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Lassen County Unincorporated, California · District

M-1

M-1 Light Industrial District
IndustrialLight IndustrialAll Lassen County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

M-1 lot requirementsSTREETFront 50 ftRear 10 ftSide 25 ftMin width 75 ftMIN LOT AREA14,000 sq ft
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Lot

Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
14,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.32 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line.
75 ft

SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.

FrontSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
50 ft
RearSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
10 ft
SideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
25 ft

Uses

Permitted by right21

Conditional / special use6

Accessory1

Extracted standards

11 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Other

  • AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. buildings

    Buildings accessory to the permitted use are allowed, provided they meet the provisions of the development standards and area requirements of this part.

  • Activity screening

    All activities shall take place within confined areas, and shall be securely fenced, or otherwise securely contained, and shall be screened from view from public roadways and adjoining properties.

  • Design review

    All development shall be subject to design review according to the provisions of this title.

  • Equipment screening heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft

    all equipment shall be screened by a wall, fence, or landscaping screen not less than six feet in height.

  • Off-street loading space requirement

    one space for each five thousand square feet of gross floor area, or remainder portions thereof, except for buildings greater than ten thousand square feet, two spaces shall be provided and one space for every thirty-five thousand square feet thereafter.

  • Minimum loading space size

    Minimum loading space shall be twelve feet by twenty-two feet.

  • Parking lot tree requirement

    For uncovered parking areas with sixteen or more spaces, the minimum landscaping required shall be one tree, within the parking area, of a species suited to the area climate zone for every eight parking spaces to provide shade and visual diversity.

  • R zone buffer

    These required yards shall totally contain a landscaped buffer zone, which shall be designed to buffer and screen the R zones from the industrial use.

  • Landscaped strip in setbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.

    Any off-street parking areas provided in a required front or side yard setback shall be separated from streets and adjacent property by a five-foot minimum landscaped strip, except when required yards abut, adjoin, or directly face R zones.

Parking

From the ordinance

All activities shall take place within confined areas, and shall be securely fenced, or otherwise securely contained, and shall be screened from view from public roadways and adjoining properties.
Chapter 18.42, § 18.42.060(7)

Parking requirements

{
  "general": "1 space per 3 employees on largest shift or 1 per 2,000 sq ft gross floor, whichever greater"
}

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "permitted_uses": [
      "Equipment rental and leasing (provided all equipment shall be screened by a wall, fence, or landscaping screen not less than six feet in height)"
    ],
    "conditional_uses": [
      "Caretaker's residence, provided that the permitted use requires continuous supervision of a caretaker, superintendent or security persons, and the residence is to be occupied only by such person and his family"
    ]
  }
}