Land use · Riverside, California

Live/Work Units

How this ordinance defines it

The operative definition is the local one. Codes routinely subdivide a category into tiers — “day care 2, family”, “group home 2” — and attach different permissions to each, so only Riverside’s own text settles what this covers.

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or that establishes or modifies policy or procedure. **Lighted sign.** See "sign, lighted." ** Live/work unit ** means a residential occupancy, by a single housekeeping unit, or one or more rooms or floors in a building that includes:

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a pedestrian environment. It is intended to encourage new housing opportunities, such as live/work units and residential over retail, that are nearby to commercial services. Plazas, courtyards, outdoor dining, transit stops and other public gathering spaces

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Dwelling | X | X | X | P | X | | Live/Work Units (predominately living within a workspace) | X | MC | P | MC | X | | Single-Room Occupancy Unit (Co-Living)

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2025; Ord. 7331 §44, 2016) ## 19.335.010 - Purpose. The purpose of regulating live/work units is to ensure compatibility of such uses with surrounding uses and properties and to avoid any impacts associated with such uses.

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| Laundry, Commercial | 1 space/350 square feet of floor area | | Live/Work Unit | See "Dwelling" | | Low Barrier Navigation Center | See "Shelter, Emergency" | | Lumber Yard and Building Materials (Wholesale)

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