Mendocino County Unincorporated, California · General provision
Sec. 20.060.025-20.060.050
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
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Typically applied to lands for incorporation into Type H AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. Preserves, other lands generally in range use, and intermixed smaller parcels and other contiguous lands, the inclusion of which is necessary for the protection and efficient management of rangelands.
Uses
Permitted by right22
- 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—horse stables
- Animal sales and services—kennels
- Animal sales and services—stockyards
- Animal raising—general agriculture
- Animal raising—personal
- Animal waste processing
- Forest production and processing—limited
- Forest production and processing—portable sawmills
- Horticulture
- Packing and processing—limited
- Packing and processing—winery
- Row and field crops
- Tree crops
Conditional / special use22
- Family residential—dwelling groups
- 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—veterinary (large animals)
- Cottage industries—general
- Packing and processing—general
- Family residential—cluster development
- Educational facilities
- Lodge, fraternal and civic assembly
- Major impact services and utilities
- Religious assembly
- Commercial recreation—outdoor sports and recreation
- Commercial recreation—outdoor entertainment
- Transient habitation—campground
- Transient habitation—lodging (limited)
- Transient habitation—resort and recreational facilities
- Packing and processing—commercial cooperage
- Mining and processing
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Lot splits in agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. preserves for farmworker housing
In compliance with Government Code 51230.2, a two-way division of a parcel of land that is currently subject to a Williamson Act contract may be allowed, if all of the following apply: ...
- 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
One hundred sixty (160) acres; Fifty (50) feet each; Thirty-five (35) feet.