Del Norte County coastal land use plan and zoning ordinance

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DEL NORTE COUNTY

CCASTAL

LAND USE PLAN

AND
ZONING ORDINANCE

CERTIFIED AS LEGALLY ADEQUATE
BY THE CALIFORNIA COASTAL
COMMISSION ON 10/12/63

HD
211
C2
D 45
1983
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DEL NORTE COUNTY LCP

AND AMENDMENTS

(BALANCE OF COUNTY SEGMENT)

Title 21

COASTAL ZONING

Ch apters:

21.02, Enabling Plan
21.04 Definitions
21.06 Districts
21.08 AE A;Tr-iculture Exclusive District
21.09 A Agricultural General District
21.10 Al Agriculture Industrial District
21.11 RCAl General Resource Conservation Area District
21.11A RCA2 Designated Resource Conservation Area
District
21.13 TPZ Timberland Preserve Zone District
21.14 CT Coastal Timber Zone District
21.16 RR-1-Rural Residential Distri
21.17 RRA Rural Residential AgriculEu-re District
21.19 R-1 One-Familv esidence District
21.20 MHP Mobilehome Park DiTt-rict
21.21 R-2 Low Densitv MultiplF--Family Residence
District
21.22 R-3 High Density Multiple-Family Residence
District
21.23 PC Planned Community_District
21.25 C-1 Neighborhood Commercial District
21.26 C-2 Light Commercial District
21.27 C-3 Centrai-Business Drs-trict
21.28 C-R Commercial Recreational District
21.30 C-4 Z@eneral Commercial District,
21.31 H -Manufacturing and Industrial District
21.32 MP Manufacturing andIndustrial Performance
District
21.33 PF Public Facilitv District
21.34 B Combining District
21.35 C Coastal Area Combining District
21.36 D Combining District
21.37 FP1 Flood Zone Area Combining District
21.38 FP2 Flood Overflow Area Combining District
21.39 FP3 Protected Areas Within Flood Zones Combinina
District
21.40 MH-l and MH-2 Mobilehome Combining District
.21.41 W Woodlot Combining 5istrict
21.44 Off-Street Parking
21.46 U-eneral Provisions
21.47 ff-arbor Area PU_lic Access Provisions
21.48 NonconFo-rming Uses
21.50 fornia Coastal Zone Entitlement Proce-
dures--General Provisions

21.02.010--21.02.030

21.50A California Coastal Zone Entitlement Proce-
du-r-es--General Plan Amendm7nts
21.50B California-Coastal Zone Entitlement Proce-
dures--Zoning Amendments
21.50C Calitornia Coastal Zone Entitlement Proce-
s--Use Permits
21.50D California Coas=ta Zone Entitlement Proce-
dures--Variances
21.51 California Coa:@_tAl Zone Entitlement Proce-
dures--Local -Appeals
21.52 California Coastal Zone Entitlement Proce-
Uures--california Coastal Commission Aoneals
21.60 Yn-forcement

Chapter 21.02

ENABLING PLAN

Sections:

21.02.010 Citation.
21.02.020 Adoption.
21.02.030 Purpose.
21.02.040 District establishment--Provision for legal
procedure.
21.02.050 District establishment--initiation.
21.02.010 Citation. The ordinance codified in Chap-
ters 21.02 through 21.60 shall be known and cited as the
11local coastal program zoning enabling ordinance of the
county of Del Norte." Copies shall be available to the gen-
eral public for a fee sufficient to cover cost of publica-
tion. (Ord. 83-03(part))
21.02.020 Adoption. There is adopted a local coastal
program zoning enabling plan for the county of Del Norte,
and certified by the California State Coastal Commission,
state of California, as provided by law. (Ord. 83-03(part))
21.02.030 Purpose. This zoning plan is adopted to
provide for the promotion and protection of the public
health, safety, peace, morals, comfort, convenience, and
general welfare, for the following more particularly speci-
fied purposes:
A. To assist in providing a definite plan of develop-
ment for that portion of the countywithin the California
Coastal Zone, and to guide, control and regulate the future

21.02.040--21.02.050

in accord
growth of the; an.ce*with tliiatzoning plan and
pursuant to the General Plan Coastal Element.
B. To protect the character and the social and eco-
nomic stability of agricultural, residential, commercial,
industrial, and other areas within the county, and to assure
the orderly and beneficial development of such areas. (Ord..
83-03(part))

21.02.040 District establishment--Provision for legal
procedure. The zoning enabling plan provides the necessary
legal procedure for the future establishment of various dis-
tricts within the unincorporated territory of.the county;
within such districts it is unlawful or lawful to erect,
construct, alter or maintain'certain buildings or to carry
on certain trades or occupations or to conduct certain uses
of land and/or buildings, and within which certain open
spaces shall be required about future buildings, and con-
sisting further of appropriate regulations to be enforced in
such districts, all as set forth in Chapters 21.02 through
21.60. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.02.050 District establishment--Initiation. Pro-
tective districts shall be established upon initiation by
the board of supervisors, the planning commission, or upon
initiation by a petition signed by one or more persons own-
ing property in the area affected, and shall be according to
the procedures provided in Chapter 21.50. (Ord. 83-03
(part))

