Belvedere Municipal Code Ch. 18.24 Final Map

Sections:

• 18.24.010 Time limit for filing.

• 18.24.020 Information to be shown—Form.

• 18.24.030 Certificates, statements and acknowledgments required.

• 18.24.040 Filing—Number of copies required—Electronic copy—Fees.

• 18.24.050 Dedication requirements.

• 18.24.060 City Council action.

• 18.24.070 Approval and recordation. 18.24.080 Copies filed with City.

Prior to expiration of a tentative map or vesting tentative map for a major subdivision, as provided in Section 18.20.120, unless said map shall have been abandoned or the time for action on the same shall have been extended, the subdivider shall cause said subdivision to be surveyed and shall prepare and file with the City Council a final map of said subdivision. (Ord. 89-2 § 2, 1989; Ord. 66 NS § 12.1, 1950; prior code § 20-34.)

A. The final map shall conform to all of the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act and shall also satisfy the following requirements:

1. The final map shall particularly define and designate all lots or parcels intended for sale or reserved for private purposes and all parcels offered for dedication for any purpose, with all dimensions, boundaries and courses clearly shown and defined in every case. No ditto marks shall be used.

2. The map shall show all City boundaries crossing or adjoining the subdivision clearly designated and tied

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3. The map shall show the line of extreme high water in case the subdivision is adjacent to tidewater.

4. Lots and Blocks. In tracts containing more than one block, the blocks shall be numbered or lettered in numerical order or alphabetical order, commencing with the number 1 or the letter A, with no omissions or duplications. Lot numbers shall begin with the numeral 1 in each block, and shall continue consecutively, with no omissions or duplications. As an alternative to the foregoing, block letters or numbers may be omitted, in which case lot numbers shall begin with the numeral 1, and shall continue consecutively throughout the with no omissions or duplications. No prefix or suffix, such as 1A, B2 or BB shall be used. All letters and figures shall be conspicuous and solid. They shall not obliterate dimensions or courses. If more than one sheet is required for the subdivision map, each sheet shall show lots and blocks in their entirety and not portions thereof.

5. Streets and Other Rights-of-way. The total width of all streets shall be shown, also the widths of rights-ofway for flood control or drainage channels, and any other rights-of-way.

6. Easements. The map shall show the centerline and side lines of all easements to which the lots are subject. The easement must be clearly labeled and identified and if already of record, its recorded reference shall be given. If any easement is not definitely located of record, a statement of such easement must appear on the title sheet. Easements for storm drains, sewers and other purposes shall be denoted by fine dotted lines. Distances and bearings on the side lines of lots which are cut by an easement must be so shown that the map will indicate clearly the actual lengths of the lot lines. The width of the easement, the lengths and bearings of the lines thereof, and sufficient ties thereto to definitely locate the easement with respect to the subdivision must be shown.

7. Street Names. In order to avoid duplication, names to be used for new streets shall be subject to the approval of the City Planning Commission.

8. The final map shall be prepared by or under the direction of a registered civil engineer or licensed land surveyor, shall be based upon a survey, and shall conform to all of the following provisions. 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. The 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, statements, affidavits, and acknowledgments 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. All survey and mathematical information and data necessary to locate all monuments, and to locate and retrace any and all interior and exterior boundary lines appearing thereon shall be shown, including bearings and distances of all straight lines, and radii and arc length or chord bearings and length for all curves, and any information which may be necessary to determine the location of the centers of curves and ties to existing monuments used to establish subdivision boundaries.

If the map includes a designated remainder parcel, and the gross area of the “designated remainder” parcel or similar parcel is five acres or more, that remainder parcel need not be shown on the map, and its location need not be indicated as a matter of survey, but only by deed reference to the existing boundaries of the remainder parcel.

