Mendocino County Unincorporated, California · General provision
Chapter 20.084
Rural CommunityAll Mendocino County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right24
- Assisted Living Residential Care Facility
- Day Care Facility
- Employee Housing
- Family residential—single-family
- Low Barrier Navigation Center
- Supportive Housing
- Transitional Housing
- Administrative services, government
- Cemetery
- Clinic services
- Community recreation
- Cultural exhibits and library services
- Essential services
- Fire and police protection services
- Lodge, fraternal and civic assembly
- Minor impact utilities
- Religious assembly
- Animal raising—general agriculture
- Animal raising—personal
- Forest production and processing—limited
- Horticulture
- Packing and processing—limited
- Row and field crops
- Tree crops
Conditional / special use41
- Family residential—two-family
- Family residential—multifamily
- Family residential—dwelling groups
- Day care facilities/small schools
- Group care
- Agricultural sales and services
- Animal sales and services—all types
- Automotive and equipment—all types
- Building maintenance services
- Business equipment sales and services
- Communication services
- Construction sales and services
- Cottage industries—limited
- Eating and drinking establishments
- Financial services
- Food and beverage retail sales
- Funeral and interment services
- Laundry services
- Mail order businesses
- Medical services
- Personal services
- Recycling centers
- Redemption centers
- Repair services, consumer
- Research services
- Retail sales, general
- Swap meets
- Wholesaling, storage and distribution—all types
- Mobile home residential
- Educational facilities
- Major impact facilities
- Major impact services and utilities
- Commercial recreation (all types)
- Scrap operations
- Transient habitation—all types
- Custom manufacturing
- Packing and processing—winery
- Packing and processing—general
- Forest production and processing—commercial woodlots
- Forest production and processing—general
- Mining and processing
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- Prohibition of two-family and multifamilyMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. on parcels without water/sewer
For parcels not in a water or sewer district, two-family and multi-family uses are not permitted.
Other
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. by infrastructure
Minimum lot area: 40,000 sq ft for parcels not in water/sewer district; 12,000 sq ft for parcels in either water or sewer district; none for commercial uses in parcels within both water and sewer districts.
From the ordinance
This district is intended to maintain and enhance existing rural communities where a mixture of residential, commercial, and limited industrial uses are desired.