Los Angeles County Unincorporated, California · General provision
22.24.030 and 22.24.040
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 10%
Uses
Permitted by right135
- Crops, including field, tree, bush, berry, row, and nursery stock
- Greenhouses
- Veterinaries, small animal: Clinics
- Arboretums and horticultural gardens
- Churches, temples, or other places used exclusively for religious worship, including accessory educational and social activities
- Community centers
- Grange halls
- Libraries
- Lodge and union halls
- Schools: Business and professional schools, including art, barber, beauty, dance, drama, and music
- Furniture and household goods, transfer and storage
- Plumbing contractor's shops
- Athletic fields, excluding stadiums
- Gymnasiums
- Parks, playgrounds, and beaches, including accessory facilities
- Riding and hiking trails, excluding trails for motor vehicles
- Adult residential facilities: Facilities serving six or fewer persons
- Foster family homes
- Group homes for children: Facilities serving six or fewer persons
- Residential substance use recovery facilities: Facilities serving six or fewer persons
- Small family homes for children
- Antique shops, genuine antiques only
- Appliance stores, household
- Art galleries
- Art supply stores
- Bait and tackle shops
- Bakery shops, including baking only when accessory to retail sales from the premises
- Bicycle shops
- Bookstores
- Clothing stores
- Confectioneries and candy stores, including making only when accessory to retail sales from the premises
- Delicatessens
- Dress shops
- Drugstores
- Farm equipment sales, rental, and storage
- Feed and grain sales
- Florist shops
- Fruit and vegetable markets
- Furniture stores
- Furrier shops
- Grocery stores
- Health food stores
- Hobby supply stores
- Ice cream shops
- Ice sales, excluding ice plants
- Jewelry stores
- Lapidary shops
- Leather goods stores
- Meat markets, excluding slaughtering
- Millinery shops
- Mobilehome sales
- Model home display centers and sales offices: Without residential units
- Music stores
- Newsstands
- Notion or novelty stores
- Office machines and equipment sales
- Paint and wallpaper stores
- Pet supply stores, excluding the sale of pets other than tropical fish or goldfish
- Photographic equipment and supply stores
- Plant nurseries, including propagation of nursery stock and retail sales
- Radio and television stores
- Retail stores
- Secondhand stores
- Shoe stores
- Silver shops
- Souvenir shops
- Sporting goods stores
- Stationery stores
- Tobacco shops
- Toy stores
- Yarn and yardage stores
- Banks, savings and loans, credit unions, and finance companies
- Barber shops
- Beauty shops
- Blueprint shops
- Book binderies
- Butane and propane service stations
- Carpet and rug cleaners
- Catalog and internet order businesses
- Catering services
- Child care centers
- Family child care homes, large and small, in an approved residential use
- Electricians' shops
- Employment agencies
- Interior decorating studios
- Laundries and cleaning services: Self-service
- Locksmith shops
- Dental clinics, including associated laboratories
- First aid stations
- Medical clinics, including associated laboratories
- Offices, business or professional
- Packaging businesses
- Pet grooming services, excluding boarding
- Photocopying and duplicating services
- Photography studios
- Picture mounting and framing services
- Plumbing shops
- Printers or publishers
- Real estate offices
- Rental services: Bicycle rentals
- Rental services: Costume rentals
- Rental services: Furniture and appliance rentals
- Rental services: Hospital equipment and supply rentals
- Rental services: Party equipment rentals
- Rental services: Recreational equipment rentals
- Rental services: Tool rentals, including rototillers, power mowers, sanders and saws, cement mixers, and other equipment, excluding heavy machinery or trucks exceeding two tons' capacity
- Repair shops, household and fix-it
- Reupholsterers, furniture
- Shoe repair shops
- Shoeshine stands
- Sightseeing agencies
- Tailor shops
- Taxidermists
- Tourist information centers
- Watch repair shops
- Air pollution sampling stations
- Comfort stations and restroom facilities
- Communications equipment buildings
- Earth stations
- Fire stations
- Gas metering and control stations, public utility
- Microwave stations
- Police stations
- Post offices
- Public utility service centers
- Telephone repeater stations
- Automobile rental and leasing agencies
- Boat and other marine sales
- Boat rentals
- Motorcycle, motor scooter, and trail bike, sales and rentals
- Recreational vehicle sales and rentals
- Trailer rentals and sales, limited to equestrian, box and utility trailers, excluding those exceeding two tons' capacity
- Truck repair, excluding trucks exceeding two tons' capacity
- Used automobile sales
- Automobile radiator shops
Conditional / special use71
- Dog training schools, excluding boarding
- Menageries, zoos, animal exhibitions, or other facilities for keeping of wild animals
- Riding academies and stables, with the boarding of horses
- Veterinaries, small animal: Hospitals
- Amphitheaters
- Museums
- Observatories
- Schools: Colleges and universities, accredited, excluding trade or commercial schools
- Schools: Theaters and other auditoriums
- Assaying services
- Motion picture processing, reconstruction, and synchronizing of film with sound tracks
