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Los Angeles County Unincorporated, California · General provision

Section 22.22.090

Planned IndustrialAll Los Angeles County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA5 acMAX FAR1
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Lot

Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
217,800 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (5 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Height & bulk

Maximum floor area ratioFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot.
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Uses

Permitted by right1

  • Any nonresidential use permitted in Zone R-A, subject to the same limitations and conditions, including auxiliary and transitional uses, front, side, and rear yards, parking standards, height limits, and other development requirements specified in the respective zones

Conditional / special use2

  • A planned industrial development in which the Commission or Hearing Officer may approve any use permitted in Zone M-1.5, subject to the development standards in Subsection B
  • Child care centers

Prohibited1

  • Oil wells and production facilities, in accordance with Section 22.140.400

Extracted standards

4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Design

  • Development plan shall include yards, walls, walks, landscaping, and other features to make the industrial development attractive and buffered.

    The development plan shall include yards, walls, walks, landscaping, and other such features as may be needed.

Other

  • Ground-floor area of buildings shall not exceed 60 percent of the gross area of the lot.60 pct

    The ground-floor area of buildings shall not exceed 60 percent of the gross area of the lot.

  • A tentative map shall be filed and made a condition of approval.

    A tentative map shall be filed and made a condition of approval.

  • All new utility facilities must be installed underground, unless waived for undue hardship.

    The applicant shall submit satisfactory evidence that arrangements have been made to install underground all new facilities necessary to furnish service.

From the ordinance

A planned industrial development shall include a minimum lot area of five acres. The floor area ratio shall not be greater than 1.0, and the ground-floor area of buildings shall not exceed 60 percent of the gross area of the lot.
Section 22.22.090