/f ZONING ORDINANCE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE

ORDINANCE NO. 348

AS AMENDED

SEPTEMBER 22, 1960

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Article Page I Intent and Purposes 1 II (Reserved for future legislation) 1 III M-3 Zone (Regulated Industrial) 1 IV Zoning Districts - Official Zoning Plans 4 V Zone Districts 5 VI R-l Zone (One Family Dwellings) - 6 Via R-l A Zone (One Family Dwellings - Mountain Resort) 7 VII R-2 Zone (Multiple Family Dwellings) 7 Vila R-2A Zone (Limited Multiple Family Dwellings) 7 VIII R-3 Zone (General Residential) 8 Villa R-3A Zone (General Residential - Mountain Resort) - 8 IX C-l Zone (General Commercial) - 8 IXa C-2 Zone (Limited Commercial) - 9 X C-P Zone (Restricted Commercial) 9 Xa I-P Zone (Industrial Park) - 10 XI M-l Zone (Light Manufacturing) 13 XIa M-4 Zone (Limited Industrial) 14 XII M-2 Zone (Heavy Industrial) 14 XIII A-l Zone (Light Agriculture) 15 XIV A-2 Zone (Heavy Agriculture) 17 XV W Zones - (Watercourse, Watershed, Conservation, and Recreational Areas). W-l Zone (Watercourse Areas). W-2 Zone (Watershed, Conservation, and Recreational Areas) 18 XVI I Zone (Interim) 19 XVII Public Functions or Uses 21 XVIII General Provisions 21 XIX Variances - 24 XX Amendments and Change of Zone 26 XXI Definitions 26 XXII Enforcement, Legal Procedure and 30 Penalties - 31 XXIII Validity 31 XXIV Authentication - ORDINANCE NO. 348 An Ordinance providing for the creation and establishment of zones In the unincorporated area of the County of Riverside, defining, classifying, restricting and regulating land uses and pre­ scribing area requirements and classes of uses of buildings, structures, improvements and premises in the several zones; repealing Ordinances No. 341 and No. 341-A.

The Beard of Supervisors of the County of Riverside, State of California, does ordain ns fol­ lows:

ARTICLE 1 and No. 341-a are hereby expressly repealed; pro­ vided, however, that sucn substitution and. repeal In order to classify, restrict, regulate and en­ shall not be deemed to ratify or legalize any viola­ courage the orderly use of land in the County of tion of any provision of said Ordinances No. 341 Riverside and to conserve and promote public or No. 341-a, nor to affect nor prevent the prose­ health, peace, safety, comfort, convenience, and cution or punishment of any person, firm, or general welfare, there is hereby adopted and es­ corporation for any act done or committed in viola­ tablished an official land use plan for the said tion of any provision of said ordinances prior to the Coun ty of Riverside. This plan is adopted as a taking effect of this ordinance, and shall not af­ part o5t the Master Plan of Land Use (pursuant fect aniy prosecution which may be pending in any to the "iConservation and Planning Act of the court for the violation of any provision of said State of California) for the unincorporated area ordinances; and further ed that as to any of the County of Riverside. such violation of said ordinances and as to any SECTION 1.1. LAND USE ORDINANCE. such prosecution and punishment and as to any This ordinance shall be known and cited as the such pending prosecution, said ordinances shall be Riverside County Zoning Ordinance. deemed to continue and be in full force and ef­ fect. SECTION 1.2. It is further declared that the progressive adoption by ordinances of offi­ ARTICLE II cial plans under this Master Plan of Land Use shall place various portions of the unincorporated U ZONE (UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES) territory of Riverside County into the respective Repealed by Ordinance No. 348-g. zones applicable thereto as soon as the due and careful consideration by the Planning Commission ARTICLE III and by the Board of Supervisors will permit; and that said Planning Commission shall work in con­ M-3 ZONE (REGULATED INDUSTRIAL) junction with ana at the request of property own­ All the unincorporated territory of the County ers in the portions affected. It is intended that which is not included under the terms of this eventually comprehensive and well-considered ordinance in any other zone is hereby designated plans shall be created and adopted for the entire and classified as M-3 Zone. unincorporated area of the County , of Riverside. Where a structure is erected or a use is made SECTION 1.3. That prior to and pending which is expressly and specifically permitted in the adoption by ordinance of official plans for one or more other zones under this ordinance, such comprehensive and detailed zone classifications structure or use shall he subject to the most re throughout the County of Riverside, the entire strictive requirements and regulations of any zone unincorporated area of said County shall be and in which such structure or use is expressly and is hereby placed into Zone M-3 (Regulated In­ specifically permitted. dustrial), as hereinafter defined in Article III of this ordinance, with the exception of that specific SECTION 3.1. USES FOR WHICH A area which, is hereinafter designated and described PERMIT IS REQUIRED IN ZONE M-3: Uses in Article IV. permitted: Without a permit, any use permitted SECTION 1.4. If any provision of this or­ in Zones M-4, A-2 and W-2 ana any other use dinance or the application thereof to any person except the uses listed in this paragraph requiring or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of use permits, but not including outdoor advertis­ the ordinance and the application of such pro­ ing signs and structures which are not appurtenant vision to other persons or circumstances shall not to any permitted use. The Commission shall not be affected thereby. recommend that a permit under this Article be granted unless it finds that the proposed use will SECTION 1.5. That this ordinance be and not endanger the public health or safety or con­ the same is hereby substituted for Ordinances No. flict with or be adverse to the general welfare. A 341 and No. 341-a, and said Ordinances No. 341 person shall not, without first having obtained a permit therefor, use anv premises or erect any (33) Rubber building in Zone M-3 wnich is designed, occupied (34) Sauerkraut or used or intended to be occupied or used for any (35) Soap, except by cold process of die following businesses, occupation or pur­ (36) Tar or aspnalt Iroofing poses: (37) Turpentine 1. Abattoir (slaughterhouse). (38) Vinepr 2. Airport or landing field. 18. Meat packing plant 3. Auto wrecking yard. 19. Oil reclaiming plant 4. Blast furnace. 20. Ore reduction plant 5. Borrow pit, commercial. 21. Petroleum refinery. 6. Boiler shop or works. 23. Race track, except for contests between hu­ 7. Commercial cattle feeding yard or sales or man beings only. auction yard. This does not include cattle 24. Rifle range, including pistol range. feeding in conjunction with farming opera­ 25. Rock crush er or quarry. tions nor community auction and sales yards. 26. Rock, sand or gravel pit. 8. Cemetery, pet or human. 27. Rolling mill. 9. Coke ovens. 28. Rubber reclaiming plant. 10. Drive-in theater. 29. Salt works. 11. Fat rendering. 30. Sand blasting plant. 12. Fish cannery. 31. Sewer farm or sewage disposal. 13. Gas, storage of, in excess of one thousand 32. Smelting. (1,000) cubic feet. 33. Stockyards, commercial, except in conjunction 14. Incineration, reduction or dumping of offal, with fanning. rbage or refuse on a commercial scale. 34. Storage of petroleum products above ground 15. Junk yard. in excess ot one thousand (1000) barrels. 16. Lumber mill. 35. Storage or baling of rags or paper, except 17. Manufacture of: wholly within a building or behind a compact (1) Acetylene gas. wall not less than six (6) feet in height. (2) Acid 36. Tannery. (3) Ammonia 37. Trailer park. (4) Asphalt or products 38. Wool pulling or scouring plant. (5) Ashes tos 39. Wood or bone distillation. (6) Brick tile or terra ootta 40. Dog kennels. (7) Babbit metal 41. Hog ranches which are not required to ob- (8) Bleaching powder tain ai permit under the provision of Ordin- (9) Carbon, lampblack or graphite ance No. 431 and in which more than 300 (10) Cement hogs are kept, fed, or maintained. (11) Celluhod 42. Trap and skeet shooting facilities. (12) Chlorine gas 43. Camp grounds. (13) Coal tar or products That this section shall not be interpreted or (14) Creosote or products construed to require a permit in the carrying on (15) Explosives of any of the aforementioned businesses, occupa­ (16) Fireworks tions or purposes where such businesses, occupa­ (17) Fertilizer, including open storage on a tions or purposes are merely incidental or acces­ commercial scale. sory to a fanning or domestic operation. (18) Gas, illuminating (19) Gelatine SECTION 3.2. PERMIT PROCEDURE. (20) Glucose Any person desiring a permit to establish any use (21) Glue or size referred to in this Article shall make written ap­ (22) Guncotton or products plication therefor to the Commission on forms (23) Gypsum which shall be provided by the County for this (24) Insulating material (such as "Rock purpose. Such application snail state the name and Wool" and similar products) address of the applicant therefore; evidence that (25) Lime or products he is the owner of the premises involved or that (26) Matches he has the permission of the owner to make such (27) Phenol application; the address, if any, together with the (28) Pickles general location and legal description of the prem­ (29) Plaster of Paris ises upon which such business, occupation or pur­ (30) Poison pose is to be established; the nature of the busi­ (31) Potash ness, occupation or purpose for which such build­ (32) Pulp, paper and strawboard ing or premises is to be erected or used. 3

Upon the filing of an application for a per­ Within forty (40) days after receiving the mit, the Commission or its duly authorized repre­ recommendation and other required material from sentative shall fix a time and place for a public the Commission, the Board of Supervisors shall hearing thereon before the Commission not less determine whether the proposed use requested in than 15 days nor more than 45 days thereafter. the application for a permit, together with such Thereupon notice shall be given of such hearing conditions or restrictions as may have been rec­ to the County Health Officer and the Chief En­ ommended by the Commission, wiJF or will not gineer of the Riverside County Flood Control and endanger the public health or safety or conflict Water Conservation District, the Riverside County with or be adverse to the general welfare, and Agricultural Commissioner and such other public shall grant such permit as applied for subject to officials as in the opinion of the Commission may such conditions and restrictions as it shall find be affected by the proposed use. The aforemen- to be necessary or shall deny the permit accord­ tioned officers and o tners, prior to the date of such ingly. hearing, shall furnish the Commission with a re­ port thereon concerning the effect, if any, the The secretary of the Commission shall keep granting of the permit might have on the public a permanent and accurate account of all deposits health, safety and general welfare. received under this Article III, giving the name of the applicant upon whose account such de­ Not later than ten (10) days prior to the posit is made, and the date and amount thereof, date of such hearing on the granting of a permit, together with the location of the premises to the Commission shall: which they relate. In the event that the actual cost of the publication in this Article provided (a) Cause a copy of notice of such hearing for shall be more than the amount deposited by to be published once in a newspaper of the applicant, such applicant shall be required to general circulation in the County. deposit the defeciency; if less, the unusued bal­ (b) Cause a post card notice to be mailed ance of such deposit shall be refunded in the to the owners of all property within a same manner provided for by law for the re­ distance of five hundred (500J feet from payment of trust monies. the exterior boundaries of the premises involved in the application, and the own­ The Board of Supervisors may hear and con­ ers of such other property as in the sider evidence in addition to the report and sup­ judgment of the Commission might be porting material from the Commission before affected by the establishment of the use granting, denying, revoking, modifying or refusing requested; as such owners are shown by to revoke any permit, but shall not consider any the latest assessment roll of the County. statement, argument or evidence of any kind or nature whatsoever except such report and summary Within forty (40) days after the conclusion except at a public hearing, notice of the time and of the public hearing, the Commission shall re­ place of which shall be given to all persons in the port to the Board of Supervisors its findings as to same manner as provided for in the original hear­ whether the erection or use of such building or ing, and notice to the applicant, where issuance premises for the business, occupation, or purpose of a permit is in question, or to the person owning designated in the manner set forth in the appli­ the property the permit affecting which it is sought cation, or under restrictions or conditions will en­ to revoke or modify, not less man ten (10) days danger the public health or safety or conflict with prior to such hearing, either by personal service or be adverse to the general welfare. as required for the serving of summons or by first class mail, postage prepaid. The Commission shall also recommend to the Board of Supervisors the granting of such permit SECTION 3.3. REQUEST FOR PUBLIC as applied for or under such restrictions or con­ HEARING BEFORE BOARD OF SUPERVIS­ ditions as it finds necessary to prevent such use ORS. Within ten (10) days after the Commis­ from becoming a menace to or endangering the sion has notified the Board of Supervisors in public health, safety or general welfare; or shall writing of its recommendations, a request for recommend denial thereof. public hearing before the Board of Supervisors may be made by the applicant or any owner of prop­ The Commission, in recommending action by erty within five hundred (500) feet of the ex­ the Board of Supervisors on a permit, shall trans­ terior boundaries of the property described in such mit to the Board of Supervisors: application. Such request shall be presented in (a) A summary of the testimony presented be­ writing to the County Clerk. fore the Commission. At its next regular meeting after the filing (b) All reports and exhibits introduced in evi­ of such a request, the Board of Supervisors shall dence. set a date for public hearing thereon, not less than (c) All reports made to the Commission. 