A. An approved or conditionally-approved tentative map or vesting tentative map shall expire twenty-four months after its approval or conditional approval. However, if the subdivider is subject to a requirement of one hundred thousand dollars or more to construct, improve, or finance the construction or installation of public improvements (as defined in Government Code Section 66452.6(a)) outside the boundaries of the tentative map, each filing of a final map authorized by this Title and Section 66456.1 of the Subdivision Map Act shall extend the expiration of the approved or conditionally approved tentative map by thirty-six months from the date of its expiration, as provided in this Section, or the date of the previously filed final map, whichever is later. The extensions shall not extend the tentative map more than ten years from its approval or conditional approval. A tentative map on a property subject to a development agreement authorized by Section 65864 et seq. of the Government Code may be extended for the period of time provided for in the agreement, but not beyond the duration of the agreement. The number of phased final maps which may be filed shall be determined by the Planning Commission at the time of the approval or conditional approval of the tentative map.

B. Expired Maps. The expiration of the approved or conditionally-approved tentative map or vesting tentative map shall terminate all proceedings and no final map or parcel map of all or any portion of the real property included within the tentative map shall be filed with the City without first processing a new tentative map. Once a timely filing of a final map is made, subsequent actions of the City, including, but not limited to processing, approving and recording, may lawfully occur after the date of expiration of the tentative map. Delivery to the City Engineer shall be deemed a timely filing for purposes of this Section.

C. Extensions. Upon application of the subdivider, filed prior to the expiration of the approved or conditionally-approved tentative map, the time at which the map expires may be extended by the Planning Commission for a period or periods not exceeding a total of three years. Prior to the expiration of an approved or conditionally-approved tentative map, upon an application by the subdivider to extend that map, the map shall automatically be extended for sixty days, or until the application for the extension is approved, conditionally approved or denied, whichever occurs first. If the Planning Commission denies a subdivider’s application for an extension, the subdivider may appeal to the City Council within fifteen days after the Planning Commission has denied the extension.

D. The rights conferred by a vesting tentative map, as provided in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 66498.1) of the Subdivision Map Act and this Title, shall last for the time periods specified in Section 18.20.130. (Ord. 89-2 § 2, 1989.)