Madera County Unincorporated City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
CHAPTER 18
04 - DEFINITIONS
Sections
- 18.04.005 - General terms.
- 18.04.010 - Generally.
- 18.04.013 - Accessory living structure.
- 18.04.015 - Accessory structures.
- 18.04.020 - Accessory use.
- 18.04.025 - Agriculturally oriented services.
- 18.04.030 - Agriculture.
- 18.04.032 - Agritourism.
- 18.04.035 - Airport.
- 18.04.040 - Airport elevation.
- 18.04.045 - Airport reference point.
- 18.04.050 - Airstrip.
- 18.04.055 - Alley.
- 18.04.060 - Apartment.
- 18.04.065 - Apartment house.
- 18.04.070 - Base geometric plane.
- 18.04.075 - Basement.
- 18.04.080 - Base setback line.
- 18.04.082 - Bed and breakfast establishment, multifamily residential areas.
- 18.04.083 - Bed and breakfast establishment, single family residential areas.
- 18.04.085 - Block.
- 18.04.090 - Board.
- 18.04.095 - Reserved.
- 18.04.100 - Building.
- 18.04.105 - Business.
- 18.04.110 - Camper unit.
- 18.04.113 - Child day care facility.
- 18.04.114 - Circulation plan.
- 18.04.115 - Commission.
- 18.04.120 - Communications equipment building.
- 18.04.121 - Communication tower/wireless communications facility.
- 18.04.125 - Conditional use.
- 18.04.127 - Construction trailer/temporary contractor's office.
- 18.04.128 - Temporary/seasonal fruit stand.
- 18.04.130 - Customer service establishments.
- 18.04.131 - Dead-end road.
- 18.04.132 - Defensible space.
- 18.04.140 - District.
- 18.04.142 - Drainage plan.
- 18.04.145 - Drilling.
- 18.04.150 - Dwelling.
- 18.04.153 - Dwelling, accessory unit.
- 18.04.155 - Dwelling, multiple family.
- 18.04.160 - Dwelling, single family.
- 18.04.165 - Dwelling, two family.
- 18.04.170 - Edge of right-of-way.
- 18.04.173 - Emergency service provider.
- 18.04.174 - Emergency shelter.
- 18.04.175 - Family.
- 18.04.180 - Farm, fur.
- 18.04.185 - Farm, pig.
- 18.04.190 - Farm, poultry.
- 18.04.191 - Farm labor camp.
- 18.04.193 - Farm stay operation.
- 18.04.195 - Feedlot.
- 18.04.200 - Floor area ratio.
- 18.04.205 - Garage, private.
- 18.04.210 - Garage, public.
- 18.04.215 - Garage, storage.
- 18.04.220 - General commercial establishments.
- 18.04.225 - Gravel pit.
- 18.04.230 - Grade, established.
- 18.04.232 - Grading plan.
- 18.04.235 - Guest house.
- 18.04.240 - Guest ranch.
- 18.04.245 - Heavy industrial uses.
- 18.04.255 - Highway.
- 18.04.260 - Home occupation.
- 18.04.265 - Horticulture.
- 18.04.266 - Hospital.
- 18.04.267 - Hospital lodging facility.
- 18.04.268 - Hospital support facilities.
- 18.04.270 - Hotel.
- 18.04.275 - Indigenous employee.
- 18.04.280 - Insecticide and pesticide services.
- 18.04.283 - Interchange quadrant.
- 18.04.285 - Junkyards.
- 18.04.288 - Kennel.
- 18.04.290 - Kennel, commercial.
- 18.04.292 - Landscape and irrigation plan.
- 18.04.295 - Light industrial uses.
- 18.04.296 - Limited light industrial.
- 18.04.300 - Reserved.
- 18.04.305 - Lot.
- 18.04.310 - Lot area.
- 18.04.315 - Lot depth.
- 18.04.316 - Lot frontage.
- 18.04.320 - Lot, side.
- 18.04.325 - Lot width, minimum average.
- 18.04.330 - Manufactured home.
- 18.04.333 - Marijuana.
- 18.04.335 - Mining.
- 18.04.337 - Mini storage.
- 18.04.340 - Mobilehome park (manufactured housing park).
- 18.04.345 - Motel.
- 18.04.350 - Nonconforming use.
- 18.04.355 - Offset.
- 18.04.360 - One-ownership.
- 18.04.380 - Permanent structure.
- 18.04.385 - Person.
- 18.04.387 - Pharmacy.
- 18.04.390 - Planned development.
