(A) Preparation; specifications included.
(1) Improvement plans shall be prepared under the direction of and signed by a registered civil engineer licensed by the state.
(2) Improvement plans shall include but not be limited to grading, storm drains, landscaping, streets and related facilities.
(B) Form.
(1) Plans, profiles and details shall be legibly drawn, printed or reproduced on 24 × 36 inch sheets. A border shall be made on each sheet providing ½-inch at top, bottom and right side and 1½ inches on the left side.
(2) A suitable title block shall be placed in the lower right corner or along the right edge and provide adequate space for approval by the City Engineer and for approval of plan revisions.
(3) Plan and profiles shall be drawn to the scale of one-inch equals 50 feet or larger unless approved by the City Engineer. Details shall be drawn to such scale that clearly shows the facility being constructed. The scales for various portions of the plans shall be shown on each sheet.
(4) A vicinity map shall be shown on the first sheet of all sets of plans.
(5) A north arrow shall be shown on each sheet when applicable.
(6) Plans shall be laid out to orient north to the top or right edge of the sheet unless approved otherwise by the City Engineer.
(7) All lettering shall be 1/8-inch minimum.
(8) If the plans include three or more sheets, a cover sheet showing the streets, lots, easements, storm drains, index and vicinity map shall be included.
(9) The form of all plans shall conform to such additional requirements as may be established by the City Engineer. The final form of all plans shall be as approved by the City Engineer.
(C) Contents.
(1) The improvement plans shall show complete plans, profiles and details for all required improvements to be constructed, both public and private (including common areas).
(2) Reference may be made to city standards or State Standard Plans in lieu of duplicating the drawings thereon.
(D) Supplementary plans and calculations. Hydrology, hydraulic plans and calculations, bond estimates and any structural calculations as may be required, shall be submitted with the improvement plans to the City Engineer. All calculations shall be legible, systematic and signed and dated by a registered civil engineer licensed by the state and in a form as approved by the City Engineer.
(E) Review and approval by the City Engineer.
(1) The subdivider shall submit three sets of improvement plans and three copies of all computations to the City Engineer for review. Upon completion of his review, one set of the preliminary plans, with the required revisions indicated thereon, will be returned to the subdivider's engineer.
(2) (a) After completing all required revisions, the subdivider's engineer shall transmit the originals and one set of reproducible copies of the improvement plans to the City Engineer for his signature.
(b) Upon finding that all required revisions have been made and that the plans conform to all applicable city ordinances, design review requirements and conditions of approval of the tentative map, the City Engineer shall sign and date the plans. The originals will be returned to the subdivider's engineer.
(c) Approval by the City Engineer shall in no way relieve the subdivider or his engineer from responsibility for the design of the improvements and for any deficiencies resulting from the design thereof or from any required conditions of approval for the tentative map.
(F) Revisions to approved plans.
(1) Requests by the subdivider or the engineer for revisions to the approved plans appearing necessary or desirable during construction shall be submitted in writing to the Engineering Department and shall be accompanied by three sets of revised drawings showing the proposed revision. If the revision is acceptable, the originals shall be submitted to the Engineering Department office for initialing. The originals shall be returned to the subdivider's engineer. Construction of any proposed revision will not be permitted to commence until revised plans have been initialed by the City's Engineering Department.
(2) When revisions are deemed necessary by the City Engineer to protect public health and safety, or as field conditions may require, a request in writing shall be made to the subdivider and his engineer. The subdivider's engineer shall revise the plans and transmit the originals to the City Engineer. Upon receipt of the initialed originals, the subdivider's engineer shall immediately transmit two sets of the revised drawings to the City Engineer. Construction of all or any portion of the improvements may be stopped by the City Engineer until revised drawings have been submitted.
('63 Code, § 10-4.805) (Ord. 416-C.S., passed 12-6-84; Am. Ord. 588-C.S., passed 2-21-95; Am. Ord. 710-C.S., passed 3-20-07)