Plumas County Unincorporated, California · District
C-3
Convenience Commercial Zone
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right23
- building supply
- business offices
- child day care homes
- limited child day care homes
- child day care facilities
- gas stations
- heavy equipment services
- farm supply sales
- health services
- laundromats
- lodging facilities
- personal services
- places of assembly
- limited recycling facilities
- postal services
- recreation facilities
- restaurants
- retail stores
- taverns
- parking lots
- vehicle services
- one dwelling unit (including additional quarters) where residential use does not exceed floor area of commercial use or on rear 50% of parcel
- dwelling units on second floor if entire first floor is in commercial use
Conditional / special use13
Accessory1
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
Other
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when adjacent to residentially zoned parcel10 ft
Front yards: None, except ten (10') feet when adjacent to a residentially zoned parcel
- Side and rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when adjacent to residentially zoned parcel10 ft
Side and rear yards: None, except ten (10') feet for yards adjacent to a residentially zoned parcel.
Signage
- Maximum additional self-supporting sign area with special use permitConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote.100 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
one additional self-supporting sign structure shall be permitted with a total face area not to exceed 100 square feet.
- Maximum business sign area as percentage of building front10 pct
total face area does not exceed 10% of building front square footage
- Maximum business sign face area200 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
nor 200 square feet, whichever is less, for each street frontage treated separately
- Minimum business sign area per frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
each frontage shall be allowed at least 32 square feet.
From the ordinance
Minimum net lot area 8,500 sq ft, max height 40 ft (35 for dwellings), max coverage 50%, yards none except 10 ft adjacent to residential.