Chapter 18.07 — TYPES OF MAPS AND PROCESSING FOR EACH

A. A map shall be submitted for all proposed subdivisions as provided in this chapter. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to prevent the preparation and filing of a tentative and final map for subdivisions for which a parcel map is required, or to prevent the preparation of a parcel map for subdivisions which would otherwise qualify as a minor land division.

B. Subdividers are encouraged to consult with the director regarding technical advice and procedures prior to filing any required map. Preliminary sketches used in such consultation shall not be treated as a tentative map.

C. Applications for subdivisions shall be filed in the office of the director and shall be accompanied by required fees.

D. Subdivisions located within a special flood hazard area. All maps submitted for a subdivision, including maps for manufactured home park subdivisions shall comply with the following:

1. All subdivision proposals shall identify special flood hazard areas and the elevation of the base flood elevations.

2. All subdivision plans will provide the elevation of proposed structure(s) and pad(s).

3. If the site is filled above the base flood elevation, the lowest floor and pad elevations shall be certified by a registered professional engineer or surveyor and provided to the building official.

4. All subdivision proposals shall be consistent with the need to minimize flood damage.

5. All subdivision proposals shall have public utilities and facilities such as sewer, gas, electrical and water systems located and constructed to minimize flood damage.

E. All subdivisions shall provide adequate drainage to reduce exposure to flood hazards. If, during the processing of the map, the accompanying drawings, statements or other data are found to be incomplete or incorrect with respect to pertinent required information, the subdivider shall be promptly advised, by mail, of the revisions that must be made before further action may be taken on the map.

F. Failure to provide the omitted or inaccurate information within the time specified in the written notice shall be cause for recommendation of disapproval of the map, unless an extension of time for acting upon said map is mutually agreed upon by the subdivider and the advisory agency.

(Ord. 2591 (part))

A. A parcel map is required for subdivisions resulting in less than five parcels not meeting the requirements for a minor land division, or maps in accordance with Section 66426 (a - e) of the Subdivision Map Act, resulting in five or more parcels, under any one of the following circumstances:

1. The land prior to division contains less than five acres, and each parcel created by the land division is adjacent to an improved public street or highway, and no additional improvements or dedications are required by city council.

2. All parcels resulting from the land division have a minimum area of 20 gross acres and have approved access to an improved public street or highway.

3. The divided land is zoned for commercial or industrial development and all parcels resulting from the land division have approved access to a public street or highway that has approval by the governing body for street widths and alignments.

4. All parcels resulting from the land division have a minimum area of 40 gross acres, or not less than a quarter of a quarter section.

5. The land proposed for division is intended for the creation of an environmental subdivision for biotic or wildlife purposes that meet the requirements of section 66418.2 of the Subdivision Map Act.

• B. Parcel Map Process. Parcel maps are processed in the same manner as Final Maps as established in Section 18.07.050 of this title.

• (Ord. 2591 (part))

Tentative maps are required for all subdivisions intended to create five or more parcels, five or more condominiums, five or more parcels for a community apartment project, or for the conversion of a dwelling to stock cooperative resulting in five or more dwelling units, except where the proposed subdivision meets the requirements for a parcel map as established by section 66426 (a - e) of the Subdivision Map Act.

• A. Tentative Map Submittal Requirements. A proposed tentative map shall include all of the following information, as well as any other information required by article 3, section 66445 of the Subdivision Map Act.

1. All the information required in accordance with Section 18.07.010 (A) of this Title.

2. Proposed subdivision name.

3. Names and addresses of the record owner and subdivider of the land applicant.

4. Names and addresses of the person, firm or organization that prepared the map, and the applicable registration of license number.

5. Date of preparation, north point and scale of the map on each sheet; if based on a survey, the date of the survey.

6. Boundaries of the subdivision with sufficient information to locate the property.

7. Names of adjacent subdivisions, if any, and property lines sufficient to show their relationship to the proposed subdivision.

8. Note location of any part of the proposed map located within a floodplain.

9. Contour lines having the following intervals:

• a) One-foot contour interval for ground slope between level and five percent (5%);

• b) Five-foot contour interval for ground slope between five and fifteen percent (5% - 15%);

• c) Ten-foot interval for ground slopes exceeding fifteen percent (15%).

