Brisbane City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
CHAPTER 17
01 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sections
- 17.01.010 - Adoption of zoning regulations and zoning map.
- 17.01.020 - Authority and title.
- 17.01.030 - Purposes of title.
- 17.01.040 - Application of title.
- 17.01.050 - Compliance with regulations.
- 17.01.060 - Requirement for lot of record and infrastructure improvements.
- 17.01.070 - Regulations minimal.
- 17.01.080 - Prohibited uses—Administrative interpretations.
- 17.01.090 - Conflict with other regulations.
- 17.01.100 - Establishment of fee schedule.
- 17.01.105 - Concurrent processing of multiple applications.
- 17.01.110 - Resubmittal of applications after denial.
- 17.01.120 - Indemnification of the city.
CHAPTER 17
02 - DEFINITIONS
Sections
- 17.02.005 - Application of definitions.
- 17.02.010 - Abandon.
- 17.02.015 - Abutting.
- 17.02.017 - Active records management services.
- 17.02.020 - Addition.
- 17.02.025 - Adjacent.
- 17.02.030 - Adult entertainment facility.
- 17.02.040 - Alley.
- 17.02.045 - Approving authority.
- 17.02.050 - Articulation.
- 17.02.060 - Attached.
- 17.02.065 - Outside wall.
- 17.02.070 - Automotive repair shop.
- 17.02.080 - Bar.
- 17.02.085 - Bay.
- 17.02.090 - Block.
- 17.02.100 - Building.
- 17.02.107 - Cannabis.
- 17.02.109 - Cannabis business.
- 17.02.110 - Canopy.
- 17.02.115 - Cantilever.
- 17.02.120 - Carport.
- 17.02.130 - CEQA.
- 17.02.140 - Chimney—Chimney box.
- 17.02.142 - Commercial parking lot.
- 17.02.145 - Commercial recreation—Commercial gym and health facilities.
- 17.02.150 - Condominium.
- 17.02.155 - Contiguous.
- 17.02.160 - Contractor's yard.
- 17.02.165 - Convalescent home.
- 17.02.170 - Cornice.
- 17.02.175 - Covered parking.
- 17.02.180 - Cultural facility.
- 17.02.185 - Cupola.
- 17.02.187 - Data Center.
- 17.02.190 - Day care center.
- 17.02.195 - Day care home.
- 17.02.200 - Deck—Parking deck.
- 17.02.205 - Detached.
- 17.02.210 - District.
- 17.02.220 - Driveway.
- 17.02.230 - Reserved.
- 17.02.235 - Dwelling.
- 17.02.240 - Reserved.
- 17.02.250 - Eave.
- 17.02.255 - Educational facility.
- 17.02.260 - Emergency access.
- 17.02.265 - Emergency shelter.
- 17.02.270 - Establishment.
- 17.02.285 - Family.
- 17.02.290 - Family day care home.
- 17.02.300 - Fence.
- 17.02.310 - Financial institution.
- 17.02.315 - Floor area—Floor area ratio.
- 17.02.320 - Food production.
- 17.02.330 - Freight forwarder.
- 17.02.340 - Garage.
- 17.02.345 - Gasoline service station.
- 17.02.350 - General plan.
- 17.02.360 - Grade.
- 17.02.370 - Group care home.
- 17.02.380 - Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP).
- 17.02.385 - Heavy equipment repair.
- 17.02.390 - Hedge.
- 17.02.400 - Height.
- 17.02.410 - Home occupation.
- 17.02.420 - Hotel.
- 17.02.425 - Housing development project.
- 17.02.430 - Infrastructure.
- 17.02.440 - Invasive.
- 17.02.450 - Kennel.
- 17.02.460 - Kitchen.
- 17.02.470 - Landing.
- 17.02.475 - Landscaping.
- 17.02.480 - Light fabrication.
- 17.02.485 - Live/work development.
- 17.02.490 - Lot.
- 17.02.495 - Lot coverage.
- 17.02.500 - Lot dimensions.
- 17.02.505 - Lot line.
- 17.02.510 - Map Act.
- 17.02.515 - Marina.
- 17.02.520 - Means of access.
- 17.02.525 - Media studio.
- 17.02.530 - Medical facility.
