Chapter 17.116, Sections 17.116.010, 17.116.020, 17.116.030
Dimensional standards
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Housing
Uses
Permitted by right7
- Agricultural use of the soils for crops, orchards, grazing and forage
- Electric and gas distribution, transmission substations, telephone and microwave stations
- Water well and any use appurtenant to the storage and distribution of water
- Riding and hiking trails, recreation lakes, and camp grounds
- Mining, quarrying, excavating, beneficiating, concentrating, processing and stockpiling of rock, sand, gravel, decomposed granite, clay, gypsum, limestone, metallic ores, and similar materials, and the rehabilitation of the resulting excavations
- Rock crushing plants, aggregate washing, screening and drying facilities and equipment, and concrete batching plants
- Ore reduction plants, and specialty plants for processing mineral products; and the manufacture of block, pipe, tile, bricks, cement, plaster and asphaltic concrete
Conditional / special use2
- Sewage sludge/organic waste composting facilities
- Solar power plant on a lot ten (10) acres or larger
Accessory7
- Retail and wholesale distribution of materials produced on the site
- Storage of trucks and excavating vehicles
- Storage of materials and machinery used in the operation
- Scales and weighing equipment
- Offices and maintenance shop structures, including use of mobilehomes
- Residences and mobilehomes for caretakers or watchmen and their families
- Sign, on-site advertising
Extracted standards
12 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
the outer boundaries of the area being excavated shall be enclosed with a six foot high chain link fence, including all necessary gates...
- Screening heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft
Excavation operations which are located at any time within five hundred (500) feet of at least ten (10) buildings or mobilehomes used or designed for dwelling purposes shall be screened to a height of at least six feet by either landscaping, berms, walls or solid fencing...
Noise
- Noise suppression
All equipment and premises employed in conjunction with any of the uses permitted in the M-R-A zone shall be constructed, operated and maintained so as to suppress noise and vibrations which are or may be injurious to persons living on adjoining property.
Other
- Access road paving24 ft
All private access roads leading off any paved public street onto property used for any purpose permitted in section 17.116.010(B) or (C) shall be paved to a minimum width of twenty-four (24) feet with asphaltic concrete or equal, not less than three inches in thickness with adequate compacted base material for not less than the first one hundred (100) feet of the access road.
- Air and water pollution compliance
All operations shall be conducted in compliance with the requirements of the Riverside County air pollution control district and the State Water Quality Control Board.
- Liability insurance300,000 dollars
Before commencing operation in any quarry, the owner or operator shall show continuing evidence of insurance against liability in tort in the amount of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00) arising from the production activities...
- Maximum excavation slope1 ft/ft
No production from an open pit quarry shall be permitted which creates an average slope steeper than one foot horizontal to one foot vertical; provided, however, that a steeper slope may be permitted where the soil content or material is such that a vertical-cut excavation is safe in the opinion of the Division of Industrial Safety, Department of Industrial Relations of the state of California.
- Minimum setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from other zones300 ft
provided that such plants and manufacturing operations observe a minimum setback of three hundred (300) feet from any zone, other than the M-R, M-R-A, M-2 and M-4 zones.
- Hours of operation
All uses shall confine operations on the property, other than maintenance, to the hours between six a.m. and ten p.m. of any day, except those operations that are located not less than three hundred (300) feet from the outer boundary of such property.
- Prevent ponding
Where practicable, all excavation operations shall be conducted in such a manner as to prevent unnecessary ponding or accumulation of storm or drainage water.
- Rehabilitation required
All property partially or totally depleted of its mineral resources as a result of a use permitted by this chapter shall be rehabilitated in accordance with the mining reclamation plan which has been approved pursuant to the provisions of county Ordinance No. 555.
- Road dust control
All roads and driveways shall be kept wetted while being used or shall be treated with oil, asphaltic concrete or concrete, or other palliative to prevent the emission of dust.
From the ordinance
The following uses are permitted on parcels not less than twenty thousand (20,000) square feet in area: