Martinez Municipal Code Ch. 21.02 General Provisions

This Title is adopted to regulate the subdivision of land and to require the provision of certain prescribed improvements and payment of in-lieu fees which are needed as a consequence of the subdivision of land, and in order that the following purposes shall be achieved to:

A. Implement the General Plan of the City, hereinafter referred to as the General Plan, adopted by the City Council as the long range, general comprehensive guide to the physical development of the City;

B. Provide lots of sufficient size and appropriate design for the purpose for which they are to be used;

C. Provide streets of adequate capacity with appropriate improvements for the anticipated traffic which will utilize them, and to ensure that streets are designed so as to minimize safety hazards to vehicles and pedestrians;

D. Provide sidewalks and pedestrian ways where needed for the safety and convenience of pedestrians;

E. Preserve the natural assets of the City and to create new beauty through skilled subdivision design;

F. Provide for water supply, sewage disposal, storm drainage, street lighting, fire protection and other utilities and services needed to protect and promote the public health, safety and convenience;

G. Plan and provide for parks, recreation and other types of community facilities where needed to serve new developments;

H. Ensure that the costs of providing rights-of-way and improvements for vehicular and pedestrian movement, and utilities needed to serve new developments, are borne by the subdivider rather than by the property owners of the City at large;

I. To ensure that, insofar as possible, land is subdivided in a manner which will promote the public health, safety, convenience and general welfare.

(Prior code § 4500; Ord. 1103 C.S. § I, 1987)

A subdivision map shall conform with the principles and standards of the General Plan and all its elements. In the absence of a precise plan line, a major street or secondary street shall conform approximately with the alignment shown on the General Plan.

(Prior code § 4501; Ord. 1103 C.S. § I, 1987)

A subdivision map shall conform with the precise plans for streets, community facilities sites and other projects, adopted by the City Council. A subdivision map shall conform with official plan lines of the widening of streets and for other projects.

(Prior code § 4502)

A subdivision map shall conform with the zoning provisions of the City, as found in Title 22 of this code, hereinafter simply referred to as the zoning provisions, with respect to use of land, lot size and dimensions, space for off-street parking and off-street loading areas and other applicable regulations.

(Prior code § 4503)

The provisions of this Title are supplemental to the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act of the State, hereinafter referred to as the Subdivision Map Act, and all terms used herein which are defined in the Subdivision Map Act shall have the same meaning as ascribed thereto in the Act, and as the Act may hereafter be amended.

(Prior code § 4504)

The Planning Commission of the City, hereinafter referred to as the City Planning Commission, is designated as the advisory agency referred to in the Subdivision Map Act and is charged with the duty of making investigations and reports on the design and improvement of proposed subdivisions, and the Commission shall have such additional powers and duties with respect to subdivisions, the maps thereof, and the procedure relating thereto as are prescribed by the Subdivision Map Act and by this Title. For review and approval of parcel maps, the advisory agency shall be the Board of Adjustments as defined in Title 22.

(Prior code § 4505; Ord. 1103 C.S. § I, 1987)