Riverside County Unincorporated
Zoning districts
61 districts, grouped by category.
Agricultural
4- Min lot
- 10,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 105 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
A-1 Light Agriculture Zone
- Min lot
- 20,000 sq ft (0.46 ac)
- Max height
- 50 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Permitted uses
- 17
A-2 Heavy Agriculture Zone
- Min lot
- 20,000 sq ft (0.46 ac)
- Max height
- 50 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Permitted uses
- 29
W-2 Controlled Development Areas Zone
- Min lot
- 20,000 sq ft (0.46 ac)
- Max height
- 40 ft
- Permitted uses
- 30
Commercial
4C-1 General Commercial
- Max height
- 50 ft
- Permitted uses
- 108
Planning Area M-4
Planning Area 20
Planning Area 43, Specific Plan No. 260
Other
15Planning Areas 15, 20, 25, and 29
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
Planning Areas 16, 18, 19, 30, 34A and 34B
- Min lot
- 6,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
Planning Areas 21 and 27B
Planning Area 28
- Min lot
- 8,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
Planning Area 31A, Specific Plan No. 260
- Min lot
- 7,200 sq ft
- Max height
- 45 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
- Permitted uses
- 4
Planning Area 40
- Min lot
- 9,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
Planning Area 41 (Article VI)
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
Planning Areas 41A, 48, and 49
Planning Area 41 (Article IXb)
Planning Area 41B
Planning Areas 42, 46A, 46B, 46C, and 46D
Planning Areas 44A and 44B
Planning Areas 45A, 45B, 45C, 45D, 45E, 47A, 47B, 47C, 50C, 50I, and 51
Residential
36Planning Area 15
Planning Area 17 of Specific Plan No. 342
- Min lot
- 2,800 sq ft
- Max height
- 55 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
- Permitted uses
- 17
Planning Area 19
Planning Area 20 of Specific Plan No. 342
- Min lot
- 2,800 sq ft
- Max height
- 55 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
- Permitted uses
- 28
Planning Area 24, Specific Plan No. 260
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 12 ft
Planning Area 25, Specific Plan No. 260
- Min lot
- 3,500 sq ft
- Front setback
- 12 ft
Planning Area 28 - Attached Multiple Family Residential and Combined Multiple Family Residential/Non-Residential Development
- Min lot
- 2,800 sq ft
- Max height
- 55 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
Planning Area 31
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
Planning Areas 32 and 33B
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
Planning Area 33A
- Min lot
- 6,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 12 ft
Planning Area 34
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 12 ft
Planning Areas 35, 37 and 40
- Min lot
- 6,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 12 ft
Planning Area 36, Specific Plan No. 260
- Min lot
- 10,000 sq ft
Planning Area 38
- Min lot
- 6,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 12 ft
Planning Area 39
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 12 ft
- Permitted uses
- 1
Planning Areas 41, 42, 45 and 46
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Front setback
- 12 ft
Planning Area 50C
- Min lot
- 4,500 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 3
Planning Area 52
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 3
Planning Area 52A
- Min lot
- 6,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 2
Planning Area 58
- Min lot
- 4,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 1
R-1 One-Family Dwelling Zone
- Min lot
- 7,200 sq ft
- Max height
- 40 ft
- Permitted uses
- 18
One-Family Dwelling Zone
- Max height
- 35 ft
R-1A One-Family Dwellings, Mountain Resort Zone
- Min lot
- 7,200 sq ft
- Max height
- 40 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
- Front setback
- 20 ft
Multiple-Family Dwelling Zone
- Min lot
- 7,200 sq ft
- Max height
- 40 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Permitted uses
- 34
Multiple-Family Dwelling Zone
- Max height
- 35 ft
R-2A LIMITED MULTIPLE-FAMILY DWELLING ZONE
- Min lot
- 7,200 sq ft
- Max height
- 30 ft
- Permitted uses
- 19
General Residential Zone
- Min lot
- 7,200 sq ft
- Max height
- 50 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
- Permitted uses
- 25
Village Tourist Residential Zone
- Min lot
- 9,000 sq ft
- Max density
- 20 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 39
Planned Residential Zone
- Min lot
- 3,500 sq ft
- Max height
- 50 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Max density
- 7.26 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 9
R-5 Open Area Combining Zone, Residential Developments
- Max height
- 50 ft
- Front setback
- 50 ft
- Permitted uses
- 9
R-6 Residential Incentive Zone
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
- Max density
- 4 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 2
R-7 Zone Highest Density Residential
- Max height
- 75 ft
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Permitted uses
- 17
Specific Plan No. 266, Planning Area 23b
- Front setback
- 5 ft
Specific Plan No. 342
- Min lot
- 2,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 45 ft
- Front setback
- 5 ft
- Permitted uses
- 4
Specific Plan No. 386
- Min lot
- 4,500 sq ft
- Max height
- 26 ft
- Front setback
- 30 ft
- Permitted uses
- 3
General provisions
388 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
Outside storage... limited to an area as set forth in the particular zone not to exceed two hundred square feet with a maximum height of three feet.
