Grand Terrace City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
CHAPTER 18
06 - DEFINITIONS
Sections
- 18.06.005 - Applicability.
- 18.06.010 - Abut.
- 18.06.015 - Access or accessway.
- 18.06.017 - Accessory dwelling unit (ADU).
- 18.06.018 - Accessory dwelling unit, junior (JADU).
- 18.06.020 - Accessory living quarters.
- 18.06.025 - Accessory structure.
- 18.06.030 - Addition.
- 18.06.032 - After-hours operation.
- 18.06.035 - Airport.
- 18.06.040 - Alcoholic beverages.
- 18.06.045 - Alley.
- 18.06.050 - Altered.
- 18.06.055 - Altered, structurally.
- 18.06.060 - Amendment.
- 18.06.065 - Apartment.
- 18.06.067 - Art in public places.
- 18.06.070 - Automobile wrecking.
- 18.06.075 - Awning.
- 18.06.080 - Basement.
- 18.06.082 - Reserved.
- 18.06.083 - Reserved.
- 18.06.085 - Billboard.
- 18.06.090 - Boardinghouse or roominghouse.
- 18.06.095 - Boarding school.
- 18.06.100 - Breezeway.
- 18.06.105 - Building.
- 18.06.110 - Building, main or principal.
- 18.06.115 - Building site.
- 18.06.120 - Business.
- 18.06.125 - Business face.
- 18.06.130 - Business frontage.
- 18.06.135 - Carport.
- 18.06.140 - Centerline.
- 18.06.145 - Church.
- 18.06.150 - City.
- 18.06.155 - Civic center.
- 18.06.160 - Clinic.
- 18.06.165 - Club.
- 18.06.170 - Commission or planning commission.
- 18.06.175 - Condominium.
- 18.06.180 - Contiguous.
- 18.06.182 - Contractor storage yard.
- 18.06.185 - Copy.
- 18.06.190 - Council or City Council.
- 18.06.195 - Day.
- 18.06.200 - Day care, child.
- 18.06.205 - Day care center.
- 18.06.210 - Deck, elevated.
- 18.06.215 - Director of Building and Safety/Building Officer.
- 18.06.220 - District.
- 18.06.225 - Driveway.
- 18.06.230 - Dump.
- 18.06.235 - Dwelling, four-family or fourplex.
- 18.06.240 - Dwelling, multiple-family.
- 18.06.245 - Dwelling, single-family.
- 18.06.246 - Dwelling, single-family detached.
- 18.06.250 - Dwelling, three-family or triplex.
- 18.06.255 - Dwelling, two-family or duplex.
- 18.06.260 - Dwelling unit, multiple-family.
- 18.06.265 - Dwelling unit, studio.
- 18.06.270 - Dwelling unit, one bedroom.
- 18.06.275 - Dwelling unit, two bedroom.
- 18.06.280 - Easement, public.
- 18.06.285 - Educational institution.
- 18.06.287 - Emergency shelter.
- 18.06.290 - Enclosed structure.
- 18.06.295 - Family.
- 18.06.300 - Fence.
- 18.06.305 - Freeway.
- 18.06.310 - Garage.
- 18.06.315 - Garage, pass-through.
- 18.06.320 - Garage, public.
- 18.06.325 - Garage space.
- 18.06.330 - General plan.
- 18.06.335 - Grand opening.
- 18.06.340 - Gross floor area.
- 18.06.345 - Guest house.
- 18.06.350 - Guestroom.
- 18.06.355 - Height, building.
- 18.06.360 - Highway.
- 18.06.365 - Home occupation.
- 18.06.370 - Hospital.
- 18.06.375 - Hospital, animal.
- 18.06.380 - Hotel.
- 18.06.385 - Industry.
- 18.06.390 - Inoperative activity.
- 18.06.395 - Interested party.
- 18.06.400 - Junk.
- 18.06.405 - Junkyard.
- 18.06.410 - Kennel.
- 18.06.415 - Kitchen.
- 18.06.420 - Land area.
- 18.06.425 - Landscaping.
- 18.06.430 - Loading space.
- 18.06.435 - Lot.
- 18.06.440 - Lot area.
- 18.06.445 - Lot, corner.
- 18.06.450 - Lot, cul-de-sac.
- 18.06.455 - Lot depth.
