Mendocino County Unincorporated, California · District
R-2
R-2 Two-Family Residential District
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right18
- Assisted Living Residential Care Facility
- Day Care Facility
- Employee Housing
- Family residential—single-family
- Family residential—two-family
- Low Barrier Navigation Center
- Supportive Housing
- Transitional Housing
- 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 use11
Accessory11
- Family residential—dwelling groups.
- 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 dwelling density
One (1) single-family per legally created parcel, except as separately provided for below. Construction of more than one (1) single-family dwelling may be permissible as the Family Residential—Dwelling Group use type and shall be consistent with the below density standards.
Other
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for parcels within water or sewer districts12,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
For parcels within water or sewer districts: 12,000 square feet.
From the ordinance
For parcels within water or sewer districts: 12,000 square feet. For parcels not in a water or sewer district: 40,000 square feet. Minimum front and rear yards: 20 feet. Minimum side yards: 6 feet. Building height limit: 35 feet.