Vallejo
Zoning districts
55 districts, grouped by category.
Agricultural
1Residential
27Bungalow Court
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
R-1
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Permitted uses
- 23
Residential
Residential
Residential
Residential
Residential
R-2
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Permitted uses
- 21
R-3
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Permitted uses
- 20
R-4
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Permitted uses
- 18
Multi-Family Residential
Multi-Family Residential
Residential
Residential Agricultural
Residential High Density
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Max density
- 40 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 10
Residential Low Density
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Max density
- 9 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 10
Residential Medium Density
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Max density
- 25 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 10
Rural Residential
- Min lot
- 108,900 sq ft (2.5 ac)
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 30 ft
- Max density
- 9 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 3
Small Lot Single Unit
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
Townhouse
- Max height
- 40 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
Commercial
9Mixed use
5Downtown Mixed Use
- Max height
- 102 ft
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Max density
- 50 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 21
Mixed Use
Neighborhood Mixed Use
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 75 ft
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Max density
- 30 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 21
Transit-Oriented Development Overlay
Waterfront Mixed Use
- Max height
- 9 ft
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Max density
- 50 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 17
Industrial
5Other
5Open space
2General provisions
161 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
A Hillside Development Permit shall be required for all development on any parcel where the average slope is fifteen percent or greater and shall be processed in the same manner as a minor use permit...
A developer agreeing to construct at least twenty percent of a project's total housing units for lower-income households or ten percent of the total units for very low-income households shall be granted an increase of five to thirty-five percent over the maximum residential density otherwise permitted.
The seating area shall be defined by fixed barriers... The parking requirement for an accessory food service shall be based on the parking requirement for the primary permitted use of the property.
The area utilized for on-site consumption of food and beverages... shall not occupy more than two hundred fifty square feet... The number of seats for patrons shall not exceed twenty.
This subsection provides standards for a restaurant to provide commercial vehicle commissary facilities for one mobile food truck...
Any application for an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) or Junior Accessory Unit (JADU) that meets the location and development standards... shall be processed ministerially...
The JADU shall have an area of at least one hundred fifty feet and may not exceed five hundred square feet; ... No additional parking is required. The JADU or primary unit must be owner-occupied.
An ADU constructed in an historic district shall comply with all applicable objective historic standards. The ADU shall be provided with one additional off-street parking space than required for a single-unit dwelling.
Within a five hundred-foot radius of a school or park... Within one thousand feet of any other adult use... It shall be unlawful for any operator or employee of an adult use to allow such adult use to remain open for business... between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 10:00 a.m.
Liquor stores, convenience stores, and mini-markets associated with fuel sales offering alcoholic beverages for off-site consumption shall require a major use permit... No liquor store... within one thousand feet of a property containing an existing or approved liquor store, convenience store or mini-market...
Whenever a deemed approved use discontinues active operation for a continuous period of twelve months, such deemed approved use shall not be resumed.
The keeping of animals is permitted when accessory to a residential use in any residential zoning district consistent with the requirements of Chapter 7.24 of the Vallejo Municipal Code and the provisions of this chapter.
On any lot in a residential zoning district, or in conjunction with any residential use in any other district, a total of eight animals (domestic or exotic) may be kept on one lot, of which not more than four may be dogs, and four cats and not more than one may be a pot-bellied pig.
There shall be no kennels within two hundred feet of a residential use or residentially zoning district. There shall be no veterinary facilities within two hundred feet of a residential use or residentially zoned district.
In addition to the animals permitted in subsection (B), a maximum of three hives is permitted subject to the requirements of Chapter 7.38 of the Vallejo Municipal Code and the following standards: Hives shall not be located within ten feet of any rear or side property line or within forty feet of the front property line. Hives shall be located a minimum of twenty feet from habitable structures on adjacent properties.
The minimum parcel size for development of a service station is fifteen thousand square feet except for those operated as part of a planned complex. Each parcel shall have a minimum street frontage of one hundred feet on each abutting street. No building or structure shall be located within thirty feet of any public right-of-way or within twenty feet of any interior parcel line.
Showrooms shall be located no farther than fifteen feet from the property lines facing any boulevard and shall occupy at least sixty percent or one hundred feet, whichever is greater, of the site frontage along such boulevards. Transparent windows or doors shall be provided for at least seventy-five percent of the building wall area located between 2.5 and seven feet above the level of the sidewalk.
An adequate on-site queuing area for service customers shall be provided. Vehicle-stacking equipment is permitted ...
Loading and unloading of vehicles is prohibited on Sundays and legal holidays. ... If within 100 feet of residential, prohibited 10pm-7am.
Access to individual service bays from the exterior of the building shall not face abutting residential zoned parcels. ...
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.
- Title 15 - SUBDIVISIONS146.9K charsRead →
- Title 16 - ZONING1.4M charsRead →