Paso Robles

All exterior mechanical equipment shall be screened or incorporated into the design of buildings so as not to be visible from the public right-of-way, highways, passenger railways, or abutting residential zoning districts.

When landscaping is used, proposed plant materials shall have the capability of achieving sixty percent of total view blockage within eighteen months of planting, and one hundred percent of total view blockage within three years of planting.

Parking requirements per Table 21.48.030-1. Mixed-use: 66% of commercial spaces may count for residential. Bicycle parking: 2 per 10 units for multi-family.

In a mixed-use development (residential and nonresidential uses within the same building or on the same parcel), sixty-six percent of the parking spaces required for commercial use may be used to meet the parking requirement for residential use.

When a primarily weekday and daytime use (for example, office, daycare center) is located within three hundred feet of a primarily weekend or nighttime use (for example, assembly facility), up to sixty-six percent of the parking spaces for the daytime use may be used to meet the parking requirement for the nighttime use.

The number of required parking spaces for any use may be reduced by up to twenty percent through a development plan modification (Section 21.16.020)

parking spaces may be located on any land within three hundred feet of the property with the principal land use

Multi-family development with ten or more units shall provide a minimum of two bicycle rack spaces for every ten units on site.

Nonresidential development projects shall provide a minimum of two bicycle rack spaces for each twenty thousand square feet of gross floor area. In addition, for sites with fifty thousand square feet of gross floor area, two secured locker bike parking facilities shall be provided for each increment of fifty thousand square feet of gross floor area.

For parking lots that require twenty or more parking spaces, a five percent reduction in parking spaces shall be allowed in exchange for providing four bike rack spaces.

One motorcycle parking space shall be provided for each twenty vehicle spaces required. Motorcycle spaces shall be a minimum of six feet wide and ten feet long.

Parking spaces shall not have front-to-back or side-to-side grades that exceed five percent slope.

Driveways serving four or fewer residential dwelling units shall have a minimum width of twelve feet.

Within any commercial zoning district, one loading space is required for each ten thousand square feet of gross floor area.

This chapter applies to the following development projects in the multi-family residential districts (R-2-R-5) and to mixed-use developments in the office professional zoning district and mixed-use overlay zoning district

The minimum interior floor-to-floor height of nonresidential ground floor spaces shall be twelve feet.

The number of colors appearing on the entire building exterior shall be at least two and not more than four

Where a property line abuts an R-1 zoning district, the abutting setback (either rear or side) shall be twenty feet for buildings taller than two stories

All new and expanded commercial and industrial projects with a floor area exceeding five hundred square feet, all intensifications of commercial and industrial uses, all new multi-unit residential projects located in any zoning district, and all new mixed-use projects shall be required to provide and maintain at least one trash enclosure.

Bench Sign. A prohibited sign located on a bench or similar structure.