A. Improvement drawings shall be prepared, signed, and stamped with the engineer’s seal by a registered civil engineer and shall be submitted as part of the checkprint submittal to the City Engineer along with the required checking fee deposit. Construction activities may not take place until all improvement plans and specifications have been approved and the required number of drawings submitted. Approval by the City Engineer shall in no way relieve the subdivider or the subdivider’s engineer from responsibility for the design of the improvement and any deficiencies or adverse effects resulting from the design and construction of the improvement.

B. Plans, profiles and details shall be legibly drawn, printed or reproduced on 24-inch-by-36-inch sheets. A border shall be made on each sheet providing one-half inch at the top, bottom, and right side and one and one-half inch on the left side.

A title block shall be placed in the lower right corner or along the right edge and provide adequate space for approval by the City Engineer and for approval of plan revisions.

Plans and profiles shall be drawn to the scale of one inch equals 40 feet or better unless approved otherwise by the City Engineer. Details shall be drawn to such scale that clearly shows the facility being constructed. The scales for various portions of the plans shall be shown on each sheet.

A vicinity map shall be shown on the first sheet of all sets of plans.

A north arrow shall be shown on each sheet when applicable.

Plans shall be laid out to orient north to the top or right edge of the sheet unless otherwise approved by the City Engineer.

All lettering shall be one-eighth-inch minimum.

If the plans include three or more sheets, a cover sheet showing the streets, lots, easements, storm drains, index and vicinity map shall be included.

The form of all plans shall conform to additional requirements as may be established by the City Engineer. The final form of all plans shall be approved by the City Engineer.

C. An improvement plan shall be acted on within 60 working days of its submittal, except that at least 15 working days shall be provided for processing any resubmitted improvement plan. The 60-working-day period shall not include any days during which the improvement plan has been returned to the applicant for correction, has been subject to review by other than the City or, following that review, has been returned to the applicant for correction.

D. The improvement plans shall show complete plans, profiles and details for all required improvements, both public and private, including common areas. Hydrology, hydraulic plans and calculations, bond estimates and any structural, sewer flow, water flow or other design calculations as may be required shall be submitted with the improvement plans. Upon completion of the review, one set of the checkprint plans, with the required revisions indicated, will be returned to the subdivider’s engineer.

E. After completing all required revisions, the subdivider’s engineer shall transmit the originals and five prints of the improvement plans to the City Engineer for signature. The plans submitted shall be signed and stamped by the subdivider’s engineer and signed by all other parties as required by this chapter. Upon finding that all required revisions have been made and that the plans conform to all applicable City ordinances and conditions of approval of the tentative map or tentative parcel map, the City Engineer shall sign and date the plans. The originals shall remain on file in the office of the City Engineer. A copy of the approved plans will be returned to the subdivider’s engineer.