Rancho Palos Verdes, California · General provision
Chapter 17.32
Dimensional standards
Housing
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Areas with natural slope exceeding 35%, downslope movement, unstable for development, erosion/flooding hazards, ocean bluffs, and flood-prone areas.
Uses
Permitted by right12
- Outdoor passive recreation uses (parks, trails)
- Preservation of scenic, geologic, historic or cultural value
- Preservation of natural resources
- Regulation of areas for public health and safety
- Conservation of water supply land
- Existing single-family residential structures (as of June 26, 1975) - replacement/repair/restoration
- Remedial grading
- Temporary special uses (with special use permit)
- Commercial filming or photography (with film permit)
- Growing crops/fruits on one acre or less for noncommercial purposes
- Cargo container storage on developed lot
- Other uses per overlay/special districts
Conditional / special use6
- Comfort stations
- Maintenance buildings (120-400 sq ft)
- Public utility structures
- Limited outdoor active recreational uses (no permanent structures, no golf)
- Agricultural and horticultural uses over one acre
- Additional non-permanent accessory facilities
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Geotechnical report required for permanent structures
All applications for development of permanent structures... shall not be deemed complete until geotechnical and/or soils reports... have been submitted and approved.
- Maximum slope for development35 pct
Areas where the existing natural slope exceeds 35 percent
From the ordinance
Land in open space hazard districts may be used for the following... outdoor passive recreation uses, such as parks, trails...