Clearlake City Zoning Code
18-7 MIXED-USE
MUX ZONE
18-7.010 Purpose.
The MUX Zone allows for a mix of residential and nonresidential uses, such as commercial uses, on the same site, where mixed-use development would otherwise be optional.
The MUX Zone is intended to allow greater flexibility of development alternatives, especially attractive higher density residential development and live-work buildings, in appropriate areas of the City. More specifically, the intent of the MUX Zone is to accomplish the following objectives:
a. Encourage mixed-use projects that combine residential with nonresidential uses in the same building or building site area as a means to create an active street life, enhance the vitality of businesses and reduce the need for automobile travel;
b. Provide a meaningful blend of residential and nonresidential uses that enhance and build upon the City’s commercial base; the mixed-use overlay zone is not intended to simply act as a loophole in the Zoning Code for residential development;
c. Provide additional housing options for people, including, but not limited to, young professionals and older people, who want to live near their workplace and/or near retail and other nonresidential uses;
d. Encourage consolidation of small parcels into viable, block-size mixed-use development in designated areas;
e. Ensure on-site compatibility of residential and nonresidential uses; and
f. Ensure compatibility of mixed-use projects with surrounding uses and development patterns. (Ord. #271-2025, S2 (Exh. A))
18-7.020 Property Development Standards.
The property development standards for the MUX Zone are as follows:
a. Maximum Density. Except when the underlying General Plan Land Use Designation for the property is less (such as Medium Density Residential, which is a maximum of fifteen (15) units per acre), the twenty-five (25) density units per acre shall apply, including dwelling units, such as single occupancy units, in hotels and motels, but not including other hotel or motel units (also see Section 18-20.020).
b. Yards. See Section 18-20.040.
c. Maximum height: thirty-five (35') feet (also see Section 18-20.060). Additional building height up to sixty-five (65') feet may be approved as provided under CGC and DC Zoning Districts below.
1. Performance Standards for Buildings Taller than Thirty-Five (35') Feet (All Required).
(a) The project shall include housing at a minimum residential density unit value of twelve (12) units per acre.
(b) For projects on sloping sites, the height limit on the downhill portion of the site shall be defined by a line seventy-five (75') feet above the average between the highest and lowest points of the site grade prior to development and seventy-five (75') feet above the lowest point.
(c) No more than fifty (50%) percent of the site area at the property frontage may be used for private parking facilities.
(d) The maximum height may be increased by ten (10') feet above the maximum allowed height when residential uses are provided above the ground floor except for properties abutting a residentially designated district. The building height increase for residential uses applies only if the top floor is residential and does not apply to buildings that have variance approval to exceed the permitted height.
d. Maximum coverage: eighty (80%) percent.
e. Minimum lot area: three thousand (3,000) square feet.
f. Parking. See Section 18-20.090. (Ord. #271-2025, S2 (Exh. A))