Belvedere City Zoning Code
19.36 R-3
Zone
19.36.010 Permitted uses.
The following uses are permitted in the R-3 zone: all uses and accessory uses permitted in the R-3C zone, subject to the same requirements and regulations as are provided for the R-3C zone in Chapter 19.32, including, but not limited to, single-family dwellings, two-family dwellings, apartment courts, apartment houses, multiple dwellings, transitional and supportive housing, and structures, facilities and uses relating to or convenient or necessary for any function of municipal government. (Ord. 2024-01 § 3 (Exh. A), 2024; Ord. 89-1 § 1, 1989.)
19.36.020 Uses permitted under permit.
The following uses are permitted in the R-3 zone with a use permit from the Planning Commission:
A. Public buildings, parks and playgrounds;
B. Living rooms or sleeping quarters in accessory buildings;
C. Electric substations and other public utility facilities;
D. Off-street parking facilities associated with housing units;
E. Any business relating to the ownership or management of any apartment house or apartment court or multiple dwelling, or to the renting or leasing of apartments in any such building, provided that no such business or activity shall be conducted in any separate building devoted exclusively to such business or activity, or on any floor other than the ground floor of any building;
F. Any professional office or activity;
G. Churches;
H. Club buildings;
I. Nursery schools and preschools. Any nursery school/ preschool use of property located within the R-3 zoning district, in existence on the date of adoption of the ordinance codified in this Title, is exempt from the requirement of obtaining a use permit under this Chapter.
J. Large residential or community care facilities serving seven or more individuals;
K. Large family day care. (Ord. 2024-01 § 3 (Exh. A), 2024; Ord. 2011-4 § 20, 2011; Ord. 89-1 § 1, 1989.)
19.36.030 Prohibited uses.
19.36.040 Development standards.
The following standards apply to construction within the R-3 zone:
Minimum | Lot size | 6,000 square feet |
|---|---|---|
Lot width | 60 foot average | |
Lot frontage | 60 feet | |
Density | Units per net acre | 5—20 units (as per General Plan designation, medium density MFR) |
Front yard setback | Building less than 15 feet high within first 40 feet from front property line | 5 feet |
Building less than 25 feet high within first 40 feet | 10 feet | |
Building over 25 feet high within first 40 feet | 15 feet | |
Side yard setback | For buildings 15 feet high or less in height | 5 feet |
For buildings 16—25 feet high | 10 feet | |
For buildings over 25 feet high | 15 feet; one foot of setback is required for every foot of building height over 25 feet. | |
Rear yard setback | Abutting another lot | 20 feet |
Abutting a street | 15 feet | |
Abutting an alley or private way | 15 feet | |
Abutting water | 20 feet | |
Setback for conditional use | 10 feet, or minimum for that yard, whichever is greater | |
Maximum lot coverage | Structures, excluding uncovered decks, etc. | 40 percent (increases to 50 percent in cases of multiple-family housing adjacent to open water and/or adjacent to commercial zoned properties) |
Total coverage | 60 percent | |
Maximum height | Up to 34 feet as measured from the highest point of the structure (excluding chimneys) to base flood elevation plus one foot of freeboard and a maximum of 36 feet as measured from existing grade as defined in Section 19.08.224. Up to a 38-foot maximum as measured from existing grade shall be provided if projects meet requirements of Section 19.36.040(A). | |
Usable open space | 200 square feet/unit/public | |
300 square feet/unit/private | ||
Off-street parking | 1.25 spaces per apartment of 2 or fewer bedrooms | |
2 spaces per apartment of 3 or more bedrooms | ||
2 spaces minimum per detached single-family dwelling unit | ||
4 spaces minimum per detached two-family dwelling | ||
For residential uses, must be located on same lot, or within 300 feet of dwellings for which parking is required. | ||
For all other permitted uses, within 500 feet of use. | ||
For duplex and multiple-family dwellings, in closed garage or covered carport. | ||
For nonresidential uses, may be in open lot, if landscaped and approved by the Planning Commission. | ||
For all regulations concerning the determination and measurement of slope, height; setbacks, floor area ratio and other development standards, see Chapters 19.44 through 19.68, inclusive.
A. Incentives for Affordable Housing. If a development project with new housing units or additions of over three units to an existing development creates twenty percent of the new units as affordable to households making less than eighty percent of the area median income, the following standards shall apply, replacing the standards in the table above:
1. Lot Area/Unit. The maximum allowable density (i.e., minimum lot area/unit) shall be calculated over the total combined area of contiguous parcels equal to or greater than one-half acre under common ownership;
2. Off-Street Parking. Only one parking space and one-half common parking space is required per unit;
3. Usable open space: one hundred fifty square feet of private open space and one hundred fifty square feet of public open space if the development site is within one thousand linear feet of an existing park;
4. Maximum lot coverage: forty-five percent;
5. Maximum height: thirty-eight feet for buildings with frontage on Beach Road. (Ord. 2024-01 § 3 (Exh. A), 2024; Ord. 2011-4 § 27, 2011; Ord. 89-1 § 1, 1989.)
19.36.050 Design review required.
All new structures, and all exterior remodeling, alteration, addition or other construction, including retaining walls, swimming pools, fences and the like, shall be subject to the design review process as required in Title 20. (Ord. 2024-01 § 3 (Exh. A), 2024; Ord. 89-1 § 1, 1989.)