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Chapter 17.20

Dos Palos Zoning Code · 2026-07 edition · updated 2026-07-09 · Dos Palos

  • R-1-6 MEDIUM DENSITY SINGLE-FAMILY

  • ; RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT Sections: 17.20.010 Purpose. 17.20.0220 Permitted uses. 17.20.030 Conditional uses. 17.20.040 Property development standards.

  • 17.20.050 Lot area. 17.20.060 Lot dimensions. 17.20.070 Population density. 17.20.080 Building height. 17.20.090 Space between buildings. 17.20.100 Lot coverage. 17.20.110 Site plan review. 17.20.130 Off-street parking.

  • 17.20.010 Purpose.

The R-1-6 district is intended to provide for the development of single-family residential homes at urban standards on lots not less than six thousand square feet in area, with not more than one dwelling unit permitted on any lot. (Ord. 342 (part), 1997)

17.20.020 Permitted uses. The following uses only shall be permitted in the R-1-6 district: A. One family dwelling units, not more than one dwelling per lot; B. Accessory buildings and structures, including garages and swimming pools; C. Temporary tract offices, model homes and construction materials storage yards, within the tract being developed; D. Private greenhouses and horticultural collections, flower and vegetable gardens; E. The keeping of household pets, subject to the following: 1. Household pets shall not include one or more of the following: alligators, ape, bear, bees or wasps, cattle, chickens, crocodiles, donkeys, ducks, emu, falcons, geese, goats, hawks, horses, komodo drag-

ons, monkey, mules, opossum, osprey, ostrich, potbellied pigs, raccoon, reptiles, scorpion, sheep, skunk, squirrel, snakes, swine, tarantulas, turkeys, other bovine, equine, ovine, or ruminant animals, predatory or wild animals or birds, game birds, other birds or fowl, any federally-listed endangered species, animals or fowl which normally constitute an agricultural use, except doves, pigeons or rabbits, which may be deemed household pets by annual conditional use permit only, 2. The keeping of household pets or other animals is lawful only in those districts where the use is listed as a permitted use or when any household pets are kept as an accessory use to lawfully maintained residences in other districts, 3. The keeping of any animal not described in this ordinance as a household pet shall not be deemed an accessory residential use. (Ord. 342 (part), 1997)

17.20.030 Conditional uses. The following uses only shall be permitted in the R-1-6 district, subject to first securing an annual conditional use permit as provided in Article I of Chapter 17.76 of this title. A. Churches; B. Communications equipment buildings, structures, or towers; C. Day nurseries, nursery schools or child care nurseries at or adjacent to a nonresidential use; D. Electrical distribution substations; E. Home occupations, subject to the following provisions:

-6 district, subject to first securing an annual conditional use permit as provided in Article I of Chapter 17.76 of this title. A. Churches; B. Communications equipment buildings, structures, or towers; C. Day nurseries, nursery schools or child care nurseries at or adjacent to a nonresidential use; D. Electrical distribution substations; E. Home occupations, subject to the following provisions:

  1. Such use shall maintain the appearance of a residential use and avoid environmental pollution or the generation of undue vehicular traffic or pedestrian traffic. The use shall be conducted indoors, and there shall not be external modification to the structure or property on which the use is conducted, 2. The use shall not generate undue noise beyond the limits of the property, 3. There shall be no effluents of polluting materials to the air or water leaving the premises, nor shall there be the generation of any undue noise to create a nuisance on any adjoining properties,

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17.20.030

  1. There shall be no bright lights, glare or weldA. Width. ing flashes generated by the use, and there shall be 1. Interior lots shall have a minimum width of no hazards to neighbors or the children, sixty feet; 5. There shall be no attractive nuisances, 2. Corner lots shall have a minimum width of 6. The use shall be conducted only by bona fide seventy feet; residents of the dwelling unit on the premises and 3. Reversed corner lots shall have a minimum no person other than residents on the premises shall width of seventy feet; be employed in a home occupation, 4. Curved lots and cul-de-sac lots shall have a ed 7. Sales of goods on the premises shall be limitminimum street frontage width of forty feet. , to the products of the home occupation, and no B. Depth. other merchandise or goods shall be sold, kept or 1. Minimum one hundred foot lot depth. (Ord. displayed for the purpose of sale on the premises 342 (part), 1997) except merchandise or goods which are incidental to the home occupation, 17.20.070 Population density. or 8. The use shall be maintained only as auxiliary In the R-1-6 district, not more than one dwelling incidental use to the primary function of residenshall be permitted per lot. (Ord. 342 (part), 1997) tial use of the premises, 9. Any such use shall be subject to first securing 17.20.080 Building height. a use permit as provided by Article I of Chapter In the R-1-6 district: 17.76 of this title; A. No main building or structure erected in this F. Public libraries; district shall have a height greater than two stories, G. Small family rest homes licensed as such, not to exceed thirty feet. (Ord. 342 (part), 1997) which house four or fewer patients; H. Water pump pump stations; 17.20.090 Space between buildings. I. Granny units or houses. (Ord. 342 (part), The minimum distance between buildings for 1997) residential uses uses in R-1-6 district shall be as follows: R-1-6 district shall be as follows: district shall be as follows: shall be as follows: be as follows: as follows:

feet. (Ord. 342 (part), 1997) which house four or fewer patients; H. Water pump pump stations; 17.20.090 Space between buildings. I. Granny units or houses. (Ord. 342 (part), The minimum distance between buildings for 1997) residential uses uses in R-1-6 district shall be as follows: R-1-6 district shall be as follows: district shall be as follows: shall be as follows: be as follows: as follows:

