Pasadena
Zoning districts
45 districts, grouped by category.
Overlay
4Alcohol Density Overlay District - AD-1
Alcohol Density Overlay District - AD-2
HD-1 (Upper Hastings Ranch Area) Overlay District
- Max height
- 25 ft
- Front setback
- 40 ft
- Permitted uses
- 3
Height Limit Overlay District 1
- Max height
- 32 ft
Commercial
10- Max height
- 36 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
General Commercial-1
- Min lot
- 15,000 sq ft (0.34 ac)
Colorado/Lake
- Max height
- 161 ft
- Front setback
- 14.5 ft
- Permitted uses
- 2
Foothill Boulevard, Craig Avenue and White Street
- Max height
- 45 ft
- Permitted uses
- 4
Walnut - Los Robles
- Max height
- 145 ft
- Permitted uses
- 4
PD-18 - Colorado/El Nido
- Max height
- 36 ft
- Permitted uses
- 5
South Lake Avenue Development
- Max height
- 50 ft
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Permitted uses
- 1
Kinneloa Annexation
- Max height
- 22 ft
Allesandro Place/Fair Oaks
- Max height
- 50 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
Seco Street
- Max height
- 30 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
Other
10Marengo-Bellevue
- Front setback
- 20 ft
PD-15 - Huntington Hotel
- Max height
- 112 ft
- Permitted uses
- 3
Colorado - Los Robles
- Max height
- 78 ft
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Permitted uses
- 1
Montana I and II
- Max height
- 80 ft
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Permitted uses
- 1
Rose Avenue
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 30 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Max density
- 7.3 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 2
100 West Walnut Planned Development
Colorado Hill Planned Development
- Max height
- 78.5 ft
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Permitted uses
- 5
The Affinity
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Max density
- 87 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 15
- Front setback
- 20 ft
Residential
19PD-17 - Rose Townhomes
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 24 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Max density
- 12.9 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 2
PD-21 - Montgomery Engineering
- Max height
- 60 ft
- Permitted uses
- 2
Lincoln Triangle Townhouse
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Permitted uses
- 4
Salvation Army
- Max height
- 45 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 1
Vista Del Arroyo Bungalows
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
- Max density
- 10 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 9
King's Village
- Min lot
- 7,200 sq ft
- Permitted uses
- 4
Community Arms
Artisan Village
- Max height
- 36 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Permitted uses
- 4
Desiderio Homes
- Max height
- 23 ft
- Permitted uses
- 1
Mountain Street Classics Townhomes
- Max height
- 36 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Permitted uses
- 9
Eaton Wash Residential
- Min lot
- 4,500 sq ft
- Front setback
- 22 ft
- Max density
- 4.9 du/ac
El Mirador
- Min lot
- 15,000 sq ft (0.34 ac)
- Max height
- 20 ft
- Max density
- 5 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 9
- Max height
- 32 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Permitted uses
- 9
Multi-Family Residential (RM-32)
- Max height
- 3 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Permitted uses
- 10
Multi-Family Residential (RM-48)
- Max height
- 38 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Permitted uses
- 10
- Max density
- 17.43 du/ac
- Max height
- 100 ft
- Min lot
- 910 sq ft
- Max height
- 72 ft
- Max density
- 17.43 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 1
General provisions
769 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
Outdoor parking area lighting shall not exceed 18 feet in height, unless specifically approved by the Design Commission or other applicable review authority, and except when located within City parks.
All parking lots shall have a minimum five-foot wide perimeter landscaped area. For lots with more than 150 feet of street frontage, the minimum landscaped area shall be 10 feet in width.
All parking lots shall have a minimum five-foot wide perimeter landscaped area. For lots with more than 150 feet of street frontage, the minimum landscaped area shall be 10 feet in width. At least one tree for every four vehicle parking spaces required/provided shall be planted and evenly distributed throughout the parking lot. Planters shall have a minimum interior dimension of five feet.
The minimum dimensions of a loading space shall be 10 feet by 20 feet, with 12 feet of vertical clearance. The minimum turning radius shall be 25 feet.
The minimum dimensions of a loading space shall be 10 feet by 20 feet, with 12 feet of vertical clearance. The minimum turning radius shall be 25 feet. Loading spaces or areas shall not be located in required setbacks. Except in the CG and IG zoning districts, any loading spaces or areas visible from a street shall be screened on three sides by a fence, hedge, or wall a minimum of six feet in height.
For ramps 65 feet or less in length, the ramp grade shall not exceed 16 percent, with the first and last 10 feet of the ramp not exceeding eight percent. For ramps longer than 65 feet, the ramp grade shall not exceed 12 percent, with the first and last eight feet of the ramp not exceeding six percent.
For ramps 65 feet or less in length, the ramp grade shall not exceed 16 percent, with the first and last 10 feet of the ramp not exceeding eight percent. For ramps longer than 65 feet, the ramp grade shall not exceed 12 percent, with the first and last eight feet of the ramp not exceeding six percent. The slope of all parking areas shall not exceed five percent, excluding ramps.
Nonresidential development projects, and the nonresidential portion of mixed-use development projects, which exceed 25,000 square feet of gross floor area, as a result of new construction or an expansion of an existing use, shall provide the following: 1. Carpool and vanpool parking. A minimum of 10 percent of the employee parking spaces shall be for, and designate as, preferential parking for carpool and vanpool vehicles.
Nonresidential development projects... which exceed 25,000 square feet of gross floor area... shall provide... A minimum of 10 percent of the employee parking spaces shall be for... carpool and vanpool vehicles.
All parking areas, circulation aisles, and accessways shall be paved with Portland cement concrete or asphalt. (Nonresidential) All parking areas, circulation aisles, and accessways shall be paved with Portland cement concrete, asphalt, brick, concrete pavers, gravel, cobblestone, grasscrete, or decomposed granite. (Residential)
All parking areas, circulation aisles, and accessways shall be paved with Portland cement concrete or asphalt. Residential: ... brick, concrete pavers, gravel, cobblestone, grasscrete, or decomposed granite.
Bicycle parking facilities shall be provided for any new structure or an addition to any existing structure, that exceeds 15,000 square feet in gross floor area.
Bicycle parking facilities shall be provided for any new structure or an addition to any existing structure, that exceeds 15,000 square feet in gross floor area. Each bicycle parking space shall be no less than six feet long by two feet wide.
Flags and banners of a purely decorative nature that do not contain any commercial or noncommercial messages. Limited to a total of four per use with a maximum size of 32 square feet each.
For residential districts the lighting shall not exceed one foot candle.
Signs shall not have exposed fluorescent tubes or incandescent bulbs exceeding 15 watts, and the brightness of luminous or backlighted signs shall not exceed 250 footlamberts.
Light sources (e.g., light bulbs) used for externally illuminated signs shall not be visible within 100 feet of any residential zoning district.
Internally illuminated signs visible from any residential zoning district shall not be illuminated between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. unless they identify an establishment open for business during those hours.
Neon signs placed within five feet of a storefront window shall not occupy more than 25 percent of the window area.
Projecting signs shall not be less than eight feet above the surface over which they project in pedestrian areas. Signs shall not project more than five feet into a public right-of-way and shall not project closer than two feet to a curb.
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.