10. The location of all structures which are to be retained within the subdivision; the distances between structures to be retained and existing or proposed street and lot lines; and notations concerning all structures which are to be removed;

11. The location, width and directions of flow of all watercourses and flood-control areas within and adjacent to the property involved; and the proposed method of providing storm water, drainage and erosion control;

12. The locations, widths and names or designations of all existing or proposed streets, alleys, pedestrian ways and other rights-of-way, whether public or private, within and adjacent to the subdivision; the radius of each center

line curve; a cross section of each street; and any planned line for street widening or for any other public project in and adjacent to the subdivision;

13. The lines and approximate dimensions of all lots, and the number assigned to each lot; the total number of lots; and the approximate area of the average lot;

14. The total area in square footage or acreage to the nearest 1/10th acre of each lot proposed to be utilized for other than single-family or two-family housing;

15. The boundaries and acreage of existing and proposed public areas in and adjacent to the subdivision, with the nature of each indicated thereon. If land is to be offered for dedication for park or recreation purposes or for purpose

of providing public access to any public waterway, river or stream, it shall be so designated;

16. Any modification being requested in accordance with the requirements of section 18.09.010 (Subdivision Modifications) which is shown on the tentative map shall be clearly labeled and identified as to nature and purpose;

17. When it is known that separate final maps are to be filed on portions of the property shown on the tentative map, the subdivision boundaries which will appear on said final maps and the sequence in which said final maps will be filed;

18. All proposed street names;

19. Building envelopes for all infill residential flag lots as defined in section 19.76.180.

20. The following drawings, statements, and other data, and as many additional copies thereof as may be required, shall be filed with the tentative map:

a) A vicinity map of appropriate scale and covering sufficient adjoining territory so as to clearly indicate nearby street patterns, major access streets, property lines, other adjacent properties in the subdivider's ownership, and other significant features which will have a bearing upon the proposed subdivision and its location and relationship to surrounding areas;

b) A preliminary soil investigation and geological reconnaissance report by a registered civil engineer, engineering geologist or geologist, specializing and recognized in soil mechanics and foundation engineering. Submission of this preliminary report may be waived by the public works director if soil conditions in the proposed subdivision are known to the public works director;

• c) A preliminary grading plan;

• d) Identification of proposed public areas;

• e) All other data required as a prerequisite to approval of the tentative map, including plans, reports, fees or other requirements.

21. Maps shall be on a physical sheet eighteen (18) inches by twenty-six (26) inches in size. If necessary to provide the proper scale, more than one sheet may be used, but the relation of the several sheets shall be clearly shown on each. Maps shall also be provided in digital format as specified by the city.

• B. Tentative Map Process.

1. A tentative map shall not be considered as having been filed unless and until it complies with all provisions of this title and the drawings, statements and other data required to accompany the tentative map have been submitted in a form acceptable to the advisory agency.

2. If the preliminary soils report indicates the presence of critically expansive soils or other soil problems, including seepage, which, if not corrected, would lead to structural defects, a soils investigation of each lot in the subdivision may be required by the public works director as a condition precedent to consideration of the tentative map. The soils investigation shall be done in the manner provided in the Subdivision Map Act.

tes the presence of critically expansive soils or other soil problems, including seepage, which, if not corrected, would lead to structural defects, a soils investigation of each lot in the subdivision may be required by the public works director as a condition precedent to consideration of the tentative map. The soils investigation shall be done in the manner provided in the Subdivision Map Act.

3. In every subdivision for which a soil investigation has been required by the public works director, the council may approve the subdivision or portion thereof, notwithstanding evidence of critical soils problems. As a condition of the approval of the tentative map, the council shall order the withholding of the issuance of any building permit for development of those lots until the recommended corrective action, as determined by the director, is incorporated into the plans for the construction of each such structure.

4. A public hearing shall be held by the planning commission in accordance with section 18.07.010(A)(4) of this title.

(Ord. 2591 (part))

A vesting tentative map is a tentative map that establishes vested rights to proceed with a development that is in substantial conformance with the regulations in effect at the time the vested tentative map is approved or conditionally approved by the city. Each vesting tentative map shall comply with the requirements of section 66452 of the Subdivision Map Act.

• A. Vesting Tentative Map Process.

1. Vesting tentative maps shall be reviewed and approved, conditionally approved or disapproved in the same manner and within the same time required by this title for tentative maps, except for the following:

a) Notwithstanding any provision of Section 66498.3 of the California Government Code to the contrary, a vesting tentative map filed for a subdivision whose intended development is inconsistent with zoning regulations adopted by or pursuant to Title 19 of this code shall be disapproved.

2. Vesting tentative maps shall be filed in the office of the director in accordance with the provisions established in sections 18.07.010(A), 18.07.020(A), and if applicable, section 18.13.010.

