Rancho Palos Verdes, California · General provision
17.26.020-17.26.050
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right6
- Temporary special uses and developments (with special use permit)
- Commercial filming or photography (with film permit)
- Recycling centers
- Temporary vendors (with temporary vendor permit)
- Minor professional and retail commercial uses ancillary to major use
- Other uses as provided in overlay or special districts
Conditional / special use15
- Public facilities (governmental)
- Educational facilities
- Churches, temples, religious places, parochial schools, convents
- Clinics and sanitariums, including animal hospitals
- Sanitariums, nursing homes, rest homes, homes for aged, children, mental patients
- Recycling drop-off/collection facilities
- Bed and breakfast inns
- Cemeteries
- Commercial antennas
- Developments of natural resources
- Helistops
- Public utility structures
- Outdoor active recreational uses
- Small wind energy systems
- Other similar uses as determined by director
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Exterior lighting
All exterior lighting shall conform to section 17.56.040 and require plan approval.
Noise
- Delivery hours when abutting residential
Deliveries, trash pick-up, and mechanical equipment emitting noise >65 dBA only allowed 7am-7pm when abutting residential.
Other
- Buffering when abutting residential
Buffering and screening techniques required along abutting residential boundary.
- Expansion requiring CUP
Expansion creating at least 500 sq ft additional floor area requires CUP.
- Storage of equipment
All maintenance and groundskeeping equipment shall be housed in permanent, entirely enclosed structures.
Signage
- Sign permit
Signs per section 17.75.040.
From the ordinance
Institutional buildings shall have a building height not greater than 16 feet and shall not exceed one story, except with CUP. Uses permitted include temporary special uses, commercial filming, recycling centers, etc. Conditional uses include public facilities, educational facilities, churches, etc.