Chapter 18.28
Dimensional standards
Lot
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Only property designated as urban in the Napa County general plan and with frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. on a state highway, Silverado Trail, or an arterial county road or county collector road may be zoned CL. Parcels should be at or near crossroads on relatively high traffic volume highways.
Uses
Conditional / special use14
- gasoline service stations
- hotels, motels, inns, bed and breakfast establishments (max 50 guest rooms)
- restaurants, cafes, coffee shops, delicatessens, bars and taverns (max 100 seats)
- tourist information facility
- retail stores less than 5,000 sq ft
- laundromat (accessory)
- child day care centers
- wineries (existing structure on existing lot, urban)
- private schools
- tourist and excursion transportation facilities
- telecommunication facilities not meeting performance standards
- satellite earth stations (if cannot be located in industrial district)
- art studios and galleries
- commercial accessory dwelling units (moderate income)
Accessory1
Extracted standards
9 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Minimum screening heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft
solid fencing or walls and dense evergreen hedging or trees, a minimum of six feet in height.
Landscaping & trees
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. tree ratio
The required front yard shall be permanently landscaped and shall include trees at a ratio of one per every thirty feet at parcel frontage.
Lighting
- Parking lot lighting direction
Parking lot lighting shall be directed onto the subject property only, so that the light source is not visible from adjacent properties or streets.
Noise
- Mitigation of objectionable factors
All activity under use permits shall be conducted so that noise, vibration, dust, odor and all other objectionable factors shall be confined or reduced to the extent that no unreasonable annoyance or injury will result to persons residing in the vicinity.
Other
- Irrigation and drought-tolerant planting
All required landscaping shall be irrigated and permanently maintained and shall include drought-tolerant plantings to maximum extent feasible.
Minimum lot area shall be one-half acre if both public water supply and public sewage facilities are available, and one acre in all other circumstances.
- Rear/side setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when adjoining residential
Parcels zoned commercial limited with rear or side yards adjoining residential uses or districts shall have setbacks equal to the setback of the adjoining district.
- Tree ratio for double-loaded parking stalls
one tree per six parking spaces for double-loaded stalls
- Tree ratio for single-loaded parking stalls
one tree per three spaces for single-loaded stalls
From the ordinance
CL district regulations including uses, lot area, landscaping, parking, and screening.