Watsonville Municipal Code Art. 2 Parcel Maps

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, centerlines 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 parcel map shall not exceed one in ten thousand (1/10,000) for field closures and one in twenty thousand (1/20,000) for calculated closures.

(§ 1, Ord. 1274-11 (CM), eff. February 24, 2011)

The form and contents of the parcel map shall generally conform to the form and contents of final maps as provided for by Section 13-4.13, Form and contents, and as restated or modified herein. Certificates contained in a parcel map shall be in accordance with Sections 66499, 66450 and 66492 of the Map Act and in accordance this chapter.

The parcel map shall include an owner’s certificate, signed and acknowledged by all parties having record title interest in the land subdivided, consenting to the preparation and recordation of the map and offering for dedication to the public certain specific parcels of land or easements. 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.

The parcel map shall include a trustee’s certificate signed and acknowledged by either the holder of beneficial interests under trust deeds or the trustee and/or trustees under trust deeds at the time of the City Council approval of the final map, consenting to the recording of the map and any offers of dedications.

The parcel map shall include a City Engineer’s statement or certificate signed and dated by the City Engineer with his/her registration or license number and its expiration date is required stating that the map has been examined; that it is substantially the same as the tentative map and any approved alterations; that it complies with the Subdivision Map Act, the provisions of this title, any local ordinances applicable at the time of the approval of the tentative map, and is technically correct.

The parcel map shall include an Auditor-Controller statement and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors statement for execution by the County Auditor-Controller and the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors 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 that all statements required under the provisions of Sections 66492 and 66493 of the Map Act have been duly deposited and duly made.

The parcel map shall include a County Recorder’s certificate to be executed by the County Recorder stating that the map has been accepted for filing, that the map has been examined, and that it complies with the provisions of State laws and local ordinances governing the filing of final maps. The certificate shall show 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.

The parcel map shall include a City of Watsonville Minor Land Division Committee statement for which the Minor Land Division Committee approved the tentative parcel map which states:

City MLD Committee Statement

I, ____________ Community Development Director of City of Watsonville, hereby state that I have examined this map, that the subdivision as shown hereon is substantially the same as it appeared on the tentative parcel map and any approved alterations, and that all provisions of the California Subdivision Map Act and the City of Watsonville Municipal Code have been complied with.

Dated ___________,

___________________________________

Community Development Director, City of Watsonville Minor Land Division Committee, County of Santa Cruz, State of California

Parcel maps prepared for tentative parcel maps approved by the City Council shall include a City Clerk’s certificate stating the date of the resolution adopted by the City Council approving the final map and stating that the City Council accepted, subject to improvement, or rejected on behalf of the public, any real property offered for the dedication for public use in conformity with the terms of the offer of dedication;

(§ 1, Ord. 1274-11 (CM), eff. February 24, 2011)

The subdivider shall submit copies of the parcel map to the City Engineer for checking prior to expiration of the tentative parcel map. The preliminary prints shall be accompanied by copies of improvement plans, hydrology report, soils report, title report, geometric survey closure calculations and plan check and review fees in accordance with the requirements of Section 13-4.15, Review by City Engineer, and shall be in accordance with the approved or conditionally approved tentative parcel map, Sections 13-5.10 and 13-5.11, and the Map Act. The City Engineer may modify these requirements upon finding that the location and nature of the proposed subdivision is such as not to necessitate compliance with these requirements.

(§ 1, Ord. 1274-11 (CM), eff. February 24, 2011)

The City Engineer shall review the parcel map and the subdivider’s engineer or surveyor shall make corrections and/or additions until the map is acceptable to the City Engineer. Concurrent with review of the parcel map, the City Engineer shall prepare an improvement agreement, if required, in conformance with the requirements of Section 13-7.11, Improvement agreement. The City Engineer shall determine whether the application is complete within thirty (30) days of submittal and notify the applicant as required by Section 13-3.02, except that, pursuant to Section 66456.2, the City Engineer shall have sixty (60) working days to review all improvement plans and supporting documentation and fifteen (15) working days to review any resubmitted improvement plan.

