Tehachapi Municipal Code Ch. 17.44 Soil and Grading Reports

A. A preliminary soils report based upon adequate test borings, and a grading plan, shall be submitted to the building director for every subdivision prior to the filing of the final tract map or final parcel map. Such soils report and grading plan shall be prepared by a civil engineer registered in this state.

B. If the soils report indicates the presence of expansive soils or other soils problems which, if not corrected, would lead to structural defects, a soils investigation of each lot or parcel in the subdivision may be required by the city building director or city engineer. Such soils investigation shall recommend the corrective action which is likely to prevent structural damage to each structure proposed to be constructed in the area where the soils problems exist.

(Ord. 90-13-575 § 1(part), 1990)

A. A preliminary soils report and/or grading plan may be waived, but only when the building director and city engineer both find that due to the knowledge the city has as to the quality of the soils or the topography of the land in the subdivision, no preliminary analysis of the soils or grading plan is necessary.

B. If the city engineer or city building director requires a preliminary soils report and/or grading plan for subdivisions for which a final parcel map is required, the soils report and/or grading plan may be deferred by the advisory agency as a requirement of the approval of the tentative parcel map and recordation of the final parcel map until such time as a building permit application is filed.

(Ord. 90-13-575 § 1(part), 1990)

A. Grading shall be performed in accordance with the approved grading plan and the preliminary soils report and compaction tests shall be submitted to the city's building director for each lot in a subdivision prior to recordation of the final map, except as the city building director may determine that no public interest would be served thereby.

B. When any soils investigation has indicated any soils problems and a civil engineer has recommended the corrective action which is likely to prevent structural damage to each structure proposed to be constructed in the area where the soils problems exist, the final map or parcel map may be approved for recording subject to the following condition: the city building director shall not approve any building permit on any lot within any new subdivision until a final soil report has been submitted to him showing that all corrective action set forth in the preliminary soil report and report of the soils investigation has been completed and until the civil engineer has certified that all corrective action likely to prevent any structural damage to any structure proposed to be constructed in the area where the soils problems exist, has been taken and completed to his satisfaction.

(Ord. 90-13-575 § 1(part), 1990)

No building permit shall be issued for any lot in any subdivision until all grading has been completed in accordance with the approved grading plan and a final soils report has been submitted to and approved by the city building director. Whenever such conditions have not been satisfied prior to recordation of a final map, notice of such conditions shall be set forth on the face of the final map.

(Ord. 90-13-575 § 1(part), 1990)