Paso Robles

Density limits for dwelling units shall not apply to the allowable intensity of land use for such facilities as convalescent homes, skilled nursing facilities, residential care facilities for the elderly, and similar facilities as defined by state law.

Density limits for dwelling units shall not apply to the allowable intensity of land use for such facilities as convalescent homes, skilled nursing facilities, residential care facilities for the elderly, and similar facilities as defined by state law. The number of rooms and/or occupants for such a facility shall be determined on a case-by-case basis in conjunction with an application for a conditional use permit.

No new restricted retail establishment shall be allowed within five hundred feet of an existing restricted retail establishment.

No new restricted retail establishment shall be allowed within five hundred feet of an existing restricted retail establishment. ... No restricted retail establishment shall be established within three hundred feet of the following uses: ... Residentially zoned properties; ... City gateways as identified in the Paso Robles Gateway Plan. ... Hours of operation shall be limited to 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

No agricultural activity, operation or facility, or appurtenances thereof, conducted or maintained for commercial purposes, and in a manner consistent with property and accepted customs and standards, as established and followed by similar agricultural operations in the same locality, shall be or become a nuisance, private or public, due to any changed condition in or about the locality, after it has been in operation for more than three years if it was not a nuisance at the time it began.

The city may mail a copy of the disclosure statement to all owners of real property in the city within three hundred feet of the Agricultural Zoning District with the annual tax bill. ... Upon any transfer of real property located in the incorporated area of the city within three hundred feet of the agricultural zoning district ... the transferor shall deliver to the prospective transferee the written disclosure statement.

Operation of tattoo parlors is permitted only in the Riverside Corridor zoning district of the Uptown/Town Centre Specific Plan (RSC) and C-3 zoning district. Tattoo parlors are expressly prohibited from operating in all other zoning districts. ... The exterior walls of the tattoo parlor are to be located at least one thousand feet from the exterior walls of any other tattoo parlor. ... The exterior walls of the tattoo parlor are to be located at least five hundred feet from the outer boundary of any city-owned park facilities. ... The exterior walls of the tattoo parlor are to be located at least five hundred feet from the outer boundary of any kindergarten through 12th grade school facilities. ... Tattoo parlors shall not operate between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.

The review authority may require construction of a six-foot-high decorative masonry wall along interior boundaries of the site where it deems it necessary ... Street frontages between driveways shall be landscaped with planters that are at least five feet deep exclusive of curbs.

Nonconforming lots may be developed with land uses that are permitted by the zoning district in which they are located, provided that all development occurs per zoning code standards. ... If a development is proposed on a nonconforming lot and a contiguous lot or lots is owned by the same party as the lot on which the development is proposed, the city shall have the authority to require the merger of the lots to create a conforming lot, provided all the following requirements are met: ... Comprises less than five thousand square feet in area at the time of the determination of merger

If any legally nonconforming building or structure is damaged by fire, earthquake, explosion, or other force majeure to an extent of more than seventy-five percent of the gross floor area of the structure(s), as determined by the building official, such building or structure shall only be rebuilt to conform to the present code requirements. ... If any legally nonconforming building or structure is damaged by a purposeful act of destruction to an extent of more than fifty percent of the gross floor area of the structure(s), as determined by the building official, such damaged portions of the building or structure shall only be rebuilt to conform to the present code requirements.

Legally nonconforming land uses may continue to be operated and maintained subject to the following limitations: A. The site or building areas in which they are located shall not be enlarged or increased. Exception: Subject to approval of a conditional use permit, additions may be made to residential dwelling units in commercial and industrial districts... C. If a nonconforming use is abandoned for a period of twelve or more consecutive months, such use shall neither be reestablished nor resume operation...

For any single-family residence that does not provide parking in compliance with the requirements of this title, the following shall apply: 1. For a residential unit with only one parking space in a garage or carport, the square footage may be increased up to twenty percent or five hundred square feet, whichever is less, without requiring a second parking space in a garage or carport. 2. For a residential unit with no parking spaces provided, any addition to that unit shall require provision of at least one parking space in a garage or carport. ... For any multi-family residential development that does not provide parking in compliance with the requirements this title, the following shall apply: 1. On lots greater than nine thousand square feet in area and sixty-five feet in width, with residential dwellings with one parking space in a garage or carport, the square footage of any individual unit may be increased up to forty percent without requiring a second parking space in a garage or carport.

Any fence or wall that is legally nonconforming with respect to height, materials, or absence where required shall be brought into compliance with the provisions of this title in the following circumstances: A. For single-family residential uses, a legal nonconformity is allowed to be maintained in all circumstances. B. For multi-family residential uses, the fence or wall shall be made to conform at the time of any increased density or additional of dwelling units on the premises. C. For commercial, industrial, or other nonresidential use, the fence or wall shall be made to conform at the time of any increased intensity of use of additional square footage exceed one thousand square feet on the premises.

Where a development or use in a nonresidential zoning district has landscape materials and/or irrigation systems that do not conform to the requirements of this title in terms of areas required to be landscaped and/or types of irrigation systems, such landscape materials and/or irrigation systems shall be brought into compliance at the time of any onsite physical expansion of a building(s) in excess of twenty-five percent of the gross square footage of all existing buildings. Where a development or use in a residential zoning district has landscape materials and/or irrigation systems that do not conform to the requirements of this title in terms of areas required to be landscaped and/or types of irrigation systems, such landscape materials and/or irrigation systems shall be brought into compliance at the time of any onsite physical expansion of a building(s) in excess of fifty percent of the gross square footage of all existing buildings.

All new construction and substantial improvements, including manufactured homes, shall be adequately anchored to prevent flotation, collapse or lateral movement of the structure resulting from hydrodynamic and hydrostatic loads, including the effects of buoyancy.

Be elevated on a permanent foundation system to resist flotation, collapse, and lateral movement, and be elevated so that either the: 1. Lowest floor of the manufactured home is at least two feet above the base flood elevation; or 2. Manufactured home chassis is supported by reinforced piers or other foundation elements of at least equivalent strength that are no less than thirty-six inches in height above grade.

All recreational vehicles placed on sites within zones A1-30, AH, and AE will either: A. Be on the site for fewer than one hundred eighty consecutive days; or B. Be fully licensed and ready for highway use; or C. Meet the permit requirements ... and the elevation and anchoring requirements for manufactured homes

Within an adopted regulatory floodway, the city shall prohibit encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements, and other development unless certification by a registered civil engineer is provided demonstrating that encroachments shall not result in any increase in the base flood elevation during the occurrence of the base flood discharge.

Generally, variances may be issued for new construction, substantial improvement, and other proposed new development to be erected on a lot of 0.5 acre or less in size contiguous to and surrounded by lots with existing structures constructed below the base flood level

No area of disturbance is permitted on an existing slope greater than thirty-five percent. ... The exposed face of a building stem wall shall not exceed nine feet in average height. ... Roofing shall be fire-retardant and shall be neither white nor reflective. ... Development of new single-family residences shall include an unobstructed existing or manufactured (graded) area of at least ten feet in depth for the length of a building with a slope not more than five percent. ... Trees shall be planted within the landscaping on graded slopes at a rate of at least one tree per one thousand square feet of graded slope. ... Planting within thirty feet of buildings shall be fire-ignition resistant.