3. The approval or conditional approval of a vesting tentative map shall confer a vested right to proceed with development of the property subject to the map in substantial compliance with the provisions of this code and all policies and standards of the city which, as described in Section 66474.2 of the California Government Code, where in effect on the date it was determined that the application for approval of such map was complete. Provided, that if Section 66474.2 of the California Government Code is repealed, then the approval or conditional approval of a vesting tentative map shall confer a vested right to proceed with the development of the property subject to the map in substantial compliance with the provisions of this code and all policies and standards of the city in effect at the time that the map was approved or conditionally approved.

4. The rights conferred upon the approval, or the conditional approval of a vesting tentative map shall expire at the same time provided by this title for the expiration of tentative maps other than vesting tentative maps or, if a final map or parcel Map is timely filed following the approval or conditional approval of a vesting tentative map, one year from the date of recordation of such final map or parcel map, whichever last occurs. Provided that, where multiple final maps are filed following the approval or conditional approval of a vesting tentative map for a phased development, then the rights conferred by the vesting tentative map for each phase of development shall expire one year following the date of recordation of the final map for such phase of development. Rights conferred by a vesting tentative map can be extended beyond the recordation of the map as provided in 18.09.060.E.

5. Amendments may be made to an approved or conditionally approved vesting tentative map providing an application for such amendment is filed in the office of the Director prior to the date such map expires.

6. Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter to the contrary, the owner of property subject to an approved or conditionally approved vesting tentative map may seek approvals, permits, or entitlements for development on such property which are authorized by the current provisions of this code and/or the current policies and standards of the city even though such current codes, policies or standards depart from the vested rights conferred by such approved or conditionally approved vesting tentative map.

(Ord. 2591 (part))

Finance map is a subdivision map which allow subdividers to organize large developments in manageable sites for financing purposes without authorizing new development of the land or any portion thereof. This process can be used to streamlineand minimize the conditions of approval, with the understanding that development rights will not be granted through this subdivision process. In certain instances, proceeding with this option could, in fact, remove development rights for an existing project or existing developable property.

A. A map prepared pursuant to this chapter may be submitted under any of the following circumstances:

1. The land to be subdivided is, at the time of submittal, developed in accordance with an approved and valid land use entitlement or permit;

2. The land to be subdivided is not developed and will be used for non-residential purposes; or

3. The land to be subdivided is not developed, is located within a previously approved specific plan or tentative map and will be used for residential purposes. Development of the land shall be consistent with the previously approved specific plan or tentative map or with a future subdivision map, as well as with any other land use entitlement or permit that may be required for the development.

Land subdivided pursuant to divisions A.1. or A.2. of this section shall be subject to a future subdivision map or land use entitlement or permit prior to any development. A finance map shall not be processed as a vesting map.

• B. Finance Map Process.

1. Review, processing, and approval of finance maps shall be processed in accordance with the provisions of section 18.07.020 (tentative subdivision maps) including the requirement for submittal of a tentative map and a final or parcel map, as applicable. The director may waive certain submittal requirements and standards not applicable to the review, processing, and approval of finance maps.

2. Each sheet of the finance map shall clearly state the following: "For finance purposes only. A future subdivision map or land use entitlement or permit shall be required prior to development of this property. This map does not remove any conditions of approval for separate land use entitlements or permits or tentative maps approved for this land."

3. The language contained in division B.2. of this section shall also be recorded via separate instrument in a manner approved by the city attorney.

4. Any development of the land shall require the approval of a subdivision map or a land use entitlement or permit or any combination thereof in accordance with applicable city ordinances and/or the Map Act.

5. All lots meet the minimum lot size requirements provided in the applicable zone to ensure compliance with all applicable development standards.

6. All lots have acceptable legal access either by lot configuration or by a separate recorded document. A conceptual engineering design shall be submitted to provide assurance that access can be designed and constructed.

7. There are no physical constraints which may affect the feasibility of future development on the land.

8. Conditions of approval related to public safety and zoning compliance may be imposed. (Ord. 2591 (part))

Final maps are required for all subdivisions for which a tentative subdivision map has been approved.

A. Final Map and Parcel Map Submittal Requirements. A final map shall include all of the following information, as well as any other information required by the Subdivision Map Act. The final map or parcel map shall be legibly drawn and prepared by or under the direction of a registered civil engineer or licensed land surveyor in the manner required by the Subdivision Map Act.

