§ 20-3. Limitations.

This chapter shall be inapplicable to:

(1)

The financing or leasing of apartments, offices, stores or similar space within apartment buildings, industrial buildings, commercial buildings, mobile home parks or trailer parks;

(2)

Mineral, oil or gas leases;

(3)

Land dedicated for cemetery purposes under the Health and Safety Code of the State of California;

(4)

A lot line adjustment between two (2) or more adjacent parcels, where the land taken from one (1) parcel is added to an adjacent parcel, and where a greater number of parcels than originally existed is not thereby created, provided the lot line adjustment is approved pursuant to the provisions of section 20-95(b) of this chapter;

(5)

Boundary line or exchange agreements to which the state lands commission or a local agency holding a trust grant of tide and submerged lands is a party;

(6)

Any separate assessment under section 2188.7 of the Revenue and Taxation Code;

(7)

Unless a parcel or final map was approved by the legislative body of a local agency, the conversion of a community apartment project, as defined in section 11004 of the Business and Professions Code, to a condominium, as defined in section 783 of the Civil Code, but only if all of the following requirements are met:

a.

At least seventy-five (75) percent of the units in the project were occupied by record owners of the project on March 31, 1982;

b.

A final or parcel map of the project was properly recorded, if the property was subdivided, as defined in section 66424 [of the Subdivision Map Act], after January 1, 1964, with all of the conditions of the map remaining in effect after the conversion;

c.

The local agency certifies that the above requirements were satisfied if the local agency, by ordinance, provides for such certification;

(8)

Unless a parcel or final map was approved by the legislative body of a local agency, the conversion of a stock cooperative, as defined in section 11003.2 of the Business and Professions Code, to a condominium, as defined in section 783 of the Civil Code, but only if all of the following requirements are met:

a.

At least fifty-one (51) percent of the units in the cooperative were occupied by stockholders of the cooperative on January 1, 1980, or individually owned by stockholders of the cooperative on January 1, 1980. As used in this paragraph a cooperative unit is "individually owned" if and only if the stockholder of such unit owns or partially owns an interest in no more than one (1) unit in the cooperative;

b.

No more than twenty-five (25) percent of the shares of the cooperative were owned by any one (1) person, as defined in section 17, [of the Government Code], including an incorporator or director of the cooperative, on January 1, 1980;

c.

A person renting a unit in a cooperative shall be entitled at the time of conversion to all tenant rights in state or local law, including, but not limited to, rights respecting first refusal, notice, and displacement and relocation benefits;

d.

The local agency certifies that the above requirements were satisfied if the local agency, by ordinance, provides for such certification;

(9)

The financing or leasing of any parcel of land, or any portion thereof, in conjunction with the construction of commercial or industrial buildings on a single parcel, unless the project is not subject to review under other local agency ordinances regulating design and improvement;

(10)

The financing or leasing of existing separate commercial or industrial buildings on a single parcel.

(Ord. No. 3188, § 1(Exh. A), 3-14-95; Ord. No. 3273, § 2, 6-25-96)