Chapter 17.26 — USES ALLOWED IN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS — Dinuba Zoning Code

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17.26.010 Purpose 17.26.020 Matrix Symbols 17.26.030 Use Matrix, Residential Districts

17.26.010 PURPOSE ¶

The Zoning Use matrix below provides a listing of the various land uses which are allowed by right, by administrative site plan, or by use permit and those which are prohibited within the city’s zoning districts. In addition to the matrix below, individual Precise Plans provide a listing of various land uses allowed by right or use permit within each of the Precise Plan’s zoning categories. Refer to individual precise plans, as referenced in Chapter 17.62.

17.26.020 MATRIX SYMBOLS ¶

The following symbols are used to describe the relationship of the listed uses to each of the zones. If a use is not listed in the use matrix (17.26.030), then that use is prohibited in residential districts.

“P” indicates that a use is permitted by right;
“A” indicates that an Administrative Site Plan is required;
“U” indicates that a Use Permit is required;
“ ”, or a blank box, indicates that a use is prohibited.

17.26.030 USE MATRIX ¶

Uses	RCO	AN	RA	R	RM
A second (2) housing unit in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 17.70 of this title			P	P	P
A use which was legally operating on or before the effective date of the amendment to zoning map which encompasses the property and is no longer listed as"permitted"withinthis title	P	P	P	P	P
Accessorybuildings or structures, located on the same site with apermitted use	P	P	P	P	P
Accessorystructures and uses located on the same site as a conditional use	U	U	U	U	U
Accessory structures located on the same site with a permitted use, including private garages and carports, one (1) guest house, storehouses, garden structures, green-houses,recreation rooms andhobby shops			P
Additional one-family (1), two-family (2) or three-family (3) dwellings per site located south of North Avenue within areas designated medium density on the general plan up to a maximum of four housing units per site, with a minimum of three-thousand square feet of site area per dwelling unit on parcels which are seven-thousand, five-hundred (500) square feet or greater in area. Parking access to the additional units is to be from an existing alley when available; if no ally exists and only street access is available, the additional parking is to be located behind the front unit with access limited to a maximum sixteen-foot (16) wide paved driveway.Allparkingrequirementsforthe additionalunits are				U	U

City of Dinuba Zoning Ordinance

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Uses	RCO	AN	RA	R	RM
subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.64 of this title.
Bed and breakfast inns.				U	U
Cemeteries, crematories and columbariums		U
Commercial kennels and animal hospitals		U
Communications equipment buildings	U		U
Developments with modified residential standards in the R-1-6 zone in conformance withChapter 17.93 ofthis title.				U
Employee housing (six(6)or fewer employees)		U	P	P	P
Employee Housing (seven(7)or more employees)		U	U	U	U
Electric transmission lines, transmission substations and distribution substations		U	U
Emergencyshelter					U
Enclosed temporary construction materials storage yards required in connection with residentialdevelopment					A
Enclosed temporary construction materials storage yards required in connection with the development of a subdivision, and temporary subdivision sales offices and signs andmodel home display areas				A
Expansion or remodeling of an existing nonconforming use of a structure or land, limited to fifty (50) percent or less of the value of existing structure, or reestablishment of a nonconforming use which has been damaged, except nonconforming signs and outdoor advertising structures, nonconforming uses occupying a structure with an assessed valuation of less than one-hundred (100) dollars andnonconformingfences, walls andhedges			U	A	A
Expansion, remodeling or additions to a conditional use that are not considered an incidentaloraccessory use	U				U
Farm equipment service and repair establishments		U
Fertilizerplants andyards		U
Flood control channels, water pumping stations and reservoirs, irrigation ditches and canals, settling and water conservation recharge basins, drainage ponds and streets androadsnecessaryforaccess to permitted uses	P
Flower and vegetable gardens, agricultural crops, orchards and vineyards, horticultural collections, nursery stock (but excluding the following: any sign or structure for the purpose of sale of any product, commercial green-houses and commercial farming buildings)			P	P	P
Gas and electric transmission lines, electrical transmission and distribution substations, gas regulator stations, communications equipment buildings, public service pumping stations and elevated pressure tanks				A	A
Gas and oil wells		U
Gas regulator stations		U	U
Grain elevators		U
Group Care Facility (six (6) or fewer persons)		P	P	P	P
Home occupations subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.70 of this title			P	P	P
Householdpets limited to a maximum of four (4) in anycombination		P	P	P	P
Licensed family day care centers for seven (7) to twelve (12) children as an accessory use				A	A
Lodge halls					U
Manufactured homes onpermanent foundations				P	A
Mobile home parks, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 17.70 of this title		U	U	U	U