15 days not more than 45 days thereafter. The Board of Supervisors shall give notice of such before itself and receive additional testimon) as hearing in the manner provided for notice of public hereinabove provided for the granting of permits. hearing before the Commission as set forth in Section 3.2. The Board of Supervisors at such SECTION 3.5. FILING FEES AND DE­ public hearing shall proceed to hear any person POSITS. Each application shall be accompanied or persons interested. After hearing such request, by the filing fee of $50.00. the Board of Supervisors may sustain the recom­ If notice is to be given by publication and mendation of the Commission by a majority vote, posting the applicant shall, in addition, deposit or may reverse or modify such recommendation by a sum of $25.00. a three-fifth (3/5) vote. SECTION 3.6. ACTION BY BOARD OF Within 10 days after receivin the written SUPERVISORS. The decision of the Board of report of the Commission the Boara, on its own Supervisors upon an application or upon the revo­ motion, may set a public hearing thereon to be cation of a permit is final and conclusive as to all held not less than 15 nor more than 45 days there­ things involved. after. Notice of the hearing shall be given as set forth in Section 3.2. SECTION 3.7. MINIMUM LOT AREA. Building sites for residential uses shall have a SECTION 3.4. PROCEDURE FOR REVO­ minimum area of seven thousand, two hundred CATION OF PERMITS. The Commission on (7,200) square feet and a minimum frontage of its own motion ma y and upon the direction of the sixty (60) feet. Board of Supervisors shall, hold a hearing upon the revocation of a permit hereafter granted by or ARTICLE IV pursuant to the provisions of this Article. ZONING DISTRICTS - OFFICIAL The Commission shall serve upon the owner ZONING PLANS of the property for which a permit has been granted, written notice of the time and place of That whenever a comprehensive and specific the hearing, either in the manner required for zoning plan has been duly and regularly adopted the service of summons or by registered mail, post­ pursuant to the provisions of the State Conserva­ age prepaid. The Commission shall also give the tion and Planning Act pertaining to a described same notice of such hearing as is required of a and designated area within the unincorporated hearing for the granting of a permit after appli­ territory of the County, and such area has been cation. properly defined and identified by a map, desig­ nated by a number, the zoned area shall be adopted A permit may be revoked after the Board of and listed as a part of this Article IV, entitled Supervisors finds: Zoned Districts, and given an appropriate section (a) That the use is detrimental to the public number, hereunder. health, safety, or is a public nuisance. (The legal descriptions of the boundaries of (b) That the permit was obtained by fraud. the Zbned Districts, and the various zones within (c) That the use for which the permit was the boundaries are on file in the office of the granted is not being exercised. Planning Commission of Riverside County. The (d) That the use for which the permit was following list indicates the map numbers and granted has ceased or has been suspended names of the particular Zoned Districts). for one year or more. Section 4.2 - Map No. 2 - The entire unincorpora­ After a hearing upon the revocation of a per­ ted portion of the County not included in mit, the Commission shall report to the Board a specific Zoned District. of Supervisors its findings as to facts which it has found, except that if the Commission has held Section 4.4 - Map No. 4 - Cathedral City District. such hearing on its own motion and is of the Section 4.5 - Map No. 5 - University District. opinion that the permit should not be revoked nor modified, the Commission need not so report. If Section 4.6 - Map No. 6 - Beaumont-Banning Dis­ in its report the Commission shall recommend trict. that the permit be revoked, modified or allowed to Section 4.7 - Map No. 7 - La Mesa Miravilla Dis­ be unchanged, such recommendation shall be ac­ trict. companied by a summary of the testimony re­ ceived at sucn hearings. Upon receipt of such re­ Section 4.8 - Map No. 8 - Anza-La Sierra District. port, the Board of Supervisors shall determine the facts and shall revoke, modify or allow to remain Section 4.9 - Map No. 9 - West Corona District. unchanged the permit accordingly. The Board of Section 4.10 - Map 10 - Cathedral City-Palm Des­ Supervisors may also set the matter for hearing ert District. Section 4.11 - Map No. 11 - Glen Avon District. R-3 General Residential Section 4.12 - Map No. 12 - Desert Hot Springs R-3A General Residential - Mountain Resort District. C-l General Commercial C-2 Limited Commercial Section 4.13 - Map No. 13 * Calimesa District. C-P Restricted Commercial Section 4.14 - Map No. 14 - LaQuinta District. I.P. Industrial Park Section 4.15 - Map No. 15 - Rubidoux District. M-l Light Manufacturing M-2 Heavy Industrial Section 4.16 - Map No. 16 - Idyll wild District. M-3 Regulated Industrial Section 4.17 - Map No. 17 - Hemet-San Jacinto M-4 Limited Industrial District. A-l Light Agriculture Section 4.18 - Map No. 18 - North Valle Vista A-2 Heavy Agriculture District. W-l Watercourse Area Section 4.19 - Map No. 19 - Florence District. W-2 Watershed, Conservation and Recreational Areas Section 4.20 - Map No. 20 - Indian Wells District. I Interim Section 4.21 - Map No. 21 - East Valle Vista Dis­ The areas in the future assigned to these trict. zones, the designation of the same and the exact Section 4.22 - Map No. 22 - Thomas Mountain boundaries of the zones shall be shown upon a District. map, which shall be attached and made a part of this ordinance as provided in Article IV hereof. Section 4.23 - Map No. 23 - North Elsinore Dis­ Said map shall be designated as the 'Official Zon­ trict. ing Plan' and said map and its proper notices, Section 4.24 - Map No. 24 - Lower Berdoo Canyon references and other material shown thereon shall District. be as much a part of this ordinance as if the mat­ ters and information set forth by said map were Section 4.25 - Map No. 25 - Edgemont-Sunnymead fully described herein. District. SECTION 5.2. UNCERTAINTY AS TO Section 4.26 - Map No. 26 - Pedley District No. 1. ZONE BOUNDARIES. Where uncertainty exists Section 4.27 - Map No. 27 - Lakeland Village Dis­ as to the boundaries of any zone shown on the trict. Official Zoning Plan, the following rules shall apply: Section 4.28 - Map No. 28 - San Gorgonio Pass (a) Where district boundaries are indicated as District No. 1. approximately following street lines, alley Section 4.29 - Map No. 29 - Mira Loma District lines, or lot lines, such lines shall be con­ No. 1. strued to be such boundaries. (b) In unsubdivided property or where the dis­ ARTICLE V trict boundary line divides a lot, the loca­ tion of such boundary, unless the same is ZONE DISTRICTS indicated by specific dimensions, shall be For the purpose of providing in this ordin- determined by use of the scale appearing ance a uniform basis for future specific and de- on the Official Zoning Plan. tailed zoning plans and for the progressive and (c) In case any further uncertainty exists, the eventual adoption of such plans in designated areas Commission shall interpret the intent of of the County, as referred to in Articles I and IV the Official Zoning Plan as to the location hereof, it is hereby declared that any such plans of such zone boundaries. may include, in addition to Zone M-3 heretofore (d) Where any public street or alley or other adopted by the provisions of Article IV of this public right of way is hereafter vacated or ordinance, any or all, or any combination of the abondoned, the land formerly in such street, following zones: alley or right of way shall be included with- in the district of the adjoining property on SECTION 5.1 - ZONES either side; and in the event such street, R-l One-Family Dwellings alley or right of way was a district bound­ ary line between two or more different dis­ R-l A One-Family Dwellings - Mountain Resort tricts, the new district boundary line shall R-2 Multiple Family Dwellings be the former center line of such street, R-2A Limited Multiple Family Dwellings alley or right of way. ARTICLE VI 2. The maximum size of any sign shall be R-l ZONE (ONE-FAMILY DWELLINGS) 200 square feet. 3. The maximum period of time a sign may The following regulations shall apply in all remain in place shall be 2 years. R-l Zones: SECTION 6.2. BUILDING HEIGHT SECTION 6.1. USES PERMITTED: LIMIT. Two and one-half (2^i) stories but not (a) A one-family dwelling of a permanent char­ exceeding thirty-five (35) feet. acter and placed in a permanent location. This does not include a trailer house used SECTION 6.3. REQUIRED LOT AREA. as a dwelling. Seven thousand, two hundred (7,200) square (b) Private garage for the accommodation of not feet; the minimum lot frontage shall be sixty (60) more than four (4) automobiles. feet, and the minimum depth shall be one hun­ (c) Agricultural and horticultural, flower and dred (100) feet. vegetable gardening, tree crops, nurseries SECTION 6.4. FRONT YARD RE and greenhouses used only for purposes of QUIRED. Twenty (20) feet, except as provided propagation and culture, including; the sale in Section 18.19. The front yard shall be meas­ thereof from the premises and tn e use of ured from any existing street line or from any one sign pertaining to the sale of said pro­ future street line as shown on any official street ducts. The sign shall not exceed two (2) plan of the County. square feet in area. (d) The non-commercial keeping of horses on SECTION 6.5. SIDE YARDS REQUIRED. lots or parcels over 20,000 square feet in (a) On interior and through lots, ten (10) per area ana 100 feet in width, provided they cent of the width of the lot, provided no are kept over 125 feet from any street and side yard shall be less than three (3) feet 20 feet from any property line, and provided and need not exceed five (5) feet. further that a maximum of two horses per (b) On comer and reversed comer lots, the 20,000 square feet, and in any event not side yard shall be ten (10) feet from the more than four horses, will be permitted. street line upon which the main building (e) Home occupations customarily conducted sides except that where a comer or reversed within a dwelling by the inhabitants there­ comer lot is less than fifty (50) feet wide of where no assistants are employed and such side yard need not exceed twenty (20) where there is no external evidence of such per cent of the width of the lot. Th e in- home occupation except a name-plate not terior side yard for such lots shall be the exceeding two (2) square feet in area. same as for interior lots, provided, however, (f) One sign not exceeding six (61 sauare feet that no accessory building on the rear of iii area appeartainmg only to the lease, hire such lots may project beyond the front yard or sale of the particular lot or building upon line on the lots in the rear unless it is found which displayed. by the Commission or its authorized repre­ (g) Public parks and public playgrounds, golf sentative that this regulation cannot reason­ courses with standard length fairways, and ably be complied with. country clubs. SECTION 6.6. REAR YARD REQUIRED. (h) Accessory buildings and uses, including a Ten (10) feet, except as provided in Section 18.19. guest dwelling, provided there is a main building on the lot. Resort dwellings sub­ SECTION 6.7. ADDITIONAL DEWELL- ject to the