6511ORDINANCE NO. 6 511
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ANAHEIM AMENDING AND RESTATING CHAPTER 17.10
OF THE ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO LOT
LINE ADJUSTMENTS.
WHEREAS, Section 66412 of the Government Code of the State of California prohibits
landowners using lot line adjustments to reconfigure more than four parcels of land. Rather than
permitting lot line adjustments between two or more existing adjacent parcels, lot line adjustments
are limited to four or fewer existing adjoining parcels, where the land taken from one parcel is
added to an adjoining parcel, and where a greater number of parcels than originally existed is not
thereby created; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Anaheim desires to conform the procedures
for processing lot line adjustments in Chapter 17.10 of the Anaheim Municipal Code with the
requirements of Section 66412 of the Government Code of the State of California.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 17.10 of the Anaheim Municipal Code is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced
with the following new Chapter 17.10, to read in full as follows:
Sections:
"Chapter 17.10 LOT LINE ADJUSTMENTS
17.10.100 Purpose of chapter.
17.10.110 Criteria.
17.10.120 Application and review.
17.10.130 Decision of City Engineer and Land Surveyor final.
17.10.140 Recordation.
17.10.100 PURPOSE OF CHAPTER.
The purpose of this chapter is to establish procedures for the property owner(s) obtaining a
lot line adjustment to make minor adjustments to the property lines between four or fewer
existing adjoining parcels. No tentative map, parcel map, or final map shall be required as a
condition to the approval of a lot line adjustment.
17.10.110 CRITERIA.
An owner or owners of four or fewer existing adjoining legal parcels proposing to adjust the
boundaries of the parcels so that the land taken from one parcel is added to an adjoining parcel
and a greater number of parcels than originally existed is not thereby created may apply for a lot
line adjustment. A parcel from a recorded Lot Line Adjustment with a recorded conforming deed
or from a recorded Certificate of Compliance or created by a Final Map or Parcel Map is a
lawfully subdivided parcel.
17.10.120 APPLICATION AND REVIEW.
.010 Application for a lot line adjustment and review thereof shall conform to such
requirements as to form, content and processing as may be specified by the City Engineer in
documents on file in the Public Works — Engineering Department and as approved by the City
Surveyor in conformance with the Professional Land Surveyors Act technical requirements.
.020 The application for a lot line adjustment shall be prepared by a person authorized to
practice land surveying pursuant to Sections 8700 through 8806 of the State of California
Business and Professions Code. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no record of survey shall be
required for a lot line adjustment unless required by Section 8762 of the California Business and
Professions Code.
.030 The review of the lot line adjustment will verify conformance with requirements set
forth in Title 15, Buildings and Housing and Title 18, Zoning of this code and shall not interfere
with or, when applicable, shall facilitate relocation of existing utilities, infrastructure, or
easements.
17.10.130 DECISIONS OF CITY ENGINEER AND CITY SURVEYOR FINAL.
The approval of lot line adjustments and subsequent review and approval of deeds are
ministerial acts and not subject to CEQA. The City Engineer shall approve or deny the lot line
adjustment based on compliance with the requirements specified by the City Engineer in
documents on file in the Public Works — Engineering Department, including compliance with
Titles 15 and 18. The City Surveyor shall recommend to the City Engineer approval or denial of
the lot line adjustment based on compliance with the requirements outlined in the Land
Surveyors Act. Any decision of the City Engineer and City Surveyor made pursuant to this
chapter shall be final and conclusive.
17.10.140 RECORDATION.
After a lot line adjustment has been approved by the City Engineer and the City Surveyor,
the lot line adjustment shall be reflected in a deed or deeds. The lot line adjustment and deed(s)
shall be recorded in the Office of the Orange County Recorder. The lot line adjustment shall be
recorded within one calendar year from the date of approval. A copy of the recorded lot line
adjustment and deed(s) shall be submitted to the City Clerk. The newly recorded lots may be
part of subsequent lot line adjustments and follow the same criteria as established in Section
66412 of the Government Code of the State of California and the Land Surveyors Act.
