Mammoth Lakes
Zoning districts
2 districts, grouped by category.
General provisions
312 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
each BMR unit remains affordable to the same income level for a minimum of 55 years for rental units and a minimum of 60 years for ownership unit years.
Each required workforce housing unit shall be reserved for qualified households for a minimum of 55 years, or for a longer period if required by the project approvals.
The density bonus provided by this chapter shall be available only to a housing development of five or more dwelling units.
Eligibility: 5% very low, 10% low, 10% moderate, or senior. Density bonus up to 35% for very low, low, moderate; 20% for senior. Continued affordability 30 years.
Zero to one bedroom: One on-site parking space; Two to three bedrooms: Two on-site parking spaces.
Accessory dwelling unit (ADU). A dwelling unit providing complete independent living facilities for one or more persons that is located on a lot with another primary dwelling unit.
Multifamily residential. Two or more dwelling units on a site or lot. Types of multiple-unit dwellings include duplexes, triplexes, four-plexes, garden apartments, senior housing developments, and multi-story apartment buildings.
Assisted living facility. A housing arrangement chosen voluntarily by the residents, or the residents' guardians, conservators, or other responsible persons where 75 percent of the residents are at least 62 years of age...
Family day care home. As defined by Health and Safety Code § 1596.78, a home that regularly provides care, protection, and supervision for 14 or fewer children, in the provider's own home, for periods of less than 24 hours per day...
Residential care facility. Facilities that are licensed by the State to provide permanent living accommodations and 24-hour primarily non-medical care and supervision for persons in need of personal services, supervision, protection, or assistance for sustaining the activities of daily living.
Single room occupancy. A residential facility containing housing units that may have kitchen or bathroom facilities and are guest rooms or efficiency units as defined by the Health and Safety Code. Each housing unit is occupied by no more than two persons and is offered on a monthly rental basis or longer.
Supportive housing. Housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by the target population (see definition in Chapter 17.148) and is linked to an onsite or offsite service that assists the supportive housing resident in retaining the housing...
Transitional housing. Buildings configured as rental housing developments, but operated under program requirements that require the termination of assistance and recirculating of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at a predetermined future point in time that shall be no less than six months from the beginning of the assistance.
Two-unit project. A housing development consisting of no more than two primary dwelling units on a lot, including a development which entails adding one new primary unit to an existing primary unit, in a single-family residential zone.
Commercial recreation facility. Establishments providing indoor or outdoor amusement or entertainment services for a fee or admission charge, such as ice skating and roller skating, golf driving ranges where separate from golf course, miniature golf courses, swim and tennis clubs, batting cages, arcades, pool and billiard rooms as primary uses and bowling alleys.
Community assembly. A facility for public or private meetings, including community centers, banquet centers, religious assembly facilities, civic and private auditoriums, union halls, meeting halls for clubs and other membership organizations.
Parks and playgrounds, public. Public parks, play lots, playgrounds, and athletic fields for noncommercial neighborhood or community use, including open space areas for passive recreation and picnicking, swimming pools, tennis courts, and other sport and active recreation facilities.
Schools, public or private. An institution of learning for minors, whether public or private, offering instruction in those courses of study required by the State Education Code and maintained in compliance with standards set by the State Board of Education.
This use does not include outdoor cultivation of cannabis, as that use is prohibited within the Town limits. This use does not include manufacturing of cannabis products using volatile solvents, as that use is prohibited within the Town limits.
This use does not include outdoor cultivation of cannabis, as that use is prohibited within the Town limits.
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.