H. Water pump pump stations; 17.20.090 Space between buildings. I. Granny units or houses. (Ord. 342 (part), The minimum distance between buildings for 1997) residential uses uses in R-1-6 district shall be as follows: R-1-6 district shall be as follows: district shall be as follows: shall be as follows: be as follows: as follows: 17.20.040 A. Accessory buildings located to the rear of a The Property development standards. main building in the area defined by the projection following property development standards, of the side lines of said building shall not be less together with the property development standards in than six feet from said main building. the general conditions, Chapter 17.64 of this title, B. All other accessory buildings shall be located shall apply to all land and structures in the R-I-6 not less than six feet from any main building, except district as stated therein. (Ord. 342 (part), 1997) where said accessory building is used for garage 17.20.050 purposes and where said garage is located within the Each Lot area. area defined by the projection of the side lines of lot in the R-1-6 district shall have a miniany main building; where vehicular access to said mum area of six thousand square feet. (Ord. 342 garage faces any main building and falls entirely, or (part), 1997) in part, within said area, the garage shall be not less 17.20.060 than twenty-five feet from any main building or All lots in Lotthe dimensions.R-1-6 district created after the buildings. (Ord. 342 (part), 1997) effective date of these provisions shall comply with 17.20.100 Lot coverage. the following minimum standards, and lots existing In the R-1-6 district, maximum lot coverage by prior to the effective date may not be reduced below buildings or structures shall not exceed sixty percent these standards. Each dimension is minimum, only. of the total lot area. The minimum living area with-

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17.20.100

in any building in an R-1-6 district is one thousand two hundred square feet. (Ord. 342 (part), 1997)

17.20.110 Site plan review.

A site plan shall be submitted to the site plan review committee for approval in accordance with the provisions of Section 17.60.060 of this title before any new building or structure is developed on any lot within the R-1-6 district. Temporary tract offices and model homes shall be considered residential buildings for the purpose of this section. (Ord. 342 (part), 1997)

17.20.130 Off-street parking.

The following provisions shall apply in the R-1-6 district subject to the general conditions of Chapter 17.64 of this title.

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A. For one-family dwellings, there shall be at least two parking spaces (three are encouraged) provided in a garage or carport on the same lot for every dwelling unit and at least two uncovered off street parking spaces provided behind said garage or carport, all accessible froma street not an alley. B. For nonresidential uses, the off-street parking provisions of the general conditions, Section 17.64.040 of this title shall apply. (Ord. 342 (part), 1997)

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17.24.010

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Chapter 17.24 R-2 MEDIUM-HIGH DENSITY MULTIPLEFAMILY RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT Sections: 17.24.010 Purpose. 17.24.020 Permitted uses. 17.24.030 Conditional uses. 17.24.040 Property development standards. 17.24.050 Lot area. 17.24.060 Lot dimensions. 17.24.070 Population density. 17.24.080 Building height. 17.24.090 Space between buildings. 17.24.100 Lot coverage. 17.24.110 Site plan review. 17.24.130 Off-street parking.

R-2 district, subject to first securing an annual conditional use permit as provided in Article I of Chapter 17.76 of this title. A. Churches; tures,B. orCommunications equipmenttowers; buildings, strucC. Dwelling groups consisting of two or more separate-one-family dwelling units on a single lot; D. Electrical distribution substations; E. Home occupations, subject to the provisions of Section 17.20.030 of this title; F. Day nurseries, nursery schools or child care nurseries, caring for not more than ten children, and provided that the subject use is limited to one per lot; G. Parent-child cooperatives in a nonresidential facility; H. Sanitariums, or hospitals; I. Small family rest homes, caring for not more than four patients; patients; J. Water pump stations. (Ord. 342 (part), pump stations. (Ord. 342 (part), stations. (Ord. 342 (part), (Ord. 342 (part), 342 (part), (part), 1997)

17.24.010 than four patients; patients; The Purpose. J. Water pump stations. (Ord. 342 (part), pump stations. (Ord. 342 (part), stations. (Ord. 342 (part), (Ord. 342 (part), 342 (part), (part), 1997) R-2 district is intended to provide for the development of medium-high multiple-family resi17.24.040 Property development standards. dential structures, where such buildings are reasonThe following property development standards, ably spaced on the lot to provide for light, privacy, together with property development standards in the air, safety and insulation against transmission of general conditions, Chapter 17.64 of this title, shall sound, on lots not less than six thousand square feet apply to all land and structures in the R-2 district. in area. (Ord. 342 (part), 1997) (Ord. 342 (part), 1997)

development standards, ably spaced on the lot to provide for light, privacy, together with property development standards in the air, safety and insulation against transmission of general conditions, Chapter 17.64 of this title, shall sound, on lots not less than six thousand square feet apply to all land and structures in the R-2 district. in area. (Ord. 342 (part), 1997) (Ord. 342 (part), 1997)

17.24.020 Permitted uses. The following uses only shall be permitted in the R-2 district: A. Any use permitted in the R-1-6 district, Section 17.20.020 of this title; B. Two-family or multiple-family dwellings, either in one structure or in two or more detached buildings; C. Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to any of the above uses, when located on the same lot and not involving the conduct of a business. (Ord. 342 (part), 1997)

17.24.050 Lot area. In the R-2 district, each lot shall have a minimum area of six thousand square feet except as provided in Section 17.24.070 of this chapter. (Ord. 342 (part), 1997)

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