The provisions of this Section and the Subdivision Map Act shall govern the necessity for tentative and final maps.
A. Tentative and final maps shall be required for all subdivisions creating five (5) or more parcels, five (5) or more condominiums as defined in Civil Code Section 783, a community apartment project containing five (5) or more parcels or for the conversion of a multiple dwelling containing five (5) or more dwelling units to a stock cooperative except where:
1. A condominium is constructed or an existing structure is converted to a condominium on a single parcel shown on a final map or parcel map recorded after January 1, 1960; provided, however, that the planning officer may require that a tentative and final map be required for the purposes of obtaining improvements, additional easements and dedications or for other circumstances which warrant the filing of a new map; or
2. The land before division contains less than five (5) acres, each parcel created by the division abuts upon a maintained public street or highway; and no dedications or improvements are required by the legislative body; or
3. Each lot created by the division has a gross area of twenty (20) acres or more and has an approved access to a maintained public street or highway, consisting of one of the following:
a. A dedicated right-of-way;
b. An offer to dedicate to the City a width as established by the circulation element of the General Plan or the City’s right-of-way standards and an easement of a strip of land at least twenty (20) feet in width which expressly grants to the owner of the subdivision and any successor(s) in interest the right to use the easement without limit as to the quantity of vehicular traffic from each lot created by the owners or successor(s) in interest to improved roadways in the City street system, both of which abut or connect to a publicly maintained roadway or connect to an existing traveled road where a prescriptive right by user has been established for public use;
c. An offer to dedicate to the City and to the public in general, an easement for public road, highway and public utility purposes, of a width as established by the circulation element of the General Plan or to the public in general can be accepted by public use, but the easement or road constructed thereon shall not become a City street until and unless the City Council, by appropriate resolution, has caused said road to be accepted into the City street system;
d. An existing traveled way where a prescriptive right by user has been established for public use by a court decree;
Approved access shall not be approved by the City Engineer unless the access substantially conforms to the alignment shown in the circulation element where applicable and may practically and feasibly applied to road use.
4. The land consists of a parcel or parcels of land having approved access, as defined in Subsection 3. above, to a public street or highway which comprises part of a tract of land zoned for industrial or commercial development and which has the approval of the governing body as to street alignments and widths; or
5. Each lot created by the division has a gross area of forty (40) acres or more or each of which is a quarter of a quarter section or larger.
B. A parcel map shall be required for those subdivisions described in this Title as being excepted from the requirement for tentative and final maps.
C. Should a subdivider wish to file multiple final maps for a development project that will be phased, then one of the following shall be completed:
1. The subdivider, at the time the tentative map is filed, shall inform the planning agency of the subdivider’s intention to file multiple final maps on such tentative map; or
2. After filing of the tentative map, the planning agency and the subdivider concur in the filing of multiple final maps.
A subdivider filing multiple final maps shall show the boundary limits of each phase and designate the sequence of filing to the satisfaction of the development review committee.
D. A final map shall be required for a cemetery and shall be recorded only with the approval of the County Surveyor, subject to the requirements imposed by Title 17 of this Code and Division 8 of the State of California Health and Safety Code.
E. Notices of intention to convert residential real property into a condominium project, a community apartment project or a stock cooperative project shall be made as required by Government Code Section 66427.1 prior to the filing of such map.
F. At the time of filing a map for a subdivision to be created from the conversion of a mobile home park to another use, the subdivider shall also file a report on the impact of the mobile home park conversion pursuant to Government Code Section 66427.4. At least thirty (30) days prior to public hearing for such a conversion, the County shall inform the applicant in writing of the provisions of California Civil Code Section 798.56 and all applicable local requirements which impose upon the applicant a duty to notify residents and mobile home owners of the mobile home park of the proposed change in use.
G. At the time of filing a map for the conversion of a stock cooperative or a community apartment project to a condominium, the subdivider shall submit documents showing that the requirements of Government Code Section 66452.10 have been met.