- 18.04.395 - Planning commission.
- 18.04.400 - Planning department.
- 18.04.405 - Principal building.
- 18.04.410 - Principal use.
- 18.04.415 - Private club.
- 18.04.420 - Professional office.
- 18.04.421 - Property, private.
- 18.04.422 - Property, public.
- 18.04.425 - Public buildings.
- 18.04.430 - Quarrying.
- 18.04.435 - Rabbit farm.
- 18.04.436 - Residential care facility.
- 18.04.437 - Residential conversion.
- 18.04.438 - Residential support facility.
- 18.04.440 - Restaurant.
- 18.04.445 - Restricted retail sales establishments.
- 18.04.450 - Retail sales establishments.
- 18.04.455 - Road.
- 18.04.460 - Roadside stand.
- 18.04.465 - Sand pit.
- 18.04.470 - Semi-public buildings.
- 18.04.475 - Setback.
- 18.04.480 - Sewered district.
- 18.04.485 - Sign.
- 18.04.490 - Small livestock farming.
- 18.04.493 - Solar farm.
- 18.04.495 - Stable, private.
- 18.04.500 - Stable, public.
- 18.04.505 - Story.
- 18.04.510 - Street.
- 18.04.515 - Street, frontage.
- 18.04.520 - Structural alterations.
- 18.04.525 - Structures.
- 18.04.530 - Structure, nonconforming.
- 18.04.533 - Supportive housing.
- 18.04.535 - Sustained yield forestry.
- 18.04.540 - Temporary structure.
- 18.04.545 - Tent camp.
- 18.04.550 - Reserved.
- 18.04.553 - Transitional housing.
- 18.04.555 - Travel trailer park.
- 18.04.556 - Vehicles.
- 18.04.560 - Vision setback.
- 18.04.565 - Visual obstruction.
- 18.04.570 - Yard, front.
- 18.04.575 - Yard, rear.
- 18.04.580 - Yard, side.
- 18.04.581 - Wineries.
- 18.04.582 - Wrecking or dismantling yard.
- 18.04.585 - Zoning administrator.
- 18.04.590 - Zoning agency.
CHAPTER 18
06 - ADMINISTRATION
Sections
- 18.06.010 - Zoning agency—Responsibilities.
- 18.06.020 - Zoning administrator—Duties.
- 18.06.025 - Reasonable accommodations.
- 18.06.030 - Enforcement authority.
- 18.06.040 - Approval of buildings and structures.
- 18.06.050 - New construction or alteration.
- 18.06.060 - Land use approval application.
- 18.06.070 - Conflicting uses.
CHAPTER 18
11 - RESIDENTIAL ZONE DISTRICTS2
Sections
- 18.11.010 - Purpose of residential zone districts.
- 18.11.020 - Purpose of the RUS (residential, urban, single family dwelling) zone.
- 18.11.030 - Purpose of the RX zone.
- 18.11.040 - Purpose of the RRS (residential, rural, single family dwelling) zones.
- 18.11.050 - Purpose of the RMS (residential mountain single family) zone.
- 18.11.060 - Purpose of the RT zone.
- 18.11.070 - Purpose of the RUM (residential urban multiple family) zone.
- 18.11.080 - Purpose of the RRM (residential rural single family) zone.
- 18.11.090 - Purpose of the RM (residential mountain family) zone.
- 18.11.100 - Use regulations of residential zones.
- 18.11.110 - Development regulations of residential zones.
- 18.11.120 - Development standards for residential zones.
CHAPTER 18
67 - PDD—PLANNED DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT22
Sections
- 18.67.010 - Purpose and application.
- 18.67.020 - Permitted uses.
- 18.67.030 - Conditional use permits.
- 18.67.040 - Prohibited uses.
- 18.67.050 - Minimum lot size.
- 18.67.060 - Minimum lot area per dwelling unit.
- 18.67.070 - Yards and setbacks.
- 18.67.080 - Height limits.
- 18.67.090 - Minimum distance between structures.
- 18.67.100 - Parking.
- 18.67.110 - Signs.
- 18.67.120 - Landscaping.
- 18.67.130 - Special review procedures and development standards.
- 18.67.140 - Conditional use permit application contents.
- 18.67.150 - Development standards and conditions.
- 18.67.160 - Time limit on development approval.
- 18.67.170 - Minor/major plan modifications.
- 18.67.180 - Previously approved uses.
CHAPTER 18
87 - MARIJUANA28
Sections
- 18.87.010 - Findings and purpose.
- 18.87.020 - Relationship to other laws.