provisions of Section 21.31a. INGS ON A LOT. When more than one (1) (i) Public functions and uses, provided a per­ single-family dwelling is erected on a lot in an mit has been granted pursuant to the pro­ R-l Zone, which lot has twice the required area visions of Article XVII. or more, the owner of such lot shall fil e in the (j) If, on the effective date of this ordinance, office of the Commission for the administrative a temporary one-family dwelling shall exist records and for revision and verification of com­ on the rear half of a lot in Zone R-l, a one- pliance, a plot plan showing the size of said lot, family dwelling may be erected and main- the use ana locations of all buildings thereon, and tain ea on the front portion of the same lot the area provided for each single-family dwelling in the manner provided herein, whereupen as reauired by this ordinance. In the event the said temporary one-family dwelling shall plan snows that the proposed development will not assume the status of a non-conforming use. maintain the character and integrity of the zone (k) Not more than two (2) offsite unlighted in which such dwelling is to be erected, or will be signs advertising the original sale of a sub­ detrimental to the welfare of the community, the division subject to the folio wing conditions: Commission may require such revision of the plan 1. No sign shall be located more than 3 miles as may be necessary to correct these conditions. from the subdivision boundary. Each area shown on said plot plan and approved by the Commission as a building site, shall be SECTION 7.2. BUILDING HEIGHT permanently maintained. LIMIT. The same as in R-l Zones. (See Sec. 6.2). SECTION 6.8. AUTOMOBILE STORAGE SECTION 7.3. REQUIRED LOT AREA. SPACE REQUIRED. (See Section 18.12). The same as for R-l Zones. (See Sec. 6.3). SECTION 7.4. FRONT YARD RE­ ARTICLE Via. QUIRED. The same as in R-l Zones. (See Sec. R-l A ZONE (ONE-FAMILY 6.4). DWELLINGS - MOUNTAIN RESORT) SECTION 7.5. SIDE YARDS RE­ QUIRED. The same as in R-l Zones. (See Sec­ The following regulations shall apply in all tion 6.5). R-l A Zones: SECTION 7.6. REAR YARD REQUIRED. SECTION 6.25. USES PERMITTED: The same as in R-l Zones. (See Section 6.6). The following uses shall be permitted in all R-1A Zones: SECTION 7.7. LOT COVERAGE PER­ (a) Any use permitted in R-l Zones. MITTED. In no case shall more than sixty (60) per cent of any lot be covered by buildings. (b) One additional dwelling unit covering not more than 700 square feet of the lot area SECTION 7.8. AUTOMOBILE STORAGE may be placed on any lot of not less than SPACE REQUIRED. (See Sec. 18.12). 7200 square feet in area upon which there exists a one-family dwelling and no guest SECTION 7.9. DISTANCE REQUIRED dwelling. BETWEEN MAIN BUILDINGS. No two-story main building shall be closer than fifteen (15) (c) The keeping of horses for private, non­ feet to any other main building (on the same lot commercial use by occupants of the prem­ and no one-story building shall be: closer than ten ises, subject to all regulations or limitations (10) feet to any other one-story main building on imposed by or pursuant to law or ordinance the same lot pertaining to the keeping of livestock. (d) The parking and use of one house trailer SECTION 7.10. AREA PER DWELLING on any premises where there is an occupied UNIT. Every main building hereafter erected or dwelling, provided, however, that such structurally altered shall have a lot or building trailer may not be rented, leased or other­ site area of not less than 2500 square feet for each wise used for any commercial purpose. dwelling unit in such main buildi ng- (e) Real estate offices and insurance offices conducted as home occupations, subject to ARTICLE Vila die same limitations as provided for home R-2A ZONE (LIMITED MULTIPLE occupations in R-l Zones. FAMILY DWELLINGS) SECTION 6.26. OTHER REGULATIONS. Building height limits, required lot area, front yard The following regulations shall apply in all required, side yards required and rear yard re­ R-2A Zones: quired shall be the same as in R-l Zones. Lot SECTION 7.25. USES PERMITTED. coverage permitted and distance required between (a) Any use permitted in R-I Zones. main bui fdings shall be the same as in R-2 Zones. (b) Multiple family dwellings. ARTICLE VII SECTION 7.26. BUILDING HEIGHT R-2 ZONE (MULTIPLE FAMILY DWELLINGS) LIMIT. Two stories or thirty (30) feet. The following regulations shall apply in all SECTION 7.27. REQUIRED LOT AREA. R-2 Zones: 7,200 square feet. SECTION 7.1. USES PERMITTED. SECTION 7.28. YARD REQUIREMENTS. (a) Front yard, 20 feet. (a) Any use permitted in the R-l Zone. (b) Side yard, 5 feet. (b) Two (2) family dwellings, multiple family (c) Rear yard, 10 feet. dwellings, bungalow courts and apartment houses. SECTION 7.29. LOT COVERAGE PER­ (c) Boarding, rooming and lodging houses. MITTED. In ho case shall more than 60 per cent of any lot be covered by buildings. (d) Churches, educational institutions, public libraries, museums and art galleries not op­ SECTION 7.30. DISTANCE REQUIRED erated for compensation or profit. BETWEEN MAIN BUILDINGS. No two-story main building shall be closer than 15 feet to any ARTICLE Villa other main building on the same lot and no one- story building shall be closer than 10 feet to any R-3A ZONE (GENERAL RESIDENTIAL- other one-story main building on die same lot. MOUNTAIN RESORT) The following regulations shall apply to all ARTICLE VIII R-3A Zones: R-3 ZONE (GENERAL RESIDENTIAL) SECTION 8.25. USES PERMITTED. The following uses shall be permitted in all R-3A The following regulations shall apply to all Zones: R-3 Zones: (a) Any use permitted in R-l, R-1A, R-2 or R-3 Zones. SECTION 8.1. USES PERMITTED. (a) Any use permitted in R-2 Zones. SECTION 8.26. OTHER REGULATIONS. (b) Hotels, resort hotels and auto courts. Building height limits, required lot area, front yard reqiuired, side yards required, read yard re- (c) Clubs, lodge halls, fraternity and sorority quired, 1ot coverage permitted and distance be­ houses. tween main buildings shall be the same as in R-3 (d) Clinics, professional offices, medical and Zones. dental offices, hospitals and sanitariums. (e) Rest homes and nursery schools. ARTICLE IX CO A maximum of two (2) signs used only for the purpose of advertising activities con­ C-l ZONE (GENERAL COMMERCIAL) ducted on the same premises as that upon The following regulations shall apply in all which the signs are located. The total area C-l Zones: of the two (2) signs shall not exceed Vz of one per cent of the area of the parcel upon SECTION 9.1. USES PERMITTED. whic:n the sign is located. The bottom of (a) Any use permitted in the R-3 Zone. any sign shall be at least 10 feet above the (b) Stores, shops and premises for the conduct average grade so as not to obstruct the of general retail or wholesale business. visibility of any driver. Cc) Lignt manufacturing incidental to the sale of goods from the premises; provided not SECTION 8.2. BUILDING HEIGHT more than twenty-five (25) per cent of the LIMIT. Three (3) stories and not exceeding ground floor area of any building may he forty-five (45) feet. used for such purpose and that the total SECTION 8.3. REQUIRED LOT AREA. horsepower in electric motors operated in The same as in R-l Zones. (See Sec. 6.3). connection with such use shall not exceed five (5) horsepower and provided further, SECTION 8.4. FRONT YARD RE­ that such use shall not be nearer than fifty QUIRED. Ten (10) feet. The front yard shall (50) feet to any residential zone, be measured from any existing street line or from (d) Trailer parks, subject to the issuance of a any future street line as shown on any official special permit pursuant to the procedure street plan of the County. set forth in Article III and further subject to the following standards: SECTION 8.5. SIDE YARDS REQUIRED. 1. Minimum trailer park area of 120,000 The same as in R-l Zones. (See Sec. 6.5). square feet. 2. Total area of trailer park to equal not less SECTION 8.6. REAR YARD REQUIRED. than an average of 2,5000 square feet per The same as in R-l Zones. (See Sec. 6.6). trailer space. 3. A minimum space for each trailer of 1,200 SECTION 8.7. LOT COVERAGE PER­ square feet with a minimum width of 30 MITTED. The same as in R-2 Zones. (See Sec. feet. 7.7). (e) Outdoor advertising. SECTION 8.8. AUTOMOBILE STORAGE SECTION 9.3. DWELLING OVER COM­ SPACE REQUIRED. (See Sec. 18.12). MERCIAL USE. Where a dwelling is erected over a commercial use there shall he no yard re­ SECTION 8.9. DISTANCE BETWEEN quirements. MAIN BUILDINGS. The same as in R-2 Zones. (See Sec. 7.9). The required distance shall be the SECTION 9.4. BUILDING HEIGHT same for three-story buildings as for two-story LIMIT. Four (4) stories and not exceeding sixty buildings. (60) feet. • SECTION 9.5. FRONT YARD RE­ land as the building or buildings it is in­ QUIRED. None, except that no building shall be tended to serve. Such automobile storage erected or altered so as to encroach upon any space shall be graded and surfaced so as to existing or proposed future street line as shown provide proper drainage and to prevent dust on any official plans of the County. arising therefrom, and shall have an area at least equal to the floor area used for ARTICLE IXa commercial purposes, exclusive of storage and warehousing, and shall be readily ac­ C-2 ZONE (LIMITED COMMERCIAL) cessible to passenger automobiles of average The following regulations shall apply in all size, under their own povwer. In no event C-2 Zones: shall any use be establish...ed in Zone C-P which provides less than one thousand SECTION 9.25. USES PERMITTED. C1,000) square feet of such automobile (a) Any use permitted in R-3 Zones. storage space, including driveways, and (b) Stores, shops and premises for the conduct turning areas. Two or more commercial of general retail business and service, except uses may cooperate in the provision of auto­ the slaughtering of fowls or animals, auto­ mobile storage space required by this sec­ mobile repair garages, and body and fender tion, provided the nearest boundary of such shops. storage space is not more than three hun­ dred (300) feet from any such commercial SECTION 9.26. BUILDING HEIGHT use it is intended to serve. LIMIT. Three stories not to exceed 45 feet. •(c) Provide adequate loading space on private SECTION 9.27. FRONT YARD RE­ property for standing, and for loading and QUIRED. Same as C-l Zone. unloading service for any commercial use involving the receipt or distribution by ve­ hicles of materials or merchandise. Such ARTICLE X loading space shall be of such size, and so C-P ZONE (RESTRICTED COMMERCIAL) located and design ed as to avoid undue in- terference with the use of public streets and The following regulations shall apply to all alleys, and shall be graded and surfaced to OP Zones: provide proper drainage and prevent dust SECTION 10.1. USES PERMITTED. arising therefrom. (a) Any use permitted in the C-l Zones. (d) Providing adequate off-street automobile storage space for residential uses and for SECTION 10.2. OFF-STREET PARKING places or public assembly, located within AND SITE DEVELOPMENT REQUIRE­ the C-P Zone, as may be required by the MENTS. Before any building or structure is here­ Planning Commission. Off-street automobile after erected, or a lot hereafter used in Zone C-P, storage space suitably located contiguous to a the use it is designed to serve may be in­ cluded in computing required loading space. by the Planning Commission. Said plot plan shall (e) Provide that the architectural and general show that the development will conform with the appearance of all buildings and grounds following minimum standards: shall be in keeping with good architectural ;(a)yWhere the property abuts upon a State and landscaping practice and such as not highway or a primary County highway, to be detrimental to the general welfare of provide a service road not less than 40 feet the community in which the development is in width, parallel with and adjacent to the located. y. - street upon which the property fronts. In (f) Where the Commission finds one or more the event the property fronts on two or more of the following conditions to exist the re­ streets, the County Board of Supervisors, quirement in subsection (a) for a service after recommendation by the Planning Com­ road may be waived to avoid hardship and mission, may require service road facilities a setback only required: on more than one street frontage. The serv­ 1. There are no service roads planned or in ice road or roads required by this section existence within 1,320 feet of the subject shall be effectively separated from the main property; roadway by a planting strip or other suit­ 2. Where existing devolepment or terrain in: able barrier and shall be designed and ar- dicate that it is wholly impractical to pro­ ' ranged so as to provide the principal means vide frontage roads; of access to abutting commercial areas, 3. Where the development plan required (b) Provide off-street automobile storage space herein provides for vehicular access and on the same or adjacent lot or parcel of circulation so as hot to cause undue inter- ference with through traffic on the