SECTION 2. SEVERABILITY.
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be
invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall
not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby
declares that it would have passed this Ordinance, and each and every section, subsection,
sentence, clause or phrase not declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether any
portion of the ordinance would be subsequently declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3. SAVINGS CLAUSE.
Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the repeal of any other ordinance of this City shall in
any manner affect the prosecution for violations of ordinances which violations were committed
prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as a waiver of any license or penalty or the penal
provisions applicable to any violation thereof. The provisions of this ordinance, insofar as they are
substantially the same as ordinance provisions previously adopted by the City relating to the same
subject matter, shall be construed as restatements and continuations, and not as new enactments.
SECTION 4. CERTIFICATION
The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be
printed once within fifteen (15) days after its adoption in the Anaheim Bulletin, a newspaper of
general circulation, published and circulated in the City of Anaheim, and thirty (30) days from and
after its final passage, it shall take effect and be in full force.
THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE was introduced at a regular meeting of the
City Council of the City of Anaheim held on the 20th day of Jul 4 , 2021, and
thereafter passed and adopted at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the
_1 Oth day of Au st , 2021, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Mayor Sidhu and Council Members Faessel, Diaz, Moreno, Valencia, and
O'Neil
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
[One City Council vacancy]
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CLERK'S CERTIFICATE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, THERESA BASS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing is the
original Ordinance No. 6511 introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
Anaheim, held on the 20th day of July, 2021, and that the same was duly passed and adopted at
a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 10th day of August, 2021, by the following vote
of the members thereof:
AYES: Mayor Sidhu and Council Members Faessel, Diaz, Moreno, Valencia, and O'Neil
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
[One City Council vacancy]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 12th of August, 2021.
RK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
(SEAL)
CLERK'S CERTIFICATE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, THERESA BASS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing is the
original Ordinance No. 6511 which was published in the Orange County Register on the 251h day
of August, 2021 and in the Anaheim Bulletin on the 26th day of August, 2021, pursuant to Section
512 of the City Charter of the City of Anaheim.
e--5TY-JLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
(SEAL)
The Orange County Register
1771 S. Lewis Street
Anaheim, CA 92805
714-796-2209
5190168
ANAHEIM,CITY OF/CLERKS OFF
200 S ANAHEIM BLVD STE 217
ANAHEIM, CA 92805-3820
FILE NO. ORD-6511
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
SS.
County of Orange
I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the
County aforesaid; I am over the age of eighteen years, and
not a party to or interested in the above entitled matter. I
am the principal clerk of The Orange County Register, a
newspaper of general circulation, published in the city of
Santa Ana, County of Orange, and which newspaper has
been adjudged to be a newspaper of general circulation by
the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of
California, under the date of November 19, 1905, Case No.
A-21046, that the notice, of which the annexed is a true
printed copy, has been published in each regular and
entire issue of said newspaper and not in any supplement
thereof on the following dates, to wit:
08/25/2021, 08/26/2021
I certify (or declare) under the penalty of perjury under the
laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true
and correct:
Executed at Anaheim, Orange County, California, on
Date: August 25, 2021.
Signature
PROOF OF PUBLICATION
Legal No. 0011481550
ORDINANCE NO.6511
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
AMENDING AND RESTATING CHAPTER 17.10 OF THE ANAHEIM MUNICI-
PAL CODE RE LAT I N G TO LOT LINE ADJUSTMENTS,
WHEREAS, Section 66412 of the Government Code of the State of California Prohibits
landowners using lot line adjustments to reconfigure more than four parcels of land. Rather
than permitting lot line adjustments between two or more existing adjacent parcels, lot line
adiustments are limited to four or fewer existing adjoining parcels, where the land taken
from one Parcel is added to on adjoining parcel, and where a greater number of parcels than
originally existed is not thereby created; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Anaheim desires to conform the procedures for
processing lot line adjustments in Chapter 17.10 of the Anaheim Municipal Code with the re-
quirements of Section 66412 of the Government Code of the State of California.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES OR-
DAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1
Chapter 17.10 of the Anaheim Municipal Code is hereby deleted in its entirety and re-
placed with the following new Chopter 17,10, to read in full os follows:
"Chapter 17.10 LOT LINE ADJUSTMENTS
Sections:
17,10,100 Purpose of chapter.
