Los Angeles County Unincorporated, California · General provision
Section 22.414.080, Tables 22.414.080-A and B, Subsection D
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 5%
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- All lots within Zone APV shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 22.84 (Green Zone).
Uses
Permitted by right26
- Community gardens
- Crops, including field, tree, bush, berry, and row
- Cemeteries and crematories for pets
- Art and cultural facilities
- Institutions of a philanthropic or charitable nature
- Business and professional schools, including art, cooking, dance, drama, martial arts, music, and professional education
- Theater, including live performance
- Ice plants
- Caustic soda, manufacture by electrolysis
- Arcades, games, or movies
- Bowling alleys
- Cardrooms or clubs
- Commercial recreational facilities
- Games of skills
- Health clubs/gymnasiums
- Recreation clubs, private
- Riding and hiking trails
- General retail
- Dry cleaning drop-off and pick-up services
- Movie theaters
- Technology exchange/transfer services
- Administrative offices
- Assembly/multi-purpose buildings
- Electric vehicle charging
- Enclosed, screened, outdoor storage
- Maintenance/storage facilities and structures
Conditional / special use15
- Earthen products, including ceramics, sand, and stone, but excluding brick, terra cotta, and tile manufacture
- Food, coffee, edible oil, liquor, soda, and juice products, including baking, processing, packing, canning, and bottling, excluding meat, fish, lard, pickles, sausage, sauerkraut, or vinegar
- Precious and semi-precious metal products, including jewelry and lapidary
- Metal products and parts, including fabricating, engraving, spinning, storing, plating, and finishing
- Engraving, machine metal engraving
- Motion picture outdoor sets
- Motion picture studios and indoor sets
- Pallet yards
- Roofing contractor's establishments
- Athletic fields and stadiums
- Golf driving range
- Moving van storage
- Truck and RV storage, including trailer storage and container storage
- Truck sales, rental, and storage
- Stations and terminals, bus, railroad, and taxi
Accessory5
Prohibited127
- Solid fill projects
- Surface mining operations
- Animal experimental research institutes
- Dog breeding facilities
- Grazing of cattle, horses, sheep, goats, alpacas, or llamas
- Hogs or pigs
- Raising, breeding, and training of horses and other equine, cattle, sheep, goats, alpacas, and llamas
- Raising of poultry, fowl, birds, rabbits, chinchilla, nutria, mice, frogs, fish, bees, earthworms, and other similar animals of comparable nature, form, and size, including hatching, fattening, marketing, and sale, including eggs, honey, or similar products derived from such animals
- Wild animals, the keeping of; either individually or collectively for private or commercial purposes
- Camps
- Honor farms
- Jails
- Revival meetings, tent, for longer than seven days
- Theaters, drive-in
- Assaying services
- Agricultural products
- Farm equipment repair shops
- Farm machinery repair shops
- Film laboratories
- Dairy products depots
- Fumigating contractors
- Heavy equipment training schools
- Blacksmith shops
- Boat building
- Bottling plants
- Box factories
- Concrete batching plants with mixers of one cubic yard capacity or smaller
- Fabricating
- Ice, including distribution and storage
- Incinerators
- Lumberyards
- Machine shops
- Paint mixing, excluding lacquers and synthetic enamels
- Plumbing contractor's shops
- Presses, hydraulic presses for the molding of plastics
- Refrigeration plants
- Sand, the washing of sand to be used in sandblasting
- Sheet metal shops
- Stone, marble, and granite, including grinding, dressing, and cutting
- Bakery goods distributors
- Barrel storage
- Building materials
- Bus storage
- Car barns for buses and streetcars
- Cold storage plants
- Contractor's equipment and materials yards, including farm and building trade equipment and building materials
- Distributing plants
- Draying yards or terminals
- Explosives storage, permanent
- Fuel yards
- Industrial gas storage, including oxygen, acetylene, argon, carbon dioxide, and similar gases in Interstate Commerce Commission-approved-type cylinders
- Machinery storage yards
- Plaster storage
- Produce yards and terminals
- Storage and rental of plows, tractors, buses, contractor's equipment, and cement mixers
- Warehouses, including storage warehouses
- Wood yards
- Tire retreading or recapping
- Valves, storage and repair of, including oil well valves
- Amusement rides and devices
- Rifle, pistol, or skeet ranges
- Shooting galleries
- Trap ranges
- Utility-scale solar energy facilities, ground-mounted
- Utility-scale solar energy facilities, structure-mounted
- Utility-scale wind energy facilities
- Mobilehome parks
- Recycling collection centers
- Chipping/grinding or mulching
- Composting, vermiculture
- Composting, green waste only
- Composting, mixed waste or food waste
- In-vessel composting
- Agricultural contractor equipment sales and rentals
- Farm equipment sales, rentals, and storage
- Feed and grain sales
- Fruit and vegetable markets
- Gun dealers
- Ice sales, excluding ice plants
- Lapidary shops
- Leather goods stores
- Mobilehome sales
- Newsstands
- Paint and wallpaper stores
- Pawnshops
- Recording studios
- Smoking-oriented retail, including tobacco, pipe, and vape shops
- Stamp redemption centers
- Swap meets
- Alternative financial services
- Blueprint shops
- Cemeteries
- Cesspool pumping, cleaning, and draining
- Domestic violence shelters
- Drive-through establishments and drive-through lanes
- Emergency shelters
- Hotels
- Motels
- Mortuaries
- Nightclubs
- Parcel delivery terminals
- Photoengravers and lithographers
- Self-service storage facilities
- Sightseeing agencies
- Taxidermists
- Automatic car wash
- Coin-operated or hand wash
- Automobile rental and leasing agencies
- Boat and other marine sales, including minor repairs and rentals
- Motorcycle, motor scooter, and trail bike, sales and rentals
- New automobile sales
- Recreational vehicle sales and rentals
- Trailer sales and rentals, box and utility
- Truck sales, rentals, and storage, including incidental repair
- Used automobile sales
- Automobile battery services
- Automobile body and fender repair shops
- Automobile brake repair shops
- Automobile impound and tow yards
- Automobile muffler shops
- Automobile painting and upholstering shops
- Automobile radiator shops
- Automobile repair garages
- Automobile service stations
- Automobile supply stores
- CNG fueling stations
- Truck and bus repair
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Drought-tolerant and non-invasive plants required
All plants provided for required landscaping shall be drought-tolerant and include only non-invasive plant species.
- Subject to Chapter 22.84 (Green Zone)
All lots within Zone APV shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 22.84 (Green Zone).
- Minimum floor-to-ceiling heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for retail ground floor15 ft
Minimum floor-to-ceiling height of the ground floor for a retail use in a development shall be 15 feet.
- Landscaping equipment shall be electric
Landscaping equipment used for maintenance, such as lawn mowers and leaf blowers, shall be electric and non-combustion powered.
- Minimum landscaping depth along street frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.5 ft
Required solid walls along street frontages shall be set back by landscaping of a minimum of five feet in depth.
- Tree planting ratio1 tree per 100 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
One 15-gallon tree for every 100 square feet of landscaped area shall be planted and spaced 10 feet apart.
From the ordinance
Required solid walls along street frontages shall be set back by landscaping of a minimum of five feet in depth. One 15-gallon tree for every 100 square feet of landscaped area shall be planted and spaced 10 feet apart.