17.08.050, 17.08.060, 17.08.080, 17.08.100, 17.08.110, 17.08.120, 17.08.140
Dimensional standards
Lot
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
- 24,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.55 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
- Minimum lot depth
- 120 ft
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right30
- one-family dwelling
- home occupation
- accessory building
- garage
- servant's quarters
- accessory living quarters without kitchens
- dwelling for hired agricultural employees
- swimming pool
- garden structure
- recreation room
- hobby shop
- field crops
- fruit and nut trees
- vines
- vegetables
- horticultural specialties greenhouses
- nursery
- temporary farm labor camp
- livestock raising
- breeding/raising of birds, rabbits, chinchillas, hamsters, and other small animals
- storage of petroleum products for use by occupants
- farm building
- household pets
- tract office
- model home
- construction materials storage yard
- carnival
- transitional and supportive housing
- second residential unit
- developmentally disabled housing (8 or fewer persons)
Conditional / special use12
- any additional use permitted or conditionally permitted in the O district
- church
- nursery school or child care nursery (not to exceed 10 children)
- roadside stand for sale of agricultural products produced on same site
- private or parochial school (elementary, secondary, or college level)
- public school
- park
- playground
- subdivision sign
- water pump station
- incidental and accessory structures and uses on same site as a conditional use
- sale of agricultural products in a separate structure (wholesale only)
Extracted standards
14 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Maximum fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. in front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.3 ft
No fence, wall or hedge over three feet in height shall be permitted in any required front yard, or in the required side yard on the street side of a reversed corner lot
- Maximum fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. in rear and side yards6 ft
Fences, hedges and walls, not greater than six feet in height, shall be permitted on or within all rear and side property lines on interior lots and on or to the rear of all front yard setback lines.
Other
- Minimum animal pen setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from dwelling30 ft
No animal or fowl pen, coop, stable, barn or corral shall be located within thirty feet of any dwelling or other building used for human habitation
- Minimum animal pen setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from front property line80 ft
or within eighty feet of the front property line of the subject property.
- Minimum distance between separate structures10 ft
The minimum distance between separate structures shall be ten feet.
- Minimum driveway access way width10 ft
If vehicular access is by way of a driveway parallel with a side lot line, there shall be an access way of not less than ten feet from the street or alley to the building site
- Minimum garage setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.20 ft
Garages or carports shall be located not less than twenty feet from any street frontage where the garage door or carport opening faces the street.
- Minimum swimming pool setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from side/rear property line5 ft
Swimming pools may be located in any required exterior side yard and rear yard provided a space of not less than five feet is maintained from the side and rear property lines.
- Minimum setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from railroad or canal right-of-way50 ft
No main building shall be erected within fifty feet of the right-of-way of any railroad line or the Friant-Kern Canal
Signage
- Maximum institutional sign area (attached)10 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The sign shall not exceed ten square feet in area.
- Maximum institutional sign area (free standing)32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The sign shall not exceed thirty-two square feet in area, exclusive of architectural features and shall not exceed eight feet in height.
- Maximum institutional sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. (free standing)8 ft
The sign shall not exceed thirty-two square feet in area, exclusive of architectural features and shall not exceed eight feet in height.
- Maximum name plate area2 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Name plates shall not exceed two square feet in area.
- Maximum reader board sign area10 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The sign shall not exceed ten square feet in area.
From the ordinance
The minimum lot area in the R-A district shall be twenty-four thousand square feet. ... No building or structure erected in this district shall have a height greater than two stories, not to exceed thirty feet. ... The minimum front yard shall be thirty feet. ... The minimum side yard shall be ten feet ... The minimum rear yard shall be twenty feet. ... The maximum lot area covered by structures shall be thirty percent of the total lot area.