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What is the significance of March 1, 1967 in terms of Certificate of Compliance eligibility and issuance?

Local Subdivision Mapping Ordinance?

Clark,

What is the source of that date?

Continuing Education of the Bar SMA manual states before 4 March 1972 as The date.

Crazy Phil

Section 66412.6(a) provides: “For purposes of this division or of a local ordinance enacted pursuant thereto, any parcel created prior to March 4, 1972, shall be conclusively presumed to have been lawfully created if the parcel resulted from a division of land in which fewer than five parcels were created and if at the time of the creation of the parcel, there was no local ordinance in effect which regulated divisions of land creating fewer than five parcels.” However, March 4, 1972, is the effective date of legislation adding the requirement of a parcel map to the SMA for divisions of land into four or fewer parcels. Section 66412.6(a), simply clarifies that parcels legally created without a parcel map are legal even after the parcel map requirement was added to the SMA. The statute does not legalize illegally-created parcels. The statute requires that “the parcel resulted from a division of land in which fewer than five parcels were created … .”

I cheated and googled because I did not know the answer. I still don't know if this is the right answer, but here is what I found:

"Certificates of Exception were issued between 1967 and 1972 by Los Angeles County to create up to four legal lots in the absence of a Parcel Map. (From 1972 onward, the Parcel Map requirement applied to all land divisions of four lots or less.) ...... "
more at:
https://planning.lacounty.gov/view/cert ... liance_faq

If I remember SMA history right it has to do with municipalities having the authority to approve certain parcel divisions prior to unification of the SMA in 1972. I would need to find my LS test study papers with SMA history to remember more detail.

Phil, it comes from Sonoma County. PJR-019, Required Application Materials.