map; nonconformance with this chapter; nonconformance with City standards; errors or omissions on the final or parcel map, accompanying data; or other additional information required by the City.
(§ 2 Exh. B, Ord. 938, eff. July 3, 2008)
(a) 
The City Engineer shall determine that a complete and timely final map filing has been made if he or she determines that, at a minimum, the following items have been received, prior to expiration of the tentative map:
(1) 
Improvement plans approved by the City Engineer;
(2) 
Complete and accepted public improvements or acceptable subdivision improvement agreement(s) and securities;
(3) 
Proof of payment of all applicable fees;
(4) 
Will serve letters from all applicable utilities and agencies;
(5) 
Noninterference letters from all applicable easement or title interest holders;
(6) 
Original and copies of all sheets of the final map in their required form and content;
(7) 
Proof of ownership of all affected properties;
(8) 
Subdivision guarantee from a title company, less than 60 days old;
(9) 
Letter from all affected property owners requesting approval of the final map;
(10) 
Small scale map of the proposed subdivision;
(11) 
Written clearance from all affected City departments;
(12) 
Written clearance from all affected public agencies;
(13) 
Proof of payment of all delinquent assessments;
(14) 
All applicable agreements or documents to be approved by the City Council or filed or recorded concurrently with the map; and
(15) 
Any other applicable requirement of this chapter.
(b) 
Upon finding all statements and submittals complete and satisfactory in accordance with this chapter, and after the map has been reviewed and recommended for approval, the City Engineer shall sign the appropriate statements and transmit the original map and any other items requiring City Council approval to the City Clerk within 30 days of receipt of a complete filing, with a recommendation of map approval.
(§ 2 Exh. B, Ord. 938, eff. July 3, 2008)
(a) 
The date the final or parcel map shall be deemed filed with the City Council shall be the date of the next regularly scheduled meeting of the City Council following the date on which the City Clerk receives the recommendation for map approval from the City Engineer. The City Council shall consider approval of the subdivision improvement agreement and improvement security, and any other required agreements, in conjunction with the approval of the final or parcel map. If any of the items requiring City Council approval are deemed unacceptable by the City Council the City Council shall instruct the City Engineer to secure corrections, according to their direction.
(b) 
The City Council shall approve or disapprove the subdivision improvement agreement, improvement security and final or parcel map at the meeting at which it receives the map, or at the next regular meeting following the meeting at which it received the map. If the City Council does not approve or disapprove the map within this time period, or any authorized extension thereof, and the map conforms to all requirements and rulings, it shall be deemed approved. The City Clerk shall certify or state its approval thereon.
(c) 
The City Council shall not postpone or refuse approval of a final or parcel map because the subdivider has failed to meet a tentative map condition requiring construction or installation of off-site improvements on land which neither the subdivider nor the City has sufficient title or interest to permit the improvements to be made. However, in such case, prior to final map approval, the subdivider shall be required to enter into an agreement with the City to complete such improvements, pursuant to Government Code Section 66462, upon acquisition of said title and interest by the City. Upon entering into such agreement, the City shall acquire the subject property interests in accordance with the provisions of Government Code Section 66462.5. Failure of the subdivider to execute such an agreement shall be cause for the City Council to postpone or refuse approval of the final or parcel map.
(d) 
The City Council shall not deny approval of a final or parcel map if the City has previously approved a tentative map for the proposed subdivision and if the City Council finds that the final or parcel map is in compliance with the requirements of the Subdivision Map Act, this chapter, and the approved tentative map.
(§ 2 Exh. B, Ord. 938, eff. July 3, 2008)
(a) 
Upon approval of the final or parcel map and subdivision improvement agreement by the City Council, the City Clerk shall execute the appropriate statement on the statement sheet and shall, subject to the provisions of Government Code Section 66464, cause the map to be transmitted to the Office of the Orange County Surveyor for final review, and then to the Orange County Office of the Recorder for filing. The final or parcel map and any separate documents, if required, shall be filed concurrently.
(b) 
If, for any cause of the subdivider, the final or parcel map is not recorded by the County Recorder within 180 days from the date the City Council approved the final or parcel map, then the City Council’s approval of the final map shall be automatically rescinded, and appropriate bonds or sureties will be returned to the subdivider, as determined by the City Engineer. If the tentative map has expired, the unit of land previously affected by the final or parcel map will automatically revert to its pre-map configuration. If the tentative map has not yet expired, then the tentative map will be considered in effect, except that such action shall not alter the expiration date of the tentative map.
(§ 2 Exh. B, Ord. 938, eff. July 3, 2008)
(a) 
General requirements. After a final or parcel map is filed for record in the office of the County Recorder, it may be amended by a certificate of correction or an amending map for any of the following purposes:
(1) 
To correct an error in any course or distance shown thereon;
(2) 
To show any course or distance that was omitted therefrom;
(3) 
To correct an error in the description of the real property shown on the map;
(4) 
To indicate monuments set after the death, disability, retirement from practice, or replacement of the engineer or surveyor charged with the responsibilities for setting monuments;
(5) 
To show the proper location or character of any monument that has been changed in location or character, or originally was shown at the wrong location or incorrectly as to its character; or
(6) 
To correct any other type of map error or omission as approved by the City Engineer, which does not affect any property right. Such errors and omissions may include, but are not limited to, lot numbers, acreage, street names and identification of adjacent record maps. For purposes of this section, an “error” does not include changes in courses or distances from which an error is not ascertainable from the data shown on the final or parcel map.
(b) 
Form and content of amendments. The amending map or certificate of correction shall be prepared in a manner approved by the City Engineer, and the form and content shall conform to the applicable requirements of Government Code Section 66470.
(c) 
Submittal and approval by City Engineer. The amending map or certificate of correction, completed as to final form, shall be submitted to the City Engineer for examination. The City Engineer shall make the following determination:
(1) 
If the only changes made are those set forth in subsection (a) of this section, then the City Engineer shall certify to this fact on the amending map or certificate of correction, within the time period specified in Government Code Section 66471.
(2) 
If the City Engineer determines that proposed changes are beyond the scope of the changes listed in subsection (a) of this section, the amending map or certificate of correction must be submitted to the City Council for review and approval, pursuant to Government Code Section 66472.1 and subsection (d) of this section.
(d) 
City Council approval required. A certificate of correction or an amending map may be used to make modifications to a final or parcel map filed with the Office of the County Recorder when there are changes that are beyond the scope of the changes listed in subsection (a) of this section, that make any or all of the conditions of the map no longer appropriate or necessary, when the modifications do not impose any additional burden on the present fee owner of the property, and when the modifications do not alter any right, title or interest in the real property reflected on the recorded map. The modifications shall be set for public hearing by the City Council, who shall confine the hearing to consideration of, and action on, the proposed modification and issues related thereto.
(e) 
Filing with the Office of the County Recorder. After approval of the certificate of correction by the City Engineer, or the amending map by the City Council, the City Engineer or City Clerk shall cause the document to be transmitted to the Office of the Orange County Surveyor for final review, and then to the Orange County Office of the Recorder for filing. Thereupon, the original map shall be deemed to have been corrected, and thereafter shall impart all corrections in the same manner as though set forth on the original map.
(§ 2 Exh. B, Ord. 938, eff. July 3, 2008)