Mendocino County Unincorporated, California · District
R-1
Single-Family Residential District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right14
- Assisted Living Residential Care Facility
- Day Care Facility
- Employee Housing
- Family residential—single-family
- Community recreation
- Essential services
- Fire and police protection services
- Minor impact utilities
- Animal raising—personal
- Forest production and processing—limited
- Horticulture
- Packing and processing—limited
- Row and field crops
- Tree crops
Conditional / special use14
- Family residential—dwelling groups
- Low Barrier Navigation Center
- Supportive Housing
- Transitional Housing
- Cemetery
- Day care facilities/small schools
- Group care
- Lodge, fraternal and civic assembly
- Religious assembly
- Mobile Home Park
- Major impact services and utilities
- Commercial recreation—outdoor sports and recreation
- Transient habitation—lodging (limited)
- Mining and processing
Accessory14
- Family residential—dwelling groups;
- Low Barrier Navigation Center;
- Supportive Housing;
- Transitional Housing.
- Cemetery;
- Day care facilities/small schools;
- Group care;
- Lodge, fraternal and civic assembly;
- Religious assembly.
- Mobile Home Park.
- Major impact services and utilities.
- Commercial recreation—outdoor sports and recreation;
- Transient habitation—lodging (limited).
- Mining and processing.
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- Maximum dwellings per parcel1 dwelling
One (1) single-family dwelling per legally created parcel, except as separately provided for below.
Other
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for parcels not in a water or sewer districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.40,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
For parcels not in a water or sewer district: 40,000 square feet.
From the ordinance
R-1 Single-Family Residential District: Permitted uses, conditional uses, min lot area 12,000 sq ft (within water/sewer) or 40,000 sq ft (without), front/rear yards 20 ft, side yards 6 ft, height 35 ft.