- 18.06.460 - Lot frontage.
- 18.06.465 - Lot, interior.
- 18.06.470 - Lot, key.
- 18.06.475 - Lot line.
- 18.06.480 - Lot line, front.
- 18.06.485 - Lot line, rear.
- 18.06.490 - Lot line, side.
- 18.06.495 - Lot of record.
- 18.06.500 - Lot, pie-shaped.
- 18.06.505 - Lot, reversed corner.
- 18.06.510 - Lot, through.
- 18.06.515 - Lot width.
- 18.06.518 - Manufacturing.
- 18.06.520 - Manufacturing, heavy.
- 18.06.525 - Manufacturing, light.
- 18.06.530 - Manufacturing, medium.
- 18.06.535 - Marquee.
- 18.06.540 - May.
- 18.06.545 - Mobile home.
- 18.06.550 - Motel.
- 18.06.555 - Motor home.
- 18.06.560 - Motor vehicle.
- 18.06.565 - Nonconforming building.
- 18.06.570 - Nonconforming use.
- 18.06.575 - Nursing home.
- 18.06.580 - Open uses.
- 18.06.585 - Ordinance or zoning ordinance.
- 18.06.587 - Outdoor display.
- 18.06.590 - Parcel of land.
- 18.06.593 - Parolee-probationer home.
- 18.06.595 - Parking space.
- 18.06.600 - Person.
- 18.06.605 - Precise plan.
- 18.06.610 - Property line.
- 18.06.615 - Provisions.
- 18.06.620 - Quasi-public organization.
- 18.06.625 - Recreational apparatus.
- 18.06.626 - Recreational vehicles (RV's).
- 18.06.630 - Residence.
- 18.06.635 - Residential care facility.
- 18.06.640 - Restaurant.
- 18.06.645 - Rest home.
- 18.06.650 - Retaining wall.
- 18.06.655 - Rezoning.
- 18.06.660 - Roof.
- 18.06.665 - Roofline.
- 18.06.670 - Room.
- 18.06.675 - Rooming and boarding house.
- 18.06.680 - School, elementary, intermediate, junior high and high.
- 18.06.683 - Second unit.
- 18.06.685 - Service station.
- 18.06.690 - Setback line, front yard.
- 18.06.695 - Setback line, rear yard or side yard.
- 18.06.700 - Shall.
- 18.06.705 - Side and front of corner lots.
- 18.06.710 - Sign.
- 18.06.715 - Sign, advertising area.
- 18.06.720 - Sign, advertising structure.
- 18.06.725 - Signs, area of.
- 18.06.730 - Sign, banner, flag, pennant or balloon.
- 18.06.735 - Sign, business directory.
- 18.06.740 - Sign, business identification.
- 18.06.745 - Sign, construction or contractor.
- 18.06.750 - Sign, convenience.
- 18.06.755 - Sign, directional.
- 18.06.760 - Sign, flashing.
- 18.06.765 - Sign, freestanding.
- 18.06.770 - Sign, future tenant identification.
- 18.06.775 - Sign, height of a.
- 18.06.780 - Sign, interior.
- 18.06.785 - Sign, monument.
- 18.06.790 - Sign, nonconforming.
- 18.06.795 - Sign, off-site.
- 18.06.800 - Sign, off-site subdivision.
- 18.06.805 - Sign, on-site subdivision.
- 18.06.810 - Sign, political.
- 18.06.815 - Sign, portable.
- 18.06.820 - Sign, real estate.
- 18.06.825 - Sign, revolving.
- 18.06.830 - Sign, roof.
- 18.06.835 - Sign, special event.
- 18.06.840 - Sign, temporary.
- 18.06.845 - Sign, vehicle.
- 18.06.850 - Sign, wall.
- 18.06.855 - Sign, window.
- 18.06.856 - Single room occupancy.
- 18.06.857 - Sober living home.
- 18.06.860 - Specific plan.
- 18.06.865 - Stable, private.
- 18.06.870 - State.
- 18.06.875 - Story.
- 18.06.880 - Story, half.
- 18.06.885 - Street.
- 18.06.890 - Street centerline.
- 18.06.895 - Street line.
- 18.06.900 - Street, side.
- 18.06.905 - Structure.
- 18.06.906 - Sunroom.
- 18.06.908 - Supportive housing.
