Monterey County Unincorporated, California · General provision
Chapter 21.16 (RDR Districts)
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Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right18
- Single-family dwelling (first per lot)
- Rooming and boarding of not more than two persons
- Small family day care home
- Small residential care facility
- Water system facilities (wells, storage tanks) serving 4 or fewer connections
- Animal husbandry and small livestock farming
- Agricultural uses on minimum 10 acres (crop, tree, livestock, apiaries, aviaries)
- Crop farming, tree farming, viticulture, horticulture
- Intermittent livestock farming (4-H)
- Employee housing (up to 6 employees)
- Supportive housing
- Transitional housing
- Homestays
- Limited vacation rentals
- Cultivation, cutting and removal of Christmas trees
- Single family dwellings not exceeding 3 in total on minimum 10 acres for owner/operator/employees
- Manufactured dwelling units meeting Section 21.64.040
- Other uses of similar character, density and intensity
Conditional / special use43
- Tract sales or rental offices
- Second residential unit
- Reduction in setback requirements (10% or less)
- Small water system facilities (5-14 connections)
- Additions to existing approved wireless communications facilities
- Additional residential units (up to 4 total on lot)
- Public and quasi-public uses (churches, cemeteries, parks, playgrounds, schools, public safety facilities, public utility facilities)
- Country clubs
- Golf courses
- Commercial kennel
- Public stables (min 10 acres)
- Legal nonconforming use extension/change
- Bed and breakfast facility
- Commercial and noncommercial wind energy conversion systems
- Development in Carmel Valley Floodplain
- Ridgeline development
- Conversion of uncultivated land to cultivated agricultural use on 15-25% slopes (North County, Cachagua, Central Salinas Valley Area Plans)
- Agricultural support services
- Keeping and raising of mink
- Water system facilities (15+ connections)
- Removal of minerals or natural materials for commercial purposes
- Assemblages of people (carnivals, festivals, races, circuses) not exceeding 10 days
- Accessory structures prior to main use
- Large family day care facilities
- Agricultural processing plants
- Frog farms
- Commercial hog and turkey raising (min 10 acres)
- Livestock feed yards (min 20 acres)
- Animal sales yards (min 10 acres)
- Dairies (min 40 acres)
- Airports, heliports, landing strips
- Animal hospitals
- Poultry farms (min 5 acres)
- Sale of hay and grain not grown on premises (min 5 acres)
- Riding and roping arena operations
- Zoos or zoological gardens
- Stands for sale of agricultural products with permanent electricity/plumbing/paving
- Cottage industries
- Exploration and removal of oil and gas
- Mobile home parks
- Wireless communications facilities
- Large residential care facility
- Commercial vacation rentals
Accessory7
- Guesthouses
- Keeping of pets
- Non-habitable accessory structures and accessory uses
- Temporary residence during construction
- Home occupations
- Stands for sale of agricultural products (no permanent electricity/plumbing/paving)
- Accessory dwelling unit (ADU)
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.15 ft
Accessory structures (habitable and non-habitable) maximum height: 15 feet.
- Maximum barn/stable/farm outbuilding heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.30 ft
Accessory structures used as barns, stables or farm outbuildings maximum height: 30 feet.
Other
- Barns, stables, farm outbuildings setbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
Shall not be less than 50 feet from front, 20 feet from side or rear property line, or 20 feet from any residence.
- Building envelope
In a subdivision where a lot has a designated building envelope, the dwelling unit and accessory structures shall be located wholly within the building envelope.
- Maximum livestock density1 per 20000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Not more than one horse, mule, cow, or similar livestock shall be kept for each 20,000 square feet of land area.
- Vehicle trip reduction
Residential development of 25+ units or commercial/industrial/tourist development employing 50+ persons subject to Section 21.64.250.
From the ordinance
The minimum building site shall be five acres. Maximum building site coverage: 25%. Maximum height: 30 feet.