Los Angeles County Unincorporated, California · General provision

Section 22.26.030

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaRear 15 ftMAX HEIGHT65 ftMAX FAR3
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.

Uses

Permitted by right43

Conditional / special use31

Accessory6

  • Access to property lawfully used for a purpose not permitted in Zone MXD
  • Grading projects
  • Parking lots and parking buildings
  • Rental, leasing, and repair of articles sold on the premises, accessory to retail sales
  • Sport courts, including tennis, volleyball, badminton, croquet, lawn bowling, and similar courts, in conjunction with a residential use
  • Used merchandise, retail sale of, taken as trade-in on the sale of new merchandise when such new merchandise is sold from the premises

Extracted standards

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

Height

  • Stepback for buildings sharing lot line with R-1/R-245 ft

    The portion of any building sharing a common side or rear lot line with property located within Zone R-1 or R-2 shall have a stepback from the common side or rear lot line so that the height of the building in Zone MXD is no greater than 45 feet at the edge of the building wall facing that common lot line, and shall be recessed back one foot for every one-foot increase in building height, up to a maximum height of 65 feet.

Other

  • The floor-to-ceiling height of the ground floor for a street-facing retail component of a mixed use development shall be a minimum of 14 feet.

  • Minimum width of street-facing retail ground floor20 ft

    The width of the street-facing retail component of the ground floor within a mixed use development shall be a minimum of 20 feet.

  • Minimum landscaping5 pct

    A minimum of five percent of the lot shall be landscaped with drought-tolerant lawn, shrubbery, flowers, or trees, which shall be continuously maintained in good condition.

  • Loading area distance from pedestrian ingress/egress20 ft

    Loading areas shall be located away from primary pedestrian ingress and egress areas by at least 20 feet.

  • Minimum residential floor area in mixed use developments66.67 pct

    At least two-thirds of the square footage of the mixed-use development shall be designated for residential use.

  • Side and rear yards abutting Zone R-1 or R-2 lots shall have a minimum depth of 15 feet.

Parking

  • Parking location and screening

    With the exception of subterranean parking, all vehicle parking areas shall be located in the rear of the structures or at the rear of the lot, except that up to 25 percent of required parking may be located along one side of the building if an access driveway is provided; and completely screened with walls or landscaping so that the parking areas are not visible from a major or secondary highway.

  • Maximum parking reduction25 pct

    The number of required vehicle parking spaces as provided therein may be reduced by up to 25 percent.

From the ordinance

Maximum FAR 3.0. Maximum height 65 feet. Minimum landscaping 5% of lot. Side and rear yards abutting R-1 or R-2 lots shall have a minimum depth of 15 feet.
Section 22.26.030