18.104.305, 18.104.310, 18.104.320, 18.104.330
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Uses
Conditional / special use1
Accessory3
- food service for residents
- laundry facilities for residents
- information and referral to employment, social, community, and health services
Extracted standards
17 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
Food service, laundry facilities, and information/referral services for residents
- Compliance with health and safety codes
A farmworker center shall comply with all health and safety and building codes, and requirements of state law.
- Exterior lighting
Exterior lighting of farmworker centers shall be low profile and limited to security needs only; all exterior lights shall be shielded from streets and any off-site residences.
- Management plan required
A farmworker center shall have an adequate management plan to demonstrate ability to comply with all requirements.
- Maximum beds for seasonal farmworker center60 beds
or sixty beds total, whichever is less.
- Maximum density for seasonal farmworker center20 units/acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
A seasonal farmworker center may contain no more than twenty units/acre, or sixty beds total, whichever is less.
- Maximum number of new farmworker centers after March 7, 20025 centers
No more than five new farmworker centers may be established pursuant to this section after March 7, 2002.
- Maximum number of farmworkers60 persons
The farmworker center may be occupied by no more than sixty farmworkers at any one time.
- Maximum occupancy days for congregate housing270 days
Congregate housing facilities... occupied for no more than two hundred seventy days in a calendar year
- Maximum occupancy days for publicly owned congregate housing330 days
publicly owned and operated congregate housing facilities may be occupied for no more than three hundred thirty days in a calendar year
- Maximum occupancy days for temporary trailers120 days
Temporary trailers, occupied for no more than one hundred twenty days in a calendar year.
- Minimum parcel area for farmworker center87,120 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
may be located on a parcel of two or more acres
- Parking requirement
At least one (standard-sized) parking space per unit shall be provided, or one space per three beds, whichever is more, as well as one space per farmworker center employee (e.g., manager).
- Beds occupied >120 days must be in permanent structures
Any beds occupied for more than one hundred twenty days in a farmworker center shall be located in permanent structures.
- Screening of parking areas
All farmworker center parking areas shall be screened from adjacent property boundaries and from public roads.
- Use permit expiration if not used within 3 years
A use permit for a farmworker center issued pursuant to this section shall automatically expire if the parcel is not used as a farmworker center within three years after execution of the conveyance of the parcel.
- Use permit expiration if not used for two consecutive growing seasons
A use permit for a farmworker center issued pursuant to this section shall automatically expire if the farmworker center is not used for two consecutive growing seasons
From the ordinance
Farmworker centers may be located on a parcel of two or more acres... At least one parking space per unit or one per three beds, whichever more, plus one per employee.
Parking requirements
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