Glenn County Zoning Code

Glenn County — Zoning

15 Unified Development Code Division 15-1 General Provisions Division 15-2 Development Permits Division 15-3 Development Districts Division 15-4 Development Standards Division 15-5 Special Use Standards Division 15-1 General Provisions 15.01 General Provisions 15.02 Definitions 15.03 Administration 15.04 Public Hearings 15.05 Appeals 15.06 Nonconforming Uses And Property 15.07 Completion Of Improvements 15.08 Violations And Enforcement 15.01 General Provisions 15.01.010 Title 15.01.020 Purpose 15.01.030 Applicability 15.01.040 Scope 15.01.050 Administration 15.01.060 General Plan Consistency 15.01.070 Solar Energy And Shade Control Act 15.01.080 Compliance With Requirements 15.01.090 Interim Ordinance

This title shall be known and may be cited as the “Unified Development Code of Glenn County.” (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The purposes of this title are:

1. To promote and protect the public health, safety, peace, morals, comfort, convenience and general welfare;

2. To implement the county general plan, and to facilitate and guide growth in accordance with the general plan; and

3. To protect the social and economic stability of residential, commercial, industrial, resource production, and recreational activities within the county through the orderly, planned use of real property. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The provisions of this title apply throughout the unincorporated portions of the county and apply to lands owned, leased, or otherwise controlled by the state or a local government, or any unit or agency or either of them, to the extent permitted either by law or by the consent of or agreement with the state or local government or unit or agency affected. The provisions of this title apply to public lands as defined in the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the extent permitted by that act or other federal law, or regulations adopted pursuant thereto or agreements made with the county. The provisions of this title do not apply to federal reservations or to land owned, leased or otherwise controlled by the county. As used in this subsection, “local government” includes, but is not limited to, cities, school districts and special districts. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The zoning plan consists of the establishment of various zone districts to be used within the unincorporated territory of the county. Within some, all or none of the districts it shall be lawful, and within some, all or none of the districts it shall be unlawful, to erect, construct, alter or maintain certain buildings, or to carry on certain uses of land or of buildings. Within the districts, the height and bulk of future buildings shall be limited, and certain open spaces shall be required around future buildings. Each district shall consist of additional appropriate regulations to be enforced, all as set forth in this title. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

This title shall be administered and enforced by the planning authority who shall advise the public about its requirements. The responsibilities of the director under this title include the following functions, which may be carried out by planning authority employees under the supervision of the director:

1. Accept and review all applications authorized hereunder; certify that applications submitted have been properly completed; establish permanent files; conduct site and project analysis; prepare public notices; meet with applicants; collect fees; prepare reports; process appeals; present staff reports to the planning commission and board of supervisors; and

2. Issue administrative permits under this title and certify that all such permits are in full conformance with these requirements; and

3. Refer and coordinate matters related to the administration of this title with other agencies and county departments; and

4. Enforce and secure compliance with the provisions of the title. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Where any regulations specified in this title and any portion of any element of the general plan are inconsistent, the general plan shall prevail. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.01.070 Solar Energy And Shade Control Act Pursuant to California Public Resources Code Section 25985, the county declares itself exempt from the provisions of the Solar Shade Control Act, Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 25980) of Division 15 of the Public Resources Code. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.01.080 Compliance With Requirements It is unlawful for any individual, firm, association, syndicate, partnership, trust, or any other legal entity, as a principal, agent, or otherwise, to offer to sell, to contract to sell, or sell, or lease, or transfer, or utilize, or otherwise assign for financing or other purposes, any parcel or parcels or real property or any part thereof in the unincorporated territory of the county, unless and until all the requirements hereinafter provided have been complied with. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Without following the procedures otherwise required prior to the adoption of an ordinance, the board of supervisors, to protect the public safety, health and welfare, may adopt as an urgency measure an interim ordinance prohibiting any uses which may be in conflict with a contemplated general plan, specific plan, or zoning proposal which the board of supervisors, planning commission or the planning authority is considering or studying or intends to study within a reasonable time. The urgency measure shall require a four-fifths vote of the board of supervisors for adoption. The interim ordinance may be adopted by meeting all requirements set forth in Section 65858 of the Government Code. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

For the purposes of this title, certain terms or words used herein shall be interpreted as follows unless the context clearly calls for another meaning:

1. The word “person” includes a firm, association, organization, partnership, trust, company, or corporation as well as an individual;

2. The present tense includes the future tense; the singular number includes the plural, and the plural number includes the singular;

3. The word “shall” is mandatory, the word “may” is permissive;

4. The words “used” or “occupied” include the words “intended”, “designed”, or “arranged to be used” of “occupied”;

5. The word “lot” includes the words “plot”, “site”, or “parcel”;

6. The masculine includes the feminine;

7. The word “county” as used herein means the county of Glenn; the words “board of supervisors” mean the board of supervisors of the county of Glenn; the words “planning commission” mean the planning commission of the county of Glenn; and the words “county boundary” mean the boundary of the county of Glenn, and/or the boundary of any incorporated municipality within the county. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

When used in this title, the following words and phrases have the meaning and usage indicated unless another meaning or usage is required by the context in which a word or phrase is used:

1. 1. “Accessory building” means a building, part of a building or structure which is detached from the main building and the use of which is incidental to that of the main building structure or use on the same lot.

2. “Accessory use” means a use incidental, related, appropriate and clearly subordinate to the main use of the lot or building, which accessory use does not alter the principal use of the subject lot or affect other properties in the zone.

3. “Accumulation vehicles” means the accumulation and storage of abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, inoperative or nonregistered vehicles, travel trailers, unoccupied mobilehomes, or parts thereof, on private or public property.

4. “Adult entertainment businesses” includes the following: 1. “Adult book store” means an establishment having as a substantial or significant portion of its stock in trade, books, magazines and other periodicals which are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on matter, depicting, describing or relating to “specified sexual activities” or “specified anatomical areas” or an establishment with a segment or section devoted to the sale or display of such materials.

5. “Adult motion picture theater” means an enclosed building with a capacity of fifty or more persons used for presenting material distinguished or characterized by an emphasis or manner depicting, describing or relating to “specified sexual activities” or “specified anatomical areas” for observation by patrons therein.

6. “Adult mini motion picture theater” means an enclosed building with a capacity for less than fifty persons used for presenting material distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting or relating to “specified sexual activities” or “specified anatomical areas” for observation by patrons therein.

7. “Adult hotel or motel” means a hotel or motel wherein material is presented which is distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to “specified sexual activates” or “specified anatomical areas.”

8. “Adult motion picture arcade” means any place to which the public is permitted or invited wherein coin or slug-operated or electronically, electrically or mechanically controlled still or motion picture machines, projectors or other image-producing devices are maintained to show images to five or fewer persons per machine at any one time, and where the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on depicting or describing “specified sexual activities” or “specified anatomical areas.”

9. “Cabaret” means a nightclub, theater or other establishment which features live performances by topless and/or bottomless dancers, “go-go” dancers, exotic dancers, strippers or similar entertainers, where such performances are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on “special sexual activities” or “specified anatomical areas.”

10. “Massage parlor” means any place where for any form of consideration or gratuity, massage, alcohol rub, administration of fomentations, electric or magnetic treatments, or any other treatment or manipulation of the human body occurs as part of or in connection with “specified sexual activities” or where any person providing such treatment, manipulation or services related thereto exposes “specified anatomical areas.”

11. “Model studio” means any business where, for any form of consideration or gratuity, figure models who display “specified anatomical areas” are provided to be observed, sketched, drawn, painted, sculptured, photographed or similarly depicted by persons paying such consideration or gratuity.

12. “Sexual encounter center” means any business, agency or person who, for any form of consideration or gratuity, provides a place where three or more persons, not all members of the same family, may congregate, assemble or associate for the purpose of engaging in “specified sexual activities” or exposing “specified anatomical areas.”

13. Any business or establishment which offers its patrons services or entertainment characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to “specified sexual activities” or “specified anatomical areas.”

14. “Advisory agency” means the Glenn County Planning Commission.

    6. “Affordable Housing” means housing costs as defined in Section 50052.5 of the Health and Safety Code or rents at qualifying levels for lower-income or very low-income households. 7. “Affordability” is determined by the economic feasibility to construct lower-income housing in the proposed development. 8. “Agricultural accessory building” means an uninhabited structure, designed and built to store farming animals, implements, supplies or products (not including commercial greenhouses or buildings for agricultural processing activities), which is not used by the public.

    7. “Agricultural Homestay Establishment” shall mean an establishment that meets all of the requirements of Section 113870 of the California Health and Safety Code including the following: 1. Has not more than six guest rooms or accommodates not more than 15 guests. 2. Provides overnight transient accommodations. 3. Serves food only to its registered guests and serves meals at any time, with respect to which the price of food is included in the price of the overnight transient occupancy accommodation.

    8. Lodging and meals are incidental and not the primary function of the agricultural homestay establishment.

    9. The agricultural homestay establishment is located on, and is a part of, a farm as defined in Section 53363 (52262) of the Food and Agricultural Code, that produces agricultural products as its primary source of income.

15. “Agricultural operations” means and includes, but is not limited to the cultivation and tillage of the soil, dairying, the production, irrigation, frost protection, cultivation, growing, harvesting and processing of any agricultural commodity including viticulture, horticulture, timber and apiculture, the raising of livestock, fur-bearing animals, fish or poultry, and any commercial agricultural practices performed as incident to or in conjunction with such operations, including preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market, or to carriers for transportation to market.

16. “Agricultural processing” means the refinement, treatment or packaging of all primary and secondary agricultural products for commercial purposes.

17. “Agriculture” means the art or science of cultivating the ground, including harvesting of crops and rearing and management of livestock, tillage, husbandry, farming, horticulture and forestry. “Agricultural land” means all that real property within the boundaries of Glenn County currently used for agricultural operations or upon which agricultural operations may in the future be established;

18. “Aircraft” means any contrivance used or designated for navigation of or flight in the air.

19. “Aircraft ground movement area” means the runways, taxiways and parking apron of the airport.

20. “Airports and landing strips” means any area of land or water used or intended for the landing and takeoff of aircraft, and any accessory areas for airport buildings and other facilities. “Airfields” and “landing strips” include the following:

  1. “Agricultural or personal landing strip” means a landing strip or heliport for agricultural crop dusting or for personal use of the tenant or owner of the site which is not available for public use or commercial operations. 

  2. “Restricted use airfield” means: 

     1. A landing strip or heliport having not more than ten based aircraft with exclusive rights of use reserved to the owners or tenants of units within any cluster development, multifamily development, subdivision, industry or institution; or 

     2. An emergency heliport operated in conjunction with a hospital or public safety facility. 

  3. “Public use airfield” means any landing strip, airport or heliport available for public use. 

16. “Airport elevation” means the highest point, measured in feet above or below mean sea level, of the airport’s usable landing area.

17. “Airport hazard” means any structure or tree, or use of land in the vicinity of the airport, which obstructs the runway safety areas, clear zones, approach surfaces as defined in FAR Part 77, or any other imaginary surface specified in FAR Part 77 if these obstructions have been determined by the FAA or the State Department of Transportation to constitute a hazard.

18. “Alley” means any public thoroughfare, having a width of not less than twenty feet and not greater than forty feet, which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property. 19. “Animal hospital or veterinary hospital” means a place where animals or pets are given medical or surgical treatment and are cared for during the time of such treatment. Use as a kennel shall be limited to short term boarding incidental to such hospital use.

19. “Apartment” means any building, or portion thereof which is designed and built as the residence of three or more families living independently of each other and which contains kitchen facilities in each dwelling unit.

20. “Approved access” means a private right-of-way that meets the following conditions:

  1. Does not exceed an average of fifteen percent grade for any five hundred consecutive feet; 

  2. Does not contain any grade which would exceed twenty-two percent; 

  3. Has a recorded or recordable sixty-foot right-of-way from a public road to the property under consideration except that in the case of an access that can serve no more than one parcel, has a recorded or recordable forty-foot right-of-way; and 

  4. Has traversable access year round except in snow season. 

22. “Approving Authority” means that body which has the authority to act to approve a permit, application, action or other development request.

23. “Aquifer” means a geologic formation that stores, transmits and yields significant quantities of water to wells and springs.

24. “Appeal” means a request for a review of the flood plain administrator’s interpretation of any provision of this chapter.

25. “Area of shallow flooding” means a designated AO or AH Zone on the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM). The base flood depths range from one to three feet; a clearly defined channel does not exist; the path of flooding is unpredictable and indeterminate; and velocity flow may be evident. Such flooding is characterized by ponding or sheet flow.

26. “Area of special flood hazard” — see “Special flood hazard area.”

27. “Automobile dismantling” means the taking apart, stripping or wrecking of motor vehicles or trailers for scrap or for used parts to be sold either at retail or wholesale or to be used as replacements in other motor vehicles or trailers whether or not intended for the same kind of vehicle or trailer from which the parts were removed.

28. “Automobile repair” means a general repair, rebuilding or reconditioning of engines, motor vehicles or trailers; it also means collision service, including body, frame or fender repair and over-all painting.

29. “Automobile service station” means a lot or portion of a lot used for the servicing of motor vehicles. Such servicing may include sale of motor fuel and oils, lubrication, car washing (with no steam equipment), waxing and polishing, sale and service of tires, tubes, batteries and service of automobile accessories. Such servicing shall not include tire recapping, sale of major automobile accessories, sale or rebuilding of engines, battery manufacturing or rebuilding, radiator repair or steam cleaning, body repair, painting or upholstery, or installation of automobile glass.

30. “Automobile wrecking yard” means a site or portion of a site on which the dismantling or wrecking of used vehicles, whether self propelled or not, or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled or wrecked vehicles or their parts is conducted. The presence on a site of two or more motor vehicles which have not been capable of operating under their own power for thirty days or more, or in the case of vehicles not self propelled, which have not been towable or from which parts have been removed for re-use or sale, shall constitute prima facie evidence of an automobile wrecking yard.

31. “Automotive repairs, major” means repair or refurbishing of any motor vehicle including the dismantling of an engine by removal of the head or pistons; the removal of the transmission, rear end or major assembly of any motor vehicle. Painting, body and fender work are excluded.

32. “Automotive repairs, minor” means limited repair of any motor vehicle including installation of tires or replacement of fluids or minor automotive parts including, but not limited to, spark plugs, belts, batteries, mufflers, tires and wheels. Major automotive repair, painting, body and fender work are excluded.

34. “Base flood” or “100-year flood” means a flood which has a one-percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.

35. “Basement” means any area of the building having its floor subgrade, i.e., below ground level, on all sides.

36. “Bed and breakfast establishment” means a single-family dwelling containing no more than four guestrooms used, let or hired out for transient occupancy of one or more guests in which no meals other than breakfast are served.

37. “Boardinghouse or roominghouse” means a building, other than a hotel, where regular meals for five or more persons are provided for compensation or profit. Nursing homes and rest homes are not included.

38. “Building” means a structure or enclosure having a roof and which is constructed in a permanent position upon the ground, and which is designed and intended to be used to house, shelter or enclose persons, animals, goods or property. It does not include any type of vehicle, house trailer, boat or tent. Also see “Structure”.

39. “Building coverage” means the total area of land covered by all buildings on a lot, including all projections other than eaves.

40. “Building, enclosed” means a building, the occupants, animals or property within which cannot be seen by any person off the premises except by the customary use of doors, windows or balconies.

41. “Building height” means the vertical distance measured from the average level of the highest and lowest points of that portion of the lot covered by the building to a point midway between the highest and lowest points on the roof; provided, that the chimneys, spires, towers, tanks and similar projections shall not be included in the height.

42. “Building site” means a recorded lot or parcel of land occupied or to be occupied by a main building and its accessory buildings, or by a dwelling group and its accessory buildings, together with such open spaces as are required by this title. A building site shall not include easements or roadways for ingress or egress to any parcels of land.

44. “Campground” means land or premises which are used or intended to be used for occupancy by campers, whether camping by tent or vacation vehicle or whether for seasonal hunting, fishing, recreational or vacation purposes.

45. “Carport” means a permanent roofed structure not less than ten feet by twenty feet open on two or more sides for the storage of automobiles.

46. “Certificate of compliance” means a document identifying the real property involved and stating that the division thereof complies with applicable provisions of the California Subdivision Map Act and the Glenn County Code.

47. “Church” means a nonprofit organization, as determined by the Internal Revenue Service, which uses buildings for the teaching or practice of religious doctrine and worship.

48. “Clinic, dental or medical” means a building in which a group of physicians and/or dentists and allied professional assistants are associated for the purpose of carrying on their professions. The clinic may include a dental or medical laboratory but it shall not include:

    1. In-patient care or operating rooms for surgery;

    2. Offices for veterinarians.

49. “Clothes cleaning establishment” means a commercial use wherein clothes cleaning is conducted, such as a laundry pickup establishment, launderette or a coin-operated dry cleaning service, and where nonvolatile materials are used in the process.

50. “Club” means an association of persons (whether or not incorporated) for a common purpose, but not including groups organized solely or primarily to render a service carried on as a business for profit.

51. “Cluster development” means three or more detached buildings located on a parcel of land and having common open space areas.

52. “Communications equipment building” means a building housing electrical and mechanical equipment necessary for the conduct of a public communications business with or without personnel.

53. “Competent aircraft operator” means a person holding a valid aircraft operator’s license from the Federal Aviation Administration or a person who, in the opinion of the airport manager, has the requisite skill and knowledge to perform limited ground operations.

54. “Confined Animal Facilities” are cattle, calves, horses, sheep, goats, swine, rabbits, or large fowl, corralled, penned, or otherwise caused to remain in restricted areas for agriculturalcommercial purposes where feeding is other than grazing for more than 45 days during the year. Range pastures for livestock beef cattle are exempt from the definition of confined animal facilities. School projects, 4-H, fairs and other individual educational projects are exempt from the definition of confined animal facilities.

55. “Confined Animal Facility Expansion” shall include, but is not limited to, any increase in herd or flock size such that the facility would have to:

56. Acquire more acreage for reuse of waste or wastewater to prevent impacts to surface water or groundwater quality; or

57. Increase the capacity of the retention pond to maintain compliance with the conditions of the “Waiver of Water Discharge Requirements for Discharges from Confined Animal Facilities” for adequate flood protection and wastewater containment.

58. “Contractor’s yard” means any land and/or buildings used primarily for the storage of equipment, vehicles, machinery, new or used, building materials, paints, pipe or electric components used solely by the owner or occupant of the premises in the conduct of any building trades.

59. “Convalescent hospital” means the same as “rest home” and “nursing home”.

60. “Costs” means administrative costs, including staff time expended and reasonably related to enforcement, for items including site inspections, summaries, reports, telephone contacts and correspondence. Travel time for inspections shall not be included.

61. “County” means the County of Glenn.

63. “Density Bonus”, as defined by the State of California Government Code Section 65915, et seq., is an increased density of at least twenty-five (25) percent over the maximum authorized density which is granted to a developer/property owner of a housing project agreeing to construct a prescribed percentage of lower-income units.

64. “Department” means the Planning and Community Development Services Agency or the Public Works Agency of the County, whichever is the responsible Agency.

65. “Development” means any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations or storage of equipment or materials.

66. “Director” means the Director of the Planning and Community Development Services Agency or the Public Works Agency or any person within the Agencies authorized by the Director.

67. “Dump” means a place used for the disposal, abandonment or discarding by burial, incineration or by any other means, of any garbage, sewage, trash, refuse, rubble or waste materials. 6. “Dwelling” means a building or portion thereof designed for or occupied exclusively for residential purposes, including one-family, two-family and multiple dwellings, but not including hotels, motels, trailers, tents, converted transit vehicles, boardinghouses or lodginghouses, or any type of temporary structures.

y other means, of any garbage, sewage, trash, refuse, rubble or waste materials. 6. “Dwelling” means a building or portion thereof designed for or occupied exclusively for residential purposes, including one-family, two-family and multiple dwellings, but not including hotels, motels, trailers, tents, converted transit vehicles, boardinghouses or lodginghouses, or any type of temporary structures.

7. “Dwelling, group” means a group of two or more detached or semidetached single-family or two-family dwellings occupying a parcel of land in one ownership, and having any yard in common.

8. “Dwelling, guest” means an accessory structure which consists of a detached living quarter of a permanent type of construction with no provisions for appliances or fixtures for the storage and/or preparation of food, such as refrigerators, dishwashers or cooking facilities, and which is not leased, subleased, rented or subrented separately from the main dwelling.

9. “Dwelling, mobilehome” means a structure transportable in one or more sections, designed and equipped to contain not more than two dwelling units to be used with or without a foundation system. Mobilehome does not include a recreational vehicle, commercial coach, or factory-built housing, as defined in the Health and Safety Code.

10. “Dwelling, multiple” means a building containing two or more dwelling units on one lot to be occupied by two or more families living independently of each other.

11. “Dwelling, second” means an attached or a detached residential dwelling unit that provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons. It shall include permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation on the same parcel as the single-family dwelling is situated. A second unit includes the following:

12. An efficiency unit, as defined in Section 17958.1 of the Health and Safety Code.

13. A manufactured home, as defined in Section 18007 of the Health and Safety Code.

14. “Dwelling, single-family” means a building designed and used exclusively for residence purposes by one family on a single lot and no portion of which is to be rented separately. 13. “Dwelling unit” means an independent, attached or detached residential building designed to house and provide living space, including kitchen and bathroom facilities, for an individual family.

16. “Educational institutions” means public and other nonprofit institutions conducting regular academic instruction at kindergarten, elementary, secondary and collegiate levels and including graduate schools, universities, nonprofit research institutions and religious institutions. Such institutions must either:

    1. Offer general academic instruction equivalent to the standards prescribed by the state board of education; or

    2. Confer degrees as a college or university of undergraduate or graduate standings; or

    3. Conduct research; or

    4. Give religious instructions.

    5. This definition does not include commercial or trade schools.

17. “Encroachment” means the advance or infringement of uses, plant growth, fills, excavations, buildings, permanent structures or development into a flood plain which may impede or alter the flow capacity of a flood plain.

18. “Engineer” means a civil engineer competent to practice civil engineering and registered under the provisions of the Business and Professions Code of the State of California, retained by the applicant, owner, developer or contractor to provide civil engineering services.

19. “Equivalent Financial Value” refers to the cost to the developer/property owner based on the land cost per dwelling unit. This is determined by the difference in the value of the land with and without the density bonus.

20. "Existing manufactured home park or subdivision” means a manufactured home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including, at a minimum, the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads) is completed before the effective date of the flood plain management regulations adopted by a community.

21. “Expansion to an existing manufactured home park or subdivision” means the preparation of additional sites by the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads).

22. “Exploration” means searching for minerals by geological, geophysical, geochemical or other techniques including, but not limited to sampling, assaying, drilling or any surface or underground works used to determine the type, extent or quantity of minerals present.

23. “Extraction” means the removal from the earth of oil, gas or geothermal resources by drilling, pumping or other means, whether for exploration or production purposes.

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1. “Family” means one or more persons sharing a dwelling unit in a living arrangement indicative of a single household.

2. “Farm labor” means residents of a farm such as the owner, lessee, foreman, or others whose principal employment is the operation of the farm.

3. “Feed yard” means corrals or holding areas for the primary purpose of holding or feeding animals for slaughtering, shipping or resale and not incidental to a farm or ranch.

4. “Fences, hedges and walls, height of” means the vertical distance from the ground level of public property closest to the property line on which the fence is to be built to the highest point on the fence. The height of a fence separating private property shall mean the vertical distance from the ground level of the property line to the highest point on the fence. Where a property line separates property having unequal ground levels, the lowest level shall be used to measure the vertical distance of the fence, wall or hedge.

5. “Fire chief” means the fire chief, or his or her authorized representative, of the local government entity having responsibility for fire protection in the airport area.

6. “Fixed base operator” means a person under contract to the county as a concessionaire at the airport.

   7. “Flood, flooding, or flood water” means a general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from the overflow of inland waters or the unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source.

   8. “Flood Boundary and Floodway Map (FBFM)” means the official map on which the Federal Emergency Management Agency or Federal Insurance Administration has delineated both the areas of special flood hazards and the floodway.

   9. “Flood Hazard Boundary Map” means the official map on which the Federal Emergency Management Agency or Federal Insurance Administration has delineated the areas of flood hazards applicable to Glenn County.

   10. “Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)” means the official map on which the Federal Emergency Management Agency or Federal Insurance Administration has delineated both the areas of special flood hazards and the risk premium zones applicable to Glenn County.

   11. “Flood Insurance Study” means the official report provided by the Federal Insurance Administration that includes flood profiles, the Flood Insurance Rate Map, the Flood Boundary and Floodway Map, and the water surface elevation of the base flood.

   12. “Flood plain or flood-prone area” means any land area susceptible to being inundated by water from any source - see “Flooding”.

   13. “Flood plain administrator” is the individual appointed to administer and enforce the flood plain management regulations.

   14. “Flood plain management” means the operation of an overall program of corrective and preventive measures for reducing flood damage and preserving and enhancing, where possible, natural resources in the flood plain, including but not limited to emergency preparedness plans, flood control works, flood plain management regulations, and open space plans.

   15. “Flood plain management regulations” means this chapter and other zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations, building codes, health regulations, special purpose ordinances (such as grading and erosion control) and other application of police power which control development in flood-prone areas. This term describes federal, state or local regulations in any combination thereof which provide standards for preventing and reducing flood loss and damage.

   16. “Floodproofing” means any combination of structural and nonstructural additions, changes, or adjustments to structures which reduce or eliminate flood damage to real estate or improved real property, water and sanitary facilities, structures, and their contents.

