Redwood City
Zoning districts
8 districts, grouped by category.
Mixed use
3Residential
5R-1 Residential—Single-Family
- Min lot
- 6,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 28 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 2
R-2 Residential—Duplex District
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 28 ft
- Front setback
- 35 ft
- Permitted uses
- 5
Multi-Family—Low Density District
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 35 ft
- Permitted uses
- 10
Multi-Family—Medium Density District
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 28 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 5
Multi-Family—High Density District
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 100 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Permitted uses
- 12
General provisions
189 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
Storefront retail is permitted in the same manner as a retail use in the DTTP (Entertainment District, Downtown Core), MUC, MUN, MUT, MUW, CN, GC, LII Zoning Districts
Storefront retail is conditionally permitted in the same manner as a retail use in the DTPP (Downtown General), MUT, LII, IR and IP Zoning District
Child Care Centers located in the 'RH,' 'R-1,' 'R-2,' 'R-3,' 'R-4,' and 'R-5' Zoning Districts shall be permitted subject to first securing a Use Permit. Child Care Centers are allowed by right in conjunction with any public or quasi-public use in residential districts.
Child Care Centers that are operated in conjunction with adjoining businesses shall be considered accessory uses and shall be permitted by right... Child Care Centers of up to sixty (60) children shall be permitted. Child Care Centers of more than sixty (60) children shall require a Use Permit.
Child Care Centers shall be permitted by right.
Small and Large Family Child Care Homes shall be considered a residential use of property for the purposes of this Article and shall be permitted outright in a legal dwelling unit in any Zoning District.
Child care centers and/or independent nonprofit educational facilities open to the public within commercial, industrial, or mixed-use developments of at least fifty thousand (50,000) square feet of building gross floor area shall not be included in the gross floor area of total building area for the purposes of calculating the floor area ratio, and are thus exempt from applicable floor area ratio limitations, provided that the following conditions are met: ...
No new residential units shall be permitted within five hundred (500) feet of the outermost lane of a freeway. The required minimum amount of open space shall be one hundred twenty-five (125) square feet per unit. Minimum capacity shall be one (1) secured parking space per three (3) dwelling units.
An 'affordable housing plan' is required for any residential or nonresidential development project that provides affordable units, either on-site or off-site and for projects applying for any alternative method of compliance under Section 29.8.
All non-tidal water bodies or portions thereof within Neighborhood 20, including sub-neighborhoods 20A, 20B, and 20C, as shown in the sectional zoning maps, and all lands or portions thereof in such neighborhood or sub-neighborhoods, whose normal use is as a water body (defined as those areas designed for water retention), excluding such water bodies and land areas which are less than five (5) acres in extent as a contiguous area, which are zoned prior to the effective date of this section with a district designation other than TP District, are hereby rezoned to TP-W District.
In the case of a TP-W District in relation to a water body, the district boundary on the landward side of the district shall be ten (10) feet inland from the normal high water mark.
Required off-street parking facilities shall be on the same lot or on an immediately adjacent parcel of land as the structure or use they are intended to serve.
Every off-street parking and loading facility... shall be improved, constructed, maintained, and operated in accordance with the following minimum requirements:
A standard parking space shall have a minimum width of not less than eight and one-half (8½) feet and minimum length of not less than eighteen (18) feet.
A standard enclosed two (2) car garage shall be a minimum of nineteen (19) feet wide by twenty and one-half (20½) feet deep in the clear interior dimension.
Professional, business or administrative offices and financial services occupying thirty thousand (30,000) square feet or more shall reserve at least ten percent (10%) of the required spaces for carpool and/or vanpool parking.
In all 'C' Districts, 'I' Districts, 'PO' Districts, and 'PF' Districts, there shall be no less than one (1) bicycle parking space per five thousand (5,000) square feet of floor area.
Every parking area with parking for one hundred (100) cars or more shall have five percent (5%) of its required parking spaces designated for motorcycle parking.
In any district in connection with every building or part thereof having a gross floor area over four thousand (4,000) square feet, which building is to be occupied for manufacturing, display, storage, or warehousing of goods, retail sales, a hotel, a hospital, a mortuary, a laundry, a dry cleaning establishment, or other similar use requiring the receipt or distribution by vehicles of material or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained, on the same lot with such building, at least the minimum number of loading berths and areas according to the following schedule:
Uses with five (5) or fewer parking spaces shall have an access drive with a minimum surface width of nine (9) feet and a minimum unobstructed width of ten (10) feet.
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