Scotts Valley Municipal Code Ch. 16.06 General Provisions

A tentative and final map shall be required for all subdivisions creating five or more parcels, five or more condominium units as defined in Section 783 of the Civil Code, or a community apartment project containing five or more parcels, except where:

A. Less than Five Acres. 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 county; or

B. Gross Area of More than Twenty Acres. 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

C. Industrial or Commercial Zoning. The land consists of a parcel or parcels of land having approved access to a public street or highway which comprises part of a tract of land zoned for industrial or commercial development, and which has the approval of the city as to street alignments and widths; or

D. Gross Area of More Than Forty Acres. Each parcel created by the division has a gross area of forty acres or more, or each of which is a quarter-quarter section or larger.

A tentative map and a parcel map shall be required for those subdivisions described in paragraphs A, B, C, and D above and for any parcel or contiguous parcel of land, a condominium project, or a community apartment project divided into four or less parcels, except in the case of a boundary adjustment where the parcel will be waived.

(Ord. 64 § 3 (part), 1975)

A map of a condominium project or a community apartment project need not show the buildings or the manner in which the buildings or the airspace above the property shown on the map are to be divided, nor shall the city refuse approval of a tentative, parcel or final map of such a project on account of design or location of buildings on the property shown on the map not violative of the code or on account of the manner in which airspace is to be divided in conveying the condominium. Fees and lot design requirements shall be computed and imposed with respect to such maps on the basis of parcels or lots of the surface of the land shown thereon as included in the project.

(Ord. 64 § 3 (part), 1975)

A parcel map shall not be required for subdivisions created by short-term leases, terminable by either party on not more than thirty days' notice in writing, of a portion of the operating right-of-way of a railroad corporation defined as such by Section 230 of the Public Utilities Code, unless a showing is made to the planning director in individual cases, upon substantial evidence, that public policy necessitates such a parcel map.

(Ord. 64 § 3 (part), 1975)

Of the maps required by this chapter, only final and parcel maps may be filed for record in the office of the recorder.

(Ord. 64 § 3 (part), 1975)

No final map or parcel map required by this chapter which creates a subdivision shall be recorded without the written consent of all parties having any record title interest in the real property proposed to be subdivided.

(Ord. 64 § 3 (part), 1975)