   17. “Floodway” means the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one foot. Also referred to as “Regulatory Floodway”.

   18. “Floodway fringe” is that area of the flood plain on either side of the “Regulatory Floodway” where encroachment may be permitted.

7. “Floor area” means the total horizontal area of all the floors of a building including the surrounding walls, exclusive of basement storage space and areas within a building used for the parking of vehicles.

8. “Fraud and victimization”, as related to Section 15.54.180, Variances, means that the variance granted must not cause fraud on or victimization of the public. In examining this requirement, the Board of Supervisors will consider the fact that every newly constructed building adds to government responsibilities and remains a part of the community for fifty to one-hundred years. Buildings that are permitted to be constructed below the base flood elevation are subject during all those years to increased risk of damage from floods, while future owners of the property and the community as a whole are subject to all the costs, inconvenience, danger, and suffering that those increased flood damages bring. In addition, future owners may purchase the property, unaware that it is subject to potential flood damage, and can be insured only at very high flood insurance rates.

9. “Frontage” means the lot width measured parallel to the property line, adjacent to the street right-of-way. On a corner lot the frontage shall be the lesser of the two frontages. On a lot with radial lines to a curved street, the frontage shall be measured as an arc length along the minimum setback line rather than on the property line of the lot.

10. “Frontage, primary” means that portion of a parcel which is adjacent to the public right of way. For a comer lot, the frontage with the smallest dimension shall be considered as the primary frontage. There shall be only one primary frontage per parcel.

11. “Frontage, secondary” means, on a corner lot, that portion of a parcel which is adjacent to a public right-of-way which is not the primary frontage.

12. “Functionally dependent use” means a use which cannot perform its intended purpose unless it is located or carried out in close proximity to water. The term includes only docking facilities, port facilities that are necessary for the loading and unloading of cargo or passengers, and ship building and ship repair facilities, and does not include long-term storage or related manufacturing facilities.

14. “Garage, private” means a detached accessory building or a portion of a main building on the same lot for the parking or temporary storage of vehicles of the occupants of the premises. 2. “Garage, public” means any garage other than a private garage.

15. “General plan” means the county general plan or any element thereof as set forth in the Planning and Zoning Law, Title 7 of the Government Code of the State of California.

16. “Gross floor area” means the total floor area including public areas such as hallways, lobbies, washrooms, related storage areas and service rooms or areas, but excluding unfinished dead storage and mechanical areas.

17. “Group care facility” means a facility, licensed by the state, to provide adult supervision and residence services to seven or more individuals who are not related to the resident owner or operator and may be physically or mentally handicapped or aged.

19. “Habitually situated aircraft” means that an aircraft is based at the airport for a period of time in excess of one week.

20. “Hauler” is the specified carrier of produced salt water.

21. “Height” means, for the purpose of determining the height limits in all zones set forth in this chapter and shown on the airport zoning map, the mean sea level elevation of the airport unless otherwise specified.

22. “Highest adjacent grade” means the highest natural elevation of the ground surface prior to construction next to the proposed walls of a structure.

23. “Historic structure” means any structure that is:

    1. Listed individually in the National Register of Historic Places (a listing maintained by the Department of Interior) or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior as meeting the requirements for individual listing on the National Register;

    2. Certified or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior as contributing to the historical significance of a registered historic district or a district preliminarily determined by the Secretary to qualify as a registered historic district;

    3. Individually listed on a state inventory of historic places in states with historic preservation programs which have been approved by the Secretary of Interior; or

    4. Individually listed on a local inventory of historic places in communities with historic preservation programs that have been certified either by an approved state program as determined by the Secretary of the Interior or directly by the Secretary of the Interior in states without approved programs.

24. “Home, occupation” means any use customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling and carried on by the inhabitants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of structure for dwelling purposes and which use does not change the character thereof or does not adversely affect the uses permitted in the same zone of which it is part.

25. “Hospital” means any building or portion thereof used for the accommodation and medical care of sick, injured or infirm persons and including sanitariums, alcoholic sanitariums, institutions for the cure of chronic drug addicts and mental patients.

26. “Hotel or motel” means a building or group of buildings containing individual living units for the accommodation of transient occupants.

28. “Idle mine” means to curtail for a period of one year of more surface mining operations by more than ninety percent of the operation’s previous maximum annual mineral production, with the intent to resume those surface mining operations at a future date.

29. “Improvements” means streets, highways, monuments, or any other facilities required to be installed or constructed in accordance with this title and specifications of the county for acceptance or maintenance by the county or other public agencies.

30. “Industry” means the production, processing or servicing of goods by hand or by machinery.

31. “Injection well, Class II” is a well used for the disposal of produced salt water brought to the surface as a result of the production of oil or natural gas as defined by the California Department of Conservation, Division of Oil and Gas (CDOG).

32. “Injection zone” means that portion of the receiving formation which has received, is receiving or is expected to receive, over the lifetime of the well, produced salt water from the Class II injection well.

33. “Injectivity test” is used to test a formation’s capability to take fluids. The test is performed by operators to determine the feasibility of conducting permanent injection operations. 7. “Inoperable motor vehicle” means any motor vehicle that is incapable of being transported by its own motive power.

35. “Junkyard” means any premises with a total of more than one hundred fifty cubic feet of “junk” as herein defined as cast-off, damaged, discarded, junked, implements, obsolete salvage, scrapped, unusables, worn out or wrecked objects, things or material composed in whole or in part of carbon, plastic or other synthetic substance, fiber, glass, ferrous or nonferrous metal, paper, plaster, plaster of paris, rubber, terra cotta, wool, cotton cloth, canvas, organic matter or other waste which has been abandoned from its original use and may be used again in its present or in a new form, whether or not it has any substantial market value, or requiring reconditioning in order to be used for its original purpose also including automobiles, accumulation vehicles, other vehicles, or dismantled vehicles in whole or part.

37. “Kennel” means any premises where five (5) or more dogs six (6) months of age or older which are kept, maintained, bred, boarded or cared for, for compensation, or are kept for the purposes of sale, hire, breeding, shelter, hunting, pets, exhibition or any other purpose. Dogs used in herding farm animals when incidental to an agricultural use, and when housed in an agricultural zoning district, are excluded from this definition.

38. “Kennel, commercial hobby” means any hobby kennel use involving the sale of goods or services or a hobby kennel use conducted by individuals other than the inhabitants of the parcel where the dogs are kept.

39. “Kennel, hobby” means an accessory use of a principal residential or agricultural use where four (4) or fewer dogs more than six (6) months of age or older are sheltered, bred or trained for the personal and non-commercial use of the inhabitants of the parcel where the dogs are kept.

41. “Laboratory” means a building or part of a building devoted to the testing and analysis of any product or animal, including humans. No manufacturing shall be permitted except for experimental or testing purposes.

42. “Laboratory, medical or dental” means a laboratory which provides bacteriological, biological, medical, x-ray, pathological and similar analytical or diagnostic services to doctors or dentists. No fabricating shall be permitted except the custom fabrication of dentures.

43. “Labor camp, permanent” means any housing or living accommodations, other than a temporary labor camp, maintained in connection with any work or place where work is being performed, provided for the housing of ten or more employees.

44. “Land division classification” means one of the following, classified according to the zone in which the development is situated:

    1. Urban Developments. Those developments within any of the following zones: R-1, R-M, LC, CC, C, SC, HVC, M, MP, PDR and PDC.

    2. Estate Developments. Those developments within any of the following zones: RE.

    3. Rural Developments. Those developments within the AE zone.

    4. Agricultural Developments. Those developments within any of the following zones: AE, FA, FS, AP and TPZ.

    5. Wild Land and Primitive Developments. Those developments for recreational purposes consisting of parcels forty acres or larger where permanent occupancy (residence in excess of ninety days within a one year period) is allowed within any of the following zones: RZ, FA, and TPZ.

45. “Landing Area” means the area of the airport used for the landing, takeoff or taxiing of aircraft.

46. “Landscaping” means planting, including trees, shrubs, lawn areas, ground covers, suitably designed, selected, installed and maintained so as to be permanently attractive. Decorative screens, fences, ornamental post lamps, decorative rock or other paved surfaces are considered as elements of landscape development.

47. “Lead agency” is the County; the County Planning Commission, herein called the Commission, is the Agency designated to administer this chapter; and the Planning and Community Development Services Agency or Public Works Agency is the processing and Advisory agency.

48. “Lease” means an oral or written contract for the use, possession, and occupation of property.

49. “Levee” means a man-made structure, usually an earthen embankment, designed and constructed in accordance with sound engineering practices to contain, control or divert the flow of water so as to provide protection from temporary flooding.

50. “Levee system” means a flood protection system which consists of a levee, or levees, and associated structures, such as closure and drainage devices, which are constructed and operated in accord with sound engineering practices.

51. “Loading space” means an off-street space or berth on the same lot with a main building, or contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary parking of commercial vehicles while loading or unloading, and which has access from a street, alley or other permanent means of ingress and egress.

52. “Lodge” means an association of persons, whether incorporated or unincorporated, for some common purpose, but not including groups organized to render service carried on as a business.

53. “Lot” means:

54. A parcel of real property shown as a delineated parcel of land with a number or other designation on the final map of subdivision recorded in the office of the county recorder, or 2. A parcel of land, the dimensions or boundaries of which are defined by a record of survey map recorded in the office of the county recorder in accordance with the law regulating the subdivision of land; or

    3. Real property not delineated as in subsection a or b above, and containing not less than the prescribed minimum area required in the zone in which it is located and which abuts at least one public street that the planning commission has designated adequate for access purposes, and is held under one ownership.

55. "Lot Area" means the area within lot lines excluding any right-of way, easements for ingress or egress or the panhandle of a flag lot.

56. “Lot, corner” means a lot located at the intersection or interception of two or more streets at an angle of not more than one hundred thirty-five degrees. If the angle is greater than one hundred thirty-five degrees, the lot shall be considered an “interior lot.”

57. “Lot coverage” means the total area or percentage of a lot occupied by building and/or structures that diminishes the yard and/or open space areas.

58. “Lot, cul-de-sac” means a lot fronting on, or with more than one-half of its lot frontage on, the turnaround end of a cul-de-sac street.

59. “Lot depth” means the maximum distance between the front and the rear lot lines, or between the front lot line and the intersection of the two sidelines if there should be no rear lot line. 19. “Lot, Flag or Panhandle” means a lot with a narrow portion between the main portion of the lot and a public street or appurtenant private ingress/egress easement that is often called a panhandle or flag pole. Said narrow portion is of such dimensions that it is limited primarily for the use of ingress/egress and utility service to the main portion of the lot. Such area contained within the “flag pole or panhandle” shall not be used to calculate lot area, length, wide or lot width ratio. The maximum length of such “flag pole or panhandle” shall not exceed the maximum allowable length of a cul-de-sac and such length shall be calculated from the interior end of the “flag pole or panhandle” to the nearest connecting intersect of a through public access or street.

60. “Lot, interior” means a lot other than a corner or reversed corner lot with only one frontage on a street.

61. “Lot, key” means the first lot to the rear or a reversed corner lot and whether or not separated by an alley.

62. “Lot lines” means the property lines bounding the lot.

63. “Lot line, front” means:

64. In the case of an interior lot, a line separating the lot from the street;

65. In the case of a corner lot, a line separating the narrowest street frontage of the lot from the street.

66. “Lot line, rear” means the line which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line. For the purpose of establishing the rear lot line of a triangular or trapezoidal lot, or of a lot the rear line of which is formed by two or more lines, the following shall apply:

67. For a triangular, gore shaped, or irregular shaped lot, a line ten feet in length within the lot and farthest removed from the front lot line and at right angles to the lot depth line shall be used as the rear lot line; or

    2. In the case of a trapezoidal or quadrilateral lot the lot line of which is not parallel to the front lot line, the rear lot line shall be deemed to be the line which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line, providing the line is a minimum length, the rear line shall be a line ten feet in length drawn parallel to but farthest removed from the front lot line; or

    3. In the case of a pentagonal lot, the rear boundary of which includes an angle formed by two lines such angle shall be employed for determining the rear lot line in the same manner as prescribed for triangular lots.

68. “Lot line, side” means any lot line other than a front or rear lot line. A side lot line separating a lot from a street is called a side street lot line. A side lot line separating a lot from another lot or lots is called an interior side lot line.

69. “Lot of record” means a lot that is designated upon a map showing the lot, block and tract as indicated on a final map, as such map is filed in the county recorder’s office, or as a lot shown on a recorded parcel map.

70. “Lot, reversed corner” means a corner lot, the side line of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot lines of the lots to its rear, whether across an alley or not. 28. “Lot, through” means a lot having frontage on two dedicated parallel or approximately parallel streets.

71. “Lot width” means the average horizontal distance between the side lot lines, measured at right angles to the lot depth at a point midway between the front and rear lot lines. In the case of triangular lots, or lots that are bounded by more than four straight lines, or that have curvilinear side lines, the director shall determine the lot width.

72. “Lower- and Very Low-income Households” re-defined by income limits published by the State Department of Housing and Community Development. This applies to both for-rent and forsale housing.

73. “Lowest floor” means the lowest floor of the lowest enclosed area, including a basement.

74. An unfinished or flood resistant enclosure below the lowest floor that is usable solely for parking of vehicles, building access or storage in an area other than a basement area, is not considered a building’s lowest floor provided it conforms to applicable non-elevation design requirements, including, but not limited to:

75. The anchoring standards in Section 15.54.100.A.

76. The construction materials and methods standards in Section 15.54.100.B.

77. The wet floodproofing standard in Section 15.54.100.C.3.

78. The standards for utilities in Section 15.54.120.

79. For residential structures, all subgrade enclosed areas are prohibited as they are considered to be basements. This prohibition includes below-grade garages and storage areas.

80. “Maintain aircraft” means any form of service, maintenance or repair of aircraft.

81. “Major electrical transmission and distribution project” means a project that includes a network of transmission lines, related towers, and similar facilities with a capacity to convey 200 kilovolts (kV) or greater. It shall also include any project that proposes the designation of a transmission corridor zone to accommodate such facilities.

83. “Manufactured home” means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, which is built on a permanent chassis and is designed for use with or without a permanent foundation when attached to the required utilities. The term “Manufactured home” does not include a recreational vehicle.

84. “Manufactured home park or subdivision” means a parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land divided into two or more manufactured home lots for rent or sale.

85. “Map Act” means the current Subdivision Map Act of the State of California, as amended from time to time.

86. “Cannabis” shall have the same meaning as that set forth in Health and Safety Code section 11018, “cannabis products,” as defined in Health and Safety Code section 11018.1. Except where the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall govern Chapter 797, of this Title:

    1. “Collective" means qualified patients, persons with valid identification cards, and the designated primary caregivers of qualified patients who associate in any manner within the unincorporated area of the County in order to collectively or cooperatively cultivate, store, and/or dispense marijuana for medical purposes, as provided in Health and Safety Code Section 11362.775. The term collective shall include "cooperative," whether formed in accordance with the Corporations Code or otherwise unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

    2. “Cultivation” means the planting, growing, harvesting, drying, processing, or storage of one or more cannabis plants or any part thereof in any location, indoor or outdoor, including from within a fully enclosed and secure building.

    3. “Delivery” has both the meaning set forth in Business and Professions Code section 19300.5, subdivision (m), and the meaning set forth in Business and Professions Code section 26001, subdivision (h).

    4. “Dispensary” or “Medical Cannabis Dispensary” or “Retailer” means any facility or location, whether fixed or mobile, and any delivery service, where cannabis for medical or nonmedical purposes is made available to and/or distributed, with or without consideration, to any person or persons, including without limitation a primary caregiver, a qualified patient, or patient with an identification card, as those terms are defined in California Health and Safety Code section 11362.5 et seq. “Cannabis Dispensary” includes medicinal cannabis “cooperative” and collectives” (i.e., facilities or undertakings where an person(s) provides cannabis to any one or more other persons, or where persons meet or congregate to distribute or provide cannabis for medicinal or other purposes).

    5. “Residence” has the same meaning as “private residence” set forth in Health and Safety Code Section 11362.2(b)(5).

87. "Sheriff" or "Sheriff's Department" means the Sheriff's Office of the County of Glenn or the authorized representatives thereof.

88. “Market value” means the value of the structure as determined by one of the two methods stated below:

    1. The Actual-Cash-Value of the structure as determined by the Building Official and the Tax Assessor, or

    2. By an appraisal made by a certified appraiser within 90 days of the date of application for improvements and/or repairs to the structure. Said appraisal shall be based on the existing value of the structure along and shall be for the structure prior to the proposed improvements and/or repairs being made.

89. “Mean sea level”, for purposes of the National Flood Insurance Program, means the National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929 or other datum, to which base flood elevations shown on a community’s Flood Insurance Rate Map are referenced.

90. “Mined lands” includes the surface water, subsurface water, and groundwater of an area in which surface mining operations will be, are being, or have been conducted, including private ways and roads appurtenant to any such area, land excavations, workings, mining waste, and areas in which the structure facilities, equipment, machines, tools, or other materials or property which result from, or are used in, surface mining operations are located.

91. “Mining waste” includes the residual of soil, rock, mineral, liquid, vegetation, equipment, machines, tools, or other materials or property directly resulting from or displaced by surface mining operations.

92. “Minor land division” means any division of land into parcels, each of which has an area of one hundred sixty acres (or one quarter section) or more, and each with approved access. 12. “Minor modification” means an amendment to a reclamation plan involving insignificant changes that do not require further review under CEQA.

93. “Mobilehome accessory building or structure” means any awning, portable, demountable or permanent cabana, storage cabinet, carport, fence, windbreak or porch established for the use of the occupant of the mobilehome.

94. “Mobilehome park” means an area or tract of land where three or more mobilehome lots are rented or leased or held out for rent or lease to accommodate mobilehomes used for human habitation. The rental paid for any such mobilehome shall be deemed to include rental for the lot it occupies.

95. “Mobilehome site” means any portion of a trailer park or mobilehome park designed for the use or occupancy of one trailer coach or mobilehome.

96. “Museum” means a nonprofit, noncommercial establishment operated as a repository or a collection of objects of nature, scientific or literary curiosities or objects of interest or works of art.

97. "Motorsport" means auto racing (also known as automobile racing or autosport) as a sport involving racing automobiles and motorcycle racing.

99. “Net floor area” means the total floor area excluding public areas such as hallways, stairs, lobbies and storage or service area.

100. “New construction”, for flood plain management purposes, means structures for which the “start of construction” commenced on or after the effective date of flood plain management regulations adopted by Glenn County, and includes any subsequent improvements to such structures.

101. “New manufactured home park or subdivision” means a manufactured home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including at a minimum, the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads) is completed on or after the effective date of flood plain management regulations adopted by the county.

102. “Nonconforming building” means a building or portion thereof lawfully existing at the time the ordinance codified in this title became effective and which was designed, erected or structurally altered for a use which does not conform to the use zone in which it is located, or which does not comply with all the height and area regulations of the zone in which it is located.

103. “Nonconforming lot” means a parcel of land having less area, frontage or dimensions than required in the zone in which it is located.

104. “Nonconforming use” means a use which was lawfully established and maintained at the time the ordinance codified in this title became effective, but which does not conform to subsequently established zoning or zoning regulations.

105. “Nursery” means a facility for propagation and sale of horticultural or ornamental plant materials and related products:

     1. “Retail nursery” means a nursery offering products to the general public, including plant materials, planter boxes, fertilizer, garden tools, and related items.

     2. “Wholesale nursery” means a nursery that sells to other businesses plant materials raised on the same site.

     3. “Accessory nursery” means a nursery that is developed as a subordinate use to a principal or main building.

     4. “Greenhouse” means a nursery facility (may be used with any of the above nurseries) for indoor propagation of plants, constructed with transparent panels, including lath houses.

106. “Nursery school” means the supervisory care and education development of pre-elementary school-age children for profit or nonprofit and licensed by the state of California.

107. “Nursing home” means a structure operated as a lodginghouse in which nursing, dietary and other personal services are rendered to convalescents, invalids or aged persons (other than persons suffering from contagious or mental diseases, alcoholism or drug addiction) and in which surgery is not performed and primary treatment, such as customarily is given in hospitals and sanitariums, is not provided. A convalescent home shall be deemed a nursing home.

109. “Obstruction” includes, but is not limited to, any dam, wall, wharf, embankment, levee, dike, pile, abutment, protection, excavation, channelization, bridge, conduit, culvert, building, wire, fence, rock, gravel, refuse, fill, structure, vegetation or other material in, along, across or projecting into any watercourse which may alter, impede, retard or change the direction and/or velocity of the flow of water, or due to its location, its propensity to snare or collect debris carried by the flow of water, or its likelihood of being carried downstream.

110. “Office” means a building, room or department wherein a business or service is transacted, but does not include a building wherein the storage or sale of merchandise is a primary function. 3. “One-hundred-year flood” or “100-year flood” - see “Base flood.”

111. “Open space” means those areas suitable for common recreational use or which provide visual relief to developed areas. Open space does not include areas devoted to parking, private use or any other area which does not significantly lend itself to the overall benefit of either the particular development or surrounding environment. Open space may include areas in private lot ownership, if such areas are not fenced. The boundaries of open space areas shall be treated as property lines in determining required rear and side yard setbacks.

112. “Operate aircraft” means the self-propelled, pushed or towed movement of aircraft on the ground or the movement of aircraft in flight.

113. “Operator, mine” means any person engaged in surface mining operations, himself or herself, or who contracts with others to conduct operations on his or her behalf, except a person who is engaged in surface mining operations as an employee with wages as his or her sole compensation. “Operator” also means any person who permits others to conduct surface mining operations on his or her property and who receives a financial benefit therefrom. “Operator” includes any person defined as an operator under “state policy.”

114. “Owner” means the person or persons, firm, corporation or partnership that is the owner of record of a premises identified on the last equalized assessment roll or any person having possession and control of the subject property.

115. “Overburden” means soil, rock, or other materials that lie above a natural mineral deposit or in between mineral deposits, before or after their removal by surface mining operations.

117. “Parcel of land” means the same as “lot”.

118. “Parking area, off street” means an area, building or space, exclusive of street or alley rights-of-way, used for the parking of automobiles.

119. “Parking area, private” means an open area, located on the same lot as a dwelling or apartment, for the parking of automobiles of the occupants of such buildings.

120. “Parking area, public” means an off-street parking area publicly or privately owned available for public use whether free, for compensation or as an accommodation for clients or customers.

121. “Parking space” means space in the open, within a structure on private property or in a public parking area designed for the parking of one automobile.

122. “Permit” means any formal authorization or entitlement from the county, the absence of which would preclude establishment of a land use, activity, construction project, grading or surface mining operation.

123. “Person” means any individual, firm, association, corporation, organization, or partnership, or any city, district, or other local public agency.

124. “Pet shop” means a facility for the conduct of a business for buying and selling (or bartering) birds, fowl or animals other than livestock.

125. “Place of public assembly” means a location, auditorium, hall or similar facility, publicly or privately owned, developed for the principal purpose of accommodating groups of persons for meetings, exhibitions, shows and other public interest events.

126. “Planning authority” means the Planning and Community Development Services Agency or its successors.

127. “Planning Director” means the Planning and Community Development Services Agency Director or his or her designees.

128. “Primary surface” means a ground surface longitudinally centered on the runway.

129. “Premises” means a lot and all buildings or structures thereon.

130. “Preschool” means the same as “nursery school”.

131. “Private road” means a right-of-way for vehicular traffic, however designated, which is not designed or intended to be accepted by the county, and for which any offer of dedication or other offer for acceptance by the county shall be rejected until such time as specified conditions for future acceptance have been fully complied with.

132. “Professional offices” means buildings, structures or establishments used as offices for attorneys, registered engineers or architects, licensed surveyors, accountants or realtors, but not for barbers, beauticians, cosmetologists or other service establishments.

133. “Property line” means the same as “lot line”.

134. “Public safety and nuisance”, as related to Section 15.54.190, Variance Appeals, means that the granting of a variance must not result in anything which is injurious to safety or health of an entire community or neighborhood, or any considerable number of persons, or unlawfully obstructs the free passage or use, in the customary manner, of any navigable lake, or river, bay, stream, canal, or basin.

135. “Public water system” means and includes the water supply of either of the following:

  1. A public water district organized under the laws of this state; or 

  2. A water company regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission. 

20. “Public use” means a use operated exclusively by a public body to serve the public health, safety or general welfare, including such uses as parks, playgrounds and administrative and service facilities.

21. “Public utility structures” means electrical distribution and transmission lines, poles, towers, and sub-stations that convey less than 200 kilovolts (kV), gas regulator and metering stations, communication equipment buildings and public service pumping stations. Water well and pump sites approved in connection with the approval of a tentative subdivision map are not public utility structures. See also “Major Electrical Transmission and Distribution Project”.

22. 1. “Qualified person” means a county employee or a person contracted by the county to perform the duties set forth in this chapter who has at least five years of full time experience in hydrogeology and who is a registered geologist registered pursuant to Section 7850 of the Business and Professions Code or a registered petroleum engineer registered pursuant to Section 6762 of the Business and Professions Code.

23. “Quarry, sand pit or gravel pit” means a lot or land or part thereof used for the purpose of excavating sand, gravel, limestone, marble or other such nonmetallic materials, but shall not include oil wells or shaft mine operations. The term does not include the process of grading a lot preparatory to the construction of a building for which application for building permit has been made.

