Azusa Municipal Code Div. 5 Specifications

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State Law reference— Form, content of final maps, Government Code §§ 66433, 66434.

If the subdivider elects to number or letter the blocks in any subdivision, all blocks therein shall be numbered or lettered in numerical or alphabetical order, respectively, commencing with the numeral "1" or the letter "A" and continuing without omission or duplication. Such numbers or letters shall be solid and of sufficient size and thickness as to be conspicuous on the map and shall be so placed as not to obliterate any figure, dimension or course and shall not be enclosed in any circle or other design. Except where necessitated by a scale sufficiently large to show all details clearly, no block shall be divided between two or more sheets.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.010)

If the blocks of any subdivision are numbered or lettered, the lots in each block therein shall be numbered beginning with the numeral "1" and continuing without omission or duplication in any such block. Otherwise the lots shall be numbered beginning with the numeral "1" and continuing without omission or duplication throughout the entire tract. No prefix or suffix nor combination of letter and number shall be used. Each lot shall be shown entirely on one sheet.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.020)

The boundary line of a subdivision shall be indicated by a border of light blue ink approximately one-eighth inch wide, applied on the reverse side of the tracing and inside such boundary line. Such ink shall be of such density as to be transferred to a blue line print of the map and not to obliterate any line, figure or other data appearing on the map.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.030)

(a) The title sheet of each final map shall contain a title consisting of the number, name or designation of the subdivision and the words "in the City of Azusa" or "partly in the City of Azusa and partly in unincorporated territory," as the case may be and, except as provided in section 66-240, a subtitle consisting of a description of all of the property being subdivided, by reference to such maps of the property shown therein as shall have been previously recorded, or shall have been previously filed with the county clerk pursuant to a final judgment in any action in partition or shall have been previously filed in the office of the county recorder under authority of Government Code § 66499.50 et seq., or by reference to the plat of any United States survey. When necessary for greater clarity or definiteness supplemental reference may be made to any other map on file in the office of the county recorder.

(b) Each reference in such description to any tract or subdivision shall be spelled out and worded identically with the original record thereof and must show a complete reference to the book and page of records of the county.

(c) Upon such title sheet the certificate of the surveyor or engineer referred to in Government Code § 66441 shall appear. Also upon such title sheet or upon at least one map sheet shall appear the basis of bearings, making reference to some recorded subdivision map, county surveyor's map or other record acceptable to the county surveyor or to a solar or polaris observation.

(d) All stamped or written matter, including signatures, shall be so made with opaque ink that legible blue line prints may be obtained therefrom.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.040)

Upon the title sheet of each map filed for the purpose of reverting subdivided land to acreage, the subtitle shall consist of the words "A Reversion to Acreage of _____" (insert a legal description of the land being reverted).

(Code 1971, § 18.32.050)

On each final map of a subdivision or approved record of survey map of a subdivision shall be fully and clearly shown and identified such stakes, monuments or other evidence determining the boundaries of the subdivision as were found on the ground, together with sufficient corners of adjoining subdivisions, by lot and block number, tract name and place of record or by section, township and range or other proper designation as may be necessary to locate precisely the limits of the subdivision.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.060)

The subdivision map on each sheet and the lettering thereon shall be so oriented that, with the north point directed away from the reader, the map may be read most conveniently from the bottom or lower right corner of such sheet with the binding edge to be at the left and lengthwise of the sheet.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.070)

Each sheet of a subdivision final map or approved record of survey map, except the title sheet thereof, shall bear the main title of the map, the scale of the map, north point and sheet number, together with a designation of the relation, if any, between each sheet and each other sheet thereof.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.080)

The bearing and length of each lot line, block line and boundary line of a subdivision shall be shown on the final map or approved record of survey map, provided that when bearings or lengths of lot lines in any series of lots are the same, such bearings or lengths may be omitted from each interior parallel lot line of such series. Each required bearing and length shall be shown in full, and no ditto marks or other designation or repetition shall be used.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.090)

Upon each subdivision lot containing an area of three-fourths of an acre or more shall be designated the acreage of such lot shown, not less accurately than to the nearest 1/100 of an acre.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.100)

The length, radius and total central angle or bearings of terminal radii of each curve in a subdivision and the bearing of each radial line to each lot corner on each curve in a subdivision or the central angle of each segment within each lot in a subdivision shall be shown on the map.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.110)

(a) Street names within the boundaries of a subdivision shown on a final map or approved record of survey map shall be submitted to the commission for approval, and if duplicated elsewhere in the city or so nearly the same in spelling or pronunciation as to cause confusion, some other name may be required.

(b) Unless a name is so duplicated or confusing, it shall be the same as the name of any street of which it is on line of extension or the name to which the street may be in the process of being changed.

(c) The word "avenue," "boulevard," "place" or other designation of such street shall be spelled out in full.

