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.
The required five-foot setback shall be used for expanded sidewalk treatment and/or pedestrian area (hardscape).
The required five-foot setback shall be used for expanded sidewalk treatment and/or pedestrian area (hardscape).
The required five-foot setback shall be used for expanded sidewalk treatment and/or pedestrian area (hardscape).
Affiliation signs... shall not exceed one square foot in area for each sign... Decorative flags and banners... maximum size of 32 square feet each... Site address... shall not exceed a height of eight inches for residential uses and 24 inches for nonresidential uses... Freestanding signs shall be set back a minimum of five feet from a street property line... The brightness of luminous or backlighted signs shall not exceed 250 footlamberts.
If an applicant proposes demolition or a major project affecting a building, site, object or structure that is 45 years of age or older, submittal of an application for Historic Resource Evaluation is required.
No person, owner, or other entity shall undertake a major or minor project to a designated historic resource or historic resource eligible for designation or new construction in a landmark or historic district as defined in the Category 1, 2 and 3 review procedures in subsection E below without first obtaining approval of an application for Certificate of Appropriateness in compliance with this Section.
A nonconforming use shall lose its nonconforming status and shall not be reestablished if the nonconforming use is discontinued for any reason for a continuous period of at least 12 months... To the extent of 75 percent or less, the use or structure may be rebuilt and resumed.
A Zoning Code/Zoning Map amendment shall become effective on the 31st day following the adoption of an ordinance, except for an urgency ordinance, by the Council.
Notice shall be mailed, at least 14 days before the hearing, through the United States mail service, to all owners of real property within a 500-foot radius... The sign shall be 12 feet square in sign area... not exceed six feet in height...
The Notice of Violation shall state that the violation(s) shall be corrected within 30 days... Any certificate, license, entitlement, permit, or other approval that would be in conflict with the provisions of this Zoning Code shall not be granted/issued.
A building used as group living quarters for a student body or religious order as an accessory use for a college, university, boarding school, convent, monastery or other similar public, semi-public use.
Within ¼ mile of the Allen Avenue and Sierra Madre Villa Light Rail platforms, the maximum residential density for mixed-use projects shall be 60 units per acre. The maximum density for multi-family residential uses (excluding mixed-use projects) shall be 48 units/acre. Within ¼ mile of the Allen Avenue and Sierra Madre Villa Light Rail Station Platforms the maximum height limit shall be 60 feet. For multi-family residential uses (excluding mixed-use projects), the maximum height limit shall be 45 feet.
The creation of a flag-lot subdivision shall not be permitted. No construction shall be permitted that results in the injury or removal of a landmark, native, or specimen tree...
No project will receive Preliminary/Concept Design review without first applying to the Arts Commission for Preliminary/Concept Art review. The actual Arts Commission review must take place within 45 days of the Concept Design review. Application for Final Design review is only possible with an approved Preliminary Art Concept. Final Art Plan Review must occur within 45 day of the Final Design review. A deposit of twenty percent (20%) of the total one percent obligation as the Public Art Deposit will be required at plan check. The applicant is responsible to allocate the remaining eighty percent (80%) toward an on-site public art project.
Exception: In CF zoning districts, windowless expanses of street-façades shall not exceed 40 feet in length. In CF and the area east of Sunnyslope Avenue/north of Colorado Boulevard, parking shall be set back a minimum of 5 feet from all street frontages.
Windowless expanses of street-facing façades shall not exceed 20 feet in length. Along primary frontages in the MU zoning districts, all floors of parking structures shall be lined with building floor area or PAOS for a minimum of 35 feet in depth.
Windowless expanses of street-facing façades shall not exceed 20 feet in length. Along primary frontages in the MU zoning districts, all floors of parking structures shall be lined with building floor area or PAOS for a minimum of 35 feet in depth.
Ground floor design, open space, and parking standards for LPSP districts.
Low Barrier Navigation Centers shall be allowed as a permitted use in all zones permitting mixed-use development and commercial zones permitting multifamily development, subject to the operational requirements of this section.
In C-3d multi-family housing is permitted.
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.