Chapter 21.04

DEFINITIONS

Sections:

21.04.010 Generally.
21.04.015 Agricultural land, prime.
21.04.020 Agriculture.
21.04.030 Airport.
21.04.040 Alley.
21.04.050 Animal husbandry.
21.04.060 Apartment.
21.04.070 Apartment court.
21.04.080 Apartment house.'
21.04.090 Area, building site.
21.04.100 Automobile wrecking.
21.04.110 Basement.
21.04.120 Block.
21.04.130 Building.
-21.04.140 Building, accessory.
21.04.150 Building, main.

21.04.160 Business or commerce.
21.04.170 Caretaker.
21.04.177 Coastal Zone, California.
21.04.1SO Court.
21.04.190 Coverage, lot or building.
21.04.195 Development.
21.04.200 District.
21.04.210 Duplex.
21.04.220 Dwelling group.
21.04.230 Dwelling, multiple.
21.04.240 Employee, full-time.
21.04.248 Estuary.
21.04.250 Family.
21.04.260* Family, immediate.
21.04.265 Farmed wetlands.
21.04.270 Front wall.
21.04.280 Garage, private.
21.04.290 Garage, public.
21.04.300 Garage, storage.
21.04.310 'Guest room.
21.04.320 Height of building.
21.04.330 Home occupations.
21.04.340 Hotel.
21.04.350 House court.
21.04.360 Household pets.
21.04.370 Industry.
21.04-380 Junk.
21.04.390 Junkyards.
21.04.397 Lateral access, coastal zone.
21.04.400 Livestock farming.
21.04.406 Lodging, house or guest.
21,04.410 Loading space.
21' -04.420 Lot.
21.04 430 Lot area.
21.04.440 Lot, corner.
21.04.450 Lot depth.
21.04.460 Lot frontage.
21.04.470 Lot, interior.
21.04.480 Lot, key.
21.04.490 Lot lines.
21.04.500 Lot line, front.
21.04.510 Lot line, rear.
21.04.520 Lot line, side.
21.04.330 Mining and mineral extraction.
21.04.540 Mobilehome.
21.04.'550 Mobilehome park.
21.04.560 Motel.
21.04.570 Mutual water company.
21.04.580 Native wooded habitat.
21.04.590 Nonconforming use.
21.04.600 Nuisance.

21.04.010

21.04 610 One ownership.
21.04.620 Outdoor advertising sign.
21.04.630 Outdoor advertising structure.
21.04.636 Passive recreational use, coastal access.
21.04.640 Professional office.
21.04.650 Public sewage disposal system.
21.04.660 Public use.
21.04.670 Public water supply.
21.04.680 Quasi-public use.
21.04.690 Recreational vehicle.
21.04.700 Recreational vehicle park.
21.04.710 Residence, one-family.
21.04.720 Residence, two-family.
21.04.723 Resource conservation area.
21.04.726 Riparian vegetation.
21.04.727 Sand dunes, coastal.
21.04.730 Saw mill.
21.04.'740 Setback.
21.04.750 Small livestock farming.
21.04.760 Stable, private.
21.04.770 Stable, public.
21.04.780 Story.
21.04.790 Story, half.
21.04.800 Street.
21.04.810 Street line.
21.04.820 Structure.
21.04.830 Structural alterations.
21.04.835 Subdivision.
21.04.840 Use
21.04.850 Use: accessory.
21.04.855 Vertical access, coastal zone.
21.04.856 Wetland.
21.04.860 Wrecking yard.
21.04.870 Yard.
21.04.880 Yard, front.
21.04.890 Yard, rear.
21.04.900 Yard, side.

21.04.010 Generally. For the purpose of the ordinance
codified in Chapters 21.02 through 21.60, certain terms used
are defined as follows:
All words used in the present tense include the future;
all words in the plural number include the singular, unless
the natural construction of the wording indicates otherwise.
"Lot" includes "plot"; "building" includes "structure"; and
"shall" is mandatory and not directory. "California Coastal
Commission" means the commission and staff designated by the
state of California to administer the California Coastal
Act. "County" means the county of Del Norte, state of Cali-
fornia; "board of supervisors" means the board of supervi-
sors of the county of Del Norte, state of California; "plan-
ning commission" means the planning commission of the