1. All information required pursuant to sections 18.07.010(A).

2. All dimensions shall be shown in feet and hundredths of a foot. No ditto marks shall be used.

3. If more than three (3) sheets are necessary to show the entire subdivision, an index shall be included.

a) A title sheet, designated as page number one (1) of the map, shall be provided; except that, where the size of the subdivision permits, in lieu of a separate title sheet, the information required to be shown thereon may be shown on the same sheet as the map of the subdivision.

4. Final Maps and Parcel Maps shall contain the certificates required by the Subdivision Map Act.

5. The title sheet shall contain the following information:

a) Title, followed by the words "City of Chico," for final maps, and a parcel map number followed by the words "City of Chico" for parcel maps;

b) Below the title shall be a subtitle, consisting of a description of all property being subdivided with reference to such map or maps of the property shown as shall have been previously recorded or filed in the office of the county recorder, or shall have been previously filed with the county clerk pursuant to a final judgment in any action in partition. The description shall also include reference to any vacated area with the number of the ordinance or resolution vacating said area;

c) The subtitle of maps filed for the purpose of reverting subdivided land to acreage shall consist of the words "A reversion to acreage of..." (insert description as required);

d) References to subdivisions in the description must be worded identically with original records, and references to book and page of record must be complete;

e) A dedication, or an irrevocable offer of dedication, of property for public uses and the nature of such dedication. If an offer is made by separate instrument, the offer shall be on a form approved by the city attorney, for recordation in the office of the county recorder, and shall be in such terms as to be binding on the owner, the owner's heirs, assigns or successors in interest, and shall continue until the council accepts or rejects such offer;

f) The basis of bearings used in the field survey, making reference to some recorded subdivision map or other source acceptable to the Public Works Director whenever a field survey is required;

g) The final map or parcel map shall substantially conform to the tentative map as approved or conditionally approved and shall contain the following information:

i. The boundary line of the subdivision shall be designated by a colored border applied to the tracing. Such border shall not interfere with the legibility of figures or other data;

ii. All areas shown on the map which do not constitute a part of the subdivision shall be labeled "Not a part of this subdivision," or "N.A.P.O.T.S." All lines delineating such areas shall be dashed;

iii. All survey data and information required by this title;

iv. All lots or parcels intended for sale or reserved for private purposes and all parcels offered for dedication to the city or any other public agency, with dimensions, boundaries and courses clearly shown and defined;

v. Dimensions of lots shall be as total dimensions, corner-to-corner, in addition to point-to-point dimensions. Lots of more than one (1) acre shall show net acreage to the nearest one hundredth (1/100th );

vi. All lots shall be numbered consecutively, without omissions or duplications. Parcels offered for dedication other than for streets or easements shall be designated by letters. Each numbered lot or parcel shall be shown entirely on one sheet;

vii. The location and total width of all streets, alleys, pedestrian ways, equestrian and hiking trails and biking paths; the names of streets, and the width on each side of the centerline of each street; the width of the portion of the street, alley, pedestrian way, equestrian and hiking trail and biking path being dedicated, and the width of the existing dedication, if any, within the subdivision;

viii. All necessary data, including width and side lines of all public easements to which the lots of the subdivision are subject. Each easement shall be clearly labeled and identified as to nature and purpose and, if already of record, its recorded reference given. If any easement is not definitely located on record, a statement concerning the easement shall appear on the title sheet. Easements shall be denoted by fine, dashed lines;

ix. All limitations on rights of access to and from streets and lots and other parcels of land;

x. The lines of any natural watercourse, channel, stream, creek or body of water in or adjacent to the subdivision and officially adopted floodplain lines;

xi. Any city boundary crossing or adjoining the subdivision;

xii. Total acreage within the subdivision.

h) Every final map and parcel map approved for a subdivision which contains one or more undeveloped lots or parcels shall contain the following notation regarding the transportation facility fees, park facility fees, building and equipment fees and storm drainage facility fees assessed and levied pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 3.85 of this code:

"IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE CHICO MUNICIPAL CODE, TRANSPORTATION FACILITY FEE, PARK FACILITY FEE, AND BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT FEE MAY BE ASSESSED AND LEVIED UPON THE OWNER OF ANY LOT OR PARCEL WITHIN THIS SUBDIVISION AT THE TIME A NEW BUILDING OR STRUCTURE IS CONSTRUCTED ON SUCH LOT OR PARCEL, AT THE TIME AN ALTERATION OR ADDITION IS MADE TO AN EXISTING BUILDING OR STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTED ON SUCH LOT OR PARCEL WHICH RESULTS IN THE EXPANSION OF SUCH BUILDING OR STRUCTURE, OR AT THE TIME OF A CHANGE IN USE OF AN EXISTING BUILDING OR STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTED ON THE LOT OR PARCEL. IN ADDITION, A STORM DRAINAGE FACILITY FEE MAY BE ASSESSED AND LEVIED UPON THE OWNER OF ANY LOT OR PARCEL WITHIN THIS SUBDIVISION AT THE TIME SUCH LOT OR PARCEL IS FIRST USED FOR ANY RESIDENTIAL OR NONRESIDENTIAL PURPOSE, AT THE TIME THE AREA OF THE LOT OR PARCEL DEVOTED TO SUCH RESIDENTIAL OR NONRESIDENTIAL USE IS EXPANDED, OR AT THE TIME OF A CHANGE IN THE USE OF THE LOT OR PARCEL. SUCH

