§ 28-8. FINAL MAP AND PARCEL MAP REQUIREMENTS. [Added by Ord. 1330, § 9307]

Any division of land map prepared for filing shall meet the requirements of the Subdivision Map Act and this Chapter.

The boundary lines of a division of land shall be indicated by a border of light blue ink approximately 1/8 of an inch in width applied on the reverse side of the tracing and inside such boundary lines. Such ink shall be of such density as to be transferred to a blue line print of such map and not to obliterate any line, figure,

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City of Compton, CA § 28-8.1

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The title sheet of each map shall contain a title consisting of the words, "Tract No. ________" and the number of the subdivision, on a final map and the words "Parcel Map No. ________" and the number of the parcel map, on a parcel map. It shall also contain the words "In the City of Compton" or "Partly in the City of Compton and partly in (insert the name of the political division or divisions involved)."

The title sheet shall also contain a subtitle consisting of a description of all the property being divided, by reference to such maps of the property shown thereon, as shall have been previously filed or recorded in the office of the County Recorder, or previously filed with the County Clerk, pursuant to a final judgment in any action in partition, or which shall have been previously filed in the office of the County Recorder pursuant to the authority of Chapter 3, Part 2, of Division 4 of the Business and Professions Code of the State, or by reference to the plot 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.

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 " (inserting a legal description of the land being reverted).

Each reference in such subtitles for any division of land shall be spelled out and worded identically with the original record thereof and shall show a complete reference to the book and page of records in the office of the County Recorder.

The title sheet of each division of land shall contain the certificate of the surveyor or engineer referred to in Sections 11579 or 11592 of the Subdivision Map Act. The title sheet, or at least one map sheet, shall contain a basis of bearing, making reference to some recorded subdivision map, County Surveyor's map, or other record acceptable to the City Engineer.

Pursuant to the provisions of Sections 11567 and 11577 of the Subdivision Map Act, required certificates, affidavits, and acknowledgments may be legally stamped or printed on the title sheet of a final or parcel map with opaque ink. Any stamped or written matter, including signatures, shall be so made with opaque ink that legible copies, produced through any normal method of reproduction, may be obtained.

The 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. The binding edge shall be at the left and lengthwise of the sheet, keeping in mind that the sheets are always on the right page of the map book, the left page being always blank.

All lots shall be numbered beginning with the numeral "1" and continuing consecutively without omission or duplication throughout the entire division of land. No prefix, suffix, or combinations of letters and numbers shall be used. Each lot shall be shown entirely on one sheet.

Each sheet of a final map or parcel map, excepting the title sheet or sheets thereof, shall bear the main title

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City of Compton, CA § 28-8.5

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§ 28-8.10

of the map, the scale of the map North point, and sheet number, together with a description of the relation, if any between each sheet and each other sheet thereof.

The bearing and length of each lot line, block line, and boundary line shall be shown on the final map or parcel map; provided, however, 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 mark or other designation of repetition shall be used.

Upon each lot containing an area of one acre or more shall be designated the acreage of such lot shown not less accurately than to the nearest 0.01 of an acre.

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

There shall be shown upon each final map or parcel map the center line of each highway, street, or way, the total width thereof, the width of that portion, if any, to be dedicated, and in the case of any existing highways, streets, or ways, the width thereof, and the width of each highway, street, or way on each side of the center thereof. On each such center line shall be shown the bearing and length of each tangent and radius, central angle, and length of each curve.

The final map or parcel 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.

• a. Street and highway names within the boundaries of a division of land shown on a final map or parcel map shall be submitted to the City Engineer for approval, and, if duplicated elsewhere in the City or so nearly the same in spelling or pronunciation as to cause confusion, the City Engineer may require some other name. Unless a name is so duplicated or confusing, it shall be the same as the name of any street or highway of which it is on a line of extension, or the name to which such street or highway may be in the process of being changed.

• b. Streets or highways extending approximately northerly and southerly shall be designated "avenue," and those extending approximately easterly and westerly shall be designated "street" except where a highway is on a line of extension of a major or secondary highway of unusual prominence in the City highway system and which bears an established name may be approved by the City Engineer.

• c. Streets or highways which materially change direction shall bear the name and suffix designated by the City Engineer as most closely conforming to a suitable street naming system.

• d. The words "avenue," "boulevard," "place," "street," or other designation of any such street or highway

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City of Compton, CA § 28-8.10

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• e. The name of each newly dedicated portion of any street or highway shall be shown in or narrowed to such newly-dedicated portion.

Upon the final map or parcel map shall be shown each City boundary line crossing or adjoining the division of land, and such line shall be clearly designated and tied in.

If any portion of a lot or parcel of land of a division of land is subject to flood hazard, inundation, or geological hazard, such fact and portion shall be clearly shown on the final map or parcel map by a prominent note on each sheet of such map whereon any such portion is shown. The dedication of the right to restrict building, as set forth in paragraph h of subsection 28-7.8, may be required as a condition precedent to filing the final map or parcel map.

