Article 3 — Map Requirements

A tentative map and a final map shall be required for all subdivisions creating five (5) or more lots or parcels, five (5) or more condominiums (townhouses), stock cooperative apartment units, or a community apartment project containing five (5) or more parcels, except where:

(a) The land, before division, contains less than five (5) net acres, and each parcel created by the division abuts upon a maintained public street or highway, and no dedications or improvements are required; or

(b) Each parcel created by the division has a gross area of twenty (20) acres, and each parcel created by the division has a City approved access to a maintained public street or highway; or

(c) The land comprises part of a tract of land zoned for industrial or commercial development, and each parcel created by the division has a City approved access to a public street or highway, and the proposed division has the approval of the Council as to street alignments and widths; or

(d) Each parcel created by the division has a gross area of not less than forty (40) acres or is not less than a quarter of a quarter section; provided, however, a tentative and final map shall be required for a subdivision in which one or more of the resultant parcels is between forty (40) acres or sixty (60) acres in size.

A City approved tentative map and a recorded parcel map shall be required for those subdivisions described in subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d) of this section.

(Ord. 744-NS, eff. April 17, 1980)

A City approved tentative map and a final parcel map shall be required for all subdivisions creating four (4) or less lots or parcels, or four (4) or less condominiums (townhouses) or stock cooperative apartment units, and for community apartment projects containing four (4) or less parcels, except when the subdivision:

(a) Contains only parcels of not less than forty (40) acres or which are not less than a quarter of a quarter section; or

(b) Is for land conveyed to or from a governmental agency, public entity or public utility, or to a subsidiary of a public utility for conveyance to such public utility for rights-of-way, unless it is determined, upon substantial evidence, that public policy necessitates a tentative map and parcel map.

A parcel map required by this chapter may be waived, pursuant to the procedures set forth in subsection (b) of Section 9-3.702 of Article 7 of this chapter, by the Community Development Director upon a finding that the proposed division complies with all requirements as to area, improvements and design, floodwater drainage control, appropriate improved public roads, wastewater facilities, water supply availability, environmental protection, and other requirements of the Subdivision Map Act and this Code. The Community Development Director, in his discretion, may require the filing of a tentative map as a condition of waiver under this section. (Ord. 744-NS, eff. April 17, 1980)

This chapter shall not be applicable to:

(a) The financing or leasing of apartments, offices, stores, or similar spaces within apartment buildings, industrial buildings, commercial buildings, mobile home parks, or trailer parks;

• (b) Mineral, oil, or gas leases;

(c) Leases of land for agricultural purposes (cultivation of food or fiber or the grazing or pasturing of livestock);

(d) Land dedicated for cemetery purposes under the provisions of the Health and Safety Code of the State;

(e) Short-term leases (terminable by either party on not more than thirty (30) days’ written notice) of a portion of the operating right-of-way of a railroad corporation, as defined by Section 230 of the Public Utilities Code, unless a showing is made in individual cases, under substantial evidence, that public policy necessitates a map. In such a case, a parcel map shall be required pursuant to the requirements of this Code;

(f) Lot line adjustments between two (2) or more adjacent parcels where no additional parcels or building sites are created, the potential density of development is not increased on any of the new parcels, no potential to further divide any of the new parcels is created, the ingress and egress to the new parcels does not create circulation problems on the parcels or to the surrounding areas, and no violation of any provision of this Code will result; provided, however, any such lot line adjustment shall be approved or conditionally approved by the issuance of a certificate which shall be recorded pursuant to the procedures set forth in subsection (b) of Section 9-3.702 of Article 7 of this chapter; and (g) Any other exemption provided by the Subdivision Map Act.

(Ord. 744-NS, eff. April 17, 1980)

A map of a condominium project, community apartment project, or stock cooperative 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 have the right to refuse the approval of a parcel, tentative, or final map of such a project on account of design or location of buildings on the property or of the manner in which airspace is to be divided; provided, however, the provisions of Article 19 of Chapter 4 of this title relative to condominium conversions shall be applicable to such projects, and the limitations set forth in this section in no way shall limit the authority of the City under the provisions of said Article 19.

(Ord. 744-NS, eff. April 17, 1980)

The City shall ministerially process an application for an Urban Lot Split pursuant to Title 9, Chapter 4, Article 37 - Urban Lot Splits and Two-Unit Housing Developments.

(§ 1, Ord. 1704-NS, eff. November 25, 2022)