No mandatory element of the general plan shall be amended more frequently than four times during any calendar year, unless otherwise allowed by Section 65358 of the Government Code.
No discretionary permit shall be approved pursuant to this chapter unless it is determined that the permit is consistent with the general plan.
During the first two and one-half year agricultural foundation amendment cycle, seven percent of the agricultural foundation base acreage for each of the areas listed in subsection (B)(2) above shall be generally authorized for conversion from the agriculture foundation component to any other foundation component.
Wherever a proposed specific plan is for a project subject to the Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act, Public Resources Code Section 2621 et seq., a geologic report shall be submitted as required by County Ordinance No. 547.
Whenever a proposed specific plan will substantially determine the location of any building sites for structures, a flood protection study shall be submitted with the specific plan along with the fee set forth in County Ordinance No. 671.
A specific plan shall include text and a diagram or diagrams which specify all of the following in detail: 1. The distribution, location and extent of the uses of land, including open space... 2. The proposed distribution, location and extent and intensity of major components of public and private transportation... 3. Standards and criteria by which development will proceed... 4. A program of implementation measures...
The uses permitted in Planning Areas C-5, D-1, ... shall be the same as those uses permitted in Article VIIIe, Section 8.100 of Ordinance No. 348 except that the uses permitted pursuant to Section 8.100.a(1) and (2) and Section b.(1) shall not be permitted. In addition, the permitted uses identified under Section 8.100.a. shall include public parks; community centers; and when the gross acre of a lot is twenty (20) acres or greater, the uses identified under Article XIII, Section 13.1.b. of Ordinance No. 348 shall also be included.
The uses permitted in Planning Areas C-5, D-1, G-2, G-3, G-4, G-6, G-9, G-12, H-1, H-3, H-6, H-10, I-1, I-2, I-3, J-2, J-3, J-5, J-6, J-7, J-8, K-1, K-3, L-2, L-3, M-2, M-3, M-8, and M-9 of Specific Plan No. 303 shall be the same as those uses permitted in Article VIIIe, Section 8.100 of Ordinance No. 348 except that the uses permitted pursuant to Section 8.100.a(1) and (2) and Section b.(1) shall not be permitted. In addition, the permitted uses identified under Section 8.100.a. shall include public parks; community centers; and when the gross acre of a lot is twenty (20) acres or greater, the uses identified under Article XIII, Section 13.1.b. of Ordinance No. 348 shall also be included.
If Planning Areas A-1, A-3, A-7, E-1, and E-3 are developed with large scale recreational uses such as a motor sports race track and facilities related thereto, the development standards shall be the same as those identified in Article VIIIe., Section 8.101 of Ordinance No. 348 except that the following development standards shall also apply: (A) The minimum front yard setback for any building shall be 20 feet. (B) The minimum side yard setback for any building shall be five feet.
The uses permitted in Planning Areas A-1, A-3, A-7, E-1, and E-3 of Specific Plan No. 303 shall be the same as those uses permitted in Article VIIIe, Section 8.100 of Ordinance No. 348 except that the uses permitted pursuant to Section 8.100.b.(1) shall not be permitted. In addition, the permitted uses identified under Section 8.100.a. shall include public parks; community centers; facilities related to large scale recreational uses such as a motor sports race track and facilities related thereto, including but not limited to race track, private garages, clubhouse, tuning shop, observation tower, museum, vehicle display areas and ancillary uses in support thereof; and when the gross area of a lot is twenty (20) acres or greater, the uses identified under Article XIII, Section 13.1.b. of Ordinance No. 348 shall also be included. ... The minimum front yard setback for any building shall be 20 feet. The minimum side yard setback for any building shall be five feet.
The permitted uses in Planning Areas A-2 of Specific Plan No. 303 shall be the same as those permitted in Article IX, Section 9.1 of Ordinance No. 348, except that the uses permitted pursuant to Sections 9.1.a. (17), (23), (25), (27), (29), (32), (42), (51), (52), (61), (65), (67), (73), and (93); Sections 9.1.b. (7), (9), (11)a., (18), (19), and (20); and Sections 9.1.d. (4), (5), (7), (10), (11), (12) and (13) shall not be permitted. In addition, the permitted uses identified under Section 9.1.a. shall include ...
The permitted uses in Planning Areas A-2 of Specific Plan No. 303 shall be the same as those permitted in Article IX, Section 9.1 of Ordinance No. 348, except that the uses permitted pursuant to Sections 9.1.a. (17), (23), (25), (27), (29), (32), (42), (51), (52), (61), (65), (67), (73), and (93); Sections 9.1.b. (7), (9), (11)a., (18), (19), and (20); and Sections 9.1.d. (4), (5), (7), (10), (11), (12) and (13) shall not be permitted. In addition, the permitted uses identified under Section 9.1.a. shall include ...
