18.24.030 Application.

(A) This chapter shall apply only to residential developments. Whenever a provision of the Subdivision Map Act, as implemented and supplemented by this title requires the filing of a tentative parcel map or a tentative subdivision map for a residential development, a vesting tentative map may be filed instead in accordance with the provisions hereof.

(B) If a subdivider does not seek the rights conferred by the vesting tentative map statute, the filing of a vesting tentative map shall not be a prerequisite to any approval for any proposed subdivision permit for construction, or work preparatory to construction.