- Tire retreading or recapping
- Trade or commercial schools, specializing in manual training, shop work, or in the repair and maintenance of machinery or mechanical equipment
- Cabins
- Hotels
- Motels
- Youth hostels
- Arcades, game or movie
- Archery ranges
- Billiard or pool halls
- Bowling alleys
- Card rooms or clubs
- Carnivals, commercial, including pony rides, for longer than seven days
- Circuses and wild animal exhibitions
- Games of skill
- Golf courses: Golf courses, including clubhouses and accessory facilities
- Golf driving ranges
- Miniature golf courses
- Motor recreational facilities for the driving, testing, or racing of automobiles, dune buggies, motorcycles, trail bikes, or similar vehicles, including accessory facilities
- Race tracks
- Rifle, pistol, or skeet ranges
- Rodeos, excluding horse racing
- Shooting galleries
- Skating rinks, ice or roller
- Sport courts, including tennis, volleyball, badminton, croquet, lawn bowling and similar uses, as a principal use
- Swimming pools as a principal use
- Adult residential facilities: Facilities serving seven or more persons
- Convents and monasteries
- Group homes for children: Facilities serving seven or more persons
- Residential substance use recovery facilities: Facilities serving seven or more persons
- Rooming and boarding houses
- Health clubs and centers
- Pawnshops
- Recording studios
- Swap meets
- Bars and cocktail lounges
- Body piercing parlors
- Dance halls, indoor
- Dance pavilions, outdoor
- Adult day care centers
- Drive-through establishments, drive-through facilities, and drive-through services
- Massage establishment
- Ambulance service facilities
- Hospitals
- Mental Health Treatment Facilities, Inpatient or Outpatient
- Mortuaries
- Nightclubs
- Permanent cosmetics parlors
- Photoengravers and lithographers
- Steam or sauna bath
- Tattoo parlors
- Wedding chapels
- Airports, heliports, and helistops
- Pipeline or transmission lines
- Publicly owned uses that are necessary to maintain the public health, convenience, or general welfare, other than uses specifically listed in the zone
- Public utility service yards
- Radio and television stations and towers, excluding studios
- Stations, bus, railroad, or taxi
- Water reservoirs, dams, treatment plants, gauging stations, pumping stations, wells, and tanks, and any other use normal and accessory to the storage and distribution of water, except for shared water wells and associated tanks
- Automatic car wash
- Coin-operated or hand wash
Accessory3
- Agricultural processing, small scale
- Rental, leasing, and repair of articles sold on the premises, accessory to retail sales
- Used merchandise, retail sale of, taken as trade-in on the sale of new merchandise when such new merchandise is sold from the premises
Prohibited2
- Adult businesses
- Model home display centers and sales offices: With residential units
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Conditional UseConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote. Permit required for uses generating traffic requiring new traffic lights
In Zone C-RU, any use permitted with a ministerial review in Subsection C, above, that would generate vehicular traffic requiring the provision of new or additional traffic lights shall be subject to a Conditional Use Permit.
- Minimum landscaping for commercial uses10 pct
A minimum of 10 percent of the net lot area for lots devoted to commercial use, including parking and other accessory uses, shall be landscaped with drought-tolerant landscaping.
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.43,560 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Minimum lot size is one acre (gross).
- Minimum side or rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when adjoining Residential or AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. zone5 ft
Where a lot adjoins a lot that is zoned Residential or Agricultural, the lot shall have a minimum side or rear yard of not less than five feet from the lot line adjoining the Residential or Agricultural zoned lot.
- Screening of mechanical equipment, trash containers, and dumpsters
All mechanical equipment, trash containers, and dumpsters shall be completely screened from view from adjacent streets, walkways, and residences through the use of walls and/or landscaping.
Parking
- Maximum parking conversion to large vehicle spaces40 pct
A maximum of 40 percent of the total required vehicle parking spaces may be converted to parking spaces for large vehicles, recreational vehicles, trailers, and semi-trucks.
- Parking setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from Residential or AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. lot line5 ft
Where a lot adjoins a lot that is zoned Residential or Agricultural, the vehicle parking and loading zone areas shall be set back not less than five feet from the lot line adjoining the Residential or Agricultural zoned lot.
- Parking setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from right-of-way5 ft
Vehicle parking and loading zone areas shall be set back not less than five feet from the right-of-way.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot size is one acre (gross). Minimum side or rear yard of not less than five feet from lot line adjoining Residential or Agricultural zoned lot. Landscaping: minimum 10% of net lot area for commercial uses.