Mendocino County Unincorporated, California · General provision
Sec. 20.068.030, 20.068.035, 20.068.040, 20.068.045, 20.068.055
Timber ProductionAll Mendocino County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Lot
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
- 6,969,600 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (160 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Density
- Maximum density
- 0.01 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.
- 6,969,600 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (160 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right15
- 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—personal
- Animal raising—general agriculture
- Forest production and processing—all types
- Horticulture
- Packing and processing—limited
- Row and field crops
- Tree crops
Conditional / special use11
- Family residential—dwellings groups
- Low Barrier Navigation Center
- Supportive Housing
- Transitional Housing
- Cottage industries—general
- Family residential—cluster development
- Major impact services and utilities
- Transient habitation—campground
- Transient habitation—lodging (limited)
- Animal waste processing
- Mining and processing
Extracted standards
2 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.
- Use permit requires timber compatibility finding
No use permit shall be granted in a TPZ District until a specific finding has been made that the proposed use is compatible with the growing and harvesting of timber and timber products.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot area 160 acres; max density 1 unit per 160 acres; front/rear/side yards 50 ft; height 35 ft.