9.64 — REQUIREMENTS

The procedure for satisfying this chapter shall be as provided by the Subdivision Map Act. (Ord. 1125 § 2, 1981)

• (a) Required.

As a condition of approval of a map, the subdivider shall dedicate or make an irrevocable offer of dedication of all parcels of land within the subdivision that are needed for streets and alleys, including access rights and abutters' rights, drainage, public utility easements, and other public easements. In addition, the subdivider shall improve or agree to improve all streets and alleys, and install all required facilities in drainage, public utility easement and other public easements as required by the general plan, or any specific plan adopted pursuant thereto.

• (b) Improvements.

The subdivider shall be required to furnish, construct, install and convey ownership to the city or other agency or utility all improvements and/or rights-of-way and other dedications required by his development. These improvements shall include all standard improvements, required by this title, the general plan and/or specific plan adopted pursuant thereto, including, but not limited to, curbs and gutters, sidewalks, bicycle paths, street lights, street trees, pavement, survey monuments, storm drain facilities, sewers, electrical, gas, and water systems, including fire hydrants and appur-tenances, and any other improvements as may be required as a condition of approval of the final or tentative or revised map. All improvements shall be in conformance with city adopted standards.

(c) Additional Dedications.

On major and secondary thoroughfares, the advisory agency may require additional dedications of rights-of-way or easements for landscaping, bicycle and/or pedestrian paths and the like. Such dedication shall be improved with permanently irrigated landscaping with decorative masonry walls or berming to screen lots abutting such arterials in accordance with the noise and scenic highway elements of the general plan and city policy.

• (d) Sunlight Easements.

Sunlight easements to assure each parcel or unit in a subdivision the right to receive sunlight for any solar energy system, may be required; provided that all the following are submitted for city approval:

• (1) Specific standards to determine the exact dimensions and locations of such indicated easements, which standards shall be applicable to the entire subdivision;

• (2) Specific regulations on any restrictions on vegetation, buildings and other objects which have the capability of obstructing the passage of sunlight through the easement;

• (3) Specific terms and conditions, if any, under which an easement may be revised or

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City of Palm Springs, CA

PALM SPRINGS CODE

§ 9.64.020

§ 9.64.060

terminated.

(Ord. 1125 § 2, 1981)

The advisory agency may impose a requirement that any dedication or offer of dedication of a street shall include a waiver of direct access rights to such street from any property shown on a final map as abutting thereon, and that if the dedication is accepted such waiver shall become effective in accordance with the provisions of the waiver of direct access. (Ord. 1125 § 2, 1981)

As a condition of approval of a final or parcel map, a dedication of land and/or payment of a fee for park and recreational facilities may be required in accordance with the Subdivision Map Act and the approved recreation element of the Palm Springs general plan as amended. The amount of land to be dedicated or the fees to be paid in lieu of such dedication shall be determined by resolution of the city council.

(Ord. 1125 § 2, 1981)

• (a) Requirement.

As a condition of approval of a final map, a subdivider who develops within the Palm Springs Unified School District shall dedicate, if required, to the school such lands as the city council deems necessary for the purpose of construction thereon of school necessary to assure the residents of the subdivision adequate elementary school service.

• (b) Procedure.

The requirement of dedication of school lands shall be imposed at the time of approval of the tentative map. If within ninety days after the requirement of dedication is imposed by the city, the Palm Springs Unified School District does not offer to enter into a binding commitment with the subdivider to accept the dedication, the requirement shall be automatically terminated, provided the applicant gives the district written notice of the time period to make the dedication. The required dedication may be made any time before or concurrently with the filing of the map on any portion of the subdivision.

(c) Payments.

Payments to subdivider for school dedications shall be made in accordance with the requirements of the Subdivision Map Act.

• (d) Other School Site Requirements.

The provision for school site dedication set forth in this section shall not be exclusive, but shall be cumulative and additional to any other provision for school site dedication, or payment of fees in lieu thereof, which may be duly adopted by the city council, including as example and not as limitation, the provisions of Chapter 4.7 of Title 7, commencing with Section 65970 of the Government Code of the state.

(Ord. 1125 § 2, 1981; Ord. 1410 § 23, 1992)

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City of Palm Springs, CA

SUBDIVISION OF LAND

§ 9.64.060

§ 9.64.100

• (a) Generally.