17.10.110 Criteria.
17.10.120 Application and review.
17.10.130 Decision of City Engineer and I and Surveyor final.
17.10.140 Recordation.
17.10.100 PURPOSE OF CHAPTER.
The purpose of this chapter is to establish procedures for the property owner(s) obtain-
ing a lot line adjustment to make minor adjustments to the property lines between four or
fewer existing adjoining parcels. No tentative map, parcel map, or final map shall be re-
quired as a condition to the approval of a lot line adjustment.
17.10.110CRITERIA.
An owner or owners of four or fewer existing adjoining legal parcels proposing to adjust
the boundaries of the parcels so that the land taken from one parcel is added to an adiolning
parcel and a greater number of parcels than originally existed is not thereby created moy
apply for a lot line adjustment. A parcel from a recorded Lot Line Adiustment with a re-
corded conforming deed or from a recorded Certificate of Compliance or created by a Final
Map or Parcel Map is a lawfully subdivided parcel.
17,10.120 APPLICATION AND REVIEW.
.010 Application for a lot line adjustment and review thereof shall conform to such re-
quirements as to form, content and Processing as may be specified by the City Engineer in
documents on file In the Public Works . Engineering Department and as approved by the
City Surveyor in conformance with the Professional Land Surveyors Act technical require-
ments.
.020 The application for a lot line adjustment shall be prepared by a person authorized
to practice land surveying Pursuant to Sections 8700 through 8806 of the State of California
Business and Professions Code. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no record of survey shall be
required for a lot line adiustment unless required by Section 8762 of the California Business
and Professions Code.
.030 The review of the lot line adiustment will verify conformance with requirements
set forth in Title 15, Buildings and Housing and Title 18, Zoning of this code and shall not in-
terfere with or, when applicable, shall facilitate relocation of existing utilities, infrostruc•
lure, or easements.
17.10.130 DECISIONS OF CITY ENGINEER AND CITY SURVEYOR FINAL.
The approval of lot line adjustments and subsequent review and approval of deeds are
ministerial octs and not subject to CEQA. The City Engineer shall approve or deny the lot
line adiustment based on compliance with the requirements specified by the City Engineer
in documents on file in the Public Works — Engineering Department, including compliance
with Titles 15 and 18. The City Surveyor shall recommend to the City Engineer approval or
Land (Surveyors Act. Any decisionaof � City Engineewith
a d City SurveyornmadetPur outlined
to
this chapter shall be final and conclusive.
17.10.140 RECORDATION.
After a lot line adjustment has been approved by the City Engineer and the City Survey-
or, the lot line adjustment shall be reflected in a deed or deeds. The lot line adjustment and
deed(s) shall be recorded in the Office of the Orange County Recorder. The lot line adjust-
ment shall be recorded within one calendar year from the date of approval. A copy of the re-
corded lot line adjustment and deed(s) shall be submitted to the City Clerk. The newly re-
corded lots may be part of subsequent lot line adjustments and follow the some criteria as
established in Section 66412 of the Government Code of the State of California and the Land
Surveyors Act.
SECTION 2. SEVERABILITY.
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If any section, subsection, sentence, Clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held
to be invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such
decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City
Council hereby declares that it would have passed this Ordinance, and each and every sec-
tion, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase not declared Invalid or unconstitutional without
regard to whether any portion of the ordinance would be subsequently declared invalid or
unconstitutional,
SECTION3. SAVINGSCLAUSE.
Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the repeal of any other ordinance of this City shall
in any manner affect the prosecution for violations of ordinances which violations were
committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as a waiver of any license or
penalty or the penal provisions applicable to any vioiotion thereof. The provisions of this or -
(finance, insofar as they are substantially the some as ordinance provisions previously
adopted by the City relating to the some subject matter, shall be construed as restatements
and continuations, and not as new enactments.
