Orange County Unincorporated
Zoning districts
4 districts, grouped by category.
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3General provisions
273 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
Subdivisions shall be designed in conformance with the following standards of design.
No building permit shall be issued in a fee area where a fee program and benefit area have been established unless such fees have been paid.
This article may be cited as the County of Orange Subdivision Code.
Cannabis dispensaries, commercial cultivation, delivery distribution centers, manufacturers, and testing laboratories are expressly prohibited within any zoning district. Personal cannabis cultivation limited to inside a private residence or accessory structure, fully enclosed and secure.
Sign: ...a nonilluminated ground sign the advertising surface of which does not exceed six (6) square feet and which does not extend more than six (6) feet above grade; nor shall it be held to include a nonilluminated professional sign ... provided the advertising surface of such nonilluminated sign does not exceed six (6) square feet and the sign extends not more than six (6) feet above grade.
Long-term. Bicycle parking that is designed to serve employees, students, residents, commuters, and others who generally stay at a site for four (4) hours or longer.
Short-term. Bicycle parking that is designed to serve shoppers, customers, messengers, guests, and other visitors to a site who generally stay for a period of less than four (4) hours.
A lot or parcel bounded on two (2) or more sides by street lines that form an interior angle less than one-hundred thirty-five (135) degrees.
The intentional destruction and removal of fifty percent (50%) or more of the enclosing exterior walls and fifty (50) percent of the roof of any structure.
Two (2) or more buildings or structures that are each structurally independent and freestanding and not connected by walls, roofs, floors, decks, supports, trellises, architectural features or any other structure, fixture or device that exceeds thirty (30) inches in height above the finished grade.
Two (2) juvenile equine shall be considered equivalent to one (1) adult.
The offspring of such animals shall be considered an adult when twenty-four (24) months of age.
The average elevation, determined by averaging the elevations of four (4) or more points as necessary, at the building site boundary line where it is less than five (5) feet from the building or at five (5) feet outside the perimeter of the bearing or foundation line of building.
Any building or portion thereof with access provided through a common entrance, lobby or hallway to six (6) or more guest rooms which are rented on a weekly basis or less and which have cooking facilities in less than twenty-five (25) percent of the total number of guest rooms.
Extremely low income household: Thirty percent (30%) and under of area median income
Very low income household: Thirty-one percent (31%) to fifty percent (50%) of area median income
Low income household: Fifty-one percent (51%) to eighty percent (80%) of area median income
Moderate income household: Eighty-one percent (81%) to one-hundred and twenty percent (120%) of area median income
Above moderate income household: Over one-hundred and twenty percent (120%) of area median income
A crop that is limited to types of the plant Cannabis sativa L. having no more than three-tenths (.3) of one percent (1%) tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.