Chapter 7.22

PARCEL MAPS—REQUIREMENTS AND PROCEDURES

The content and form of parcel maps shall be governed by the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act and the subdivision manual. The Planning Commission may require additional information to be filed or recorded simultaneously with the map.

(Ord. 171 § 1, 2007; Ord. 302 § 10, 2018)

• A. When a subdivision is proposed to be created through the tentative parcel map process, a final parcel map shall be filed for recording with the County Clerk/County Recorder of the County of Orange and the County Surveyor pursuant to Government Code Section 66466 and in compliance with Section 7.03.050 of this title. No proposed subdivision shall be complete until such parcel map has been filed for recording with the County Surveyor unless a waiver has been approved. If a tentative parcel map is filed and approved, the final parcel map shall be approved by the City Council in accordance with Sections 66457 and 66458 of the Government Code.

• B. A final parcel map, within commercial or industrial zoned areas, identifying lease line or lines for tax purposes may be filed for recording with the County Clerk/County Recorder of the County of Orange without being required to comply with the tentative parcel map requirements of this Subdivision Code. Each parcel on such map shall be identified by letter and shall not be considered to be a separate building site. No transfers of fee title may be made in connection with such map. Identification shall be shown on the face of such map as to its purpose that it does not create building sites and that it does not permit transfer of fee title interest.

• (Ord. 171 § 1, 2007)

• A. When dedications or offers of dedications are made on the final parcel map, all parties having any record title interest in the real property being subdivided shall consent to the preparation and recordation of the final parcel map by signing the required certificate. Such signatures shall be properly acknowledged. The certificate need not be signed by public entities and public utilities which own rights-of-way, easement or other interests which cannot ripen into a fee, provided that:

  1. The Planning Commission determines that division and development of the property in the manner set forth on the map will not unreasonably interfere with the free and complete exercise of the public entity or public utility right-of-way or easement;

  2. The map contains a statement that the Planning Commission has determined that the division and development of the property in the manner set forth on the map will not unreasonably interfere with the free and complete exercise of the public entity or public utility right-of-way or easement; and

  3. The public entity or utility has been given the opportunity to object to such a determination in accordance with the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act.

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City of Lake Forest, CA § 7.22.020

LAKE FOREST CODE

• A. Final Parcel Map. The final parcel map shall be submitted to the Director, who shall examine the map within 20 days of receipt thereof. If the Director is satisfied that the map is technically correct and conforms with the approved tentative parcel map and any conditions imposed thereon, the Director shall execute the certificate required by the Subdivision Map Act. Such certification by the Director shall constitute approval of the final parcel map. Once approved by the Director, the final parcel map shall be approved by the City Council as required by Section 7.22.015(A) and Government Code Sections 66457 and 66458. Following the Director's approval, the City Clerk shall schedule consideration of the final parcel map by the City Council at the earliest possible date authorized by law.

• B. Agreements and Security. Whenever, as a condition of an approved tentative parcel map, agreements and/or security are required for installation of certain improvements, said agreements and security shall be approved by the City Council prior to recordation of the final parcel map.

• (Ord. 171 § 1, 2007)

The City Clerk shall transmit the approved final parcel map to the County Recorder for recordation within 20 days from the date the parcel map is submitted for approval, unless the Director or subdivider requests an alternate time schedule for recordation. It shall be the obligation of the subdivider to cause a copy of the approved final parcel map to be filed with the County Surveyor in accordance with Government Code Section 66466. (Ord. 171 § 1, 2007)

• A. Coordinated positions in the vicinity shall be provided by tying the section, quarter section, rancho, or other appropriate land net corners or road centerlines, on an approximately onehalf (½) mile grid convenient for proper coordinate tie-in of such map boundaries, to the existing monuments of, and, where possible, intervisible with the local control network, and by calculating and adjusting coordinates for these corners using the California Coordinate System based on the North American Datum of 1983, 2007 Adjustment, or current adjustment as directed by the Director.

• B. All data pertaining to these control monuments will be filed in accordance with the requirements of the Land Surveyor's Act and these records shall be indexed and made readily available to the general public.

• C. The City shall require the surveyor or engineer to show on the parcel map, those ties made by the surveyor or engineer to such control monuments in accordance with Division 8, Chapter 1, Section 8813 of the Public Resources Code; and that coordinates published by the City for these control monuments be shown on the map.

• D. The surveyor or engineer shall be permitted to show on any record of survey submitted for

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City of Lake Forest, CA

SUBDIVISIONS

§ 7.22.035

§ 7.22.040

filing, the information prescribed above, when the normal course of survey activities include ties made to points for which coordinates have been provided or accepted into the control network by the City, and when such information may be shown pursuant to the requirements of the California Public Resources Code.

• E. The City shall require the surveyor or engineer preparing the parcel map to tie the boundary of said map into the California Coordinate System (NAD 83) in at least two locations, preferably on opposite sides of the boundary or as mutually agreed to by the surveyor or engineer and the Director.

• F. The basis of bearings of the parcel map shall be the California Coordinate System (NAD 83), 2007 Adjustment or current adjustment as directed by the Director as established by the use of existing monuments, Global Positioning System surveys (GPS), or by astronomic observation.

• G. In the event that the Director is unable to provide the surveyor or engineer with coordinated monuments, as described in subsection A of this section, within 30 days of a written and City-approved request filed by the surveyor or engineer relating to any map which is or will be processed by the Director, the foregoing requirements would be waived. However, none of the above will preclude a person, authorized to practice land surveying within the State of California, from performing the necessary work to meet the requirements of this section.

n, within 30 days of a written and City-approved request filed by the surveyor or engineer relating to any map which is or will be processed by the Director, the foregoing requirements would be waived. However, none of the above will preclude a person, authorized to practice land surveying within the State of California, from performing the necessary work to meet the requirements of this section.

• H. The Director shall require the surveyor or engineer preparing a parcel map to submit to the City, in addition to the material currently being submitted for map checking and recordation purposes, a digital graphics file containing the boundary, street centerline, right-of-way and lot/parcel line data necessary to facilitate transferring of the file into the City mapping system if the surveyor or engineer has the capability to provide such files. If the surveyor or engineer does not have this capability, the City will create such a graphics file for entry into its system and recover the cost through the map check process.

• I. If the boundary of the parcel map being submitted is a parcel or lot of a map already tied to the California Coordinate System, NAD 83, 2007 Adjustment or current adjustment as directed by the Director, the requirements in subsection E of this section shall be waived.

• J. In the event the surveyor or engineer submitting a parcel map to the City feels that compliance with the requirements stated in subsections C, E, F and H of this section will create a hardship on him or her or the client, he or she may appeal to the Director to waive them. If the Director refused this appeal the surveyor or engineer may further appeal this decision to a committee of members of the private sector recognized by EMA as a representative of the professional surveying community. Such a committee may be, but not limited to, the California Land Surveyors Association-California Council of Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors Joint Professional Practice Committee. The decision of this Committee shall be final and binding on both parties.

• (Ord. 171 § 1, 2007; Ord. 302 § 10, 2018)

(Ord. 171 § 1, 2007)

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City of Lake Forest, CA

SUBDIVISIONS

§ 7.24.010

§ 7.24.025