Ridgecrest Municipal Code § 105-2 Title and intent

This subdivisions chapter is adopted to preserve, protect and promote the public health, safety, convenience, prosperity and general welfare. More specifically, this chapter is adopted in order to achieve the following objectives:

(1) To implement the general plan of the city, and elements thereof, as adopted by the city council.

(2) To provide lots of sufficient size and appropriate design for the purposes for which they may be used.

(3) To provide streets of adequate capacity for the anticipated traffic which might utilize them and to ensure that they are designed to promote a safe traffic circulation system.

(4) To accommodate new development in a manner which will preserve and enhance the city's living environment and create new beauty through subdivision design.

(5) To provide for water supply, sewage disposal, storm drainage and other utilities and facilities which are required conditions in an urban environment.

(6) To ensure that the costs of providing rights-of-way, street improvements, utilities and public areas and facilities needed to serve new developments are borne fairly and equitably by subdividers and developers.

(7) To protect and enhance real property values.

(8) To coordinate subdivision policies and regulations with those of the county to facilitate transition from county to municipal jurisdiction that land which is first developed in unincorporated territory and is subsequently annexed to the city and to ensure unimpeded development of such new urban expansion that is logical, desirable and in accordance with goals, objectives and policies of the general plan.

(Code 1980, § 19-1.1; Ord. No. 87-01, § 1)

This chapter, known as the "subdivision ordinance," is intended to establish procedures and guidelines for tract maps, parcel maps, waivers of map, and lot line adjustments and their improvement requirements.

(Code 1980, § 19-1.2; Ord. No. 87-01, § 2)

This chapter is enacted for the purpose of adopting subdivision and parcel map regulations in accordance with the Subdivision Map Act (Government Code § 66410 et seq.). The regulations in this chapter contained shall apply to all subdivisions and parcel maps or parts of subdivisions and parcel maps hereafter made entirely or partially within the city.

(Code 1980, § 19-1.3; Ord. No. 87-01, § 3)

The planning commission is hereby designated as the advisory agency with respect to subdivisions and parcel maps, as provided in said Subdivision Map Act (Government Code § 66410 et seq.), and shall have all powers and duties with respect to subdivisions and parcel maps, the maps thereof and the procedures relating thereto which are specified by law and by this chapter.

(Code 1980, § 19-1.4; Ord. No. 87-01, § 4)

Where land is separated by other than a street, highway, alley, railroad right-of-way, flood control right-of-way, or public utility right-of-way from other land in a proposed division or subdivision, a separate map shall be prepared for each of the divisions or subdivisions so separated and each of the maps prepared shall comply with the provisions of this chapter.

(Code 1980, § 19-1.5; Ord. No. 87-01, § 5)

Except as designated in Government Code title 7, div. 2, ch. 1, art. 2 (Government Code § 66414 et seq.), all items shall have the common meaning and usage as contained in other chapters of this Code. In the absence of such other usage, words and terms shall have the preferred usage and definition as contained in "Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary."

(Code 1980, § 19-1.6; Ord. No. 87-01, § 6)