- 18.06.910 - Trailer.
- 18.06.915 - Trailer park or mobile home park.
- 18.06.920 - Trailer, residential.
- 18.06.925 - Trailer space.
- 18.06.927 - Transitional housing.
- 18.06.929 - Two-unit development.
- 18.06.930 - Use.
- 18.06.931 - Utility trailers.
- 18.06.935 - Variance.
- 18.06.936 - Warehousing.
- 18.06.937 - Warehousing and distribution.
- 18.06.938 - Wireless telecommunications facilities.
- 18.06.939 - Wholesale.
- 18.06.940 - Yard.
- 18.06.945 - Yard, front.
- 18.06.950 - Yard, rear.
- 18.06.955 - Yard, side.
- 18.06.960 - Zone.
- 18.06.965 - Zone, change of.
- 18.06.970 - Zoning map.
CHAPTER 18
39 - MR RESTRICTED MANUFACTURING DISTRICT3
Sections
- 18.39.010 - Purpose.
- 18.39.020 - Permitted uses.
- 18.39.030 - Conditionally permitted uses.
- 18.39.040 - Prohibited uses.
- 18.39.050 - Site development standards.
- 18.39.060 - Storage and trash facilities.
- 18.39.070 - Off-street parking.
- 18.39.080 - Signs.
- 18.39.090 - Site and architectural review.
- 18.39.100 - Commercial modular units.
CHAPTER 18
40 - M2 INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT4
Sections
- 18.40.010 - Purpose.
- 18.40.020 - Permitted uses.
- 18.40.030 - Conditionally permitted uses.
- 18.40.040 - Prohibited uses.
- 18.40.050 - Site development standards.
- 18.40.060 - Storage and trash facilities.
- 18.40.070 - Off-street parking.
- 18.40.080 - Signs.
- 18.40.090 - Site and architectural review.
- 18.40.100 - Commercial modular units.
CHAPTER 18
56 - AG-2 AGRICULTURAL-2 OVERLAY DISTRICT
Sections
- 18.56.010 - Purpose.
- 18.56.020 - Permitted uses.
- 18.56.030 - Conditionally permitted uses.
- 18.56.040 - Prohibited uses.
- 18.56.050 - Existing legal non-conforming residential uses.
- 18.56.060 - Site development standards.
- 18.56.070 - Standards for accessory buildings.
- 18.56.080 - Screening and trash enclosures.
- 18.56.090 - Off-street parking.
- 18.56.100 - Signs.
CHAPTER 18
63 - SITE AND ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW
Sections
- 18.63.010 - Purpose.
- 18.63.020 - Application.
- 18.63.030 - Scope.
- 18.63.040 - Submittal process.
- 18.63.050 - Public hearing.
- 18.63.060 - Approval process.
- 18.63.070 - Appeal process.
- 18.63.080 - Building permit process.
- 18.63.090 - Minor alterations and revisions.
- 18.63.100 - Expiration and extensions.
- 18.63.110 - Playhouse review guidelines.
- 18.63.120 - Mechanical equipment screening.
CHAPTER 18
64 - OBJECTIVE DESIGN STANDARDS
Sections
- 18.64.010 - Purpose, intent and applicability.
- 18.64.020 - Other standards and requirements.
- 18.64.030 - Definitions.
- 18.64.040 - Sustainable design.
- 18.64.050 - Building design.
- 18.64.060 - Site design.
- 18.64.070 - Additional standards.
- 18.64.080 - Additional mixed use standards.
- 18.64.090 - Permits and approvals.
CHAPTER 18
65 - SECOND UNITS AND TWO-UNIT DEVELOPMENTS
Sections
- 18.65.010 - Purpose.
- 18.65.020 - Ministerial review; standard for denial; courtesy notice.
- 18.65.030 - General requirements.
- 18.65.040 - Development standards.
- 18.65.050 - Total number of units.
- 18.65.060 - Design standards.
- 18.65.070 - Rental term; rental property program compliance; separate conveyance.
- 18.65.080 - Deed restriction.
- 18.65.090 - Development impact fees.
CHAPTER 18
66 - MANUFACTURED HOMES AND COMMERCIAL UNITS5
Sections
- 18.66.010 - Purpose.
- 18.66.020 - Definitions.
