Porterville Municipal Code § 404.01 Filing Final Map

A. Within the time limit designated in Section 402.03, Expiration of Maps and Extensions of Time, and upon the accomplishment of all dedication by certification on the map and required construction of all public improvements, or the execution of an agreement and provision of surety providing therefore and the payment of all applicable fees and charges, the applicant may file with the City Engineer, who shall approve, a final map which shall substantially conform to the approved tentative map and all applicable provisions of the Map Act. The appropriate statements as provided by the applicant in accordance with the provisions of the Map Act, shall be signed by the City Engineer upon the final map; and the final map shall be transmitted to the Clerk of the County Board of Supervisors for ultimate transmittal to the county recorder.

1. Multiple Final Maps. Multiple final maps may be filed if the subdivider informs the Zoning Administrator in writing of his or her intention to file multiple final maps, at the time the tentative map is filed or, if the Zoning Administrator and the subdivider concur to the filing of multiple final maps after the filing of the tentative map.

2. Effect of Multiple Final Maps. The filing of a final map on a portion of an approved or conditionally approved tentative map shall not invalidate any part of the requirements to provide for the construction of improvements as required to constitute a logical and orderly development of the whole subdivision.

B. The subdivider shall file three (3) copies of the final map and required accompanying data with the City Engineer. The said final map shall be accompanied by filing fees as specified in the comprehensive fee schedule. When a final map is submitted to the City Engineer in accordance with this Series, it shall be accompanied by the following documents:

1. Improvement Plans. The original detailed plans, cross sections and profiles of all improvements proposed to be installed as required by the provisions of this Series, and of all other improvements proposed to be installed by the subdivider in, on, over, or under any street, right-of-way, easement or parcel of land dedicated by the map or previously dedicated, including the estimated cost thereof, shall be filed with the City Engineer or Engineering and Project Management Director for their approval and signature. All such plans shall be prepared in accordance with the requirements of the City Engineer or Engineering and Project Management Director. Plan sheets shall be twenty-four inches by thirty-six inches (24" X 36") and a plan and profile drawn to a scale of one inch equals fifty feet (1" = 50'), or an appropriate scale previously approved by the City Engineer.

2. Traverse Sheets. Calculation and traverse sheets in a form approved by the City Engineer giving bearings and distances, coordinates, error of closure and areas within the boundary of the subdivision and blocks and lots therein shown on the final map.

3. Design Data. Design data, assumptions and computations for proper analysis in accordance with sound engineering practice.

4. Report and Guarantee of Title. The final map shall be accompanied by a current (within six (6) months of the final map filing date) report prepared by a duly authorized title company naming the persons whose consent is necessary for the preparation and recordation of such map, and for dedication of the streets, alleys and other public places shown on the map and certifying that, as of the date of the preparation of the report, the persons wherein named are all the persons necessary to give clear title to such subdivision. At the time of recording said map, following approval by the City Council, there shall be filed with the County Recorder a guarantee executed by a duly authorized title company for the benefit and protection of the city showing that the persons consenting to the preparation and recordation of such map and offering for dedication the streets, alleys and other public places shown thereon are all the persons necessary to pass clear title to such subdivision and to the dedications shown thereon. The report should also include a statement of explanation of why any right-of-way or easement holders across the subdivision need not sign the map if they are not included as needed to pass a clear title.

5. Preliminary Soils Report. A preliminary soil report prepared by a qualified engineer registered by the State of California, based upon adequate test borings or excavations. The soil report that has been prepared shall be kept on file for public inspection. The preliminary soil report may be waived by the City Engineer or Engineering and Project Management Director if adequate existing data is available as to the soil qualities of the soils of the subdivision. If the preliminary soil report indicates the presence of critically expansive soils or other soil problems which, if not corrected, would lead to structural defects, a soil investigation of each lot in the subdivision may be required, prepared by a qualified engineer registered by the State of California. The soil investigation shall recommend corrective action intended to prevent structural damage to each dwelling proposed to be constructed on expansive or unstable soil. The report shall be filed with the Building Department. If the preliminary soils report indicates the presence of naturally-occurring asbestos, a construction dust management plan shall be prepared.

