Nevada County Unincorporated

All land use projects requiring a Development Permit, or a Use Permit shall comply with the noise standards provided herein. Permitted residential land uses, including parcel and tentative maps, are not subject to these standards.

All land use projects requiring a Development Permit, or a Use Permit shall comply with the noise standards provided herein.

All projects in Community Regions shall be designed to provide pedestrian paths, trails, sidewalks or other hard-surfacing that links the proposed site with adjacent properties.

All projects in Community Regions shall be designed to provide pedestrian paths, trails, sidewalks or other hard-surfacing that links the proposed site with adjacent properties.

Projects employing fifty (50) or more persons shall submit a detailed analysis of transportation alternatives, documenting feasible measures for reducing auto dependence.

All land use applications requiring a development permit, or a Use Permit shall address alternative transportation opportunities.

Design Guidelines supplement and refine the Comprehensive Design Standards of this Chapter; they implement General Plan Policies.

Any design guidelines that have been adopted by resolution as design guidelines... shall be applicable to all projects that are subject to design review.

Architectural features not intended for human occupancy, such as spires, chimneys, vents, skylights, or solar equipment, and non-habitable structures such as private water tanks, antennas, windmills, and other alternative energy structures, may exceed the allowable building height by no more than twenty percent (20%).

Architectural features not intended for human occupancy... may exceed the allowable building height by no more than twenty percent (20%).

Architectural features... may extend into front and rear yard setbacks by not more than five (5') feet.

Parcels that are less than three (3) acres in size. Such parcels may reduce setbacks as follows: R1, R2, and R3 districts shall provide a five (5')-foot interior side yard setback and a twenty (20')-foot rear yard setback; RA, AG, AE, & FR districts shall provide a ten (10')-foot interior side yard setback and a twenty (20')-foot rear yard setback

In order to provide required side and rear building setbacks on properties that cannot otherwise provide those setbacks, a building setback easement may be recorded and recognized on adjacent properties

Such features, including but not limited to cornices, eaves, roof overhangs, canopies, decks and unenclosed porches not more than eighteen (18") inches in height, bay windows, steps, stairways, fire escapes, landing places, fireplaces, propane tanks and heating or air conditioning units, may extend into front and rear yard setbacks by not more than five (5') feet.

Swimming Pools. Shall maintain a minimum setback of ten (10') feet from any side or rear property line and shall not be permitted within any required front yard setback.

Ground-mounted solar arrays shall maintain a minimum setback of ten (10') feet from any property line.

Attached or detached garages and/or carports may be constructed within one (1) foot of the front property line if twenty (20') feet is maintained from the edge of pavement or traveled way if unpaved.

Height limits for fencing and hedges located within yard setbacks.

Fencing shall be measured from the base at finished grade to the highest point.

Landscaping standards for development permits, use permits, and subdivisions.