Los Angeles County Unincorporated, California · General provision
22.16.060, 22.18.030
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Uses
Permitted by right7
- Community gardens
- Adult residential facilities serving six or fewer persons
- Foster family homes
- Group homes for children serving six or fewer persons
- Residential Substance Use Recovery serving six or fewer persons
- Small family homes for children
- Family child care homes, large and small, in an approved residential use
Conditional / special use28
- Crops, including field, tree, bush, berry, and row
- Plant nurseries, propagation of nursery stock only
- Solid fill projects
- Arboretums and horticultural gardens
- Juvenile halls
- Libraries
- Museums
- Golf courses, including clubhouses and accessory facilities
- Parks, playgrounds, and beaches, including accessory facilities
- Adult residential facilities serving seven or more persons
- Convents and monasteries, where on the same lot as a legally established church or school
- Group homes for children serving seven or more persons
- Residential Substance Use Recovery serving seven or more persons
- Adult day care centers
- Hospitals
- Mental Health Treatment Facilities, Inpatient or Outpatient
- Communication equipment buildings
- Earth stations
- Electrical distribution substations, including related microwave facilities
- Fire stations
- Gas metering and control stations, public utility
- Microwave stations
- Police stations
- Publicly owned uses that are necessary to maintain the public health, convenience, or general welfare, other than uses specifically listed in the zone
- Radio and television stations and towers, excluding studios
- Sewage treatment plants
- Telephone repeater stations
- 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
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Maximum fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.8 ft
Fences shall not exceed eight feet in height except where a higher fence is required by other ordinance or law.
- Maximum solid fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.5 ft
Fences shall be open-work, non-view-obscuring except where a solid fence limited to five feet in height is specifically approved by the Director to protect identified resources.
From the ordinance
Premises shall remain essentially unimproved and buildings, structures, grading excavation, fill or other alterations shall be prohibited except for the specified uses... Buildings or structures, except historical monuments, shall not exceed a height of two stories or 35 feet, whichever is less.