Redding

Development is discouraged within the following specific areas: 1. Hillsides with slope areas exceeding twenty percent. 2. Lands within a one-hundred-year floodplain...

Lots shall be designed and arranged throughout the subdivision in accordance with the following criteria: 1. The size, dimensions, and street frontage of lots shall be in conformance with zoning standards...

Street segments shall meet the following requirements: a. For residential subdivisions, use of long, continuous street segments greater than six hundred feet without cross streets shall be avoided.

Sidewalks shall be provided on both sides of the street consistent with city standards. Preferably, the street design should provide sidewalks separated from the curb with a minimum six-foot-wide landscaped planter-parkway strip...

The design of the subdivision shall provide appropriate setbacks from active streambanks and riparian vegetation in accordance with RMC Chapter 18.48 River/Creek Corridor Development.

Stormwater runoff from the subdivision shall be collected and properly managed by a storm-drain system and/or other appropriate stormwater management facilities/measures as approved by the city engineer.

Each lot intended for development shall be served by an approved sanitary sewer lateral connection. ... Each lot intended for development shall be served by an approved water-system connection...

All new dry utilities (e.g., cable television, electric, and telephone) within a proposed subdivision project shall be installed underground...

The design of the subdivision shall provide for adequate fire-safety conditions, particularly in areas having a very high fire hazard severity zone designation, as reviewed and approved by the fire marshal.

A formal maintenance district, property-owners' association, and/or equivalent maintenance entity shall be created when determined necessary by the approval authority to ensure proper ongoing maintenance...

The design of the subdivision shall provide for the placement of centralized mail-delivery units.

Provided that the minimum front yard setback will be maintained and where adjacent residences will not be adversely affected, the director may allow an accessory structure to be located closer to the street than the existing or proposed residence on the site.

The minimum width of a buffer yard required by Schedule 18.40.020-A: Buffer Yards, may be reduced by up to twenty-five percent...

The Director may authorize a reduction in minimum building separation of up to twenty percent between buildings if the reduction will maintain compliance with the California Building Code.

Towers, spires, cupolas, chimneys, elevator penthouses, water tanks, monuments, theater scenery lofts, and similar structures and mechanical appurtenances covering no more than twenty percent of the top-floor roof area of the structure to which they are attached may exceed height limits by no more than ten feet with no discretionary review.

In any district, the maximum height of any fence, wall, hedge, or equivalent screening may be increased by a maximum of two feet (2')...

In the "RS" and "RE" districts, the Director may increase the maximum front-yard setback where it is determined that the increase will not unreasonably affect abutting sites.

In any district, the director may decrease the minimum setback by ten percent... In addition, the director is authorized to grant a five percent reduction in any setback requirements where construction has commenced and a mistake was made in the surveying or plans preparation.

Where the elevation of a lot at a point twenty feet behind the entire frontage of a lot (as measured from the back of curb) is seven feet above or below the level of the curb, a private garage (attached or detached) for a single-family residence may have a minimum front yard setback of ten feet from the front property line of the lot provided that a third open parking space is provided on the site.

In any "RE" or "RS" zone, the Director may authorize a maximum ten percent reduction in parcel area on parcels created by parcel map if two or more existing parcels within two hundred feet of the proposed parcel map are less than the minimum parcel size.