Sections 17.12.540 - 17.12.660
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right7
- Hospital, privately or publicly owned
- Long-term health care facility
- Medical clinic
- Medical laboratory
- Medical offices
- Pharmacy
- Water reservoirs, dams, treatment plants, gauging stations, pumping stations, tanks, wells, and any use normal and appurtenant to the storage and distribution of water
Conditional / special use5
- Ambulance service
- Buildings or structures more than 5 stories in height
- Heliport for medical purposes
- Medical/sick room supplies, sales or rental
- Mobilehome or other residence for use by caretaker and his immediate family
Accessory6
- Accessory buildings customarily used in conjunction with permitted uses
- Awnings, fences, walls or windbreaks
- Parking lot guard house
- Solar energy systems
- Electric Vehicle Charging Station (EVCS) as accessory use
- Mini Wireless Telecommunication Facilities
Extracted standards
13 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Uses subject to director's review
Uses subject to director's review include access to nonconforming property, joint parking, minor co-located wireless facilities, and cargo containers for emergency supplies.
- Site plan review required
A site plan (with vicinity map) and building elevations, drawn to scale and reflecting the accurate dimensions of the buildings and property, shall be required of any person seeking to erect new buildings or structures...
- Solar collector heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. exception5 ft
Solar collectors may exceed the height limit when mounted on the roof of a legal, conforming building... in no case shall such solar collectors (or related equipment) encroach more than 5 feet beyond the limit.
- Landscaping shall not shade solar systems
No landscaping shall be placed in a manner which shades or would ultimately shade any existing solar energy system from the sun on a contiguous lot.
- Temporary uses
Temporary uses include building materials storage during construction and commercial coaches as temporary offices.
- Trash enclosure cover required
Design trash enclosures with a non-combustible, overhanging, trellis or roof cover;
- Trash enclosure minimum area165 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Design the trash enclosure to be a minimum of 165 square feet;
- Trash enclosure planter width6 ft
Separate trash enclosure from adjacent parking with a 6-foot wide minimum planter.
- YardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. requirement formula
Front yard, street side yard and interior side yard: 20 feet plus 5 feet for each story over one.
Parking
- No parking in front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.
No parking shall take place within 20 feet of a property line within a required front or street side yard, such area shall be fully landscaped except where crossed by approved driveways.
Signage
The following signs shall be prohibited in the H zone: exposed incandescent lamps, revolving beacon lights, flashing operations, awning signs, roof signs, revolving signs, etc.
- Sign area computation
The area of a sign shall be computed by means of the smallest square, circle, rectangle, triangle, or combination thereof that will encompass the extreme limits of the writing...
- Sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. measurement
The height of all signs shall be measured from the highest point of the sign.
From the ordinance
No building or structure for a permitted use in the H zone shall exceed a height of 5 stories.