18.48.020 Legally created parcels – Required for granting of certain permits – Criteria for determination.
No building permit, grading permit nor any other permit may be issued, nor any approval granted necessary to develop any property, unless and until said property has been determined to have been legally created, or if the City Engineer finds that development of such real property is contrary to the public health or the public safety; provided further, such permits may be denied if the applicant was the owner of the real property at the same time of the violation or currently owns the property with the knowledge of the violation as provided through a notice of violation pursuant to the procedures set forth herein.
For a parcel to be considered a legally created parcel, its specific boundaries must have been established or set forth by one of the following means:
A. A recorded subdivision map or parcel map;
B. A deed describing the parcel by a metes-and-bounds description recorded prior to March 4, 1972, pursuant to the Map Act Section 66412.6;
C. A record of survey recorded prior to August 7, 1955;
D. A licensed survey or a miscellaneous map recorded prior to August 4, 1943;
E. Any of the above means combined with a City-approved and recorded boundary adjustment plat. (Ord. 3153 § 2 (Exh. C), 2010; Ord. 2100 § 1, 1985; Ord. 1540 § 2, 1974; Ord. 1369, 1971; prior code § 28.602(A)).