24. 1. “Record of survey map” means a map to delineate land boundaries or property lines prepared in accordance with provisions of the Land Surveyors’ Act. 2. “Reclamation” means the combined process of land treatment that minimizes water degradation, air pollution, damage to aquatic or wildlife habitat, flooding, erosion, and other adverse effects from surface mining operations, including adverse surface effects incidental to underground mines, so that mined lands are reclaimed to a usable condition which is readily adaptable for alternate land uses and create no danger to public health or safety. The process may extend to affected lands surrounding the mined lands, and may require back-filling, grading, sloping, resoiling, revegetation, soil compaction, stabilization, or other measures.

25. "Recreation vehicle” means a travel trailer, pickup camper or motorized home, with or without motive power, designed for human habitation for recreational or emergency occupancy. “Recreational vehicle” also means a vehicle which is: 1. Built on a single chassis; 2. 400 square feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal projection;

    3. Designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable by a light-duty truck; and

26. Designed primarily not for use as a permanent dwelling but as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel, or seasonal use.

27. “Recreational vehicle park” means an area designed to accommodate recreational vehicles such as travel trailers, pickup campers, and motorized homes, but not tent or tent trailers. 5. “Regulatory floodway” means the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one foot.

ark” means an area designed to accommodate recreational vehicles such as travel trailers, pickup campers, and motorized homes, but not tent or tent trailers. 5. “Regulatory floodway” means the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one foot.

6. “Remedy a violation” means to bring the structure or other development into compliance with State or local flood plain management regulations, or, if this is not possible, to reduce the impacts of its noncompliance. Ways that impacts may be reduced include protecting the structure or other affected development from flood damages, implementing the enforcement provisions of this chapter or otherwise deterring future similar violations, or reducing State or federal financial exposure with regard to the structure or other development.

7. “Rent” means money or other consideration given for the right of use, possession and occupation of property. 8. “Residence” means a building used, designed or intended to be used as a home or dwelling place for one family. 9. “Residential density” means the total number of dwelling units on one acre of land in a given area.

8. “Rest homes” means the same as “nursing home”. 11. “Restaurant” is a comprehensive term meaning an eating house providing service to the general public as said term “restaurant” is more fully defined in the California Health and Safety Code. Some types of establishments are included within the term “restaurants” are cafes, cafeterias, coffee houses, coffee shops, dinner houses, drive-in or drive-through restaurants, fast food service establishments, and sandwich shops. 1. “Cafeteria” is a place where food primarily is pre-prepared (not cooked to order) and served to the customer by direct visible selection, for consumption principally (but not necessarily exclusively) upon the premises.

9. “Coffee shop” is a place where food generally cooked to order is served to the customer seated at a table or counter for consumption principally (but not necessarily exclusively) upon the premises, the establishment being open for all three meals of the day, and sometimes on a twenty-four-hour basis.

10. “Dinner house” is a place where meals are generally cooked to order and served to the customer seated at tables or counters for consumption on the premises, and the establishment is open for service of the dinner meal only, although it may also be open for service of the midday meal.

11. “Drive-in or drive-through restaurant” is a place where food and drink are served for consumption either on or off the premises by order from and/or service to vehicular passengers outside the structure, including service from an outdoor window.

12. “Fast food service establishment” is a place where food not displayed for selection as in a cafeteria; and which food may or may not be cooked to order or be prepared, is served to the customer at a window or over a counter for consumption elsewhere on the premises or away from the premises as the customer prefers.

13. “Retail store” means a business of selling goods, wares or merchandise directly to the ultimate consumer.

14. “Review authority” means the officer, committee, commissioner, board or employee responsible for the approval or disapproval of any permit or entitlement or responsible for the administration, interpretation or enforcement of the provisions of this chapter.

15. “Right-Of-Way” means an easement for purposes of roads, canals, pipelines and/or passage of utilities over fee title land. A right-of-way or easement does not include fee title land. 15. “Riverine” means relating to, formed by, or resembling a river (including tributaries), stream, brook, etc.

16. “Road” means a right-of-way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, place, court, circle, drive or right-of-way which has been dedicated for public use and acceptance by the county, or has been laid out and constructed as county road by the county or has been made a public road pursuant to law. It includes public roads constructed by federal and state agencies but not private roads or private alleys.

17. 1. “Sanitarium” means a health station or retreat or other place where patients are housed and where medical or surgical treatment is given. This does not include mental institutions or places for the treatment of narcotic addicts.

18. “School, trade” means private schools offering instruction in the technical, commercial or trade skills, such as real estate schools, business colleges, beauticians and barber colleges, electronics schools, automotive and aircraft technicians schools, and similar commercial establishments operated for a profit.

19. “Scrap” means used metal and include appliances and machine parts, which can be recycled or reused only with repair, refurnishing, or attachment to other such materials. 4. “Seasonal Farmworker Housing” means any housing accommodation or structure of a temporary or permanent nature used as housing for farmworkers for not more than 180 days in any calendar year and approved for such use pursuant to Title 25 of the California Code of Regulations and which meets the requirements of Chapter 15.80 Seasonal Farmworker Housing Standards. Seasonal Farmworker Housing shall also conform to such public health, building, and fire safety criteria as may be established by resolution or ordinance of the Board of Supervisors.

    5. “Seats or seating capacity” refers to the actual seating capacity or an area based upon the number of seats or one seat per eighteen inches of bench or pew length. 6. “Septic system” means any combination of septic tanks and leaching systems or areas.

    6. “Setback area” means the area near the property line on which no building, structure or portion thereof shall be permitted, erected, constructed or placed unless specifically permitted by this title.

    7. “Sheet flow area” - see “Area of shallow flooding”.

20. “Shopping center” means a group of contiguous retail stores, service facilities and related uses utilizing common facilities such as parking, landscaping, signing and loading areas. This group does not have to be in a single ownership.

    10. “Sign” means any structure, wall, natural object or other device used for visual communication which is visible from any public or private street or means of access and is used to advertise or direct attention to an activity, product, place, person, organization, business or enterprise. For the purpose of this title, the word sign does not include the flag, pennant or insignia of any nation, state, city or other political unit, or any official notice issued by any court or public body or officer or directional warning or information sign or structures required or authorized by law.

    11. “Sign, animated” means any sign which is designed and constructed to give its message through a sequence of progressive changes of parts or lights or degree of lighting. 12. “Sign, appurtenant” means any sign which directs attention to an occupancy, business, commodity, service or entertainment conducted, sold or offered only from the premises where the sign is maintained.

    12. “Sign area” means the surface area of a sign enclosing the extreme limits of writing, representation, emblem or any figure or similar character but does not include the necessary supports or uprights on which such sign is placed.

    13. “Sign, attached” means any sign which is supported primarily by a building which is supported wholly by the ground. Any roof sign, as defined in this title, shall be considered an attached sign.

    14. “Sign, detached” means any sign which is not an attached sign as defined in this title and which is supported primarily by one or more columns, uprights or braces placed in or upon the ground.

21. “Sign, development” means a sign listing the architect, engineer, contractor or other person or firm participating in the development, or construction or financing of the project on the premises on which the sign is located.

22. “Sign, directly illuminated” means a sign designed to give forth artificial light directly or through transparent or translucent material from a source of light visible from the street, or from abutting property, including but not limited to exposed tubing neon signs.

23. “Sign, directional” means a poster, card, painting or other advertisement used for commercial or business purposes displaying symbols, emblems or written words used or designed to guide or direct pedestrian or vehicular traffic to a designated destination.

24. “Sign, double face” means a sign displaying information on both surfaces.

25. “Sign face” means the visible portions of a sign which includes all characters and symbols, but excluding structural elements not an integral part of the display. 21. “Sign, flashing” means any sign which may be illuminated and which exhibits blinking, flashing or fluttering lights or other illuminating devices which have a changing light or color intensity or which are constructed to create an appearance or illusion of writing, excluding time and temperature signs.

racters and symbols, but excluding structural elements not an integral part of the display. 21. “Sign, flashing” means any sign which may be illuminated and which exhibits blinking, flashing or fluttering lights or other illuminating devices which have a changing light or color intensity or which are constructed to create an appearance or illusion of writing, excluding time and temperature signs.

22. "Sign, freestanding” means a sign not attached to any buildings and having its own support structure.

23. “Sign, height of” means the vertical distance from the uppermost point used in measuring the area of a sign to the ground immediately below such point or to the level of the upper surface of the nearest curb of a street or alley, whichever measurement permits the greater elevation of the sign.

24. “Sign, identification” means a sign, other than a bulletin board, which serves to tell only the name, address and lawful uses of the premises upon which the sign is located and shall include name plates.

25. “Sign, indirectly illuminated” means a sign whose illumination is reflected from its source by the sign-display surface to the viewer’s eye, the source of light not being visible from the street or from abutting property.

26. “Sign, marquee” means a sign placed on the face of a permanent roofed structure, projecting over the building entrance, which is an integral part of the building (usually a theater or hotel). 27. “Sign, monument” means a self-supported sign with its base on the ground, not exceeding six feet in height.

27. “Sign, name” means a sign serving to designate only the name or the name and professional occupation or home occupation of a person or persons residing in or occupying space in a building located on the premises on which the sign is located.

28. “Sign, nonconforming” means any sign which was legal prior to the adoption of the ordinance codified in this title but does not conform to the standards of this title.

29. “Sign, off-premises” means a sign directing attention to a business, service, product or entertainment not sold or offered on the premises on which the sign is located. 31. “Sign, painted” means a sign which is painted directly upon a surface of a building.

30. “Sign, political” means a sign intended to influence the voting for or against a candidate or issue.

31. “Sign, portable” means a sign which, by its design, is readily movable and is equipped with wheels, casters or rollers or which sits on the surface of the ground rather than being attached. 34. “Sign, professional” means a sign indicating the name or names and occupations of a professional person or group of associated professional persons occupying the premises.

32. “Sign, projection” means any sign other than a wall sign which is suspended from or supported by a building or wall and which projects more than twelve inches therefrom.

33. “Sign, real estate” means a sign advertising the sale, rental or lease of the premises on which the sign is maintained, including a subdivision sign.

34. “Sign, revolving” means a sign which rotates at ten or less revolutions per minute. 38. “Sign, roof” means any sign of any nature, together with all its parts and supports, exclusive of a sign tower, which is erected, constructed or maintained on or above the roof or parapet of any building; all roof signs shall be considered attached signs.

35. “Sign, single face” means a sign displaying information on one surface only.

36. “Sign, temporary” means a sign intended to be displayed for a limited time only (i.e., not more than thirty days).

37. “Sign, wall” means a sign erected against a building or structure with the exposed face of the sign in a plane parallel to the plane of the wall.

38. “Sign, window” means a sign displayed within a building or attached to a window but visible through a window or similar opening for the primary purpose of exterior visibility. 43. “Site” means the surface land area or location of the Class II injection well.

39. “Site plan” means a plan, prepared to scale, showing accurately and with complete dimensions, all of the buildings, structures and uses and the exact manner of development proposed for a specific parcel of land.

40. “Special flood hazard area (SFHA)” means an area having special flood hazards and shown on an FHBM or FIRM as Zone A, AO, Al-A30, AE, A99, and AH.

41. “Specified sexual activities” includes the following:

42. Actual or simulated sexual intercourse, oral copulation, anal intercourse, oral anal copulation, bestiality, direct physical stimulation of unclothed genitals, flagellation or torture in the context of a sexual relationship, or the use of excretory functions in the context of a sexual relationship;

43. Clearly depicted human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation, arousal or tumescence;

44. Use of human or animal masturbation, sodomy, oral copulation, coitus, ejaculation;

45. Fondling or touching of nude human genitals, pubic region, buttocks or female breast;

46. Masochism, erotic or sexual oriented torture, beating or the infliction of pain;

47. Erotic or lewd touching, fondling or other contact with an animal by a human being;

48. Human excretion, urination, menstruation, vaginal or anal irrigation.

49. “Specified anatomical areas” includes the following:

50. Less than completely and opaquely covered:

51. Mature human genitals,

52. Mature human buttocks,

53. Mature human female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola; and

54. Human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered.

55. “Spinner surveys” are electro-mechanical surveys used to determine points of fluid exist and the amount of fluids exiting those points.

56. “Stable, commercial” means a stable for horses, mules or ponies which are let, hired, used or boarded on a commercial basis and for compensation.

57. “Stable, private” means a detached accessory building for the keeping of horses, mules or ponies owned by the occupants of the premises and not kept for remuneration, hire or sale. 51. “Start of construction” includes substantial improvement and other proposed new development and means the date the building permit was issued, provided the actual start of construction, repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, placement, or other improvement was within 180 days from the date of the permit. The actual start means either the first placement of permanent construction of a structure on a site, such as the pouring of slab or footings, the installation of piles, the construction of columns, or any work beyond the stage of excavation; or the placement of a manufacture home on a foundation. Permanent construction does not include land preparation, such as clearing, grading, and filling; installation of streets or walkways; excavation for a basement, footings, piers, or foundations or the erection of temporary forms; or installation on the property of accessory buildings, such as garages or sheds not occupied as dwelling units or not part of the main structure. For a substantial improvement, the actual start of construction means the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor, or other structural part of a building, whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the building.

58. “Store, department” means a store divided into separate departments carrying a great variety of goods, including major appliances and furniture.

59. “Story” means that portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of floor next above it, or if there be no floor above it then the space between such floor and the ceiling next above it.

60. “Street” means a public thoroughfare or right-of-way dedicated, deeded or condemned for use as such, or approved private thoroughfare or right-of-way, other than an alley, which affords the principal means of access to abutting property including avenue, place, way, drive, land, boulevard, highway, road and any other thoroughfare, except as excluded in this ordinance. The word street includes all major and secondary highways, traffic collector streets and local streets.

61. “Street, side” means that street bounding a corner or reversed corner lot and which extends in the same general direction as the line determining the depth of the lot. 56. “Street line” means the boundary line between street right-of-way and abutting property.

62. “Street centerline” means the centerline of a street right-of-way as established by official surveys.

63. “Structural alteration” means any changes in or alteration to the structure of a building involving a bearing wall, column, beam or girder, floor or ceiling joists, roof, rafters, roof diaphragms, foundations, piles, retaining walls or similar components.

64. “Structure” means any artifact constructed or erected, the use of which requires attachment to the ground, including any building, gas or liquid storage, manufactured home, towers, poles, masts, antennas, smokestacks, earth formations, overhead wires or transmission lines, and guy wires, but not including fences or walls six feet or less in height.

65. “Substantial damage” means damage of any origin sustained by a structure whereby the cost of restoring the structure to its before damaged condition would equal or exceed 50 percent of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred.

66. “Substantial improvement” means any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, or other proposed new development of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50 percent of the market value of the structure before the “start of construction” of the improvement. This term includes structures which have incurred “substantial damage”, regardless of the actual repair work performed. The term does not, however, include either:

67. Any project for improvement of a structure to correct existing violations, or state or local health, sanitary, or safety code specifications which have been identified by the local code enforcement official and which are the minimum necessary to assure safe living conditions, or

68. Any alteration of a “historic structure”, provided that the alteration will not preclude the structure’s continued designation as a “historic structure”.

69. “Surface mining operations” means all or any part of the process in the mining of minerals on mined lands by removing overburden and mining directly from the mineral deposits, open-pit mining of minerals naturally exposed, mining by the auger method, dredging and quarrying, or surface work incident to an underground mine. Surface mining operations shall include, but are not limited to:

70. In-place distillation or retorting or leaching;

71. The production and disposal of mining waste; and

72. Prospecting and exploratory activities.

73. “Surveyor” means a land surveyor or civil engineer competent to practice land surveying under the provisions of the Business and Professions Code of the State of California, retained by the applicant, owner, developer or contractor to provide land surveying services.

75. “Travel trailer” means a vehicle, other than a motor vehicle which is designed or used for human habitation, and for travel upon a public highway without a special permit or chauffeur’s license or both, without violating any provision of the vehicle code.

76. “Tree” means any object of natural growth or planted.

78. “Use” means the purpose for which land or a building is arranged, designed or intended, or for which either land or building is or may be occupied or maintained.

80. “Variance” means a grant of relief from the requirements of this chapter which permits construction in a manner that would otherwise be prohibited by this chapter.

81. “Vesting tentative map” shall mean a “tentative map” for a subdivision where a final map is required. The vesting tentative map shall have printed conspicuously on its face the words “vesting tentative map” at the time it is filed in accordance with this chapter.

82. “Violation” means the failure of a structure or other development to be fully compliant with this chapter. A structure or other development without the elevation certificate, other certifications, or other evidence of compliance required in this chapter is presumed to be in violation until such time as that documentation is provided.

84. “Wall” means a solid vertical barrier attached to or part of a building. It also includes a solid fence.

85. “Warehouse” means a building or buildings used for the storage of goods of any type, when such building or buildings contain more than five hundred square feet of storage space and where no retail operation is conducted.

86. “Water surface elevation” means the height, in relation to the National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929, (or other datum, where specified) of floods of various magnitudes and frequencies in the flood plains of coastal or riverine areas.

87. “Watercourse” means a lake, river, creek, stream, wash, arroyo, channel or other topographic feature on or over which waters flow at least periodically. Watercourse includes specifically designated areas in which substantial flood damage may occur.

88. Wholesaling” means the selling of any type of goods for purposes of resale.

89. (Blank) 25.

90. “Yard” means any open space on the same lot with a building or dwelling group, which open space is unoccupied and unobstructed except for the projections permitted by this title. 2. “Yard, front” means a yard extending across the front of a lot between the inner side yard lines and measured from the front line of the lot to the nearest lines of the building; provided, that if any building line or official plan line has been established for the street upon which the lot faces, then such measurement shall be taken from such building line or official plan line to the nearest line of the building.

91. “Yard, rear” means a yard extending across the full width of the lot and measured between the rear line of the lot and the nearest line of the building.

92. “Yard, side” means a yard between the side line of the lot and the nearest line of the building and extending from the front line of the lot to the rear yard.

94. “Zone” means a portion of the territory of the county, exclusive of streets, alleys, and other public ways, within which certain uses of land, premises and buildings are permitted and within which certain property development standards are required as set forth and specified in this title.

(Ord. 1288 §4, 2020; Ord. 1269 § 4, 5, 6, & 10, 2018; Ord. 1263 § 3, 2017; Ord. 1233 § 2, 2012; Ord. 1227 § 2, 2011; 1221 § 2, 2010; 1200 § 3, 2008; 1189 § 2, 2006; 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.03 Administration

15.03.010 Zone District Boundary Interpretation

15.03.020 Zone District Land Use Interpretation 15.03.030 Combining Uses 15.03.040 General Plan Consistency Interpretation

15.03.010 Zone District Boundary Interpretation

Where uncertainty exists as to the boundaries of any district shown on the zoning maps, the following rules shall apply:

1. Where such boundaries are indicated as approximately following street and alley lines, such lines shall be construed to follow the center of the street or alley or along the lot line if the lot line is not also a street boundary;

2. Where a public street or alley is officially vacated or abandoned, the regulations applicable to the property to which it reverts shall apply to such vacated or abandoned street or alley;

3. For property described by a district boundary, the locations of such boundaries, unless indicated by dimensions, shall be determined by use of the scale appearing on the map;

4. In all other cases where any uncertainty exists, the planning commission shall determine the location of boundaries. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.03.020 Zone District Land Use Interpretation

Where a proposed land use is not specifically listed by the applicable zone district within which the property proposed for the use is located, the director may determine that the use is a permitted use, or the use is permitted if a use permit is first secured, if the following findings are made:

1. The proposed unlisted use is similar in character and impact to a listed use; and

2. The proposed use will be treated in the same manner as the listed use including determining where it is allowed, what permits are required, and what standards affect its establishment. 3. The decision of the director may be appealed to the planning commission in accordance with Section 15.05.010. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.03.030 Combining Uses

More than one permitted use may be permitted on one lot in any zone district, provided there is no conflict between the uses, and further provided that the applicable zone requirements and county development standards are met. Each use must meet the lot area requirements without using the lot area requirements of another use. For lots for which a use permit has been approved, the only uses allowed are those specifically described by the use permit. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.03.040 General Plan Consistency Interpretation

Where any regulations specified in this title and any portion of any element of the general plan appear to be in conflict, the planning director may make a determination as to the intent of the general plan as it relates to that particular section of this title. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.04 Public Hearings

15.04.010 Purpose 15.04.020 Notice Of Hearing 15.04.030 Hearing Procedures 15.04.040 Planning Commission 15.04.050 Board Of Supervisors 15.04.060 Time Limitation

This chapter provides procedures for public hearings required by the Unified Development Code of Glenn County. In the event a public hearing is required, advance notice of the hearing shall be given and the hearing conducted in compliance with this chapter and applicable State Law. (Ord. 1268 § 2, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.04.020 Notice Of Hearing

When State Law or this Title require a noticed public hearing before a decision on a permit may be rendered by the appropriate authority, or for any other matter which may require a public hearing, notice shall be provided as required by this section and state law.

1. Notice of the hearing shall be given pursuant to California Government Code Section 65090. If the proposed project affects the permitted uses of real property, notice shall also be given pursuant to Government Code Section 65091.

2. In addition to the notification required under subsection A., notification to real property owners required by Government Code Section 65091 shall be extended to 1,000 feet from the exterior boundary of the subject property and shall notify at least twenty unique property owners. When less than twenty unique property owners are found within 1,000 feet of the subject exterior boundary, the notification distance shall be extended in 100 foot increments of the exterior boundary, until at least twenty unique property owners are notified. The cost for notification shall be borne by the applicant of the proposed project. (Ord. 1268 § 2, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

HISTORY

Amended by Ord. 1326 on 3/12/2024 15.04.030 Hearing Procedures

After an applicant has provided all information required to render a decision on a proposed project as determined by the director, a public hearing, if required, shall be scheduled before the appropriate hearing body at the next regularly scheduled meeting date provided that all notification periods required by state law have been met.

1. A hearing shall be held at the date, time and place for which notice was given unless the required quorum of hearing body members is not present.

2. Any hearing may be continued from time to time without further notice; provided that the chair of the hearing body announces the date, time, and place to which the hearing will be continued before the adjournment or recess of the hearing. (Ord. 1268 § 2, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Following a public hearing held by the planning commission on any matter on which it will make a recommendation, the director shall submit a written report including a summary of the hearing, findings and recommendations to the board of supervisors within thirty (30) calendar days after completion of said hearing. (Ord 1268 § 2, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

1. Upon receipt of the recommendations of the planning commission, the board of supervisors shall hold a public hearing after giving notice in the manner specified in Government Code sections 65090 & 65091; provided, however, that if the planning commission has recommended against the approval of such request, the board of supervisors shall not be required to take any further action unless an appeal is filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors within five calendar days after the decision of the planning commission.

2. Within sixty calendar days from the date of receipt of the planning commission’s report, the board of supervisors may approve, modify or disapprove the proposed request. Any modification shall be referred back to the planning commission for a report.

