Article 5 — Final Maps

The form, contents, accompanying data, and filing of the final map shall conform to the provisions of this article.

The final map shall be prepared by or under the direction of a registered civil engineer or licensed land surveyor.

Multiple final maps relating to an approved or conditionally approved tentative map may be filed prior to the expiration of the tentative map if the subdivider, at the time the tentative map is filed, informs the Planning Director of the subdivider's intention to file multiple final maps on the tentative maps. The Planning Commission shall approve the sequence of map approvals. After the filing of the tentative map, the Planning Director and the subdivider shall concur in the filing 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 tentative map. Each final map which constitutes a part, or unit, of the approved tentative map shall have a separate subdivision number. The subdivision improvement agreement executed by the subdivider shall provide for the construction of improvements as required to constitute a logical and orderly development of the whole subdivision.

• (a) Application. An application for street name approval shall be submitted to the Planning Division for consideration and approval.

• (b) Street names required on final maps and improvement plans. Approved street names without abbreviation shall be clearly identified on all improvement plans and final maps submitted to the Engineering Division.

• (c) Release of addresses after recordation of map. Within thirty (30) days of the recordation of a final map, approved street names and addresses will be distributed to City departments, subdividers, engineers, builders, and interested agencies.

• (d) Release of addresses prior to recordation of map. In conformance with Subdivision Map Act Section 66499.30(a), addresses for model homes may be released prior to the recordation of the final map at the discretion of the City of Turlock Building Official.

• (1121-CS, Added, 07/23/09)

An accurate and complete survey of the land to be subdivided shall be made by a registered civil engineer or licensed land surveyor. All monuments, property lines, center lines of streets, alleys, and easements adjoining or within the subdivision shall be tied into the survey. The allowable error of closure on any portion of the final map shall not exceed one ten-thousandth (1/10,000) for field closures and one twenty-thousandth (1/20,000) for calculated closures.

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§ 11-5-504

§ 11-5-506

At the time of making the survey for the final map, the engineer or surveyor shall set sufficient durable monuments to conform with the standards described in Section 8771 of the Business and Professions Code of the State so that another engineer or surveyor may readily retrace the survey. At least one (1) exterior boundary line shall be monumented prior to recording the final map.

(Formerly 11-5-503; 1121-CS, Amended, 07/23/09)

The form of the final map shall conform to the Subdivision Map Act and the provisions of this section.

The final map shall be legibly drawn, printed, or reproduced by a process guaranteeing a permanent record in black on tracing cloth or polyester base film. Certificates, affidavits, and acknowledgements 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.

The size of each sheet shall be eighteen (18") inches by twenty-six (26") inches. A marginal line shall be drawn completely around each sheet, leaving an entirely blank margin of one (1") inch. The scale of the map shall be not less than one (1") inch equals one hundred (100') feet or as may be necessary to show all details clearly, and enough sheets shall be used to accomplish this end. The particular number of the sheet and 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. When four (4) or more sheets, including the certificate sheet, are used, a key sheet shall be included.

All printing or lettering on the map shall be of such shape and weight as to be readily legible on prints and other reproductions made from the original drawings.

The final form of the final map shall be as approved by the City Engineer. (Formerly 11-5-504; 1121-CS, Amended, 07/23/09)

• (a) Boundaries. The boundary of the subdivision shall be designated by an opaque blue line in such a manner as not to obliterate figures or other data.

• (b) Title. Each sheet shall have a title showing the subdivision number and name and the location of the property being subdivided with reference to maps which have been previously recorded, or by reference to the plat of a United States survey. The following words shall appear in the title: "City of Turlock, Stanislaus County."

• (c) Certificates. The following certificates shall appear on the cover sheet:

  • (1) Owners' certificates. A certificate, signed and acknowledged by all parties having a record title interest in the land subdivided, consenting to the preparation and recordation of the map. Exceptions are those parties having rights-of-way, easements, or interests which cannot ripen into a fee, or as provided in the Subdivision Map Act.

In the event an owner's development lien has been created pursuant to the provisions of Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 39327) of Chapter 3 of Part 23 of the Education Code of the State on the real property, or portion thereof, subject to the

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final map, a notice shall be placed on the face of the final map specifically referencing the book and page in the office of the County Recorder in which the resolution creating the owner's development lien was recorded. The notice shall state that the property subdivided is subject to an owner's development lien and that each parcel created by the recordation of the final map shall be subject to a prorated amount of the owner's development lien on a per acre, or portion thereof, basis;

• (2) Dedications and offers to dedicate certificates. Dedications of, or offers to dedicate interests in, real property for specified public purposes shall be made by a certificate on the final map, signed and acknowledged by those parties having any record title interest in the real property being subdivided, subject to the provisions of Section66436 of the Government Code of the State.

In the event any street shown on the final map is not offered for dedication, the certificate may contain a statement to this effect. If such statement appears on the final map, and if the map is approved by the legislative body, the use of any such street or streets by the public shall be permissive only.

An offer of dedication of real property for street or public utility easement purposes shall be deemed not to include any public utility facilities located on or under such real property unless and only to the extent and intent to dedicate such facilities is expressly stated in the certificate;

• (3) Trustees' certificates. A certificate, signed and acknowledged by any trustee of record at the time of the Council approval of the final map, consenting to the recording of the map and offers of dedication;

• (4) Engineer or surveyor certificates. A certificate by the engineer or surveyor responsible for the survey and final map shall appear on the map. The certificate shall give the date of the survey, state that the survey and final map were made by or under the direction of the engineer or surveyor, and that the survey is true and complete as shown.