21.04.015--21.04.090

county of Del Norte, state of California; and "county bound-
ary" means the boundary of the county of Del Norte, munici-
pality within Del Norte County. (Ord. 83-03(part))
21.04.015 Agricultural land, prime. "Prime agricul-
tural land" -consists of twenty acres or more in contiguous
ownership which are actively used for the production of nur-
sery crops, pasture crops, dairy products and/or livestock
or which are Class I soils and/or quality for a rating of
eighty and above on the storie index. (Ord. 83-03(part))
21.04.020 Agriculture. "Agriculture" means the til-
ling of the soil, the raising of crops, horticulture and
viticulture, including all uses customarily incidental
thereto for commercial purposes, but not including slaugh-
terhouses, fertilizer yards, bone yards or plants for the
reduction of animal matter or any other industrial use which
is similarly objectionable because of noise, odor, smoke,
dust or fumes. (Ord. 83-03(part))
21.04.030 Airport. "Airport" means-the operation of
any area of land or water designed and set aside for the
landing and taking off of aircraft, but not including pri-
vate agricultural operations. (Ord. 83-03(part))
"Alley" means public thoroughfare,
21.04.040 Alley.
not exceeding twenty feet in width, for the use of pedestri-
ans and/or of vehicles which affords only a secondary means
of access to abutting property. (Ord. 83-03(part))
21.04.050 Animal husbandry. "Animal husbandry" means
the keeping of any or all livestock except hogs. '(Ord.
83-03(part))

21.04.060 Apartment. "Apartment" means a room or
suite or two or more rooms which is designed for, intended
for and/or occupied by one family doing its cooking therein.
(Ord. 83-03(part))
21.04.070 Aioartment court. For "apartment court," see
"dwelling group," Section 21.04.220. (Ord. 83-03(part))
21.04.080 A artment house. For "apartment house," L
see "dwelling, multiple," S=tion 21.04.230. (Ord.' 83-03
(part))
21.04.090 Area, building site. "Building site area"
means the total of the ground area of a building or build-
ings together with all yard spaces required by Chapters 21-
.08 through 21.48. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.100--21.04.150

21.04.100 Automobile wrecking. For "Automobile wreck-
ing," see "wrecking yard," Section 21.04.860. (Ord. 83-03
(part))

21.04.110 Basement. "Basement" means a story wholly
or partly underground and having at least one-half of its
height below grade. A basement shall be counted as a story
if the vertical distance from grade to the ceiling is over
five feet. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21 .04.120 Block. "Block" means that property abutting
on one side of a street and lying between the two nearest
intersecting or intercepting streets, or railroad right-of-
way, or unsubdivided acreage, or a combination thereof.
(Ord. 83-03(p4rt))
21.04.13-0- BuillIdaing. "Building" means any structure
having a roof supported by columns and/or by walls and in-
tended for the"shelter, housing and/or enclosure of any per-
son, animal or chattel. When any portion thereof is com-
pletely separated from every other portion thereof by a ma-
sonry division or fire wall without any window, door or
other opening therein, which wall extends from the ground to
the upper surface of a roof at every point, then each such
portion shall be deemed to be a separate building. (Ord,
83-03(part))

21.04.140 Buildinc, accessory. "Accessory building"
means a sUb-ordinate building the use of which is incidental
to that of the main building on the same parcel. In resi-
dential, residential-agricultural and rural-residential dis-
tricts, the residence is the main building and the accessory
building must be built after construction of the residence
or at the same time as construction of the residence. Where
the minimum lot size in these districts is less than three
acres, the accessory building must meet the following cri-
teria:
A. No single accessory building shall exceed one thou-
sand square feet in area coverage.
B. The height of the accessory.building shall not ex-
ceed sixteen feet as measured from the average ground level
to the peak of the roof.
C. No person outside of the members of the family
shall be employed within the accessory building.
D. Exceeding the above maximum dimensions shall only
be allowed after the securement-of a use permit. (Ord.
83-03(part))

21.04.150 Building, main. "Main building" means a
building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot
upon which it is situated. In any R or RR district, any

21.04.160--21.04.195

dwelling shall be deemed to be a:.main building upon the lot
upon which the same is situated. (Ord. 8@-03(part))
21.04.160 Business or commerce. "Business or com-
merce" means the purchase, sale or other transaction in-
volving the handling or disposition (other than is included
in the term "industry" as defined in this chapter) of any
article, substance or commodity for profit or livelihood,
including, in addition, office buildings, offices, shops for
the sale of personal services, garages, outdoor advertising
structures, automobile camps, automobile courts 'hotels and
recreational or other enterprises conducted for profit.
(Ord. 83-03(part))
21.0-4,.170 Caretaker. "Caretaker" means any person who
is on the-liremises only in the absence of the property own-
er, and all other persons, from the property to be cared
for. He must provide manual labor and maintenance services
for the owner to substantial physical improvements (build-
ings, equipment, crops on five acres or more, etc.). (Ord.
83-03(part))

21.04.177 Coastal Zone, California. "California
Coastal Zone" means that area of the county under the juris-
diction.of the California Coastal Act as set forth by Public
Resources Code Section 30103 and as delineated by the Local
Coastal Program prepared pursuant to the Act. (Ord. 83-03
(part))

