Riverside
Zoning districts
10 districts, grouped by category.
Industrial
4Residential
4- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
R-3 Zone
- Min lot
- 5,499 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
- Permitted uses
- 1
Very High-Density Residential Zone
- Front setback
- 1 ft
- Max density
- 5 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 1
Residential Agricultural Zone
- Min lot
- 217,800 sq ft (5 ac)
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 40 ft
- Max density
- 0.2 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 22
General provisions
559 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
having within its premises three or more pool tables or billiard tables
are rented to five or more individuals under separate rental agreements
for up to 30 days.
The required clear cross-visibility area shall be a triangle having two sides 15-feet long extending along the curb line of each street.
where such tenant space does not exceed 4,000 square feet.
ten or more cats, four months of age or older, are kept or maintained only for the personal use of persons living on the premises
Dwelling unit, accessory (ADU) means an attached or a detached residential dwelling unit that provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons and is located on a lot with a proposed or existing primary residence...
Downtown Arts and Entertainment District means an area intended to serve as a major, concentrated center of cultural and entertainment uses serving the City and surrounding communities. It consists of all commercially zoned land within an area bounded by properties south of Third Street, west of State Route 91 (the Riverside Freeway), north of properties fronting both sides of Fourteenth Street and east of properties fronting both sides of Market Street.
Dwelling unit, accessory (ADU) means an attached or a detached residential dwelling unit that provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons and is located on a lot with a proposed or existing primary residence...
Is no smaller than 150 and no larger than 430 square feet as measured within the exterior faces of the exterior walls.
It consists of all commercially zoned land within an area bounded by properties south of Third Street, west of State Route 91 (the Riverside Freeway), north of properties fronting both sides of Fourteenth Street and east of properties fronting both sides of Market Street.
14 or fewer children
Garage, private means a completely enclosed accessory building or accessory portion of the main building used for shelter or storage of vehicles.
Hobby activity means a noncommercial avocation carried on by the occupant of a dwelling as a secondary use, in connection with which there is no stock in trade nor commodities sold upon the premises, no person employed and no mechanical or business equipment used, except such as is customarily incidental to domestic uses.
Home occupation means any use of a dwelling unit and related property for employment or occupational purposes that is incidental to the residential use of the dwelling unit. The cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, transport, or sale of cannabis or cannabis products is not a permitted home occupation.
Lot coverage means the area of a lot that is covered by a building(s) or structure(s), expressed as a percentage of the total lot area (excluding pools, fences, and walls). Lot coverage is measured from the exterior wall or post of the building(s) or structure(s) (including lattice, trellis, or solid roof).
Lot width means the horizontal distance between the side lot lines, measured at right angles to the lot depth at the building setback line for regular lots, and the horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured by a straight line drawn at one-third the required minimum lot depth on each side lot line for cul-de-sac lots, and knuckle lots.
Lot-line, front means the line separating the lot from the street. In the case of a corner lot, a line separating the narrowest street frontage of the lot from the street, except in those cases where the latest tract deed restrictions specify another line as the front lot line.
Lot-line, rear means a lot line that is opposite and most distant from the front lot line and, in the case of an irregular, triangular or gore-shaped lot, a line within the lot, parallel to and at a maximum distance from the front lot line, having a length of not less than ten feet.
Lot-line, side means any boundary line not a front lot line or a rear lot line.
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.