The certificate shall also state that all the monuments are of the character and occupy the positions indicated, or that they will be set in such positions on or before a specified later date. The certificate shall also state that the monuments are, or will be, sufficient to enable the survey to be retraced.

The certificate shall state that the map complies with the Subdivision Map Act and the provisions of this title;

• (5) Certificates of soils and geologic reports. When a soils report, a geologic report, or a soils and geologic report has been prepared specifically for the subdivision, such fact shall be noted on the final map, together with the date of such report or reports, the name of the engineer making the soils report and geologist making the geologic report, and the location within the City where the reports shall be kept on file for public inspection;

• (6) City Engineer's certificates. A certificate by the City Engineer shall be completed and filed with the Council within twenty (20) days after the time the final map is submitted to him for approval by the subdivider. The certificate shall state that the map has been examined and that it is substantially the same as the tentative map and

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• (7) Planning Commission certificates. A certificate by the secretary of the Planning Commission stating that the tentative map was approved by resolution of the Planning Commission. The date and number of the resolution shall appear in the certificate;

  • (8) City Clerk's certificates. A certificate for execution by the City Clerk stating the date and number of the resolution adopted by the Council approving the final map and stating that the Council accepted, subject to improvement, or rejected on behalf of the public, any real property offered for dedication for public use in conformity with the terms of the offer of dedication;

  • (9) Clerk of the Board of Supervisors certificates. A certificate to be executed by the County Clerk, in accordance with Section 66492 of the Subdivision Map Act, stating that all taxes due have been paid or that a tax bond assuring the payment of all taxes which are a lien but not yet payable has been filed with the County; and

  • (10) County Recorder's certificates. A certificate to be executed by the County Recorder stating that the map has been accepted for filing, who requested the filing of the map, the time and date the map was filed, and the book and page where the map was filed.

• (d) Scale, north point, and basis of bearings. There shall appear on each map sheet the scale, the north point, and the basis of bearings.

• (e) Linear, angular, and radial data. Sufficient linear, angular, and radial data shall be shown to determine the bearings and lengths of monument lines, street center lines, the boundary lines of the subdivision, the boundary lines on every lot and parcel which is a part of the subdivision, and ties to existing monuments used to establish the boundaries. The arc length, radius, and total central angle and radial bearings of all curves shall be shown. Ditto marks shall not be used in the dimensions and data shown on the map.

• (f) Monuments. The location and description of all existing and proposed monuments shall be shown. Standard City monuments shall be set at or in City Engineer approved offsets from the following locations:

  • (1) The intersections of street center lines;

  • (2) The beginning and end of curves or intersections of tangents on center lines; and

  • (3) Other locations as may be required by the City Engineer.

• (g) Lot numbers. Lot numbers shall begin with the number one (1) in each subdivision and shall continue consecutively in a clockwise direction with no omissions or duplications, except where contiguous lands, under the same ownership, are being subdivided in successive units, in which event lot numbers may begin with the next consecutive number following the last number in the preceding unit. Each lot shall be shown entirely on one (1) sheet of the final map, unless approved by the City Engineer.

• (h) Acreage. Lots containing one (1) acre or more shall show on the face of the final map net acreage to at least the nearest one-hundredth (1/100) of an acre.

• (i) Adjoining properties. The adjoining corners of all adjoining subdivisions shall be identified

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by subdivision number, or by name when not identified by an official number.

• (j) City boundaries. City boundaries which cross or adjoin the subdivision shall be clearly designated.

• (k) Street names. The approved names of all streets, alleys, and highways within or adjoining the subdivision shall be shown.

• (l) Easements. Easements for roads or streets, paths, storm water drainage, sanitary sewers, and street trees, and other public uses as may be required, shall be dedicated to the public for acceptance by the City or other public agency, and the use shall be specified on the map. If, at the time the final map is approved, any streets, paths, alleys, or storm drainage easements are not accepted by the Council, the offer of dedication shall remain open, and the Council, by resolution at any later date, may accept and open the streets, paths, alleys, or storm drainage easements for public use, which acceptance shall be recorded in the office of the County Recorder.

The City Engineer shall accept any dedication lying outside the subdivision boundary which requires a separate grant deed. The acceptance shall be recorded in the office of the County Recorder.

All easements of record shall be shown on the map, together with the name of the grantee and sufficient recording data to identify the conveyance; for example, the County Recorder's serial number and date or book and page of the official records.

Easements not disclosed by the records in the office of the County Recorder and found by the surveyor or engineer to be existing shall be specifically designated on the map, identifying the apparent dominant tenements for which the easement was created.

The side lines of all easements of record shall be shown by dashed lines on the final map with the widths, lengths, and bearings of record. The width and location of all easements shall be approved by the City Engineer.

(m) Right-to-farm notice. The right-to-farm notice as set forth in TMC 5-24-04. (Formerly 11-5-505; 1121-CS, Amended, 07/23/09; 1185-CS, Amended, 06/13/13)

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§ 11-5-601

§ 11-5-603