6. Utility Statements. Statements from the various public utility companies authorized to serve in the area of the subdivision or division of land certifying that satisfactory provisions have been made to accommodate their facilities.

7. Improvement Agreements. With final review; all agreements, improvement security required by state law or this Ordinance, and offer(s) of dedication. (Ord. 1870, 6-2-2020)

A. The final map shall be prepared by or under the direction of a registered civil engineer authorized to practice land surveying or licensed land surveyor, shall be based upon a survey, and shall conform to all of the following provisions:

1. It shall be legibly drawn, printed, or reproduced by a process guaranteeing a permanent record in black on tracing cloth or polyester base film. Statements, certificates, affidavits, and acknowledgments may be legibly stamped or printed upon the map with opaque ink. If ink is used on polyester base film, the ink surface shall be coated with a suitable substance to assure permanent legibility.

2. The size of each sheet shall be eighteen inches by twenty-six inches (18" X 26") inches or four hundred sixty by six hundred sixty (460 X 660) millimeters. A marginal line shall be drawn completely around each sheet, leaving an entirely blank margin of one (1) inch or twenty-five (25) millimeters. The scale of the map shall be large enough to show all details clearly and enough sheets clearly and enough sheets shall be used to accomplish this end. The particular number of the sheet and the total number of sheets comprising the map shall be stated on each of the sheets and its relation to each adjoining sheet shall be clearly shown.

3. All survey and mathematical information and data necessary to locate all monuments and to locate and retrace any and all interior and exterior boundary lines appearing on the map shall be shown, including bearings and distances of straight lines, and radii and arc length or chord bearings and length for all curves and any information which may be necessary to determine the location of the centers of curves and ties to existing monuments used to establish the subdivision boundaries.

4. Each lot shall be numbered. Each street shall be named or otherwise designated. The subdivision name/number shall be shown together with the description of the real property being subdivided.

5. Exterior boundary of the land included within the subdivision shall be indicated by distinctive symbols and clearly so designated. The map shall show the definite location of the subdivision, and particularly its relation to surrounding surveys. If the map includes a “designated remainder” parcel, and the gross area of the “designated remainder” parcel or similar parcel is five (5) acres or more, that remainder parcel need not be indicated as a matter of survey, but only by deed reference to the existing boundaries of the remainder parcel. A parcel designated as “not a part” shall be deemed to be a “designated remainder” for purposes of this section.

6. On and after January 1, 1987, no additional requirements shall be included that do not affect record title interests. However, the map shall contain a notation or reference to additional information required by a local ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 66434.2.

7. Any public streets or public easements to be left in effect after the subdivision shall be adequately delineated on the map. The filing of the final map shall constitute abandonment of all public streets and public easements not shown on the map, provided that a written notation of each abandonment is listed by reference to the recording data or other official record creating these public streets or public easements and certified to on the map by the clerk of the legislative body or the designee of the legislative body approving the map. Before a public easement vested in another public entity may be abandoned pursuant to this section, that public entity shall receive notice of the proposed abandonment. No public easement vested in another public entity shall be abandoned pursuant to this section if that public entity objects to the proposed abandonment.

B. Survey Requirement. At the time of making a survey for final map, the engineer or surveyor shall set sufficient durable monuments to conform with City Standards so that another engineer or surveyor may readily retrace the survey. At least one (1) exterior boundary line of the land being subdivided be adequately monumented or referenced before the map is recorded.

1. The monuments shall be approved by the City Engineer and shall be per City Standards. Any monument or bench mark, as required by this section, which is disturbed or destroyed before acceptance of all improvements shall be replaced by the subdivider. The monuments shall be set at each corner and angle point in the exterior and interior boundaries (lot corners) of the subdivision, except wherein such monuments already exist in their proper positions. Monuments shall be set on street and alley center lines or offsets thereto at all street intersections, beginnings and end of curves, angle points or as otherwise directed by the City Engineer.

2. Interior monuments need not be set at the time of the map is recorded, if the engineer or surveyor certifies on the map that monuments will be set on or before a specified date, and if the subdivider furnishes to the city security guaranteeing payment of the cost of setting such monuments in accordance with Section 66496 of the Map Act.