- 17.02.535 - Meeting hall.
- 17.02.540 - Mixed use.
- 17.02.545 - Mobilehome—Mobilehome park.
- 17.02.550 - Motel.
- 17.02.560 - Nonconforming.
- 17.02.565 - Objective design standard.
- 17.02.570 - Occupant.
- 17.02.575 - Office.
- 17.02.580 - Off-street parking facility.
- 17.02.590 - Open area.
- 17.02.595 - Open space.
- 17.02.598 - Organics reload operations.
- 17.02.600 - Outdoor sales and rental.
- 17.02.602 - Personal cultivation of cannabis.
- 17.02.610 - Personal services.
- 17.02.620 - Place of worship.
- 17.02.625 - Planning commission.
- 17.02.627 - Plastic pipe sales.
- 17.02.630 - Principal place of residence.
- 17.02.635 - Printing.
- 17.02.640 - Product showroom.
- 17.02.645 - Property line.
- 17.02.650 - Protected tree.
- 17.02.654 - Public transit.
- 17.02.655 - Public utility facilities.
- 17.02.660 - Rare plants.
- 17.02.665 - Record owner.
- 17.02.670 - Recycling facility.
- 17.02.675 - Research and development.
- 17.02.680 - Restaurant.
- 17.02.685 - Retail sales and rental.
- 17.02.690 - Retaining wall.
- 17.02.695 - Ridgeline.
- 17.02.700 - Right-of-way.
- 17.02.710 - Scale.
- 17.02.715 - Setback—Setback area.
- 17.02.720 - Sign.
- 17.02.723 - Single-room occupancy unit.
- 17.02.725 - Site.
- 17.02.730 - Slope.
- 17.02.740 - Stock-in-trade.
- 17.02.745 - Storage.
- 17.02.746 - Storefront.
- 17.02.748 - Streamlined housing development project.
- 17.02.750 - Street.
- 17.02.755 - Structure.
- 17.02.760 - Subdivision ordinance.
- 17.02.770 - Use.
- 17.02.780 - Veterinary clinic.
- 17.02.790 - Warehousing.
- 17.02.800 - Wholesale.
- 17.02.810 - Wildland interface.
CHAPTER 17
05 - RESIDENTIAL TWO-UNIT DEVELOPMENT OVERLAY DISTRICT
Sections
- 17.05.010 - Purpose.
- 17.05.020 - Applicability and relation to other sections.
- 17.05.030 - Definitions.
- 17.05.040 - Eligibility.
- 17.05.050 - Anti-displacement/Eligibility criteria.
- 17.05.060 - Permitted uses.
- 17.05.070 - Two-unit developments without an urban lot split.
- 17.05.080 - Urban lot splits.
- 17.05.090 - Requirement for a building permit.
- 17.05.100 - Notices.
- 17.05.110 - Condominiums.
- 17.05.120 - Findings of Denial.
CHAPTER 17
11 - R-MHP RESIDENTIAL MOBILE HOME PARK DISTRICT
Sections
- 17.11.010 - Purpose of chapter.
- 17.11.020 - Permitted uses.
- 17.11.030 - Conditional uses.
- 17.11.040 - Development regulations.
- 17.11.050 - Administrative design review.
- 17.11.060 - Parking.
- 17.11.070 - Signs.
- 17.11.080 - Construction and operation.
- 17.11.090 - Mobile home park conversion, closure, or cessation.
CHAPTER 17
14 - NCRO Neighborhood Commercial District NCRO-1 Brisbane Village NCRO-2 Downtown Brisbane*4
Sections
- 17.14.010 - Purposes of chapter.
- 17.14.020 - Permitted uses.
- 17.14.030 - Conditional uses in the NCRO-1 district.
- 17.14.040 - Conditional uses in the NCRO-2 district.
- 17.14.050 - Development regulations for the NCRO-1 district.
- 17.14.060 - Development regulations for the NCRO-2 district.
- 17.14.070 - Performance standards.
- 17.14.080 - Night operations.
- 17.14.090 - Parking.
- 17.14.100 - Signs.
- 17.14.110 - Design review.
CHAPTER 17
16 - SCRO-1 SOUTHWEST BAYSHORE COMMERCIAL DISTRICT
Sections
- 17.16.010 - Purposes of chapter.
