Bakersfield Municipal Code Ch. 16.22 Final Parcel Map

Sections:

16.22.010 Preparation. 16.22.020 Form and contents. 16.22.025 Filing. 16.22.030 Statements on map. 16.22.035 Dedications on map. 16.22.040 Improvements completed or completion agreement. 16.22.050 Transmittal of maps. 16.22.051 Correction and amendments of parcel maps.

A. The final parcel map shall be prepared by or under the direction of a registered civil engineer authorized to do land surveying or a licensed land surveyor.

B. Such map may be based either upon a field made in conformity with the Land Surveyor’s Act except that parcel maps in which all parcels exceed twenty acres may be compiled from recorded or filed data when sufficient survey information exists on filed maps to locate and retrace the exterior boundary lines of the parcel map if the location of at least one of these boundary lines can be established from an existing monumented line. (Ord. 4004 § 9, 2001; Ord. 3515 § 1, 1993)

A. The final parcel map shall show the location of streets and property lines bounding the property.

B. The final parcel map shall be legibly drawn, printed or reproduced by a process guaranteeing a permanent record in black on tracing cloth or polyester-base film. Certificates may be legibly stamped or printed upon the map with opaque ink. If ink is used on polyester-base film, the ink surface shall be coated with a suitable substance to assure permanent legibility.

C. The size of each sheet shall be eighteen by twenty-six inches. A marginal line shall be drawn completely around each sheet, leaving an entirely blank margin of one inch. The scale of the map shall be large enough to show all details clearly and enough sheets shall be used to accomplish this end. The particular number of the sheet and the total number of sheets comprising the map shall be stated on each of the sheets, and its relation to each adjoining sheet shall be clearly shown.

D. Each phase or unit shall be numbered in consecutive order, beginning with the number “1.” For each phase or unit, each buildable lot shall be numbered in consecutive order beginning with the number “1.” Each nonbuildable lot shall be lettered in consecutive order beginning with the letter “A.” The scale of the map and north arrow shall be shown on each sheet. Each street shall be labeled with the name approved by the planning director.

E. The exterior boundary of the land included within the subdivision shall be indicated by distinctive symbols and clearly so designated.

F. The final parcel map shall show the location of each parcel and its relation to surrounding surveys. The location of any remainder of the original parcel need not be shown as a matter of survey but only by deed reference to the existing record boundaries if such remainder has a gross area of five acres or more.

G. The title of each final parcel map shall consist of a parcel map number as secured from the appropriate county agency conspicuously placed at the top of the sheet.

H. The area of each parcel shall be shown. (Ord. 4232 § 4, 2005; Ord. 3515 § 1, 1993)

The city engineer shall determine if a final parcel map has been filed in a timely manner consistent with Section 16.08.155 of this title. (Ord. 4560 § 3, 2009)

A. The engineer or surveyor who made or under whose direction the parcel map was made shall execute and wet sign the following statement on the map:

Engineer’s (Surveyor’s) Statement

This map was prepared by me or under my direction (and was compiled from record data) (and is based upon a field survey) in conformance with the requirements of the Subdivision Map Act and local ordinance at the request of (person authorizing map) on the ____ day of __, 20. This parcel map substantially conforms to the approved tentative map and the conditions of approval thereof.

(Signed) _______________________

R.C.E. (or L.S.) No. ______________

If a field survey was performed, the certificate shall also state that all monuments are of the character and occupy the positions indicated on the map, or that they will be set in such positions on or before a specified date prior to issuance of a building permit, and that the monuments are, or will be, sufficient to enable the survey to be retraced.