(§ 1, Ord. 1274-11 (CM), eff. February 24, 2011)

(a) The City Engineer shall approve the parcel map only after it has been determined that the map and supporting documents substantially conform with the approved tentative parcel map and conditions and comply with the provisions of this title and the Map Act. The subdivider’s engineer shall submit the original tracing of the map, corrected to its final form and signed by all parties required to execute the certificates or statements on the map, to the City Engineer.

(b) The subdivider shall execute any improvement agreement and submit it along with all required securities and evidence of insurance to the City Engineer. The City Engineer shall enter into improvement agreements with the subdivider where required improvements have not been completed prior to parcel map approval, as authorized by Subdivision Map Act Section 66462.

(c) The City Engineer shall recommend to the City Manager to accept, accept subject to improvement, or reject any or all dedications and offers of dedication made by a statement on the parcel map.

(1) If at the time the parcel map is approved any offers of dedication are rejected by the City Engineer, the offer of dedication shall remain open and the City Engineer may, at any later date, rescind the action and accept the dedication for public use. This acceptance shall be recorded in the office of the County Recorder. However, certain offers of dedication providing public access to public resources must be accepted within the time limits required by Section 66477 of the Subdivision Map Act.

(2) If the City Engineer recommends acceptance of any property dedicated in fee, the map shall contain any certificates required by Section 66477.5 of the Subdivision Map Act.

(§ 1, Ord. 1274-11 (CM), eff. February 24, 2011)

Upon approval of the parcel map by the City Engineer, the City Engineer and the Community Development Director shall execute their respective certificates and/or statement on the parcel map and forward the map to the City Clerk and in turn to the title company providing the subdivision guarantee. The title company shall submit the map to the Clerk of the County Board of Supervisors for transmittal to the County Recorder. A subdivision which includes conditions, covenants and restrictions shall record those documents at the same time as the parcel map is recorded.

(§ 1, Ord. 1274-11 (CM), eff. February 24, 2011)

(a) The Community Development Director, upon recommendation by the City Engineer, may waive all or part of the requirements for a parcel map for the following:

(1) A division of real property or interests therein created by probate, eminent domain procedures, partition, or other civil judgments or decrees; or

(2) A division of real property resulting from the conveyance of land or any interest therein to or from the City or other public entity for public purposes, such as school sites, public building sites, or rights-of-way or easements for streets, sewers, utilities, drainage, and similar facilities; or

(3) A subdivision listed in Section 66426 of the Map Act.

(b) Application for a parcel map waiver shall be made on forms provided by the Planning Department and shall include such items as may reasonably be required to make the necessary findings. A filing fee shall be paid as established by resolution of the City Council. Applications shall be acted upon by the Community Development Director within sixty (60) days of the application being deemed complete.

(c) In waiving a parcel map requirement, the Community Development Director shall make findings that the proposed division of land complies with requirements as to area, improvement and design, flood water drainage control, appropriate improved public roads and property access, sanitary disposal facilities, water supply availability, environmental protection, and other applicable requirements of this title, the zoning code, the general plan, any applicable specific plan, and the Map Act.

(d) The Community Development Director may condition the waiver of parcel map requirements to provide for, among other things, parkland dedication, drainage and other fees required for subdivisions by this title.

(e) Upon approval of a parcel map waiver, the applicant shall file a record of survey, certificate of compliance, lot line adjustment, or lot merger approved by the City in writing, specifying the names of the record owners of the fee interest and particularly describing the real property with a site map for recordation with the County Recorder. Requirements for construction of off-site or on-site improvements shall be noticed by a statement on the instrument evidencing the waiver of the parcel map or by a separate instrument, and shall be recorded concurrently with the instrument evidencing the waiver.

(§ 1, Ord. 1274-11 (CM), eff. February 24, 2011)