Nevada County Unincorporated
Zoning districts
3 districts, grouped by category.
General provisions
396 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
Projects shall be approved only when they are not within the defined area, unless a Management Plan is prepared consistent with Subsection 3 below.
For all applicable projects, the applicant shall have a biological inventory prepared by a qualified biologist, to determine whether the habitat for the defined resource, or the resource itself may be affected by a proposed project
Clustering of development shall be required for all projects on parcels of twenty (20) acres or more within the North San Juan and Penn Valley areas where existing parcelization within two (2) square miles of the project site averages twenty (20) acres or more in size.
Projects shall be approved only when they are not within the defined area, unless the resource can be protected consistent with Subsection 2 below.
Projects shall be approved only when they are not within the defined area, unless the resource can be protected consistent with Subsection 2 below.
All projects shall be designed to incorporate passive heating and cooling opportunities in the following manner:
All projects shall be designed to incorporate passive heating and cooling opportunities in the following manner:
A project shall be approved only when it is determined by the Planning Agency that it will not adversely affect any of the following resources:
A project shall be approved only when it is determined by the Planning Agency that it will not adversely affect any of the following resources: ... 2. Within one hundred (100') feet of the 100-year floodplain.
All other projects that are not associated with mineral extraction shall be approved only when they are not within both Compatible General Plan Designations and significant mineral areas, unless a Management Plan is prepared consistent with Subsection 2 below or the project is within the Industrial General Plan designation.
All land divisions and dwelling unit construction within one thousand (1,000') feet of an area zoned within the ME District shall be developed to ensure that said development is located as far removed from the area zoned ME as is reasonably possible.
To protect rare, threatened and endangered species and their habitat.
All project applicants are required to comply with the requirements of the Federal Endangered Species Act (FESA) and the California Endangered Species Act (CESA).
A project shall be approved only when it is determined by the Planning Agency that it will not adversely affect the defined species or their habitat, and that it will result in no net loss of habitat function or value for the defined species.
Development, including access, shall be approved only when not within the defined areas, except as provided in this Section.
Limited development is allowed on steep slopes, subject to a grading permit... Lot pad grading shall be limited in size to a maximum five thousand (5,000) square feet.
Projects shall be approved only when they are not within the defined area, unless a Management Plan is prepared.
Projects shall be approved only when they are not within the defined area, unless a Management Plan is prepared consistent with Subsection 2 below.
Projects shall be approved only when they do not remove or disturb defined trees or groves, unless a Management Plan is prepared.
Projects shall be approved only when they do not remove or disturb defined trees or groves, unless a Management Plan is prepared... Defined trees that must be removed shall be replaced on an inch for an inch replacement of the removed tree(s).
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.