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Creek, 4 Cal. 3d 633 (1971). upholding park land dedication, clearly indicated that cities now have much greater power than they had previously. In Soderlinq v. City of Santa Monica, 142 Cal. App. 3d? 501 (1983), the court used these broader definitions to uphold the validity of conditions attached, through the subdivision prDcessand° i condominium installation ofsmrsion oke requiring building repairs detectors. The court pointed out that under these definitions and in order to achieve one of the objectives of the city's general plan "to we re valid housing andtepowerto safe fl these conditions in themselves impose them need not be exercised by the specific enactment of an ordinance or a promulga-ion of a regulation. Thus it follows, because of the expanded definitions of "design" and "improvement", with proper general plan element language and appropriate enabling local regulation either by ordinance or resolution, if necessary, the City, under groper circumsncesia d uOd as a fees condition inlieu of subdivision approval, require thereof for the following improvements: child day care centers, public art police stations, fire stations, libraries and other such public fiofties thesenot willmentioned depend on the Map Fact. Obviously, the extent the size of the subdivision. In addition, the City could require that certain dwelling units �estriction6 imposed e set aside for low and so moderate income housing and deed that they remain so for a number of years. This is based on the principle that if the City's general plan requires these type of improvements the en subdivision i moon since i t wust so illide or not be otherwise the City must y P consistent with the general plan (S 66474). obviously, if the city has the power to deny a map because it is not consistent with the general plan, it can again be argued that the city himpose ecrap c r�fo®ms to the map approval which would assure that general plan. This is on the theory that the power to reject for given fact implies hatp°wer to factor. See accept with ic�� conditions arrived at obviating $era Park v, E a: +r, au r a e 4. 'diming of conditions and subsequent conditions. A city may impose only those conditions which it has in effect at the time the application for the tentative or parcel map has been completed pursuant to Section 65943. Basically that is the time when the application has been determined complete as filed pursuant to Permit Streamlining -22-