Filing
and Checking Fees. The subdivider shall pay the city fees for filing,
processing and checking all tentative subdivision maps, final subdivision
maps, tentative parcel maps, final parcel maps, street improvement
plans, sanitary sewer plans and utility plans, lot line adjustments
and/or lot mergers.
Filing
Procedures. Tentative maps shall be filed with the planning department
and shall be processed in accordance with the Subdivision Map Act
and the provisions of this title. The subdivider shall file as many
copies of the tentative map as may be required by the planning department.
Tentative subdivision maps shall include the following information:
Public
Hearing. The planning commission shall hold a public hearing on tentative
tract maps and tentative parcel maps. Public notice thereof shall
be given as provided in Section 66451.3 of the Subdivision Map Act.
Any interested person may appear at such a hearing and shall be heard.
Planning
Commission—Authority. The planning commission is made the advisory
agency of the city council as such advisory agency is established
and defined by the Stated Subdivision Map Act, and the powers and
authority delegated to the commission to investigate any and all matters
pertaining to proposed divisions of land to be created by either a
subdivision map or a parcel map, to make its findings of fact in relation
thereto, to approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove any such
map, and to report such actions to the city council and to the subdivider
in writing.
Time
Limit for Action. The commission shall approve, conditionally approve,
or disapprove the tentative map within 50 days of the filing thereof
with its clerk. Provided, however, that the time limit for action
may be extended for an additional time, not to exceed 30 days, subject
to the written consent of the subdivider. The action of the commission
shall become effective and final 10 days after the date of any such
action, excepting upon the filing of an appeal from such action made
in accordance with all procedures and requirements therefor. The filing
of an appeal shall stay the action of the commission.
Council
Review of Commission Action. The commission shall communicate its
approval, conditional approval, or disapproval of tentative maps and
its findings therefor to the city council within 10 days of any such
action.
Appeal
from Commission Actions. Appeal from any action taken by the commission
with respect to the tentative map shall be taken as provided by California
Government Code Section 66452.5, as it may be amended from time to
time, provided that on such appeal and hearing on complaints the noticed
public hearing shall be conducted in the manner prescribed in such
section.
A report as to conformity to the general plan, which is required
pursuant to Section 65402 of the Government Code as the result of
a proposed division of land, may be included as part of, and at the
same time as, the action taken by the advisory agency on such divisions
of land.
Alignment projects, provided that the advisory agency expressly
finds that any such disposition for street purposes, acquisitions,
dispositions, or abandonments for street widening, or alignment projects
of a minor nature.
Expiration.
The approval or conditional approval of a tentative map shall expire
24 months from the date the map was approved or conditionally approved
by the city council.
Extension.
The administrative committee is made the advisory agency of the council
in matters pertaining to the approval, conditional approval or denial
of extensions of time for tentative maps in accordance with the required
facts, conditions, procedures and time limits as set forth in Section
17.16.090 of this code.
Time Limit on Extensions. An extension or extensions of tentative
map approval or conditional approval shall not exceed an aggregate
of one year additional to the original term of approval by the council.
Effect of Map Modification on Extension. Modification of a tentative
map after approval, or conditional approval, shall not extend the
time limits imposed by this section.
Filing
Procedures. After receipt of the report of the planning commission
approving or conditionally approving the tentative map, the subdivider
shall submit to the city engineer the original final map and shall
make such arrangements or pay such fees as may be required by the
city engineer to provide the city with those prints of the final map
which are needed by the city for purposes of public record and for
purposes of distribution to other departments and agencies. The final
map shall be completed in accordance with the Subdivision Map Act
and this title, and in additions thereto, shall be accompanied by:
Traverse
sheets and work sheets showing the closure, within the allowable limits
of error, of the exterior boundaries and of each irregular block and
lot of the subdivision;
The
city engineer shall examine the final map as to sufficiency of affidavits
and acknowledgements, correctness of surveying data, mathematical
data and computations, and such other matters as require checking
to insure compliance with the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act
and of this title.
If
the final map is found to be in correct form and the matters shown
thereon are sufficient, the city engineer shall endorse his or her
approval thereon and transmit it to the city council, or return the
final map to the subdivider together with a statement setting forth
the reasons for its return. The council shall be the final authority
to approve or disapprove the subdivision map or the parcel map.
(Prior code § 9503.040)
A lot line adjustment between two or more adjacent parcels may
be permitted subject to the facts, conditions, procedures and required
findings as set forth in Section 17.16.090 of this code.