- 18.66.030 - Permitted locations.
- 18.66.040 - Site development standards.
- 18.66.050 - Certifications.
- 18.66.060 - Building permit.
- 18.66.070 - Exterior surface.
- 18.66.080 - Roof design.
- 18.66.090 - Off-street parking.
- 18.66.100 - Mechanical equipment.
- 18.66.110 - Site and architectural review.
- 18.66.120 - Other regulations.
CHAPTER 18
68 - REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS
Sections
- 18.68.010 - Purpose.
- 18.68.020 - Definitions.
- 18.68.030 - Applicability.
- 18.68.040 - Notice to the public of availability of accommodation process.
- 18.68.050 - Application.
- 18.68.060 - Submittal process.
- 18.68.070 - Review and notice.
- 18.68.080 - Approval requirements.
- 18.68.090 - Findings.
- 18.68.100 - Appeals.
- 18.68.110 - Expirations and extensions.
CHAPTER 18
69 - ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS6
Sections
- 18.69.010 - Purpose.
- 18.69.020 - Definitions.
- 18.69.030 - Review process; certificate of occupancy.
- 18.69.040 - Consistency with density requirements, zoning, and general plan.
- 18.69.050 - General requirements.
- 18.69.060 - Design standards.
- 18.69.070 - Parking requirements.
- 18.69.080 - Sale and rental of units; rental property program compliance.
- 18.69.090 - Deed restriction—Junior accessory dwelling unit.
- 18.69.100 - Owner occupancy—Junior accessory dwelling unit.
- 18.69.110 - Development impact fees.
CHAPTER 18
70 - ADULT BUSINESS REGULATIONS7
Sections
- 18.70.010 - Purpose.
- 18.70.020 - Definitions.
- 18.70.030 - Conditional use permit required.
- 18.70.040 - Adult business permitted.
- 18.70.050 - Location requirements and measurement of distances.
- 18.70.060 - Determination of use.
- 18.70.070 - Development standards.
- 18.70.080 - General operating standards.
- 18.70.090 - Regulation of adult arcades and adult booth/individual viewing area.
- 18.70.100 - Regulation of adult live entertainment.
- 18.70.110 - Regulation of adult motion picture theater.
- 18.70.120 - Regulation of adult modeling and adult photography studios.
- 18.70.130 - Regulation of adult retail store.
- 18.70.140 - Inspections.
- 18.70.150 - Regulations non-exclusive and nuisance declared.
CHAPTER 18
71 - WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION FACILITIES
Sections
- 18.71.010 - Purpose.
- 18.71.020 - Wireless telecommunications facilities defined.
- 18.71.030 - Findings for wireless telecommunication facilities.
- 18.71.040 - General standards.
- 18.71.050 - Special standards for ground mounted structures.
- 18.71.060 - Conditions of approval.
- 18.71.070 - Zoning.
- 18.71.080 - Site and design criteria.
- 18.71.090 - Processing requirements.
- 18.71.100 - Maintenance requirements.
CHAPTER 18
73 - GENERAL REGULATIONS AND EXCEPTIONS
Sections
- 18.73.010 - Purpose.
- 18.73.020 - Application.
- 18.73.030 - Animal and fowl enclosures.
- 18.73.040 - Attached accessory structures.
- 18.73.050 - Building sites of record.
- 18.73.060 - Dedication, construction, and maintenance of public improvements.
- 18.73.070 - Fence and wall height.
- 18.73.080 - Fire control regulations.
- 18.73.090 - Height limit exceptions.
- 18.73.100 - Keeping of animals.
- 18.73.110 - Narrow lots of record.
- 18.73.120 - Occupancy.
- 18.73.130 - Property maintenance.
- 18.73.140 - Reapplication after denial.
- 18.73.150 - Relocation of structures.
- 18.73.160 - Removal or dumping of soil, sand or other material.
- 18.73.170 - Swimming pools, spas and other bodies of water.
- 18.73.171 - Definitions.
- 18.73.172 - Drowning prevention safety features required.
- 18.73.173 - Enclosures.
- 18.73.174 - Exceptions to requirements of this Chapter.
- 18.73.175 - Pool and spa requirements.
- 18.73.180 - Temporary manufactured housing installations.
- 18.73.190 - Utility undergrounding.
- 18.73.200 - Visual screening of unsightly uses.
