§ 25-10. Tentative maps.

• (a) Preparation. A tentative tract map of a subdivision shall be prepared in accordance with state law and the provisions of this chapter.

• (b) Conference with planning and public works departments' staffs prior to filing.

After noting the requirements of this chapter, it is desirable that the subdivider should confer with the staffs of the planning and the public works departments before preparing a tentative map.

• (c) Filing of tentative map; filing date defined; distribution. Each proposed subdivision shall be submitted in map form, along with a written application, to the planning director. The application shall be in a form as specified by the director, and the tentative map should be submitted prior to the completion of final surveys, plan preparations, grading, or construction work which could be affected by any change in the tentative map. The subdivider or applicant shall ascertain from the planning department the number of copies of the tentative map to submit, and upon submittal, copies shall be forwarded to applicable city staff members, departments and commissions, to each city, local agency or district entitled by law to review and recommend thereon, and to any other group, body, agency or district deemed necessary by the planning director. For the purposes of this title, and

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pursuant to the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act, the date of filing of a tentative map for subdivision of land by either tract map or parcel map, shall be the date upon which the planning director, after having received the application and tentative map from the applicant, files a draft environmental impact report or statement, or a negative declaration, or makes the determination that such report, state-ment or declaration is not required for the subdivision of land submitted. When required, a copy of the draft environmental impact report shall be submitted at the time of submittal of the tentative tract map.

• (d) Size of map. The size of such tentative map or maps shall be any dimension sufficient to clearly show the entire subdivision on one sheet, at a scale not less than 100 feet to the inch.

• (e) Information on map. Each map shall contain the following information in addition to that required by the Subdivision Map Act:

  • (1) Tract number assigned by the county surveyor.

  • (2) Name and address of the owner or owners whose property is proposed to be subdivided, and the name and address of the registered civil engineer, licensed surveyor, architect or other person who prepared the map.

  • (3) North point, scale, and date of preparation of the tentative map.

  • (4) Boundary lines.

  • (5) The locations, width, approximate grade, center line radii, and proposed names of all streets within the boundaries of proposed subdivision, and the location and width of proposed alleys and/or public service easements.

  • (6) Name, location and width of each adjacent street.

• (7) Lot number, lot lines and approximate dimension of each lot, and drainage direction of each lot.

  • (8) Approximate location and width of watercourses or areas subject to inundation from floods, and the location of structures, irrigation ditches, railroads and other permanent physical features.

  • (9) Description of the exterior boundaries of the subdivision or legal description of the property comprising the subdivisions.

  • (10) Width and location of all existing or proposed public or private easements.

  • (11) Classification of lots as to intended residential, commercial, industrial or other uses.

  • (12) Proposed location, direction of flow, and disposal point for storm drains and appurtenant structures.

  • (13) Proposed location, size, direction of flow, and disposal point for sanitary facilities.

  • (14) Contours, street profile and cross-sections, together with the location of all cut and fill slopes or a separate tentative grading plan, if necessary in the opinion of the director of public works.

• (f) Supplemental information. The tentative map shall show thereon or be accompanied by reports and written statements from the subdivider giving essential information regarding

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the following matters:

• (1) Source of water supply.

• (2) Type of street improvement and utilities which the subdivider proposes to install.

• (3) Protective covenants to be recorded.

• (4) Such other information as may be deemed necessary by the public works director or planning director.

• (g) Provision of notice of application for approval of tentative map to landowners within 300 feet. Whenever approval of a tentative map will constitute a substantial or significant deprivation of the property rights of owners of real property situated within 300 feet of the property which is the subject of the application for approval, the city planning department shall provide notice of the application to such surrounding landowners by mail, by posting on and off the subject property, by delivery to the owners by means other than mail, or by any other method reasonably calculated to provide actual notice to such surrounding landowners of the hearing to be held regarding approval of the application.

• (h) Report by public works and planning departments. Prior to the consideration of a tentative subdivision map by the city council, the director of public works and the planning director shall make a report to the city council containing their recommendations or comments concerning the tentative map and its bearing on the community. Such reports shall be in writing, and a copy shall be served on the subdivider at least three days prior to any action on the map by the city council.

entative subdivision map by the city council, the director of public works and the planning director shall make a report to the city council containing their recommendations or comments concerning the tentative map and its bearing on the community. Such reports shall be in writing, and a copy shall be served on the subdivider at least three days prior to any action on the map by the city council.

• (i) Action by advisory agency. The advisory agency shall recommend approval, conditional approval, or disapproval of a tentative tract map of a subdivision and report thereon to the city council in writing within 50 days after such map has been filed. However, if an environmental impact report is prepared for the tentative map, the fifty-day period specified in this subsection shall not be applicable and the advisory agency shall render its report or decision required by this subsection within 45 days after certification of the environmental impact report.

• (j) Action by city council. Upon receipt of the report from the director of public works and the planning director, the clerk of the city council shall set the matter before the city council at its next most convenient regularly scheduled meeting, which meeting shall be within 30 days after the clerk's receipt of the report. Should the matter be set for a meeting which is prior to the end of said 30 days, then the city council may continue the matter until another time, provided final action is taken within said 30 days. At the meeting the city council shall hear all of the evidence and shall act upon the advisory agency's report, and shall approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the tentative tract map. The action of the council shall be recorded in the form of a resolution, and shall contain the facts and reasons for the approval, conditional approval, or denial of the tentative map. No tentative tract map shall be approved unless the council finds that the proposed subdivision, along with its design and improvement, is consistent with the general plan of the city and that none of the findings set forth in Government Code Sections 66474 and 66474.6 can be made. The city clerk shall report the council's action on the tentative map to the subdivider and to the planning director within 15 days following such action.

• (k) Extension of tentative approval period. Upon written application filed with the planning

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director within the twenty-four-month period following approval or conditional approval of a tentative subdivision tract map by the city council, and prior to its expiration, extensions beyond the twenty-four-month period may be recommended for approval by the city council. The planning director's report shall be forwarded to the clerk of the city council for action by council. The clerk shall put the matter before the council at its next most convenient regularly scheduled meeting, which meeting shall be within 30 days after the clerk's receipt of the planning director's recommendation. The council shall thereupon act on the requested extension. The sum of all such extensions granted by the city council shall not exceed a total of 12 months. The clerk of the city council shall notify, in writing, the applicant or subdivider of the respective actions of the planning director and city council, within five days of the recommendation or decision made.

At the time any tentative tract map is extended or recommended for extensions, the planning director may recommend any new conditions the planning director sees fit as a condition of the extension, subject to the approval of the council, and the council may, at the time of its decision, add any new conditions deemed appropriate. If no final map for all or any of the land shown on the approved tentative tract map is recorded within the initial twenty-four-month approval period or within any subsequent extensions as above provided, then all proceedings shall terminate, and no final tract map shall be filed or recorded without first processing a new tentative tract map.

(Ord. No. 582, § 2, 9-13-76; Ord. No. 717, §§ 5—9, 11-28-83)