Mendocino County Unincorporated, California · District
C-2
C-2 GENERAL COMMERCIAL DISTRICT
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right51
- Assisted Living Residential Care Facility
- Day Care Facility
- Employee Housing
- Family residential—single-family
- Family residential—two-family
- Family residential—multi-family
- Low Barrier Navigation Center
- Supportive Housing
- Transitional Housing
- Administrative services, government
- Ambulance services
- 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
- Administrative and business offices
- Animal sales and services-household pets
- Animal sales and services-veterinary (small animals)
- Automotive and equipment-cleaning
- Automotive and equipment-fleet storage
- Automotive and equipment-parking
- Automotive and equipment-repairs, light
- Automotive and equipment-sales/rentals
- Business equipment sales
- Commercial recreation-all types
- Communication services
- Eating and drinking establishments
- Financial services
- Food and beverage preparation-without consumption
- Food and beverage retail sales
- Funeral and interment services
- Laundry services
- Mail order businesses
- Medical services
- Personal services
- Repair services, consumer
- Research services
- Retail sales-general
- Transient habitation-lodging
- Transient habitation-resort and recreational facilities
- Wholesaling, storage and distribution-mini-warehouse
- Animal Raising—personal
- Forest production and processing-limited
- Horticulture
- Packing and processing-limited
- Row and field crops
- Tree crops
Conditional / special use22
- Family residential-dwelling groups
- Day care facilities/small schools
- Group care
- Animal sales and services-kennels
- Agricultural sales and services
- Automotive and equipment-gasoline sales
- Automotive and equipment-repairs, heavy
- Automotive and equipment-storage, recreational vehicles and boats
- Construction sales and services
- Recycling centers
- Redemption centers
- Swap meet
- Custom manufacturing
- Mobile home residential
- Educational facilities
- Major impact facilities
- Major impact services and utilities
- Animal sales and services—veterinary (large animals)
- Automotive and equipment—storage, nonoperating vehicles
- Transient habitation—campground
- Wholesaling, storage and distribution—light
- Mining and processing
Accessory1
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- Maximum single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours. dwellings per parcel1 dwelling
One (1) single-family dwelling per legally created parcel.
- Two-family and multi-familyMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. not permitted on parcels not in water or sewer districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.
For parcels not in a water or sewer district: Two-family; Multi-family: Not permitted.
Lot
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for commercial use within water and sewer districts0 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
For parcels within water and sewer districts: Commercial Use: None
Other
- Side and rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when adjacent to non-commercial/industrial districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.
Any side or rear yard contiguous to any district other than commercial or industrial shall have a minimum side yard of 5 feet and a minimum rear yard of 20 feet.
From the ordinance
C-2 General Commercial District: Permitted uses, setbacks, height, density.