21.04.180 Court. "Court" means an open, unoccupied
space on the same lot with a building or buildings and which
is bound on two or more sides by such building or buildings,
including the open space in a house court or court apartment
providing access to the units thereof. (Ord. 83-03(part))
21.04.190 Coverage, lot or building. "Lot or building
coverage" means that portion of the lot area covered by
buildings. (Ord. 83-03(part))
21.04.195 Development. "Development" means on land,
in or under water, the placement or erection of any solid
material or structure; discharge or disposal of any dredged
material or of any gaseous, liquid, solid or thermal waste;
grading, removing, dredging, mining or extraction of any
materials; change in the density or intensity of use of
land, including, but not limited to subdivisions pursuant to
the Subdivision Map Act, and any other division of land in-
cluding lot splits; change in the intensity of use of water
or of access thereto; construction, reconstruction, demoli-
tion, or alteration of the size of any structure including
any facility of any private, public, or municipal utility;
and the removal or harvesting of major vegetation other than

21.04.200--21.04.250

for agriculturar-purposes-, kelp harvesting andttimber opera-
tions which are in accordance with a timber harvesting plan
submitted pursuant to the provisions of the Zlberg-Nejedly
Forest Practice Act of 1973. (Ord. 83-03 (part))

21.04.200 District. "District" means a portion of the
unincorporated territory of the county within which certain
uses of land, premises and buildings are permitted and cer-
tain other uses of land, premises and buildings are not per-
mitted and within which certain yards and other open spaces
are required and certain building site areas are established
.for buildings, all as set forth and specified in Chapters
21.02 through 21.60. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.210 Duplex. "Duplex" means a two-family resi-
dence designed for or used exclusively for residence pur-
poses by two families in separate housekeeping units. (Ord.
83-03(part))

21.04.220 Dwelling group. "Dwelling group" means a
group of two or more detacted or semidetached one-family or
two-family residencesor multiple dwellings occupying a par-
cel of land in one ownership and having any yard or court in
common, including house courts and apartment courts, but not
including automobile courts. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.230 Dwelling, multiple. "Multiple dwelling"
means a building or portion thereof used and/or designed as
a residence for three or more families living independently
of each other, and doing their own cooking in the building.,
including apartment houses, apartment hotels and flats, but
not including automobile courts. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.240 Employee, full-time. "Full-time employee"
means a person working for a monetary wage or salary at
least thirty-two hours per week. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.248 Estuary. "Estuary" means a coastal water
body usually semi-enclosed by land, but which has open, par-
tially obstructed, or intermittent exchange with the ocean
and in which ocean water is at least occasionally diluted by
fresh water runoff from the land. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.250 Family. "Family" means one or more persons
occupying a premises and living as'a single, nonprofit
housekeeping unit, as distinguished from a group occupying a
hotel, club, fraternity or sorority house. A "family" in-
cludes necessary servants. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.260--21.04.330

21.04.260' Family, immediate. "Immediate family" means
parents, children, brothers or sisters of either the prop-
etty owner or spouse of the property owner. (Ord. 83-03
(part))

21.04.265 Farmed wetlands. "Farmed wetlands" means
wetland areas which are grazed7, planted or cut for forage
during parts of the year. (Ord. 83-03(part))
21.04.270 Front wall. "Front wall" means the wall of
the building or other structures nearest the-street upon
which the building faces but excluding certain architectural
features as specified in Section 21.46*.090. (Ord. 83-03
(part))
21.0.4.280 Garage, private. "Private garage" means an
accessory building of portion of the main building designed
and/or used for the shelter or storage of vehicles which are
associated with residential use by the occupants of the main
building. (Ord. 83-03(part))
21.04.290 Garage, public. "Public garage" means any
premises, except those herein defined as private or storage
garage, used for the storage and/or care of the self-
propelled vehicles, or where any such vehicles are equipped
for operation or repair, or kept for remuneration, hire or
sale. (Ord.. 83-03(part))
21.04.300 Garage, ! orage. "Storage garage" means any
premises, except those herein defined as a private garage,
used exclusively for the storage of self-propelled vehicles.
(Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.310 Guest room. "Guest room" means a room which
is intended, arranged or aesigned to be occupied or which is
occupied by one or more guests, but in which no provision is
made for cooking and not including dormitories for sleeping
purposes. Residential noncommercial guest rooms shall be
within or attached to the principal residence and shall be a
part of the residential utility (sewer, electric, etc.) ser-
vice lines. (Ord. 83-03(part))
21.04.320 Height of buildinq. "Height of building"
means -te vertical distance-from the average level of the
highest and lowest point of the portion of the lot covered
by the building, to the highest point of the building.
(Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.330 Home occupations. "Home occupations" means
a use conducted entireiv within a dwelling by the inhabi-
tants thereof which use is clearly incidental and secondary

