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Title 16 — SUBDIVISIONS›Chapter 16.03 — DEFINITIONS

Chapter 16.05 — MAPS REQUIRED

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16.05.010 - Application of chapter.

The necessity for preliminary, tentative, final, and parcel maps shall be governed by the provisions of this chapter.

(Ord. 203 §2(part), 1990)

16.05.020 - Division of land—Five or more lots.

In order to create five or more parcels, all applicants for a land division of five or more parcels, five or more condominiums as defined in Section 783 of the state Civil Code, a community apartment project containing five or more parcels, or for the conversion of a dwelling to a stock cooperative containing five or more dwelling units, shall:

A.

Submit a tentative subdivision map to the community development department and pay appropriate fee;

B.

Submit a final map to the town engineer which meets the requirements of this title;

Except where:

1.

The land before division contains less than five acres, each parcel created by the division abuts upon a maintained public street or highway and no dedications or improvements are required by the legislative body; or

2.

Each parcel created by the division has a gross area of twenty acres or more and has an approved access to a maintained public street or highway; or

3.

The land consists of a parcel or parcels of land having approved access to a public street which comprises part of a tract of land zoned for commercial or industrial development, and which has the approval of the town engineer as to street alignments and widths; or

4.

Each parcel created by the division has a gross area of not less than forty acres or is not less than a quarter of a quarter section.

A parcel map shall be required for those subdivisions described in subdivisions 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this subsection. (G.C. 66426)

(Ord. 203 §2(part), 1990; Ord. No. 430, § 1, 12-14-2004)

16.05.030 - Division of land—Four or fewer parcels.

A tentative map and parcel map shall be required to create four or fewer parcels, including property given as a result of gift deed(s), except no parcel map shall be required for land conveyed to, or from, a governmental agency, public entity, or public utility, or for land conveyed to a subsidiary of a public utility for conveyance to the public utility for rights-of-way, unless a showing is made in individual cases, upon substantial evidence, that public policy necessitates a parcel map. (G.C. 66428)

Inapplicability. Tentative and final parcel maps shall not be required for lot line adjustments; mineral, oil or gas leases; land dedicated for cemetery purposes under the Health and Safety Code; and records of survey. (G.C. 66412)

(Ord. 203 §2(part), 1990; Ord. No. 430, § 2, 12-14-2004)

16.05.040 - Lot Line Adjustments.

A plot map, with copies to the public works department, in form as required by the town engineer, shall be required for all lot line adjustments and shall be approved, conditionally approved, or denied by the town engineer after the appropriate application fee has been paid and map submitted to the department. Appeals of the town engineer's decision regarding a lot line adjustment shall be made to the planning commission which shall conduct a hearing on the appeal, provided that such hearing need not be noticed

nor conducted as a public hearing; provided, however, that appeals to a denial based on the town's sewage disposal requirements must follow the procedures set forth in Chapter 13.04 of this code. A plat map and associated deed(s) shall be required to record lot line adjustments, except when the town engineer requires, because of the complexity of the adjustment, monumentation and a record of survey or parcel map to be recorded. A record of survey shall be required for a lot line adjustment if required by Section 8762 of the Business and Professions Code. (G.C. 66412 (d))

(Ord. 203 §2(part), 1990; Ord. No. 430, § 2, 12-14-2004)

16.05.045 - Record of survey.

A.

The record of survey shall be legibly drawn, printed or reproduced by a process guaranteeing a permanent record in black on tracing cloth, or polyester base film, eighteen by twenty-six inches. If ink is used on polyester base film, the ink surface shall be coated with a suitable substance to assure permanent legibility. A one-inch blank margin shall be left on each edge of the map.

B.

The record of survey shall be prepared in conformity with the generally accepted practice of land surveying and shall include the following information:

1.

All monuments found, set, reset, replaced or removed, describing their kind, size and location, and giving other data relating thereto;

Bearing or witness monuments, basis of bearings, bearing and length of lines, and scale of map;

3.

Name and legal designation of tract or grant in which the survey is located and ties to adjoining tracts;

4.

Memorandum of oaths;

5.

Certificates as required by the town engineer;

6.

Any other data necessary for the intelligent interpretation of the various items and locations of the points, lines and areas shown. (B.P.C. 8762, 8763, 8764)

(Ord. 203 §2(part), 1990)

16.05.050 - Fees.

All persons submitting maps as required by this title shall pay all fees and/or deposits as provided by the town's resolution establishing fees and charges.

(Ord. 203 §2(part), 1990)

Chapter 16.06 - ACCESS EASEMENT WIDTHS/CUL-DE-SAC LENGTH REQUIREMENTS

Footnotes:

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Prior ordinance history: Ord. 203.

16.06.010 - Newly created access easement or right-of-way width requirements.

The following table prescribes the minimum required access easement width to be established for land divisions of real property to be served access by newly created access easements or rights-of-way:

TABLE 16.06.010

Newly Created Access Easement or Right-of-Way Width Requirements

Total Number or Potential Number of Lots Served
by Road or Street
Minimum Access Width Required (feet)
5+ 60 (public street)*
50 (private street)**
4 40
3 30
2 25
1 20
  • Access width of fifty feet may be acceptable to town engineer if underground utilities are installed.

** Unless special circumstances warrant a sixty-foot access width, as determined by town engineer.

(Ord. 223 §5(part), 1993)

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