18.06.050 Property Development Standards
Dimensional standards
Lot
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
- 20,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.46 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
- Minimum lot depth
- 150 ft
Density
- Lot area per dwelling unitLot area per dwelling unitLand required for each home — the same limit as du/acre, expressed per unit instead of per acre.
- 20,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.46 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
- Maximum units
- 1
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right12
- One-family dwellings
- Raising of field crops, fruit and nut trees, vines, vegetables and horticultural specialties
- Breeding, hatching, raising and fattening of birds, rabbits, chinchillas, hamsters and other small animals and fowl on a domestic, noncommercial basis on sites of one-half acre or more
- Raising of livestock, except swine, on a site containing not less than 40,000 sq ft; max 4 adult animals
- Fenced or enclosed swimming pools
- Incidental and accessory structures (garages, carports, storehouses, garden structures, greenhouses, recreation rooms, hobby rooms, hobby shops; barns, stables, coops on 40,000 sq ft sites)
- Second dwelling units
- Enclosed temporary construction materials storage yards, temporary subdivision sales offices and signs, model home display areas
- Gas and electric transmission lines, electrical distribution substations, gas regulator stations, communications equipment buildings, public service pumping stations and elevated pressure tanks
- Mobile homes on permanent foundations
- Home occupations
- Incidental and accessory structures for administrative or conditional uses
Conditional / special use7
- Public and quasi-public uses of educational or religious type (schools, churches, parsonages)
- Public and private charitable institutions, hospitals, sanitariums, nursing homes, rest homes
- Public uses of administrative, recreational, public service or cultural type (courts, libraries, museums, police/fire stations, playgrounds, parks, community centers)
- Private or public golf courses
- Modest expansion or remodeling of existing nonconforming use (25% or less of assessed value)
- Expansion, remodeling, or additions to a conditional use
- Incidental and accessory structures for conditional uses
Accessory7
- Private garages and carports
- Storehouses
- Garden structures
- Greenhouses
- Recreation rooms
- Hobby rooms and hobby shops
- Barns, stables, coops and other farm-type outbuildings (on sites ≥40,000 sq ft)
Prohibited2
- Underground storage of petroleum products for exclusive use of residents
- Raising of swine
Extracted standards
11 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Fence setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street sideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. property line on reverse corner lot5 ft
Fences, walls and hedges shall be set back at least five feet from the street side property line on a reverse corner lot.
- Maximum fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. in corner lot sight triangle2.5 ft
No fence, wall or hedge exceeding two and one-half feet in height may be located within an area of a corner lot on the street side of a diagonal line connecting points located twenty-five feet along the property line as measured from the intersecting property lines at the street corner.
- Maximum fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. in front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.3 ft
Fences, walls, and hedges not exceeding three feet in height may be erected within any portion of the required front yard or required street side yard of a reverse corner lot.
- Maximum fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. in front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. with open top4 ft
A fence or wall not exceeding four feet in height may be located in the required front yard, or street side yard of a corner or reverse corner lot, provided that the top one foot is not visually obstructed.
- Maximum fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. in side, street sideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line., and rear yards7 ft
Fences or walls not exceeding seven feet in height may be erected within any portion of the required side, street side, and rear yards.
Other
- Average lot size in subdivision40,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The average size of all lots or sites created by a division of land or subdivision shall be a minimum of forty thousand square feet.
- Maximum percentage of lots at minimum site area50 pct
Not more than one-half of such lots or sites shall be at the minimum site area.
- Minimum distance of animal housing from side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. or dwelling25 ft
No structure housing poultry, or animals other than cat or dog household pets, shall be closer than twenty-five feet to any side yard property line or to any dwelling on the site.
- Minimum distance between dwelling and other structure10 ft
The minimum distance between a one-family dwelling and another structure shall be ten feet, except as provided by the city's building code.
Parking
- Off-street parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. per Chapter 18.13
Off-street parking and off-street loading facilities shall be provided on the site for each use as prescribed in Chapter 18.13.
Signage
- Signs permitted only per Chapter 18.14
No sign or outdoor advertising structure of any character shall be permitted except as prescribed in Chapter 18.14.
From the ordinance
The minimum site area shall be twenty thousand square feet; ... maximum site area covered by structures shall be thirty-five percent; ... No building or structure shall have a height greater than thirty-five feet.