(A) Form.
(1) The form of the final map shall conform to the Subdivision Map Act and as provided herein.
(2) The final map shall be legibly drawn, printed, or reproduced by a process guaranteeing a permanent record in black on tracing cloth or polyester base film. Certificates, affidavits, and acknowledgments may be legibly stamped or printed upon the map with opaque ink. If ink is used on polyester base film, the ink surface shall be coated with a suitable substance to assure permanent legibility.
(3) The size of each sheet shall be 18 inches by 27 inches. A marginal line shall be drawn completely around each sheet, leaving an entirely blank margin of one inch, except the left margin shall be three inches wide. The scale of the map shall be not less than one inch equals 100 or as may be necessary to show all details clearly, and enough sheets shall be used to accomplish this end. The particular number of the street and the total number of sheets comprising the map shall be stated on each of the sheets, and its relation to each adjoining sheet shall be clearly shown. When four or more sheets including the certificate sheet are used, a key sheet will be included.
(4) All printing or lettering on the map shall be of one-eighth inch minimum height and of such shape and weight as to be readily legible on prints and other reproductions made from the original drawings.
(5) The final form of the final map shall be as approved by the City Engineer.
('63 Code, § 10-4.403.3)
(B) Contents. The contents of the final map shall conform to the Subdivision Map Act and as provided herein.
(1) Boundary. The boundary of the subdivision shall be designated by a heavy blue line in such a manner as not to obliterate figures or other data.
(2) Title. Each sheet shall have a title showing the subdivision number and name and the location of the property being subdivided with reference to maps which have been previously recorded, or by reference to the plat of a United States survey. The following words shall appear in the title, “In the City of Eureka.” The section, township, and range shall be identified.
(3) Certificates. The following certificates shall appear only once on the cover sheet, and shall be signed by the appropriate parties in India ink:
(a) Owner's certificate. A certificate, signed and acknowledged by all parties having record title interest in the land subdivided, excepting those parties having rights-of-way, easements, or other interests which cannot ripen into a fee, or exceptions provided by the Subdivision Map Act and consenting to the preparation and recordation of the map and offering for dedication to the public certain specific parcels of land.
(b) Engineer's certificate.
1. A certificate by the engineer or surveyor responsible for the survey and final map shall appear on the map. The certificate shall give the date of the survey, state that the survey and final map were made by or under the direction of the engineer or surveyor, and that the survey is true and complete as shown.
2. The certificate shall also state that all the monuments are of the character and occupy the positions indicated, or that they will beset in such positions on or before as specified later date. The certificate shall also state that the monuments are, or will be, sufficient to enable the survey to be retraced.
3. The certificate shall state that the map complies to the Subdivision Map Act and the provisions of this chapter.
(c) City Engineer’s certificate. A certificate by the City Engineer stating that the map has been examined and that it is in accord with the tentative map and any approved alterations thereof, complies with the Subdivision Map Act of the state and the provisions of this chapter, and is technically correct.
(d) Planning Commission certificate. A certificate by the secretary of the Planning Commission stating that the tentative map was approved by resolution of the Planning Commission. The date and number of the resolution shall appear in the certificate.
(e) City Clerk's certificate. A certificate for execution by the City Clerk stating the date and number of the resolution adopted by the City Council approving the final map and stating that the City Council accepted, accepted subject to improvement or rejected on behalf of the public, any real property offered for dedication for public use in conformity with the terms of the offer of dedication.
(f) Certificate of soils and geologic report. When a soils report, a geologic report, or soils and geologic reports have been prepared specifically for the subdivision, such fact shall be noted on the final map, together with the date of such report or reports, and the name of the engineer making the soils report and geologist making the geologic report and the location where the reports are on file. The certificate shall read, “A soils and/or geologic report for this subdivision was prepared by me or under my direction and was filed with the city on (Date).”
(g) County Recorder's certificate.
1. A certificate to be executed by the County Recorder stating that the map has been accepted for filing; that the map has been examined and that it complies with the provisions of state laws and local ordinances governing the filing of final maps.
2. The certificate shall show who requested the filing of the map, the time and date the map was filed, and the book and page where the map was filed.
(h) County Clerk's certificate. A certificate to be executed by the County Clerk stating that all taxes due have been paid or that a tax bond assuring the payment of all taxes which are a lien but not yet payable has been filed with the county.
(4) Scale, north point and basis of bearings. There must appear on each map sheet the scale, the north point and the basis of bearings. The basis of bearings shall be approved by the City Engineer.
(5) Linear, angular and radial data. Sufficient linear, angular, and radial data shall be shown to determine the bearings and lengths of monument lines, street centerlines, the boundary lines of the subdivision and of the boundary lines of every lot and parcel which is a part thereof. Length, radius and total central angle or radial bearings of all curves shall be shown. Ditto marks shall not be used in the dimensions and data shown on the map.
(6) Monuments. The location and description of all existing and proposed monuments shall be shown. Standard city monuments shall be set at (or from offsets as approved by the City Engineer) the following locations:
(a) The intersection of street centerlines.
(b) Beginning and end of curves in centerlines.
(c) At other locations as deemed necessary by the City Engineer.
(d) The City Engineer may waive the above requirements where deemed impractical.
(7) Lot numbers. Lot numbers shall begin with the number in each subdivision and shall continue consecutively with no omissions or duplications except where contiguous lands, under the same ownership, are being subdivided in successive units, in which event lot numbers may begin with the next consecutive number following the last number in the preceding unit. Each lot shall be shown entirely on one sheet of the final map, unless approved by the City Engineer.
(8) Adjoining properties. The adjoining corners of all adjoining subdivisions shall be identified by a subdivision number, or name when not identified by official number, and reference to the book and page of the filed map showing such subdivision; and if no such subdivision is adjacent, then by the name of the owner and reference to the recorded deed by book and page number for the last recorded owner of such adjacent property.
(9) City boundaries. City boundaries which cross or join the subdivision shall be clearly designated.
(10) Street names. The names and widths of all streets, alleys, or highways within or adjoining the subdivision shall be shown.
(11) Easements.
(a) Easements for roads or street, paths, stormwater drainage, sanitary sewers, public access in the coastal zone, or other public use as may be required, shall be dedicated to the public for acceptance by the city or other public agency (or private association, in the case of public access easements), and the use shall be specified on the map. If at the time the final map is approved, any streets, paths, alleys or storm drainage easements are not accepted by the City Council, the offer of dedication shall remain open and the City Council may, by resolution at any late date, accept and open the streets, paths, alleys or storm drainage easements for public use, which acceptance shall be recorded in the office of the County Recorder.
(b) All easements of record shall be shown on the map, together with the name of the grantee and sufficient recording data to identify the conveyance, e.g., recorder's serial number and date, or book and page of official records.
(c) Easements not disclosed by the records in the office of the County Recorder and found by the surveyor or engineer to be existing, shall be specifically designated on the map, identifying the apparent dominant tenements for which the easement was created.
(d) All easements of record shall be shown by dashed lines on the final map with adequate survey data to locate said easements.
(e) The width and location of all easements to be dedicated on the map shall be approved by the City Engineer.
('63 Code, § 10-4.403.4)
(Ord. 416-C.S., passed 12-6-84; Am. Ord. 710-C.S., passed 3-20-07)