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The Subdivision Ordinance of the City is adopted to preserve, protect and promote the public health, safety, convenience, prosperity and general welfare. More specifically this title is adopted in order to achieve the following objectives:
(A) To implement the General Plan of the City and its elements thereof, as adopted, and revised from time to time, by the Council.
(B) To provide lots of sufficient size and appropriate design for the purposes for which they are to be used.
(C) To provide streets of adequate capacity for the anticipated traffic which would utilize them to ensure that they are designed to promote a safe traffic circulation system.
(D) To accommodate new development in a manner that will preserve and enhance the City’s living environment through skilled subdivision design.
(E) To provide for water supply, sewage disposal, storm drainage and other utilities and facilities which are required by conditions to enhance the City’s urban environment.
(F) To ensure that the cost of providing rights-of-way, street improvements, utilities and public areas and facilities needed to serve new developments are borne fairly and equitably by the subdivider rather than by property owners of the City at large.
(G) To protect and enhance real property values. (Ord. 839-20, 10-20-2020)
Pursuant to the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act of the State of California, being division 2 of title 7 (commencing with section 66410 of the Government Code), referred to herein as the Map Act, and in addition to any other regulations provided by law, the regulations of this Title shall apply to all subdivisions, parcel maps, divisions, and mergers of land within the limits of the City. The provisions of this title are supplemental to the provisions of the Map Act, and except as otherwise provided, all terms used herein which are defined in the Map Act shall have the same meaning as described in the Map Act, and as the Map Act may hereinafter be amended. (Ord. 839-20, 10-20-2020)