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Trinity County Unincorporated
City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 17

16 - SINGLE-FAMILY DISTRICT OR R-1

Sections:


17.16.005 - In general.

Subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.30, none but the following uses, or uses which in the opinion of the planning commission are similar, will be allowed (see Section 17.30.010).

17.16.010 - Uses permitted.

Single-family dwelling.

(Ord. No. 315-806, § 1, 1-28-14)

17.16.020 - Uses permitted subject to obtaining a use permit in each case.

One non-commercial guest house.

Tract offices, art galleries, country clubs, golf courses.

Public and quasi-public uses, including churches, fire houses, hospitals, parks and playgrounds, schools (public and parochial), or schools accredited to state school system, and public utility buildings and uses.

Airports, heliports, and landing strips for aircraft.

Signs, not over one hundred square feet in the aggregate for advertising the sale of a subdivision. Limit of one sign in each case.

Condominiums, cooperatives and similar development.

17.16.030 - Accessory buildings.

Only as constructed simultaneously with or subsequent to the main building on the same lot. Accessory uses normally incidental to one family dwellings.

17.16.040 - Signs.

Signs in the aggregate, ten square feet in area for each building site, may be displayed for the purpose of advertising the sale or lease of the property upon which it is displayed.

17.16.050 - For subdivision purposes, the minimum parcel size required—Corner lot.

Corner lot: Seven thousand square feet.

17.16.060 - For subdivision purposes, the minimum parcel size required—Interior lot.

Interior lot: Six thousand square feet; on interior or corner lot churches: Twenty thousand square feet; schools: Five acres.

17.16.070 - Minimum lot width required.

Corner or interior lot: Sixty feet except churches one hundred feet, schools two hundred feet. All other uses sixty feet.

17.16.080 - Maximum allowable lot coverage by all structures.

Thirty-five percent.

17.16.090 - Maximum allowable height.

Forty feet.

17.16.100 - Minimum front yard required.

Twenty feet.

17.16.110 - Minimum side yard required.

Interior lot line: Five feet; exterior lot line: Ten feet. Churches and schools ten feet exterior or interior lot line.

17.16.120 - Minimum rear yard required.

Twenty feet, provided that ten feet may be permitted if a minimum of one thousand five hundred square feet is maintained to the rear of the longest wall of the main building.

17.16.130 - General requirements.

A.

For parking requirements, see Section 17.30.090.

B.

Larger building site may be required, see Section 17.30.080.

C.

Architectural features, see Section 17.30.060.

D.

Height limit accessory buildings twenty-five feet.

E.

For guest house regulations, see Section 17.30.040(C).

F.

Fences and walls permitted but not required. Such fences and walls shall not exceed six feet in height. In any required front yard on reversed frontage, the same shall not exceed three feet.

G.

Optional design and development may be permitted if approved under subdivision ordinance.

H.

Yards are minimum required unless building lines are established or unless standard street does not exist, see Section 17.30.060.