Los Angeles County Unincorporated, California · General provision
22.46.110-22.46.160
ConservationAll Los Angeles County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
Servicing
- Applies near
- Santa Catalina Island
- Geographic extent
- Santa Catalina Island, various LACA lots as listed in Sections 22.46.110-22.46.120
Uses
Permitted by right23
- Parking area for primitive campground
- Picnic area
- Campground, equestrian
- Campground, improved
- Campground, primitive
- Pier, docks and similar facilities
- Youth camp with related upland support facilities
- Interpretive signs and displays
- Yacht club with upland support facilities
- Crops: field, tree, bush, berry and row, including native plant nursery stock
- Field station for scientific research
- Raising, grazing, breeding and training of cattle, horses and other equine
- Ranch
- Riding academies and stables with the boarding of horses
- Museum for display of Santa Catalina Island artifacts
- Day use activities
- Memorial grove consisting of Santa Catalina Island endemic plants
- Educational, recreational and/or conference facility for overnight use
- Water taxi support facility
- Arboretum or horticultural garden
- Entry gate kiosk
- Ranger station
- Visitor center, 1,000 square feet floor area maximum
Conditional / special use25
- Grading, excavation or fill, not to exceed 500 cubic yards
- Maintenance and minor expansion of existing facilities (up to 10% increase)
- Privies
- Temporary housing for construction workers (mobilehome/RV)
- Youth camps, increased capacities
- Dwelling units for employees (Airport Hub, Eagle's Nest, Middle Ranch, Rancho Escondido, Toyon/Haypress)
- Lodge, hotel or inn including associated commercial services (50 guest room max) (Airport Hub, Eagle's Nest, Middle Ranch, Rancho Escondido)
- Youth hostel (Airport Hub)
- Ranger station (Black Jack, Little Harbor)
- Noncommercial rooming house for scientists, interns and guests (Middle Ranch)
- Dwelling units for property owner (Rancho Escondido)
- Rodeos and similar special events (Rancho Escondido)
- Parking area (Toyon/Haypress)
- Borrow pits
- Buildings, nonresidential, exceeding 400 square feet in floor area
- Communication equipment buildings
- Educational and scientific research facilities
- Electric distribution and transmission substations
- Flood Control facilities
- Grading, excavation or fill, exceeding 500 cubic yards
- Publicly owned or operated uses
- Telephone repeater stations
- Water reservoirs, dams, treatment plants, gaging stations, pumping stations, tanks, wells
- Airport (Airport Hub)
- Waste disposal facility (Well's Beach Uplands)
Accessory10
- Accessory buildings, structures and uses customarily used in conjunction with the main building or use
- Accessory uses and facilities incidental to equestrian campgrounds (corrals, tie-ups, water troughs, improved campground facilities)
- Accessory uses and facilities incidental to improved campgrounds (fire rings, graded road access, privies, cleared tent spaces, tables, interpretive signs, drinking water, group camping areas, trash receptacles)
- Accessory uses and facilities incidental to lodges, hotels or inns (bars, cafes, cocktail lounges, dining rooms, gift shops, restaurants, housing for lodge employees, visitor-serving retail)
- Accessory uses and facilities incidental to passive recreation uses (nature observation, photography, sunbathing)
- Accessory uses and facilities incidental to primitive campgrounds (fire rings, trail access, limited vegetation removal, privies, small cleared sleeping areas, interpretive signs)
- Accessory uses and facilities incidental to yacht club upland support facilities (active recreation facilities, chemical toilets, decks/platforms ≤30 inches above grade and <400 sq ft, flag poles <15 ft, pergolas <400 sq ft, picnic areas, improved campgrounds, storage sheds <120 sq ft)
- Animals, domestic and wild, kept as pets for personal use
- Building materials storage during construction and 30 days thereafter
- Signs
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Day-use hours
Day-use only areas shall be restricted to use beginning one hour before sunrise and ending one hour after sunset.
- Maximum agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. area200 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Agricultural operations shall not exceed 200 acres at any one time for LACA Lots 39, 40, and 60 combined.
- Maximum lodge heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.35 ft
Lodges shall not exceed a height of 35 feet.
- Maximum slope for structures30 pct
No structure shall be allowed on hillsides having a slope exceeding 30 percent.
- Minimum parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from mean high tide line250 ft
The parking area shall be located at least 250 feet from the mean high tide line.
- Minimum buffer from riparian vegetation100 ft
There shall be no new development within 100 feet of the edge of riparian vegetation.
Setback
- Minimum setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from mean high tide line150 ft
Development shall be located a minimum of 150 feet from the mean high tide line; if impractical, may be reduced to 25 feet.
From the ordinance
Property in the Open Space/Conservation District may be used for the following uses... (Ord. 2019-0004 § 1, 2019)
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"accessory_uses": [
"Accessory uses and facilities incidental to youth camp or educational institution upland support facilities (administration offices, camp supplies sales, craft shops, infirmaries, educational/recreational activities, residential uses including tent platforms, dormitories, camp Director's dwelling, caretaker's dwelling, dining/service areas, water-related sports facilities)"
]
}
}