Mendocino County Unincorporated, California · General provision
Sec. 20.056.025, 20.056.030, 20.056.035, 20.056.040, 20.056.050
Single FamilyAll Mendocino County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
- Maximum density
- 0.05 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
- Lot area per dwelling unitLot area per dwelling unitLand required for each home — the same limit as du/acre, expressed per unit instead of per acre.
- 871,200 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (20 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right16
- Assisted Living Residential Care Facility
- Day Care Facility
- Employee Housing
- Family residential—single-family
- Cemetery
- Community recreation
- Essential services
- Fire and police protection services
- Minor impact utilities
- Animal sales and services—stables
- Animal raising—general agriculture
- Forest production and processing—limited
- Horticulture
- Packing and processing—limited
- Row and field crops
- Tree crops
Conditional / special use23
- Family residential—dwelling group
- Low Barrier Navigation Centers
- Supportive Housing
- Transitional Housing
- Day care facilities/small school
- Group care
- Lodge, fraternal and civic assembly
- Religious assembly
- Animal sales and services—auction
- Animal sales and services—kennel
- Animal sales and services—veterinary (large animals)
- Cottage industries—general
- Forest production and processing—portable sawmills
- Family residential—cluster development
- Educational facilities
- Major impact facilities
- Major impact services and utilities
- Transient habitation—campground
- Transient habitation—lodging (limited)
- Transient habitation—resort and recreational facilities
- Animal waste processing
- Packing and processing—winery
- Mining and processing
Extracted standards
1 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for nonconformingNonconformingLawful when built, but not compliant with the rules now in force; usually allowed to continue but not to expand. parcels under 5 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.20 ft
Any nonconforming parcel which is less than five (5) acres shall observe a minimum front, side and rear yard of twenty (20) feet.
From the ordinance
U-R:L-20: 20 acres min lot area; 1 unit per 20 acres; front/rear yards 50 ft; side yards 50 ft; height 35 ft.