23.10.010 Final parcel maps and improvement security.
The form and contents, submittal, approval and filing of final parcel maps shall conform to the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act and this chapter.
A. Survey Required. An accurate and complete survey of the land to be subdivided shall be made by a registered civil engineer or licensed land surveyor unless sufficient record data exists to comply with Cal. Gov’t. Code § 66448. 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 1/10,000 for field closures and 1/20,000 for calculated closures.
B. Form and Contents. The form and contents of the parcel map shall conform to the final map form and content requirements of SCC 23.07.040 through 23.07.070.
C. Improvement Agreement. The parcel map shall require an improvement agreement and improvement security, where appropriate, in the form provided in Chapter 23.17 SCC.
D. Review and Approval by Department of Public Works. The Department of Public Works shall review the final parcel map and the subdivider shall make corrections and/or additions until the map is acceptable to the Department of Public Works. The subdivider shall submit the original tracing of the map, corrected to its final form and signed by all parties required to execute the certificates on the map, to the Department of Public Works.
The Department of Public Works shall approve the parcel map if it complies with the requirements of the Subdivision Map Act, this title, the tentative parcel map and all conditions thereof. Where offers of dedication are required, they shall be submitted to the Board of Supervisors for consideration. The County Surveyor or authorized agent shall, subject to the provisions of Cal. Gov’t. Code § 66464 of the Subdivision Map Act, transmit the approved parcel map to the County Recorder.
E. Subdivision Guarantee. A title report and preliminary subdivision guarantee showing individuals holding record title interest at the time of the submittal of the final parcel map for the property to be subdivided and for any off-site property intended to be offered for dedication shall be included.
F. Dedications. Dedications or offers of dedication as provided in Chapter 23.14 SCC shall be provided, although the county may require that the relevant information be recorded by separate instrument.
G. Additional Final Map Requirements. When submitting a parcel map to the County Surveyor, two blueline prints shall be submitted, showing mathematical closures on the exterior boundary of the parcels before division, each parcel, and any easements which may be pertinent to the map.
1. In addition to complying with the requirements of Cal. Gov’t. Code § 66445 there shall be indicated on the map the acreage or square footage for each parcel created, being shown to the nearest 0.01 of an acre. Square footage may be substituted on parcels less than one-half acre.
2. When first submitted the map shall be accompanied with the map checking fee as provided for by resolution of the Board of Supervisors.
3. When a parcel map is submitted, the provisions of Cal. Gov’t Code §§ 66492 through 66494 shall be complied with.
4. Signatures. Subject to the provisions of Cal. Gov’t. Code § 66436, a certificate, signed and acknowledged by all parties having any record title interest in the real property subdivided, consenting to the preparation and recordation of the parcel map is required, except however, in the case of a division of land into four or fewer parcels. Where dedications or offers of dedications are not required, the certificate shall be signed and acknowledged by the subdivider only; provided, however, where a subdivider does not have a record title ownership interest in the property to be divided, the subdivider shall provide the County Surveyor with satisfactory evidence that the persons with record title ownership have consented to the proposed division.
5. Title Company Parcel Map Guarantee. There shall be filed with the County Surveyor a preliminary subdivision guarantee from a qualified title insurance company which guarantees that the parties named therein are the only parties having any record title interest in the land subdivided.
The County Surveyor shall notify the title company furnishing the guarantee of the date the final map will be transmitted to the County Recorder. Such notification shall be made at least 48 hours before said date. The title company shall, on said date, present to the County Recorder, pursuant to the requirements of Cal. Gov’t. Code § 66465 of the Subdivision Map Act, a letter stating that at the time of filing of the parcel map in the office of the County Recorder, the parties consenting to such filing are all of the parties having a record title interest in the real property being subdivided whose signatures are required by the California Government Code, Title 7, Division 2 (commencing with Cal. Gov’t. Code § 66410), as shown by the records in the office of the County Recorder.
H. Recording of Additional Information.
1. As provided for in the conditions of approval for a parcel map, the county may require additional information to be recorded simultaneously with the parcel map. The additional information map must be in the form of a separate document or map sheet and shall indicate its relationship to the tentative or parcel map, and shall contain a statement that the additional information is for informational purposes only, and that it is not intended to correct record title interest. The document of additional map sheet may contain a notation that the information is derived from public records or reports, and does not imply the correctness or sufficiency of those records or reports by the preparer of the document or additional map sheet.
2. Additional survey or map information may include, but need not be limited to, building setbacks; lines, flood hazard zones, seismic line and setbacks, geologic mapping, and archaeological sites. (Formerly 23.10.001)