21.04.340--21.04.370

of'the"'roperty:for dwelling purposes@and does.@
to the use P
not change the character thereof and which use:
A. Is confined within the dwelling and occupies not
more than twenty-five percent of the floor space thereof;
B. Involves no sales of merchandise other than that
produced on the premises, or merchandise directly related
to, and incidental to the services offered;
C. Is carried on by.the members of the family occupy-
ihg the dwelling with no other person employed;
D. Does not entail the conversion of a room into a
salesroom;
E. Produces no evidence of its existence beyond the
dwellings (except unlighted signs of not more than one@
square foot) such as noise, smoke, odors, vibration, etc.;
F. Does not generate pedestrian or vehicular traffic
beyond that normal in the neighborhood in which located;
G. Clinics, hospitals, antique shops, tea rooms, eat-
ing establishments, specialty bakeries, barbershops (exceed-
ing more than one operator), beauty shops (exceeding more
than one operator)., animal hospitals, and commercial wood-
working or repair shops, shall not be deemed to be home oc-
cupations. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.340 Hotel. "Hotel" means any building or por-
tion thereof conE-aining six or more guest rooms used, de-
signed, or intended to be used, let or hired out to be occu-
pied, or which are occupied by six or more individuals for
compensation, whether the compensation be paid directly or
indirectly. (Ord. 83-03(part))
21.04.350 House court. For "house court," see "awel-
ling group," Section 21.04.220. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04. 360 Household pets. "Household pets" shall be
limited to dogs (canis familiaris), cats (fetis catus) and
animals whose normal place of abode is within the dwelling
unit, such as caged birds, caged rodents, and fish, rep-
tiles, and amphibia confined to aquaria and terraria. (Ord.
83-03(part))

21.04.370 Industry. "Industry" means the manufacture,
fabrication, reductio destruction of any article, sub-
stance or commodity, or any other treatment thereof in such
a manner as to change the form or character thereof, includ-
ing, in addition, the following: bottling works, building
materials or contractors' yards, cleaning and dyeing estab-
lishments, creameries, junkyards, wrecking yards, laundries,
lumber yards, milk bottling or distributing stations, stock-
yards, storage elevators, truck storage, service or repair,
warehouses and wholesale storage. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04..380--21.04.430

21.04.380 Junk. "Junk" means any worn out, cast off,
or discarded art or material which is ready for destruc-
tion orhas been collected or stored for salvage or conver-
sion to some use. Any article or material which, unaltered
or unchanged and without-further reconditioning can be used
for its original purpose as readily as when new shall not be
considered as "junk." @(Ord. 83-03(part))
21.04.390 Junkvard. "Junkyard" means the use of more
than two hund square feet of the area of any lot for the
storage or keeping of junk, including scrap metals or other
scrap materials or inoperable vehicles. (Ord. 83-03 (part))
21.04.397 Lateral access, coastal zone. "Coastal zone
lateral acces eans access for public use along and paral-
lel to the shoreline generally located between the mean high
tide line and the first line of vegetation or the crest of
the paralleling bluff. (Ord. 83-03(part))
21.04.400 Livestock farming. "Livestock farming"
means dairying, ranching or the keeping of large livestock,
except fowl. (Ord. 83-03(part))
21.04.406 Lodging, house orguest. "Lodging house
or "guest lodging" are synonymous and mean any building or r
portion thereof containing not more than five guest rooms
which are used by not more than five guests where rent is
paid in-money, goods, labor or otherwise. (Ord. 83-03
(part))

21.04.410 Loading space. "Loading space" means an
off-street space or berth on the same lot with a building,
or contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary
parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading
merchandise or materials, and which abuts upon a street,
alley or other appropriate means' of access. (Ord. 83-03
(part))

21.04.420 Lot. "Lot" means land occupied or unoccu-
pied, which Fay-be occupied by a building and its accessory
buildings, or by a dwelling group and its accessory build-
ings, together with such open spaceslas are required under
the provisions of Chapters 21.02 through 21.60 having not
less than the minimum area required by Chapters 21.02
through 21.60 for a building site in the district in which
such lot is situated, and having access to a public road.
Also refer to Section 21.46.080 regarding existing lots.
(Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04 430 Lot area. "Lot area" means the total hori-
zontal area includeT-71-thin lot lines. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.440--21.04.530

21.04.440 Lot, cornek.@ "Corribz' lot" - mezns'@, a lot- situ-
ated at the intersection of two or more streets, or bounded
on two or more adjacent sides of street lines. (Ord. 83-03
(part))

21.04.450 Lot depth. "Lot depth" means the average
distance from the street line of the lot to its rear line
measured in the general direction of the side lines of the
lot. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.460 Lot frontage. Lot frontage" means the@,di-
mension of a lot or portion of a lot abutting on a street,
except the side ofa corner lot. (Ord. 83-03 (part)).

