Article VII

• A. All improvements hereinafter mentioned shall conform to those required in the "Standard Subdivision Improvement Specifications" prepared by the city engineer, recommended by the planning commission, and adopted by the city council, copies of which are on file in the office of the planning commission and the city engineer.

• B. Improvement work shall not be commenced until plans and profiles for such work have been submitted to and approved by the city engineer. Such plans may be required before approval of the final map. All such plans and profiles shall be prepared on tracing cloth in accordance with requirements of the city engineer.

• C. All required improvements shall be constructed under the inspection of and to approval of the city engineer. Cost of inspection shall be paid by the subdivider.

• D. All underground utilities, sanitary sewers, and storm drains installed in streets, service roads, alleys or highways shall be constructed prior to the surfacing of such street, service roads, alleys or highways. Service connections for all underground utilities and sanitary sewers shall be placed to such length as will obviate the necessity for disturbing the street or alley improvements when service connections thereto are made.

• (1966 Code § 9087; 1976 Code § 10-3.701; Ord. 69 § VI)

The subdivider shall install improvements in accordance with the general requirements set forth in this section.

• A. Streets and Highways. All streets and highways shall be graded and paved to cross-sections and grades approved by the city engineer. The subdivider shall improve the extension of all subdivision streets, highways, or public ways to the intercepting paving line of any county road, city streets, or state highway.

• B. Structures. Structures shall be installed, as deemed necessary by the city engineer, for drainage, access and public safety. Such structures shall be placed to grades and be of a design approved by the city engineer.

• C. Curbs, Gutters and Sidewalks. Curbs, gutters and sidewalks shall be installed to grades, cross-section, layout and location approved by the city engineer.

• D. Sewers. Sanitary sewer facilities connecting with the existing city sewer system shall be installed to serve each lot and to grades, locations, design and sizes approved by the city engineer. No septic tanks or cesspools will be permitted. Storm water sewers shall be installed of sufficient extent and capacity to adequately drain the area under normal conditions, subject to the approval of the city engineer.

• E. Water. Water mains, fire hydrants, valves, services and appurtenances of the design and in the layout and at the location approved by the city engineer, connecting to the municipal water system of the city shall be installed at the subdividers' own cost and expense and otherwise in accordance with policies adopted by the city council of the city in connection

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MILLBRAE CODE

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with water system extensions to real property subdivisions.

• F. Street Trees. Street trees may be required by the planning commission and, if so, shall be of a type approved by the park commission, and planted in locations approved by said commission.

• G. Railroad Crossings. Provision shall be made for any and all railroad crossings necessary to provide access to or circulation within the proposed subdivision, including the preparation of all documents necessary for application to the California State Public Utilities Commission for the establishment and improvement of such crossing. The cost of such railroad crossing improvement shall be borne by the subdivider.

• H. Street signs shall be installed in accordance with city standard.

• I. Electroliers shall be installed as required by city engineer.

(1966 Code § 9088; 1976 Code § 10-3.702; Amended by Ord. 132 § 1; Ord. 69 § VI)

• A. Permanent iron pipe monuments of a type approved by the city engineer shall be set at each boundary corner of the subdivision, along exterior boundaries at intervals of not over five hundred feet, at the beginning and end of property line curves, and at points as may be required by the city engineer.

• B. Iron pipe monuments, depressed below street grade with cast iron ring and cover of a type approved by the city engineer shall be set at intersections of street centerline tangents or offsets therefrom, and where such intersect on private property, at the beginning and end of the centerline curve and offsets therefrom. The exact location of all such monuments shall be shown on the final map before approval is requested.

• C. Permanent elevation benchmarks, of a type approved by the city engineer and referred to the city datum, shall be set at such street intersections in the curb return or other locations, as requested by the city engineer.

• D. Any monument or benchmark, as required by this chapter which is disturbed or destroyed before acceptance of all improvements, shall be replaced by the subdivider.

• E. Complete field notes, in a form satisfactory to the city engineer, showing references, ties, locations, elevations and other necessary data relating to monuments and benchmarks set in accordance with the requirements of this chapter, shall be submitted to the city engineer to be retained by the city as a permanent record.

• F. Monuments and benchmarks shall be set before submission of the final map for city council approval, unless exception is recommended by the city engineer and approved by the city council.

(1966 Code § 9089; 1976 Code § 10-3.703; Ord. 69 § VI)

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City of Millbrae, CA

PLANNING AND ZONING

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§ 10.15.600