Menlo Park Municipal Code Art. III Improvements

All improvements shall conform to the city's standard details and specifications on file with the city engineer. Any deviation shall be only with the written approval of the city engineer. Grading and improvement plans shall be approved by the city engineer, and permits shall be obtained where required before any construction is started. Landscaping plans shall be approved by the planning commission prior to issuance of building permit. Any subdivision located in the designated flood hazard area shall be designed consistent with needs to minimize flood damage. Applications therefor shall include base flood elevation data. New utility and drainage systems shall be designed to avoid impairments, seepage or infiltration by flood waters from any source.

(Prior code § 24.7(2); Ord. 615 § 1 (part), 1977; Ord. 658 § 2(c), 1980)

Improvements to be installed by the subdivider shall include the following where required:

(1) Paved streets, curbs and gutters, sidewalks, handicap ramps and walkways or valley gutters and parking strips;

(2) Sanitary sewers and laterals;

(3) Gas, electric, telephone and other utility mains and services;

(4) Water mains, services, and appurtenances;

(5) Fire hydrants, public fire alarms, fire protection systems and access roads, when required by the Menlo Park fire protection district;

(6) Storm sewers, subdrain systems, detention basins, and related improvements such as pumps, catch basins, etc.;

(7) Slope planting, silt basins and/or other forms of erosion and sediment control;

(8) Standard electroliers;

(9) Street trees including root barrier not less than one tree per thirty feet of lot frontage;

(10) Street name signs, subdivision monuments and street monuments;

(11) Stop signs and other traffic devices at locations designated by the city engineer, including necessary locations on private road;

(12) Local transit facilities, including bus pull outs, benches and shelters;

(13) Paved bicycle lane/path;

(14) Other improvements necessary to ensure conformity to or implementation of the general plan and the city stormwater management program, and to ensure public health, safety and welfare.

(Prior code § 24.9(1); Ord. 615 § 1 (part), 1977; Ord. 868 § 2A (part), 1995)

(a) Subdivision Monuments. Durable metal monuments consisting of iron pipes approved by the city engineer shall be installed or referenced to the following locations, before the map is recorded:

(1) Subdivision boundary corners;

(2) At intervals of not more than five hundred feet along boundary lines;

(3) At the beginning and ending of property line curves;

(4) Lot corners.

Interior monuments need not be set at the time the map is recorded if the engineer or surveyor certifies on the map that the monuments will be set on or before a specified date, and if the subdivider furnishes to the city sufficient security guaranteeing the payment of the cost of setting such monuments.

Within five days after the final setting of all monuments has been completed by the engineer or surveyor, he shall give written notice to the subdivider and to the city engineer that the final monuments have been set.

(b) Street Monuments. City standard street monuments and monument boxes shall be placed along the centerlines of public streets and alleys at all intersections and all beginnings and endings of curves.

(Ord. 615 § 1 (part), 1977; Prior code § 24.9(2))

All surface drainage water must drain to a natural waterway, a public street, or public storm drain system. Subsurface water shall be disposed of in a natural waterway, or the public storm drain system as approved by the city engineer. Disposal of other than natural drainage shall meet the joint approval of the city building official and the city engineer.

(Prior code § 24.9(3); Ord. 615 § 1 (part), 1977; Ord. 868 § 2A (part), 1995)

The following off-site improvements may be required:

(1) The development of a domestic water supply, including storage facilities or financial contributions for the improvement of any existing source of supply and the construction of transmission lines from that supply to the proposed development;

(2) The development of sewage disposal facilities or financial contributions for the improvement of any existing sewage disposal systems and the construction of transmission lines from the proposed improvements to the site of disposal;

(3) Where there are established flood-control zones, the subdivider shall pay the fee set out for the particular zone in which the subject land lies;

(4) Properly graded, drained and paved access roads and sidewalks, including not less than one-half of any existing bordering streets which have not previously been improved to city standards;

(5) The extension of other utilities;

(6) Traffic-control devices.

(Ord. 615 § 1 (part), 1977; Prior code § 24.9(4))

Utility distribution facilities, including but not limited to electric, communications, cable television and street lighting, installed in and for the purpose of supplying service to any standard subdivision, shall be required to be placed underground. Surface-mounted transformers or terminal boxes may be acceptable. The subdivider is responsible for complying with the requirements of this section, and he shall make the necessary arrangements with the utility companies for the installation of such facilities. The City Council, upon recommendation of the planning commission, may waive the requirements of this section if unusual topographical, soil or any other unusual problems make such underground installations unreasonable or impractical. The subdivider or any utility company may submit information supporting a request for such waivers. No such waiver shall be granted in any underground district previously established. Industrial subdivisions are excluded from the provisions of this section.

(Ord. 615 § 1 (part), 1977; Prior code § 24.9(5))

All improvements shall be constructed under the inspection of, and to the satisfaction of the city engineer. Cost of inspection shall be borne by the subdivider.

(Ord. 615 § 1 (part), 1977; Prior code § 24.9(6))