- 18.73.210 - Yards.
- 18.73.211 - Temporary uses allowed.
CHAPTER 18
74 - PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
Sections
- 18.74.010 - Applicability.
- 18.74.020 - Property maintenance.
- 18.74.030 - Noise standards.
- 18.74.040 - Odor.
- 18.74.050 - Particulate matter and air contaminants standards.
- 18.74.060 - Vibration standards.
- 18.74.070 - Temperature.
- 18.74.080 - Illumination.
- 18.74.090 - Electrical disturbance.
- 18.74.100 - Radioactive materials.
- 18.74.110 - Discharges.
CHAPTER 18
76 - NONCONFORMING USES AND BUILDINGS
Sections
- 18.76.010 - Purpose.
- 18.76.020 - Nonconforming use of land.
- 18.76.030 - Nonconforming use of buildings.
- 18.76.031 - Termination—Discontinuance of use.
- 18.76.032 - Termination—Violation of laws.
- 18.76.033 - Termination—Operation of use.
- 18.76.034 - Termination—Abatement as a public nuisance.
- 18.76.040 - Nonconforming buildings.
- 18.76.050 - Buildings under construction.
CHAPTER 18
80 - SIGNS8
Sections
- 18.80.010. - Findings.
- 18.80.020 - Purpose.
- 18.80.030 - Policies for sign regulations.
- 18.80.040 - Definitions.
- 18.80.050 - Signs on public property.
- 18.80.060 - Permit required.
- 18.80.070 - Application review procedures.
- 18.80.080 - Application requirements.
- 18.80.090 - Appeals.
- 18.80.100 - Judicial review of City Council's decision.
- 18.80.110 - Exempt signs.
- 18.80.120 - Prohibited signs.
- 18.80.130 - General provisions.
- 18.80.140 - Design standards.
- 18.80.150 - Development standards for permanent on-site signs.
- 18.80.160 - Temporary on-site signs, residential.
- 18.80.170 - Temporary on-site signs, non-residential zones.
- 18.80.180 - Window signs.
- 18.80.190 - Off-site signs.
- 18.80.200 - Temporary use and special event signs.
- 18.80.210 - Parking of advertising vehicles.
- 18.80.220 - Nonconforming signs and abandoned signs.
- 18.80.230 - Compliance with sign code as condition of permit approval.
- 18.80.240 - Penalty.
CHAPTER 18
81 - ART IN PUBLIC PLACES
Sections
- 18.81.010 - Purpose.
- 18.81.020 - Definitions.
- 18.81.030 - Applicability.
- 18.81.040 - Exceptions.
- 18.81.050 - Final City approval.
- 18.81.060 - Art in public places program requirements.
- 18.81.070 - Public art fund.
- 18.81.080 - Ownership and maintenance of art.
- 18.81.090 - Procedures for art installed on private property; review process and standards.
- 18.81.100 - Procedures for art donated to City.
- 18.81.110 - Application submittal requirements.
- 18.81.120 - Removal of public art.
- 18.81.130 - Annual report.
- 18.81.140 - Authority for additional mitigation.
- 18.81.150 - Waiver.
CHAPTER 18
83 - CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS
Sections
- 18.83.010 - Purpose.
- 18.83.020 - Application.
- 18.83.030 - Submittal process.
- 18.83.031 - Conditions of approval.
- 18.83.032 - Revisions or modifications.
- 18.83.040 - Public hearing.
- 18.83.050 - Approval process.
- 18.83.060 - Appeal process.
- 18.83.070 - Building permit and business license process.
- 18.83.080 - Revocation.
- 18.83.090 - Expiration and extensions.
CHAPTER 18
84 - ADMINISTRATIVE CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS
Sections
- 18.84.010 - Purpose.
- 18.84.020 - Definition.
- 18.84.030 - Application.
- 18.84.040 - Submittal process.
- 18.84.050 - Criteria for administrative conditional use permit.
- 18.84.060 - Conditions of approval.
- 18.84.070 - Revisions or modifications.
- 18.84.080 - Review and notice.
- 18.84.090 - Approval process.
- 18.84.100 - Appeal process.
- 18.84.110 - Revocation.
- 18.84.120 - Expiration and extensions.
CHAPTER 18
89 - MINOR DEVIATIONS