(A) Form and content. The form and content of final tract maps and parcel maps shall be as required by the Subdivision Map Act and this chapter.
(B) Authorized preparers. A final tract map or parcel map shall be prepared by, or under the direction of, a registered civil engineer or licensed land surveyor. Such maps shall be based upon a field survey made in conformity with the Professional Land Surveyors Act and as required by this chapter.
(C) Certificates and acknowledgments. Prior to filing, the certificates and acknowledgments required by the Subdivision Map Act and this chapter shall appear on the final map and may be combined where appropriate. Such certificates and acknowledgments shall appear on the face of the map unless the City Engineer advises the subdivider that the certificates and acknowledgments are to be made by separate instrument. If a certificate or acknowledgment is made by separate instrument, the final map shall include a reference to the separately recorded documents.
(D) Monuments. The number, type and location of monuments shall be as set forth in the Subdivision Map Act and this chapter, and shall conform to standards prescribed in the Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 8771.
(E) Documentation required for city review and approval. The subdivider shall submit prints of the final map to the City Planner for checking, who shall distribute the final map to other city departments and agencies for review. The preliminary prints shall be accompanied by plans, reports and documents in a form as approved by the city Planner, including, but not limited, to the following:
(1) Improvement plans. Improvement construction plans as required by the City Engineer.
(2) Soils report.
(a) A preliminary soils report, based upon test borings and prepared in conformance with the requirements of California Building Code, as it may be amended and as referenced in § 150.001 of the Municipal Code, shall be required for all tract maps and for those parcel maps which involve commercial or industrial development. The soils report shall be prepared by a civil engineer registered in the State of California. The requirement of a preliminary soils report may be waived or reduced in scope by the City Engineer if, in his/her opinion, the soil characteristics in the vicinity of the proposed subdivision have been established by previous analyses.
(b) Parcel maps which propose the construction of single-family dwellings shall require the preparation of a report which includes the subsurface soil classification, as well as the results of an expansive index test.
(3) Title report. A title report prepared by a title insurer, with the title report required to be dated no older than within four months of the final map.
(4) Improvement cost estimate. An improvement cost estimate, which shall include all improvements within public rights-of-way, easements, common areas, on-site and off-site drainage improvements and utility trench backfill as provided by the developer, except for those utility facilities to be installed by a utility company under the jurisdiction of the California Public Utilities Commission.
(5) Deeds for easements and rights-of-way. Deeds for easements or rights-of-way required which are not proposed to be dedicated on the final map. The subdivider shall provide written evidence acceptable to the city in the form of rights of entry or permanent easements across private property outside of the subdivision permitting or granting access to perform necessary construction work and permitting the maintenance of facilities, if required.
(6) Traverse closures. Traverse closure calculations for the boundary blocks, lots, easements, street centerlines and monument lines.
(7) Hydrology and hydraulic calculations. Complete hydrology and hydraulic calculations.
(8) Organization documents. Any proposed declaration of covenants, conditions and restrictions and all other organization documents for the subdivision in a form as prescribed by the Cal. Civ. Code § 1355. All such documents shall be subject to review and approval by the Director of Community Development and the City Attorney.
(9) Letter of certification from water agencies. The subdivider shall submit written certification from the affected water provider that adequate domestic water facilities are or will be available to serve the proposed project and that all necessary financial arrangements have been made to ensure construction of such facilities. Where a water supply assessment is required pursuant to the California Water Code, such shall be provided.
(10) Other reports. Any additional data, calculations reports, or information as required by the City Planner.
(F) Approval of final map required by City Council.
(1) Each final map filed for approval, together with any improvement agreements, shall be subject to approval by the City Council. Action by the City Council shall only occur after all required certificates on such map have been signed and, where necessary, acknowledged. The planned action by the City Council shall appear on a City Council agenda as a consent calendar item.
(2) The City Council shall, at the meeting at which the final map is scheduled for consideration, shall act to approve the final map if it conforms to all the applicable requirements of the Subdivision Map Act and this chapter. Such action shall include a statement regarding the acceptance, acceptance subject to improvement or rejection, on behalf of the public, of any real property offered for dedication to the public in conformity with the terms of the offer of dedication. If the final map does not so conform, the City Council shall not approve such map.
(3) In the circumstance whereby a final map does not include any offers for dedication or improvement, the City Engineer shall review final maps and shall approve each such map if the map conforms to the applicable requirements of this chapter and the Subdivision Map Act. If the final map does not so conform, the city council shall not approve such map.
(G) Findings required for action not to approve a final map or parcel map. If a final tract map or parcel map is not approved due to its failure to meet any of the requirements imposed by the Subdivision Map Act or this chapter, such disapproval shall be accompanied by findings identifying the requirements which have not been met or performed. Approval of a final tract or parcel map shall not be withheld when the failure of the map to comply is the result of a technical and inadvertent error which, in the determination of the City Council or, in the case of a parcel map not involving any offers of dedication or improvement, in the determination of the City Engineer, does not materially affect the validity of the map.
(H) Recording of final maps and parcel maps. After a final tract map or parcel map has been approved as provided in this chapter, the map shall be transmitted to the County Recorder for recordation.
(Ord. 1346, passed 5-2-12)