Ord 1244 - AMENDING THE SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN CONCERNING VIOLATIONS AND CERTIFICATES OF COMPLIANCEORDINANCE NO. 1244
ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS
AMENDING THE SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE
OF THE TOWN CONCERNING VIOLATIONS
AND CERTIFICATES OF COMPLIANCE
THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
Section 27 -6.5 is added to the Code of the Town of
Los Gatos to read:
SEC. 27 -6.5 VIOLATIONS AND COMPLIANCE
a. The question of whether real property has been
divided in violation of the provisions of the
Subdivision Map Act or of the subdivision
ordinance of the Town shall be determined by
the Town Attorney after consultation with the
Town Engineer and Planning Director.
b. Notices of violation (Government Code section
66499.36) shall be prepared and filed for record
by the Town Attorney after consultation with the
Town Engineer and Planning Director, and shall
be signed by the Planning Director.
C. If it is determined in the manner provided in
subdivision (a) of this section that land does
not comply with the provisions of the Subdivision
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Map Act or the subdivision ordinance of the Town,
no certificate of compliance (Government Code
section 66499.35) shall issue except on application
to, and approval by, the Architecture and Site
Committee.
d. The matter of issuance of certificates of compliance
(Government Code section 66499.35) in instances
where land has been divided in violation of the
Subdivision Map Act or the subdivision ordinance
of the Town shall be determined by the Architecture
and Site Committee in the same manner as applications
for tentative parcel map approval. The Committee may
either impose conditions on issuance of the certificate
as provided by the Subdivision Map Act, or may determine
that imposition of conditions is not necessary in
order to make the land conform to Town subdivision
standards and that the division of the land is
consistent with
The Committee m;
compliance only
that compliance
permitted under
is impossible.
e. Certificates of
the public health and public safety.
ay deny issuance of a certificate of
in those instances where it finds
by the landowner with the conditions
Government Code section 66499.34
compliance shall be prepared and filed
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by the Town Attorney and shall be signed by the
Town Engineer and Planning Director.
f. When applications for certificates of compliance are
filed for hearing by the Architecture and Site Committee,
the fees shall be those provided for processing
tentative parcel maps.
g. Neither this section 27 -6.5 nor issuance of a
certificate of compliance shall bar any remedy mentioned
in Government Code section 66499.33, nor any criminal
prosecution.
SECTION 2.
This ordinance shall take effect and shall be in force
thirty (30) days after the date of its adoption. The Town Clerk
of the Town of Los Gatos shall cause this ordinance to be
published once within fifteen (15) days after its adoption,
in the Los Gatos Times-Saratoga Observer, a, newspaper of general
circulation, published and circulated in the Town of Los Gatos.
The above and foregoing ordinance was duly and regularly
introduced at a. regular meeting of the Town Council
of the Town of Los Gatos held on the 7th day of
July , 1975.
PASSED AND ADOPTED as an ordinance of the Town of Los
Gatos, California, at a regular meeting of the Town
Council, held on the 21st day of July 1975
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by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN
Ruth Cannon
Mark B. DiDuca
John B. Lochner
Albert B. Smith
Egon Jensen
NOES: COUNCILMEN None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN
None
SIGNED: MAYOR OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS
ATTEST:
CLERK F 'fffE OF CLOS GATOS