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Article: Subdivision Map Act: lengthy and multiple moratoriums don't keep map alive, court rules.(Legaldigest)
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- California Planning & Development Report
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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The life of a tentative map for a subdivision may be extended for up to five years if the map is subject to a local development moratorium, but the map does not live on if the moratorium continues for more than five years, the First District Court of Appeal has ruled.
The court determined that a subdivision map originally approved by the City of Half Moon in 1990, but caught up in an eight-year sewer connection moratorium, expired before action was taken to finalize the map. The court also rejected the developer's arguments that because two different moratoriums were in effect, the map was eligible for two separate time extensions. The court further dismissed the ...