adja- perimeter of the building or other structure cent public road. immediately prior to any excavation or fill therefor; or SECTION 10.3. BUILDING HEIGHT 2. The "Curb Level" which is the mean level OMIT. Four (4) stories and not exceeding sixty of the top of curb in front of the front lot (60) feet line. (b) "BUILDING LINES" - are those lines, ARTICLE Xa parallel to and interior from: l-P ZONE (INDUSTRIAL PARK) 1. Front lot line by a distance of 50 feet; and SECTION 10.50. STATEMENT OF IN­ 2. All other lot lines by a distance of 30 feet; TENT AND POLICY. The intent and purposes each measured at right angles from the of the Board of Supervisors in creating this Article applicable parallel front or inside lot line. are as follows: Cc) "COMBUSTIBLE" - any mixture substance (a) To encourage the establishment of indus­ or compound which is susceptible of spon­ tries which are compatible with one an­ taneous combustion. other. (d) "EXPLOSIVE" - any mixture, substance Ob) To establish standards for the height and or compound having properties of such a size of buildings, the areas and dimensions character that alone, or in combination or of yards and open spaces. contiguity with other substances or com­ (c) To provide development and operational pound, it may decompose suddenly and stanaards for yards, structures and equip- generate sufficient heat, gas or pressure to ment that will minimize traffic con stion produce rapid flaming combustion or ad­ noise, glare, air pollution, water pollution, minister a destructive blow to surrounding fire an a safety hazards and insure adequate objects. drainage. (e) "HEIGHT" - with respect to a building or (d) To provide standards for off-street automo­ other structure, is the vertical distance meas­ bile storage and loading facilities adequate ured vertically from the base level to the in area, design, arrangement and develop­ level of the highest point of the building ment to properly serve the uses for which or other structure, excluding, h owever, ven- such facilities are intended and sufficient tilation ducts and fans; sky-lights; roof to preclude the need for on-street parking sprinklers; cooling and water towers and or storage of automobiles or trucks. penthouses occupying in the aggregate no (e) To provide standards for the location and more than five per cent of roof areas; illumination of signs and advertising devices chimneys or like stacks; antenna and flag- so as to minimize glare and distraction to poles. motorists. (f) "INFLAMMABLE" - any mixture, sub­ (f) To prohibit commercial and residential uses stance or compound which will emit an except as such uses are purely accessory and inflammable vapor at a temperature at or incidental to the industrial uses they are below three hundred degrees Fahrenheit intended to serve. (g) To prohibit industrial uses which because when tested in a Tagliabue open cup tester. of potential emanation of dust, ash, smoke, (g) 'YARD IMPROVEMENTS" - are those noise, fumes, gas, odors or vibrations are or structures which are permitted to be in­ may be inconsistent with the intent and corporated on, upon and under any yard purposes of this Article. and shall consist of any of the following: (h) To establish standards for environmental underground installations accessory to any development including landscaping: and re- permitted use under SECTION 10.52 here­ quirment of open areas that will tend to of; meter pits extending not more than six result in healthful and productive working inches above finished grade; lawn sprinkl­ conditions. ers; roads; parking lots; walks; landscaping; railroad tracks; ordinary and necessary serv­ SECTION 10.51. DEFINITIONS. For the ice line conduits and poles for utilities; purpose of this Article, the following words and lighting fixtures; identifying and directional phrases shall have the meanings respectively set signs within the limits prescribed by SEC­ opposite them and such meanings shall prevail TION 10.60 hereof; minor enchoachments herein notwithstanding any contrary meanings set for stairways and pedestrian ramps in other forth elsewhere in this ordinance. than the front yard as may be approved by (a) "BASE LEVEL" - (for the purpose of meas­ the Commission in the Gertificate of Oc- uring the height of any portion of a build­ cupancy; and decorative and security fences ing or other structure) is the higher of: and guard or gate houses not exceeding 1. TTie average level of the land forming the twelve (12) feet in height. SECTION 10.52. USES PERMITTED. lying wholly within an I-P Zone shall pro­ (a) Research Laboratories; commercial office vide peripheral strips, no less than 100 feet buildings, and manufacturing, assembly wide interior from all building lines and fabrication, warehousing, and wholesale no structures above surface yard improve­ distribution of goods, wares, merchandise, ments or vegetation above a level of eight articles, substances or compounds, which are inches above ground shall be permitted not combustible, inflammable, explosive or thereon. The interior lines of such pe ri- likely to create fire, radiation or explosive pheral strip shall constitute the buildiiing hazards to surrounding property. Notwith­ lines of such heliports. standing the foregoing, other articles, sub­ SECTION 10.54. HEIGHTS, stances or compounds may be stored and (a) BUILDINGS. The maximum height of used in reasonable quantities as an inci­ any building at each of the building lines dent to any such permitted use, provided shall be twenty (20) feet. For each ?

owner or occupant. Temporary signs o£ a SECTION 13.4. REQUIRED LOT similar nature not exceeding six (6) square FRONTAGE. Each parcel of land used as a build­ feet in area shall be permitted for seasonal ing site after the effective date of this ordinance use only and may be placed to the street shall have a frontage of not less than sixty (60) line. feet for each dwelling on a street or permanent (g) Prospecting, Mining and Oil Well Drilling. (1) Nothing contained in this article shall means of access to a street. No use of land exist­ be deemed or construed to prohibit pros­ ing on the effective date of this ordinance on a lot pecting for mineral deposits, precious or parcel of land having less than the required lot stones, semi-precious stones, and the like, area or frontage shall be deemed a non-conforming provided however, that prior to the re­ use only because of such deficiency in lot area moval of ore, minerals, precious stones, or frontage. or semi-precious stones on a commercial SECTION 13.5. REQUIRED FRONT scale, a development plan setting forth YARD. Twenty (20) feet except that no build­ in detail the proposed methods of opera­ ing, fence or other structure, the surface of which tion shall have first been approved by the is more than ten (10) per cent solid surface shall Board of Supervisors, after report and be erected nearer than twenty-five (25) feet from recommendation by the Planning Commis­ the point of intersection of any two streets or high­ sion. The Board of Supervisors mav way lines, excepting pole lines, underground pipe specify reasonable conditions to which lines or conduits and ditches. such approval is subject and no such commercial mining operation shall be SECTION 13.6. SIDE YARDS RE­ conducted in a manner inconsistent with QUIRED. Ten (10) feet for residential uses, or in violation of such conditions. If a electrical substations and telephone exchanges. mining operation involves the installa­ Fifty (50) feet for civic, recreational, educational, tion or ore reduction facilities or the stock cultural, public and other utilities uses, excepting piling of ore or other materials such pole lines, underground pipe lines or conduits ana operation shall be subject to all of the ditches. Where a subdivision map is recorded show­ requirements of Article III relating to ing residential lots, the side yard may be reduced permits. to not less than five (5) feet (2) Oil well drilling operations, exploratory SECTION 13.7. ADDITIONAL DWELL­ or otherwise shall be encouraged and may be conducted provided that a develop­ INGS ON A LOT. The same as in R-l Zones ment plan setting forth in detail the pro­ (See Section 6.7) including one guest house, farm posed methods of operation shall have labor camps and dwellings for employees who are first been approved by the Board of Su- employed on the premises or in the general area a major portion or th e year. pervisors, after report and recommenda- tion by the Planning Commission. The SECTION 13.8. REQUIRED LOT AREA. Board of Supervisors may specify reason­ 7200 square feet, with a minimum frontage of able conditions to which such approval is sixty (60) feet. subject and no such oil well drillin_8 °P~ eration shall be conducted in a manner SECTION 13.9. WATER WORKS FACIL­ inconsistent with or in violation of such ITIES. Water works facilities, both public and conditions. private for the production and distribution of (h) Trailers used solely for the the housing of water primarily for irrigation purposes shall not be agricultural workers in conjunction with subject to any of the provisions of this Article. fanning operations, provided: (1) No compensation is involved in the use ARTICLE XIV of the space. A-2 ZONE (HEAVY AGRICULTURE) (2) The location and arrangement of the trailers, as said trailers relate to each SECTION 14.1. STATEMENT OF POL­ other, sanitary facilities and utilities con­ ICY (same as in A-1 Zone). form with regulations of the Health De- SECTION 14.2. USES PERMITTED. partment an d the Department of Build- (a) Any use permitted in A-l Zone. ing and Safety. (b) Except as otherwise provided in subsections SECTION 13.3. BUILDING HEIGHT (c) and (d) of this section, all agricultural LIMIT. Three (3) stories and not exceeding forty- uses on a commercial scale, including: five (45) feet, except that this regulation shall not (1) Grazing, sales yards, commercial stables apply to barns, sheds, silos, towers, water works and riding academies. facilities, including storage tanks or other similar (2) Menageries, alligator, ostrich or fox farms, agricultural or public utility uses. sheep and goat rasing; animal hospitals; commercial dog kennels and dog breed­ W-l Zones (Watercourse Areas) are temporary in ing establishments, mushroom farms and nature, awaiting detailed plans o£ development dairies. for the lands and areas so classified. Therefore, the (3) Fruit and vegetable packing plants and regulations of this article shall apply to lands so similar uses. classified, only until either (1) a drainage and (4) Fairgrounds of a public nature including storm water control plan approved by the County commercial uses necessary or appurtenant Planning Commission and the Board of Super­ thereto. visors shall have been carried out and put into (c) Hog ranches shall conform to the provisions effect, or (2) the lands have been subdivided and of Ordinance No. 431, as amended. a final subdivision map placed on record in ac­ (d) The following uses shall be allowed only cordance with the applicable state and county if a permit is obtained from the Board of regulations, including approval by the County Supervisors in the manner provided in Sec­ Planning Commission and the Board of Super­ tions 3.2 to 3.6 inclusive: visors. In either of such instances, namely the ap­ (1) Commercial cattle feeding yards. This proval and carrying out of a drainage and storm does not include cattle feeding in con­ water control plan, or the filing of a final sub­ junction with farming operations. division map, die properties included therein shall automatically be classified in Zone W-2 and there­ SECTION 14.3. BUILDING HEIGHT after may be reclassified in any other proper zone LIMIT. (Same as in A-l Zone). through the usual procedures before the County SECTION 14.4. FRONT YARD RE­ Planning Commission and the Board of Super­ QUIRED. (Same as in A-l Zone). visors. SECTION 14.5. SIDE YARD RE­ SECTION 15.3. USES PERMITTED IN QUIRED. (Same as in A-l Zone). W-l ZONES. Farming, agriculture and horticul­ ture, flower and vegetable gardening on a com­ SECTION 14.6. REQUIRED LOT mercial scale, nurseries and greenhouses; public FRONTAGE. (Same as in A-l Zone). and private utilities such as railroads, electrical power and transmission lines, water wells and SECTION 14.7. ADDITIONAL DWELL­ water and gas pipes or lines and golf courses and INGS ON A LOT. (Same as in A-l Zone). other outdoor recreational facilities not involving SECTION 14.8. REQUIRED LOT AREA. the construction or buildings. Twenty thousand (20,000) square feet. The following uses may be permitted provided SECTION 14.9. WATER WORKS FA­ a permit has been obtained under the procedure CILITIES. (Same as in A-l Zone). and conditions provided in Article III: (a) Airplane landing strips. ARTICLE XV (b) Extractive industries affecting the earth's surface. W ZONES - WATERCOURSE, WATER­ SECTION 15.50. W-2 ZONES. (WATER­ SHED, CONSERVATION AND SHED, CONSERVATION AND RECREA­ RECREATIONAL AREAS. TIONAL AREAS) STATEMENT OF POLICY. W-1 ZONE (WATERCOURSE AREAS) There are certain areas in the County which by virtue of their peculiar character with respect to W-2 ZONE (WATERSHED, CONSERVATION location, climatic conditions, contour of the land AND RECREATIONAL AREAS) and natural resources are unique, and the Board of Supervisors finds that such areas should receive SECTION 15.1. W-l ZONES (WATER­ special attention with a view toward preserving COURSE AREAS) STATEMENT OF POL­ and conserving the County's natural assets. There­ ICY. There are some areas of the County which fore, for the public safety and interest, health, under present conditions are not suited for perma­ comfort, convenience, preservation of the public nent occupancy or residence by persons for the peace, morals, order and the public welfare, there reason that they are subject to periodical flooding is hereby created a zone classification to be known and other hazards. Therefore, for the public safety as Zone W-2 (Watershed, Conservation and Rec­ and interest, health, comfort, convenience, preser­ reational Areas) within which the primary con­ vation of the public peace, morals, order and the sideration shall be the conservation and preserva­ public welfare, the Board of Supervisors does here­ tion of the natural resources. by create a zone classification within which it shall be unlawful to erect or maintain places for per­ SECTION 15.51. USES PERMITTED IN manent human occupancy. W-2 ZONES. (a) Residential and Light Agricultural Uses. The provisions of this Article XV concerning (1) Any use permitted in the R-l and IS

