§ 17.52.011. Expedited certificate—Application, processing and issuance.

A.

Notwithstanding Section 17.52.010, any person owning real property currently recognized by the assessor as an assessor's parcel other than SFAP (separated for purposes of assessment), or a vendee of that person pursuant to a contract of sale, may file an application for and be issued an expedited certificate if the parcel meets the criteria for a legal parcel or lot under subsections (A)(7), (A)(8) or (A)(9) of Section 17.02.320 and the applicable fee for the processing and recordation of an expedited certificate, as approved by resolution of the board of supervisors, has been paid to the advisory agency.

B.

An expedited certificate may also be applied for in conjunction with an application for a lot line adjustment under Chapter 17.46, if desired by the applicant for the lot line adjustment or determined necessary by the county surveyor during the processing of the lot line adjustment application.

C.

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter and in Chapter 17.46, the processing, recordation and appeal of an expedited certificate shall proceed in the same manner as the processing, recordation and appeal of a certificate except that if the expedited certificate is processed and issued concurrently with the tentative approval of a lot line adjustment, the expedited certificate shall be filed with the advisory agency but not recorded and the application fee for the expedited certificate shall be reduced by the portion of the fee for an expedited certificate relating to the cost of recordation of an assessor's map amendment.

D.

If, during the processing of an expedited certificate, the advisory agency determines that although the parcel has been separated from all contiguous property, the parcel does not otherwise meet the criteria for a legal lot as described in subsections (A)(7), (A)(8) or (A)(9) of Section 17.02.320, the advisory agency shall notify the applicant that the application for an expedited certificate is denied. Any fees not used by the advisory agency by the time of such denial will be refunded to the applicant unless the applicant applies for a certificate or conditional certificate within thirty-five days of notification of the denial, in which case the unused portion of the fees will be applied against the fee for processing the application for a certificate or conditional certificate.

E.

Actions of the advisory agency under this section are ministerial in nature and shall not be performed in such a manner as to be construed to be discretionary actions.

(Ord. No. 1401, § 7, 5-12-2015)