Mendocino County Unincorporated, California · General provision
Chapter 20.064
Dimensional standards
Lot
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
- 6,969,600 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (160 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Density
- Maximum density
- 0.01 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
- Lot area per dwelling unitLot area per dwelling unitLand required for each home — the same limit as du/acre, expressed per unit instead of per acre.
- 6,969,600 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (160 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right21
- Assisted Living Residential Care Facility
- Day Care Facility
- Employee Housing
- Family residential—single-family
- Cemetery
- Community recreation
- Essential services
- Fire and police protection services
- Minor impact utilities
- Animal sales and services—horse stables
- Animal sales and services—kennels
- Animal raising—personal
- Animal raising—general agriculture
- Animal waste processing
- Forest production and processing—limited
- Forest production and processing—portable sawmills
- Horticulture
- Packing and processing—limited
- Packing and processing—winery
- Row and field crops
- Tree crops
Conditional / special use22
- Family residential—dwelling Groups
- Low Barrier Navigation Center
- Supportive Housing
- Transitional Housing
- Day care facilities/small schools
- Animal sales and services—auctioning
- Animal sales and services—stockyard
- Cottage industries—general
- Forest production and processing—general
- Forest production and processing—commercial woodlots
- Packing and processing—general
- Family residential—cluster development
- Educational facilities
- Lodge, fraternal and civic assembly
- Major impact services and utilities
- Religious assembly
- Commercial recreation—outdoor sports and recreation
- Commercial recreation—outdoor entertainment
- Transient habitation—campground
- Transient habitation—lodging (limited)
- Transient habitation—resort and recreational facilities
- Mining and processing
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Lot split in agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. preserves for farmworker housing
In compliance with Government Code 51230.2, a two-way division of a parcel of land that is currently subject to a Williamson Act contract may be allowed for farmworker housing, subject to conditions.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. exception for nonconformingNonconformingLawful when built, but not compliant with the rules now in force; usually allowed to continue but not to expand. parcels under 5 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.20 ft
Any nonconforming parcel which is less than five (5) acres shall observe a minimum front, side and rear yard of twenty (20) feet.
From the ordinance
Sec. 20.064.025: 'One hundred sixty (160) acres.' Sec. 20.064.035: 'Fifty (50) feet each.' Sec. 20.064.040: 'Fifty (50) feet each.' Sec. 20.064.050: 'Thirty-five (35) feet.'