City of Dinuba Zoning Ordinance

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Uses	RCO	AN	RA	R	RM
More than twenty-four(24)unitspergross acre in the RM-1.5 zone					U
Multifamilydwellings					P
One-family dwellings and farm employee housing which are incidental to a permitted use ora conditionaluse		P
One-family dwelling, consisting of not more than one such one-family dwelling per lot			P	P	P
Penal institutions		U
Planned unit development subject to provisions of Chapter 17.92 of this title				U	U
Private clubs and lodges				A	A
Private noncommercial clubs and lodges; private or public golf courses; cemeteries, columbariums and crematories	U		U
Processing of products produced on the premises, except commercial animal slaughter		P
Public and private charitable institutions, hospitals, sanitariums, nursing homes, including a state authorized, certified or licensed family care home, foster home or group home serving six (6) or fewer mentally disordered or otherwise handicapped persons, including rehabilitation homes for alcoholics and drug addicts, or dependent and neglected children, where such homes provide care on a twenty-four hourbasis		U	U	U	U
Public and private open recreational facilities operated for profit or otherwise, including golf courses, golf driving ranges, swimming pools, riding academies, drive-in theaters, race tracks, or strips used for the racing of horses, automobiles or motorcycles, playgrounds, parks, community centers and stadiums, but not including commercial recreationuses withinbuildings.	U	U
Public and quasi-public uses of an educational or religious type including schools, nursery schools, private nonprofit schools and colleges, churches, parsonages, and other religiousinstitutions;	U	U	U	U	U
Public or private dump using sanitary land fill only and allowing no burning of refuse	U	U
Public servicepumpingstations		U	U
Public uses of an administrative, recreational, public service or cultural type including city, county, state or federal administrative centers and courts, libraries, museums, art galleries, police and fire stations and other public buildings, structures and facilities, public playgrounds, parks and community centers	U	U	U	U	U
Quarryingand extraction of minerals		U
Raisingof fruit and nut trees, vegetables and horticultural specialties	P	P	P	P	P
Raisingof livestock	P	P
Recreation areas, parks, playgrounds and such buildings, structures and facilities as are appropriatelyrelated thereto	P	P	P	P	P
Renting rooms and boarding; provided that not more than two rooms in a dwelling arerented tonotmore thana totalofsix(6) persons				P	P
Renting rooms and boarding, provided that not more than two paying guests may belodged orboarded.			P
Reservoirs	U	U	U
Rest home and nursinghomes, boardingor roominghouses					A
Roadside stands for the sale of agriculturalproducegrown on the site		U
Senior citizen residential developments					U
Sewage treatmentplants forprimaryand secondarytreatment		U
Single-familydwellings when all street improvements are notyet completed				A

City of Dinuba Zoning Ordinance

September 2008 17.26-3

Uses	RCO	AN	RA	R	RM
Stockyards		U
Swimming pools used solely by persons residing on the site and their guests; provided that no swimming pool shall be located in a required front or side yard; and further provided, that all fencing comply with the Uniform Building Code or city standards.		P	P	P	P
Tennis courts, including related fencing over seven (7) feet in height located on the same site as a permitted orconditionaluse	A		A	A	A
Transitional use, consisting of a dwelling or dwellings for not more than three (3) families, under the following conditions: 1.When on a lot with a side line abutting a lot or lots zoned RM-3, RM-2, C-1, C-2, C-3, C-4, M-1 or M-2 2. Such use shall not occupy more than seventy feet of the width of the lot, and 3. Subject to all of the yard, buildable area, space and off-street parking requirements whichapplyintheRM-3 andRM-2 zone;				U	U
Twenty-four (24) hour care facilities for foster homes, for a maximum of six (6) individualsinadditionto theresidingfamily				A	A
Vehicle parking, if used for personal transportation by occupants of the dwelling, their guests and employees, located on the same lot or building site, but in no case shall a commercial vehicle exceed a curb weight of six-thousand pounds		P	P	P	P
Veterinarians' offices		U

*Any other use is permitted in each zoning district that the Planning Commission finds consistent with the purpose and intent of that district subject to the Use Permit per Chapter 17.80.

City of Dinuba Zoning Ordinance

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