3. Within five (5) days after the final setting of monuments has been completed, the engineer or surveyor shall give written notice to the subdivider and to the City Engineer that the final monuments have been set in accordance with Section 66497 of the Map Act.

C. Statements and Acknowledgment. The title sheet of the map, below the title, shall show the name of the engineer or surveyor together with the date of the survey, the scale of the map and the number of sheets. The following statements, certificates, acknowledgments and description shall appear on the title sheet of final maps, and such statements may be combined where appropriate:

1. Statement by parties holding title. A statement in accordance with the provisions of Section 66436 and 66445 of the Map Act.

2. Dedication Statement. A statement in accordance with Section 66439 of the Map Act.

3. Engineer’s or Surveyor’s Statement. A statement in accordance with Section 66441 of the Map Act.

4. Soil Engineer’s Statement. A statement referring to preliminary soils reports on file with the city in accordance with Section 66434.5 of the Map Act.

5. Statement to be executed. A statement for execution by each of the following, as applicable:

a. City Engineer;

b. Surveyor;

c. Geotechnical Engineer, Engineering Geologist, or Geophysicist;

d. Zoning Administrator;

e. City Council;

f. City Clerk;

g. County Board of Supervisors;

h. County Recorder;

i. Owner.

6. Notation or Reference. Notation or reference to survey and map information required pursuant to Section 66434.2 of the Map Act.

D. Information on Final Maps.

1. Each lot shall be consecutively numbered. Each lot shall have its area shown to the nearest one-hundredth (1/100) of an acre or nearest square foot. The exterior boundary of the land included within the lot or lots being created shall be indicated by a distinctive border. Such border shall not interfere with the legibility of figures or other data. The map shall show the definite location of such lot or lots, and particularly the relationship to existing surveys.

2. The final map shall also contain the following information:

a. The tentative map number or vesting tentative map number and date of preparation within the Zoning Administrator’s Statement

b. The net dimensions of each lot. No ditto marks shall be used.

c. The names, locations and right-of-way widths of all abutting public streets.

d. The proposed location, purpose and width of all proposed public roads and private access easements.

e. The boundaries of any private easement, whether an easement or record or a prescriptive easement, shall be shown by means of a dotted line; and the name of the person owning the easement shall be shown on the map.

f. Location and widths of easements for public utilities, if required.

g. The location and widths of watercourses and areas subject to inundation, and location of selected flood lines within the lots being created.

h. Building setback lines, if applicable.

i. A north point and graphic scale.

j. Location or vicinity map at a minimum scale of one (1) inch equals one (1) mile.

k. Names of the subdivider(s) of the property being divided. (Ord. 1870, 6-2-2020)

A. Approval by City Engineer. Upon receipt of the final map and other data submitted therewith, the City Engineer shall examine such to determine that the subdivision as shown is substantially the same as it appeared on the tentative map, and any approved alterations thereof, that all provisions of this Series or any other ordinance and the Map Act applicable at the time the application for the tentative map is deemed complete, and who is satisfied that the map is technically correct. If the City Engineer shall determine the final map is not in full conformity with the tentative map, the City Engineer shall advise the subdivider of the changes or additions that must be made for such purposes, and shall afford the subdivider an opportunity to make such changes or additions. If the City Engineer determines that full conformity therewith has been made, they shall transmit said map to the City Council for approval in the case of a final map.

B. City Council Approval - Final Map.

1. The City Council shall, at the meeting at which it receives the final map for approval, or at its next regular meeting after the meeting at which it received the map, approve the map if it conforms to all the requirements of this Series and the Map Act applicable at the time of approval or conditional approval of the tentative map and any rulings made thereunder.

2. The Council may reject any or all offers of dedication. In the event that all improvements required or conditions imposed upon approval under the terms of this Series or by law are not completed before the filing of the final map, the Council may enter into an agreement with the subdivider for posting improvement security as provided in this Series. The City Engineer, upon the approval of the final map by the City Council, shall transmit the map to the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, who shall record same. (Ord. 1870, 6-2-2020)