The following procedures shall be followed with respect to the filing of a final map:
(A) An original final map tracing nine line prints thereof shall be filed with the office of the City Engineer. The City Engineer shall return one copy thereof to the subdivider showing corrections, if any, or a statement that the map is correct. When the final map is found by the City Engineer to conform to the tentative map approval and be otherwise correct, he or she shall certify the final map tracing and return the same to the subdivider or his or her agent.
(B) The final map, as certified by the City Engineer and containing all other required certifications properly executed and acknowledged thereon may then be filed with the City Council for its approval.
(C) Not later than ten days following the filing of the final map or not later than the regular meeting of the City Council following the meeting at which the final map is first presented, whichever is later, the City Council shall act to approve or disapprove the final map. Failure of the City Council to act on the map within the prescribed time or any authorized extension thereof, shall be deemed approval of the map; provided that, the same conforms to all requirements of law and the rulings made thereunder. At the time as the final map has been approved and all conditions of the approval have been fulfilled, the City Clerk shall certify the approval of the City Council thereto.
(D) A final map shall be disapproved only for failure to meet or perform requirements or conditions which were applicable to the subdivision at the time of approval of the tentative map; and provided further, that disapproval shall be accompanied by a finding identifying the requirements or conditions which have not been met or performed. When the failure of the map to meet the requirements or conditions imposed by this chapter is the result of technical and inadvertent error which does not materially affect the validity of the map, the map shall be conditionally approved, subject to correction of the minor errors.
(E) All streets, highways and parcels of land shown on the final map and intended for any public use shall be offered for dedication for public use. All offers for dedication are to be irrevocable and in perpetuity. Streets or portions of streets may be offered for future dedications where the immediate opening and improvement is not required, but where it is necessary to insure that the city can later accept dedication when the streets are needed for the further development of the area on adjacent areas. The subdivider shall also offer in writing to dedicate all public utilities within the subdivision or any off-site improvements required to complete the same. All the offers for dedication are to be irrevocable and in perpetuity. The subdivider shall furnish the city with a proper deed granting to the city all easements as shown on the final map. The deed shall be furnished before any final map is approved by the city. Likewise, before any final map is approved by the city, the subdivider shall improve or agree to improve all lands dedicated for streets, highways, public ways and easements in the following particulars together with the other improvements in the subdivision hereinafter specified:
(1) Adequate distribution lines for domestic water supply to each lot;
(2) Sewage collecting system where main lines of an adequate disposal system are available;
(3) Adequate drainage of the subdivision streets, highways, ways and alleys; and if any portion of the land is subject to sheet overflow, or ponding by local storm water or should the ground table be less than ten feet below the surface, the elimination of the conditions or in the alternative the execution of a comprehensive agreement covering the construction of buildings and structures which will overcome the hazards thereof;
(4) Adequate grading and surfacing of streets, highways, ways and alleys;
(5) Curbs, gutters and sidewalks;
(6) Fire hydrants; and
(7) Street lights and mailboxes unless the same shall have been exempted by the Planning Commission or the City Council.
(F) Unless improvements have been made prior to the acceptance of the final map, the subdivider shall be required as a condition of the final map approval to enter into a written agreement with the city in regard thereto as specified in § 66462 of the Subdivision Map Act. To assure the city that the work will be completed and the improvements made and lien holders paid, an improvement security shall be furnished by the subdivider guaranteeing faithful performance and guaranteeing payment for labor and materials in the manner and amounts specified in §§ 66499 through and including 66499.10 of the Subdivision Map Act. The form and amount of the improvement security shall be approved in writing by the City Attorney.
(G) In the event the subdivider is required to install improvements for the benefit of the subdivision which may contain supplemental size, capacity or number for the benefit of property not within the subdivision as a condition precedent to the approval of a subdivision or parcel map, or to install off-site improvements for the benefit of the subdivision and thereafter to dedicate the improvements to the public, the subdivider may be reimbursed 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 in the manner and amount as appears lawful and reasonable to the City Council.
(1994 Code, § 16.12.020) (Ord. 78-101, passed - -1978)