§ 19.37.140. Certification regarding compliance with plat requirements.

A.

Pursuant to this chapter, the certificate of compliance shall be issued by the deputy director-planning or city manager designee within five working days of the recording of the subdivision with the county clerk. The certificate of compliance shall be in the form approved and on file in the office of the planning official.

B.

Platting Determination Application. On the application of an owner of land, a purchaser of real property under a contract for deed, executory contract, or other executory conveyance or an entity that provides utility service, the deputy director-planning shall make the following determinations regarding the owner's land or the land in which the entity or governing body is interested that is located within the corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction: whether a subdivision is required under this title for the land; and if a plat is required, whether it has been prepared and whether it has been reviewed and approved by the city plan commission or deputy director-planning or city manager designee, as applicable.

C.

Upon the final approval of a subdivision by the city plan commission, or the approval of a minor plat by the deputy director-planning or city manager designee, and the recording of the subdivision with the county clerk, the deputy director-planning or city manager designee shall endorse the approved final subdivision with a certificate of compliance stating that the subdivision has been reviewed and approved by the city.

D.

In cases where the city plan commission or other final approving authority fails to act on a final subdivision application within the thirty-day time period as provided in this title, the deputy director-planning or city manager designee upon a written request by the subdivider, and after the recording of the subdivision with the county clerk, shall issue a certificate of compliance stating the date the subdivision was submitted and that the city plan commission failed to act on the final subdivision application within the specified time period.

E.

A platting determination application shall be on a form available in the office of the planning official, and shall identify the land that is the subject of the request. All applications for a platting determination shall be made in person in the office of the deputy director-planning or city manager designee.

F.

If the deputy director-planning or city manager designee determines that a subdivision is not required, a written certification of that determination shall be issued to the requesting party.

G.

If the deputy director-planning or city manager designee determines that a subdivision is required and that the subdivision has been prepared and has been reviewed and approved by the city plan commission, or deputy director-planning or city manager designee where administrative approval is authorized, the deputy director-planning or city manager designee shall issue to the requesting party a written certification of that determination. Where the deputy director-planning or city manager designee determines that a subdivision is required and that a subdivision has not been prepared, reviewed and approved, a written certification of that determination shall be made.

H.

The deputy director-planning or city manager designee shall make a determination within five working days after the date the application is received and shall issue the platting determination certificate, whether approval or disapproval, within five working days after the date the determination is made. A platting determination certificate shall be in the form approved and available in the office of the planning official.

I.

Fee. A platting determination application shall be accompanied with the appropriate processing fee as established by the city council. A fee shall also required for requests for copies of certificates of compliance which have already been issued on a property. No fee shall be assessed on a certificate of compliance which has been issued to a subdivider as part of the recording of a subdivision plat as provided for in this chapter.

(Ord. 16882 § 2 (part), 2008)

(Ord. No. 17236, § 2, 11-10-2009; Ord. No. 17396, § 27, 8-24-2010)