A-l Zones, subject to the conditions (7) Trailer parks. set forth therein. (e) Heavy Agricultural Uses. The following (b) Public, Semi-public and Commercial Uses. heavy agricultural and other uses, provided The following uses may be permitted pro­ a permit shall have first been obtained from vided plans for the location and develop- the Board of Supervisors in the manner pro­ ment thereof have been first approved by vided in Article III. the Planning Commission as evi aenced by (1) All general agricultural pursuits on a resolution of record: commercial scale (without limitation as (1) Public and private camp grounds. to number of animals per acre), includ­ (3) Hotels, bungalow courts and auto courts. ing: (4) Guest ranches. (a) Grazing, feed yards, sales yards, (5) Places of public assembly and education­ commercial stables and riding acade­ al institutions, including governmental mies. and civic uses. (b) Hog ranches subject to the provi­ (6) Golf, civic, tennis, polo or country clubs. sions of Ordinance No. 431, as (7) Commercial stables or riding academies. amended. (8) Commercial uses for the convenience of (c) Menageries; alligator, ostrich or fox and incidental to any of the above per­ farms; sheep and goat raising; ani­ mitted public and semi-public uses when mal hospitals; commercial dog ken­ located upon the same lot or parcel of nels and dog breeding establish­ land. ments; mushroom farms and dairies. (9) Any use permitted in Zone C-P (Re­ (d) Fruit and vegetable packing plants stricted Commercial), when established and similar uses. and devolped in accordance with the pro­ (e) Fairgrounds of a public nature in­ visions of Article X. cluding commercial uses accessory (c) Public Utility Uses. or appurtenant thereto. (1) Structures and installations necessary to SECTION 15.52. BUILDING HEIGHT the conservation and development of LIMIT. For residential, agricultural and commer­ water such as dams, pipe lines, water con­ cial uses, the same as in the zone in which such duits, tanks, reservoirs, wells and the nec­ use is first ordinarily or primarily permitted, For essary pumping and water production fa­ public utility uses, none. For industrial uses, none, cilities. except that the Board of Supervisors may in the (2) Structures and the pertinent facilities nec­ panting of a permit, attach such conditions as to essary and incidental to the development height of structures as may be necessary to assure and transmission of electrical power and that the intent and purpose of this ordinance are gas such as hydro-electric power plants, observed and the public health, safety and general booster or conversion plants, transmission welfare is secured. lines, pipe lines and the like. (3) Radio broadcasting stations. SECTION 15.53. REQUIRED LOT AREA. (4) Telephone transmission lines, telephone Five (5) acres, except for public utilities uses and exchanges and offices. except where a final subdivision or record of survey (5) Railroads, including the necessary facili­ map has been recorded in accordance with appli­ ties in connection therewith. cable state and county regulations including ap- (6) Television broadcasting stations, anten­ proval by the Planning Commission and the Board nas, and cable installations. of Supervisors; also excepting development plans (d) The following industrial and other uses pro­ which have been approved by the Planning Com- vided a permit shall have first been obtained mission or Board of Supervisors. from the Board of Supervisors as provided SECTION 15.54. CONFORMANCE TO in Article III. OTHER ZONE REQUIRMENTS. Where a (1) Airport or landing field. structure is erected or a use is made which is ex­ (2) Borrow pit, commercial. pressly and specifically permitted in one or more (3) Cemetery - pet or human. other zones under this ordinance, such structure (4) Lumber mill. or use shall be subject to the most restrictive re­ (5) Lumber production of a commercial na- quirements and regulations of any zone in which ture, ;including commercial logging or such structure or use is expressly and specifically commercial development of timber. permitted. (6) The manufacture of: (a) Brick, tile or terra-cotta. ARTICLE XVI (b) Cement. (c) Gypsum. I ZONE (INTERIM) (d) Lime or lime products. The Board of Supervisors finds that there are some areas in the unincorporated County territory tentative comprehensive zoning plan for the dis­ which, because of imminent development, will trict described in the petition, together with such need immediate regulations to insure a well-or- adjoining areas as it may deem necessary for the dered growth. purposes of study. Such tentative plan shall be Therefore for the public safety and interest, submitted to the property owners in the district at health, comfort, convenience, preservation of the public meetings and otherwise for their sugges­ public peace, morals, order and the public welfare, tions and scrutiny. Changes may be made in such there is hereby created an interim zone classifica­ plan bv the Commission from time to time and tion to be known as "Zone I", which shall have such pJaan shall be used as the basis for considera­ the following regulations: tion of application for permits as set forth in Sec- tion 16.8. SECTION 16.1. INITIATION OF PRO­ CEEDINGS: The Planning Commission or the SECTION 16.7. OFFICIAL ACTION ON Board of Supervisors may initiate interim zoning PROPOSED ZONING PLAN: At the earliest regulations. Upon the verified petition of a sub­ practicable time following receipt of a petition as stantial number of representative property owners set forth in Section 16.1, the Commission shall of any unincorporated County territory or district, hold public bearings on a proposed comprehen­ filed with the Commission, setting forth the ap­ sive zoning plan pursuant to the provisions of the proximate boundaries of the proposed zone, to­ State Conservation and Planning Act. It shall gether with the general type of regulations de- thereafter make its recommendations to the Board desired, the Commission shall make such investi­ of Supervisors who shall take appropriate action gation of facts as will enable it to recommend an on the matter. interim plan to the Board of Supervisors, which, in SECTION 16.8. PERMITS FOR NON­ the opinion of the Commission, will reasonably CONFORMING USES. Any property owner or preserve and maintain the character of said district person having the written permission of a prop­ until necessary studies, meetings and hearings can erty owner may file with the Commission, on forms be held pursuant to effecting a comprehensive plan provided by the County for this purpose, an ap­ in accordance with the State Conservation and plication to erect a building or use property in a Planning Act. manner that does not conform to the regulations SECTION 16.2. COMBINING WITH of the existing interim zone thereon. The Com­ OTHER ZONES: The "I" or Interim Zone classi­ mission may act on such application with or with­ fication may be combined with one or more of out holding a public hearing. the other zone classifications set forth in Article Before granting or denying any such applica­ V in order to impose all the regulations of both tion, the Commission shall cause to be made such the "I" and such other zone classification as it may investigations of fact as will assure the mainten­ be combined with, for example — "I" A-l Zone ance of the intent and purposes of interim zoning would mean that all the regulations in the A-l and shall include in its action a report of its Zone would apply to the area so zoned, etc. reasons therefor. The permit may be conditional. SECTION 16.3. DURATION OF INTER­ A written report of the decision of the Com­ IM ZONING: An interim zoning plan may be mission relative to each application for a non-con­ enacted for a period of not to exceed one year, forming use permit shall be filed with the Clerk except that such period may be extended for not of the Board of Supervisors not later than ten (10) to exceed one additional year if it is shown that days after the Commission has reached its decision good reason exists for the necessity of such ex­ and shall be presented by him to the Board of Su­ tended period and, further, that the Commission pervisors at its next regular meeting. The Com­ recommends such extension. mission shall cause a notice of its decision to be SECTION 16.5. ADOPTION OF INTER­ mailed to the applicant not more than three (3) IM ZONING PLAN BY BOARD OF SUPER­ days after such report has been so filed. VISORS: The Board of Supervisors shall adopt Each application shall be accompanied by a an interim zoning plan by ordinance. It shall not filing fee of $50.00. be necessary to publish a map of said district show­ SECTION 16.9. FINALITY OF ACTION ing the interim zoning plan; however, the Board AND APPEAL OR TRANSFER PROCE­ of Supervisors may publish such map if it so DURES. The action of the Commission in grant­ elects. Otherwise, sufficient description of the dis­ ing, either with or without conditions, or in deny­ trict shall be given in the ordinance to determine ing an application for a non-conforming use permit its purpose and boundaries. made under the provisions of this Article shall be SECTION 16.6. PREPARATION OF COM­ final unless, within ten (10) days after the report PREHENSIVE ZONING PLAN: Upon receipt of the Commission is required to he presented to of a petition as set forth in Section 16.1, the Com­ the Board of Supervisors as provided in Section mission shall proceed immediately to prepare a 16.8, either of the actions mentioned in Section 4+1

19.13 of this Ordinance is taken. In the event By "use" is meant substantial construction of that either of said actions is taken, the procedures facilities and improvements required by the permit. provided for in Section 19.14 for variance appeals and transfers shall be followed, and the Board of SECTION 17.5. FILING FEE AND AP­ Supervisors shall sustain, reverse or modify the PLICATIONS FOR PERMITS. Each applica­ action of the Commission on the non-conforming tion shall be accompanied by a filing fee of $50.00. use permit application in the same manner as it Such application for permit shall be verified and does in the case of variance applications. shall contain the following: (a) The name and address of applicant. ARTICLE XVII (b) A statement that he is the owner or that he has permission of the owner to make PUBLIC FUNCTIONS OR USES such application. (c) The address, if any, together with the gen­ SECTION 17.1. SCOPE AND CONDI­ eral location and legal description of the TIONS. The following functions or uses may be premises upon which the desired use is to allowed when not expressly permitted in any zone be established. provided a permit is issued in the manner here­ (d) The nature of the business, operation or inafter set forth with such conditions as may be purpose which is desired to be established. specified. However, no such permit shall be issued (e) A plot plan or diagram of the proposed unless the issuing body finds that such use is both operation showing the structures to be util- necessary and not detrimental to the welfare of the ized. particular community in which the zone is located. (f) Such further documents and information as SECTION 17.2. USES PERMITTED. The may be required by the Commission. following uses may be permitted under this Article: ARTICLE XVIII (1) Any use necessary to the maintenance of the public health, convenience or general GENERAL PROVISIONS welfare. SECTION 18.1. CONFLICTING REGU- (2) Churches, temples or other pilaces used LATIONS. Whenever any provision of this or­ exclusively for religious worship. dinance imposes more stringent requirements, (3) Public utility uses, both publicly and pri­ regulations, restrictions or limitations than are im­ vately own posed or required by the provisions of any other (4) Educational institutions. law, ordinance, restriction or covenant, then the (5) Governmental and civic uses. provisions of this ordinance shall govern. (6) Hospitals, sanitariums, convalescent and SECTION 18.2. SCOPE. No building or rest homes. land or any portion thereof shall hereafter be (7) Clubs, museums and libraries. erected or used except in conformity with the pro­ (8) Institutions of a philanthropic nature. visions of this ordinance. (9) Real estate tract offices. SECTION 18.6. NON-CONFORMING (10) Athletic, sport and recreation uses. BUILDINGS AND USES. The following regu­ (11) Storage garages. lations shall apply to all non-conforming buildings and uses existing on the effective date of this or­ (12) Resort hotels and guest ranches. dinance: r' (13) Small animal clinics and hospitals in C (a) Any nonconforming building or use may Zones. be continued and maintained for the periods (14) Trailer parks in C-l and M-l Zones. of time set forth in subdivision (b) of this SECTION 17.3. PROCEDURE FOR section provided there are no structural al­ HEARING AND APPEAL. After the filinLg Of terations except as provided in Sections a verified application to establish a use set forth 18.7 and 18.8 of this ordinance. in Section 17.2, the procedures and conditions of (b) A nonconforming use may be maintained approval set forth in Article XIX of this ordinance as an automatic exception for the following for the granting of variances shall be followed ex­ periods of time: cept that a showing of hardship is not required. 