Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right22
- one-family dwellings
- raising of fruit and nut trees, vines, vegetables and horticultural specialties on a noncommercial basis
- fenced or enclosed swimming pools for individual, family or communal use on exclusive noncommercial basis
- small family day care home (6 or fewer children)
- alcoholic recovery facility (6 or fewer persons)
- family care home, foster home or group home serving 6 or fewer mentally disordered or otherwise handicapped persons
- accessory structures and uses
- second dwelling units (per Section 18.14.060)
- enclosed temporary construction materials storage yards
- gas and electric transmission lines
- electrical distribution substations
- gas regulator stations
- communications equipment buildings
- public service pumping stations
- elevated pressure tanks
- garden structures
- mobile homes on permanent foundations
- single-family dwellings in subdivisions when street improvements not completed
- large family day care home (7-12 children)
- tennis courts including related fencing over 7 feet
- home occupations
- incidental and accessory structures and uses
Conditional / special use8
- public and quasi-public educational or religious uses (schools, churches, parsonages)
- public and private charitable institutions, hospitals, sanitariums, rest homes, nursing homes
- family care home serving 7 or more persons
- public uses (administrative, recreational, public service, cultural)
- additional one- or two-family dwellings in specific area
- modest expansion or remodeling of nonconforming use
- keeping more than 5 fowl
- incidental and accessory structures for conditional uses
Accessory2
Extracted standards
18 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Fences, walls and hedges
Fences, walls and hedges shall be permitted in accordance with the provisions of Section 18.06.050.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structures in rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.
Accessory and garden structures less than seven feet in height may be located within any portion of a rear yard. Accessory and garden structures greater than seven feet, and less than fifteen feet must be located a minimum of five feet from the rear property line.
- Additional one- or two-family dwellings in specific area
Additional one- or two-family dwellings per site located within older, predominately, single-family areas bounded by Tulare Road, Lindmore Street, Harvard Avenue and the Southern Pacific Railroad, up to a maximum of four housing units per site, with a minimum of three thousand square feet of site area per dwelling unit on parcels which are seven thousand five hundred square feet or greater in area.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. increase for additional storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
Where construction involves more than one story, the rear yard shall be increased by ten feet for each additional story; the side yard shall be increased by five feet for each additional story.
- Keeping more than five fowl
Keeping more than five total fowl, per Title 6.
- Front-loaded garage setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from primary dwelling facade15 ft
Front-loaded garages, when used, shall be set back fifteen feet from the facade of the primary dwelling unit.
- Distance from street centerline to rear of front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.45 ft
The distance from the center line of a public street to the rear of the required front yard shall not be less than forty-five feet.
- Garage front and corner side 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.20 ft
Front and corner side yards: twenty feet.
- Garage interior side 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.5 ft
Interior side yard: five feet.
- Garage 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.5 ft
Rear yard: five feet.
Home occupations in accordance with Chapter 18.14.
A 'large family day care home' for seven to twelve children, inclusive.
- Minimum distance between one-family residence and another building10 ft
The minimum distance between a one-family residence and another building shall be ten feet.
- Mobile homesManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site. on permanent foundations
Mobile homes on permanent foundations designed in accordance with the standards of Section 18.14.050.
- Expansion of nonconformingNonconformingLawful when built, but not compliant with the rules now in force; usually allowed to continue but not to expand. use
Modest expansion or remodeling of an existing nonconforming use of a structure or land, limited to twenty five percent or less of the assessed value of existing structures.
- Reversed corner lot side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.
On a reversed corner lot, the side yard adjoining the street shall be not less than one-half the required front yard on the adjoining key lot.
- Tennis courts
Tennis courts, including related fencing over seven feet in height.
Signage
- Signs
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 for the R-1-7X district shall be seven thousand square feet. Front yard 15 ft, rear yard 5 ft, side yard 5 ft, max height 35 ft, max coverage 40%.