Chapter 18.68
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.)
Housing
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Applies to portions of assessor's parcels identified as timberland or petitioned for timberland preserve zoning.
Uses
Permitted by right5
- growing timber
- grazing
- gas, electric, water or communication transmission facilities (consistent with Section 18.120.010(A))
- minor antennas
- telecommunication facilities (meeting performance standards, with site plan approval)
Conditional / special use8
- harvesting timber
- uses integrally related to growing, harvesting and processing of forest products (e.g., roads, log landings, log storage)
- management for watershed
- management for fish and wildlife habitat or hunting and fishing
- gas, electric, water or communication transmission facilities (consistent with Section 18.120.010(B))
- noncommercial wind energy and conversion systems
- telecommunication facilities (not meeting performance standards)
- satellite earth stations (if cannot be located in industrial districts)
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Chapter 18.120 exceptions not applicable
The provisions of Chapter 18.120 (Exceptions) shall not apply to land classified to the timberland preserve zoning district.
- Forest management plan required
A plan for forest management shall be prepared or approved as to content for the property by a registered professional forester.
- Minimum stocking for Christmas tree farm1,000 trees/acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
If the parcel or parcels constitutes a 'Christmas tree farm' it shall, in addition to any other stocking requirements to which it may be subject hereunder, be stocked with not less than one thousand trees per acre.
- Schedule of zoning districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. regulations applies
The regulations shown for TP zoning in the schedule of zoning district regulations, Section 18.104.010, shall apply to each structure and to each use of land within the timber preserve district.
- Minimum site quality class3 class
The land shall be the third highest site quality class or higher under Section 434 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
From the ordinance
The TP district classification is intended to be applied to portions of assessor's parcels identified as timberland, as that term is defined in Government Code Section 51100(f), by the Napa County assessor pursuant to Government Code Section 51110.1, except those parcels which this board finds to be in the public interest to exclude from this zone; or the owners of which have petitioned this board pursuant to Government Code Section 51113 to zone as timberland preserve and which meet the criteria set forth in this chapter.