1. Wh ere the property is unimproved, 1 year. 2. Where the only improvements are struc­ SECTION 17.4. DURATION OF PER­ tures, the replacement of which would not MIT. Any permit granted under the provisions of require a building permit, 3 years. this article shall be used within one (1) vear or 3. Outdoor advertising, 5 years. within the time set by the Commission, otherwise 4. General commercial uses such as those it shall be null and void and have no force or ef­ primarily permitted in C Zones, 30 years. fect whatsoever. 5. General manufacturing uses such as pri- marily permitted in M Zones, 40 years. or where otherwise provided in this ordinance, (c) Any part of a building or land occupied by every dwelling shall face or front upon a street a nonconforming use which is changed to or permanent means of access to a street, and in or replaced by a use conforming to the pro­ no event shall any dwelling face or front upon an visions of this ordinance as they apply to alley. the particular zone shall not thereafter be used or occupied by a non-conforming use. SECTION 18.11. SIZE OF DWELLINGS. (d) Any part of a builaing or land occupied by Every dwelling erected after the effective date of a nonconforming use, which use is discon­ this ordinance shall have a minimum ground floor tinued for one (1) year or more, shall area of not less than 480 square feet, exclusive of thereafter be used in conformity with the unroofed porches and garages and shall conform provisions of this ordinance and the non­ to the yard requirements of the zone in which conforming right shall be lost. such dwelling is first or primarily permitted. The (e) A nonconforming use of property may be architecture and general appearance of such dwell­ changed to another nonconforming use of ing shall be in keeping with the character of the a more restrictive classification, provided no neighborhood and such as not to be detrimental to structural alterations are made, and that the general welfare of the community in which it application is made to the Commission for is located. the change of use and allowed by resolu­ SECTION 18.12. AUTOMOBILE STOR­ tion of record. AGE SPACE. Automobile storage space shall be Each application shall be accompanied by a provided at the time of the erection of any main filing fee of $50.00. building or structure or at the time any main building or structure is enlarged or increased in SECTION 18.7. BUILDINGS UNDER capacity, or any space is used or occupied for CONSTRUCTION. Any building for which a commercial purposes as follows: permit has been issued under the provisions of earlier ordinances of the County in conflict here­ (a) For one-family dwellings, at least one such with, and on which substantial construction has storage space for each dwelling. been performed by integration of materials on the (b) For multiple-family dwellings, apartment site before the effective date of this ordinance, may buildings, bungalow courts, at least one nevertheless be continued and completed in ac­ such space for each dwelling unit. cordance with the plans and specifications upon (c) For hotels, motels, automobile court* clubs, which the permit was issued. guest ranches, at least one such storage space SECTION 18.8. RECONSTRUCTION OF for each guest room or apartment. DAMAGED NONCONFORMING BUILD­ (d) For churches, auditoriums, theaters, sta­ INGS. The provisions of this ordinance shall not diums, night clubs, dance halls, school prevent the reconstruction, repairing or rebuilding multi-purpose rooms and other places of and continued use of any nonconforming building public assembly, one such space for each damaged by fire, explosion or acts of God or the three seats, one seat being hereby defined enemy subsequent to the effective date of this as an area of seven and one-half square feet ordinance, wherein the cost of such reconstruc­ in the main room or place of assembly. tion, repairing or rebuilding does not exceed seven­ (e) Hospitals, sanitariums, rest homes, one such ty-five (75} per cent of the reasonable value of space for each bed. such building at the time such damage occurred. (f) Stores, shops and other commercial uses under 2000 square feet in area; one such Because of a greater fire hazard in mountain space per 250 square feet of floor or sales and forest areas any nonconforming building which is within the limits of any national forest and area. which may be damaged or destroyed by fire or (g) Stores, shops and other commercial uses explosion may be repaired or reconstructed without 2000 square feet or over in area, one such regard to the degree of damage or destruction. storage space per 150 square feet of floor or sales area. SECTION 18.9. NONCONFORMING (h) Industrial uses, one such storage space for USES RESULTING FROM AMENDMENTS. each two employees on the largest shift. The provisions of this ordinance shall apply to (i) Offices, governmental agencies, one such uses which become nonconforming by reason of storage space per 250 square feet of floor the adoption of this ordinance, or any amendment area plus any additional spaces required bv thereof as of the effective date of such adoption the inclusion of uses previously enumerated. or amendment. Automobile storage as required by this sec- SECTION 18.10. LOCATION OF DWELL­ tion shall be subject to the following regu- INGS. Except in multiple dwelling developments lations: (a) Space shall be located on the same lot or SECTION 18.17. ACCESSORY USES. The building site as the main building or struc­ express enumeration of permitted uses in all dis­ ture or on adjoining lots. tricts shall be construed to include necessary ac­ (b) Space shall be graded so as to provide prop­ cessory uses. er drainage and shall be paved with two (2) SECTION 18.18. LOCATION OF DE­ inches of asphaltic material or equal ma­ TACHED ACCESSORY BUILDINGS. The pro­ terial. visions of this Section do not apply to A-l or A-2 (c) Space shall be developed in such manner as Zones. not to be detrimental to surrounding prop­ (a) A detached accessory building may occupy erties; if it adjoins property zoned tor R-l not more than one-half 06) of the required or R-2 a solid fence wall or approved screen rear yard. planting shall be installed in such manner as to preclude any view of the storage space (b) No detached accessory building shall be from the said residential zone. within five (5) feet of the front half of an adjacent lot. For the purpose of this regu­ (d) It shall be developed according to a plan lation a depth of not more than seventy-five as approved in the office of the Commis­ (75) feet shall be deemed to be such front sion and demonstrating the workability of half of such adjacent lot. the plan. (c) Where the average slope of the front half SECTION 18.13. LOADING SPACE. On of the lot is greater than one (1) foot rise the same lot with every building or part thereof, or fall in a seven (7) foot run from the es- used for manufacturing, storage, warehousing, tablished street elevation at the property goods display, department store, wholesale store, line, or where the front half of the lot is market, hotel, hospital, laundry, dry cleaning or more than four (4) feet above or below other uses similarly involving the receipt or dis­ such established street elevation, a private tribution by vehicles of materials or merchandise garage may be built to the street and side there shall be provided and maintained adequate lines. loading space for standing and for loading and (d) In the case of an interior lot, no detached unloading service of such size and so located and accesso ry building shall be erected so as to designed as to avoid undue interference with the encroac:h upon the front half of the lot, pu buc use of streets and alleys. provided however, such accessory building need not be more than seventy-five (75~) SECTION 18.14. SALE OF A PORTION feet from the street line. OF A LOT. Where a lot is divided into separate (e) In the case of a comer lot abutting upon ownerships and the area of either portion is such more than two (2) streets, no accessory that the number and location of the buildings building shall be nearer any street line than thereon no longer conform to the lot area require­ one-fifth (1/5) of the width or length of ments of the particular zone, then, in the d eter- the lot. mination of the permissible number and location of any buildings on either portion of the lot, both (f) In the case of through lots, no accessory parts shall be considered as one parcel only. building shall encroach upon the required front yard on either street. SECTION 18.15. YARD REQUIRE­ (g) In mountain resort areas at altitudes above MENTS. No required yard or other open space 4000 feet a private garage in any residential around an existing building, or any building here­ zone or on premises used for residential after erected, shall be considered as proviain; purposes may be constructed to the same yard or other open space for any other building on building setback line as is required for a an adjoining lot or building site. dwelling on the same premises. SECTION 18.16. TRANSFERAL OF RESI­ (h) No detached accessory building shall be DENTIAL REQUIREMENTS. Where a build­ nearer than 10 feet to the main building. ing for dwelling purposes is erected on a lot in a zone other than the zone in which such build- SECTION 18.19. YARD ENCROACH­ ing for dwelling purposes is first ordinarily or pri­ MENTS. Where yards are required by this or­ marily permitted by this ordinance, such lot snail dinance, they shall be open and unobstructed from be subject to the same requirements for yards, the ground to the sky, except as follows: minimum lot area and percentage of lot coverage (a) Outside stairways or landing places, if un­ as are specified in this ordinance for a lot in the roofed and unenclosed, may extend into a zone in which such building for dwelling purposes required side yard for a distance of not is first ordinarily or primarily permitted. to exceed three (3) feet and/or into the required rear yard a distance of not to ex­ (a) Private swimming pools for the use of the ceed five O) feet. occupants of the premises and their non- (b) Cornices, canopies, and other similar archi­ pa ying guests shall be located not nearer tectural features not providing additional than five (5) feet to any property line or floor space within the building may extend dwelling; into a required yard not to exceed one (1) (b) All other swimming pools shall be located foot. Eaves may extend three (3) feet into not nearer than ten (10) feet from any required yard. One (1) pergola or one (1) property line or building; covered but unenclosed passenger landing (c) A swimming pool may be constructed con­ may extend into either side yard provided trary to subdivision (a) above when it lies it u