- 17.16.020 - Permitted uses.
- 17.16.030 - Conditional uses.
- 17.16.040 - Development regulations.
- 17.16.050 - Performance standards.
- 17.16.060 - Special findings.
- 17.16.070 - Night operations.
- 17.16.080 - Parking.
- 17.16.090 - Signs.
- 17.16.100 - Permits.
- 17.16.110 - Visual impact analysis.
CHAPTER 17
19 - TC-1 CROCKER PARK TRADE COMMERCIAL DISTRICT
Sections
- 17.19.010 - Purposes of chapter.
- 17.19.020 - Permitted uses.
- 17.19.030 - Conditional uses.
- 17.19.040 - Development regulations.
- 17.19.050 - Performance standards.
- 17.19.055 - Exception permit for outdoor storage of approved flammable materials.
- 17.19.060 - Night operations in certain areas.
- 17.19.065 - Regulation of freight forwarders.
- 17.19.070 - Parking.
- 17.19.080 - Signs.
- 17.19.090 - Design review.
CHAPTER 17
28 - PD PLANNED DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT
Sections
- 17.28.010 - Purposes of chapter.
- 17.28.020 - Requirement for adopted specific plan.
- 17.28.030 - Requirement for PD permit.
- 17.28.040 - Application for PD permit.
- 17.28.050 - Public hearing by planning commission—Notice.
- 17.28.060 - Recommendation by planning commission.
- 17.28.070 - Action by city council.
- 17.28.080 - Findings required for issuance of PD permit.
- 17.28.090 - Contents of PD permit.
- 17.28.100 - Other land use approvals.
- 17.28.110 - Expiration of PD permit—Extensions.
- 17.28.120 - Amendment or modification of PD permit.
- 17.28.130 - Continuing jurisdiction over PD permit.
- 17.28.140 - Revocation of PD permit.
- 17.28.150 - Appeals to city council.
CHAPTER 17
30 - CONDOMINIUMS6
Sections
- 17.30.010 - Purposes of chapter.
- 17.30.020 - Applicability.
- 17.30.030 - Development standards.
- 17.30.040 - New condominiums—Design permit submittal requirements.
- 17.30.045 - Residential condominium conversions—Use permit submittal requirements.
- 17.30.050 - Condominium conversion—Notice.
- 17.30.060 - Condominium conversion—Findings.
- 17.30.070 - Action by planning commission—Mandatory conditions.
- 17.30.080 - Condominium conversion—Appeals.
CHAPTER 17
31 - INCLUSIONARY HOUSING7
Sections
- 17.31.010 - Basis and purposes.
- 17.31.020 - Definitions.
- 17.31.030 - Inclusionary requirement.
- 17.31.040 - Inclusionary housing incentives.
- 17.31.050 - Alternatives to constructing inclusionary units.
- 17.31.060 - Affordable housing plan for inclusionary units.
- 17.31.070 - Adjustment or reduction of inclusionary housing requirement.
- 17.31.080 - Affordable housing agreement.
- 17.31.090 - Implementation and enforcement.
CHAPTER 17
32 - GENERAL USE REGULATIONS
Sections
- 17.32.010 - Generally.
- 17.32.020 - Conditional uses in all districts.
- 17.32.030 - Public utility facilities.
- 17.32.032 - Wireless telecommunications facilities.
- 17.32.035 - Declaration of restrictions to be recorded on residential properties.
- 17.32.040 - Trailers—Motor homes—Boats.
- 17.32.050 - Fences, hedges and walls.
- 17.32.055 - Exceptions—Lot area, lot dimensions and lot lines.
- 17.32.060 - Exceptions—Height limit.
- 17.32.070 - Exceptions—Setback requirements.
- 17.32.080 - Requests for reasonable accommodations.
- 17.32.090 - Official plan lines.
- 17.32.100 - Reserved.
- 17.32.110 - Reserved.
- 17.32.130 - Horses—Keeping generally.
- 17.32.140 - Horses—Location and area requirements.
- 17.32.150 - Horses—Construction and maintenance of corrals and stables.
- 17.32.160 - Horses—Drainage of premises.
- 17.32.170 - Horses—Commercial stables.
- 17.32.180 - Horses—Additional use permit regulations.
