Mendocino County Unincorporated, California · General provision
Chapter 20.052
AgriculturalAll Mendocino County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
- Maximum density
- 0.03 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.
- 1,742,400 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (40 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Height & bulk
Housing
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Typically applied to lands subject to AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. Preserve contracts, land having present or future potential for significant agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. production, and contiguous or intermixed smaller parcels.
Uses
Permitted by right16
- Assisted Living Residential Care Facility
- Day Care Facility
- Employee Housing
- Family residential—single-family
- Community recreation
- Essential services
- Fire and police protection services
- Minor impact utilities
- Animal raising—general agriculture
- Animal raising—personal
- Forest production and processing—limited
- Horticulture
- Packing and processing—limited
- Packing and processing—winery
- Row and field crops
- Tree crops
Conditional / special use23
- Family residential—dwelling group
- Low Barrier Navigation Center
- Supportive Housing
- Transitional Housing
- Day care facilities/small schools
- Agricultural sales and services
- Animal sales and services—auctioning
- Animal sales and services—horse stables
- Animal sales and services—kennels
- Animal sales and services—stockyards
- Animal sales and services—veterinary (large animals)
- Cottage industries—general
- Packing and processing—general
- Forest production and processing—commercial woodlots
- Forest production and processing—portable sawmills
- Family residential—cluster development
- Educational facilities
- Major impact facilities
- Major impact services and utilities
- Commercial recreation—outdoor sports and recreation (limited)
- Transient habitation—lodging (limited)
- Animal waste processing
- 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. exception for nonconformingNonconformingLawful when built, but not compliant with the rules now in force; usually allowed to continue but not to expand. parcels less than 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
Minimum lot area: 40 acres. Front and rear yards: 50 feet each. Side yards: 50 feet each. Building height limit: 50 feet.