Part 3 — Final Maps. Review and Approval

After receipt of a print of a final tract or parcel map, the City Engineer shall report in writing to the director of Public Works as to the compliance or non-compliance of such map with all laws pertaining thereto, and if such map does not so comply, he shall file a statement of the changes necessary to cause such map to so comply.

All review comments and/or recommendations, along with the City Engineer's review, shall be incorporated into a report by the Director of Public Works, with said report to be delivered to the City Council. The City Council, as legislative body, will thereupon approve or deny the Final Tract Map.

All review comments and/or recommendations, along with the City Engineer's review, shall be given to the Director of Public Works or, on appeal, the Planning Environment Commission or City Council, who shall thereupon approve or deny the Final Parcel Map.

The approving agency may waive the provisions of this Chapter and the Subdivision Map Act requiring disapproval of maps for failure to meet or perform State or local requirements or conditions, when the failure of a map submitted for approval is the result of a technical and inadvertent error which, in the determination of the approving agency, does not materially affect the validity of the map. Such waivers shall not result in the invalidation or negation of any substantive requirement of this Chapter, the Subdivision Map Act, or any ordinance, statute, or regulation.

Upon the submission of a final tract or parcel map, the subdivider shall deposit with the City Engineer a sum of money equal to the amount required by law for the recordation of a subdivision map, which money shall be deposited in the County trust fund for such, or other, trust purposes, and upon the filing of such map for recording in the office of the County Recorder, such money shall be used by the City Engineer in payment of the fee for the recording of such map.

In the event that the subdivider abandons his intention to cause such map to be recorded and so notifies the City Engineer of such fact in writing, such money shall be returned to the subdivider who deposited the same.

[Added by Ord. 2001-1]

The following shall be required upon submittal of final tract maps and final parcel maps for recordation:

• A. Submittal of the final map in duplicate to the County Engineer in a digital graphic file format which the County Engineer determines is acceptable for direct entry into the County-wide Precise Mapping Database; or

• B. Payment of the applicable data conversion fee to the County Engineer pursuant to Section 9237 .

[Added by Ord. 2001-1]

Any person using the County-wide Precise Mapping Database (CPMD) or any computer data media generated by the CPMD to produce a map and any person copying a map so produced, shall cause the following to appear prominently on the face of any such map or copy:

"WARNING: This map was created from the Los Angeles County County-wide Precise Mapping Database, which is designated and operated solely for the convenience of the County and related public agencies. The County does not warrant the accuracy of this map, and no decision which might create a risk or economic loss or physical injury should be made in reliance thereon."

[Added by Ord. 2001-1]

The subdivider may elect to have the County Engineer prepare the Digital Graphic File. Upon payment to the County Engineer of a Data Conversion Fee, the County Engineer shall convert the submitted final tract map of final parcel map into a format suitable for entry into the County-wide Precise Mapping Database. The schedule for the Data Conversion Fee is as follows:

[Added by Ord. 2001-1]

The County Engineer shall require a duplicate copy of the Digital Graphic File to be submitted to the City of Lakewood for its use.

[Added by Ord. 2001-1]

The fees imposed pursuant to Section 9237 shall become effective six (6) months following the effective date of this Ordinance.

[Added by Ord. 2001-1]

The County Engineer is authorized at the time it adjusts current fees for the unincorporated area to adjust the fees provided for in Section 9237 based on changes in the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers ("CPI-U") for the Los Angeles-Anaheim-Riverside, California area, published by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics ("Index"). The new fees shall be calculated by multiplying the then current Fees by a fraction and rounding off to the nearest dollar. The numerator of the fraction shall be in the Index for the immediately preceding October ("Current Index"), and the denominator shall be the Index for the month of November of the year preceding the year in which the Current Index is taken ("Previous Index"), calculated as follows:

New Fees = Current Fees x Current Index

Previous Index

The new fees shall never be less than the current fees, and in no event shall the fees exceed the estimated amount required to provide for full recovery of the cost to provide the service.