TRANSPORTATION FACILITY FEE, PARK FACILITY FEE, BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT FEE AND STORM DRAINAGE FACILITY FEE WILL BE CALCULATED FROM THE SCHEDULE OF SUCH FEES ADOPTED BY RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND IN EFFECT ON THE DATE OF APPROVAL OF SUCH FINAL MAP OR PARCEL MAP, TOGETHER WITH ANY ADJUSTMENTS TO SUCH SCHEDULES OF FEES MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE CHICO MUNICIPAL CODE SUBSEQUENT TO THE DATE OF APPROVAL OF THE FINAL MAP OR PARCEL MAP TO ACCOUNT FOR ANY CHANGES IN THE TYPE OR EXTENT OF TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES, PARK FACILITIES, BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT AND/OR STORM DRAINAGE FACILITIES WHICH WILL BE REQUIRED AS A RESULT OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND/OR USE OF REAL PROPERTY DURING THE PERIOD UPON WHICH SUCH FEES ARE BASED, ANY CHANGE IN THE ESTIMATED COST OF THE TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES, PARK FACILITIES, BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT AND/OR STORM DRAINAGE FACILITIES UPON WHICH SUCH FEES ARE BASED, OR ANY CHANGE IN THAT PORTION OF THE ESTIMATED COST OF SUCH - TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES, PARK FACILITIES, BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT AND/OR STORM DRAINAGE FACILITIES WHICH CANNOT BE FUNDED FROM REVENUE SOURCES AVAILABLE TO THE CITY OTHER THAN SUCH FEES."

i) The provisions of this section shall be deemed to be Directory only and the failure of any final map or parcel map to contain the notations regarding the transportation facility fees, park facility fees, building and equipment fees and storm drainage facility fees provided for by Chapter 3.85 of this code shall not be construed to preclude or prevent the assessment and levying of such fees in the manner set forth herein.

j) The following statements, documents and other data, and as many additional copies thereof as may be required, shall be filed with the final map or parcel map:

i. The names and addresses of the record owners and subdivider and persons preparing the map;

ii. A guarantee of title or letter from a title company, certifying that the signatures of all persons whose consent is necessary to pass a clear title to the land being subdivided, and all acknowledgments thereto, appear and are correctly shown on the proper certificates, and are correctly shown on the map, both as to consents for the making thereof and the affidavit of dedication;

iii. A traverse sheet in a form approved by the public works director, giving latitudes, departures and coordinates, and showing the mathematical closure;

iv. The complete plans, profiles, cross sections, specifications and applicable permits for the construction and installation of improvements as required by this title;

v. All protective covenants, conditions, restrictions or affirmative obligations in the form in which the same are to be recorded when approval thereof by an officer of the city has been required as a condition of approval of the tentative map;

vi. A nonrefundable filing fee as established by the council;

vii. A dedication, or an irrevocable offer of dedication, of property for public uses and the nature of such dedication;

viii. A soils report, as required by law or as a condition of approval of the tentative map, including plans, reports, agreements, permits, fees, security or other requirements.

B. Execution of director's and clerk's certificates. After determining conformance of the map with all required conditions and provisions of the Chico Municipal Code, the Director shall execute the director's certificate and deliver said map to the city clerk. The city clerk shall execute the clerk's certificate and deliver said map to the county clerk for transmittal to the Butte County recorder.

• C. Processing Deadlines.

1. Within thirty-six (36) months of the date of approval or conditional approval of the tentative map, the subdivider may cause the final map or parcel map to be prepared and filed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the Subdivision Map Act.

2. Failure to file a final map or parcel map within thirty-six (36) months of the date of approval or conditional approval of a tentative map, or within any extended period of time granted by the map advisory committee, shall terminate all proceedings and a new tentative map shall be processed in accordance with this title. (Ord. 2591 (part))