As a condition of approval of a map, the subdivider shall reserve, if required, sites appropriate in area and location for recreational facilities, fire stations, libraries, or other public uses, according to the standards, formula, and procedures contained in this chapter and the Subdivision Map Act.

• (b) Standards and Formula for Reservation of Land.

Where recreational facilities, a fire station, library, or other public use is shown on an adopted general plan element, the subdivider may be required by the city to reserve sites as determined by the city.

(Ord. 1125 § 2, 1981)

Prior to filing of any final or parcel map, the subdivider shall pay or cause to be paid any fees for defraying the actual or estimated costs of constructing planner drainage facilities for the removal of surface and stormwaters from local or neighborhood drainage areas or sanitary sewer facilities for local sanitary sewer areas established pursuant to the master plan of sewers and the master plan of flood control and drainage, and Article 5, Section 66483 of the Subdivision Map Act. (Ord. 1125 § 2, 1981)

Prior to the approval of any final or parcel map, or prior to the issuance of any building permit, the subdivider or owner of a lot may be required to pay or cause to be paid certain fees for defraying the actual or estimated costs of construction of any bridge or major thoroughfare pursuant to the provisions and requirements of the Subdivision Map Act. (Ord. 1125 § 2, 1981)

Prior to the approval of any final or parcel map, or prior to the issuance of any building permit, the subdivider or owner of property to be subdivided which will create private streets, common recreation and/or open space areas, shall provide the city with adequate assurance of its continued future maintenance pursuant to city policy. (Ord. 1125 § 2, 1981)

• (a) Required.

The subdivider may be required to install improvements for the benefit of the subdivision which may contain supplemental size, capacity, or number for the benefit of property not within the subdivision, as a condition precedent to the approval of a subdivision or parcel map, and thereafter to dedicate such improvements to the public. However, the subdivider shall be reimbursed pursuant to the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act for that portion of the cost of such improvements equal to the difference between the amount it would have cost the subdivider to install such improvements to serve the subdivision only and the

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PALM SPRINGS CODE

§ 9.64.120

actual cost of such improvements.

• (b) Reimbursement Agreement—Funding Procedures.

No charge, area of benefit or local benefit district shall be established unless and until a public hearing in accordance with the provisions of this title is held thereon by the city council and the city council finds that the fee or charge and the area of benefit or local benefit district is reasonably related to the cost of such supplemental improvements and the actual ultimate beneficiaries thereof. In addition to any other notice required by law, written notice of the hearing shall be given to the subdivider and to those who own property within the proposed area of benefit as shown on the latest equalized assessment roll, and the potential users of the supplemental improvements insofar as they can be ascertained at the time. Such notices shall be mailed by the city clerk at least ten days prior to the date established for hearing.

(Ord. 1125 § 2, 1981)

For all divisions of land for which a soils report is not otherwise required by the Subdivision Map Act, adequate tests may be required by the director of planning and zoning or city engineer. The soils reports, to be done by a soils or geologic engineer registered in this state, and based upon adequate test borings, may be required at the time of submission for consideration of a tentative map, or may be postponed by the city engineer, to be submitted at the time of, and in connection with, the final map or parcel map.

• (Ord. 1125 § 2, 1981; Ord. 1145 § 2, 1981; Ord. 1410 § 24, 1992)

The subdivider shall conform to the Land Surveyors Act as to the setting of monuments or ties. For the purpose of this section, the following shall be deemed as meeting the requirements of Business and Professions Code Sections 8771, 8771.5, and 8772 (Land Surveyors Act):

• (1) All rear lot corners shall be marked by a one-inch iron pipe, properly tagged, eighteen inches long set six inches below ground level. All corners of lots fronting on streets shall be marked by an offset lead and tag set in the permanent concrete curb. Such offset shall be noted on the subdivision map.

• (2) All corners of subdivisions shall be marked by one-inch iron pipes, properly tagged, thirty inches long set six inches below the ground.

• (3) All public street intersection centerlines and all beginnings and endings of curves on streets shall be monumented by means of city standard monuments set in hand holes provided by the subdivider. All other street intersection centerlines and beginnings and endings, or points or intersection that fall within the pavement of all curves, shall be monumented using Standard Riverside County type B monuments set flush with street tied to lead and tag set in permanent concrete curbs. Notes for these ties shall be provided to the city on standard survey note paper, sized eight and one-half by eleven inches.

• (Ord. 1125 § 2, 1981)

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City of Palm Springs, CA

SUBDIVISION OF LAND

§ 9.65.010

§ 9.65.040