Hawthorne Municipal Code Ch. 16.40 Tentative Map

Each proposed subdivision shall be submitted in map form. Not less than twenty-five copies of such map shall be filed with the secretary of the planning commission. When such required copies of a tentative map are filed, the secretary of the planning commission shall within five days of a tentative map application being determined to be complete pursuant to Section 65943, California Government Code shall send a copy of the notice of this determination and one copy to each of the following, with a request that each report recommendations, if any, to the planning commission within fifteen days:

A. City council;

B. City engineer of department of public works;

C. Water department;

D. County flood control district;

E. State Division of Highways (if affected);

F. State Division of Real Estate;

G. County planning commission (two copies);

H. City planning commission (two copies);

I. Elementary and high school districts (if affected).

(Ord. 1664 § 4, 1999)

The scale of each map shall not be less than one hundred feet to the inch.

(Prior code § 12-2631)

Each such map shall contain the following information:

A. Tract number;

B. Name and address of the owner whose property is proposed to be subdivided;

C. Name and address of registered civil engineer, licensed architect, surveyor, landscape architect, land designer or other person who prepared the map;

D. North point;

E. Scale:

F. Date of preparation;

G. Boundary lines;

H. Location, width and proposed name of all streets within the boundaries of proposed subdivision and their approximate grades;

I. Location and width of alleys;

J. Name, location and width of adjacent streets;

K. Lot lines and approximate dimensions and number of each lot;

L. Location and width of watercourses or areas subject to inundation from floods, or locations of structures, irrigation ditches or other permanent physical features;

M. Description of the exterior boundaries of the subdivision (or legal description of the property comprising the subdivision);

N. Width and location of all existing or proposed public or private easements;

O. Classification of lots as to intended residential, commercial, industrial or other uses;

P. Railroads;

Q. Approximate radii of curves;

R. Where topography controls or influences the layout of streets and lots, water supply or drainage, approximate contours shall be shown drawn to intervals prescribed by the city engineer.

(Prior code § 12-2632)

The tentative map shall show thereon, or be accompanied by not less than twenty-five copies of reports and written statements from the subdivider giving essential information regarding the following matters:

A. Source of water supply;

B. Type of street improvement and utilities which the subdivider proposes to install;

C. Proposed method of sewage disposal;

D. Proposed stormwater sewer or other means of drainage (grade and size);

E. Protective covenants to be recorded;

F. Proposed tree planting;

G. Proposed street lighting.

(Ord. 1664 § 6, 1999)

A. After noting the above requirements, it is desirable that the subdivider should confer with the city engineer and planning official before preparing the tentative map.

B. The tentative map shall be prepared in accordance with the Subdivision Map Act, and the provisions of this title, and shall be filed with the secretary of the planning commission. Such filing should be prior to the completion of final surveys of streets and lots and before commencing grading or construction work within the proposed subdivision. To assure to the planning commission all necessary information to be considered on a tentative map, the commission shall act only upon such material, together with required statements or other evidence as shall have been filed with the commission not less than thirty days prior to the date of the planning commission meeting at which such matter is to be considered.

C. Prior to the consideration by the planning commission of a tentative map and within the thirty days following its filing, the city engineer shall make a report in writing to the planning commission as to any recommendations in connection with the tentative map and its bearing on particular functions. Failure to so report shall be deemed to be approval.

(Ord. 1664 § 8, 1999)

The planning commission shall consider a tentative map at its first regular meeting held not less than fifty days following the certification of the environmental impact report, adoption of a negative declaration, or a determination by the local agency that the project is exempt from the requirements of Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code. Action on such tentative map in approving, conditionally approving, or disapproving, shall be final unless appealed to the city council.

(Ord. 1664 § 10, 1999)

If the subdivider or any tenant is dissatisfied with any action of advisory agency with respect to the tentative map, or the kinds, nature and extent of the improvements recommended by the planning commission to be required, he or she may, within ten days after receiving the resolution approving such action, appeal to the city council for a public hearing thereon. The city council shall hear the appeal, upon notice to the subdivider and the planning commission, unless the subdivider consents to a continuance within thirty days or at its next succeeding regular meeting. At the time fixed for the hearing, the city council shall proceed to hear the testimony of the subdivider or any witnesses in his behalf and the testimony of the representatives of the planning commission or any witness in its behalf. It may also hear the testimony of other competent persons respecting the character of the neighborhood in which the subdivision is to be located, the kinds, nature and extent of improvements, the quality or kind of development to which the area is best adapted and any other phase of the matter with respect to which it may desire to inquire into. Within ten days following the conclusion of the hearing, the legislative body shall render its decision on the appeal.

(Ord. 1664 § 12, 1999)

A fee shall be paid to the city in an amount set by resolution of the city council to cover costs of checking each tentative map or maps, and the city treasurer shall issue a receipt therefor.

(Ord. 1664 § 14, 1999)