3. Upon receipt of the recommendation of the planning commission, the board of supervisors shall hold a public hearing after giving notice in the manner specified in Government Code sections 65090 & 65091. The board of supervisors may approve, modify or disapprove the recommendations of the planning commission; provided, that any modification of the amendment not previously considered by the planning commission during its hearing, shall first be referred to the planning commission for report and recommendations, but the planning commission shall not be required to hold a public hearing thereon. Planning commission shall review the modification and shall report its recommendations back to the board of supervisors not more than forty calendar days after the referral by the board. (Ord. 1268 § 2, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.04.060 Time Limitation

Any judicial proceeding or action to attack, review, set aside, void or annul any decision of matters listed in this title which are subject to judicial review (other than those listed in Government Code Section 65009 and 65860, and Public Resources Code Section 21167) or concerning any of the proceedings, acts or determinations taken, done or made prior to such decision or to determine the reasonableness, legality or validity of any conditions attached thereto, or concerning the general plan or any specific plan, or any amendment to, interpretation of, deletion from, addition to, or application of the general plan or specific plan, or to compel action as to any of these matters, or to seek relief from inaction on any of these matters, shall not be maintained by any person unless such action or proceeding is commenced and service of summons effected within 90 days after the date of such decision, act or determination, or, in the case of inaction, within 90 days after the date on which the act sought to be compelled should have been performed. Thereafter, all persons are barred from any such action or proceeding or any defense of invalidity or unreasonableness of such decisions or of such proceedings, acts or determinations. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) (Ord. 1268 § 2, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.05 Appeals 15.05.010 Action By Director 15.05.020 Action By The Planning Commission 15.05.030 Automatic Appeals 15.05.040 Appeal Of Application Completeness 15.05.010 Action By Director

1. For proposes of this chapter, aggrieved person or persons shall mean the following:

2. Any person affected by a decision of the director or planning commission.

3. Anyone who, in person or through a representative explicitly identified as such, appeared at a public hearing in connection with the decision being appealed, or who otherwise informed the county in writing of the nature of his/her concerns before the hearing. 2. Any aggrieved person or persons adversely affected by any decision of the director may, within ten (10) calendar days after the action of the director, file a notice of appeal in writing to the planning commission. Said notice of appeal shall be accompanied by a filing fee and shall include the following information: 1. The name, address, and telephone number of the person requesting the appeal; 2. The decision being appealed, any applicable project number, or some other means of identification and the date of the decision. The appellant shall be specific as to whether he is appealing the entire decision, a specific term or condition, or an environmental document (e.g., approval of a negative declaration, issuance of an exemption, adequacy of an environmental impact report); 3. If a specific term or condition is appealed, it shall be set forth with clarity. The specific error claimed to have been made and the basis upon which the appellant claims there was an error shall also be stated; 4. A detailed statement of the factual and/or legal grounds upon which the appeal is being taken. 5. Appellant’s interest in the action. The appellant shall state whether he/she is the applicant or an aggrieved party; 6. The specific relief sought. 3. Upon the filing of an appeal, the planning commission shall review the matter within thirty (30) calendar days from the date of filing the appeal. 4. The planning commission shall consider the record and such additional relevant evidence as may be offered. It shall be the responsibility of the appellant to provide the planning commission with the relevant portions of the record. The planning commission may affirm, reverse or modify, in whole or in part, the order, requirement, decision, recommendation, interpretation or ruling appealed from, or make and substitute such other or additional decision or determination as it may find warranted under the law and facts. 5. The decision of the planning commission as a result of the review shall be made by motion recorded in minutes and shall forthwith transmit a copy of the minute order to the appellant and the applicant. (Ord. 1268 § 3, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.05.020 Action By The Planning Commission 1. Within the limitations set forth in this subdivision, any aggrieved person or entity adversely affected by a formal action of the planning commission, may appeal such action by filing a written notice thereof with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors within ten (10) calendar days after the action of the planning commission; provided that the issue being appealed was raised during the planning commission hearing. 2. The notice of appeal shall be accompanied by an appeal fee and shall include the information required by Section 15.05.010 A. 3. Applicants that appeal shall be limited to raising issues that were placed before the planning commission. Other persons or entities that appeal shall be limited to raising issues that such person or entity specifically raised, either orally or in writing, at the planning commission hearing. 4. It shall be the burden of the appellant to show by convincing evidence that the decision or conclusion of the planning commission is contrary to law, or that such decision is not supported by substantial evidence. 5. Within thirty (30) calendar days from the date of filing the appeal, the clerk of the board shall schedule the date for the hearing. The hearing shall be held within thirty (30) calendar days from the date of filing the appeal. Notice of hearing shall be given as required by Chapter 15.04. The board of supervisors may continue such hearing for one additional meeting, to be held within fifteen (15) days, any further continuances shall be with the consent of the appellant. 6. The board of supervisors shall consider the record of the planning commission and such additional relevant evidence as may be offered. It shall be the responsibility of the appellant to provide the board of supervisors with the relevant portions of the record. The board of supervisors may affirm, reverse or modify, in whole or in part, the order, requirement, decision, recommendation, interpretation, or ruling appealed from, or make and substitute such other or additional decision or determination as it may find warranted under the laws and facts. 7. The decision of the board as a result of the hearing shall be made by a motion recorded in the minutes and the board shall forthwith transmit a copy of the minute order thereof to the appellant and the applicant. (Ord. 1268 § 3, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.05.030 Automatic Appeals 1. Automatic Appeals. If a ballot of the members of the planning commission results in a tie vote, or if the planning commission is unable to take action because of legal disqualification or abstentions, the matter shall be deemed to be automatically denied at the first hearing at which the application is considered and is unable to be acted upon; and be appealed to the board of supervisors for public hearing. Automatic appeals pursuant to this section shall not be subject to filing fees as provided for in Section 15.05.020 of this chapter. 2. Continuations. Notwithstanding subsection A of this section, if a ballot of the members of the planning commission results in a tie vote, or if a majority vote is not reached and no action results, the planning commission may decide to continue the matter for further consideration. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

n shall not be subject to filing fees as provided for in Section 15.05.020 of this chapter. 2. Continuations. Notwithstanding subsection A of this section, if a ballot of the members of the planning commission results in a tie vote, or if a majority vote is not reached and no action results, the planning commission may decide to continue the matter for further consideration. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.05.040 Appeal Of Application Completeness

• Appeals from a determination by the director that an application is incomplete pursuant to Section 15.09.050 shall be permitted only to the planning commission whose decision shall be final. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.06 Nonconforming Uses And Property

15.06.010 Nonconforming Uses

15.06.020 Nonconforming Uses And Property

15.06.010 Nonconforming Uses

1. Use of Land. Any lawful use of land existing at the time of the adoption of this title or any zoning ordinance or amendment thereto may be continued, although such use does not conform to the regulation specified in such enactment title for the zone in which such land is located. A conditional use permit shall first be obtained for any enlargement or expansion.

   2. Use of Building. Any lawful use of a building existing at the time of the adoption of any zoning ordinance, may be continued, although such use does not conform to the regulations specified for the zone in which such building is located. Except residential uses, a conditional use permit shall first be obtained for any enlargement or expansion of such non-conforming use by 21% or more. An administrative permit shall first be obtained for any enlargement or expansion of non-conforming uses of 20% or less in size or area. However, except as otherwise provided by law, nothing in this Title shall prevent the restoring to a safe condition of any part of a building or structure declared unsafe by proper authority.

   3. Reconstruction of Nonconforming Building. A nonconforming building or structure damaged or destroyed by fire, explosion, earthquake or other act, may be restored only if made to conform to all regulations, other than use restrictions, specified by this title; provided, that such building may be restored to a total floor area not exceeding that of the former building.

2. Abandonment. If the actual operation of a nonconforming use ceases for a continuous period of six months, the nonconforming use shall be considered abandoned unless the legal owner can establish valid proof to the contrary; then, without further action by the planning commission, the use of such land or building shall be subject to all the regulations specified by this title. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.06.020 Nonconforming Uses And Property

1. Except as otherwise provided in this title, a lot having an area, frontage, width or depth less than the minimum prescribed for the zone in which the lot is located, as depicted on a subdivision map duly approved and recorded prior to the adoption of this title, may be used for any use permitted in the zone, but shall be subject to all other standards for the zone in which the lot is located.

2. Except as otherwise provided in this title, a lot having an area, frontage, width or depth less than the minimum prescribed for the zone in which the lot is located, as depicted on a subdivision map duly approved and recorded prior to the adoption of this title, may be used for any use permitted in the zone, but shall be subject to all other standards for the zone in which the lot is located.

   2. Lot Line Adjustments for nonconforming parcels Any lot having an area, frontage, width or depth less than the minimum prescribed for the zone in which the lot is located, as depicted on a subdivision map duly approved and recorded prior to the adoption of this title, may be adjusted with another lot provided that the number of nonconforming lots is not increased. A reduction in size of a nonconforming parcel shall be allowed provided that said reduction meets the following:

      1. The nonconforming lot area is not decreased by more than twenty percent (20%) in size.

      2. The lot line adjustment will allow conformance with setback requirements for the zoning district.

      3. The applicant is able to provide documentation showing that all lots involved were legally created. (Ord. 1268 § 4, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.07 Completion Of Improvements 15.07.010 Security Agreement And Bond 15.07.020 Bond For Completion Of The Improvements 15.07.030 Bond And Release 15.07.040 Development Agreements 15.07.010 Security Agreement And Bond If any improvements required by this title have not been completed prior to approval of the final map, the applicant shall, prior to acceptance of the map by the county, enter into an agreement with the county agreeing to have the improvements completed within the time specified in the agreement. The agreement shall contain a clause guaranteeing the workmanship and materials provided in all improvements for a twelve-month period after acceptance of the improvements by the board of supervisors. The agreement may provide for an extension of time under specified conditions. The agreement may also provide for the termination thereof upon a reversion to acreage or revocation of all or part of the subdivision. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.07.020 Bond For Completion Of The Improvements To assure that the improvements required by this title are satisfactorily completed, adequate improvement security shall be furnished by the applicant for the cost of constructing the improvements according to the plans and specifications in a sum or amount equal to the estimate approved by the director. Partial release of the improvement security may be made in accordance with the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.07.030 Bond And Release The improvement security shall be released by the director upon acceptance of the work or upon revocation or reversion to acreage of the subdivision and abandonment of all roads and easements, except that security in the amount specified by the director to guarantee workmanship and materials shall remain in full force and effect for one year after acceptance of the improvements. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.07.040 Development Agreements 1. Purpose and authority 1. The lack of certainty in the approval of larger or phased development projects can result in a waste of resources, escalate the cost of housing and other development to the consumer, and discourage investment in and commitment to comprehensive planning which would make maximum efficient utilization of resources at the least economic cost to the public, due to potential changes in development regulations, rules and planning ordinances. 2. The provisions of this Chapter will provide assurance to applicants for development projects that upon approval of a project, the applicant may proceed with the project in accordance with the policies, rules and regulations, and subject to conditions of approval in effect at the time of approval. Development agreements entered into pursuant to this Article will strengthen the public planning process, encourage private participation in comprehensive planning, and reduce the economic costs of development. 3. Development agreements may also include provisions whereby applicants are reimbursed over time for financing public facilities and improvements installed in excess of those needed to serve the applicant’s development project. 4. These regulations are adopted for the purposes authorized and under the authority of the California Government Code Sections 65864-65869.5. 2. Applications 1. The director shall prescribe the form for each application, notice and document provided for or required by these regulations for the preparation and implementation of development agreements. 2. The director may require an applicant to submit such pertinent information and supporting data as he considers necessary to process the application. 3. The application shall be accompanied by a fee(s) in an amount to be set by the Board of Supervisors. 4. The applicant shall present to the director, the written consent to the development agreement of all parties having any record title interest in the real property which is the subject of the development agreement. 3. Qualification as an applicant. Only a qualified applicant may file an application to enter into a development agreement. A qualified applicant is a person who has legal or equitable interest in the real property which is the subject of the development agreement. Applicant includes authorized agent. The director may require an applicant to submit proof of his or her interest in the real property and of the authority of the agent to act for the applicant. 4. Form of agreement. Applications shall be accompanied by a proposed development agreement prepared by the applicant. This requirement may be met by submittal of a development agreement consistent with the standard form of development agreements prepared by the planning authority that may include a specific proposal for changes in or additions to the language of the standard form. 5. Review of application. The director shall review the application and may reject it if it is incomplete for processing. If he find that the application is complete, he shall accept it for filing. The Director shall review the application and determine the additional requirements necessary to complete the agreement. After receiving the required information, he shall prepare a staff report and recommendation and shall state whether or not the agreement proposed or in an amended form would be consistent with the general plan and any applicable specific or community plan. 6. Public hearings and notice 1. Public hearings shall be held on any application for a Development Agreement and subject to the same proceedings as provided for rezoning applications. 2. Notice of the hearing shall be given as provided for rezoning applications. 3. When a Development Agreement is for a project requiring a General Plan Amendment, Specific or community plan amendment, rezoning, Conditional Use Permit or any subdivision approval, consideration of the development agreement shall be concurrent with or subsequent to consideration of any of the entitlement identified above. 7. Recommendation by the Planning C

provided for rezoning applications. 3. When a Development Agreement is for a project requiring a General Plan Amendment, Specific or community plan amendment, rezoning, Conditional Use Permit or any subdivision approval, consideration of the development agreement shall be concurrent with or subsequent to consideration of any of the entitlement identified above. 7. Recommendation by the Planning C

provided for rezoning applications. 3. When a Development Agreement is for a project requiring a General Plan Amendment, Specific or community plan amendment, rezoning, Conditional Use Permit or any subdivision approval, consideration of the development agreement shall be concurrent with or subsequent to consideration of any of the entitlement identified above. 7. Recommendation by the Planning Commission 1. After the hearing by the Planning Commission, the Planning Commission shall make its recommendation in writing to the Board of Supervisors. The recommendation shall include the Planning Commission’s determination whether or not the development agreement proposed: 1. Is consistent with the objectives, policies, general land uses and programs specified in the general plan and any applicable specific plan or community plan; 2. Is compatible with the uses authorized in, and the regulations prescribed for, the zoning district in which the real property is located; 3. Is in conformity with public convenience, general welfare and good land use practice;

  4. Will be detrimental to the public health, safety and general welfare; 

  5. Will adversely affect the orderly development of property or the preservation of property values. 

2. The recommendation of the Planning Commission shall include the reasons for the recommendation.

3. Decision by the Board of Supervisors

   1. After the Board of Supervisors completes its public hearing, it may accept, modify or disapprove the recommendation of the Planning Commission.

   2. The Board of Supervisors shall not be required to enter into any such development agreement and it may not do so unless it finds that the provisions of the agreement are consistent with the general plan and any applicable specific or community plan.

   3. If the Board of Supervisors approves the development agreement, it shall do so by the adoption of an ordinance.

   4. After the ordinance approving the development agreement takes effect, the County may enter into the agreement.

4. Amendment or cancellation. Either party may propose an amendment to or cancellation in whole or in part of the development agreement previously entered into. The procedure for proposing and adoption of an amendment to or cancellation in whole or in part of the development agreement shall be the same as the procedure for entering into an agreement. However, where the Board of Supervisors initiates the proposed amendment to or cancellation of the development agreement, it shall first give at least thirty (30) days notice to the applicant of its intention to initiate such proceedings in advance of the public hearing by the Planning Commission.

5. Recordation of development agreement

6. The applicant shall present the written consent to the development agreement of all parties having any record title interest in the real property which is the subject of the development agreement prior to recordation of the agreement.

   2. Within ten (10) days after the Board of Supervisors enters into the development agreement, the County Clerk shall have the agreement recorded with the County Recorder. The Agreement shall describe the land subject thereto.

   3. If the parties to the agreement or their successors in interest amend or cancel the agreement, or if the Board of Supervisors terminates or modifies the agreement for failure of the applicant to comply in good faith with the terms or conditions of the agreement the County Clerk shall have notice of such action recorded with the County Recorder.

7. Periodic review

8. Time for and initiation of review:

   1. The Planning Commission shall review the development agreement every twelve (12) months from the date the agreement is entered into.

   2. The time for review may be modified by affirmative vote of at least three (3) members of the Planning Commission.

9. Notice of periodic review: The director shall begin the review proceeding by giving notice that the County intends to undertake a periodic review of the development agreement to the property owner or successor in interest. He shall give the notice at least thirty (30) days in advance of the time at which the matter will be considered by the Planning Commission.

10. Public hearing by Planning Commission: The Planning Commission shall conduct a public hearing at which time the property owner or successor in interest must demonstrate good faith compliance with the terms of the agreement.

11. Findings upon public hearing: The Planning Commission shall determine upon the basis of substantial evidence whether or not the applicant has, for the period under review, complied in good faith with the terms and conditions of the agreement.

12. Procedure upon findings: If the Planning Commission determines on the basis of substantial evidence that the property owner has complied in good faith with the terms and conditions of the agreement during the period under review, the review for that period is concluded.

13. If the Planning Commission finds and determines on the basis of substantial evidence that the property owner has not complied in good faith with the terms and conditions of the agreement during the period under review, the Planning Commission may initiate proceedings to modify or terminate the agreement.

14. The property owner may appeal a Planning Commission decision to the Board of Supervisors pursuant to the appeal procedure in the Section 15.05.020 of this Code.

15. Modification or termination 1. If upon a finding, the Planning Commission determines to proceed with modification or termination of the agreement, the director shall transmit to the Board of Supervisors all pertinent materials concerning the periodic review and a staff report setting forth the reasons for the decision by the Planning Commission.

16. Upon receipt of the Staff Report pursuant to paragraph A. above, the Board of Supervisors shall hold a public hearing on the matter scheduled and noticed as required in the appeal procedure set forth in Chapter 15.05 of this code.

    3. At the time and place set for the hearing on modification or termination, the property owner shall be given an opportunity to be heard. The Board of Supervisors may refer the matter back to the Planning Commission for further proceedings or for report and recommendation. The Board of Supervisors may impose those conditions to the action it takes as it considers necessary to protect the interests of the County. The decision of the Board of Supervisors is final.
    • (Ord. 1269 § 4, 5, 6, & 10, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.08 Violations And Enforcement 15.08.010 General Prohibitions 15.08.020 Permit Authority Limitation 15.08.030 Enforcement 15.08.040 Recovery Of Costs

15.08.010 General Prohibitions

1. No person shall use any real property in violation of the regulations of this title applicable to the property. The erection, construction, alteration, enlargement, conversion, movement, maintenance, establishment or operation of any building, structure, facility, premises or use contrary to the provisions of this title is unlawful and a violation of this code.

2. Except as otherwise provided by law:

   1. No building, structure or facility shall be erected or placed, and no existing structure shall be moved, altered, added to or enlarged, nor shall any land, building or premises be used, designated or intended to be used for any purpose, or in any manner other than is included among the uses listed in this title as permitted in the district in which such land, building or premises is located.

   2. No building, structure or facility shall be erected, reconstructed or structurally altered to exceed the height limit designated in this title for the district in which such building, structure or facility is located.

   3. No building, structure or facility shall be erected, nor shall any existing building be altered, enlarged or rebuilt, nor shall any required open space be encroached upon or reduced in any except in conformity to the yard, building site and building location regulations specified in this title for the district in which such building, structure or facility or open space is located.

3. No yard or other open space provided around any building, structure or facility for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this code shall be considered as providing a yard or open space for any other building, structure or facility and no yard or other open space on one building site shall be considered as providing a year or open space for a building, structure or facility on any other building site. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

around any building, structure or facility for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this code shall be considered as providing a yard or open space for any other building, structure or facility and no yard or other open space on one building site shall be considered as providing a year or open space for a building, structure or facility on any other building site. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.08.020 Permit Authority Limitation 1. All county officers, departments and employees vested with the duty or authority to issue permits, licenses or other entitlement shall do so subject to the requirements of this title. No permit, license or other entitlement shall be issued or approved for any purpose or in any manner which conflicts with the provisions of this title. Any permit, license or other entitlement issued or approved in conflict with any provision of this title is null and void as of the date of issuance or approval.

2. No county officer, department or employee vested with the duty or authority to issue or approve permits, licenses or other entitlement shall do so when there is an outstanding zoning violation for which a citation has been issued pursuant to this title involving the premises to which the pending application pertains. The authority to deny shall apply whether the applicant was the occupant or owner of record at the time of such violation or whether the applicant is either the current occupant or owner of record or a purchaser of the property pursuant to a contract of sale, with or without actual or constructive knowledge of the violation at the time he or she acquired his or her interest in such real property.

3. Upon notification of a refusal to issue order prepared by an enforcement officer that such a violation exists, all departments, commissions and employees shall refuse to issue permits, licenses or entitlements involving the premises except those necessary to abate such violation. The refusal to issue order shall be rescinded when the department, commission or employee has been notified by the enforcing officer that all required work to abate the violation has been completed and has been approved by the affected department.

4. The director of the affected department may waive the provisions of this section if the director determines that health or safety hazards will result from the refusal to issue order. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.08.030 Enforcement 1. It shall be the duty of the director to enforce the provisions of this title. All departments, officials and public employees of the county vested with the duty or authority to issue permits shall conform to the provisions of this title and shall not willfully issue any permit or license for use, construction or purpose in conflict with the provisions of this title; and any such permit or license issued in conflict with the provisions of this title shall be null and void.

2. It shall be the duty of the director to enforce Articles No. 1 and No. 2 of Chapter 7 of the State Subdivision Map Act, except Section 66499.32 (a) and (b). (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.08.040 Recovery Of Costs

1. Purpose and intent. This chapter establishes procedures for the recovery of administrative costs, including staff time expended on the enforcement of the provisions of this title. The intent of this chapter is 2. Records. The department shall maintain records of all administrative costs, incurred by responsible county employees, associated with the processing of violations and enforcement of this title and shall rec and revised from time to time by the board of supervisors.

   3. Notice. Upon investigation and a determination that a violation of any of the provisions of this title is found to exist, the director, or any person within the department authorized by the director, shall notify department’s intent to charge the property owner for all administrative costs associated with enforcement, and of the owner’s right to a hearing on the objections thereto. The notice shall be in substantially The Glenn County planning authority has determined that conditions exist at the property at which violate Section of the County Code, to wit:

   • ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________(description of violation)

   • Notice is hereby given that at the conclusion of this case you will receive a summary of administrative costs associated with the processing of this violation, at an hourly rate as established and adjusted You will have the right to object to these charges by filing a Request for Hearing with the Planning Commission within ten (10) days of service of the summary of charges, pursuant to Section 15.08.040.

   • 4. Summary of costs

     5. At the conclusion of the case, the director shall send a summary of costs associated with enforcement to the owner and/or person having possession or control of the subject property by certified ma If you object to these charges you must file a Request for Hearing on the enclosed form within ten (10) days of the date of this notice.

     • IF YOU FAIL TO TIMELY REQUEST A HEARING, YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT WILL BE WAIVED AND YOU WILL BE LIABLE TO THE COUNTY FOR THESE CHARGES, TO BE RECOVERED IN Dated:______________________________

     • ____________________________ Director_

     • 2. In the event that (a) no request for hearing is timely filed or, (b) after a hearing the planning commission affirms the validity of the costs, the property owner or person in control and possession sha These costs shall be recoverable in a civil action in the name of the county, in any court of competent jurisdiction within the county.
     • 3. Any property owner, or other person having possession and control thereof, who receives a summary of costs under this section shall have the right to a hearing before the planning commission on 4. A request for hearing shall be filed with the planning commission within ten days of the service by mail of the department’s summary of costs, on a form provided by the department.

2. Within thirty days of the filing of the request, and on ten-days written notice to the owner, the planning commission shall hold a hearing on the owner’s objections, and determine the validity thereo 6. In determining the validity of the costs, the planning commission shall consider whether the total costs are reasonable in the circumstances of the case. Factors to be considered include, but are not violation; whether the owner moved promptly to correct the violation; the degree of cooperation provided by the owner; whether reasonable minds can differ as to whether a violation exists.

3. The planning commission’s decision shall be appealable to the board of supervisors pursuant to Section 15.05.020 of this title. (Ord. 1269 § 10, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Division 15-2 Development Permits 15.09 General Provisions Division 15-2 Part 1 Ministerial Permits Division 15-2 Part 2 Minor Discretionary Permits Division 15-2 Part 3 Major Discretionary Permits 15.09 General Provisions 15.09.010 Application And Fees 15.09.020 Filing And Processing 15.09.030 Information Required 15.09.040 Waiver Of Statements Or Reports 15.09.050 Final Date Of Filing 15.09.060 Refund Of Fees 15.09.070 Reapplication For Denied Permits 15.09.080 Denial Without Prejudice 15.09.090 Reapplication For Amendment Of Permits 15.09.100 Expiration 15.09.110 Revocation/Modification 15.09.010 Application And Fees 1. Any owner or appointed representative may submit to the planning authority in writing on a form prescribed by the planning authority. Said application shall be accompanied by a fee set by resolution adopted by the board of supervisors. 2. The planning authority staff shall examine the application and all accompanying data and the tentative maps and shall accept them for processing only if all the requirements of chapter 15.09 have been met. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.09.020 Filing And Processing 1. The tentative map of the proposed subdivision shall be clearly and legibly drawn on sheets eighteen by twenty-six inches or twenty-four by thirty-six inches, using an engineer’s scale in all cases. 2. The applicant shall submit the following items with the application: 1. A completely filled out and signed application form; 2. A completely filled out environmental information form; 3. A title report issued within three months prior to the date of submission of the application and any necessary deeds evidencing current record title. If a deed shows a corporation as the owner, a copy of a resolution from the corporation authorizing the application shall also be submitted; 4. One reproducible (sepia or mylar) copy of the tentative map plus fifteen blueprints in the case of a tentative parcel map or twenty-five blueprints in the case of a tentative final map; 5. Filing fees; 6. Written verification from the Glenn County Health Department stating that each proposed parcel is suitable for on-site sewage disposal (or meets the provisions of Section 15.66.040 (C).) 7. A vesting tentative map shall be filed in the same form and have the same contents, accompanying data and reports and shall be processed in the same manner as set forth elsewhere in this code for a tentative map except as hereinafter provided. 3. At the time a vesting tentative map is filed the applicant shall also supply the following information: 1. Height, size and location of buildings; 2. Sewer, water, storm drain and road details sufficient for plan checking and approval; 3. Information on the uses to which the building will be put; 4. Detailed grading plans; 5. Geological studies; 6. Flood control information as required by the department of public works and the building inspector; 7. Architectural plans sufficient for plan checking and approval; 8. Soil test and design information sufficient for on-site sewage disposal system permit application and approval; 9. Any other studies deemed required by the County. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.09.030 Information Required 1. The following information shall be shown on each tentative map: 1. Name and address of record owner or owners of the property to be subdivided, and their signed statement of consent to the preparation of the map; 2. Name and address of person or persons proposing the subdivision; 3. Name and address of the person who prepared the tentative map; 4. A site location sketch indicating the location of the property to be divided in relation to the surrounding area or region; 5. Date of preparation, current assessor’s parcel number, north arrow and scale; 6. Boundaries of proposed subdivision, showing all contiguous lands of owner; 7. The location and configuration of all existing and proposed waste disposal systems and water supplies located on the parcel or adjacent parcels as might affect the design of the land division, together with their dimensions; 8. Lines indicating the direction of the slope of the land and the approximate percent of grade, including all drainage features. Areas subject to inundation or overflow shall be so indicated; 9. The name, location and width of all existing interior, abutting and proposed streets and easements and width of existing pavement; 10. Approximate layout and approximate dimensions of each lot and the total area for each lot. Each lot shall be separately identified by number or letter or other appropriate designation; 11. The dimensions and location of any existing structures, trees or group of trees on the property; 12. The location, identification and description of known or found survey monuments on or adjacent to the sites; 13. Proposed approximate radii of all curves and approximate slopes of streets; 14. A statement of improvements to be made, including a sketch showing designed widths and street sections; 15. Indication of adjacent recorded subdivisions and known proposed subdivisions, lot lines, or any other development which will affect or be affected by this development; 16. Identify on the tentative map all adjacent road and street right-of-way widths and widths of existing pavements; 17. If it is impossible or impractical to place any of the above information upon the tentative map, such matter or information shall be submitted with the tentative map; provided, however, that all information necessary to provide a clear description of the proposed subdivision shall be on the face of the tentative map. 2. The following documents shall be submitted with each tentative map which requires a final map: 1. A copy of any condition or any restrictive reservations or covenants, existing or proposed; 2. A preliminary geologic and soil report based upon adequate test borings or excavations; and 3. A statement by a registered engineer or competent hydrologist as to flooding characteristics. This statement shall identi

wing documents shall be submitted with each tentative map which requires a final map: 1. A copy of any condition or any restrictive reservations or covenants, existing or proposed; 2. A preliminary geologic and soil report based upon adequate test borings or excavations; and 3. A statement by a registered engineer or competent hydrologist as to flooding characteristics. This statement shall identi

wing documents shall be submitted with each tentative map which requires a final map: 1. A copy of any condition or any restrictive reservations or covenants, existing or proposed; 2. A preliminary geologic and soil report based upon adequate test borings or excavations; and 3. A statement by a registered engineer or competent hydrologist as to flooding characteristics. This statement shall identify the areas subject to inundation, and the depth, velocities and duration of flow. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.09.040 Waiver Of Statements Or Reports 1. The public works director may, on the basis of the statements of preliminary geologic and soil reports provided for in Section 15.09.030, require a soil investigation by a registered civil engineer of any or all lots; or he may, on the basis of such reports or statements or based on knowledge of the quality of soils on the site, waive the requirement for a preliminary geologic and soil report and/or soil investigation. The public works director may also waive the requirement for a statement of flooding characteristics when, based on available knowledge of flooding characteristics, he determines that no such report or investigation is necessary. 2. An exception request may be filed, in writing, by the applicant requesting that the director examine the application and all accompanying data and the tentative maps, in place of the planning authority staff, as required in Section 15.09.010. Such an exception request shall be filed with the application. No action on the application shall be taken by the planning authority staff until the director has reviewed the application for completeness. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The application shall be deemed finally filed and completed only if the items set forth in Sections 15.09.020 and 15.09.030 have been submitted. The director shall consider and determine whether an application is complete within thirty days after the application has been submitted by the applicant. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.09.060 Refund Of Fees

All refund requests shall be made in writing. The following refund schedule shall be applied to all applications:

1. A one hundred percent refund of the filing fees shall be made if the applicant requests withdrawal of the application within five working days after the application was submitted; 2. A seventy-five percent refund of the filing fees shall be made if the applicant requests withdrawal of the application within ten working days after the application was submitted; 3. A fifty percent refund of the filing fees shall be made if the applicant requests withdrawal of an application which has not been advertised for public hearing; 4. No refund of the filing fees shall be made if the applicant requests withdrawal of an application that has been advertised for public hearing. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.09.070 Reapplication For Denied Permits No reapplication for a Conditional Use Permit, Variance Permit, Zone Change, General Plan Amendment, Tentative Parcel Map, Tentative Subdivision Map or Specific Plan of Development which has been denied shall be filed or accepted by the planning authority earlier than one (1) year after the date of such denial; unless specific authority to do so has been granted by the Board of Supervisors or the Planning Commission. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• 15.09.080 Denial Without Prejudice 1. The Planning Commission or Board of Supervisors may deny without prejudice any Conditional Use Permit, Variance Permit, Zone Change, General Plan Amendment, Tentative Parcel Map, Tentative Subdivision Map or Specific Plan of Development application provided that no substantial progress has been made by the applicant within a six (6) month period after either of the following has been required: 1. A project has been deemed incomplete for certain specified reasons; or 2. An environmental review determination has been made requiring additional environmental documentation and/or an Environmental Impact Report (EIR).

