Madera County Unincorporated, California · General provision

Chapter 18.87

Dimensional standards

Servicing

Geographic extent
Unincorporated areas of Madera County, California

Uses

Permitted by right1

  • personal use marijuana cultivation (medical and recreational)

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Chemical storage

    Any chemicals used for medical marijuana cultivation shall be stored outside of the habitable areas of the residence and outside of public view from neighboring properties and public rights of way.

  • Consumption only within private residence

    No person shall smoke, ingest, or otherwise consume marijuana or marijuana products, whether recreational or medical, in the unincorporated areas of the county unless such smoking, ingesting or consumption occurs entirely within a private residence.

  • Minimum distance from institutional uses1,000 ft

    The medical marijuana cultivation area shall not occur within one thousand feet of an institutional use, such as, but not limited to, a church, school, or other public building.

  • The garage or accessory building shall be secure, locked, and fully enclosed, with a ceiling, roof or top, and entirely opaque. The garage or building shall include a burglar alarm monitored by an alarm company or private security company. The garage or building, including all walls, doors, and the roof, shall be constructed with a firewall assembly of green board meeting the minimum building code requirements for residential structures and include material strong enough to prevent entry except through an open door.

  • Garage consumption restriction

    Within a private residence shall mean inside habitable areas and shall not include garages, whether attached or detached, and other accessory buildings unless those buildings are at all times fully enclosed during the consumption.

  • Incidental use

    The residence shall maintain kitchen, bathrooms, and primary bedrooms for their intended use and not be used primarily for medical marijuana cultivation.

  • The medical marijuana cultivation area shall not exceed one hundred square feet measured by the canopy and not exceed ten feet in height per residence.

  • not exceed ten feet in height per residence

  • Maximum lighting wattage1,200 watts

    Medical marijuana cultivation lighting shall not exceed a total of one thousand two hundred watts.

  • No exterior evidence of cultivation

    From a public right-of-way, there shall be no exterior evidence of medical marijuana cultivation occurring on the site.

  • Nuisance standard for consumption

    All consumption shall be done in a manner so as to not cause a nuisance to nearby residents with noxious odors or other adverse health and safety impacts.

  • Nuisance standard

    The medical marijuana cultivation area shall: Not adversely affect the health or safety of the nearby residents by creating dust, glare, heat, noise, noxious gasses, odor, smoke, traffic, vibration, or other impacts; and not be hazardous due to the use or storage of materials, processes, products or wastes, or from other actions related to the cultivation.

  • Posting of physician recommendation and owner permission

    A copy of a qualified patient physician recommendation or identification card shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the cultivation area for each patient residing in the residence that is cultivating medical marijuana. For rental properties, a copy of the owner's written authorization to cultivate marijuana shall be posted in the same manner.

  • Prohibition on gas products

    The use of gas products (CO2, butane, etc.) for medical marijuana cultivation or processing is prohibited.

  • Property owner authorization for rental

    For rental property, the lessee shall obtain written authorization from the property owner or property management company to cultivate medical marijuana.

  • Recreational marijuana plant limit6 plants

    applicable state law limits the cultivation of recreational or adult use marijuana to six plants per residence.

  • Residence requirement

    The qualified patient or person with an identification card shall reside in the residence where the medical marijuana cultivation occurs.

  • Single designated cultivation area

    The cultivation area shall be a single designated area.

  • Ventilation and filtration system

    The medical marijuana cultivation area shall include a ventilation and filtration system designed to ensure that odors from the cultivation are not detectable beyond the residence, or property line for detached single family residential, and designed to prevent mold and moisture and otherwise protect the health and safety of persons residing in the residence and cultivating the marijuana.

From the ordinance

The medical marijuana cultivation area shall not exceed one hundred square feet measured by the canopy and not exceed ten feet in height per residence.
Chapter 18.87