Lot area shall be not less than four thousand (4,000) square feet. The front yard shall be not less than sixteen (16) feet. The minimum average width of that portion of a lot to be used as a building site shall be forty (40) feet, with a minimum average depth of one hundred (100) feet. The minimum frontage of a lot shall be forty (40) feet. Side yards on interior and through lots shall be not less than ten (10) percent of the width of the lot, but not less than three feet in width in any event, and need not exceed a width of five feet. Side yards on corner and reverse corner lots shall be not less than ten (10) feet. The rear yard shall not be less than ten (10) feet. Every main building erected or structurally altered shall have a lot or building site of not less than one thousand one hundred (1,100) square feet for each dwelling unit.
Lot area shall be not less than four thousand (4,000) square feet, unless cluster development subject to the development standards set forth in subsections AA. through DD. of this section is utilized. ... The front yard shall be not less than sixteen (16) feet ... The minimum average width of that portion of a lot to be used as a building site shall be forty (40) feet, with a minimum average depth of one hundred (100) feet ... The minimum frontage of a lot shall be forty (40) feet ... Side yards on interior and through lots shall be not less than ten (10) percent of the width of the lot, but not less than three feet in width in any event, and need not exceed a width of five feet ... The rear yard shall not be less than ten (10) feet ... Every main building erected or structurally altered shall have a lot or building site of not less than one thousand one hundred (1,100) square feet for each dwelling unit
Lot area shall be not less than five thousand (5,000) square feet. The minimum average width of that portion of a lot to be used as a building site shall be fifty (50) feet, with a minimum average depth of one hundred (100) feet. The minimum frontage of a lot shall be fifty (50') feet. Side yards on interior and through lots shall be not less than ten (10) percent of the width of the lot, but not less than three feet in width in any event, and need not exceed a width of five feet. Side yards on corner and reverse corner lots shall be not less than ten (10) feet. The rear yard shall not be less than ten (10) feet.
Lot area shall be not less than five thousand (5,000) square feet, unless cluster development subject to the development standards set forth in subsections AA. through FF. of this section is utilized. ... The minimum average width of that portion of a lot to be used as a building site shall be fifty (50) feet, with a minimum average depth of one hundred (100) feet ... The minimum frontage of a lot shall be fifty (50') feet ... Side yards on interior and through lots shall be not less than ten (10) percent of the width of the lot, but not less than three feet in width in any event, and need not exceed a width of five feet ... The rear yard shall not be less than ten (10) feet
The uses permitted in Planning Areas A-5, G-1 and F-4 of Specific Plan No. 303 shall be the same as those permitted in Article IX, Section 9.1 of Ordinance No. 348, except that the uses permitted pursuant to Sections 9.1.a. (29), (51) and (93), b.(11)a., (12), (18), (19), and (20), d.(2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (9), (10), (11), (12) and (13), shall not be permitted. In addition, the permitted uses identified under Section 9.1.a. shall include public parks and public playgrounds; golf courses; country clubs; animal hospitals with all kennels entirely indoors; health clubs; computer sales and repair stores; parcel delivery services; libraries; religious institutions; community centers; schools; and water wells and appurtenant facilities. In addition, when the gross area of a lot is twenty (20) acres or greater, the permitted uses identified under Section 9.1.b. shall include the uses permitted under Article XIII, Section 13.1.b. of Ordinance No. 348. In addition, the permitted uses identified under Section 9.1.d. shall include electric vehicle charging stations.
The uses permitted in Planning Areas A-5, G-1 and F-4 of Specific Plan No. 303 shall be the same as those permitted in Article IX, Section 9.1 of Ordinance No. 348, except that the uses permitted pursuant to Sections 9.1.a. (29), (51) and (93), b.(11)a., (12), (18), (19), and (20), d.(2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (9), (10), (11), (12) and (13), shall not be permitted. In addition, the permitted uses identified under Section 9.1.a. shall include public parks and public playgrounds; golf courses; country clubs; animal hospitals with all kennels entirely indoors; health clubs; computer sales and repair stores; parcel delivery services; libraries; religious institutions; community centers; schools; and water wells and appurtenant facilities. ... In addition, the permitted uses identified under Section 9.1.d. shall include electric vehicle charging stations.
Lot area shall be not less than six thousand (6,000) square feet. The minimum average width of that portion of a lot to be used as a building site shall be sixty (60) feet, with a minimum average depth of one hundred (100) feet. The minimum frontage of a lot shall be sixty (60) feet. Side yards on interior and through lots shall be not less than ten (10) percent of the width of the lot, but not less than three feet in width in any event, and need not exceed a width of five feet. Side yards on corner and reverse corner lots shall be not less than ten (10) feet. The rear yard shall not be less than ten (10) feet. In no case shall more than sixty (60) percent of any lot be covered by buildings or structures.
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