Earlier editions: 2026-09
Amador City Municipal Code Ch. 17.24 R-4 Multiple-Family Zone
Amador City Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Amador City
Cite as: Amador City Municipal Code Chapter 17.24 · Text as of 2026-10-04
17.24.010 - Generally.¶
The following regulations shall apply in the R-4 multiple- family dwelling zone unless otherwise provided in this title.
(Ord. 55 § 8.00, 1980)
17.24.020 - Uses permitted.¶
A. Any use permitted in the R-1, R-2,.or R-3 zones;
B. Group dwellings, multiple-family dwellings, apartment houses, apartment hotels; churches, except rescue mission or temporary revival; schools, elementary or high; day nurseries, nursery schools; boarding and rooming houses; institutions of educational, philanthropic or eleemosynary nature; home occupations; lodge halls; and private clubs, except clubs the chief activity of which is a service customarily carried on as a business;
C. The accessory buildings necessary to such use located on the same lot or parcel of land.
(Ord. 55 § 8.01, 1980)
17.24.030 - Building height.¶
Same as R-1 zone, Section 17.12.040.
(Ord. 55 § 8.02, 1980)
17.24.040 - Front yard.¶
There shall be a front yard of not less than ten (10) feet, except where lots comprising forty (40) percent or more of the frontage on one side of a street between intersecting streets are developed with buildings having an average front yard with a variation of not more than ten (10) feet, no building hereafter erected or structurally altered shall project beyond the average front yard line so established.
In determining such front yard depth, buildings located more than twenty-five (25) feet from the front property line or buildings facing a side street on a corner lot shall not be counted.
(Ord. 55 § 8.03, 1980)
17.24.050 - Side yard.¶
Same as R-1 zone, Section 17.12.060.
(Ord. 55 § 8.04, 1980)
17.24.060 - Rear yard.¶
Same as R-1 zone, Part 4, Section 17.12.070.
(Ord. 55 § 8.05, 1980)
17.24.070 - Area requirements.¶
The minimum lot area shall be not less than one thousand (1,000) square feet per dwelling unit.
Maximum lot coverage shall be thirty-five (35) percent.
(Ord. 99 § 8, 1991; Ord. 55 § 8.06, 1980)
17.24.080 - Distance between buildings on the same lot.¶
Same as R-2 zone, Section 17.16.080.
(Ord. 55 § 8.07, 1980)
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