Subdivision Map Act: tentative maps: expiration dates.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on the specific standards for ministerial approval of parcel maps or explicitly state that the changes apply statewide.

Subdivision Map Act: Tentative Maps Expiration Dates

The bill changes the expiration dates of tentative maps from two years to eight years and removes certain extensions based on construction costs.

What This Bill Does

• Changes the initial expiration date of approved or conditionally approved tentative maps from two years to eight years.
• Sets the maximum expiration period for these maps at sixteen years.
• Removes the ability to extend the map's approval by forty-eight months if a subdivider needs to spend money on public improvements outside the property boundaries.

Who It Names or Affects

• Subdividers who file tentative maps with local agencies.
• Local planning officials responsible for approving or disapproving tentative maps.
• Cities and charter cities affected by the new state-mandated requirements.

Terms To Know

Tentative Map

A map that shows how a piece of land will be divided into smaller lots or parcels, which must be approved before construction can begin.

Parcel Map

A simplified version of a tentative map used for small subdivisions where no public improvements are required.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify an effective date.
• It is unclear how the changes will affect existing maps and their expiration dates.
• Local agencies may need to adjust their processes to comply with new ministerial approval requirements for parcel maps.

Official Summary Text

SB 1169, as amended, Grayson.
Subdivision Map Act: tentative maps: expiration
dates: ministerial approval.
dates.
Existing law, the Subdivision Map Act, (act) vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative maps, among other maps. Existing law requires a vesting tentative map to be filed and processed in the same manner as a tentative map, except as specified.
The act generally requires a subdivider to file a tentative map with the local agency, as specified, and the local agency, in turn, to approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the map within a specified time period. Under existing law, an approved tentative map expires 24 months after its approval or conditional approval. Existing law authorizes the approval or conditional approval to be
extended up to 24 months pursuant to local ordinance, and by 48 months, as provided, if the subdivider is required to expend more than a certain amount of money to construct, improve, or finance the construction or improvement of public improvements outside the property boundaries of the tentative map, as provided. Existing law prohibits those extensions from extending the tentative map more than 10 years from its approval or conditional approval, except as specified.
This bill would extend the initial expiration period of an approved or conditionally approved tentative map to 8
years and would extend the maximum expiration period to 16 years,
years,
except as provided.
The bill would remove the
authorization to extend the approval or conditional approval by 48 months if the subdivider is required to expend more than a certain amount of money to construct, improve, or finance the construction or improvement of public improvements outside the property boundaries of the tentative map.
The act prohibits a local agency from approving a tentative map, or a parcel map for which a tentative map was not required, unless the legislative body finds that the proposed subdivision is consistent with the general plan or any specific plan, as provided.
This bill would require, notwithstanding that prohibition, that a parcel map for which a tentative map was not required be approved through a nondiscretionary ministerial process pursuant to applicable standards.
The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
By adding to the duties of local planning officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Current Bill Text

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