results inconsistent with the general pur­ (a) By mailing post cards pursuant to Section poses of this ordinance. 65951 of the Government Code to the (c) That the granting of the variance will not owners of all property within a distance of result in material damage or prejudice to 300 feet of the exterior boundaries of prop­ other property in the vicinity, nor be detri- erty described in the application. menta1 to the public safety or welfare. SECTION 19.7. ADMINISTRATION OF A variance may also be granted to permit a OATHS. The chairman or the acting chairman of use essential to the prosecution of any war in the Commission may administer oaths and compel which the United States may be engaged, provided attendance of witnesses. paragraph (c) of this Section applies further provided that such variance shall expire, not later SECTION 19.8. FINDINGS OF THE than six (6) months afer cessation of physical COMMISSION. Within forty (40) days from hostilities in connection with such war. the conclusion of the public hearing,, the Cora- mission shall render its decision. If, in the opinion SECTION 19.3. FILING OF APPLICA­ of the Commission, the necessary facts and con­ TION. Applications for variances shall be made ditions set forth in Section 19.2 apply in fact to to the Commission in writing on forms provided the property referred to in the application for by the County for this purpose. The Commission variance, the Commission shall grant the variance, from time to time, shall prescribe the information If such facts and conditions do not apply, the to be provided thereon; such applications shall be­ Commission shall deny the application. come consecutive in the order of their filing and shall become a part of the permanent official SECTION 19.9. CONDITIONS. The Com­ records of the County and there shall be attached mission in granting a variance may establish con­ to each such application a copy of all notices, re­ ditions under which a lot or parcel of land may be ports and actions pertaining thereto. used or a building erected and altered, or make requirements as to architecture, height of build- Each application shall be accompanied by a ing, open spaces, parking areas, and conditions of filing fee of $50.00. operation of any enterprise or make any require­ SECTION 19.4. INFORMATION RE­ ments that the Commission may consider neces­ QUIRED WITH APPLICATION FOR VARI­ sary to prevent damage or prejudice to adjacent ANCE. The application for variance shall set properties, or detrimental to the welfare of the forth in detail such facts as may be required by community. the Commission and as may relate to the Com­ SECTION 19.10. NOTICE OF DECISION. mission and as may relate to the conditions speci­ A written report of the decision of the Commis­ fied in Section 19.2 of this ordinance, and shall sion shall be filed with the Board of Supervisors be accompanied by: not later than 30 days after the Commission has (a) Legal description of the property involved reached a decision, and a notice of such decision ana the proposed use, with complete pla ns shall be sent by registered mail to the applicant and also ground plans and elevations of ell for variance, not more than three (3) days after proposed buildings and locations of existin such report is filed with the Board of Supervisors. buildings; also description of the propose The failure of the Commission to notify tne Board use. of Supervisors within 90 days after the conclusion (b) A reference to the specific provision of this of the public hearings shall be deemed to consti- ordinance from which such property is tute a aenial, unless such time limit be extended sought to be excepted. by common consent and agreement signed by both SECTION 19.5. INVESTIGATION OF the applicant and the Chairman of the Commission APPLICATION FOR VARIANCE. The Com­ and/or his duly authorized representative, and mission shall cause to be made such investigation made a part of said records of said Commission. of facts bearing on the application for variance as SECTION 19.11. FORCE OF CONDI­ will provide necessary information to assure that TIONS. Any restrictions or conditions required the action on each such application is consistent by the Commission and the Board of Supervisors with the intent and purpose of this ordinance. in the granting of a variance or permit under the SECTION 19.6. PUBLIC HEARINGS ON provisions of this article must be complied with. APPLICATION FOR VARIANCE. Upon re­ If such conditions or requirements are not met ceipt of an application for variance, the Gommis- or if the use permitted is discontinued for a period sion shall fix a time and place of public hearing of one (1) year or more, the Commission shall thereon, not less than 10 days nor more than 90 hold a public hearing to determine if the permit days thereafter. No less than 10 days before the should be revoked. date of such public hearing, notice snail be given upon revocation further use of the property, of such hearing in the following manner: or maintenance of any building constructed there- on, by authority of such variance or permit, shall ARTICLE XX constitute a violation of this ordinance. AMENDMENTS AND CHANGE OF ZONE SECTION 19.12. VOIDING OF VARI- SECTION 20.1. INITIATION OF PRO­ ANCES. Each variance granted under the pro­ CEEDINGS BY COMMISSION OR BOARD visions of this article shall become null and void OF SUPERVISORS. The Board of Supervisors unless: may from time to time amend, supp lement or (a) The construction authorized by such vari­ change this ordinance and the regulations and ance or permit has been commenced with­ maps appurtaining thereto by proceedings in con­ in one hundred eighty (180) days after formity with the State Conservation and Planning the granting of such variance and pursued Act, Chapter 807, Statutes 1947, as amended, or diligently to completion; or any Statutes superseding the said Act. An amend­ ment, supplement or change may be initiated by (b) The occupancy of land or buildings author­ the Board of Supervisors or the Commission. ized by such variance has taken place with­ in one hundred and eighty (180) days after SECTION 20.2. PETITION FOR the granting of such variance; or CHANGE BY PROPERTY OWNERS. When­ (c) The periods of time set forth in (a) and ever the owner of any land or building desires a (b) have been extended by the Commis­ reclassification of his property or a change in the sion at the time the variance is granted, but regulations applicable thereto, he may file with in no case shall the extension exceed 180 the Commission on forms provided by the County days. for this purpose, a petition duly signed and veri­ fied by him requesting such amendment, supple­ SECTION 19.13. APPEAL OR TRANS­ ment or change of regulation prescribed for such FER TO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. The property. granting, either with or without conditions or the denial of any application for a variance made un­ SECTION 20.3. FILING FEES. Each ap­ der the provisions of this Article by the Commis­ plication shall be accompanied by a filing fee of $125.00. sion shall be final unless, within 1!D days said Commission has notified the Board or Super­ SECTION 20.4. HEARINGS ON PETI­ visors in writing of its decision, either of the fol­ TIONS FOR CHANGE BY COMMISSION. lowing two actions is taken: The Commission shall hold public hearings upon (1) An appeal to the Board of Supervisors the matters referred to in such petitions as re­ is made by the applicant or any owner quired by said State Conservation and Planning of property within three hundred (300) Act, or any Statute superseding the said Act, and feet of the exterior boundaries of the thereupon make reports and recommendations to property described in such application. the Board of Supervisors as therein provided. Such appeal shall be presented in writ- SECTION 20.5. HEARING BY BOARD ing to the County Clerk; or, OF SUPERVISORS ON PETITIONS FOR (2) The Board of Supervisors on its own mo­ CHANGE OF ZONE. The Board of Supervisors tion by majority vote orders the appli­ after receipt of the report and recommendations of cation transferred to it for final decision. the Commission shall hold a final public hearing upon said matters in accordance with the said SECTION 19.14. HEARING ON APPEAL State Conservation and Planning Act or any OR TRANSFER TO THE BOARD OF SU­ Statutes superseding the said Act and thereupon PERVISORS. Immediately after ordering the ap­ take appropriate action. plication transferred to it, or in the case of an appeal being filed, at its next regular meeting fol­ ARTICLE XXI lowing such filing, the Board of Supervisors shall set a date for public hearing thereon, not less than DEFINITIONS 15 days nor more than 45 days thereafter. The For the purpose of this ordinance, certain Board of Supervisors shall give notice of such words and terms used herein are herewith de­ hearing in the manner provided for notice of pub­ fined. lic hearing as set forth in Section 19.6. The Board of Supervisors at such public hearing shall pro­ When not inconsistent with the context, ceed to hear any person or persons interested. words used in the present tense include the future Within 10 days after the conclusion of such hear­ tense; words in the singular number include the ing, the Board of Supervisors shall sustain, reverse plural number and words in the plural number or modify the action of the Commission by a ma­ include the singular number. The masculine gen­ jority vote. der includes the feminine and neuter gender. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely ing, below the average adjoining gr ade. A base- directory. The word "may" is permissive. ment shall be counted as a story if tntents or other camping outfits. parts. The use of more than two hundred (200) square feet of the area of any lot for this purpose SECTION 21.21. CLINIC. A place used shall be deemed auto wrecking. for the care, diagnosis and treatment of sick, ail­ ing, infirm and- injured persons and those who are SECTION 21.10. BASEMENT. A story part­ in need of medical or surgical attention, but who ly underground and having at least one-half its are not provided with board or room, nor kept height measured from its floor to its finished ceil- overnight on the premises. SECTION 21.22. CLUB. A non-profit as- 10,000 square feet or more. No such dwelling shall sociation of persons who are bona fide members, be erected unless as a part of the purchase price paying regular dues, and are organized for some of the property the purchaser receives the privilege common purpose, but not including a group or­ of use of recreational facilities such as golf courses, ganized solely or primarily to render a service cus­ or polo fields, which facilities are adjacent to and tomarily carried on as a commercial enterprise. a part of the residential development. SECTION 21.23. COMMISSION. The No reduction of yard setbacks shall be per­ Riverside County Planning Commission. mitted despite any other provisions of this ordi­ nance. SECTION 21.24. COMPENSATION. The word "compensation" means anything of value. SECTION 21.32. EDUCATIONAL INSTI- TUTIONS. Schools, colleges, or universities, sup­ SECTION. 21.25. COUNTY. The County ported wholly or in part by public funds, and of Riverside. other schools, colleges and universities giving gen­ SECTION 21.26. COURT. An open un- eral instructions, as determined by the California occupied space other than a yard on the same State Board of Education. lot with a building, and which is bounded on two SECTION 21.33. ERECTED. The word (2) or more sides by such building or buildings. "erected" includes built, built upon, added to, al­ tered, constructed, reconstructed, moved upon, or SECTION 21.26a. DOG KENNELS. Any any physical operations on the land, required for lot or premises on which five (5) or more dogs a building. over four (4) months old are regularly kept for boarding, breeding, training or marketing. SECTION 21.34. FAMILY. An individual or two (2) or more persons related by blood or SECTION 21.27. DWELLING. A building marriage, or a group of not more than five (5) or portion thereof designed for or occupied exclu­ persons, excluding servants, who are not related sively for residential purposes including one family by blood or marriage, living together as a single and multiple dwellings but not including hotels, house-keeping unit in a dwelling unit. auto courts, boarding or lodging houses. SECTION 21.35. GARAGE, PRIVATE. SECTION 21.28. DWELLING UNIT. A An accessory building or a main building or por­ building or portion thereof used by one (1) family tion thereof, used for the shelter "or storage or self- and containing but one (1) kitch en. propelled vehicles, owned or operated by the oc­ SECTION 21.29. DWELLING, ONE cupants of a main building ana wherein there is FAMILY. A building containing but one (1) no service or storage for compensation. kitchen and used to house not more than one (1) SECTION 21.36. GARAGE, PUBLIC. Any family, including domestic employees of each building, except one herein defined as a private or family. storage garage, used for the storage, care or repair SECTION 21.30. DWELLING, MULTI­ of self-propelled vehicles or where any such ve­ PLE FAMILY. A building or portion thereof hicles are equipped for operation or kept for hire. used to house two (2) or more families, including SECTION 21.37. GARAGE, STORAGE. domestic employees of each such familv, living Any building or portion thereof, other than one independently of each other, and doing their own defined herein as a public garage or private garage, cooking. used only for storage of self-propelled vehicles. SECTION 21.31. DWELLING, GUEST. SECTION 21.38. HOTEL. A building de­ A building which occupies not more than one- signed for or occupied as the more or less temp- fiftieth (1/50) of the area of the lot on which porary abiding place of individuals who are lodged it is