• 2. A “denial without prejudice” shall authorize the reapplication for a permit without meeting the one (1) year period specified in Section 15.09.070. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• 15.09.090 Reapplication For Amendment Of Permits Any permit pursuant to this Title may be amended by the granting of a new permit of the same type and following the same procedure for adoption of the original permit, except as specifically provided for in this Title. Amendments to permits may include extensions of expiration periods, and changes in uses, structures, and conditions previously approved; however any change in conditions must be approved by the Reviewing Authority that originally adopted such conditions. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• 15.09.100 Expiration

1. An approved conditional use permit expires one (1) year from the date of granting unless substantial physical construction and/or use of the property in reliance on the permit has commenced prior to its expiration. An approved conditional use permit may be extended by the director for an additional sixty (60) calendar days provided that the applicant/owner submits a written request for extension to the director at least twenty-one (21) calendar days prior to the expiration date. Only one (1) extension shall be allowed for each permit. Any person aggrieved by the decision of the director may appeal as provided in Chapter 15.05. Any active Conditional Use Permit for a use that has not been active for five (5) consecutive years is void unless a longer inactive time period is specifically allowed by the Conditions of Approval for the Conditional Use Permit. 2. The approval or conditional approval of a vesting tentative map shall expire at the end of the same time period and shall be subject to the same extensions, established by this code for the expiration of approval or conditional approval of a tentative subdivision map. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.09.110 Revocation/Modification 1. Whenever in the opinion of the director the conditions of any conditional use permit issued have not been complied with, the director shall give the property owner and lessee of the subject property a ten (10) calendar days written notice to comply. 2. If, at the end of the ten (10) calendar day period, the property owner and lessee still fail to comply with the conditions of approval of the permit, the director shall immediately set a hearing before the Planning Commission to determine why the permit should not be revoked/modified. Notice of the hearing shall only be mailed to the property owner and lessee of the subject property involved ten (10) calendar days prior to the hearing. The notice shall state the violations and shall request appearance of the owner and lessee at the time and place specified for the hearing to show cause why the permit should not be revoked or modified. At the conclusion of the hearing, if the Planning Commission determines that any condition of the conditional use permit has not been complied with, the Planning Commission shall have the right to revoke or modify the permit. Such revocation or modification shall be subject to the right of appeal in the same manner as set forth in Chapter 15.05. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) Division 15-2 Part 1 Ministerial Permits 15.10 Zoning Clearance (Reserved) 15.11 Building Inspection And Permits 15.12 Encroachment Permits 15.13 Site Plan Review 15.14 Lot Line Adjustments 15.15 Certificate Of Compliance 15.16 Reversion To Acreage 15.17 Voluntary Merger 15.175 Second Dwellings 15.10 Zoning Clearance (Reserved) 15.11 Building Inspection And Permits 15.11.010 Department Established--Official--Duties 15.11.020 Department--State Code Enforcement 15.11.030 Permit--Application--Contents 15.11.040 Application--Review In Flood Hazard Areas 15.11.050 Certificate Required 15.11.060 Fees Required 15.11.070 Frontage Improvements 15.11.080 Inspection 15.11.090 Expiration 15.11.100 Revocation 15.11.110 Denial Or Revocation--Request For Hearing 15.11.120 Denial Or Revocation--Appeal 15.11.130 Transfer 15.11.140 Temporary Living Quarters 15.11.150 Prohibitions 15.11.160 Building Valuation 15.11.170 Factory-Built Housing And Mobile Homes 15.11.180 Factory-Built Housing And Mobilehomes 15.11.190 Accessory Buildings 15.11.010 Department Established--Official--Duties There is in county government a building department under the supervision and direction of a building official who is charged with the administration and enforcement of this title and the codes incorporated by reference into this title. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.11.020 Department--State Code Enforcement

nd Mobilehomes 15.11.190 Accessory Buildings 15.11.010 Department Established--Official--Duties There is in county government a building department under the supervision and direction of a building official who is charged with the administration and enforcement of this title and the codes incorporated by reference into this title. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.11.020 Department--State Code Enforcement

Every law, rule and regulation included or referred to in the State Housing Law, Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 17910), the Mobilehomes Park Act, Part 2.1 (commencing with Section 18200) and Chapter 2 (Earthquake Protection) (commencing with Section 19100), Part 3 of Division 13 of the Health and Safety Code of the State of California shall be enforced by the building department within the unincorporated area of the county. However, this title does not constitute assumption by the county of enforcement responsibility for the Mobilehome Parks Act pursuant to Section 18300 of the Health and Safety Code. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.11.030 Permit--Application--Contents

Any person desiring to erect, construct, reconstruct, move, enlarge, convert, alter, repair or demolish any apartment, house, manufactured or mobilehome on a foundation, hotel, dwelling or other building shall file with the building department an application on a form provided by the building department for a permit. The application shall include the following:

1. The name of the property owner desiring to obtain a building permit; 2. The name of the contractor to perform work; 3. The residence and business mailing addresses of the owner and the contractor; 4. The legal description of the property on which the work is to be performed, the street address of the property, including the name of the street and the street number, or the name of the road or highway nearest the property; 5. The kind and character of the building or structure and the purposes for which it is to be used, or the reason it is to be moved or demolished; 6. The number of stories; 7. A complete description of the work for which a building permit is being obtained; 8. The number of square feet of floor space in the building or structure; 9. The estimated cost of the work; and 10. Plans, diagrams, computations, specifications, and other pertinent information the building official may require. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.11.040 Application--Review In Flood Hazard Areas 1. The building official shall review all building permit applications for major repairs within the floodplain area having special flood hazards to determine that the proposed repairs include the following: 1. Use of construction materials and utility equipment that are resistant to flood damage; and 2. Use of construction methods and practices that will minimize flood damage. 2. The building official shall review all building permit applications for new construction or substantial improvements within the floodplain area having special flood hazards to assure that the proposed construction, including prefabricated and mobilehomes, include the following: 1. Protection against flood damage; 2. Design, or modification, and anchoring to prevent flotation, collapse, or lateral movement of the structure; 3. Use of construction materials and utility equipment that are resistant to flood damage; and 4. Use of construction methods and practices that will minimize flood damage. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.11.050 Certificate Required The application shall be accompanied by the certificate required by Section 3800 of the Labor Code of the State of California. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.11.060 Fees Required The application shall also be accompanied by such permit fees as may from time to time be fixed by the board of supervisors. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.11.070 Frontage Improvements 1. For every building permit issued for work which will result in any one of the following improvements the construction of frontage improvements is required prior to the final building inspection and issuance of the Certificate of Occupancy: 1. Construction or conversion which will cause increased vehicular traffic entering or leaving a public street or road as determined by the Public Works Director; 2. Construction of a driveway approach where no such approach existed previously; 3. Conversion of a residential building to commercial, industrial, or agricultural use as defined in the building codes; 4. Conversion of an agricultural building to residential, commercial or industrial use as defined in the building codes; 5. An increase in the gross conditioned floor area of any building of more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the previous conditioned floor area as determined by the Building Inspector; 2. Frontage improvements will be determined by the Public Works Director for each building permit issued and may include, but are not limited to, the construction of curbs, gutters, sidewalk, pedestrian or bicycle ways, matching pavement, parkway strips, street lighting, drainage, driveway approaches, and gravel or paved shoulders. 3. The character and extent of frontage improvements required by County Ordinance or conditions of an entitlement as a condition of any building permit will be determined by the proposed use of the building to be constructed, expanded, converted or improved, and the classification of the road or street as, stated in Title 15 of the Glenn County Code, on which the proposed construction, expansion, conversion or improvement is located; 4. For parcels of five acres or more in size, where only a portion of the property is being developed, an exception to the frontage improvement requirement may be granted by the Director of Public Works for the undeveloped portion of the property with the following provisions: 1. The applicant must request the specific exception in writing and explain the reasons for the request; 5. The Public Works Director may issue an exception in writing provided that adequate bonding and a processing fee equal to 10% of the required improvement cost is received; and that the work required will be completed within 180 days from the date of granting the exception; 6. Where exceptional difficulties exist, as determined by the Public Works Director, the frontage improvement requirement may be deferred for a specified length of time by the Public Works Director with the following provisions: 1. The applicant must request the specific frontage improvement deferred agreement in writing and explain the reasons for the request; 7. The Public Works Director may issue a frontage improvement deferred agreement in writing provided that adequate bonding and a processing fee equal to 10% of the required improvement cost is received; and that the work required will be completed within 180 days from the date of granting the frontage improvement deferred agreement; 8. Frontage improvements are not required for replacement of a building by a building of like use and size; 9. Frontage improvements shall be constructed in accordance with Standard Drawings prepared by the Director of Public Works and adopted from time to time by resolution of the Board of Supervisors as part of Title 15 of the Glenn County Code; 10. Appeals: In the event that an applicant is dissatisfied with the frontage improvements required, the applicant may appeal the decision of the Public Works Director in writing to the Planning Commission by filing an appeal

andard Drawings prepared by the Director of Public Works and adopted from time to time by resolution of the Board of Supervisors as part of Title 15 of the Glenn County Code; 10. Appeals: In the event that an applicant is dissatisfied with the frontage improvements required, the applicant may appeal the decision of the Public Works Director in writing to the Planning Commission by filing an appeal

andard Drawings prepared by the Director of Public Works and adopted from time to time by resolution of the Board of Supervisors as part of Title 15 of the Glenn County Code; 10. Appeals: In the event that an applicant is dissatisfied with the frontage improvements required, the applicant may appeal the decision of the Public Works Director in writing to the Planning Commission by filing an appeal with the planning authority and paying the required fee adopted by the Board of Supervisors; 11. Action by Planning Commission: The Planning Commission shall follow the appeal procedure outlined in Section 15.05.020 of the Glenn County Code. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.11.080 Inspection Upon the filing of an application, submittal of plans, and permit issuance, as specified in this chapter, the building official shall determine whether the proposed construction, erection, alteration, repair, removal or conversion is in conformity and compliance with this title and any code incorporated by reference within or enforced pursuant to the title. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.11.090 Expiration Every permit issued under the provisions of any code adopted by this title expires by limitation and becomes null and void if the work authorized by a permit is not commenced within 180 days from the date of issuance, or if the work is abandoned or suspended at any time after work is commenced for a period of 180 days. Before such abandoned or suspended work can be recommenced, a new permit application and a full permit fee must be paid for a new permit. The chief building official is authorized to grant, in writing, one extension of time, for a period of no more than 180 days. The extension shall be requested in writing by the permittee and justifiable cause demonstrated. (Ord. 1199 § 1, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.11.100 Revocation If, after inspection, the building official determines that the work of construction is not being done in compliance with all the terms and conditions of the permit as issued, and all applicable laws, rules and regulations, the building official shall revoke the permit after giving the owner five days’ written notice of intention to do so. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.11.110 Denial Or Revocation--Request For Hearing Upon the denial of any application for a permit under this chapter or upon the revocation of any permit under Section 15.11.100, the applicant or person whose permit has been revoked may, within 10 days after the denial of such application or the revocation of such permit, request a hearing before the building official, who shall hear all facts and testimony he deems pertinent relative to the denial of such application or the revocation of such permit. The building official shall not be limited by the technical rules of evidence. The hearing before the building official shall be held within 20 days of the filing of the request for hearing or at such other time as may be stipulated by and between the building official, the building inspector and the party requesting such hearing. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.11.120 Denial Or Revocation--Appeal Any interested party may appeal the decision of the building official by filing a written notice of appeal with the county clerk within five days after the decision. Such appeal shall be heard by the board, who may affirm, amend or reverse the order or take such other action as may be deemed appropriate. Such appeal shall be heard by the board within 20 days after the filing of the notice of appeal or at such later time as may be stipulated to by the parties and the board. The clerk shall give written notice of the time and place of the hearing to all parties not less than five days prior to the hearing. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

verse the order or take such other action as may be deemed appropriate. Such appeal shall be heard by the board within 20 days after the filing of the notice of appeal or at such later time as may be stipulated to by the parties and the board. The clerk shall give written notice of the time and place of the hearing to all parties not less than five days prior to the hearing. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.11.130 Transfer

Any unexpired permit issued under the provisions of any code adopted by this chapter may be transferred by the original permittee to another person, firm, or corporation due to change in ownership or contractor after payment of a transfer fee to the building inspection department. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

When a building permit has been issued for construction of a new single-family dwelling the building official may permit the use of a travel trailer, recreational vehicle, factory-built home, manufactured home, or mobilehome (hereinafter mobilehome) for temporary living quarters during construction provided the following standards are met:

1. The building official has determined that all applicable standards and regulations for mobilehome installations as promulgated by the Department of Housing and Community Development of the State of California have been complied with;

2. Prior to and during such use an adequate supply of drinking water, approved by the health department, shall be available for the occupants and for fire protection on the premises or immediately adjacent thereto;

3. Prior to and during such use the immediate area around and under the mobilehome shall be kept clean, well-drained and free of construction debris, litter and flammable materials; 4. Prior to and during such use the exterior and exposed parts of the mobilehome shall be kept painted and in good repair;

4. Prior to such use all the supply connections for plumbing, gas, electricity, sewage, and structural installations related thereto shall be installed to the satisfaction of the building official and the health department and shall be in conformance with applicable provisions of the Mobile Homes Parks Act;

5. The undercarriage and wheels shall not be removed from the mobilehome. The mobilehome shall be disconnected from all utilities and services and removed from the site, or stored onsite when such storage is permitted by the zoning regulations applicable to the site, prior to issuance of the certificate of occupancy for the dwelling being constructed. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to erect, construct, alter, repair, move, remove, improve, convert, or demolish, equip, use, occupy, or maintain any building or structure; or to make any installation, alteration, or repair, or to cause, permit, or suffer the same to be done, of any electrical wiring or devices, appliances, or equipment; or to install, alter, or repair any plumbing or drainage systems or facilities; or to alter, reconstruct or repair any heating, ventilating, comfort cooling or refrigeration systems or equipment; or to store, handle or use hazardous substances, materials and devices, or to maintain fire and explosion hazards or conditions hazardous to life or property in the use or occupancy of buildings or premises in the unincorporated areas of the county, or to cause the same to be done contrary to or in violation of any of the provisions of this title, or any code incorporated by reference within or enforced pursuant to the title. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Site plan review permits, revocable, and conditional may be issued for any of the uses or purposes for which said permits are required or permitted by the terms of this Title. The director may impose such conditions as he/she deems necessary to secure the purposes of this Title, Code, or other County standards, and may require tangible guarantees or evidence that such conditions are being, or will be, complied with. Site plan review shall include, but not be limited to, a review of the following: Traffic and circulation, building arrangement, setbacks, walls and fences, noise emissions and control measures, off-street parking, grading, drainage, landscaping, lighting, signs, public services and utilities, development and performance standards and the interrelationships of these elements. The site plan review permit is a ministerial permit. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.13.020 Applicability

1. A site plan review permit shall be required as follows:

   1. Any use, structure or sign requiring a site plan review as specifically provided in the applicable zoning district regulations of this Title.

   2. Any use requiring a site plan review as specifically required by the director, Planning Commission or Board of Supervisors as a condition of approval of any permit.

2. The director shall waive the submission of or the requirement for a site plan review permit if the Director finds that:

   1. All the purposes of development review have been fulfilled by the approval of any other permit required by this Title; or

   2. The project involves only interior alterations not materially changing the character of the use of the property; or

   3. The project involves only minor exterior alterations not materially changing the character of the use of the property; or

3. The use is proposed in an existing building and is listed as a permitted use in the zoning district in which it is located; or 5. The use is a single family residence as the principle or primary use as listed as a permitted use in the zoning district in which it is located. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.13.030 Application The site plan review permit application shall be accompanied by any applicable fee in an amount to be set by the Board of Supervisors, and plans showing the details of the proposed use to be made of the land or building, and any other pertinent information required by the planning authority staff as provided in Chapter 15.13. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.13.040 Public Hearing And Notice 1. No public hearing is required. However, public comment may be accepted and reviewed by the Director. 2. The Approving Authority for site plan review permits is the director. 3. The director may cause notice to be given on any application as provided in Section 65091 of the Government Code. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.13.050 Findings Required For Approval The Approving Authority shall only approve or conditionally approve a site plan review permit if all of the following findings are made:

1. That the proposed use is an allowed use in the district where located.

2. That the site for the project is adequate in size, shape, location, and physical characteristics to accommodate the type of use and level of development proposed.

3. That there are adequate public or private services, including but not limited to fire protection, water supply, and sewage disposal. (as well as storm drainage) 4. That the project is in conformance with the applicable provisions and policies of this Title, the Glenn County General Plan and any approved zoning or land use study or plan. 5. That the streets, highways and pedestrian facilities are reasonably adequate to safely accommodate the specific proposed use. 6. That no violation of the Glenn County Code currently exists on the property, unless the purpose of the permit is to correct the violation, or the permit relates to a portion of the property which is sufficiently separate and apart from the portion of the property in violation so as not to be affected by the violation from a public health, safety or general welfare basis. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.13.060 Permit Issuance And Appeal Period 1. Upon completion of review of a site plan review permit the Director shall either: 1. Make such findings as are required by Section 15.13.050 and approve the application; or 2. Notify the applicant of those changes and modifications required for approval of the application; or 3. Deny the application if the Director finds that: 1. The application cannot be conditioned by adequate requirements to insure compliance with applicable regulations, or 2. The application cannot reasonably be modified to conform to the applicable regulations. 2. Site plan review permits shall be effective upon issuance, unless within ten (10) calendar days of a decision by the Director, the decision is appealed as provided for in Section 15.05.010. In case an appeal is filed, the site plan review permit shall not have any force or effect until a decision is made by the Approving Authority on such appeal. 3. Site plan review permits shall not have any force or effect until the permittee acknowledges receipt thereof and has agreed in writing to each and every term and condition thereof. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.14 Lot Line Adjustments 15.14.010 Requirements 15.14.020 Approval Of Lot Line Adjustments 15.14.030 Application Requirements 15.14.040 Documents To Be Recorded 15.14.010 Requirements A parcel map shall be prepared and submitted for processing, approval and recording for all lot line adjustments not meeting the requirements of Section 66412(d) of the Government Code. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.14.020 Approval Of Lot Line Adjustments 1. For lot line adjustments described in Section 66412(d) of the Government Code, the director shall review the application for conformity with local zoning and building ordinances. 2. The director shall not approve any lot line adjustment unless all of the following findings are made: 1. That the lot line adjustment will not result in the abandonment of any street or utility easement of record, provided, however, that if the lot line adjustment results in the transfer of property from one owner to another owner, the deed to the subsequent owner shall expressly reserve any street or utility easement of record; 2. That the lot line adjustment will not result in the elimination or reduction in size of the access to any resulting parcel, or that the application is accompanied by new easements to provide access which meet all the requirements of this title regarding access to parcels in the location and of the size as those proposed to be created; and 3. That the lot line adjustment conforms to all local zoning and building ordinances. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.14.030 Application Requirements For lot line adjustments described in Section 66412(d) of the Government Code, the following items shall be submitted by the applicant for approval by the director:

ding access to parcels in the location and of the size as those proposed to be created; and 3. That the lot line adjustment conforms to all local zoning and building ordinances. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.14.030 Application Requirements For lot line adjustments described in Section 66412(d) of the Government Code, the following items shall be submitted by the applicant for approval by the director:

1. Completed application form with the required attachments and the appropriate application fees as adopted by the board of supervisors;

2. Tentative lot line adjustment map showing existing and proposed lot or parcel lines and the dimensions and locations of any existing buildings, wells and on-site sewage systems and their distances from the proposed property lines. The map shall be of the size and form necessary to clearly show the existing and proposed lot or parcel lines to the director. The map shall show the proposed parcel sizes after adjustment;

3. Copies of the deeds for the existing parcels or lots; and 4. Preliminary title report, issued within the last ninety days. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.14.040 Documents To Be Recorded 1. After approval by the director, the lot line adjustment shall not become valid until a deed with a description prepared by a licensed land surveyor or a registered civil engineer (licensed to practice land surveying) describing the land to be transferred or the entire parcel after the lot line adjustment is recorded. The description shall contain a basis of bearings, if applicable, and a note describing the purpose of the deed. The note shall include a statement describing how the parcels are being changed, adjusted or modified and that no additional parcels are being created by this deed. The description shall be approved by the county surveyor prior to recording.

2. When required by Section 8762 of the Land Surveyor’s Act, a Record of Survey Map shall be prepared and recorded. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.15 Certificate Of Compliance 15.15.010 Requirements 15.15.010 Requirements

1. A certificate of compliance may be requested and issued only as provided in Section 66499.35 of the Subdivision Map Act and as provided in this title.

2. The determination necessary for the issuance of a certificate of compliance shall be made by the director. The application for a certificate of compliance shall be accompanied by a fee established by the board of supervisors. In addition, the applicant shall pay the cost of recording the certificate.

3. A recorded final map or parcel map shall constitute a certificate of compliance with respect to the parcels of real property described therein.