- 17.32.190 - Solar energy systems.
- 17.32.200 - Television satellite receivers.
- 17.32.210 - Adult bookstores—Adult entertainment facilities.
- 17.32.220 - Grading permit; when review by planning commission is required.
- 17.32.230 - Flood hazard areas.
- 17.32.240 - Performance bonds.
- 17.32.250 - Landscaping maintenance.
- 17.32.260 - Election signs.
CHAPTER 17
36 - ADVERTISING SIGNS10
Sections
- 17.36.010 - Purpose and application of chapter.
- 17.36.020 - Definitions.
- 17.36.030 - General regulations.
- 17.36.040 - Primary and secondary frontage.
- 17.36.050 - Sign program.
- 17.36.060 - Approval of sign permits and sign programs.
- 17.36.070 - Appeals.
- 17.36.080 - Nonconforming signs.
- 17.36.090 - Unlawful signs.
CHAPTER 17
38 - NONCONFORMING USES AND STRUCTURES
Sections
- 17.38.010 - Continuation of nonconforming uses and structures.
- 17.38.020 - Change or replacement of nonconforming use.
- 17.38.030 - Expansion of nonconforming uses.
- 17.38.040 - Maintenance and repair of nonconforming facility.
- 17.38.050 - Abandonment of nonconforming uses.
- 17.38.060 - Reconstruction or replacement of nonconforming facility.
- 17.38.070 - Maintenance and repair of nonconforming structures.
- 17.38.080 - Alteration or expansion of nonconforming structures.
- 17.38.090 - Repair and replacement of nonconforming residential structures.
- 17.38.100 - Replacement of nonconforming nonresidential structures.
- 17.38.110 - Addition of accessory dwelling units to nonconforming uses or structures.
CHAPTER 17
41 - INTERIM USES IN THE BAYLANDS SUBAREA
Sections
- 17.41.010 - Purpose and application of chapter.
- 17.41.020 - Definition of interim use.
- 17.41.030 - Expressly prohibited uses.
- 17.41.040 - Requirement for interim use permit.
- 17.41.050 - Application for interim use permit.
- 17.41.060 - Findings required for issuance of interim use permit.
- 17.41.070 - Action by planning commission-Mandatory conditions.
- 17.41.080 - Duration of permit-Action by city council-Extensions.
- 17.41.090 - Continuing jurisdiction over interim use permit.
- 17.41.100 - Revocation of interim use permit.
CHAPTER 17
42 - DESIGN PERMITS
Sections
- 17.42.010 - Applicability.
- 17.42.020 - Application for design permit.
- 17.42.030 - Public hearing by planning commission—Notice.
- 17.42.040 - Findings required for issuance of design permit.
- 17.42.045 - Special findings.
- 17.42.050 - Action by planning commission.
- 17.42.060 - Expiration of design permit—Extensions.
- 17.42.070 - Amendment of design permit—Minor modifications.
- 17.42.080 - Appeals to city council.
CHAPTER 17
43 - ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS AND JUNIOR ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS11
Sections
- 17.43.010 - Purposes of chapter.
- 17.43.020 - Definitions.
- 17.43.030 - Permit requirements.
- 17.43.040 - Development regulations for accessory dwelling units.
- 17.43.050 - Accessory dwelling units in multiple-family dwellings.
- 17.43.060 - Development regulations for junior accessory dwelling units.
- 17.43.070 - State-exempt accessory and junior accessory dwelling units.
- 17.43.080 - Prohibition on sale and limitation on rental.
- 17.43.090 - Delay of enforcement of building standards.
- 17.43.100 - Appeals.
CHAPTER 17
56 - ADMINISTRATION
Sections
- 17.56.010 - Zoning administrator—Function created.
- 17.56.020 - Zoning administrator—Powers and duties.
- 17.56.030 - Zoning administrator—Action on applications.
- 17.56.040 - Zoning administrator—Reporting decisions to planning commission.
- 17.56.050 - Zoning administrator—Variances.
- 17.56.070 - Zoning administrator—Variance granting.
- 17.56.080 - Zoning conformance.
- 17.56.090 - Minor modifications.
- 17.56.100 - Appeals.
- 17.56.110 - Variances—Effective date.