Madera County Unincorporated, California · General provision
Chapter 18.44, Sections 18.44.010 and 18.44.040
Heavy IndustrialAll Madera County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Uses
Permitted by right5
- heavy industrial use
- light industrial use
- general commercial establishment
- transit mix operations, concrete manufacture and concrete products manufacture
- communication tower/wireless communications facility placed atop an existing structure, which will not increase the height of said structure above twenty additional feet, or exceed the height limit of this zone district, whichever is greater
Conditional / special use12
- one single family dwelling
- communications tower/wireless communications facility placed atop or adjacent to an existing structure in instances in which the proposed facility will not exceed forty additional feet (sixty additional feet if the proposal provides for colocation) above the existing structure's height
- mini storage facility
- restricted retail sales establishment
- retail sales establishment
- airports, landing fields and airstrips
- cemeteries and mausoleums
- laboratories for testing, experimental or analytical purposes
- outdoor theaters
- junkyards
- communications tower/wireless communications facility that does not meet the standards as specified in either subsection A or B of this section
- solar farms
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum dwelling floor area to lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. ratio20 pct
Dwelling floor area to lot area ratio permitted: Twenty percent, maximum
- Maximum lot length to width ratio (industrial)4 ratio
Four to one, maximum in industrial use
- Maximum lot length to width ratio (other uses)3 ratio
length to width ratio three to one for all other uses
- Maximum total building area to lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. ratio (industrial)90 pct
Total buildings area to lot area ratio permitted: Ninety percent, maximum in industrial uses
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. increase for communication tower on existing structure (permitted use)20 ft
Communication tower/wireless communications facility placed atop an existing structure, which will not increase the height of said structure above twenty additional feet
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. increase for communication tower with zoning permit40 ft
will not exceed forty additional feet above the existing structure's height
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. increase for communication tower with zoning permit and colocation60 ft
sixty additional feet if the proposal provides for colocation
From the ordinance
Land use regulations: Permitted uses include heavy industrial, light industrial, general commercial, transit mix, concrete manufacture, and communication towers atop existing structures with ≤20 ft increase. Uses with zoning permit include one single family dwelling, communication towers up to 40 ft (60 ft with colocation), mini storage. Conditional uses include retail, airports, cemeteries, labs, outdoor theaters, junkyards, solar farms. Lot dimension regulations: lot length to width ratio max 4:1 industrial, 3:1 other; dwelling floor area to lot area ratio max 20%; total building area to lot area ratio max 90% industrial.