The R-3 neighborhood multi-family residential zone is intended to provide areas for a variety of housing types including townhomes, condominiums, and apartment buildings. This zone also provides for public and quasi-public uses, and similar and compatible uses that may be appropriate in a medium-density residential environment. The maximum residential density for the R-3 district is twenty-eight dwelling units per gross acre. This zone implements the multi-family residential (MFR) general plan land use designation.

The following specific regulations and the general rules set forth in sections 17.04.060 and 17.04.070 and chapter 17.50 of this title shall apply in all R-3 districts. It is intended that this district classification be applied in areas where high density development of homes and apartments is the desirable use.

(Ord. No. 713, § 1(Att. A), 6-10-2025)

In R-3 districts, permitted uses shall be:

A.

Townhouses, condominiums, and apartments;

B.

Public parks, schools, playgrounds, libraries, firehouses and other public buildings and uses included;

C.

Multiple-family residential units, either attached or detached, with a density not exceeding twenty-eight units per acre, with a minimum lot size of fifteen thousand square feet;

D.

Underground utility installations, and aboveground utility installations for local service, except that substations, generating plants, and gas holders must be approved by the planning commission prior to construction, and the route of any proposed transmission line shall be discussed with the planning commission prior to acquisition;

E.

Transitional and supportive housing, subject to the provisions of chapter 17.69;

F.

Accessory dwelling units, subject to the provisions of chapter 17.64;

G.

Residential care facility, small (six or fewer persons) licensed, or small or large unlicensed, subject to the provisions of chapter 17.68.

H.

Employee/farmworker housing that serves six or fewer persons, subject to the provisions of chapter 17.61; and

I.

Employee/farmworker housing, large, subject to the provisions of chapter 17.61.

(Ord. No. 713, § 1(Att. A), 6-10-2025)

A.

All housing element inventory sites identified in Table VI.4 (Vacant Sites Inventory) of the City's 2024—2029 Housing Element or by the Department of General Services Housing and Local Land Development Opportunities Map shall comply with state law. In particular:

1.

Any sites rezoned after the start of the planning period, proposed to be developed at a minimum density of twenty dwelling units per acre, and providing at least twenty percent of the total units in the development as affordable to lower-income households are eligible for by-right approval as defined in Government Code Section 65583.2(h) and (i).

2.

Any sites being used to accommodate the current lower-income RHNA that are nonvacant and were identified in the previous planning period or vacant and identified in two or more previous consecutive planning periods, providing appropriate densities and providing at least twenty percent of the total units in the development as affordable to lower-income households shall be permitted by-right consistent with Government Code Section 65583.2(i).

(Ord. No. 713, § 1(Att. A), 6-10-2025)

In R-3 districts, uses requiring use permits shall be:

A.

In R-3 districts, all uses permitted in the R-1 and R-2 districts shall be permitted subject to approval of a conditional use permit; and

B.

Residential care facility, large (seven or more persons) licensed, subject to the provisions of chapter 17.68.

(Ord. No. 713, § 1(Att. A), 6-10-2025)

In R-3 districts, the development standards can be found in Table 1. The following side yard setbacks shall also apply:

A.

Side yards shall not be less than six feet for each side yard. Three feet shall be added to each required side yard for each story above the first story of any building. The side yard on the street side of each corner lot shall not be less than ten feet. A twenty-foot minimum side yard shall be required where a two-story residential structure will be located on a lot which abuts the rear yard of a single-family lot;

B.

Rear yard shall not be less than ten feet. An additional five feet shall be added to the required rear yard for each story over the first story of any building.

(Ord. No. 713, § 1(Att. A), 6-10-2025)