21.04.470 Lot,interior. "Interior lot" means a lot
other than a corner lot. (Ord. 83-03 (part))

21.04.480 Lot, key. "Key lot" means the first lot to
the rear .or side of a@corner lot, the front line of which is
a continuation of-the side line of thecorner lot, exclusive
of the width of any alley, and fronting on the street which
intersects or intercepts the street on which the corner lot
fronts. .(Ord. 8-3-03 (part))

21.04.490 Lot lines. "Lot lines" means the lines
bounding a lot as defined in this chapter. (Ord. 83-03
(part))

21.04.500 Lot line, front. "Front lot line" means, in
the case of an interior lot, a line separating the lot from
the street. In the case of a corner lot, the front lot line
shall be the line separating the narrowest street frontage
of the lot line from the street. (Ord. 83-03 (part))

21.04.510 Lot line, rear. "Rear lot line" means,
ordinarily, that line of 97-1ot which is generally opposite
the lot line along the frontage of the lot. In cases in
which this definition is not applicable, the planning com-
mission shall designate the rear lot line. (Ord. 83-03
(part))

21.04.520 Lot line, side. "Side lot line" means any
lot line not a front line or Fear lot line. (.Ord. 83-03
(part))

21.0 4.530 Mining and mineral extraction. "Mining and
mineral extraFtlon" means those activitieg -regulated by
Chapter 7.36, "Surface Mining and Quarries." Within the
California Coastal Zone mineral extraction is the mining of
clay, sand, gravel and rock. (Ord. 83-03 (part))

21.04.540--21.04.610

21.04.540 Mobilehome. "Mobilehome" means a structure
transportable in one or more sections, designed and equipped
to contain a single-family dwelling unit to be used with or
without a foundation system, A "mobilehome" does not in-
clude a recreational vehicle, commercial coach (both as de-
fined in Title 25) or factory-built housing (as defined in
the Health and Safety Code). (Ord. 83-03 (part))

21.04.550 Mobilehome park. "Mobilehome park" means
any area or tract of land where one or more mobilehome lots
are rented or leased or held out for rent or lease to accom-
modate mobilehomes used for dwelling purposes. The rental
paid for any such mobilehome shall be deemed to include
rental for the lot it occupies. A mobilehome park may con-
tain a separate designated section to be held out for rent
or lease to owners or users of recreational vehicles used
for travel or recreational purposes. (Ord. 83-03 (part))
21.04.560 Motel. "Motel" means a building or group of
buildi-ngs containing six guest rooms and/or apartments or
more, which group is designed, intended and/or used primar-
ily for the accommodation of automobile travelers for com-
pensation whether paid directly or indirectly, including,
but not limited to, buildings designated as automobile
courts, auto cabins and motor lodges. (Ord. 83-03 (part))

21.04.570 Mutual water company. "Mutual water com-
pany" means any corporation, including a nonprofit corpora-
tion, organized for or engaged in the business of develop-
ing, distributing, supplying or delivering water for irriga-
tion, commercial or domestic use or both, and not operated
as a public utility. (Ord. 83-03 (part))

21.04.580 Native wooded habitat. "Native wooded habi-
tat" means a place or area where vegetation, particularly
trees, are indigenous to the site without cultivation.
(Ord. 83-03 (part))

21.04.590 Nonconforming use. "Nonconforming use"
means a building or Ian occupied by a use that does not
conform to the regulations for the district in which it is
situated. (Ord. 83-03 (part))

21.04.600 Nuisance. "Nuisance" means anything that by
its use or by its permitted existence works annoyancel harm,
inconvenience or damage to another. (Ord. 83-03 (part))

21.04.610 one ownership. "One ownership it means owner-
ship or property by a person or persons, firm, corporation
or partnership, individually, jointly, in common or in any
other manner whereby such property is under single or uni-
"Owner" means the person, firm, corporation
fied control.

21.04.620--21.04.660

or partnership,exerci's,ing,-"one.,@",,ownership" as defined in@this
section. (Ord. 83-03 (part))

21.04.620 Outdoor advertising sign. "Outdoor adver-
tising sign" means any card, cloth,.paper, metal, painted,
glass, wooden, plaster, stone, or other sign of any kind or
character whatsoever placed for outdoor advertising purposes
on the ground or on any tree, wall, bush, rock, post, fence,
@uilding, structure or thing whatsoever. '$Placed," as used
in the definition of "outdoor advertising sign," includes
erecting, constructing, posting, painting, printing, tack-
ing, nailing, gluing, sticking, carving or otherwise fasten-
ing,affixing or making visible in any manner whatsoever.
(Ord. 83-03 (part))
21.04.630 Outdoor advertising structure. .-"Outdoor
advertising structure" means any structure of any kind of
character erected or maintained for outdoor advertising pur-
poses upon which any outdoor advertising sign may be placed,
including also outdoor advertising statuary. (Ord. 83-03
(part))

21.04.636 Passive recreational use, coastal access.
11coastal access passive recreational use" means the public
right to conduct activities normally associated with beach
use (e.g. walking, swimming, jogging, sunbathing, fishing,
surfing) but not including organized sports, campfires, or
vehicular access other than for emergency, maintenance,
woodgathering or commercial fishing. (Ord. 83-03 (part))