(d) The name of each newly dedicated portion of any highway shall be shown in or arrowed to such newly dedicated portion.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.120)

(a) There shall be shown upon each final map of a subdivision or approved record of survey map of a subdivision the centerline of each highway, street or way, the total width thereof, the width of that portion, if any, to be dedicated and for any existing highways, streets or ways the width thereof and the width of each highway, street or way on each side of the centerline thereof. On each such centerline shall be shown the bearing and length of each tangent and radius, central angle and the length of each curve.

(b) The final map or approved record of survey map shall show the width of each railroad right-of-way, flood control or drainage easement and each other easement appearing on such map, whether previously of record or offered for dedication on such map.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.130)

Upon a subdivision final map shall be shown the centerline or sidelines of each easement to which the lots in the subdivision are subject. If such easement is not definitely located of record, a statement showing the existence of such easement shall be placed on the map.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.140)

Each easement shown for any storm drain or sewer shall be designated on the subdivision final map by fine dashed lines.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.150)

Distances and bearings on the sidelines of lots in subdivisions which are cut by easements shall be arrowed or so shown as to indicate clearly the actual length of each lot line.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.160)

The width of easements or the lengths and bearings of the lines thereof and sufficient ties thereto to definitely locate such easements with respect to a subdivision shall be shown on the final map.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.170)

Each easement in a subdivision shall be clearly labelled and identified and, if of record, the record reference shall be shown thereon.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.180)

If an easement in a subdivision is being dedicated by a final map, it shall be properly set out in the owner's certificate of dedication on the map.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.190)

All notes or figures pertaining to each easement in a subdivision shall be subordinated in form and appearance to those relating to the subdivision itself.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.200)

Upon the subdivision final map shall be shown the city boundary line, provided the subdivision borders on the city boundary line, and such line shall be clearly designated and tied in.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.210)

If any portion of the land within the boundaries of a subdivision shown on any final map or approved record of survey map is subject to inundation or flood hazard by stormwaters, such fact and portion shall be clearly shown on such final map or approved record of survey map by a prominent note on each sheet of such map whereon any such portion shall be shown.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.220)

If any portion of the land described in section 66-257 is subject to sheet overflow or ponding of local stormwater or should the depth to groundwater be less than ten feet from the ground surface, the commission shall so inform the state real estate commissioner.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.230)

If a subdivision or any part thereof is traversed by any major watercourse channel, stream or creek, the subdivider shall dedicate an adequate right-of-way for storm drainage purposes, if in the opinion of the commission such dedication is necessary. If the natural watercourse does not lie entirely within such dedication, the subdivider may either construct an adequate channel within such dedication or delineate the course of the watercourse upon the final map or approved record or survey map.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.240)

If, in the opinion of the commission, either sewers or storm drains or both are necessary for the general use of lot owners in the subdivision and such sewers or storm drains or both are not to be installed in the streets of such subdivision, the subdivider shall show upon the maps and dedicate necessary easements for such sewers or storm drains or both.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.250)

Any final map of a subdivision presented to the commission and council for acceptance of easements and recordation shall be accompanied by an additional copy on which is delineated all structures existing within the easements, except publicly owned storm drains, water lines, sewers and other sanitary facilities, whether such structures are on recorded easements or not.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.270)

Any final map of a subdivision presented to the council for acceptance of easements and recordation shall have written thereon, in addition to or as part of any other certificate required, a certificate signed by the owner and the subdivider and by all persons claiming any interest, other than right-of-way, easement or other interest, none of which can ripen into a fee, in the lands included within the subdivision shown on the map, in substantially the following form:

"We certify that except as shown on a copy of this map on file in the office of the city clerk or city engineer we know of no easement or structure existing within the easements hereby offered for dedication to the public, other than publicly owned water lines, sewers or storm drains; that we will grant no right or interest within the boundaries of such easements offered to the public, except where such right or interest is expressly made subject to the easements."

(Code 1971, § 18.32.280)

If the owner of an easement or right-of-way of any kind or nature in any right-of-way offered for dedication who has no other interest whatever in any part of the lands included within the subdivision refuses to make his easement subject to any right-of-way offered to the public, but the final map in all other respects complies with this division, with Government Code § 66410 et seq. and with every other applicable statute and ordinance and the council finds the subdivider has in good faith attempted to obtain the necessary signature from such owner and has been unable to do so and that a refusal to accept the final map for recordation would work an undue hardship on the subdivider, then by a majority vote of all its members the council may accept such map.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.290)

(a) The subdivider shall improve or agree to improve all land dedicated or to be dedicated on a final map for streets, highways, public ways and easements with such improvements as are necessary for the general use of the lot owners in the subdivision and local neighborhood traffic and drainage needs.

(b) Trunk line sewers, improvements to flood control channels not solely for the benefit of the subdivision and improvements to freeways and major highways are not required by this division.

(Code 1971, § 18.32.300)