In the event a dedication of right-of-way for storm drainage purposes is not required, the Planning Commission may require that the location of any watercourse, channel, stream, swale, or creek be shown on the final map or parcel map.

When a final map of a division of land is submitted to the City for acceptance of easements for streets, highways, or public ways and filing with the County Recorder, or when a parcel map requiring a separate instrument of such easement dedication is submitted to the City Engineer for checking and filing with the County Recorder, the final map or parcel map shall be accompanied by an additional copy of such map for submission to the City Engineer, and on such map shall be 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.

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 division of land, 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 the provisions of this Chapter, with the Subdivision Map Act, and with every other applicable statute and law, and the Council finds that 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 filing would work an undue hardship on the subdivider, then, by a majority vote of all its members, the Council may accept such map.

The evidence of title required by the provisions of Section 11625 of the Subdivision Map Act shall be a certificate of title or a policy of title insurance issued by a title company authorized by the laws of the State to write the same, showing the names of all persons having any record title interest in the land to be

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City of Compton, CA § 28-8.16

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§ 28-8.21

subdivided, together with the nature of their respective interests therein. In the event any dedication is to be made for public use of any property shown on any final map of land in the City, the certificate of title or policy of title insurance shall be issued for the benefit and protection of the City. Such certificate or policy shall be dated and delivered upon request of the City Engineer when such final map is ready for filing.

• a. Upon a final map or parcel map shall be shown the center line or side lines of each easement to which the lots in the division of land are subject. In the event such easement is not definitely located of record, a statement showing the existence of such easement shall be placed on the map.

• b. Each easement shown for any storm drain or sewer or fire access shall be designated on the final map or parcel map by fine-dashed lines.

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

• d. 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 division of land shall be shown on the final map or parcel map.

• e. Each easement shall be clearly labeled and identified and, if of record, the record reference shall be shown thereon.

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

• g. All notes or figures pertaining to each easement shall be subordinated in form and appearance to those relating to the division of land itself.

Any final map of a subdivision presented to the City for acceptance of easements and filing shall have written thereon, in addition to or as a part of any other certificate required, a certificate signed by the owner, the subdivider, and by all persons claiming any interest other than a 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 hereby certify that except as shown on a copy of this map on file in the office of the City Manager, 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 said easements offered to the public, except where such right or interest is expressly made subject to the said easements."

If the parcel map is compiled from record data, the source of information used shall be contained in a note on one sheet of the parcel map.

An easement required as a condition of approval of the tentative map shall be shown and identified on the parcel map as required in subsection 28-8.17.

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City of Compton, CA § 28-8.21

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§ 28-8.24

Any right-of-way for street opening or widening or grant of easement required as a condition precedent to filing a parcel map shall be offered by separate instrument, accepted and recorded prior to, or concurrently with, the filing of the parcel map. The separate instrument may be prepared by a title company or by the City Engineer's office and shall be accompanied by a title report, prepared in favor of the City, indicating who is required to sign this document to pass clear title to the City. Such title report shall be kept up-to-date and the City shall be notified of any change until such time as the separate documents are recorded.

The procedure and practice of all survey work done on any division of land, whether for preparation of a final map or parcel map, shall conform to the standards and details set forth in Chapter 15, Division 3, of the Business and Professions Code of the State, the Land Surveyor's Act. The allowable error of closure on any portion of a final map or parcel map shall be 1/10,000.

In the event the County Engineer, the County Road Commissioner, the State Highway Engineer, or the City Engineer shall have established the center line of any street or alley in or adjoining a division of land, the final map or parcel map shall show such center line, together with a reference to a field book or map showing such center line and the monuments which determine its position. If determined by ties, that fact shall be stated upon the final map or parcel map.

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

The City Engineer may require that a field survey be performed in order to establish the boundary of any parcel map and shall examine such survey for compliance with the Subdivision Map Act and the Land Surveyor's Act.

• a. Boundaries. Each final map or parcel map shall show durable monuments found or set at or near each boundary corner and at intermediate points, approximately 1,000 feet apart, or at such lesser distances as may be made necessary by topography or culture to insure accuracy in the reestablishment of any point or line without unreasonable difficulty. The precise position and the character of each such monument shall be shown on such map. Such durable monument shall be not less substantial than an iron pipe of a two inch outside diameter, not less than three feet in length, with plug and tack, and set at least two feet into the ground, or of such other character and stability as may be approved by the City Engineer. For the purposes of this Chapter, a lead and tack set in permanent concrete or masonry shall be considered as a durable monument. The approximate elevation of the top of each such monument with respect to the surface of the ground shall be shown on such map.

• b. Street Center Lines. Whenever necessary in the opinion of the City Engineer, center line monuments shall be set to mark the intersections of streets, intersections of streets with the tract boundary, or to mark either the beginning and end of curves or the points of intersection of tangents thereof or other intermediate points.

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City of Compton, CA § 28-8.24

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