A. Form And Content: The form and content of final tract and parcel maps shall be as required by the act and this chapter. The map shall be considered submitted when it is complete and complies with all applicable provisions of the act, this chapter, and this code.
B. Authorized Preparers:
1. The final tract or parcel map shall be prepared by, or under the direction of, a registered civil engineer authorized to practice land surveying or licensed land surveyor.
2. A final tract or parcel map shall be based upon a field survey made in compliance with the professional land surveyors act and as required by this chapter.
C. Certificates And Acknowledgments:
1. Before filing, the certificates and acknowledgments required by the act and this chapter shall appear on the map and may be combined where appropriate.
2. The certificates and acknowledgments shall appear on the face of the map unless the town engineer advises the subdivider that the certificates and acknowledgments are to be made by separate instrument.
3. If a certificate or acknowledgment is made by separate instrument, there shall appear on the map a reference to the separately recorded documents.
D. Monuments: The location, number, and type of monuments shall be as specified in the act and this chapter and shall be in compliance with the standards prescribed in the California Business And Professions Code section 8771.
E. Documentation Required For Town Review And Approval:
1. The subdivider shall submit prints of the map to the department for checking, who will distribute the map to other town departments and agencies for review.
2. The preliminary prints shall be accompanied by documents, plans, and reports in a form approved by the director, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
a. Improvement Plans: Improvement construction plans as required by the town engineer.
b. Soils Report:
(1) A preliminary soils report, based upon test borings and prepared in compliance with the requirements of the building code, as it may be amended and as referenced in title 8, "Buildings And Construction", of this code, shall be required for all tract maps and for those parcel maps which involve commercial or industrial development.
(A) The soils report shall be prepared by a state registered civil or soils engineer.
(B) The requirement of a preliminary soils report may be waived or reduced in scope by the town engineer if, in the town engineer's opinion, the soil characteristics in the vicinity of the proposed subdivision have been established by previous analyses.
(2) Parcel maps which propose the construction of single-family dwellings shall require the preparation of a report which includes the subsurface soil classification, as well as the results of an expansive index test.
c. Title Report: A title report prepared by a title insurer, with the title report required to be dated no older than within ninety (90) days of the filing of the final map.
d. Improvement Cost Estimate: An improvement cost estimate, which shall include all improvements located within public or private rights of way, common areas, or easements, on site and off site drainage improvements, and utility trench backfill as provided by the subdivider, except for those utility facilities to be installed by a utility company under the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission.
e. Grant Of Easements And Rights Of Way:
(1) Grant of easements or rights of way required which are not proposed to be dedicated on the final map.
(2) The subdivider shall provide written evidence acceptable to the town in the form of rights of entry or permanent easements across private property outside of the subdivision granting access to perform necessary construction work and allowing the maintenance of facilities, if required.
f. Traverse Closure Calculations: Traverse closure calculations for the boundary blocks, easements, monument lines, parcels, and street centerlines.
g. Hydrology And Hydraulic Calculations: Complete hydrology and hydraulic calculations, if required by the project's conditions of approval.
h. Organization Documents:
(1) Any proposed declaration of covenants, conditions, and restrictions and all other organization documents for the subdivision in a form prescribed by the Civil Code section 1355.
(2) All documents shall be subject to review and approval by the director and the town attorney.
i. Letter Of Certification From Water Agencies: The subdivider shall submit written certification from the affected water provider that adequate domestic water facilities are or will be available to serve the proposed project and that all necessary financial arrangements have been made to ensure construction of the facilities.
j. Other Reports: Any additional calculations, data, reports, or information required by the town engineer. (Ord. 242, 9-3-2013)