• B. The following data and information shall accompany the final map:

  1. A traverse sheet of the survey as specified in Section 18.16.030;

  2. A complete set of blue-line or black and white prints of the final map of the subdivision for checking purposes;

  3. A statement that all improvements have been completed in accordance with the plans and specifications as approved by the Planning Commission;

  4. A statement of the water supply installed or available for the subdivision, including information as to the source and adequacy of the supply;

5. A statement of the sewerage works and sewage disposal installed, proposed or available for the subdivision, together with a statement of the county health officer as to whether in his opinion the proposed system is adequate and will operate without creating a public or private nuisance; no such statement shall be required where the subdivision is to be sewered by connection to an existing public sanitary sewer system;

6. All other data and information that are now or may hereafter be required by law;

7. All data to accompany final map shall be paid for by the subdivider. (Ord. 89-2 § 2, 1989; Ord. 66 NS § 12.2, 1950; prior code §§ 20-35.)

All certificates, statements, and acknowledgments required by the Subdivision Map Act shall appear on or accompany the final map as the case may be, and in addition the following shall accompany the final map:

A. The subdivider shall furnish to the City Council a guaranty of title or letter from a competent title company, approved by the City Council, 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 on the proper certificates and are correctly shown on said map, both as to consents as to the making thereof and affidavits of dedication where necessary. Such guaranty shall be issued for the benefit of the City and protection of the City Council and shall be continued complete up to the instant of recordation of the map.

B. All other data and material that are now or may hereafter be required by law. (Ord. 89-2 § 2, 1989; Ord. 66 NS § 12.4, 1950; prior code § 20-37.)

The subdivider shall file with the City Engineer twelve copies of the final map and one electronic copy conforming to the requirements set forth in Section 18.20.040(B). Upon filing of the final map, the subdivider shall pay to the

City for the purpose of checking, computing, investigating, surveying and other matters required by law, such fees as are hereafter fixed from time to time by City Council resolution. In addition, prior to recordation of the map, the subdivider shall pay to the City any costs in excess of the fee collected, in order to cover the actual costs of checking of the map, plans and specifications, and investigations incidental thereto. (Ord. 2004-6 § 3, 2004; Ord. 89-2 § 2, 1989.)

All parcels of land shown on any final map and intended for any public use shall be offered for dedication for public use except those parcels which are intended for the exclusive use of lot owners in the subdivision, their licensees, visitors, tenants and servants. Dedications specified in Sections 66475 through 66478.14, inclusive, of the Subdivision Map Act may be required as conditions of approval of the tentative map. Any parcels required for dedication to the City or any other public agency, shall be offered for dedication on the final map, and the City shall accept or reject such offers of dedication at the time of approval of such map. (Ord. 89-2 § 2, 1989; Ord. 66 NS § 13.1, 1950; prior code § 20-39.)

Upon filing of a final map with the City Engineer, the clerk of the City Council shall place the final map on the agenda of the next regularly scheduled meeting of the City Council, which is not less than ten days nor more than forty days after the date of filing. At said meeting, the City Engineer shall make a report to the City Council as to whether the map conforms to the requirements of this Title and the Subdivision Map Act, and is in conformance with the tentative map for the project which was approved or conditionally approved by the City Council. The City Council shall approve said map if the same conforms to all the requirements of the Subdivision Map Act, this Title and any ruling made thereunder. The Council shall at that time require the construction or installation of the improvements designated in connection with the action on the tentative map, as hereinbefore provided. When it approves a final map, the City Council shall at the time of its action thereon accept or reject any or all offers of dedication shown thereon. (Ord. 89-2 § 2, 1989; Ord. 66 NS § 13.2, 1950; prior code § 20-40.)

Upon approval of any final map and after the required signatures and seal have been affixed, the City Clerk shall transmit the map to the County Recorder who shall, if he finds the map in proper order, record the same after payment of the required recording fee. Payment of said recording fees are the responsibility of the subdivider. (Ord. 89-2 § 2, 1989; Ord. 66 NS § 13.3, 1950; prior code § 20-41.)

There shall be filed with the City for recording one black line print on polyester film base showing all certificates, affidavits and signatures. (Ord. 89-2 § 2, 1989; Ord. 66 NS § 13.4, 1950; prior code § 20-42.)