B. Subject to the provisions of Section 66436 of the Map Act, unless otherwise determined by the advisory agency, a separate certificate, signed and acknowledged by all parties having any record title interest in the real property subdivided, consenting to the preparation and recordation of the parcel map is required; provided, however, that for good and sufficient cause shown by the subdivider, the advisory agency may waive any or all such signatures and/or names and nature of the respective interests otherwise required by Section 66436 of the Map Act at any time after the tentative map is submitted for approval. Such waiver shall be certified by the city engineer. The provisions of Section 16.20.060(B) shall apply to the waiver of signatures of parties owning a recorded interest in, or right to, minerals, including, but not limited to, oil, gas or other hydrocarbon substances, except where the initial gross area of the final parcel map is less than five acres in a residential zone or less than two acres in any zone other than a residential zone.

C. There shall appear on the parcel map a recorder’s statement for execution by the recorder, as follows:

Recorder’s Statement

Filed this ______ day of _____, 20, at ___ a.m. in Book _____of ______, at page ____, at the request of

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Signed ___________________

County Recorder

D. The parcel map, and evidence of record title interest, shall be submitted to the city engineer for his or her examination prior to filing. Within twenty calendar days after receiving the parcel map, such officer shall examine it for the survey information shown thereon and if satisfied that it complies with this title and all required provisions of the Map Act, and that such parcel map is technically correct, the following certificate shall be executed on the map by the city engineer:

City Engineer’s Statement

This map conforms with the requirements of the Subdivision Map Act and local ordinance.

Dated: _________________

Signed _________________

City Engineer

(Ord. 4967 § 1, 2019; Ord. 4817 § 1, 2015; Ord. 3515 § 1, 1993)

A. Dedications of or offers to dedicate interests in real property for specified public purposes shall be made by a certificate on the final map or by separate instrument at the discretion of the city engineer.

B. If a subdivider is required to make a dedication of land for public purposes (other than for open space, schools or parks), the local agency must record a certificate with the county recorder identifying the subdivider and the land being dedicated, and stating that the land shall be reconveyed to the subdivider if the same public purpose for which it was dedicated no longer exists or the land or a portion thereof is not needed for public utilities. The subdivider may request that the local agency make such a determination and reconvey the land to the subdivider as provided above, but the agency may assess a fee for making the determination. The fee may not exceed the cost of making the determination. The local agency must give the subdivider sixty days’ notice prior to vacating, leasing, selling or otherwise disposing of the dedicated property unless the dedicated property will be used for the same public purpose for which it was dedicated. (Ord. 3515 § 1, 1993)

A. If, at the time of certification of the final parcel map by the city engineer, any public improvements required by the advisory agency under Section 16.32.080 have not been completed and accepted in accordance with standards established in this title applicable at the time of the approval or conditional approval of the tentative map, the city engineer, as a condition precedent to approval of the parcel map, shall require the subdivider to enter into an improvement agreement to thereafter complete such improvements at the subdivider’s expense, upon terms mutually agreeable to the subdivider and the city council.

B. The city shall require that the performance of such agreement be guaranteed by the security specified in Sections 16.32.020, 16.32.030 and 16.32.040. (Ord. 3748 § 8, 1997; Ord. 3515 § 1, 1993)

After approval by the city of a final parcel map, the city engineer shall transmit the map in accordance with Section 66464 of the Map Act. (Ord. 3515 § 1, 1993)

A. A recorded parcel map may be amended as set forth in Section 66470 of the Map Act for any of the reasons set forth in Section 66469 of the Map Act.

B. A recorded parcel map may be modified by a certificate of correction or an amending map for reasons other than those set forth in Section 66469 of the Map Act, if after a noticed public hearing, the Planning Commission finds as follows:

1. There are changes in circumstances which make any or all of the conditions of the map no longer
appropriate or necessary; and

2. The modifications do not impose any additional burden on the present fee owner of the property; and

3. The modifications do not alter any right, title, or interest in the real property reflected on the recorded
map; and

4. The map, as modified, conforms to the provisions of Section 66474 of the Map Act.

The public hearing shall be noticed pursuant to Section 66451.3 of the Map Act and Section 16.16.060 and shall be confined to consideration of and action on the proposed modification. (Ord. 3515 § 1, 1993)