(A) General. The Subdivision Ordinance is adopted to implement the California Subdivision Map Act ("Map Act") and to protect the health, safety, and general welfare of the residents of the City of Tulare.
(B) Specific. The Subdivision Ordinance is intended to give effect to the Map Act, Cal. Gov't Code §§ 66410 et seq.
(1) Plan implementation. To give effect to the General Plan and specific plans of the City of Tulare relative to the subdivision of land and development of subdivisions.
(2) Local ordinance. To regulate, by local ordinance, those matters of land division, merger, reversion, and lot line adjustment not governed by the Map Act.
(3) Orderly development. To facilitate and ensure orderly development of lands in the City of Tulare.
(4) Consistency. To implement the objectives established for the development of the City of Tulare in conformance with its General Plan and specific plans, and to ensure that a proposed subdivision or land division shall be considered in relation to those plans.
(5) Improvements. To provide standards governing the surveys, designs, and improvements of subdivisions, and the submission of maps, plans, and specifications for the construction of improvements.
(6) Utilities. To provide for standards for streets, roads, highways, public utilities, and other improvements within subdivisions.
(7) Building sites. To provide for the creation of reasonable building sites by establishing appropriate standards for streets and lots, and to ensure that each property has a means of ingress and egress.
(8) Flooding. To control the division of land that is subject to inundation by flooding from natural streams or artificial ponding, and other detrimental influences which may cause land to be unsuitable for satisfactory development.
(9) Soil conditions. To control the division of land which may be subject to dangerous or unsuitable soil conditions of any type, or subject to any other impediments affecting the use of the land for human habitation.
(10) Rules and regulations. To provide rules and regulations governing the contents of tentative subdivision maps, tentative parcel maps, vesting tentative subdivision maps and final maps, to establish methods for the processing and filing of the maps, and to regulate other related matters.
(Ord. 15-12, passed 12-15-2015)