11A - VOLUNTARY PARCEL MERGER - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

The Executive Director's decision to grant or deny an application for a voluntary merger of parcels may be appealed to the Planning Commission by any interested party within ten (10) calendar days of the Executive Director's decision. The decision of the Planning Commission, which shall be made pursuant to Section 34-170, shall be final. Sec. 34-172. Concurrent filing of record of survey. Where a record of survey is deemed to be necessary by the Executive Director or the applicant in order to monument and define the boundaries of the merged parcel, such record of survey, otherwise in compliance with all requirements of this article, may be filed with the county recorder at the same time as the merger and certificate of merger. Sec. 34-173. Effect of Voluntary Merger. The filing of said merger and certificate of merger for record shall constitute a merger of the separate parcels into one parcel for the purpose of the Subdivision Map Act and local ordinances enacted pursuant thereto, and the parcels shall thereafter be treated in all respects as a single parcel. Sec. 34-174. Recording of merger without approval prohibited. No person shall record a document merging separate legal parcels into a single parcel for the purposes of the Subdivision Map Act and local ordinances enacted pursuant thereto except in conformity with the provisions of this article. Sec. 34-175. Application Fees. The City Council shall establish by ordinance or resolution such fees as may be required for the review and processing of a proposal for voluntary merger. SECTION 3: All actions by the City granting or denying an application for a voluntary merger or parcels or the issuance of a certificate of merger are hereby deemed exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA"). SECTION 4: The application fee to process and review a request for merger and certificate of merger shall be, until further action by the Council by ordinance or resolution, the same as the fee for an application for a lot line adjustment. The fee to appeal the Executive Director's decision to the Planning Commission pursuant to section 36-171 of the Code shall be, until further action by the Council by ordinance or resolution, one-half (12) the application fee for a lot line adjustment. These fees shall, without further action of the Council, be added to the City's Miscellaneous Fee Resolution upon its next update. 11A-3 Ordinance No. NS-2697 Page 3 of 5