HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 977 ORDINANCE N0.~977 NEW SERIES
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 6 OF 0RDI-
NANCE NO. 424 NEW SERIES AND REPEALING
ORDINANCE NO. 804 NEW SERIES OF THE CITY
OF BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield,
as follows:
SECTION lo
That Section 6 of Ordinance No. 424 New Series be and the
same is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 6. .I.mprovements~ Bonds~ Power to ReQuire Dedica-
tion.
(a) All streets, highways, alleys and other ways in any
subdivision shall be offered for ultimate dedication to public use.
The subdivider shall, upon such dedication and acceptance of the
same by the City Council, improve all land so dedicated for streets,
highways, alleys and public ways. The minimum of such improVements
shall include the following:
1. Standard 6 inch or 8 inch curb as determined
by the City Engineer.
2. Standard 2 foot gutter.
3. Standard 6 foot cross gutters and culverts where
required by the City Engineer.
4. Th~ minimum grade to which gutters, cross gutters
and culverts shall be construc, ted shall be .20%.
5. The roadway shall be paved with 2 inches of
Plant Mixed surfacing on 3 inches of untreated
rock base (except on roadways constituting ex-
tensions or prolongations of streets of major
importance within the meaning of such term as
used in the Streets and Highways Code of the
State of California, or streets which the City
Council intends to designate as. streets of major
importance which shall be surfaced with a minimum
of 6 inches of asphalt concret~ or portland
cement concrete), all conforming to the requir, e-
ments of the Standard Specifications of the Divi-
sion of Highways of the State of California,
and such other improvements as may in the opinion of' the City EngiD~er
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be necessary to the drainage or f-unction of the streets within the
subdivision. Ail improvements shall be made and all utilities shall
be installed in accordance with plans, profiles and cross sections
approved by the City Engineer. Ail public utilities shall be located
in the alleys or easements provided. Pole lines, sewer mains, water
mains and gas mains may be installed in the street right of way,
but in no case will service connections be permitted where alleys
or easements are available. Subdivisions which have been previously
recorded and which are being improved for the purpose of sale, shall
conform in all respects to the requirements of this section. Such
improvements shall conform to the requirements above set forth on
all streets, highways, alleys and public ways. Ail street improve-
merits shall be installed to grades approved by the City Engineer,
which grades shall be at elevation above the l'evel of any ordinarily
probable inundation by storm or flood water.
(b) In case no adequate domestic water supply is actually
provided, it must be shown to the satisfaction of the City Council
that a domestic water supply is or will be available for the sub-
division.
(c) Provided, further, that in lieu of actually making
the required improvements prior to the time of acceptance of said
map, the subdivider desires to enter into an agreement to make such
improvements, he shall furnish a contract satisfactory to the City
Council to make said improvements; said subdivider may be required
to furnish a good and sufficient bond in an amount to be fixed by and
be satisfactory to the City Council, not in excess of the estimated
cost of said improvements and by its terms made to inure to the City
and conditioned for the faithful performance of said contract, and
said contract must be secured by a good and sufficient bond in such
amount as may be required by law on such bonds or other public
contracts and by its terms made. to inure to the benefit of laborers
and material-men upon such work and improvements, conditioned upon
the payment of such laborers and material-men for labor and material
performed and. rendered under the terms of said contract.
(d) Provided, further, that in-lieu of making said
required improvements or. furnishing said improvement contract, and
bond, the subdivider at his option may enter into a contract with
the City in which he shall agree within such time as may be provided
in said contract to initiate, and, so far as may be in his power,
to consummate proceedings under an appropriate special assessment
act for the formation of a special assessment district covering such
subdivision or part thereof for the financing and construction of
the designated improvements upon the streets, highways, alleys and
ways dedicated by said map, and furnish a faithful performance bond
with good and. sufficient sureties satisfactory to the City Council
in a sum not to exceed th~ estimated cost of said improvements,
conditioned upon the performance of said contract.
(e) In the event the Subdivider shall show on said final
map that any. one or more of the streets, highways, alleys or ways
shown thereon is withheld from dedication, the City Planning Com-
mission, subject to the approval and ratification of the City Council,
may nevertheless require such streets, highways, alleys or ways
shown thereon, and so withheld from dedication or some part or 'portion
thereof to be dedicated when, in the opinion of the City Planning
Commission and the City Council, such streets, highways, alleys or
ways, or portion thereof, may be deemed necessary for the public
use; and in the event that any such streets, highways, alleys' or
ways so reserved from dedication by the owner or subdivider or some
parts or portions thereof, are so deemed necessary to the public use
by the City Planning Co~,.~tssion and the City Council, said streets,
highways, alleys or way.s, or such portion thereof as may be deemed
necessary to the public use, shall nevertheless be improved, or
contracts and bonds made and given for the improvement as above
provided, before the acceptance of said final map.
SECTION 2o
That Ordinance No. 804 New Series be and the same is
hereby repealed.
SECTION 3 ·
This ordinance shall become effective thirty days from
and after the date of its passage.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed
and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 15th day of June, 1953, by the following
vote:
¢'Ity~C].erk and ~Ex-Off'Tcio C']erk of the
Council off the City of Bakers£ield,
A??ROV'E3~) this l~.~th/e~ay of ~une ,' 195~
MAYOR of 'th~ity of Bakersfield'.
of os ing ( r inan es
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
MARIAN S. IRVIN, belng duly sworn, deposes and says:
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That she is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk. of the City of Bakersfield; and that
City' Hall, a full, true and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the Counc;I of said City afa meeting
June 15
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": AN ORDINANCE A~IENDING SECTION 6 OF ORDI-
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ORDINANCE NO 804 NEW SERIES OF THE CITY
OF BAKERSFIELDs CALIFORNIA.
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