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Rancho Palos Verdes, California · District

OC-4

Automotive Service Station Overlay Control District
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Dimensional standards

OC-4 lot requirementsSTREETSTREETbuildable areaFront 10 ftRear 10 ftSide 10 ftStreet side 10 ftMin frontage 100 ftMIN LOT AREA20,000 sq ftMIN UNIT SIZE1,200 sq ft
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Lot

Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
20,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.46 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Minimum frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.
100 ft
Minimum floor areaMinimum floor areaThe smallest dwelling the district permits, in square feet of living space.
1,200 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.

SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.

FrontSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
10 ft
RearSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
10 ft
SideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
10 ft
Street sideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
10 ft

Height & bulk

Minimum landscaping
8%

Servicing

Geographic extent
Limited to eight sites as listed in the table (not provided in text).

Uses

Permitted by right7

Conditional / special use8

Prohibited4

Extracted standards

5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Noise

  • Maximum noise level at property line65 dBA

    The operation of an approved automotive service station use shall not cause noise exceeding 65 decibels to be audible at the property line of any adjacent residential property.

Other

  • Landscaping requirement

    The ten-foot setback along the street frontages shall be landscaped, except where there are driveways. Planting shall not exceed three feet in height, except for trees; and eight percent of the total site shall be landscaped in addition to that required under subsection (C)(1) of this section.

  • ProhibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. operations

    There shall be no body and fender work, painting, repair and rebuilding of electrochemical batteries or other work of a similar nature. The rental of cars or trailers is specifically prohibited.

Parking

  • Parking restriction

    Parking of vehicles on site is prohibited except for vehicles which are in the process of being serviced, vehicles belonging to employees, and service and tow trucks owned by the establishment.

Setback

From the ordinance

The automotive service overlay control district permits uses upon approval of a conditional use permit which provide automotive services to the residents of the city and visitors driving within the city.
17.40.070