Shasta County Unincorporated

Bed and breakfast guest facility means an owner-occupied one-family residence that provides up to four guest rooms, without individual kitchen facilities, for short-term sleeping accommodations and meal service for overnight guests.

Caretaker's or night watchman's quarters means an area not larger than four hundred square feet, designed to be used by one person, either a caretaker or night watchman, within a main building in which an authorized commercial or industrial use exists, and is incidental to the established commercial or industrial use.

Designated floodway—Regulatory floodway means the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood (one hundred year flood) without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation of the base flood more than one foot at any point.

Dog kennel means the ownership, boarding, breeding, training or sale of seven or more dogs at least four months of age, except a veterinary hospital or an animal shelter operated by a governmental agency.

Fence means a fence shall comply with requirements of Section 17.84.030.A and shall not be constructed of the following materials: tires, sheet metal, scrap metal, plastic sheeting or paneling, or other material or junk, as defined, that may be considered a nuisance as defined by the Shasta County Code. Use of barbed or razor wire as fencing is not allowed in residential districts in urban or suburban areas.

Guest house means an attached or detached building which provides living quarters for guests and: A. Contains no kitchen or cooking facility; B. Is clearly subordinate and incidental to the principal residence on the same building site; and C. Is not rented or leased, whether compensation be direct or indirect.

Small hydropower facility means machinery, including related structures and equipment, that generates electricity from turbines powered by water diverted from the natural flow of a creek, stream or river, which may be impounded by a dam or other diversion structure to create a reservoir, and that is capable of producing not more than thirty megawatts of electricity.

Junk yard or wrecking yard means the use of more than two hundred square feet of the area on any lot or contiguous lots for the storage of junk, including scrap metals or other scrap materials, and/or for the dismantling or wrecking of automobiles or other vehicles or machinery, but not including agricultural machinery or parts thereof in A-1, EA, TL, OS and U districts.

Ministorage means any structure(s) designed or built with compartments to be used for individual storage of household items or business inventory by two or more clients on a lease or rental basis. In no case may storage spaces be used in a retail, wholesale, business or service function, nor shall the storage spaces be used for workshops, hobby shops, manufacturing or similar uses or functions.

Wholesale nursery means the growing, storage and sale of garden plants, shrubs, trees or vines for resale, including incidental retail sales conducted from within a building not exceeding twenty percent of the combined wholesale and retail sales volume during any year.

Structural height means the height of a structure measured from the average finished grade at the base of the structure to the highest point of the structure. For floodplain management purposes, the provisions of this title provide minimum requirements for development located in areas of special flood hazard.

The minimum lot area expressed in thousands of square feet, as indicated by a number following the hyphen (e.g., B-8 means eight-thousand-square-foot minimum lot area).

The following uses are permitted outright in the T district: A. Mobile home, in lieu of a permitted one-family residence; B. All uses permitted without a zoning, administrative or use permit in the principal district; C. All uses permitted in the principal district by zoning permit, administrative permit or use permit provided the permit is issued.

The transitional zones slope upward and outward seven feet horizontally for each foot vertically beginning at the sides of and at the same elevation as the primary surface and the approach zones, and extending to a height of one hundred fifty feet above the airport elevation which is five hundred feet above mean sea level.

The horizontal zone is one hundred fifty feet above the airport elevation or a height of six hundred fifty feet above mean sea level.

No material change shall be made in the use of land and no structure or tree shall be erected, altered, planted or otherwise established in any zone created by this article unless a permit therefor has been applied for and granted.

Freestanding outdoor advertising signs shall comply with the following standards: ...

Sign area measurement, height, materials, lights, maintenance, substitution, non-conforming signs.

Requirements for zone walls are as follows: ...

The following parking schedule applies in all zone districts. ... One-family or two-family residence: 2 parking spaces per dwelling unit.