Chapter 2

The City Planning Commission is hereby designated as the Advisory Agency for tentative tract maps and parcel maps as that term is used in the Subdivision Map Act. The City Council is hereby designated as the Advisory Agency for final tract maps and parcel maps. The Community Development Director is hereby designated as the Advisory Agency for Certificates of Compliance.

9202.2 Alley.

An unnamed public or private right-of-way which affords a means of vehicular access to the side or rear of one (1) or more lots having frontage on a street.

9202.3 City Council.

The City Council of the City of Carson.

9202.4 City Engineer.

The City Engineer shall be the County Engineer of the County of Los Angeles in respect to matters pertaining to this Chapter unless the City Council should, by resolution or otherwise, appoint any other person or agency to that function.

9202.5 Commission.

The City Planning Commission of the City of Carson.

9202.6 Dedication.

The grant of real property for public use or rights to the City of Carson.

9202.7 Design.

The minimum area, width, grading, and general layout of lots and the alignment, grades, and widths of alleys, streets, highways, easements, and rights-of-way for drainage facilities, water mains, sanitary sewers, and other public purposes.

9202.8 Director.

The Community Development Director.

9202.9 Director of Public Works.

The Director of Public Works shall be the City’s representative in respect to functions to be performed pursuant to this Chapter.

9202.10 Division of Land.

For the purposes of this Chapter, the term “Division of Land” shall refer to any parcel or contiguous parcels of land, improved or unimproved, or any portion thereof, which are divided for the purpose of transfer of title, sale, lease, or financing, whether immediate or future, into two (2) or more parcels, except that the term “Division of Land” shall not refer to:

a. Land dedicated for cemetery purposes under the Health and Safety Code of the State of California.

b. The leasing or financing of apartments, offices, stores, or similar space within an apartment building, industrial building, commercial building, mobile home park, or trailer park.

c. Division by mineral, oil, or gas leases.

d. Construction of removable commercial buildings having a floor area of less than one hundred (100) square feet.

e. A minor lot adjustment between two (2) or more existing adjacent parcels, where the land taken from one (1) parcel is added to an adjacent parcel, and where a greater number of parcels than originally existed is not thereby created, provided the lot line adjustment is approved by the Director.

f. The financing or leasing of any parcel of land, or any portion thereof, in conjunction with the construction of commercial or industrial buildings on a single parcel, unless the project is not subject to review under of the City of Carson ordinances regulating design and improvement.

g. The financing or leasing of existing separate commercial or industrial buildings on a single parcel.

The term “Division of Land” shall also refer to a condominium project, as defined in California Civil Code Section 1350, and a community apartment project, as defined in California Business and Professions Code Section 11004, containing two (2) or more parcels; and to the conversion of five (5) or more existing dwelling units to a stock cooperative, as defined in California Business and Professions Code Section 11003.2. (Ord. 82-601, § 2; Ord. 85-714, § 1)

9202.11 Drainage Facility.

Any drainage device or structure which may be used to control or direct the flow of water and/or alleviate flood hazard, including, but not limited to, berms, channels, culverts, curbs, ditches, gutters, pavement, and pipes.

9202.12 Flood Hazard.

A potential danger to life, land, or improvements due to inundation or storm water runoff having sufficient velocity to transport or deposit debris, scour the surface soil, dislodge, or damage buildings, or erode the banks of water courses.

9202.13 Frontage.

The lot line abutting a street.

9202.14 Future Street.

Any real property which the owner thereof has offered for dedication for street purposes and the offer has been rejected by the City Council, subject to the right of said Council to rescind its act and accept by resolution at any later date and without further action by the owner, all or any part of said property as a public street.

9202.15 General Plan.

A Master Plan, or any element thereof, adopted by the City of Carson pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 3, Title 7, Government Code, State of California.

9202.16 Geological Hazard.

A hazard inherent in the earth or artificially created, which is dangerous or potentially dangerous to life, property, or improvements due to the movement, failure, or shifting of earth.

9202.17 Improvements.

Such structures or facilities to be installed or agreed to be installed by a subdivider on land to be used for public or private alleys, streets, highways, or other easements as a condition precedent to the approval and/or acceptance of a tract map or parcel map, including, but not limited to, street surfacing, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, street trees, street lights, street signs, sanitary sewers, water mains, and drainage facilities.

9202.18 Lease.

An oral or written agreement or contract, tenancy at will, month-to-month or similar tenancy.

9202.19 Local City Street.

A dedicated street serving as the principal means of access to property, which street is not shown in the General Plan as a major or secondary highway or through collector street or through industrial street or which has not been designated as a specific type street by action of the City Council.

9202.20 Lot.

A parcel of real property that has been legally separated from other parcels of real property and has a distinct number or other designation as shown on a plat map, subdivision map, parcel map, record of survey map or as defined by a metes and bounds description in a deed, in each case recorded in the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County. The legal status of a lot is governed by the Subdivision Map Act of the State of California (Government Code 66410 et seq.). (Ord. 89-897, § 2)

9202.21 Major Highway.

A highway designated as a Major Highway in the General Plan of the City of Carson.

9202.22 Minor Land Division.

Minor Land Division refers to a subdivision for which a final parcel map creating five (5) or more parcels or a final tract map is not required by the Subdivision Map Act or by this Chapter.

9202.23 Parcel Map.

A final map prepared in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter and of the Subdivision Map Act, which is to be filed in the office of the County Recorder as a parcel map.

9202.24 Person.

An individual, firm, co-partnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, corporation, estate, trust, receiver, syndicate, the Federal, State, City, or County Government, or Special District, or any other group or combination acting as an entity.

9202.25 Planned Development.

The planning, construction or implementation and operation of any use or structure, or combination of uses or structures, based upon a comprehensive and complete design or plan treating the entire complex of land, structures and uses as a single project.

9202.26 Secondary Highway.

A highway designated as a Secondary Highway in the General Plan of the City of Carson.

9202.27 Section.

A section of this Chapter unless otherwise specified.

9202.28 Shall – May.

“Shall” is mandatory; “May” is permissive.

9202.29 State Highway.

A street under the jurisdiction of the State of California.

9202.30 Subdivider.

A person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association who proposes to divide, divides, or causes land to be divided into a subdivision as defined in CMC 9202.31.

9202.31 Subdivision.

A division of land.

9202.32 Subdivision Map Act.

Division 2 of Title 7 of the California Government Code.

9202.33 Tentative Map.

A tentative map prepared in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter and the Subdivision Map Act.

9202.34 Tract Map.

A final map prepared in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter and applicable provisions of the Subdivision Map Act, which is to be filed in the office of the County Recorder as a tract map.

9202.35 Urban Lot Split.

The division of a single parcel into two (2) separate parcels in compliance with the provisions of Part 10 of Chapter 2 of Article IX. (Ord. 22-2210, § 14)