21.04.640 Professional office. "Professional office
means an establishment for professional, executive and ad-
ministrative offices, including those of accountants, law-
yers, physicians, dentists, architects, engineers, drafting
offices, insurance agents, real estate agents, and other
occupations which are of similar character to those enumer-
ated,.but not including barbers, beauty parlors, cosmetolo-
gists, or other service establishments and building trade
contractors. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.650 Public sewage disposal system. "Public sew-
age disposal system" means a sewage disposal system for do-
mestic or commercial use owned and operated by a political
jurisdiction. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.660 Public use. "Public use" means a use oper-
ated by a governmental agency, public agency or public util-'
ity, which has the purpose of serving the public healthl
safety, convenience or general welfare, and including, but
not limited to such uses as schools, parks, playgrounds,
educational, recreational and social facilities, libraries,

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21.04.670--21.04.723,

museums, firehouses' courthouses, hospitals and administra-
tive service facilities and power generation or distribution
plants. (Ord. 83-03(part))
21.04.670- Public water sup2lZ- *Public water supply"
means a supply of water tor domes,ic or commercial use fur-
nished or to be furnished from waterworks owned and operated,
by a political jurisdiction. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.680 Quasi-public use. "Quasi-public use" means
a use operated by a .private nonprofit educational, reli-
gious, recreational, charitable, fraternal., or medical in-
stitution, association, or organization, and including, but
not limited to such uses as churches, private schools, uni-
versities, community recreational, educational and social
facilities, meeting halls, private hospitals and the like.
(Ord. 83-03 (part))

21.04.690 Recreational vehicle. "Recreational vehi-
cle" means a motorhome, travel -trailer, truck camper, or
camping trailer, with or without motive power, designed for
human habitation for recreation or emergency occupancy,
which is eight feet or less in overall width and forty feet
or less in overall length, or a bus conversion for human
habitation.
The planning department, by letter, may allow a recrea-
tionai vehicle to be placed on a construction site while a
home is under construction for a period of six months. Ex-
tensions of time may be granted by the planning commission.
(Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.700 Recreational vehicle vark. "Recreational
vehicle park" means any area or.tract of land where one or
more lots are rented or leased or held out for rent or lease
to owners or users of recreational vehicles which are occu-
pied for temporary purposes or seasonal use. A recreational
vehicle park may allow the use of tents or other temporary
camping facilities either in place of a recreational vehicle
or in a separate designated area within its confines. (Ord.
83-03(part))

21.04.710 Residence, one-family. "One-family resi-
dence" means a building desig for and/or occupied exclu-
sively by one family. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.720 Residence, two-family. "Two-family resi-
dence" means a building designed for and/or occupied exclu-
sively by two families living independently of each other.
(Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.723 Resource conservation area. "Resource con-
servation area" means an area which is a wetland, farmed

21.04.726--21.04.770

wetland, riparian@vegetation,,e'stuary"-and./o"r' coasit:al sand
dune area as designated by the General Plan Coastal Element.
(Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.726 Riparian vegetation. "Riparian vegetation"
means the plant cover normally found along freshwater re-
sources including rivers, streams, creeks and sloughs. Ri-
parian vegetation requires or tolerates a higher level of
soil moisture than upland vegetation and is usually charac-
terized by dense growths of trees and shrubs. (Ord. 83-03
(part))

21.04.727 Sand dunes, coastal. "Coastal sand dunes"
means ridges of sand created by"wind deposited materials
carried from ocean beaches. An active dune is one in the
process of gaining or losing sand; such a mobile dune is
commonly unvegetated or covered with sparse grasses and
low-growing succulents. Stabilized dunes are usually co-V-
ered by woody vegetation such as the beach pine. (Ord.
83-03(part))

21.04.730 Saw mill. "Saw mill" means any structure
and land used for the manufacture or remanufacture of lumber
from saw logs by the use of power equipment. (Ord. 83-03
(part))

21.04.740 Setback. "Setback" means a line parallel to
the road cent ne and a specified distance therefrom nor-
mal to the centerline. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.750 Small livest ock farmina. "Small livestock
farming" means the raising and-To-r keeping of more than
twelve chicken hens, or similar fowl and/or twelve rabbits
or.similaranimals or the keeping of any roosters, quacking
ducks, geese, guinea fowl, pea fowl, goats, sheep, or simi-
lar livestock provided that "small livestock farming," as
used.in Chapters 21.01 through 21.60 shall not include hog
farming, dairying or the raising and/or keeping of horses,
mules, or similar livestock as determined by the planning
commission (see Section 21.46.110). (Ord. 83-03 (part))

21.04.760 Stable, private. "Private stable" means an
accessory building where not more than one horse per twenty
thousand square feet of property is kept for the use of
owner and guests. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.770 Stable, public. "Public stable" means a
stable other than a private stable for the commercial rental
and boarding of horses. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.780--21.04.850

21.04.780 Story. "Story" means that portion of a
building included between the surface of any floor and the
surface of the next floor above it, or if there is no floor
above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling
next above it. (Ord. 83-03(part))
21.04.790 story, half. "Half story" means a story
with at least one exterior side meeting a sloping roof not
more than two feet above the floor of such story. (Ord.
83-03(part))

