Chapter 21.24 — DEDICATIONS — Palo Alto Planning Code

21.24.010 Required dedications.¶

The subdivider shall dedicate or offer to dedicate to the city or other appropriate public agency upon the final or parcel map any and all rights-of-way and easements necessary for the layout, maintenance and operation of all public improvements required or permitted under this title or by specific requirement of the subdivision approval. Dedications shall also be made permitting or restricting use of certain property or rights as required by this title. All easements and rights-of-way shall be the width specified in this title or the specific approval and shall be of sufficient size to meet the requirements of the purpose for which they are dedicated. Required dedications shall include, but not he limited to:

(a) Easements for public utility, sanitary sewer and drainage purposes, and for the overhead pole lines and anchors required under this title, or as may be required by the director of utilities;
(b) The improved planting strips required under this title;
(c) The improved service roads and/or the improved parking areas required by Section 21.20.120;
(d) The installed street name signs and traffic-control signals system, signs, and markings required under this title;
(e) The rights-of-way for public streets and alleys approved under this title. Fee title to all public street rights-ofway shall be conveyed to the city by separate deed to be recorded with the final or parcel map;
(f) The rights-of-way for freeways, or expressways required to be shown on the tentative map under Section
21.20.160, unless the subdivider withholds from the subdivision all the areas included in such right-of-way;
(g) The rights-of-way for storm drainage required under this title, unless the subdivider withholds from the subdivision all the area included in such right-of-way;
(h) Bicycle paths required or shown on the tentative or preliminary parcel map;
(i) Transit facilities required or shown on the tentative or preliminary parcel map;
(j) Dedication of access rights as required under this title.
(Ord. 4642 § 46, 2000: Ord. 3157 § 1 (part), 1979)

21.24.020 Dedication of improvements.¶

Whenever any dedication for public improvements is required under this chapter, such dedication shall include not only such right-of-way and easement as is required for said improvements, but also any such improvements constructed, installed or erected by the subdivider.

(Ord. 3157 § 1 (part), 1979)