The Land Development Division within the Public Works Department provides for the review and engineering approval of all private development and subdivisions within the City to ensure compliance with the subdivision map act, NPDES, FEMA, City codes, ordinances, and policies.
These responsibilities include:
- Reviewing and plan-checking all private projects within the City, including commercial, industrial, and residential developments;
- Setting development conditions on private projects;
- Inspecting all private development projects to ensure compliance with City codes, ordinances, and policies;
- Administering the land development program to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal mandates.
Useful documents:
General Notes:
- The contractor shall be responsible for the clearing of the proposed work area, and relocation costs of all existing utilities. Permittee must inform the City of construction schedule at least 48 hours prior to beginning of construction. Phone: (951) 694-6411
- The developer will install street name signs conforming to the City of Temecula’s Standard Nos. 403-405.
- All work shall conform to the requirements of the City of Temecula Public Works Department Improvement Standards and Specifications, dated December 1, 2006 and subsequent amendments.
- It shall be the responsibility of the contractor to notify the engineer and to install street centerline monuments as required by Riverside County Ordinance No. 461 (Tracts and Parcel maps only).
- It shall be the responsibility of the developer or contractor to apply to the City of Temecula Department of Public Works for an Encroachment Permit for all work within City street or all work within offers of dedication for public use.
- All underground facilities, with laterals, shall be in place prior to paving the street section including, but not limited to, the following: sewer, water, electric, gas, drainage.
- Curb depressions and driveway approaches will be installed and constructed according to Standard No. 207 and/or No. 207A.
- It shall be the responsibility of the developer or contractor to apply to California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) for an Encroachment Permit for all work performed within the State right-of-way.
- All street sections are tentative. Additional soil tests () be taken after rough grading to determine the exact street section requirements. Use Standard No. 401 if expansive soils are encountered.
(* Insert “shall” for Tracts and Parcel Maps or “may” for Permit Cases.)
- Asphaltic Emulsion (Fog Seal) shall be applied not less than fourteen (14) days following placement of the asphalt surfacing and shall be applied at a rate of 0.05 gallon per square yard. Asphaltic emulsion shall conform to Sections 37, 39 and 94 of the State Standard Specifications.
- Prime coat required prior to paving all grade in excess of ten (10) percent.
- Install street trees in accordance with Riverside County Ordinance No. 460.53.
- Street lights shall be installed in accordance with Improvement Standards 800–803 and the approved street lighting plan.
- As determined by the City Engineer, the developer is responsible as a minimum for road improvements to centerline and may be required to reconstruct existing pavements, including base, and matching overlay required to meet the structural standards for the current assigned traffic index.
- Only landscaping consisting of grass and parkway trees may be installed within parkways on local residential streets without separate landscape plans. All other types of landscaping in these areas, and all landscaping on all other streets shall require separate landscape plans. All landscaping encroachments shall conform to Riverside County “Standards relating to the Administration of Landscape Encroachments” dated January 1989.
- Pursuant to the City of Temecula Ordinance No. 90-12, the developer shall install all required cable TV facilities.
- Approval of these plans by the City or its agents does not relieve the applicant and his engineer from the responsibility for the correction of errors or omissions discovered during construction. Upon request, the appropriate plan revisions shall be promptly submitted to the City Engineer for review and approval.
|