Riverside County Unincorporated
Zoning districts
61 districts, grouped by category.
Agricultural
4- Min lot
- 10,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 105 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
A-1 Light Agriculture Zone
- Min lot
- 20,000 sq ft (0.46 ac)
- Max height
- 50 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Permitted uses
- 17
A-2 Heavy Agriculture Zone
- Min lot
- 20,000 sq ft (0.46 ac)
- Max height
- 50 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Permitted uses
- 29
W-2 Controlled Development Areas Zone
- Min lot
- 20,000 sq ft (0.46 ac)
- Max height
- 40 ft
- Permitted uses
- 30
Commercial
4C-1 General Commercial
- Max height
- 50 ft
- Permitted uses
- 108
Planning Area M-4
Planning Area 20
Planning Area 43, Specific Plan No. 260
Other
15Planning Areas 15, 20, 25, and 29
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
Planning Areas 16, 18, 19, 30, 34A and 34B
- Min lot
- 6,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
Planning Areas 21 and 27B
Planning Area 28
- Min lot
- 8,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
Planning Area 31A, Specific Plan No. 260
- Min lot
- 7,200 sq ft
- Max height
- 45 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
- Permitted uses
- 4
Planning Area 40
- Min lot
- 9,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
Planning Area 41 (Article VI)
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
Planning Areas 41A, 48, and 49
Planning Area 41 (Article IXb)
Planning Area 41B
Planning Areas 42, 46A, 46B, 46C, and 46D
Planning Areas 44A and 44B
Planning Areas 45A, 45B, 45C, 45D, 45E, 47A, 47B, 47C, 50C, 50I, and 51
Residential
36Planning Area 15
Planning Area 17 of Specific Plan No. 342
- Min lot
- 2,800 sq ft
- Max height
- 55 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
- Permitted uses
- 17
Planning Area 19
Planning Area 20 of Specific Plan No. 342
- Min lot
- 2,800 sq ft
- Max height
- 55 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
- Permitted uses
- 28
Planning Area 24, Specific Plan No. 260
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 12 ft
Planning Area 25, Specific Plan No. 260
- Min lot
- 3,500 sq ft
- Front setback
- 12 ft
Planning Area 28 - Attached Multiple Family Residential and Combined Multiple Family Residential/Non-Residential Development
- Min lot
- 2,800 sq ft
- Max height
- 55 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
Planning Area 31
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
Planning Areas 32 and 33B
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
Planning Area 33A
- Min lot
- 6,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 12 ft
Planning Area 34
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 12 ft
Planning Areas 35, 37 and 40
- Min lot
- 6,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 12 ft
Planning Area 36, Specific Plan No. 260
- Min lot
- 10,000 sq ft
Planning Area 38
- Min lot
- 6,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 12 ft
Planning Area 39
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 12 ft
- Permitted uses
- 1
Planning Areas 41, 42, 45 and 46
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 12 ft
Planning Area 50C
- Min lot
- 4,500 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 3
Planning Area 52
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 3
Planning Area 52A
- Min lot
- 6,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 2
Planning Area 58
- Min lot
- 4,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 1
R-1 One-Family Dwelling Zone
- Min lot
- 7,200 sq ft
- Max height
- 40 ft
- Permitted uses
- 18
One-Family Dwelling Zone
- Max height
- 35 ft
R-1A One-Family Dwellings, Mountain Resort Zone
- Min lot
- 7,200 sq ft
- Max height
- 40 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
- Front setback
- 20 ft
Multiple-Family Dwelling Zone
- Min lot
- 7,200 sq ft
- Max height
- 40 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Permitted uses
- 34
Multiple-Family Dwelling Zone
- Max height
- 35 ft
R-2A LIMITED MULTIPLE-FAMILY DWELLING ZONE
- Min lot
- 7,200 sq ft
- Max height
- 30 ft
- Permitted uses
- 19
General Residential Zone
- Min lot
- 7,200 sq ft
- Max height
- 50 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
- Permitted uses
- 25
Village Tourist Residential Zone
- Min lot
- 9,000 sq ft
- Max density
- 20 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 39
Planned Residential Zone
- Min lot
- 3,500 sq ft
- Max height
- 50 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Max density
- 7.26 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 9
R-5 Open Area Combining Zone, Residential Developments
- Max height
- 50 ft
- Front setback
- 50 ft
- Permitted uses
- 9
R-6 Residential Incentive Zone
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
- Max density
- 4 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 2
R-7 Zone Highest Density Residential
- Max height
- 75 ft
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Permitted uses
- 17
Specific Plan No. 266, Planning Area 23b
- Front setback
- 5 ft
Specific Plan No. 342
- Min lot
- 2,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 45 ft
- Front setback
- 5 ft
- Permitted uses
- 4
Specific Plan No. 386
- Min lot
- 4,500 sq ft
- Max height
- 26 ft
- Front setback
- 30 ft
- Permitted uses
- 3
General provisions
388 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
Uses permitted: One-family dwellings; field crops; home occupations; etc.
