Chapter 9.11 Corrections and Amendments to Filed Maps

9.11.10 Purpose of this Chapter

The purpose of this Chapter is to establish the procedures for corrections and amendments to filed Final or Parcel Maps.

9.11.20 Requirements

A recorded Final or Parcel Map may be amended by a certificate of correction or an amending map for the following purposes:

A.    To correct an error in any course or distance shown thereon;

B.    To show any course or distance that was omitted there from;

C.    To correct an error in the description of the real property shown on the map;

D.    To indicate monuments set after the death, disability, replacement or retirement from practice of the engineer or surveyor charged with responsibilities for setting monuments; or

E.    To show the proper location of any monument that has been changed with respect to location, or character, or originally was shown at the wrong location or incorrectly as to its character.

F.    To correct any other type of map error or omission as approved by the Community Development Director, which does not affect any property right. Errors and omissions may include, but are not limited to, lots and numbers, acreage, street names and identification of adjacent record maps. Error does not include changes in courses or distances from which an error is not ascertainable from the data shown on the Final or Parcel Map.

G.    To make modifications when there are changes which make any or all of the conditions of the map no longer appropriate or necessary and that such modifications do not impose any additional burden on the present fee owner of the property, and if such modifications do not alter any right, title or interest in the real property reflected on the recorded map. The modification shall be set for public hearing by the Community Development Director or Planning Commission according to Section 9.4.30.H. The Community Development Director or Planning Commission shall confine the hearing to consideration of, and action on, the proposed modification.

9.11.30 Form and Contents

The form and contents of an amending map shall be prepared by a Registered Civil Engineer or Licensed Land Surveyor and conform to the requirements of Section 9.6.20 if a Final Map, or Section 9.3.20 if a Parcel Map. The certificate of correction shall set forth in detail the corrections made and show the names of the present fee owners of the property affected by the correction.

9.11.40 Submittal and Approval by the Community Development Director

The amending map or certificate of correction, complete as to Final form, shall be submitted to the Community Development Director for review and approval. The Community Development Director shall examine the amending map or certificate of correction and if the only changes made are those in Section 9.11.20, above, this fact shall be certified on the amending map or certificate of correction.

9.11.50 Filing with the County Recorder

The amending map or certificate of correction certified by the Community Development Director shall be filed in the office of the County Recorder in which the original map was filed. Upon such filing, the County Recorder shall index the names of the fee owners and the appropriate subdivision designation shown on the amending map or certificate of correction in the general index and map index respectively. The original map shall be deemed to have been conclusively so corrected and shall impart constructive notice of all the corrections in the same manner as though set forth upon the original map.

9.11.60 Fee

The fee for checking, processing and recording the amended map or certificate of correction shall be in accordance with the City’s resolution establishing fees and charges. A deposit to be applied toward this fee may be required by the Community Development Director upon submittal of the amended map or certificate of correction for his or her review.