El Dorado County Municipal Code Ch. 120.56 Improvement Requirements

Improvement requirements for rural subdivision shall be as set forth in this chapter.

(Prior Code, § 9383(part); Code 1997, § 16.56.010)

The tentative map shall be prepared by a civil engineer with designation that it is being submitted as a rural subdivision and showing drainage, public utility and other easements, drainage structures and size, road grades, contours preferably at five-foot intervals, but if USGS Quadrangle maps are used, accuracy of contours and interpolated intervals must be field checked by the engineer, and drawn at 100 scale unless size of parcels warrants a smaller scale. The Director of Transportation will serve in an advisory capacity to the Planning Commission in reviewing the tentative map from the standpoint of design, grades, easements, drainage structures and designation of road categories.

(Prior Code, § 9383(a); Code 1997, § 16.56.020; Ord. No. 3766, § 63, 1987; Ord. No. 5051, § 2, 4-18-2017)

A. Any rural subdivision into parcels of ten acres or less that borders on an agricultural preserve (Williamson Act property) that is used primarily for livestock purposes shall be required to construct and maintain a fence along the border on a ten-foot easement adjacent to the preserve that allows adjacent owners access for the sole purpose of maintaining the fence. The fence and easement shall be maintained for as long as the adjacent land is an agricultural preserve. The specifications for the fence shall be provided by resolution of the Board of Supervisors. The easement shall be totally on the land to be divided which shall be the servient tenement. The dominant tenement shall be the adjacent agricultural preserve land that benefits from the fence and easement through its control of dog and other pet access onto the agricultural preserve land. The easement shall be listed on all tentative and final maps.

B. The determination that agricultural preserve land is primarily used for livestock purposes shall be made by the Agricultural Commission.

C. A party that causes damage to the fence is responsible for its prompt repair.

D. This section does not apply to an agricultural preserve that has filed a notice of nonrenewal.

(Code 1997, § 16.56.022; Ord. No. 4111, § 3, 1990)

A. Street names and traffic-control signs are to be installed at the main access street and are to be additionally signed on the same pole containing the street names, with a sign identifying the street as not a County-maintained road as follows:

1. Stop sign, R1R 30 inches;

2. Road name signs shall conform to standards of the Director of Transportation for conventional subdivisions;

3. Non-maintained notice containing the wording "THIS ROAD NOT COUNTY MAINTAINED" shall be placed in a prominent location and shall be of such size that it can be easily read from a vehicle on the road entering the subdivision, and shall be white background with black lettering.

B. Maintenance and replacement of the signs is to be assumed by an entity approved by the Board of Supervisors.

(Prior Code, § 9383(b); Code 1997, § 16.56.030; Ord. No. 3766, § 64, 1987; Ord. No. 5051, § 2, 4-18-2017)

Rights-of-way are to be offered for dedication on the final subdivision map and accepted on behalf of the public; not to be accepted for maintenance under Streets and Highways Code § 941. Maintenance shall be by an entity approved by the Board of Supervisors.

(Prior Code, § 9383(c); Code 1997, § 16.56.040)

If subdivision improvements are not already constructed by the time of recording the final map, a surety bond is to be posted for the estimated construction cost.

(Prior Code, § 9383(d); Code 1997, § 16.56.050)

Trees located within road rights-of-way need not be removed if they are beyond the top of a cut or toe of a fill and do not constitute a hazard to traffic.

(Prior Code, § 9383(e); Code 1997, § 16.56.060)