situated, which contains no cooking facilities with or without meals, in which there are six (6) and which is used exclusively for housing of mem­ or more guest rooms, and in which no provision bers of a single family and their non-paying guests. is made for cooking in any individual room or No reduction of the general side or rear yard set­ suite; jails, hospitals, asylums, sanitariums, orphan­ backs shall be allowed for guest dwelling despite ages, prisons, detention homes or similar buildings any other provisions of this ordinance. where human beings are housed and detained un­ der legal restraint, are specifically not included. SECTION 21.31a. DWELLING, RESORT. A building used exclusively for residential pur­ SECTION 21.39. HOTEL, RESORT. A poses, containing not more than two kitchens, with hotel, including all accessory buildings as defined permanent interior means of access between all in Section 21.38 of this ordinance and havin a parts of tbe building, and located on a lot in a building site or hotel grounds containing not less recorded subdivision with an average lot area of than fifty thousand (50,000) square feet. Such hotel may have accessory commercial uses operated SECTION 21.48. LOT, REVERSED COR- primarily for the convenience of the guests thereof, NER. A comer lot, the side street line of which provided there is no street entrance directly to such is substantially a continuation of the front lot line commercial uses, and further provided such com­ of the lot upon which it rears. mercial uses shall not occupy more than twenty- (20) cent of the ground floor area of such SECTION 21.49. LOT, INTERIOR. A lot per c< other than a comer lot. hotel buildi ng- SECTION 21.40. JUNK YARD. The use of SECTION 21.50. LOT, KEY. The first lot more than two hundred (200) square feet of the to the rear of a reversed comer lot and not separa­ area of any lot for the storage of junk, including ted by an alley. scrap metails or other scrap materials. SECTION 21.51. LOT, THROUGH. An SECTION 21.41. KITCHEN. Any room in interior lot having frontage on two (2) parallel or a building or dwelling unit which is used for cook­ approximately parallel streets. ing or preparation of food. SECTION 21.52. NON-CONFORMING SECTION 21.42. LABOR CAMP. Any BUILDING. A building which was legal when building or group of buildings where any number established, but which because of the adoption or of farm help is housed where such farm help is amendment of this ordinance conflicts with the employed principally in the general area of the provisions of this ordinance applicable to the dis­ building site. trict in which such building is situated. SECTION 21.43. LOADING SPACE. Any SECTION 21.53. NON-CONFORMING off-street space or berth on the same lot with a USE. The use of a building or land which was building or contiguous to a group of buildings, for legal when established, but which because of the the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle adoption or amendment of this ordinance conflicts while loading or unloading materials. wit n the provisions of this ordinance applicable to the district in which such use is located. SECTION 21.44. LOT. (1) A parcel of real property as shown on a delinated parcel of SECTION 21.54. OCCUPANCY land with a separate and a distinct number or other CHANGE OF. The term "change of occupancy designation on a plat recorded in the Office of the shall mean a discontinuance of an existing use and County Recorder of Riverside County; or (2) a substitution thereof of a use of a different kind parcel of real property not so delineated and con­ or class. taining not less than six thousand (6,000) so uare SECTION 21.55. OCCUPIED. The word feet and abutting on a street or alley and held un- "occupied" includes: used, arranged, converted to, der separate ownership from adjacent property rented, leased, or intended to be occupied. prior to the effective date of this ordinance; or (3) a parcel of real property not so delineated con­ SECTION 21.56. OUTDOOR ADVER­ taining not less than six thousand (6,000) square TISING OR SIGN. Any sign other than an ap­ feet, abutting on a street or alley, if the same was purtenant sign. An appurtenant sign is one relat­ a portion of a larger piece of real property held ing only to goods sold or services rendered upon under the same ownership prior to the effective the building site upon which said sign is erected date of this ordinance. or maintained. SECTION 21.45. LOT AREA. The total SECTION 21.57. PARKING AREA, PUB- horizontal area within the lot lines of a lot. LIC. An open area other than a street or alley used for the temporary parking of more than four SECTION 21.46. LOT, CORNER. A lot (4) automobiles, and available for public use located at the junction of two (2) or more inter­ whether free, for compensation, or as an accommo­ secting streets having an angle of intersection of dation for clients or customers. not more than one hundred thirty-five (135) de­ grees, with a boundary line thereof bordering on SECTION 21.58. PERSON. The word two (2) of the streets. "person" includes association, company, firm, cor­ poration, partnership, co-partnership or joint ven­ SECTION 21.47. LOT LINES. The ture. boundary lines of lots are: Front Lot Line: The line dividing a lot from the street. On a corner SECTION 21.59. PLACE OF PUBLIC AS­ lot only one (1) street line shall he considered as SEMBLY. Any place designed for or used for a front lot line, and such front lot line shall be congregation or gathering of twenty (20) or more determined by the Commission. Rear Lot Line: persons in one room where such gathering is of a t The line opposite the front lot line. Side lot lines: public nature, assembly hall, church, auditorium, Any lot lines other than tire front lot line or the recreational hall, paviflion, place of amusement, rear lot line. dance hall, opera house, motion picture theater,

• outdoor theater, or theater, are included within "trailer": shall also include self-propelled vehicles this term. used for human habitation. SECTION 21.60. RANCH, GUEST. A SECTION 21.72. TRAILER PARK. Any hotel, including all accessory buildings and com­ lot, open area or parcel of land used for parking mercial uses operated primarily for the conveni­ or storage of trailers used for housekeeping or ence of the guests thereof, having a building site sleeping or living quarters. or hotel grounds containing not less than four and one-half (4W) acres. SECTION 21.73. USE. The purpose for which land or a building is arranged, designed, or SECTION 21.61. REQUIRED LOT AREA, intended, or for which either is or may be occupied FRONTAGE AND SIZE OF DWELLINGS. or maintained. When an asterisk (*) or asterisks follow the zon- SECTION 21.74. USED. The word ing symbol on any Official Zoning Plan Map con­ "used" includes occupied, arranged, designed for currently herewith or hereafter adopted, the re­ or intended to be used. quired minimum lot area, lot frontage and size of dwellings, or any of such requirements, for the SECTION 21.75. YARD. An open and areas upon the map so marked, shall be as set forth unoccupied space on a lot on which a building is in the legend upon such map, other provisions of situated and, except where otherwise providea in this ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding. this ordinance, open and unobstructed from the ground to the sky. SECTION 21.62. ROOF. The solid cover of a building. SECTION 21.76. YARD, FRONT. A yard extending across the full width of the lot between SECTION 21.63. STABLE, COMMER­ the side lot lines and between the front lot line CIAL. A stable for horses which are let, hired, and either the nearest line of the main building used or boarded on a commercial basis and for or the nearest line of any enclosed or covered compensation. porch. SECTION 21.65. STORY. That portion SECTION 21.77. YARD, REAR. A yard of a building included between the surface of any extending across the full width of the lot between floor and the finished ceiling next above it or the the side lot lines and measured between the rear finished under surface of the roof directly over lot line and the nearest rear line of the main build­ that particular floor. ing or the nearest line of any enclosed or covered SECTION 21.66. STREET. A public or porch. Where a rear yard abuts a street it shall an a pproved private thoroughfare or road easement meet front yard requirements of the district. whic:n affords the principal means of access to abutting property but not including an alley. SECTION 21.78. YARD, SIDE. A yard extending from the front yard to the rear yard SECTION 21.67. STREET UNE. The between the side lot line and the nearest line of boundary line between a street and abutting prop­ the main building, or of any accessory building erty. attached thereto. SECTION 21.68. STREET SIDE. That street bounding a comer lot and which extends in ARTICLE XXII the same general direction as the line deemed the ENFORCEMENT/ LEGAL PROCEDURE depth of the lot. AND PENALTIES SECTION 21.69. STRUCTURE. Any­ thing constructed or erected and the use of which SECTION 22.1. ENFORCEMENT. The requires more or less permanent location on the Sheriff, County Surveyor, Building Inspec tor, ground or attachment to something having a per­ County Clerk, Planning Director and all County manent location on the ground, but not inducing Officials charged with the issuance of licenses and walls and fences six (6) feet or less in height permits shall enforce the provisions of this ordi­ nance. SECTION 21.70. STRUCTURAL ALTER­ ATIONS. Any change in the supporting mem­ SECTION 22.2. BUILDING PERMIT bers of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, NOT TO BE ISSUED. No building permit beams, girders, floor joints or roof joists. shall he issued for the erection or use of any structure or part thereof, or for the use of any SECTION 21.71. TRAILER. A vehicle land which is not in accordance with the provisions desiigned to be drawn by a motor vehicle and to be of this ordinance. Any permit issued contrary to the used for human habitation or for carrying persons provisions of this ordinance shall be void and of or property, including a trailer coach. The term no effect. SECTION 22.3. LEGAL PRECEDURE. or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each sep­ Any building or structure erected or maintained, arate day or any portion thereof during which any or any use of property, contrary to the provisions violation of this ordinance occurs or continues of this ordinance shall be and the same is hereby shall be deemed to constitute a separate offense declared to be unlawful and a public nuisance and upon conviction therefor shall be punishable and the District Attorney shall, upon order of the as herein provided. Board of Supervisors, immediately commence ac­ tion or actions, proceeding or proceedings for the ARTICLE XXIII abatement, removal and enjoinment thereof, in the manner provided by law; and shall take such VALIDITY other steps, and shall apply to such court or courts as may have jurisdiction to grant such relief as This ordinance and the various parts, sections will abate or remove such building, structure or and clauses thereof are hereby declared to be use and restrain and enjoin any person from set­ severable. If any part, sentence, paragraph, sec­ ting up, erecting or maintaining such building tion or clause is adjudged unconstitutional or in- or structure, or using any property contrary to the valid, the remainder of this ordinance shall not he provisions of this ordinance. It shall be the right affected thereby. The County Board of Supervisors and duty of every citizen to participate and assist hereby declares that it would have passed this or­ the County Officials in the enforcement of the dinance and each part thereof, regardless of the provisions of this ordinance. fact that one or more parts thereof be declared unconstitutional or invalid. SECTION 22.4. REMEDIES. All reme­ dies provided for herein shall be cumulative and ARTICLE XXIV not exclusive. The conviction and punishment of any person hereunder shall not relieve such person AUTHENTICATION from the responsibility of correcting prohibited conditions or removing prohibited buildings, struc­ It is hereby expressly provided and declared that this ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) ture or improvements, nor prevent the enforced days from and after its passage, and prior to the correction or removal thereof. expiration of fifteen (15^ days from the passage SECTION 22.5. PENALTIES. Any per­ thereof shall be published once in the Riverside son, firm or corporation violating any of the pro­ Enterprise, a newspaper of general circulation, visions of this ordinance or of any permit or ex­ printed and published in the County of Riverside, ception granted hereunder shall be deemed guilty together with the names of the members of the of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, Board of Supervisors voting for and against the shall be: punishable by a fine of not to exceed Five same. Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the County Jail for not to exceed six (6) months, As Amended Sept. 22, 1960