• (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.16 Reversion To Acreage 15.16.010 Reversion To Acreage

A reversion to acreage of land previously subdivided and consisting of four or less contiguous parcels under the same ownership may be accomplished by the filing of a parcel map by the owners thereof and the approval of the parcel map by the planning commission pursuant to Section 66499.20-1/4 of the Government Code. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.17 Voluntary Merger 15.17.010 Merger Of Parcels 15.17.010 Merger Of Parcels

1. Two or more contiguous parcels or units of land may be merged by the planning commission when the standards and requirements of Section 66451.11 of the Government Code are met. The procedure for such mergers shall be that procedure set forth in Sections 66451.12 through 66451.21, inclusive, of the Government Code. 2. Pursuant to Section 66499.20-3/4 of the Government Code, two or more contiguous parcels under common ownership may be merged by the owner thereof without reverting to acreage. Such merger shall be accomplished by the recordation of an instrument evidencing the merger. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.175 Second Dwellings 15.175.010 Purpose 15.175.020 Standards 15.175.010 Purpose This section establishes the procedures for the permitting of second dwellings in Glenn County. (Ord. 1263 § 2, 2017) 15.175.020 Standards 1. A proposed second dwelling shall be permitted only after an application has been filed with the planning authority. 2. All proposed second dwellings shall meet the standards in Chapter 15.59. 3. After a determination by the Planning Director that the proposed second dwelling meets all applicable standards, the application shall be approved. (Ord. 1263 § 2, 2017) Division 15-2 Part 2 Minor Discretionary Permits 15.18 Administrative Permit 15.19 Minor Amendment To Conditional Use Permit 15.20 Tentative Parcel Maps 15.21 Final Maps 15.18 Administrative Permit 15.18.010 Administrative Permit 15.18.020 Review By Director 15.18.010 Administrative Permit The director may grant an administrative permit for the uses listed in Division 3: Development Districts. All administrative permits are to be processed as set forth in Sections 15.18.020. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.18.020 Review By Director The director shall review the application, but in no case shall the review period exceed thirty (30) calendar days from the date of submittal. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.19 Minor Amendment To Conditional Use Permit 15.19.010 Minor Amendment 15.19.010 Minor Amendment The director or his or her designated representative may grant an amendment to a previously approved conditional use permit one time provided that: 1. The amendment will not result in an increase of more than ten percent (10%) of the existing facility or use covered by the use permit; and 2. Any extension of time will not exceed two years unless provided for otherwise in the original use permit; and 3. Applicant/operator has complied with all the conditions of approval of the approved conditional use permit; and 4. No significant public controversy was generated during the initial hearing; and 5. Applicant/operator has submitted an application for amendment with an application fee set by resolution adopted by the board of supervisors. (Ord. 1269 § 10, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.20 Tentative Parcel Maps 15.20.010 Authority 15.20.010 Authority 1. All parcel maps are to be processed as set forth in this chapter. The director may approve a parcel map after notice and hearing as provided in Chapter 15.04 and after making findings as required in section 15.23.010. 2. After the conditional approval of the tentative parcel map and prior to the expiration of the map, the applicant may cause the real property to be surveyed and a parcel map prepared in accordance with the conditionally approved parcel tentative map. The parcel map shall conform to the conditionally approved tentative map and shall contain all required certificates which have been signed and, where necessary, acknowledged before it may be accepted for filing. Three copies of the map and three sets of the improvement plans, in a form and containing such information as required by the public works director and the Subdivision Map Act, shall be tendered along with a deposit to cover the estimated cost of checking the improvement plans and a map checking fee. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.21 Final Maps 15.21.010 Authority 15.21.010 Authority After the conditional approval of the tentative map and prior to the expiration of the map, the applicant may cause the real property to be surveyed and a final map prepared in accordance with the conditionally approved tentative map. The final map shall conform to the conditionally approved tentative map and shall contain all required certificates which have been signed and, where necessary, acknowledged before it may be accepted for filing. Three copies of the map and three sets of the improvements plans, in a form and containing such information as required by the public works director and the Subdivision Map Act, shall be tendered to the public works director along with a deposit to cover the estimated cost of checking the improvement plans and final map. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) Division 15-2 Part 3 Major Discretionary Permits 15.22 Conditional Use Permit 15.23 Land Divisions 15.24 Vesting Tentative Maps 15.25 Tentative Subdivision Maps 15.26 Minor Divisions 15.265 Expedited Electrical Vehicle Charging Station Permitting 15.27 Variances 15.28 Deviations 15.29 Amendments

sit to cover the estimated cost of checking the improvement plans and final map. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) Division 15-2 Part 3 Major Discretionary Permits 15.22 Conditional Use Permit 15.23 Land Divisions 15.24 Vesting Tentative Maps 15.25 Tentative Subdivision Maps 15.26 Minor Divisions 15.265 Expedited Electrical Vehicle Charging Station Permitting 15.27 Variances 15.28 Deviations 15.29 Amendments

15.22 Conditional Use Permit 15.22.010 Conditional Use Permit 15.22.020 Findings 15.22.030 Major Amendment To Conditional Use Permit 15.22.010 Conditional Use Permit All conditional use permits are to be processed as set forth in this chapter. The planning commission may grant a conditional use permit for the uses listed in Division 3: Development Districts after notice and hearing as provided in Chapter 15.04 and after making findings as required in section 15.22.020. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The approving authority, prior to recommending approval of a development permit shall find as follows:

1. That the proposed use at the particular location is necessary or desirable in providing a service or facility which will contribute to the general well-being of the public; 2. That such use will not, under the circumstances of the particular case, be detrimental to the health, safety or general welfare of persons residing or working in the vicinity, or injurious to property or improvements in the vicinity;

2. That the site for the proposed use is adequate in size and shape to accommodate said use and to accommodate all of the yards, setbacks, walls or fences, and other features required herein or by the planning commission;

3. Except in the case of the expansion of a nonconforming use, that the granting of the permit will not adversely affect the general plan or any area plan of the county. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.22.030 Major Amendment To Conditional Use Permit A duly approved conditional use permit may be amended or extended provided the change does not qualify for a minor amendment as defined in section 15.19. All major amendments are to be processed as set forth in Section 15.22.010. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.23.010 Findings

15.23.010 Findings

No tentative map, for either a final map or a parcel map, shall be approved unless the following findings are made:

1. That the proposed map or the design or improvement of the proposed subdivision is consistent with the applicable general and specific plans and this title;

2. That the site is physically suitable for the type of development, or for the density of development proposed;

3. That the design of the subdivision or the proposed improvements will not cause substantial environmental damage or substantially injure fish or wildlife or their habitat, and, if applicable, that such subdivision and improvements provide reasonable public access to public resources as required by Article 3.5 of the Subdivision Map Act;

4. That the design of the subdivision or the type of improvements will not cause substantial public health problems; 5. That the design of the subdivision or the type of improvements is not in conflict with easements acquired by the public at large for access through or use of property within the proposed subdivision; 6. That the discharge of waste from the proposed subdivision into a sewer system would not result in the violation of existing requirements prescribed by the California Regional Water Quality Control Board; 7. That the property is not, or will not become, unhealthful or unfit for human habitation or occupancy if developed as proposed; 8. That the property is not hazardous for development or habitation because of flooding or inundation, adverse soil or geologic conditions, close proximity to an airport, excessive steepness, difficult access, wildfire hazard or other conditions adverse to the public health, safety or general welfare. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.24 Vesting Tentative Maps 15.24.010 Purpose And Intent 15.24.020 Vesting On Approval Of Vesting Tentative Map 15.24.030 Development Inconsistent With Zoning--Conditional Approval 15.24.040 Applications Inconsistent With Current Policies 15.24.010 Purpose And Intent

It is the purpose of this ordinance to establish procedures necessary for the implementation of the vesting tentative map statute, and to supplement the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act and the Land Division Ordinance. Except as otherwise set forth in the provisions of this chapter, the provisions of the land division ordinance shall apply to the Vesting Tentative Map Ordinance. To accomplish this purpose, the regulations outlined in this ordinance are determined to be necessary for the preservation of the public health, safety, and general welfare, and for the promotion of orderly growth and development. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.24.020 Vesting On Approval Of Vesting Tentative Map

ovisions of the land division ordinance shall apply to the Vesting Tentative Map Ordinance. To accomplish this purpose, the regulations outlined in this ordinance are determined to be necessary for the preservation of the public health, safety, and general welfare, and for the promotion of orderly growth and development. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.24.020 Vesting On Approval Of Vesting Tentative Map

1. The approval or conditional approval of a vesting tentative map shall confer a vested right to proceed with the development described in the application in substantial compliance with the ordinances, policies, and standards described in Government Code Section 66474.2. However, if Section 66474.2 of the Government Code is repealed, the approval or conditional approval of a vesting tentative map shall confer a vested right to proceed with the development described in the application in substantial compliance with the ordinances, policies, and standards in effect at the time the vesting tentative map is approved or conditionally approved.

2. Notwithstanding subsection (A), a permit approval extension or entitlement may be made conditional or denied if any of the following are determined: 1. A failure to do so would place the residents of the subdivision or the immediate community, or both, in a condition dangerous to their health or safety, or both; 2. The condition or denial is required in order to comply with state or federal Law.

3. The rights referred to in this section shall expire if a final map is not approved prior to the expiration of the vesting tentative map as provided in this chapter. If the final map is approved and recorded, these rights shall last for the following periods of time: 1. An initial time period of two years except where several final maps are recorded on various phases of a project covered by a single vesting tentative map; this initial time period shall be one year and a new one year period shall begin for each phase when the final map for that phase is recorded;

4. The initial time set forth above shall be automatically extended by any time period used for processing a complete application for a grading permit or for design or architectural review, if such processing exceeds thirty days, from the date a complete application is filed;

5. A applicant may apply to the planning commission for a one year extension any time before the initial time period set forth expires. If the extension is denied, the applicant may appeal that denial to the board of supervisors within ten days as allowed by Title 15;

6. If the applicant has obtained a building permit and substantial work has been done thereafter in reliance on those permits during the periods of time specified in subdivisions (1) through (3), the rights referred to herein shall continue until the expiration of that permit or any extension of that permit.

7. Fees charged for building permits or land use permits filed subsequent to the approval of a vesting tentative map shall be as required at the time the subsequent permit applications are filed. Application contents shall be as required by ordinance requirements in effect at the time the subsequent application is filed. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.24.030 Development Inconsistent With Zoning--Conditional Approval 1. Whenever a applicant files a vesting tentative map for a subdivision whose intended development is inconsistent with the zoning ordinance in existence at the time, the inconsistency shall be noted on the map by the applicant. The county may deny such a vesting tentative map or approve it conditioned on the applicant, or his or her designee, obtaining the necessary change in the zoning ordinance to eliminate the inconsistency. If the change in the zoning ordinance or a variance from the zoning ordinance is obtained, the approved or conditionally approved vesting tentative map shall, notwithstanding Section 15.24.020, confer the vested right to proceed with the development in substantial compliance with the change in the zoning ordinance and the map, as approved.

2. The rights conferred by this section shall be for the time period set forth in Section 15.24.020. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.24.040 Applications Inconsistent With Current Policies

Notwithstanding any provision of this ordinance, a property owner or his or her designee may seek approvals of permits for development which depart from the ordinances, policies and standards described in Section 15.24.020 and 15.24.030, and local agencies may grant these approvals or issue these permits to the extent that the departures are authorized under applicable law. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.25 Tentative Subdivision Maps

15.25.010 Sites Allocated For Public Purposes 15.25.020 Compliance With Conditions 15.25.030 Failure To Record Approved Maps 15.25.040 Extension Of Time

15.25.010 Sites Allocated For Public Purposes

The Planning Commission may require for subdivisions requiring a Final Map that sites necessary for public purposes be provided or reserved, or that fees for such purposes be paid as follows:

1. Public schools, elementary and secondary, as provided by State Law;

2. Water, sewer, solid waste disposal, drainage and flood control facility sites and easements as required to properly serve individual subdivisions, and to conform to area plan;

3. Public sites for fire stations, libraries and other public uses and services as may be negotiated by public agencies and the applicant. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.25.020 Compliance With Conditions

Following approval of a tentative map, the applicant shall proceed to fulfill all conditions of such approval, and shall cause to be prepared and submitted to the Public Works Director and the Department of Public Health the plans, specifications and other information related subdivision improvements in accordance with the land divisions standards provided for in this Title. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.25.030 Failure To Record Approved Maps

applicant shall proceed to fulfill all conditions of such approval, and shall cause to be prepared and submitted to the Public Works Director and the Department of Public Health the plans, specifications and other information related subdivision improvements in accordance with the land divisions standards provided for in this Title. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.25.030 Failure To Record Approved Maps

All approved or conditionally approved tentative maps shall expire 24 months after such approval or conditional approval. If the applicant fails to submit for processing and recording an approved parcel map or final map before the expiration of the tentative map, the tentative map shall be null and void. If a parcel map or final map is not filed for recording prior to the expiration of the tentative map, a new tentative map shall be required to be submitted, processed and approved. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.25.040 Extension Of Time

Upon written application received by the Director within 24 months after the conditional approval of the tentative map, the Director may extend the time in which the map expires for an additional period not to exceed three years. If the Director denies approval of an extension, the applicant may appeal such denial in writing to the Planning Commission as provided in Chapter 15.05. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.26 Minor Divisions 15.26.010 Requirements 15.26.020 Findings By The Planning Commission 15.26.010 Requirements

the Director may extend the time in which the map expires for an additional period not to exceed three years. If the Director denies approval of an extension, the applicant may appeal such denial in writing to the Planning Commission as provided in Chapter 15.05. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.26 Minor Divisions 15.26.010 Requirements 15.26.020 Findings By The Planning Commission 15.26.010 Requirements

2. In the technical review of charging station, consistent with Government Code section 65850.7, the building official shall not condition the approval of any electric vehicle charging station permit on the approval of such a system by an "association" which is defined in California Civil Code section 4080 as a nonprofit corporation or unincorporated association created for the purpose of managing a common interest development.

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• Adopted by Ord. 1294 on 12/1/2020 15.265.060 Electric Vehicle Charging Station Installation Requirements 1. Electric Vehicle Charging Station equipment shall meet the requirements of the California Electrical Code, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, and accredited testing laboratories such as Underwriters Laboratories, and rules of the Public Utilities Commission or a Municipal Electric Utility Company regarding safety and reliability.

• 2. Installation of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations and associated wiring, boding, disconnecting means and overcurrent protective devices shall meet the requirements of Article 625 and all applicable provisions of the California Electrical Code.

  3. Installation of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations shall be incorporated into the load calculations of all new or existing electrical services and shall meet the requirements of the California Electrical Code. Electrical vehicle charging equipment shall be considered a continuous load.

  4. Anchorage of either floor-mounted or wall-mounted Electric Vehicle Charging Stations shall meet the requirements of the California Building or Residential Code as applicable per occupancy, and the provisions of the manufacturer's installation instructions. Mounting of Charging Stations shall not adversely affect building elements.

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15.27 Variances
15.27.010 Variances
15.27.020 Findings
15.27.010 Variances
Variances may be granted in order to prevent unnecessary hardships that would result from a strict or literal interpretation and enforcement of certain regulations prescribed by this title. A practical
difficulty or unnecessary hardship may result from the size, shape or dimensions of a site or the location of existing structures thereon, from geographic, topographic or other physical conditions on the site
or in the immediate vicinity. A variance shall not be granted to permit a use not permitted in the zone by this title. All variances are to be processed as set forth in chapter 15.04. and may be granted by the
planning commission after making findings as required in section 15.27.020. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)
15.27.020 Findings
Approval or conditional approval of a variance shall be granted only when the planning commission makes the following findings:
1. Due to special circumstances applicable to the property, including size, shape, topography, location or surroundings, the strict application of this title deprives such property of privileges enjoyed by
other property in the vicinity and under identical zoning classification;
2. The adjustment authorized by the variance shall not constitute a grant of special privileges inconsistent with the limitations upon other properties in the vicinity and zone in which such property is
situated. The planning commission shall impose such conditions as will assure continued compliance with this finding;
3. The variance does not authorize a use or activity which is not otherwise expressly authorized by the zone regulation governing the parcel of real property. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)
15.28 Deviations
15.28.010 Deviations Application
15.28.020 Findings Action By The Planning Commission
15.28.010 Deviations Application
Application for any waiver shall be made by a verified petition of the applicant filed with the director, stating fully the grounds of the application and facts relied upon by the petitioner. Such petition shall
be filed with the tentative map. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)
15.28.020 Findings Action By The Planning Commission
Upon receipt of the director’s recommendation, the planning commission shall approve the waiver request if and only if the following findings are made and supported by substantial evidence in the record:
1. That there are special circumstances or conditions of size and shape affecting the property;
2. That the granting of the waiver will not adversely affect the adopted general plan or specific plan;
3. That the granting of the waiver will not be detrimental to the public welfare or injurious to other property in the territory in which the property is situated;
4. In the case of improvements, that the proposed improvements cannot or will not function properly due to the lack of complementary facilities but that the subdivision is nonetheless an effective
workable design, as modified; and
5. In the case of improvements, that the topographic conditions would obstruct the functioning or installation of such improvements but that the subdivision is nonetheless an effective workable
design, as modified. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)
15.29 Amendments
15.29.010 Title Amendment
15.29.020 Zoning Map Amendment
15.29.010 Title Amendment
1. Any provisions of this title other than the zoning maps may be amended whenever the board of supervisors deems that the amendment will be in the best interest of the public. Such amendments
may be initiated by:
1. The board of supervisors upon its own motion; or
2. The planning commission and/or the director.
2. Such amendments are to be processed as set forth in Sections 15.04.010 through 15.04.040.
3. Within forty calendar days of initiation of the procedure to amend this title, the planning commission shall conduct a public meeting to review and to consider the amendments. At the conclusion of
the review, the planning commission shall adopt recommendations on the proposed amendment by resolution and together with its recommendations, report findings a summary of hearings to the
board of supervisors. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)
15.29.020 Zoning Map Amendment
1. Boundaries of any zoning maps established by this title may be amended whenever public necessity, convenience and general welfare require. Such amendments may be initiated by:
1. A verified application of one or more owners of property affected by the proposed amendment;
2. Resolution of intention by the board of supervisors;
3. Resolution of intention by the planning commission.
2. Such amendments are to be processed as set forth in Sections 15.04.010 through 15.04.040. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)
Division 15-3 Development Districts
15.30 Establishment Of Zones
Division 15-3 Part 1 Standard Land Use Districts
Division 15-3 Part 2 Special Land Use Districts
Division 15-3 Part 3 Combining Districts
15.30 Establishment Of Zones
15.30.010 Establishment Of Zones
15.30.020 Zone Maps
15.30.010 Establishment Of Zones
In order to classify, regulate, restrict and separate the use of land, buildings and structures and to regulate and to limit the type, height and bulk of buildings and structures in the various zones and to
regulate the areas of yards and other open areas abutting and between buildings and structures and to regulate the density of population, the unincorporated areas of the county are divided into the
following zones:
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15.27 Variances
15.27.010 Variances
15.27.020 Findings
15.27.010 Variances

Variances may be granted in order to prevent unnecessary hardships that would result from a strict or literal interpretation and enforcement of certain regulations prescribed by this title. A practical
difficulty or unnecessary hardship may result from the size, shape or dimensions of a site or the location of existing structures thereon, from geographic, topographic or other physical conditions on the site
or in the immediate vicinity. A variance shall not be granted to permit a use not permitted in the zone by this title. All variances are to be processed as set forth in chapter 15.04. and may be granted by the
planning commission after making findings as required in section 15.27.020. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)
15.27.020 Findings
Approval or conditional approval of a variance shall be granted only when the planning commission makes the following findings:
1. Due to special circumstances applicable to the property, including size, shape, topography, location or surroundings, the strict application of this title deprives such property of privileges enjoyed by
other property in the vicinity and under identical zoning classification;
2. The adjustment authorized by the variance shall not constitute a grant of special privileges inconsistent with the limitations upon other properties in the vicinity and zone in which such property is
situated. The planning commission shall impose such conditions as will assure continued compliance with this finding;
3. The variance does not authorize a use or activity which is not otherwise expressly authorized by the zone regulation governing the parcel of real property. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)
15.28 Deviations
15.28.010 Deviations Application
15.28.020 Findings Action By The Planning Commission
15.28.010 Deviations Application
Application for any waiver shall be made by a verified petition of the applicant filed with the director, stating fully the grounds of the application and facts relied upon by the petitioner. Such petition shall
be filed with the tentative map. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)
15.28.020 Findings Action By The Planning Commission
Upon receipt of the director’s recommendation, the planning commission shall approve the waiver request if and only if the following findings are made and supported by substantial evidence in the record:
1. That there are special circumstances or conditions of size and shape affecting the property;
2. That the granting of the waiver will not adversely affect the adopted general plan or specific plan;
3. That the granting of the waiver will not be detrimental to the public welfare or injurious to other property in the territory in which the property is situated;
4. In the case of improvements, that the proposed improvements cannot or will not function properly due to the lack of complementary facilities but that the subdivision is nonetheless an effective
workable design, as modified; and
5. In the case of improvements, that the topographic conditions would obstruct the functioning or installation of such improvements but that the subdivision is nonetheless an effective workable
design, as modified. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)
15.29 Amendments
15.29.010 Title Amendment
15.29.020 Zoning Map Amendment
15.29.010 Title Amendment
1. Any provisions of this title other than the zoning maps may be amended whenever the board of supervisors deems that the amendment will be in the best interest of the public. Such amendments
may be initiated by:
1. The board of supervisors upon its own motion; or
2. The planning commission and/or the director.
2. Such amendments are to be processed as set forth in Sections 15.04.010 through 15.04.040.
3. Within forty calendar days of initiation of the procedure to amend this title, the planning commission shall conduct a public meeting to review and to consider the amendments. At the conclusion of
the review, the planning commission shall adopt recommendations on the proposed amendment by resolution and together with its recommendations, report findings a summary of hearings to the
board of supervisors. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)
15.29.020 Zoning Map Amendment
1. Boundaries of any zoning maps established by this title may be amended whenever public necessity, convenience and general welfare require. Such amendments may be initiated by:
1. A verified application of one or more owners of property affected by the proposed amendment;
2. Resolution of intention by the board of supervisors;
3. Resolution of intention by the planning commission.
2. Such amendments are to be processed as set forth in Sections 15.04.010 through 15.04.040. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)
Division 15-3 Development Districts
15.30 Establishment Of Zones
Division 15-3 Part 1 Standard Land Use Districts
Division 15-3 Part 2 Special Land Use Districts
Division 15-3 Part 3 Combining Districts
15.30 Establishment Of Zones
15.30.010 Establishment Of Zones
15.30.020 Zone Maps
15.30.010 Establishment Of Zones
In order to classify, regulate, restrict and separate the use of land, buildings and structures and to regulate and to limit the type, height and bulk of buildings and structures in the various zones and to
regulate the areas of yards and other open areas abutting and between buildings and structures and to regulate the density of population, the unincorporated areas of the county are divided into the
following zones:
TPZ
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f land, buildings and structures and to regulate and to limit the type, height and bulk of buildings and structures in the various zones and to
regulate the areas of yards and other open areas abutting and between buildings and structures and to regulate the density of population, the unincorporated areas of the county are divided into the
following zones:
TPZ
Timberland Preserve Zone|

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(Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.30.020 Zone Maps

1. A series of maps, known as “zone maps,” shall be utilized to show the designations and boundaries of each zone district in the unincorporated portion of the county, and shall show base date as the director deems useful or the board of supervisors directs. The maps shall be maintained by the planning authority.

2. A series of maps, known as “special zone maps,” may be utilized to show certain districts or areas in more detail or in a difference arrangement than shown on the zone maps. The maps shall be maintained by the planning authority.

3. The director shall revise these maps to show amendments to the zoning plan, including changes in designations, rezoning of property and clarification of district boundaries made pursuant to section 15.03.010. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Division 15-3 Part 1 Standard Land Use Districts 15.31 RZ - Recreation Zone 15.32 FA - Foothill Agricultural/Forestry Zone 15.33 AE - Exclusive Agricultural Zone 15.34 AT - Agricultural Transitional Zone 15.35 RE - Rural Residential Estate Zone 15.36 RE-NW - Rural Residential Estate Zone - North Willows 15.37 R-1 - Single Family Residential Zone 15.38 R-M - Multiple Residential Zone 15.381 MU-R - Mixed Use Residential Zone 15.39 LC - Local Commercial District 15.40 CC - Community Commercial District 15.41 C - Commercial Zone 15.42 SC - Service Commercial District 15.43 HVC - Highway And Visitor Commercial District 15.44 M - Industrial Zone 15.31 RZ - Recreation Zone 15.31.010 Purpose 15.31.020 Permitted Uses 15.31.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit 15.31.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit 15.31.050 Site Area 15.31.060 Maximum Building Height 15.31.070 Minimum Distance Between Structures 15.31.080 Minimum Yard Requirements

15.31.010 Purpose

This zoning classification is intended to be applied in the mountainous and hilly areas of the county in which recreation may become the desirable predominant use, in which light agriculture and forestry will be the secondary uses, and in which protection of the watershed lands and sources of water supply from fire, pollution, erosion and other detrimental effects is essential to the general welfare. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.31.020 Permitted Uses

The following uses and structures shall be permitted in the RZ zone:

1. One single-family dwelling or mobilehome for each one hundred sixty acres, private farm buildings and accessory buildings and uses (refer to mobilehome standards);

2. Home occupations if a permit is secured pursuant to Chapter 15.78;

3. Crop and tree farming, grazing, animal husbandry, dairies, nurseries and greenhouses for the propagation of plants;

4. Riding clubs, golf courses and country clubs;

5. Parks and recreation facilities for day use only (excluding recreational vehicle and trailer parks and amusement parks);

6. Food and beverage service and concession facilities (excluding restaurants) subject to Chapter 15.745;

7. Recreation offices, headquarters, maintenance facilities and workshops;

8. Stands for the purpose of displaying and selling agricultural, floricultural or farming products which are grown or produced on the premises; provided, that there shall be no more than one stand per lot or parcel of land. The ground coverage of the stand shall not exceed three hundred square feet, and it shall be set back from the street or highway right-of-way a distance of at least twenty feet. Such stand must be of good frame construction.