SECTION A, CERTIFICATION
The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause the some to be
printed once within fifteen (15) days after its adoption in the Anaheim Bulletin, a newspaper
of general circulation, published and circulated in the City of Anaheim, and thirty (30) days
from and offer its final passage, it shall fake effect and be in full force.
THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Coun-
cil of the City of Anaheim held on the 20th day of July 2021, and thereafter passed and
adopted at a regular meeting of said City Council -field on tiie "10th day of _August_,, 2021,
by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Mayor Sidhu and Council Members Foessel, Diaz, Moreno, Valencia, and
O'Neil
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
(One City Council vacancy]
CITY OF ANAHEIM
/s/ Harry S. Sidhu
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF A
ATTEST:
Fst Theresa Bass
CITY CLERIC OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
Published Anaheim Bulletin Aug. 19. 2021
.s11C
Anaheim Bulletin
1771 S. Lewis Street
Anaheim, CA 92805
714-796-2209
5190168
ANAHEIM,CITY OF/CLERKS OFF
200 S ANAHEIM BLVD STE 217
ANAHEIM, CA 92805-3820
FILE NO. ORD-6511
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
SS.
County of Orange
I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the
County aforesaid; I am over the age of eighteen years, and
not a party to or interested in the above -entitled matter. I
am the principal clerk of the Anaheim Bulletin, a
newspaper that has been adjudged to be a newspaper of
general circulation by the Superior Court of the County of
Orange, State of California, on December 28, 1951, Case
No. A-21021 in and for the City of Anaheim, County of
Orange, State of California; that the notice, of which the
annexed is a true printed copy, has been published in
each regular and entire issue of said newspaper and not in
any supplement thereof on the following dates, to wit:
08/25/2021, 08/26/2021
I certify (or declare) under the penalty of perjury under the
laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true
and correct:
Executed at Anaheim, Orange County, California, on
Date: August 26, 2021.
Signature
PROOF OF PUBLICATION
Legal No. 0011481550
r.LP,-1 , I
ORDINANCE NO.6511
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
AMENDING AND RESTATING CHAPTER 17.10 OF THE ANAHEIM MUNICI-
PAL CODE RELATING TO LOT LINE ADJUSTMENTS.
WHEREAS, Section 66412 of the Government Code of the State of California Prohibits
landowners using lot line adjustments to reconfigure more than four parcels of land. Rather
than permitting lot line adjustments between two or more existing adjacent parcels, lot line
odiustments are limited to four or fewer existing adjoining parcels, where the land taken
from one parcel is added to an adiolning parcel, and where a greater number of parcels than
originally existed is not thereby created; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Anaheim desires to conform the procedures for
processing lot fine adiustments in Chapter 17.10 of the Anaheim Municipal Code with the re-
quirements of Section 66412 of the Government Code of the State of California.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES OR-
DAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 17.10 of the Anaheim Municipal Code is hereby deleted in its entirety and re-
placed with the fallowing new Chapter 17.10, to read in full as follows:
"Chapter 17.10 LOT LINE ADJUSTMENTS
Sections:
17.10,100 Purpose of chapter.
17.10.110 Criteria.
17.10.120 Application and review.
17,10.130 Decision of City Engineer and Land Surveyor final.
17.10.140 Recordation.
17.10.100 PURPOSE OF CHAPTER.
The purpose of this chapter is to establish procedures for the property owner(s1 obtain-
ing a lot line adjustment to make minor adjustments to the property lines between four or
fewer existing adjoining parcels. No tentative map, parcel map, or final map shall be re-
quired as a condition to the approval of a lot line adjustment.