The following uses are permitted, upon approval of a plot plan pursuant to Chapter 17.216, on parcels of land not less than seven thousand two hundred (7,200) square feet in size, with a minimum front yard depth of twenty (20) feet and minimum side and rear yard depth of ten (10) feet
One-family residences shall not exceed forty (40) feet in height. No other building or structure shall exceed fifty (50) feet in height... One-half acre, with a minimum average width of eighty (80) feet...
No dwelling shall be constructed unless it has a minimum floor living area of not less than seven hundred fifty (750) square feet.
Each required loading space shall be paved with six inches of concrete over a suitable base and shall not be less than ten (10) feet wide, thirty-five (35) feet long and fourteen (14) feet high...
The building height of a detached accessory building or structure shall not exceed two stories or forty (40) feet...
Where yards are required by this title, they shall be open and unobstructed from the ground to the sky and kept free of all structural encroachments, except as follows...
Outside stairways or landing places, if unroofed and unenclosed, may extend into a required side yard for a distance of not to exceed three feet and/or into the required rear yard a distance of not to exceed five feet.
Structures necessary for the maintenance and operation of a building and flagpoles, chimneys or similar structures that exceed the prescribed height limits may exceed the prescribed height limits where such structures do not provide additional floor space.
On through lots, either lot line separating such lot from a street may be designated as the front lot line. In such cases, the minimum rear yard shall not be less than a required front yard in the zone in which such lot is located.
Any lot shown upon an official subdivision map or record of survey map duly approved and recorded or any lot for which a bona fide deed has been used as a building site, provided the required yard setbacks are maintained.
Private swimming pools... shall be located not nearer than five feet to any property line or dwelling.
Private swimming pools for the use of the occupants of the premises and their nonpaying guests shall be located not nearer than five feet to any property line or dwelling. All other swimming pools shall be located not nearer than ten (10) feet from any property line or building.
Fences shall not be constructed of garage doors, tires, pallets or other materials not typically used for the construction of fences.
Fences shall not be constructed of garage doors, tires, pallets or other materials not typically used for the construction of fences.
The planning director may approve, conditionally approve or deny: Setback adjustments: modifications of the front, rear or side yard minimum setback requirements of the various zone classifications in this title.
When any zone classification provides that an application for a greater height limit may be made pursuant to this section, the following alternative procedures may be used to determine if the request shall be granted.
When an asterisk or any other character follows the zoning symbol on any official zoning plan map, the required minimum lot area, minimum area per dwelling unit, lot frontage, size of dwelling, yard requirement, and structure height, or any of such requirements, for the areas upon the map so marked, shall be as set forth in the legend upon such map.
Fences not exceeding thirty (30) inches in height; ... signs not exceeding one hundred (100) square feet in display area per face...
No building, structure or other improvement shall be constructed within the described planned right-of-way lines... The following improvements shall be permitted... Fences not exceeding thirty (30) inches in height; ... signs not exceeding one hundred (100) square feet in display area per face...
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