9. One second dwelling subject to Chapter 15.175. (Ord. 1263 § 4, 2017; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.31.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit

The following uses and structures may be permitted only if a conditional use permit has first been secured:

1. Amusement parks;

2. Campgrounds and recreational vehicle parks;

   3. Boat sales;

   4. Restaurants subject to Chapter 15.745;

   5. Planned mobilehome parks;

   6. Motels subject to Chapter 15.745;

   7. Sporting good stores, and other similar retail and service establishments necessary to serve the public in recreation areas; 8. Sawmills;

   8. Commercial cattle and hog feed lots, fruit and vegetable packing and processing plants, wineries, veterinary hospitals and kennels, airports, extraction of natural materials, cemeteries;

   9. Public utility buildings and public service or utility uses (transmission and distribution lines excepted), including but not limited to, reservoirs, storage tanks, pumping stations, telephone exchanges, power stations, transformer stations, service yards and parking lots;

3. Commercial storage (storage for resale) of inflammable fluid or gas fuels in a quantity greater than five hundred gallons in any container less than two and one-half feet below the surface of the ground. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.31.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit

The following uses and structures may be permitted only if an administrative permit has first been secured:

1. Natural gas wells. (Ord. 1263 § 5, 2017; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The minimum area of any lot or parcel of land in this zone shall be one hundred forty-four (144) acres. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The maximum building height in the RZ zone shall be:

1. Thirty-five feet for residential structures;

2. Fifty feet for commercial and agricultural buildings or structures; 3. Exceptions: Water tanks, silos, granaries, barns, pole buildings, electronic towers, antennas and similar structures or necessary mechanical appurtenances may exceed fifty feet in height. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.31.070 Minimum Distance Between Structures 1. The distance between any accessory building and a dwelling unit shall conform to Uniform Building and Fire Codes. 2. All stables, barns, sheds, shelters, paddocks, riding stables, and exercise yards for animals shall be located not less than one hundred feet from all property and street right-of-way lines. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.31.080 Minimum Yard Requirements 1. Front Yard. The minimum front yard shall be thirty feet. Measurement shall start at the edge of the existing county right-of-way as shown on the adopted Glenn County Circulation Plan. 2. Side Yards. The minimum side yards shall be twenty-five feet. 3. Rear Yard. The minimum rear yard shall be twenty-five feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.32 FA - Foothill Agricultural/Forestry Zone 15.32.010 Purpose 15.32.020 Permitted Uses 15.32.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit 15.32.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit 15.32.050 Site Area 15.32.060 Maximum Building Height 15.32.070 Minimum Distance Between Structures 15.32.080 Minimum Yard Requirements 15.32.090 Site Plan Review 15.32.010 Purpose This zoning classification is established for the following purposes: 1. To provide areas for extensive agricultural activities; 2. To protect the timber and forest lands economically suitable for logging. ((Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008) 15.32.020 Permitted Uses

The following uses and structures shall be permitted in the FA zone:

1. One single-family dwelling or mobilehome for each one hundred sixty acres, private farm buildings, accessory buildings, and uses. (refer to mobilehome standards); 2. Home occupations if a permit is secured pursuant to Chapter 15.78;

2. Growing and harvesting forest products;

3. Logging and sawmill operations and accessory buildings and uses;

4. Growing and harvesting of any agricultural crop or product;

5. The use of implements of husbandry, including aircraft when used in the growing of crops or raising of animals, except as may be regulated by other laws or regulations; 7. Game preserves and hunting clubs, private or public, but shall not include permanent facilities such as hotels, motels, restaurants, club houses; 8. Agricultural service establishments primarily engaged in performing agricultural animal husbandry services or horticultural services to farmers; 9. Temporary landing of aircraft engaged in agricultural uses;

6. Livestock farming, including the raising, feeding, maintaining and breeding of horses, cattle, sheep, goats and similar livestock;

7. Accessory buildings or structures required for the storage of any crops, products, equipment or uses lawfully permitted or produced on the premises;

8. The keeping of fowl and animals shall conform to all other provisions of law governing same. No pen, coop, stable, barn or corral used for fowl and animals shall be kept or maintained within fifty feet of any dwelling or other building used for human habitation, or within one hundred feet of the front lot line of the lot upon which it is located, or within twenty-five feet of the street side of a corner lot, or within one hundred feet of any parcel of land used for a public park, school or similar institution;

9. Stands for the purpose of displaying and selling agricultural, floricultural or farming products which are grown or produced on the premises, provided that there shall be not more than one stand per lot or parcel of land. The ground coverage of the stand shall not exceed three hundred square feet and it shall be set back from the street or highway right-of-way a distance of at least twenty feet. Such stand must be of good frame construction;

10. Windmills, tank houses, buildings or shelters for farm equipment and machinery, water wells, water reservoirs and storage tanks.

11. One second dwelling subject to Chapter 15.175. (Ord. 1263 § 6, 2017; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.32.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit

The following uses and structures may be permitted in the FA zone only if a conditional use permit has first been secured:

1. Commercial storage and handling of agricultural chemicals;

2. Farm labor camps and structures for transient labor;

3. Commercial hog and pig farming;

4. Animal sales yards;

5. Commercial stables, riding academies;

6. Public and private nonprofit nursery schools, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools and colleges; 7. Churches, public playgrounds and parks;

7. Sales and services to farmers or farm-related activities;

8. Government buildings and properties;

9. Kennels, animal hospitals and veterinarian’s offices;

10. Public utility buildings and public service or utility uses (transmission and distribution lines excepted), including but not limited to reservoirs, storage tanks, pumping stations, telephone exchanges, power stations, transformer stations, service yards and parking lots; 12. Cemeteries, crematories and mausoleums; 13. Commercial storage (storage for resale) of inflammable fluid or gas fuels in a quantity greater than five hundred gallons in any container less than two and one-half feet below the surface of the ground; 14. New confined animal facilities;

11. Confined animal facility expansion. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.32.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit

The following uses and structures may be permitted only if an administrative permit has first been secured:

1. Natural gas wells;

2. Agricultural Homestay Establishment. (Ord. 1263 § 7, 2017; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The minimum area of any lot or parcel of land in the FA zone shall be one hundred forty-four (144) acres. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The maximum building height in the FA zone shall be:

1. Thirty-five feet for residential structures;

2. Fifty feet for agricultural buildings or structures; 3. Exceptions. Water tanks, silos, granaries, barns, pole buildings, electronic towers, antennas and similar structures of necessary mechanical appurtenances may exceed fifty feet in height. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.32.070 Minimum Distance Between Structures 1. The distance between any accessory building and a dwelling unit shall conform to Uniform Building and Fire Codes. 2. All stables, barns, sheds, shelters, paddocks, riding stables and exercise yards for animals shall be located not less than one hundred feet from all property and street right-of-way lines. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.32.080 Minimum Yard Requirements 1. Front Yard. The minimum front yard shall be thirty feet. The measurement shall start at the edge of the existing county right-of-way as shown on the adopted Glenn County Circulation Plan. 2. Side Yards. The minimum side yards shall be twenty-five feet.

3. Rear Yard. The minimum rear yard shall be twenty-five feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.32.090 Site Plan Review

Prior to or concurrent with the application for a building permit, the applicant shall submit to the agency a complete site plan and all necessary supporting documentation for review by the agency to ensure compliance with all the requirements of the Glenn County Code. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.33 AE - Exclusive Agricultural Zone 15.33.010 Purpose 15.33.020 Sub-Zone And Lot Area 15.33.030 Permitted Uses 15.33.040 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit 15.33.050 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit 15.33.060 Maximum Building Height 15.33.070 Minimum Distance Between Structures 15.33.080 Minimum Yard Requirements 15.33.090 Site Plan Review

15.33.010 Purpose This zoning classification is established for the following purposes: 1. To preserve the maximum amount of the limited supply of agricultural land which is necessary in the conservation of the County’s economic resources and vital for a healthy agricultural economy of the County; 2. To eliminate the encroachment of land uses which are incompatible with the agricultural use of land; 3. To prevent the unnecessary conversion of agricultural land to urban uses; 4. To provide areas for both intensive and extensive agricultural activities. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.33.020 Sub-Zone And Lot Area

The minimum area of any lot or parcel of land for each of the “AE” combining zones shall be as indicated below:

1. Combining Zone: AE-20 Minimum Parcel Size: 17 acres Combining Zone: AE-40 Minimum Parcel Size: 36 acres Combining Zone: AE-80 Minimum Parcel Size: 72 acres (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.33.030 Permitted Uses

The following uses and structures shall be permitted in the “AE” zone provided that the performance standards in Division 4, Part 1 are met:

1. One single-family dwelling or mobile home per each parcel of land; 2. In addition to the residence allowed under paragraph (A) above for each parcel of land, one additional residence or mobile home for each forty (40) acres in “AE-20” and eighty (80) acres in “AE40”; 3. Any use listed within this section which exceeds any development or performance standard required by this zoning code shall require a conditional use permit; 4. Growing and harvesting of any agricultural crop or product;

2. The use of implements of husbandry including aircraft when used in the growing of crops or raising of animals, except as may be regulated by other laws or regulations; 6. Game preserves and hunting clubs, private or public, but shall not include permanent facilities such s hotels, motels, restaurants, club houses;

3. Agricultural service establishments primarily engaged in performing agricultural animal husbandry services or horticultural services to farmers; 8. Temporary landing of aircraft engaged in agricultural uses; 9. Livestock farming, including the raising, feeding, maintaining and breeding of horses, cattle, sheep, goats, and similar livestock;

4. Agricultural processing plants and facilities, such as hulling operations, greenhouses, wineries subject to Chapter 15.745, silos, dehydrators, canneries and similar agricultural uses not exceeding the standards in Division 5, Chapter 74;

5. Accessory buildings such as garages, carports, lath houses, gardening sheds, recreation rooms and similar structures which are customarily used in conjunction with and incidental to a principal use or structure;

6. Home occupations if a permit is secured pursuant to Chapter 15.78; 13. Storage of materials used for the construction of a building, including the contractor’s temporary office, provided that such use is on the building site or immediately adjacent thereto and provided further that such use shall be permitted only during the construction period and the 30 days thereafter;

7. Accessory buildings or structures required for the storage of any crops, products, equipment or uses lawfully permitted or produced on the premises; 15. The keeping of fowl and animals shall conform to all other provisions of law governing same. No pen, coop, stable, barn or corral used for fowl and animals shall be kept or maintained within fifty (50) feet of any dwelling or other building used for human habitation, or within one hundred (100) feet of the front lot line of the lot upon which it is located, or within twenty-five (25) feet of the street side of a corner lot, or within one hundred (100) feet of any parcel of land used for a public park, school or similar institution;

8. Stands for the purpose of displaying and selling agricultural, floricultural or farming products which are grown or produced on the premises, provided that there shall be not more than one stand per lot or parcel of land. The ground coverage of the stand shall not exceed 300 square feet and it shall be set back from the street or highway right-of-way a distance of at least 20 feet. Such stand must be of good frame construction;

ying and selling agricultural, floricultural or farming products which are grown or produced on the premises, provided that there shall be not more than one stand per lot or parcel of land. The ground coverage of the stand shall not exceed 300 square feet and it shall be set back from the street or highway right-of-way a distance of at least 20 feet. Such stand must be of good frame construction;

17. Windmills, tank houses, buildings or shelters for farm equipment and machinery, water wells, water reservoirs and storage tanks;

18. Seasonal Farm worker Housing which meets the Seasonal Farm worker Housing Standards as set forth in Chapter 15.80 and approved for such use pursuant to Title 25 of the California Code of Regulations. Seasonal Farm worker Housing shall also conform to such public health, building, and fire safety criteria as may be established by resolution or ordinance of the Board of Supervisors. 19. One second dwelling subject to Chapter 15.175. (Ord. 1263 § 8, 2017; Ord. 1253 § 2, 2015; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The following uses and structures may be permitted in the “AE” zone only if a conditional use permit has first been secured:

1. Licensed storage and handling of agricultural chemicals; 2. Fertilizer manufacturing or processing for resale; 3. Farm labor camps and structures for transient labor; 4. Hog and pig farming on parcels less than forty acres or on parcels contiguous to a Residential or Commercial Zone; 5. Animal sales yards; 6. Stables, riding academies with (1) more than one boarding horse per acre or (2) more than forty boarding horses dedicated for such use, regardless of the size of the parcel; 7. Aqua culture with an aggregate pond larger than one acre in size; 8. Agricultural processing plants and facilities, such as hulling operations, greenhouses, wineries subject to Chapter 15.745, silos, dehydrators, canneries and similar agricultural uses exceeding the standards in Division 5, Chapter 740;

2. Animal processing plants, rendering plants;

3. Public and private non-profit nursery schools, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools and colleges; 11. Churches, public playgrounds and parks; 12. Sales and services to farmers or farm-related activities; 13. Power generation meeting Chapter 15.86; 14. Kennels, animal hospitals and veterinarian’s offices; 15. Public utility buildings and public service or utility uses (transmission and distribution lines excepted), including but not limited to reservoirs, storage tanks, pumping stations, telephone exchanges, power stations, transformer stations, service yards and parking lots;

4. Storage (storage for resale) of inflammable fluid or gas fuels in a quantity greater than five hundred gallons in any container less than two and one-half feet below the surface of the ground; 17. Injection wells; 18. Public dumping and disposal areas; 19. Mining and related processing activities; 20. Hunting clubs and facilities including spaces for recreational vehicles, horse racing establishments, golf courses, sporting clay courses, rodeos, spectator events and other similar uses; 21. Air strips and/or airports; 22. Home occupation not in residential dwelling for parcels smaller than 10 acres in size; 23. Cattle and hog feed yards and animal sales yards on parcels less than 80 acres and within 1/2 mile of any residential or commercial zoning district; 24. Confined animal facility; 25. Agricultural products and equipment manufacturing establishments, such as farm equipment manufacturing, irrigation equipment and products manufacturing, and similar manufacturing of equipment or products used primarily by agriculture. (Ord. 1256 § 2, 2016; Ord. 1253 § 2, 2015; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.33.050 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit

The following uses and structures may be permitted only if an administrative permit has first been secured:

1. Natural gas wells; 2. Home occupation not in residential dwelling for parcels of at least 10 acres or more in size; 3. Agricultural Homestay Establishment. (Ord. 1263 § 9, 2017; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.33.060 Maximum Building Height

The maximum building height in the “AE” zone shall be:

1. Thirty-five (35) feet for residential structures; 2. Fifty (50) feet for agricultural buildings or structures; 3. Exceptions. Water tanks, silos, granaries, barns, pole buildings, electronic towers, antennas and similar structures or necessary mechanical appurtenances may exceed fifty (50) feet in height, provided they do not exceed the airport height restrictions. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.33.070 Minimum Distance Between Structures 1. The distance between any accessory building and a dwelling unit shall conform to Uniform Building and Fire Codes. 2. All stables, barns, sheds, shelters, paddocks, riding stables and exercise yards for animals shall be located not less than one hundred (100) feet from all property and street right-of-way side lines. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.33.080 Minimum Yard Requirements 1. Front Yard: The minimum front yard shall be thirty (30) feet. The measurement shall start at the edge of the existing “County Right-of-Way” as shown on the adopted Glenn County Circulation Plan, or the existing right-or-way for the road along the front of or through the property. 2. Side Yards: The minimum side yards shall be twenty-five (25) feet. 3. Rear Yard: The minimum rear yard shall be twenty-five (25) feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.33.090 Site Plan Review Prior to or concurrent with the application for a building permit, the applicant shall submit to the agency a complete site plan and all necessary supporting documentation for review by the agency to ensure compliance with all the requirements of the Glenn County Code. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.34 AT - Agricultural Transitional Zone 15.34.010 Purpose 15.34.020 Permitted Uses 15.34.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit 15.34.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit 15.34.050 Lot Area 15.34.060 Minimum Yard Requirements 15.34.070 Maximum Building Height 15.34.080 Minimum Distance Between Structures 15.34.010 Purpose

This zoning classification is established for the following purposes:

1. To use as a buffer zone between agricultural land and urbanized development;

2. To provide areas where soils are suitable for limited agricultural and livestock activity; 3. To allow low-density residential development. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The following uses and structures shall be permitted in the “AT” zone:

1. One single-family dwelling or mobilehome per parcel of land (refer to mobilehome standards);

2. Growing and harvesting of any agricultural crop or product;

3. Growing and harvesting of field-crops, grain and hay crops, and the growing of grass for pasture and grazing;

4. Fish farming operations for the raising and harvesting of fish as a crop, but not including fishing clubs or fishing for the general public on a commercial basis;

5. Agricultural service establishments primarily engaged in performing agricultural animal husbandry services or horticultural services to farmers;

6. Accessory buildings such as garages, carports, lath houses, greenhouses, gardening sheds, recreation rooms and similar structures which are customarily used in conjunction with and incidental to a principal use or structure;

7. Home occupations, if a permit is secured pursuant to Chapter 15.78 of this title;

   8. Storage of materials used for the construction of a building, including the contractor’s temporary office; provided that such use is on the building site or immediately adjacent thereto, and provided further that such use shall be permitted only during the construction period and the thirty days thereafter;

   9. Accessory buildings or structures required for the storage of any crops, products, equipment or uses lawfully permitted or produced on the premises;

   10. The keeping of fowl and animals shall conform to all other provisions of law governing same. No pen, coop, stable, barn or corral used for fowl and animals shall be kept or maintained within fifty feet of any dwelling, or other building used for human habitation, or within one hundred feet of any parcel of land used for a public park, school or similar institution;

   11. Stands for the purpose of displaying and selling agricultural, floricultural or farming products which are grown or produced on the premises; provided that there shall be no more than one stand per lot or parcel of land. The ground coverage of the stand shall not exceed three hundred square feet, and it shall be set back from the street or highway right-of-way a distance of at least twenty feet. Such stand must be of good frame construction;

8. Windmills, silos, tank houses, buildings or shelters for farm equipment and machinery, water wells, water reservoirs and storage tanks. 13. One second residence subject to Chapter 15.175. (Ord. 1263 § 10, 2017; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.34.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit

The following uses and structures may be permitted in the “AT” zone only if a conditional use permit has first been secured:

1. Commercial stables, riding academies;

2. Public and private nonprofit nursery schools, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools and colleges;

3. Churches and religious institutions, private clubs and lodges, public playgrounds and parks and private or public golf courses; 4. Sales and services to farmers or farm-related activities;

4. Government buildings and properties;

5. Animal hospitals and veterinarian’s offices;

   7. Public utility buildings and public service or utility uses (transmission and distribution lines excepted), including but not limited to reservoirs, storage tanks, pumping stations, telephone exchanges, power stations, transformer stations, service yards and parking lots;

   8. Cemeteries, crematories and mausoleums;

   9. Natural gas wells;

6. Injection wells providing ten acres parcel size for each injection well;

15.34.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit

11. Home occupation not in residential dwelling for parcels smaller than 10 acres in size. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The following uses and structures may be permitted only if an administrative permit has first been secured:

1. Home occupation not in residential dwelling for parcels of at least 10 acres or more in size. (Ord. 1263 § 11, 2017; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.34.050 Lot Area

1. The minimum area of any lot or parcel of land shall be 8.5 acres.

2. Each lot or parcel of land shall abut a public street for a minimum of sixty feet; the minimum width shall be one hundred twenty feet.

3. Lots which are less than ten acres in size shall conform to a 3:1 length to width ratio. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.34.060 Minimum Yard Requirements 1. Front Yard. The minimum front yard shall be thirty feet. 2. Side Yard, corner Lots. On corner lots, the side yard which is not used as front yard shall not be less than fifteen feet in width. 3. Side Yard, Accessory Buildings. The side yard of any accessory building that exceeds one thousand square feet shall be the same as that required for the main building. Any accessory building less than one thousand square feet shall have a minimum of five feet side yard and rear yard.

4. Side Yard, Interior. The minimum side yards of interior lots shall be fifteen feet.

5. Rear Yard. The minimum rear yard shall be twenty-five feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The maximum building height in the “AT” zone shall be:

1. Thirty-five feet for residential structures; 2. Fifty feet for agricultural buildings or structures and twenty feet at the ridge for accessory building with five feet side yard or rear yard;

2. Exception. Water tanks, silos, granaries, barns, pole buildings, electronic towers, antennas and similar structures of necessary mechanical appurtenances may exceed fifty feet in height; provided they do not exceed the airport height restrictions. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.34.080 Minimum Distance Between Structures 15.35 RE - Rural Residential Estate Zone 15.35.010 Purpose 15.35.020 Permitted Uses 15.35.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit 15.35.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit 15.35.050 Sub-Zone And Lot Area 15.35.060 Minimum Yard Requirements 15.35.070 Maximum Building Height 15.35.080 Minimum Distance Between Structures 15.35.090 Walls And Fences 15.35.010 Purpose

The distance between any accessory building and a dwelling unit shall conform to Uniform Building and Fire Codes. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

This zoning classification is established for the following purposes:

1. To provide for residential development within a range of densities compatible with a rural character and life-style;

2. To allow residential uses in areas where agriculture is clearly a secondary use;

3. To use as a buffer zone between agricultural land and urbanized development;

4. To provide areas for hobby farms. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The following uses and structures shall be permitted in the RE zone:

1. One single-family dwelling or mobilehome per parcel of land (refer to mobilehome standards);

2. In addition to the residence allowed under subsection A above for each parcel of land, one additional residence or mobilehome for each five acres;

3. Growing and harvesting of any agricultural crop or product;

4. Growing and harvesting of field crops, grain and hay crops, and the growing of grass for pasture and grazing;

5. Fish farming operations for the raising and harvesting of fish as a crop, but not including fishing clubs or fishing for the general public on a commercial basis;

6. Agricultural service establishments primarily engaged in performing agricultural animal husbandry services or horticultural services to farmers;

7. Accessory buildings such as garages, carports, lath houses, greenhouses, gardening sheds, recreation rooms and similar structures which are customarily used in conjunction with and incidental to a principal use or structure;

8. Home occupations if a permit is secured pursuant to Chapter 15.78;

9. Storage of materials used for the construction of a building, including the contractor’s temporary office; provided, that such use is on the building site or immediately adjacent thereto, and provided further that such use shall be permitted only during the construction period and the thirty days thereafter;

10. Accessory buildings or structures required for the storage of any crops, products, equipment or uses lawfully permitted or produced on the premises;

11. The keeping of fowl and animals shall conform to all other provisions of law governing same. No pen, coop, stable, barn or corral used for fowl and animals shall be kept or maintained within fifty feet of any dwelling or other building used for human habitation, or within one hundred feet of any parcel of land used for a public park, school or similar institution;

12. Stands for the purpose of displaying and selling agricultural, floricultural or farming products which are grown or produced on the premises, provided that there shall be not more than one stand per lot or parcel of land. The ground coverage of the stand shall not exceed three hundred square feet, and it shall be set back from the street or highway right-of-way a distance of at least twenty

feet. Such stand must be of good frame construction; 13. Windmills, silos, tank houses, buildings or shelters for farm equipment and machinery, water wells, water reservoirs and storage tanks. 14. One second dwelling subject to Chapter 15.175. (Ord. 1263 § 12, 2017; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.35.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit

The following uses and structures may be permitted in the RE zone only if a conditional use permit has first been secured:

1. Commercial stables, riding academies;

2. Public and private nonprofit nursery schools, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools and colleges; 3. Churches and religious institutions, private clubs and lodges, public playgrounds and parks, private or public golf courses; 4. Sales and services to farmers or farm-related activities;

3. Government buildings and properties;

4. Animal hospitals and veterinarian’s offices;

5. Public utility buildings and public service or utility uses, (transmission and distribution lines excepted), including but not limited to reservoirs, storage tanks, pumping stations, telephone exchanges, power stations, transformer stations, service yards and parking lots;

6. Cemeteries, crematories and mausoleums;

7. Planned mobilehome parks;

8. Natural gas wells;

9. Injection wells providing ten acres parcel size for each injection well; 12. Home occupation not in residential dwelling for parcels smaller than 10 acres in size. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.35.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit

The following uses and structures may be permitted only if an administrative permit has first been secured:

1. Administrator collector’s permit subject to standards in Section 15.77. 2. Home occupation not in residential dwelling for parcels of at least 10 acres in size. (Ord. 1263 § 13, 2017; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.35.050 Sub-Zone And Lot Area

15.35.060 Minimum Yard Requirements

1. Front Yard. The minimum front yard shall be thirty feet.

2. Side Yard, corner Lots. On corner lots, the side yard which is not used as front yard shall not be less than fifteen feet in width. 3. Side Yard, Interior. The minimum side yards of interior lots shall be fifteen feet.

3. Side Yard, Accessory Buildings. The side yard of any accessory building that exceed one thousand square feet shall be the same as that required for the main building. Any accessory building less than one thousand square feet shall have a minimum of five feet side yard and rear yard.