- 18.87.030 - Definitions.
- 18.87.040 - Regulations applicable to the cultivation of medical marijuana.
- 18.87.050 - Regulations applicable to the cultivation of recreational or adult use marijuana.
- 18.87.060 - Regulations applicable to commercial marijuana operations, dispensaries, and deliveries.
- 18.87.070 - Regulations applicable to the consumption of marijuana.
- 18.87.080 - Penalties and enforcement.
- 18.87.090 - Judicial review.
CHAPTER 18
89 - REGULATIONS FOR COTTAGE INDUSTRY HOME OCCUPATION
Sections
- 18.89.010 - Purpose.
- 18.89.020 - Permitted home occupations.
- 18.89.030 - Minimum standards.
- 18.89.040 - Cottage industry permit—Required.
- 18.89.050 - Cottage industry permit—Application—Contents.
- 18.89.060 - Review and approval.
- 18.89.070 - Permit revocation and modification.
- 18.89.080 - Lot dimension regulations.
CHAPTER 18
90 - SIGN REGULATIONS
Sections
- 18.90.010 - Findings and purpose.
- 18.90.020 - General prohibition.
- 18.90.030 - Definitions.
- 18.90.040 - Signs prohibited on public property.
- 18.90.050 - Signs creating traffic hazards prohibited.
- 18.90.060 - Defacing natural features.
- 18.90.070 - Maintained in safe condition.
- 18.90.080 - Nonconforming signs.
- 18.90.090 - Violation.
- 18.90.100 - Summary abatement.
- 18.90.110 - Sign regulations-Residential zone districts.
- 18.90.120 - Sign regulations-Commercial, industrial and institutional zone districts.
- 18.90.130 - Sign regulations-Agricultural, quarry, open space, timber zone district.
- 18.90.140 - Sign regulations—Planned districts.
- 18.90.150 - Illumination and moving parts.
- 18.90.160 - Freeway 99 corridor sign guidelines.
CHAPTER 18
92 - CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS
Sections
- 18.92.003 - Purpose.
- 18.92.005 - General rules for a conditional use permit regarding conditions, adjustments to regulations and combination of uses.
- 18.92.010 - Approval by the zoning agency.
- 18.92.020 - Plans submitted to zoning agency.
- 18.92.030 - Granted upon certain findings.
- 18.92.040 - Conditional use conformance to regulations.
- 18.92.050 - Compliance with other conditions.
- 18.92.055 - Amending the conditional use permit.
- 18.92.060 - Revocation for non-use. (See also Section 18.108.020.)
CHAPTER 18
94 - CONDITIONAL USES PERMITTED
Sections
- 18.94.010 - Purpose.
- 18.94.020 - Automobile service stations.
- 18.94.030 - Animal hospitals, commercial kennels and laboratories using animals or animal products.
- 18.94.040 - Cemeteries and mausoleums for the burial of human remains.
- 18.94.050 - Fur farms, pig farms, feed lots and poultry farms.
- 18.94.060 - Laboratories for testing, experimental or analytical purposes.
- 18.94.070 - Nonconforming uses.
- 18.94.075 - Mini storage facilities.
- 18.94.080 - Private clubs and outdoor recreational facilities such as recreational camps, golf courses, bathing beaches, riding academies and resorts.
- 18.94.090 - Outdoor theatres.
- 18.94.100 - Trailer camps or trailer parks, mobile home parks or tent camps.
- 18.94.110 - Public and commercial refuse disposal sites.
- 18.94.120 - All transit mix, concrete manufacturing or concrete goods manufacturing.
- 18.94.130 - Junkyards.
- 18.94.140 - Residential conversion.
- 18.94.145 - Deviation.
- 18.94.150 - SRA defensible space measures.
- 18.94.160 - Public facilities and emergency services.
- 18.94.170 - Bulk storage of fuel for distribution and resale.
- 18.94.180 - Solar farms.
- 18.94.190 - Agritourism.
CHAPTER 18
96 - SITE PLANS
Sections
- 18.96.010 - Form submitted.
- 18.96.020 - Number of copies supplied and contents.
- 18.96.030 - Statement of use construction and occupancy.
- 18.96.040 - Copies reviewed by other agencies.
- 18.96.050 - Agencies' suggestions forwarded to zoning agency.
- 18.96.060 - Zoning agency consideration.
- 18.96.070 - Plans considered as part of conditional use or planned area.
- 18.96.080 - Fee payment by applicant prior to acceptance by administrator.
