A. Preparation. A tentative tract map of a subdivision shall be prepared in accordance with State law and the provisions of this chapter.
B. Conference with Development Services and Engineering Departments' Staffs Prior to Filing. After noting the requirements of this chapter, it is desirable that the subdivider should confer with the staff of the Development Services and the Engineering Departments before preparing a tentative map.
C. Filing of Tentative Map -- Filing Date Defined -- Distribution. Each proposed subdivision shall be submitted in map form, along with a written application, to the Director of Development Services. The application shall be in a form as specified by the Director of Development Services, and the tentative map should be submitted prior to the completion of final surveys, plan preparations, grading or construction work which could be affected by any change in the tentative map. The subdivider or applicant shall ascertain from the Development Services Department the number of copies of the tentative map to submit, and upon submittal, copies shall be forwarded to applicable City staff members, departments, and commissions, to each city, local agency or district entitled by law to review and recommend thereon, and to any other group, body, agency, or district deemed necessary by the Director of Development Services. For the purposes of this title and pursuant to the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act, the date of filing of a tentative map for a subdivision of land by either tract map or parcel map shall be the date upon which the Director of Development Services, after having received the application and tentative map from the applicant, files an environmental impact report or statement, a negative declaration, or makes the determination that such report, statement or declaration is not required for the subdivision of land submitted.
D. Size of Map. The size of such tentative map or maps shall be any dimension sufficient to clearly show the entire subdivision on one sheet, at a scale of not less than one hundred feet to the inch.
E. Information on Map. Each map shall contain the following information:
1. Tract number assigned by the County Surveyor;
2. Name and address of the owner or owners whose property is proposed to be subdivided and the name and address of the registered civil engineer, licensed surveyor, architect or other person who prepared the map;
3. North point, scale and date of preparation of the tentative map;
4. Boundary lines;
5. The location, width, approximate grade, center line radii, and proposed names of all streets within the boundaries of the proposed subdivision and the location and width of proposed alleys and/or public service easements;
6. Name, location and width of adjacent streets;
7. Lot number, lot lines and approximate dimension of each lot, and drainage direction of each lot;
8. Approximate location and width of watercourses or areas subject to inundation from floods, and the location of structures, irrigation ditches, railroads and other permanent physical features;
9. Description of the exterior boundaries of the subdivision or legal description of the property comprising the subdivisions;
10. Width and location of all existing or proposed public or private easements;
11. Classification of lots as to intended residential, commercial, industrial or other uses;
12. Proposed location, direction of flow and disposal point for storm drain and appurtenant structures;
13. Proposed location, size, direction of flow and disposal point for sanitary sewer facilities;
14. Contours, street profile and cross sections, together with the location of all cut and fill slopes or a separate tentative grading plan, if necessary in the opinion of the City Engineer.
F. Supplemental Information. The tentative map shall show thereon or be accompanied by reports and written statements from the subdivider giving essential information regarding the following matters:
1. Source of water supply;
2. Type of street improvement and utilities which the subdivider proposes to install;
3. Protective covenants to be recorded.
G. Report by Engineering and Development Services Departments. Prior to the consideration of a tentative subdivision map by the Planning Commission, the City Engineer and the Director of Development Services shall make a report to the Planning Commission containing their recommendations or comments concerning the tentative map and its bearing on the community. Such reports shall be in writing, and a copy shall be served on the subdivider at least three days prior to any action on the map by the Planning Commission. Any subsequent reports prepared by the City Engineer or the Director of Development Services for consideration by the Planning Commission shall likewise be in writing, and shall be similarly served upon the subdivider at least three days prior to action on the tentative tract map. The Planning Commission (and City Council if appealed) consideration of the map shall be a public hearing, noticed as provided in Section 15.76.060.
H. Action by Planning Commission. At the first regular meeting of the Planning Commission held after receipt of the written report and recommendations, the tentative tract map, together with the report, shall be presented to the Planning Commission which shall thereupon approve, conditionally approve or disapprove the tentative tract map. Such action shall be in the form of a written resolution, which shall specify the facts and reasons for the decision made with a finding as to whether or not the subdivision, along with its improvement and design, conforms to the City General Plan. The Clerk of the Planning Commission shall thereafter report the Commission's action in writing to the applicant within ten days of the action. Such action by the Planning Commission shall become final in the absence of any appeal.
I. Appeals from Action by Planning Commission. If any interested party or the applicant who filed the tentative tract map is dissatisfied with a requirement, ruling, finding, approval or disapproval by the Planning Commission with respect to the map or the kinds, nature and extent of the improvements and conditions imposed, he shall, within ten days after such action, appeal in writing to the City Council for relief. The written appeal shall be filed with the City Clerk, and shall set forth the grounds and reasons for such an appeal. The City Council may sustain, modify or overrule any such requirements, ruling, finding or disapproval of the Planning Commission, and may modify the kinds, nature and extent of any improvements required. The City Council shall consider such appeal within thirty days of its filing with the City Clerk. Notification by mail of the time and place at which the appeal will be considered by Council shall be sent to the applicant or owner not less than ten days prior to the meeting at which the appeal will be considered. The decision of the City Council shall be final and, upon making its decision, the City Clerk shall make a written report of the outcome directly to the applicant or owner and to the various City departments.
(Ord. 2722 (part), 1990).