Chapter 18.84
ADDITIONAL SUBDIVISION PROCEDURES
Sections:
18.84.020 Certificates of Compliance
18.84.060 Reversions to Acreage
18.84.010 - Purpose of Chapter
This Chapter establishes requirements consistent with the Map Act for Certificates of Compliance, Condominiums and Condominium Conversions, Lot Line Adjustments, Parcel Mergers, and Reversion to Acreage.
18.84.020 - Certificates of Compliance
The City shall process and approve or disapprove applications for Certificates of Compliance as provided by Map Act Sections 66499.34 and 66499.35, and as follows.
A. Application. An application for the approval of a Certificate of Compliance or Conditional Certificate of Compliance shall be filed with the Director and include the information required by the Director, together with the processing fee specified by the City Fee Schedule.
B. Review by Director of Public Works. The Director of Public Works shall review the completed application in the light of public records and applicable law. If the Director of Public Works is able to determine from this review that the parcel is clearly in compliance with the provisions of this Article and the Subdivision Map Act, shall issue a Certificate of Compliance for the parcel, to be delivered by the applicant to the County Recorder for recordation. If the Director of Public Works is unable to determine from this review that the parcel is clearly in compliance, the procedures identified in Map Act Section 66499.35 shall apply.
18.84.030 - Condominiums
When a residential structure is proposed at the time of construction as a condominium, community apartment project, or stock cooperative, a Tentative Map for the project shall be filed in the same form, have the same contents and accompanying data and reports and shall be processed, approved or denied in the same manner in compliance with Chapter 18.81 (Tentative Map Filing and Processing). Chapter 18.82 (Parcel Maps and Final Maps) determines whether a Parcel or Final Map shall also be filed.
18.84.040 - Lot Line Adjustment
A Lot Line Adjustment is permissible in compliance with Map Act Section 66412(d), and as follows.
A. Application requirements. An application for a Lot Line Adjustment shall be filed with the Director and shall include the information required by the Director, together with the processing fee specified by the City Fee Schedule.
B. Lot line adjustment approval. After consultation with the Director of Public Works, the Director shall approve a lot line adjustment provided that all criteria identified in Map Act Section 66412(d) are met to the Director’s satisfaction. After City approval, the applicant shall be responsible for recording the approval document and paying the necessary fees charged by the County Recorder for recording Lot Line Adjustment approval documents in compliance with the Map Act.
18.84.050 - Parcel Merger
A. Procedures for merger of parcels. Two or more parcels may be merged as follows.
1. Parcels may be merged in compliance with Map Act Chapter 3, Article 1.5. A parcel or unit may be merged with a contiguous parcel or unit held by the same owner if any one of the contiguous parcels or units held by the same owner does not conform to standards for minimum parcel size as identified by this Development Code applicable to the parcels or units of land, and if all of the requirements of Map Act Section 66451.11 are satisfied.
2. Parcels may also be merged in compliance with Map Act Sections 66499.20-1/2, or 66499.20-3/4; provided that a merger in compliance with Map Act Section 66499.20-3/4 shall require the recordation of an instrument evidencing the merger in the same manner as required by Map Act Section 66499.20-1/2.
B. Requirements for unmerger of parcels. The unmerger of parcels within the City shall comply with Map Act Chapter 3, Article 1.7.
18.84.060 - Reversion to Acreage
A. Procedures. A Reversion to Acreage shall be initiated, processed, reviewed, and approved or denied in compliance with Map Act Chapter 6, Article 1.
B. Application requirements. An application for reversion submitted by a property owner shall include all information required by the Department, and shall include the fee required by the City Fee Schedule.
C. Parcel Map in Lieu of Final Map. A Parcel Map may be filed to revert to acreage land previously subdivided that consists of four or less contiguous parcels, in compliance with Map Act Section 66499.20-1/4.
D. Effect of reversion. The filing of a Parcel Map or Final Map to complete a Reversion to acreage shall also constitute the merger of the separate parcels into one parcel, in compliance with Map Act Section 66499.20-1/2.