Mendocino County Unincorporated, California · General provision
Sec. 20.044.005 - 20.044.045
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right24
- Assisted Living Residential Care Facility
- Day Care Facility
- Employee Housing
- Family residential-single-family
- Low Barrier Navigation Center
- Supportive Housing
- Transitional Housing
- Administrative services, government
- Cemetery
- Clinic services
- Community recreation
- Cultural exhibits and library services
- Essential services
- Fire and police protection services
- Lodge, fraternal and civic assembly
- Minor impact utilities
- Religious assembly
- Animal raising—general agriculture
- Animal raising—personal
- Forest production and processing—limited
- Horticulture
- Packing and processing—limited
- Row and field crops
- Tree crops
Conditional / special use27
- Family residential—two-family
- Family residential—multifamily
- Family residential—dwelling group
- Day care facilities/small schools
- Group care
- Administrative and business offices
- Cottage industries—Limited
- Medical services
- Personal services
- Redemption centers
- Repair services, consumer
- Mobile home residential
- Educational facilities
- Major impact facilities
- Major impact service and utilities
- Agricultural sales and services
- Animal sales and services—veterinary (large animals)
- Animal sales and services—veterinary (small animals)
- Automotive and equipment—gasoline sales
- Commercial recreation—indoor sports and recreation
- Commercial recreation—outdoor sports and recreation
- Commercial recreation—indoor entertainment
- Eating and drinking establishments
- Food and beverage retail sales
- Transient habitation—Lodging (limited)
- Packing and processing winery
- Mining and processing
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- Maximum single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours. dwellings per legally created parcel1 dwelling
One (1) single-family per legally created parcel
- Multiple family dwelling unitsDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance. not permitted for parcels not in a water or sewer districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.
Multiple family dwelling units | not permitted
Other
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for parcels not in a water or sewer districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.40,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
For parcels not in a water or sewer district: 40,000 square feet.
From the ordinance
S-R Suburban Residential District. Permitted uses include single-family. Two-family, multifamily, dwelling group require Administrative Permit. Mobile home requires Use Permit. Min lot area 12,000 sq ft (water or sewer district) or 40,000 sq ft (no water/sewer). Front/rear yard 20 ft, side yard 6 ft, height 35 ft.