17.10.110 CRITERIA.
An owner or owners of four or fewer existing adjoining legal parcels proposing to adjust
the boundaries of the parcels so that the land taken from one parcel is added to on adjoining
parcel and a greater number of parcels than originally existed is not thereby created may
apply for a lot line adjustment. A parcel from a recorded Lot Line Adjustment with a re-
corded conforming deed or from a recorded Certificate of Compliance or created by a Final
Mapor Parcel Map is a lawfully subdivided parcel.
17.10.120 APPLICATION AND REVIEW.
.010 Application for a lot line adjustment and review thereof shall conform to such re-
quirements as to form, content and Processing as may be specified by the City Engineer in
documents on file in the Public Works -- Engineering Department and as approved by the
City Surveyor in conformance with the Professionot Land Surveyors Act technical require-
ments.
.020 The application for a lot line adjustment shall be prepared by a person authorized
to practice land surveying pursuant to Sections 8700 through 8806 of the State of California
Business and Professions Code, Notwithstanding the foregoing, no record of survey shall be
required for a lot line adjustment unless required by Section 8762 of the California Business
and Professions Code.
.030 The review of the lot line adjustment will verify conformance with requirements
set forth in Title 15, Buildings and Housing and Title 18, Zoning of this code and shall not in-
terfere with or, when applicable, shall facilitate relocation of existing utilities, infrastruc•
ture, or easements.
17.10.130 DECISIONS OF CITY ENGINEER AND CITY SURVEYOR FINAL.
The approval of lot Ilne adjustments and subsequent review and approval of deeds are
ministerial acts and not subject to CEQA. The City Engineer shall approve or deny the lot
line adjustment based on compliance with the requirements specified by the City Engineer
In documents on file In the Public Works — Engineering Department, Including compliance
with Titles 15 and 18. The City Surveyor shall recommend to the City Engineer approval or
denial of the lot line adjustment based on compliance with the requirements outlined in the
Land Surveyors Act. Any decision of the City Engineer and City Surveyor made pursuant to
this chapter shall be final and conclusive.
17.10.140 RECORDATION.
After a lot line adjustment has been approved by the City Engineer and the City Survey-
or, the lot line adjustment shall be reflected in a deed or deeds. The lot line adjustment and
deed(s) shall be recorded in the Office of the Orange County Recorder_ The lot line adjust-
ment shall be recorded within one calendar year from the date of approval. A copy of the re-
corded lot line adjustment and deed(s) shall be submitted to the City Clerk. The newly re-
corded lots may be part of subsequent lot line adjustments and follow the some criteria as
established in Section 66412 of the Government Code of the State of California and the Land
Surveyors Act.
SECTION 2, SEVERABILITY,
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If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or Phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held
to be invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such
decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City
Council hereby declares that it would have Passed this Ordinance, and each and every sec-
tion, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase not declared invalid or unconstitutional without
regard to whether any portion of the ordinance would be subsequently declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
SECTION3. SAVINGSCLAUSE.
Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the repeal of any other ordinance of this City shall
in any manner affect the prosecution for violations of ordinances which violations were
committed Prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as a waiver of any license or
penalty or the penal provisions applicable to any violation thereof. The provisions of this or-
dinance, insofar as they are substantially the some as ordinance provisions previously
adopted by the City relating to the same subiect matter, shall be construed as restatements
and continuations, and not as new enactments.
SECTION 4. CERTIFICATION
The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause the some to be
printed once within fifteen (15) days after its adoption in the Anaheim Bulletin, a newspaper
of general circulation, published and circulated in the City of Anaheim, and thirty (30) days
from and offer its final passage, it shall take effect and be in full force.
THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Coun-
cil of the City of Anaheim held on the 20th day of .July 2021. and thereafter passed and
adopted at a regular meeting of said City Council -held on the _loth_ day of _August_, 2021,
by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Mayor Sidhu and Council Members Foessel, Diaz, Moreno, Valencia, and
O'Neil
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
[One City Council vacancy]
CITY OF ANAHE IM
/s/ Harry S. Sidhu
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF ATTAAETAI
ATTEST
/s/ Theresa Bass
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
Published Anaheim Bulletin Aug. 19, 2021
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