Monterey County Unincorporated, California · General provision
21.12.030, 21.12.040, 21.12.050, 21.12.060
Medium DensityAll Monterey County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 10%
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right18
- first single family dwelling per lot
- keeping of pets (max 4 dogs per dwelling unit)
- guesthouses
- temporary residence during construction of first dwelling
- small family day care home
- small residential care facility
- water system facilities (4 or fewer service connections)
- non-habitable accessory structures and uses
- cultivation, cutting and removal of Christmas trees
- home occupations
- rooming and boarding of not more than 2 persons
- intermittent livestock farming or animal husbandry (min 20,000 sqft)
- accessory dwelling unit
- employee housing (up to 6 employees)
- supportive housing
- transitional housing
- homestays
- limited vacation rentals
Conditional / special use27
- second single family dwelling (administrative permit)
- first duplex on vacant lot (administrative permit)
- tract sales or rental offices (administrative permit)
- reduction in setback requirements of 10% or less (administrative permit)
- small water system facilities (5-14 service connections) (administrative permit)
- additions to existing wireless communications facilities (administrative permit)
- residential use exceeding 2 du/acre up to 4 units total (use permit)
- rooming houses and boardinghouses (use permit)
- rest homes (use permit)
- public and quasi-public uses (use permit)
- parking lots for adjoining commercial/retail use (use permit)
- legal nonconforming use extension (use permit)
- bed and breakfast facility (use permit)
- commercial and noncommercial wind energy conversion systems (use permit)
- development in Carmel Valley Floodplain (use permit)
- ridgeline development (use permit)
- water system facilities (15+ service connections) (use permit)
- removal of minerals or natural materials for commercial purposes (use permit)
- assemblages of people (use permit)
- accessory structures prior to main use (use permit)
- large family day care home (use permit)
- cottage industries (use permit)
- exploration for and removal of oil and gas (use permit)
- mobile home parks (use permit)
- wireless communications facilities (use permit)
- large residential care facility (use permit)
- commercial vacation rentals (use permit)
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Landscaping & trees
- Minimum landscaped area10 pct
For development of more than two residential units on a lot, a minimum of ten (10) percent of the developed lot area shall be landscaped prior to occupancy
Lighting
- Exterior lighting design guidelines
All exterior lighting shall be consistent with the Design Guidelines for Exterior Lighting adopted by the Board of Supervisors pursuant to Section 21.63.020
Other
- Minimum recreational area3 pct
The recreational area shall consist of at least three percent of the lot.
- Trash enclosure required
Developments in excess of five dwelling units on a lot shall provide a trash enclosure area
From the ordinance
The first single family dwelling per lot; ... Second single family dwelling provided the gross density does not exceed the dwelling units/acre specified on the Sectional District Map; ... Any residential use, except the first single family dwelling on a vacant lot, exceeding two (2) dwelling units/acre, gross, and not exceeding four (4) units, total; ... Minimum building site ... six thousand (6,000) square feet; ... Maximum development density shall not exceed the units/acre as shown for the specific 'MDR' District ... Building Site Coverage. Maximum: thirty-five (35) percent.
Parking requirements
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"all_development": "Pursuant to Chapter 21.58"
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