CHAPTER 18
98 - STRUCTURE REGULATIONS
Sections
- I.- LOCATION
- 18.98.010 - Setbacks established.
- 18.98.020 - Exceptions to setback regulations.
- 18.98.030 - Setback area restrictions.
- 18.98.040 - Vision setback lines—Established.
- 18.98.050 - Vision setback area—Structures, vehicles prohibited.
- 18.98.060 - Setback effect on corner lots.
- 18.98.070 - Setbacks.
- 18.98.080 - Maintenance of setback or offset areas.
- 18.98.090 - Accessory and principle building locations.
- II. - HEIGHT REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 18
102 - PARKING REGULATIONS
Sections
- 18.102.010 - Statement of purpose.
- 18.102.020 - Applicability.
- 18.102.030 - Definitions and basic regulations.
- 18.102.040 - Vehicular parking space requirements.
- 18.102.050 - Parking plan and development review.
- 18.102.060 - Bicycle parking racks.
- 18.102.065 - Flexible parking requirements.
- 18.102.068 - Mixed-use shared parking programs.
- 18.102.070 - Parking district.
- 18.102.080 - Residential parking.
- 18.102.086 - Parking master plan.
- 18.102.090 - Parking of commercial vehicles.
- 18.102.100 - Off-site parking requirements.
- 18.102.110 - Loading space requirements.
- 18.102.120 - Parking facility design.
- 18.102.130 - Parking lot detail.
- 18.102.140 - Expedited electric vehicle charging stations permitting.
CHAPTER 18
104 - PERMITS30
Sections
CHAPTER 18
108 - PERMIT, VARIANCE REVOCATION AND APPEAL
Sections
- I.- Revocation Proceedings
- II. - Proceedings Rules-Appeals
- 18.108.050 - Notice of proceedings.
- 18.108.060 - Hearing time and place fixed.
- 18.108.070 - Decision-Grant effective date.
- 18.108.080 - Appeal filing date.
- 18.108.090 - Appeal stays other proceedings.
- 18.108.100 - Variance or conditional use recorded on map.
- 18.108.110 - Appeal heard by planning commission.
- 18.108.120 - Appeal heard by board of supervisors.
- 18.108.130 - Appeal application and fee.
- 18.108.140 - Transmittal of records to appellate body.
- 18.108.150 - Appeal hearing set.
- 18.108.160 - Public hearings-Appellate body option.
- 18.108.170 - Decision of appellate body.
- 18.108.180 - Board of supervisors' final decision.
- III. - Request For Application
CHAPTER 18
110 - AMENDMENTS
Sections
- 18.110.010 - Authority.
- 18.110.020 - Petition-Made by whom.
- 18.110.030 - Petition-Filing.
- 18.110.040 - Petition-Fees.
- 18.110.050 - Data required.
- 18.110.060 - Hearing.
- 18.110.070 - Zoning agency action and report.
- 18.110.080 - County board action.
- 18.110.090 - Notice of hearing published.
- 18.110.100 - Protest against proposed amendment.
- 18.110.110 - Effective date of amendment.
- 18.110.120 - Zoning county owned lands.
CHAPTER 18
112 - ENFORCEMENT—PENALTIES
Sections
- 18.112.010 - Violation—Misdemeanor.
- 18.112.020 - Buildings in conflict with provisions declared nuisance.
- 18.112.030 - Nuisance abatement order.
- 18.112.040 - Notice of nuisance served.
- 18.112.050 - Nuisance accusation denial—Hearing.
- 18.112.060 - Abatement by administrator at owner expense.
- 18.112.070 - County action to recover abatement costs.
- 18.112.080 - Authority to commence suit against nuisance maintenance.
- 18.112.085 - Injunctive relief.
- 18.112.090 - Other remedies available.
- 18.112.100 - Prosecutor designated.
- 18.112.110 - Remedies cumulative.
- 18.112.120 - Application fees.
CHAPTER 18
114 - DENSITY BONUSES
Sections
- 18.114.010 - Purpose.
- 18.114.020 - Definitions
- 18.114.030 - Eligibility.
- 18.114.040 - Amount of density bonus.
- 18.114.050 - Standards for affordable units.
- 18.114.060 - Donations of land.
- 18.114.070 - Incentives.
- 18.114.080 - Waivers or reductions of development standards.
- 18.114.090 - Reduced parking requirement.
- 18.114.100 - Housing with child care facilities.
- 18.114.110 - Application and review.
- 18.114.120 - Continued affordability.
- 18.114.130 - Density bonus housing agreement.