(A) Minimum improvements required for approval. No subdivision shall be approved unless those on-site and off-site improvements which are found by the City Engineer to be reasonably necessary to service the lots being created, are constructed or guaranteed to be constructed by the subdivider, which include, but not limited to, the following improvements:
(1) An adequate domestic water distribution system designed and constructed to service each lot proposed to be created.
(2) An adequate sewage system designed and constructed to serve each lot proposed to be created.
(3) An adequate storm water drainage system designed and constructed to serve each lot proposed to be created.
(4) An adequate public and/or private street and/or alley system designed and constructed to serve each lot proposed to be created.
(5) Adequate systems designed, and constructed to provide all necessary utilities to each lot proposed to be created, including, but not limited to, facilities for water, natural gas, electricity, cable television and telecommunications telephone services.
(6) An adequate traffic regulatory system, including necessary traffic signals, signs, pavement markings and stripings.
(7) The undergrounding of utilities pursuant to chapter 97, part 2 (Underground Utility Districts) of the Municipal Code.
(8) Any and all other improvements found necessary by the advisory agency and/or the appeal board to provide all services to each lot proposed to be created.
(B) Design requirements. The design of the subdivision shall conform to the requirements of this chapter, any and all design requirements set forth in the General Plan, the design and development standards established for the associated zoning district per the Zoning Code, the applicable design guidelines set forth in the Design Guidelines Manual, generally accepted engineering standards, and to such standards required by the advisory agency and/or the appeal board, including, but not limited to, plans for grading and erosion control.
(C) Reimbursement for supplemental improvements. The city may require that improvements installed by a subdivider for the benefit of the subdivision shall contain supplemental size, capacity or number for benefit of property not within the subdivision, and that the improvements be dedicated to the public. If improvements containing supplemental size, capacity or number are required to be installed, the city shall enter into an agreement with the subdivider to reimburse the subdivider for that portion of the cost of the improvements equal to the difference between the amount it would have cost the subdivider to install the improvements to serve the subdivision only and the actual cost of the improvements. Any such reimbursement agreement shall be funded, exclusively, in the manner described and contemplated in the Subdivision Map Act.
(D) Time for construction of improvements on subdivisions of fewer than five parcels and designated remainder parcels. The time of fulfillment of construction requirements for improvements for subdivisions of fewer than five parcels and on designated remainder parcels as defined in Cal. Gov’t Code § 66424.6 may be established by agreement between the city and the subdivider. In the absence of such an agreement, fulfillment of the construction requirements shall not be required until such time as a permit or other grant of approval for development is issued by the city, or within a reasonable time following approval of the final parcel map or tract map and prior to the issuance of a permit and other grant of approval for development upon a finding by the city that fulfillment of the construction requirements is necessary for the public health and safety or is a necessary prerequisite to the orderly development of the surrounding area.
(Ord. 1346, passed 5-2-12)