San Fernando

General regulations including setback exceptions, projections, access, street dedication, parkway trees, landscaping, plant materials, and tree preservation.

The city council finds and declares that it is a public nuisance and unlawful for any person to allow, cause, create, maintain, suffer or permit others to maintain, real property or premises in the city in such a manner that: ...

Conditional uses are those uses which have a special impact... review of the location, design, configuration and impact...

Upon written request by an applicant, the community development director shall grant a density bonus... when the applicant for the housing development agrees to construct a housing development that contains at least 10% lower income, 5% very low income, senior housing, or 10% moderate income in common interest development.

Sign, temporary advertising means a sign displayed for a period not exceeding 45 days... Sign, wall ... shall not extend more than three feet above the roofline... supergraphics ... covers an area greater than ten percent of a wall

Single room occupancy unit (SRO) means any building containing five or more guestrooms or units each with a minimum floor area of 200 square feet and a maximum floor area of 350 square feet ... Each dwelling unit is restricted to occupancy by no more than two persons and is offered on a monthly rental basis or longer.

Supportive housing ... shall be allowed as a permitted use in zoning districts permitting multiple-family and mixed-use development. Transitional housing ... shall be allowed as a permitted use in zoning districts permitting multiple-family and mixed-use development.

Structure height means the vertical distance from the average finished grade to the highest part of the structure.

In any R Zone, satellite receiving antennas shall be permitted subject to the following: (1) No satellite receiving antenna shall be mounted on the top or side of any building. All satellite antennas shall be placed at ground level. (2) No satellite receiving antenna shall be placed in the front yard, or the street side, side yard. (3) All satellite receiving antennas shall be completely surrounded by a solid five-foot minimum fence or block wall. (4) The surface of the antenna shall not be painted white, silver or bright colors and shall be treated so as to not reflect glare from the sunlight. (5) No satellite antenna shall be constructed on a slope in such a manner that more than 50 percent of the antenna shall be visible to surrounding streets and residential properties. (6) The maximum diameter of a satellite antenna permitted in a residential zone shall be 13 feet. (7) All installations of satellite receiving antennas deviating from subsections (1) through (6) of this section shall require the prior approval of a conditional use permit.

In any residential zone a dwelling and accessory buildings of the type permitted in such zone may be erected on any single lot lawfully created and of record on the effective date ... notwithstanding limitations on lot area, width or depth ... Yard and outdoor living and open space requirements shall be complied with unless waived by variance.

When a nonconforming use of a structure, or structure and land in combination, is discontinued or abandoned for six consecutive calendar months, the structure, or structure and land in combination, shall not thereafter be used except in conformance with the regulations of the zone in which it is located.

Should such structure be destroyed by any means to an extent of more than 50 percent of its replacement cost immediately prior to destruction, it shall not be reconstructed except in conformity with this chapter.

a nonconforming structure shall not be changed in its utilization to another use in any land use zone until the structure meets all applicable requirements for new construction for the use under the various ordinances and Code provisions of this city then in effect

Additions, extensions and alterations may be made to any nonconforming public use, including, but not limited to, schools, parks, libraries and fire stations, if the addition, extension or alteration does not: (1) Extend beyond the boundaries of the site in existence when the use became nonconforming; and (2) Infringe upon any off-street parking required by this division.

The right to continue a nonconforming use shall terminate as follows: (1) Changing such use to another use not permitted in the zone, (2) Increasing or enlarging the area, space or volume, (3) Adding a conforming or nonconforming use.

A lawfully established use which becomes a nonconforming use ... shall be terminated ... within the time period specified in subsection (1) or (3) of this section

Nonconforming business signs may be abated at any time subsequent to the date such signs become nonconforming, provided that no business sign shall be compelled to be removed or abated ... without the payment of fair and just compensation.

Nothing in this chapter pertaining to nonconforming structures and uses shall be construed or applied so as to require the termination, discontinuance, or removal or so as to prevent the expansion, modernization, replacement, repair, maintenance, alteration, reconstruction, or rebuilding and continued use of nonprofit, public or private religious, educational, charitable or public utility buildings, structures, equipment, and facilities.

If a proposed use of land is not specifically listed in division 2 (Residential Zones), division 3 (Commercial Zones), division 4 (Industrial Zones), division 5 (Specific Plan Zones) and division 6 (Overlay Zones) of article II, the use shall not be allowed, except as follows.

all provisions shall be considered to be minimum requirements, unless stated otherwise (such as height limits and site coverage requirements for structures, and the numbers and size of signs allowed are maximums, not minimums).