Coachella Municipal Code Ch. 16.24 Parcel Splits and Lot Line Adjustments

When an owner or subdivider desires to consolidate, to divide, and/or rearrange one or more existing lots, or parcels, into not more than four parcels, or as otherwise provided by Section 66426, and other applicable provisions of the Map Act, it shall be done in the manner set out in this chapter. This procedure may be used to revert to acreage land containing four or less contiguous parcels as authorized by Section 66499.20½ of the Map Act.

(Prior code § 21-161)

An acceptable tentative parcel map, showing the proposed land division, shall be prepared by a registered civil engineer, or licensed land surveyor and filed with the city in the manner provided in Chapter 16.12.

(Prior code § 21-162)

Upon application to the city council, the council may direct the city engineer to prepare a substitute tentative map examining the feasibility of the parcel split. An appropriate fee shall be set to offset the cost to the city.

(Prior code § 21-163)

Except as provided in this chapter, the owner or subdivider shall offer for dedication additional streets, alleys, and public ways and easements, as are required for conformance with the general plan and city's master plans of streets and highways, water, sewer, drainage, and the existing or projected local street system.

As a condition precedent to the approval of a parcel map, the owner or subdivider shall agree to construct improvements in or along the parcel frontage upon all existing or proposed public streets and ways as reasonably required for subdivisions. A parcel map may not be approved until the required improvements have been satisfactorily constructed or until adequate security, as approved by the city attorney and in an amount determined by the city engineer for the estimated cost of the work, has been posted with the city.

Extraordinary conditions may make construction of certain improvements impracticable. In extreme circumstances, the city may grant conditional exception to be made only upon written statement of the owner, citing the extraordinary or extreme circumstances and shall be granted only by the council, subject to such conditions as they may impose.

(Prior code § 21-164)

Upon completion of requirements for the tentative mp and improvements, the owner or subdivider may proceed with the processing of a parcel map of the land division in the manner provided in Chapter 16.20 for final maps. The map shall be of a size and form prescribed by the city engineer and shall comply with the provisions of Section 66444-50 of the map act. The map shall be based upon a field survey showing monuments found and set and shall include other data as required by the city; except the record data may be used if all corners of the parcel being created are of record and if the location of one exterior boundary line can be established from an existing monumented line.

Upon approval of the parcel map by the city, the city clerk shall transmit the map to the county recorder. The applicant shall pay the recording fee and return an acceptable reproducible, duplicate copy of the recorded map on linen tracing doth or polyester base film, one clothback print and seven blue-line prints to the city engineer for filing.

(Prior code § 21-165)

The building department shall not issue permits for the erection of any structures upon lots or parcels not complying with this title.

(Prior code § 21-166)

The owner or subdivider shall comply with Chapter 16.36 for each new parcel created in excess of the number of original parcels.

(Prior code § 21-167)

In the event that the owners of two adjoining parcels desire to modify the location of a common boundary between the two parcels in such a manner that no additional parcels are created, the applicant shall only be required to process the final parcel map. Prior to submitting the map to the city engineer for recording, the applicant shall make application to the community development department for said lot line adjustment. The director of community development shall approve, approve with conditions or deny. The director of community development shall review applications for lot line adjustments at a time established by the department of community development. After approval by the director of community development, the lot line adjustment shall be submitted to the city engineer for recordation without further action by the planning commission or city council. The applicant shall pay established fees for processing the lot line adjustment and recording a final parcel map.

(Prior code § 21-168)

When the applicant or any interested citizen is adversely affected by or is dissatisfied with any action of the commission or city engineer with respect to the tentative map, the kind, nature, and extent of the improvements required, or a 1ot line adjustment, he or she may appeal to the council as provided in Section 66452.5 of the map act.

(Prior code § 21-169)

The commission may waive the requirement for the recordation of a parcel map upon application of the subdivider and finding that the proposed division of land complies with such requirements as may have been established by the map act and this chapter as to area, improvement and design, floodwater drainage control, improvement of, roads, sanitary disposal facilities, water supply availability, environmental protection, and other requirements of the map act and of this chapter. In any case, where the requirement for a parcel map is waived, a tentative map is required.

(Prior code § 21-170)