Tustin
Zoning districts
21 districts, grouped by category.
Commercial
5Retail Commercial District
- Min lot
- 10,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 57
Commercial District
- Front setback
- 65 ft
- Permitted uses
- 9
Commercial District
- Front setback
- 65 ft
- Permitted uses
- 4
Commercial General District
- Min lot
- 3,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
Professional/Office Districts
Residential
11Cultural Resources District - Residential
- Min lot
- 10,000 sq ft
- Permitted uses
- 21
Residential Estate District
- Min lot
- 20,000 sq ft (0.46 ac)
- Max height
- 30 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Permitted uses
- 5
Housing Overlay District
Mobile Home Park District
- Min lot
- 217,800 sq ft (5 ac)
- Max height
- 30 ft
- Front setback
- 5 ft
- Max density
- 10 du/ac
Mobilehome Park District
Planned Development District
- Max height
- 30 ft
- Permitted uses
- 3
Single-Family Residential District
- Min lot
- 20,000 sq ft (0.46 ac)
- Max height
- 30 ft
- Front setback
- 50 ft
- Permitted uses
- 7
Duplex Residential District
- Min lot
- 3,500 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Max density
- 12.45 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 2
Multiple Family Residential District
- Min lot
- 7,500 sq ft
- Max height
- 30 ft
- Permitted uses
- 2
Suburban Residential District
- Max height
- 20 ft
- Permitted uses
- 14
Residential Agricultural District
- Min lot
- 20,000 sq ft (0.46 ac)
- Max height
- 30 ft
- Front setback
- 25 ft
- Permitted uses
- 5
Other
3General provisions
86 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
No hazardous waste facility shall be sited if such facility, by itself or in combination with other such facilities, will manage a volume or type of hazardous waste in excess of that generated within the City of Tustin...
All new residential projects, as defined in Section B9912 and as specified in Section B9921, shall include voluntary workforce housing incentive program units.
Off-street parking requirements per Table 1 and design standards per Sections 9262-9267.
Developers of new and expanded nonresidential properties shall provide trip reduction support facilities... At least ten (10) percent of the employee parking spaces shall be reserved for carpool vehicles... Parking for five (5) bicycles shall be provided for every one hundred (100) employees...
vertical distance from the average level of the highest and lowest point of that portion of the lot covered by the building to the topmost point of the roof.
Not less than two (2) parking spaces per dwelling unit shall be provided and permanently maintained as parking accommodation. ... at least nine feet by twenty feet (9' × 20') for open parking and ten feet by twenty feet (10' × 20') clear and unobstructed inside dimensions for covered parking
an ADU of up to 800 square feet, sixteen (16) feet in height, and with four (4) feet side and rear yard setbacks in compliance with all other local development standards.
Any use that is not expressly permitted in a district as a permitted use or as a conditionally permitted use... shall be deemed a prohibited use.
Residuals repositories are allowed only where... Facilities are prohibited in habitats of threatened or endangered species...
The SP 1 Specific Plan District is established by this chapter. All property within the SP 1 District shall be developed and maintained in accordance with all policies, requirements, regulations and provisions set forth in the Tustin Legacy Specific Plan.
In the Unclassified District (U) all uses are permitted unless otherwise prohibited by law, provided that a Conditional Use Permit shall first be secured for any use to be established in any 'U' District...
Temporary Use Permits may be issued no more than four (4) times per calendar year for each business... Requests for a temporary use of up to a total of thirty (30) days within one (1) year period require approval of a Temporary Use Permit... Any temporary outdoor use involving five hundred (500) or more persons gathering together at any given time may be subject to a Large Outdoor Gathering Permit.
Dish antennae located in residential zones exceeding three (3) feet in diameter and located other than in rear yard areas obscured from public right-of-way view.
Dish antennae located in all zones other than residential, exceeding three feet in diameter and not fully screened or otherwise obscured from public right-of-way view.
An Outdoor Dining Area shall meet the following locational and design criteria, and the Outdoor Seating and Dining Areas Design Guidelines:
One (1) caretaker apartment shall be permitted incidental to an animal hospital. Said apartment shall be used solely by persons employed in the hospital for caretaker duties. All animals shall be kept within an enclosed, air conditioned, soundproof structure. Said hospitals or clinics shall be so designed that no odors will be discernible beyond the property lines of the parcel on which it is located.
Fences, solid hedges and walls shall not exceed six feet eight inches (6'8") in height on or within all rear and side property lines on interior lot lines, and on or to the rear of all front yard setback lines. No fence, solid hedge or wall three (3) feet and over in height shall be erected in the required front yard setback.
Architectural features on the main buildings, such as cornices, eaves and canopies may not extend closer than three (3) feet to any side lot line. Eaves and canopies may extend a maximum of three (3) feet into the required front yard and no closer than five (5) feet to any rear lot line. Fireplaces, not exceeding six (6) feet in breadth, may extend not closer than three (3) feet to any side lot line.
Open, uncovered, raised porches, landing places or outside stairways may project not closer than four (4) feet to any side lot line, and not exceeding six (6) feet in...
Whenever an Official Plan Line has been established for any street, required yards shall be measured from such line and in no case shall the provisions of this Chapter be construed as permitting any encroachment upon any Official Plan Line.
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.
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