21.04.800 Street. "Street" means a public or private
thoroughfare which affords the principal means of access to
abutting property, including avenue, place, way, drive,
lane, boulevard, highway, road and any other thoroughfare
except an alley as defined in Section 21.04.040. (Ord.
83-03(part))

21.04.810 Street line. "Street line" means the bound-
ary between a street and abutting property. .(Ord. 83-03
(part))

21.04.820 Structure. "Structure" means anything c on-
structed or erected, the use of which requires-location on
the ground or attachment to something having location on the
ground, including, but not limited to, any building road
pipe flume, conduit, siphon, aqueduct, telephone line and
electrical power transmission and distribution line. (Ord.
83-03(part))

21.04.830 Structural alterations. "Structural alter-
ations" means any change in the supp ing members of a
building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
(Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.835 Subdivision. "Subdivision" means the divi-
sion of any unit or units of improved or unimproved land as
regulated by the State Subdivision Map Act. (Ord. 83-03
(part))

21.04.840 Use. "Use" means the purpose for which land
or pi-em-ises @or a building thereon is designed, arranged or
intended, or for which it is or may be occupied or main-
tained. (Ord. 83-03(part))
.21.04.850 Use, accessory. "Accessory use" means a use
customarily incidental and accessory to the principal use of
a lot or a building located on the same lot as the accessory
use, (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.855--21.04.900

21.04.855' Vertical acces@s-,.coastal zone. "Coastal
zone vertical access"..means access for public use to and
from the shoreline (or Coastal Zone lateral access) to the
first public road inland. (Ord. 83-03(part)).

21.04.856 Wetland. "Wetland" means lands which may be
covered peFil-o-dically or permanently with shallow water and
includes saltwater marshes, freshwater marshes,. open or
closed brackish water marshes, swamps, mudflats, bogs and
fens. (Ord. 83-03(part))
21.04.860 Wreckin2 yard. "Wrecking yard" means the
use of more than two hundred square feet of the area of any
lot for the dismantling or wrecking of automobiles or@other
vehicles or machinery. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.870 Yard. "Yard" means an open space other than
a court on the same lot with a building, which open space is
unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except
as otherwise provided in Section 21.46.090. In measuring a
yard, as hereinafter provided, the line of a building means
a line parallel to the nearest lot line drawn through the
point of a dwelling group or building nearest to such lot
line, exclusive of the respective architectural features
enumerated iri Section 21.46.090 which are not to be consid-
ered in measuring the yard dimensions, and which the respec-
tive architectural features are defined as being permitted
to extend into any front, side or rear yard, respectively;.
and the measurement shall be taken from the line of the
building to the nearest lot line; provided, however, that if
any official plan line hasbeen established for the street
on which th lot faces or if any future width line is I speci-
fied therefor by the provisions of Chapters 21.02 through
21.60, then such measurements shall be taken from such offi-
cial plan line or such future width line to the nearest line
of the building. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.880 Yard, front. "Front yard" means a yard ex-
tending across the front of the lot between the side prop-
eety lines, and lying between the front line of the lot and
the nearest line of the building. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.890 Yard, rear. "Rear yard" means a yard ex-
tending across the full-'width of the lot and lying between
the rear line of the.lot and nearest line of the building.
(Ord. 83-03(part))

21.04.900 Yard, side. "Side yard" means a yard be-
tween th-es-i'de line of the lot and the nearest line of the
building and extending from the front line of the building
to the rear yard. (Ord. 83-03(part))

21.06.010

Chapter 21.06

DISTRICTS

Sections:

21.06.010 Designation.
21.06.020 Establishment.
21.06.030 Boundary uncertainty--Determination.
21.06.040 Regulations to govern uses.
21.06.050 Zoning maps on file.
21.06.010 Designation. The several classes of dis-
tricts provided and into which the county may be divided are
designated as follows:
AE "Districts Agriculture Exclusive District
A Districts Agriculture General District
Al Districts Agriculture Industrial District
RCAl Districts General Resource Conservation Area
District
RCA2 Districts Designated Resource Conservation Area
District
TPZ Districts Timberland Preserve Zone District,
CT Districts Coastal Timber DistrIct
RR-1 Districts Rural Residential District
RRA Districts Rural Residential Agriculture District
R-1 Districts One-Family Residence District
MHP Districts Mobilehome Park District
R-2 Districts Low Density Multiple-Family Residence
District
R-3 Districts High Density Multiple-Family Residence
District
PC Districts Planned Community District
C-1 Districts Neighborhood Commercial District
C-2 Districts Light Commercial District
C-3 Districts Central Business District
C-R Districts Commercial Recreation District
C-4 Districts General Commercial District
M DIstricts Manufacturing and Industrial District
MP Districts Manufacturing and Industrial Performance
District
PF Districts Public Facilities District
B Districts B Combining District
C. Districts C Combining District
D Districts D Combining District
FPI Districts Flood Zone Area-Combining District
FP2 Districts Flood overflow Area-Combining District
FP3 Districts Protected Area Within Flood Zones-
Combining District

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