The residential estate, one-acre minimum (RE-1) district is intended to implement the city general plan’s estate residential (ER) land use designation. The purposes and intent of the district are:
To provide a residential alternative on relatively steep slopes that may not accommodate the city’s smallest residential lots. This land use designation is intended to accommodate residential developments for landowners desiring a more rural setting than may be available within a small-lot single-family residential (SFR) subdivision or allow for small animal keeping.
Parcels will generally be in areas with gentle slopes away from the central core of the city. The RE land use also provides opportunities for clustering on land with pockets of relatively gentle slopes (for clustering) mixed with relatively steep slopes (to be left as open space) and provides a transition between the less dense rural residential (RR) land use designation and the higher densities of the city.
RE-1 residential densities are not intended for very high fire hazard severity zones as mapped by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
(Ord. 509 § 1 (Att. A), 2021)