17.132.020, 17.132.030
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right13
- One-family dwellings in conjunction with a dairy operation
- Dairy farms and dairy calf, heifer, dry cow and herd replacement operations
- Farms for rabbits, fish, frogs, worms, chinchilla or other small animals
- Nurseries, greenhouses, orchards, aviaries, apiaries, field crops, tree crops, berry and bush crops, vegetable flower and herb gardening
- Grazing of horses, sheep, goats or other farm stock
- Farms for selective breeding of sheep, goats, horses
- FFA or 4-H projects
- Temporary stand for display and sale of agricultural produce
- Water work facilities for irrigation
- Signs advertising products produced on premises
- Keeping of crowing fowl (subject to limits)
- Outside storage of materials used in conjunction with farm
- Employee housing meeting Health and Safety Code Section 17021.8
Conditional / special use4
- Abattoirs
- Solar power plant on a lot 10 acres or larger
- Employee housing not meeting Health and Safety Code Section 17021.8
- Additional one-family dwelling (per 10 acres farmed, subject to plot plan approval)
Extracted standards
10 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for non-residential buildings50 ft
No other building or structure shall exceed fifty (50) feet in height, unless a greater height is approved pursuant to section 17.172.230. In no event, however, shall a building exceed seventy-five (75) feet in height or any other structure exceed one hundred five (105) feet in height, unless a variance is approved pursuant to Chapter 17.196.
Other
- Additional one-family dwellings allowed per 10 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones. farmed1 dwelling per 10 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
An additional one-family dwelling (including mobilehomes), excluding the principal dwelling, shall be allowed for each ten (10) acres gross being farmed. The additional dwelling units shall be located on a parcel being farmed and occupied by the owner, operator or employee of the farming operation as a one-family residence.
- Employee housing requirements
Employee housing meeting the requirements, as determined by the planning director, set forth in Health and Safety Code Section 17021.8, as may be amended, or consisting of no more than thirty-six (36) beds in a group quarters or twelve (12) units or spaces designed for use by a single-family or household.
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for dairy operations50 ft
Minimum front yard requirements shall be twenty (20) feet; fifty (50) feet for dairy operations, including the processing, packaging and marketing of waste products produced on the premises, and all other agricultural operations involving the keeping of animals.
- Maximum number of mature crowing fowl50 count
The keeping or raising of not more than fifty (50) mature female crowing fowl and ten (10) mature male crowing fowl on lots or parcels between twenty thousand (20,000) square feet and thirty-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine (39,999) square feet.
- Maximum number of mature crowing fowl on large lots100 count
Not more than one hundred (100) mature female crowing fowl and twenty (20) mature male crowing fowl on lots of forty thousand (40,000) square feet or more.
- Maximum outside storage area (non-farm use)100 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The amount of outside storage materials is limited to one hundred (100) square feet with a maximum height of three feet on parcels less than one-half acre.
- Maximum outside storage area (non-farm use) on large parcels200 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Two hundred (200) square feet with a maximum height of three feet for parcels on one-half acre or more.
- Side and rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for dairy operations25 ft
Minimum side and rear yard requirements shall be ten (10) feet. Twenty-five (25) feet for dairy operations, including the processing, packaging and marketing of waste products produced on the premises, and all other agricultural operations involving the keeping of animals.
Signage
- Maximum sign area per face12 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A sign, single- or double-faced, not exceeding twelve (12) square feet in area per face, advertising only the sale of services or the products produced on the premises. The sign shall not be lighted or have flashing objects or banners.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot size shall be twenty (20) acres. One-family residences shall not exceed forty (40) feet in height.