4. Rear Yard. The minimum rear yard shall be twenty-five feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.35.070 Maximum Building Height

The maximum building height in the RE zone shall be:

1. Thirty-five feet for residential structures;

2. Fifty feet for agricultural buildings or structures. Twenty feet at the ridge for accessory building with five feet side yard or rear yard;

3. Exception. Water tanks, silos, granaries, barns, pole buildings, electronic towers, antennas and similar structures of necessary mechanical appurtenances may exceed fifty feet in height; provided, they do not exceed the airport height restrictions. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.35.080 Minimum Distance Between Structures

The distance between any accessory building and a dwelling unit shall conform to Uniform Building and Fire Codes. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.35.090 Walls And Fences

Fences, walls and hedges not exceeding six feet in height shall be permitted, except that in a required front yard, or side yard on a corner lot, a fence, wall or hedge shall not exceed three feet in height. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.36 RE-NW - Rural Residential Estate Zone - North Willows 15.36.010 Purpose 15.36.020 Permitted Uses 15.36.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit 15.36.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit 15.36.050 Lot Area 15.36.060 Minimum Yard Requirements 15.36.070 Maximum Building Height 15.36.080 Minimum Distance Between Structures 15.36.090 Walls And Fences 15.36.010 Purpose

This zoning classification is established for the following purposes: 1. To provide for residential development within a range of densities compatible with a rural character and life-style; 2. To allow residential uses in areas where agriculture is clearly a secondary use; 3. To use as a buffer zone between agricultural land and urbanized development; 4. To provide areas for hobby farms. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.36.020 Permitted Uses The following uses and structures shall be permitted in the RE-NW zone:

1. One single-family dwelling or mobilehome, accessory buildings and uses, and home occupations per each parcel of land; 2. Crop and tree fanning, nurseries and greenhouses for the propagation of plants;

2. Private stables; provided, such stables shall not be closer than twenty-five feet to any street or property line;

3. Publicly owned parks and playgrounds and public schools and buildings when placed in conformance with the general plan; 5. Locations of underground utility installations, and of aboveground utility installations for local service; except that locations for substations, generating plants, and gas holders must be approved by the planning commission prior to construction, and the route of any proposed transmission line must be discussed in detail with the planning commission prior to acquisition;

4. Animal husbandry and livestock farming subject to the following requirements: 1. For each horse or head of cattle over one year of age there must be twenty thousand square feet, or

5. For each head of swine over twelve weeks of age there must be forty thousand square feet, or

6. For each head of sheep or goats there must be ten thousand square feet, and

7. Poultry and rabbit farming not to exceed fifty chickens or fifty rabbits per forty thousand square feet.

8. Major and minor auto repair of vehicles which are not owned or operated by occupants of the property. If such repair causes a nuisance or visual blight in the neighborhood, a conditional use permit shall be required.

9. One second dwelling subject to Chapter 15.175. (Ord. 1263 § 14, 2017; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The following uses and structures may be permitted in the RE-NW zone only if a conditional use permit has first been secured:

1. Publicly owned parks and playgrounds and public schools and buildings, except as noted in Section 15.36.020(D);

2. Sanitariums, rest homes, hospitals, churches, private schools, day care centers;

3. Golf courses and country clubs;

4. Kennels;

5. Natural gas wells;

6. Planned mobile home parks with a maximum of two units per acre or forty thousand square feet;

7. Home occupation not in residential dwelling for parcels smaller than 10 acres in size. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.36.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit

The following uses and structures may be permitted only if an administrative permit has first been secured:

1. The permit shall be posted in the planning authority for ten (10) days prior to issuing the permit.

2. Home occupation not in residential dwelling for parcels of at least 10 acres or more in size. (Ord. 1263 § 15, 2017; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• 15.36.050 Lot Area

  1. The minimum area of any lot or parcel of land shall be forty thousand square feet.

  2. Each lot or parcel of land shall abut a public street for a minimum of sixty feet; the minimum width shall be one hundred twenty feet.

  3. Lots which are less than ten acres in size shall conform to a 3:1 length to width ratio. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.36.060 Minimum Yard Requirements

1. Front Yard. The minimum front yard shall be thirty feet.

2. Side Yard Corner Lots. On corner lots, the side yard which is not used as front yard shall not be less than fifteen feet in width.

3. Side Yard, Interior. The minimum side yards of interior lots shall be fifteen feet.

4. Side Yard, Accessory Buildings. The side yard of any accessory building that exceed one thousand square feet shall be the same as that required for the main building. Any accessory building less than one thousand square feet shall have a minimum of five feet side yard and rear yard.

5. Rear Yard. The minimum rear yard shall be twenty-five feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.36.070 Maximum Building Height

The maximum building height shall be:

1. Thirty-five feet for residential structures;

2. Fifty feet for agricultural buildings or structures. Twenty feet at the ridge for accessory building with five feet side yard or rear yard;

3. Exception. Water tanks, silos, granaries, barns, pole buildings, electronic towers, antennas and similar structures of necessary mechanical appurtenances may exceed fifty feet in height; provided they do not exceed the airport height restrictions. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The distance between any accessory building and a dwelling unit shall conform to Uniform Building and Fire Codes. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Fences, walls and hedges not exceeding six feet in height shall be permitted, except that in a required front yard, or side yard on a corner lot, a fence, wall or hedge shall not exceed three feet in height. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.37 R-1 - Single Family Residential Zone 15.37.010 Purpose 15.37.020 Placement 15.37.030 Permitted Uses 15.37.040 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit 15.37.050 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit 15.37.060 Site Area And Configuration 15.37.070 Minimum Yard Requirements 15.37.080 Maximum Building Height 15.37.090 Minimum Distance Between Structures 15.37.100 Walls And Fences 15.37.110 Maximum Lot Coverage 15.37.010 Purpose

This zoning classification is established for the following purposes:

1. To provide living area within an area where development is limited to low density concentrations of single-family dwellings;

2. To promote and encourage a suitable environment for family life;

3. To provide space for community facilities needed to complement urban residential areas and for institutions which require a residential environment; 4. To minimize traffic congestion and to avoid an overload of utilities designed to service only low density residential use. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.37.020 Placement

The placement of the R-1, single-family residential zone is to be limited to the unincorporated areas of the county which have sanitary sewer systems and/or a piped water system, or which is located within an established service area of a governmental district or utility company which can offer such services. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.37.030 Permitted Uses

The following uses and structures are permitted in the “R-1” zone:

1. One single-family dwelling or mobilehome per parcel of land; 2. Accessory buildings such as garages, carports, lath houses, greenhouses, gardening sheds, recreation rooms and similar structures which are customarily used in conjunction with and incidental to a principal use or structure;

2. One home occupation per dwelling unit, if a permit is secured pursuant to Chapter 15.78;

3. Storage of materials used for the construction of a building, including the contractor’s temporary office, provided that such use is on the building site or immediately adjacent thereto, and provided further that such shall be permitted only during the construction period and 30 days thereafter;

4. Major and minor auto repair of vehicles which are not owned or operated by occupants of the property. If such repair causes a nuisance of visual blight in the neighborhood, a conditional use permit shall be required;

5. One hobby kennel when accessory to a permitted principal use and not used for commercial purposes. No more that one hobby kennel is permitted per parcel of land; 7. One second dwelling subject to Chapter 15.175. (Ord. 1263 § 16, 2017; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.37.040 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit

The following uses and structures are permitted in the “R-1” zone only if a conditional use permit has first been secured:

1. Public and private non-profit nursery schools, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools and colleges;

2. Churches and religious institutions, private clubs and lodges, public playgrounds and parks, private or public golf courses;

3. Government buildings and properties;

4. Public utility buildings and public service or utility uses (transmission and distribution lines excepted), including but not limited to reservoirs, storage tanks, pumping stations, telephone exchanges, power stations, transformer stations, service yards and parking lots;

5. Kennel when accessory to a permitted principal use. No more than one kennel may be permitted parcel of land. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.37.050 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit The following uses and structures are permitted only if an administrative permit has first been secured:

1. Collection of five or fewer antique or hobby accumulation vehicles, subject to the requirements of chapter 15.77;

2. One commercial hobby kennel when accessory to a principal permitted use. No more than one hobby kennel, commercial or otherwise, is permitted per lot. (Ord. 1263 § 17, 2017; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.37.060 Site Area And Configuration 1. The minimum area of any lot or parcel of land shall be five thousand square feet net if served by public sewer and public water facilities. 2. The minimum area of any lot or parcel of land shall be twenty thousand square feet net if served by either a public sewer or a public water facility. 3. The minimum area of any lot or parcel of land shall be forty thousand square feet net if served with a septic tank and a wall. 4. The minimum lot width and public street frontage of any lot or parcel of land shall be fifty feet providing the lot width ratio is met. 5. Lots which are less than ten acres in size shall conform to a 3:1 length to width ratio. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.37.070 Minimum Yard Requirements

3. Front Yard. The minimum front yard shall be twenty feet.

4. Side Yard, Corner Lots. On corner lots, the side yard which is contiguous to the street shall not be less than ten feet in width, except that a garage or carport having an entrance fronting on the street shall be set back at least twenty feet from the street property line.

5. Side Yard, Interior. The minimum side yard of interior lots shall be five feet. 4. Side Yard, Driveway. When used for access to a parking facility, a side yard shall be wide enough for a ten foot wide unobstructed driveway. The handle portion of a panhandle lot shall be considered as a side yard driveway. A side yard driveway shall be paved the entire length and width with cement or asphaltic concrete.

6. Side Yard, Accessory Buildings. The side yard of any accessory building shall be the same as that required-for the main building.

7. Rear Yard. The minimum rear yard shall be twenty-five feet. 7. Rear Yard, Accessory Buildings. An accessory building shall be located not less than five feet from the rear property line. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.37.080 Maximum Building Height The maximum building height in the R-1 zone shall be: 1. Thirty feet for any residential structures; 2. Fifteen feet for any accessory structures. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.37.090 Minimum Distance Between Structures The distance between any accessory building and dwelling unit shall conform to Uniform Building and Fire Codes. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.37.100 Walls And Fences Fences, walls and hedges not exceeding six feet in height shall be permitted, except that in a required front yard or side yard on a corner lot, a fence, wall or hedge shall not exceed three feet in height. A fence or wall may be allowed to a height of four feet provided that the additional one foot height is not of a solid material. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.37.110 Maximum Lot Coverage The maximum lot coverage shall be 40% of the total lot area. For areas where slopes are greater than 30%, lot coverage shall not exceed 30%. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008) 15.38 R-M - Multiple Residential Zone 15.38.010 Purpose 15.38.020 Placement 15.38.030 Permitted Uses 15.38.040 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit 15.38.050 Site Area And Configuration 15.38.060 Minimum Building Site Area 15.38.070 Minimum And Maximum Densities 15.38.080 Minimum Yard Requirements 15.38.090 Maximum Building Height 15.38.100 Minimum Distance Between Structures 15.38.110 Walls And Fences 15.38.120 Maximum Lot Coverage 15.38.130 Site Plan Review 15.38.010 Purpose This zoning classification is established for the following purposes: A. To provide areas where all utilities are available for multiple residential development; B. To ensure adequate light, air, privacy and open space for each dwelling unit; C. To promote the most desirable use of land and direction of building development in accord with the general plan. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.38.020 Placement The placement of the R-M zone is to be limited to the unincorporated areas of the county which have sanitary sewer systems and a piped water system, or which are located within an established service area of a governmental district or utility company which can offer such services. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.38.030 Permitted Uses The following uses and structures shall be permitted in the R-M zone:

A. Single-family detached dwellings limited to;

1. Single family dwelling that replaces an existing single family unit on a one for one basis,

2. Single family dwelling on an existing lot of 6,000 square feet or less, or

   3. Single family dwellings that are part of a housing development with the majority of units affordable to extremely low, very low, and/or low income household; or

   4. Single family dwellings in a project will provide housing for seniors, persons with a disability, agricultural workers, homeless persons, or persons at risk of homelessness.

• B. Multifamily dwellings and apartments, including owner- and renter- occupied units;

1. Sites identified in the Housing Element to accommodate lower income units shall permit owner-occupied and rental multifamily residential uses by right for developments in which at least 20 percent of the units are affordable to lower income households. "By right" has the same meaning as "use by right" as defined by Government Code Section 65583.2(i);

• C. Accessory buildings such as garages, carports, lath houses, greenhouses, gardening sheds, recreation rooms and similar structures which are customarily used in conjunction with and incidental to a principal use of structure;

D. Home occupation if a permit is secured pursuant to Chapter 15.78;

E. Storage of materials used for the construction of a building, including the contractor’s temporary office; provided, that such use is on the building site or immediately adjacent thereto; and provided further, that such use shall be permitted only during the construction period and the thirty days thereafter;

F. One second dwelling subject to Chapter 15.175. (Ord. 1263 § 18, 2017; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The following uses and structures may be permitted only if a conditional use permit has first been secured:

15.381.010 Purpose

1. To provide areas where all utilities are available for multiple family residential development, commercial, and service uses;

15.381.030 Permitted Uses

The following uses and structures shall be permitted in the MU-R zone:

• A. Single-family detached dwellings limited to;

  1. Single family dwelling that replaces an existing single-family unit on a one for one basis,

  2. Single family dwelling on an existing lot of 4,000 square feet or less, or

  3. Single family dwellings that are part of a housing development with the majority of units affordable to extremely low, very low, and/or low-income household; or

  4. Single family dwellings in a project will provide housing for seniors, persons with a disability, agricultural workers, homeless persons, or persons at risk of homelessness.

B. Multifamily dwellings and apartments, including owner- and renter-occupied units;

1. Sites identified in the Housing Element to accommodate lower income units shall permit owner-occupied and rental multifamily residential uses by right for developments in which at least 20 percent of the units are affordable to lower income households. "By right" has the same meaning as "use by right" as defined by Government Code Section 65583.2(i);

• C. Emergency shelters, including low barrier navigation centers;

2. Maximum density. Maximum density shall not exceed 25 units per acre.

3. Minimum residential uses. Residential uses shall occupy at least fifty percent of the total floor area of a mixed use project.

4. Bars when not exceeding two thousand five hundred square feet of gross floor area and when not including amplified voice or music subject to Chapter 15.745;

5. Retail plant nurseries, including outdoor storage, sales or display exceeding five percent of the gross floor area;

6. Game rooms/amusement arcades. (Ord. 1253 § 2, 2015; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.39.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit

The following uses shall be permitted only after obtaining an administrative permit:

1. An administrative permit for one (1) residential dwelling unit per parcel of land used and occupied exclusively by the proprietor who owns and operates the business on the site, or by an employee who is employed specifically as a caretaker or watchman for the business on the site. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• Net lot size shall be not less than the following: 1. Lots with public water and sewer Eight thousand square feet; 2. Lots with well and public sewer, or public water and septic system: Twenty thousand square feet; 3. Lots with well and septic system: Forty thousand square feet.

• On-site sewage disposal systems are subject to approval of the county health department. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.39.060 Minimum Average Lot Width The minimum average lot width shall be as follows: 1. Interior lots: Eighty feet; 2. Corner lots: One hundred feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.39.070 Maximum Length To Width Ratio The maximum length to width ratio shall be three to one. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.39.080 Maximum Lot Coverage The maximum lot coverage shall be as follows: 1. Lots with only one-story buildings: Forty percent. 2. Lots with a multi-story building: Thirty-five percent. (Ord. 1253 § 2, 2015; Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.39.090 Minimum Yards Yards shall be no less than the following: 1. Front Yard: Twenty feet from lot line, or forty-five feet from centerline of roadway, whichever is greater. Yards abutting streets are front yards; 2. Rear yard: None, or ten feet from lot line when contiguous to any residential district; 3. Side yard: None, or ten feet from lot line when contiguous to any residential district; 4. Accessory structures: The above yards shall apply. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.39.100 Maximum Height Structures shall not exceed the following heights:

1. Principal structures: Two stories or thirty feet maximum, whichever is less; 2. Accessory structures: Twenty feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Prior to or concurrent with the application for a building permit, the applicant shall submit to the agency a complete site plan and all necessary supporting documentation for review by the agency to ensure compliance with all the requirements of the Glenn County Code. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.40 CC - Community Commercial District 15.40.010 Purpose 15.40.020 Uses Permitted 15.40.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit 15.40.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit 15.40.050 Minimum Lot Size 15.40.060 Minimum Average Lot Width 15.40.070 Maximum Length To Width Ratio 15.40.080 Maximum Lot Coverage 15.40.090 Minimum Yards 15.40.100 Maximum Height 15.40.110 Site Plan Review

15.40.010 Purpose

The purpose of the community commercial district is to provide a full range of commercial retail and service establishments to communities. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.40.020 Uses Permitted

When conducted within a completely enclosed building, when open to the public between the hours of six a.m. and twelve midnight, and when without drive-through facilities:

1. Retail sales of food, appliances, paint, hardware, auto parts, drugs, liquor, new and used clothing, furniture, carpet, flowers, books, art and antiques; 2. Personal services such as barber and beauty shops, tailors, laundromats and cleaners, dance and art studios, photocopying centers, photography studios and dog grooming; 3. Repair services such as appliance, radio, television, shoe and jewelry repair shops; 4. Food services such as restaurants, cafes and delicatessens, with on-site and off-site sale of beer, wine and liquor including outdoor dining areas subject to Chapter 15.745; 5. Banking, finance, loans, law, real estate or general administrative services, including drive-through services; 6. Professional offices and services such as dispatching, blueprinting, duplicating, printing, drafting, engineering, surveying, planning and architectural services; 7. Health care services such as doctor or dental offices, medical clinics and small animal veterinary clinics; 8. Entertainment such as indoor theaters, bowling alleys, pool halls, game rooms and amusement enterprises and recreational facilities such as health clubs, spas, saunas and hot tub establishments; 9. Other community commercial uses when of similar character to those uses listed above; 10. Commercial and residential accessory uses and accessory structures including six or less games/amusement devices and two or less pool tables occupying less than twenty-five percent of the net floor area; 11. Public buildings, public utility substations; 12. Agricultural related services when of similar character to those uses listed above. (Ord. 1253 § 2, 2015; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.40.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit The following uses shall be permitted only after obtaining a use permit: 1. Uses permitted in Section 15.40.020 with outdoor storage, sales or display when operating other than between the hours of six a.m. and twelve midnight, or when including drive-through facilities; 2. Uses which do not meet the performance criteria listed in Division 4, Part 1, Performance Standards; 3. Hotels and Motels; 4. Retail plant nurseries, including outdoor storage, sales or display; 5. Used appliance stores, secondhand stores and thrift stores; 6. Bars, taverns or cocktail lounges subject to Chapter 15.745; 7. Retail fuel sales, minor auto repair and mechanical auto washes; 8. Major auto repair when conducted within a completely enclosed building, but not including body and fender shops and paint shops; 9. Farm or building supply stores, home improvement centers when outdoor storage, sales or display is limited to fifteen percent of gross floor area; 10. Funeral homes, health care facilities;

2. Retail sales of new and used automobiles including incidental minor or major repair services, including outdoor storage, sales and display;

3. Rental or leasing of autos, trucks, trailers, boats or recreational vehicles, including outdoor storage, sales and display;

4. Commercial parking lots, taxicab companies, including outdoor storage;

5. Nonprofit animal shelters; 15. Church or private school; 16. Natural gas well;

6. Agricultural related services when of similar character to those listed above. (Ord. 1253 § 2, 2015; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.40.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit

The following uses shall be permitted only after obtaining an administrative permit:

1. An administrative permit for one (1) residential dwelling unit per parcel of land used and occupied exclusively by the proprietor who owns and operates the business on the site, or by an employee who is employed specifically as a caretaker or watchman for the business on the site. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Net lot sizes shall be no less than the following:

1. Lots with public water and sewer: Eight thousand square feet; 2. Lots with well and public sewer, or public water and septic system: Twenty thousand square feet;

2. Lots with well and septic system: Forty thousand square feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.40.060 Minimum Average Lot Width The minimum average lot width shall be as follows:

1. Interior Lots: Eighty feet; 2. Corner Lots: One hundred feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.40.070 Maximum Length To Width Ratio Maximum length to width ratio shall not exceed three to one. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.40.080 Maximum Lot Coverage

The maximum lot-coverage shall be fifty percent. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.40.090 Minimum Yards

Yards shall be no less than the following:

1. Front Yard: None, except when frontage in a block is partially in an R district, in which case the frontage shall be the same as required in such R districts. Yards abutting streets are front yards; 2. Rear Yard: None, or ten feet from the lot line when contiguous to any residential district;

2. Side Yard: None, or ten feet from the lot line when contiguous to any residential district;

3. Accessory Structures: The above yards shall apply. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.40.100 Maximum Height

Structures shall not exceed the following heights:

1. Principal Structures: Thirty five feet;

2. Accessory Structures: Twenty feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Prior to or concurrent with the application for a building permit, the applicant shall submit to the agency a complete site plan and all necessary supporting documentation for review by the agency to ensure compliance with all the requirements of the Glenn County Code. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.41 C - Commercial Zone 15.41.010 Purpose 15.41.020 Permitted Uses 15.41.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit 15.41.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit 15.41.050 Site Area And Configuration 15.41.060 Minimum Yard Requirements 15.41.070 Maximum Building Height 15.41.080 Walls And Fences 15.41.090 Site Plan Review 15.41.010 Purpose

This zoning classification is established for the following purposes:

1. To promote the most desirable use of land and direction of building development in accordance with the general plan; 2. To strengthen the economic base of the county and to protect the county’s tax revenues; 3. To protect both retail development and nearby residences against congestion, particularly in areas where the established pattern is predominantly residential but includes local retail uses by regulating the intensity of local retail development. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.41.020 Permitted Uses

The following uses and structures shall be permitted in the C zone:

1. Retail trade establishments similar to the following;

2. General merchandise stores

3. Food stores

4. Apparel stores

5. Drugstores

6. Liquor stores subject to Chapter 15.745 6. Eating and drinking places subject to Chapter 15.745

7. Automotive supplies

8. Automobile dealers (new and used) located not closer than five hundred feet to a R-1 zone

9. Mobilehome sales 10. Automotive service stations, repair garages and tire sales (excluding painting and body work) providing repair is conducted within a building. Such uses shall not be located closer than five hundred feet to a R-1 zone unless a conditional use permit is granted by the planning commission 11. Pawnbrokers and second-hand dealers; provided that the business is completely enclosed within a building and that no material shall be kept outside the building for storage, advertising or any other purpose;

10. Wholesale trade establishments excluding warehouses, when conducted solely within a building;

11. Financial insurance and real estate establishments;

12. Service establishments similar to the following:

    1. Personal services, barber-shops, beauty shops, laundries, dry cleaners, shoe repair

    2. Business services

13. Professional services 4. General offices including government offices 5. Legal services

14. Medical and health services

15. Hotels and motels;

16. Underground public utility facilities;

17. Public utility transmission and distribution lines. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.41.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit

The following uses and structures may be permitted only if a conditional use permit has first been secured:

1. Churches and religious institutions; 2. Automotive paint and body shops; 3. Ambulance service; 4. Animal hospital without outdoor kennels; 5. Bottled gas sale and related storage; 6. Cabinet shop; 7. Hospital, acute care; 8. Household moving and storage service; 9. Ministorage warehouses; 10. Pest control service; 11. Building supplies store and yard, contractor yard; 12. Bus depot; 13. Equipment sales and rental involving outdoor storage; 14. Drive-in theater; 15. Public and private nursery schools, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools and colleges; 16. Private clubs and lodges and fraternal organizations; 17. Public playground and parks; 18. Private or public golf courses; 19. Public utility facilities, accessory structures, and service yards; 20. Truck service station, including truck terminal; 21. Planned mobilehome park and R.V. park; 22. Injection wells; 23. Commercial storage (storage for resale) of inflammable fluid or gas fuels in a quantity greater than five hundred gallons in any container less than two and one-half feet below the surface of the ground; 24. Billiard parlor, pool hall; 25. Any facility that has on-site sale of alcoholic beverages . subject to Chapter 15.745 (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.41.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit 1. An annual administrative permit for one mobilehome per parcel of land used and occupied exclusively by the proprietor who owns and operates a business, or by an employee who is employed specifically as a caretaker or watchman (refer to mobilehome standards). 2. Natural gas wells. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.41.050 Site Area And Configuration 1. The minimum area of any lot or parcel of land shall be six thousand square feet net if served by public sewer and public water facilities except in a planned unit development project. 2. The minimum area of any lot or parcel of land shall be twenty thousand square feet if served by either a public sewer or a public water facility except in a planned unit development project. 3. The minimum area of any lot or parcel of land shall be one acre net if served with a septic tank and a well except in a planned unit development. 4. The minimum lot width and public street frontage of any lot or parcel shall be sixty feet provided the lot width ratio is met, except in a planned unit development project. 5. Lots which are less than ten acres in size shall conform to a 3:1 length to width ratio. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.41.060 Minimum Yard Requirements 1. Front Yard. No front yard shall be required, except where the frontage in a block is partially in a residential district, in which case the front yard shall be the same as required in such residential district. Where a public street does not provide for a sidewalk within the right-of-way, a ten foot setback shall be provided. 2. Side Yard. No side yard shall be required, except where the side yard of a lot abuts the side of a lot in a residential district, in which case the side yard shall be not less than fifteen feet. 3. Rear Yard. No rear yard shall be required, except where the rear of a lot abuts a residential district, in which case the rear yard shall be not less than twenty feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.41.070 Maximum Building Height No building or structure in this zone shall exceed seventy-five feet in height, except as otherwise permitted with a conditional use permit. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.41.080 Walls And Fences 1. Walls or fences shall be required for all conditional uses. The size and materials shall be determined by the planning commission in conformance with the character of the neighborhood in which the use is to be situated. 2. A solid wall or fence not less than six feet in height shall be built and maintained on those sides of property which abuts a residential zone; provided, that such a fence has not already been provided by the adjacent property. This provision shall be met before a certificate of occupancy permit may be issued for such use by the building official. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.41.090 Site Plan Review Prior to or concurrent with the application for a building permit, the applicant shall submit to the agency a complete site plan and all necessary supporting documentation for review by the agency to ensure compliance with all the requirements of the Glenn County Code. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.42 SC - Service Commercial District 15.42.010 Purpose 15.42.020 Uses Permitted 15.42.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit 15.42.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit 15.42.050 Minimum Lot Size 15.42.060 Minimum Average Lot Width 15.42.070 Maximum Length To Width Ratio 15.42.080 Maximum Lot Coverage 15.42.090 Minimum Yards 15.42.100 Maximum Heights 15.42.110 Site Plan Review 15.42.010 Purpose The purpose of the service commercial district is to provide areas suitable for heavy retail and service commercial uses which do not specialize in pedestrian traffic and are more appropriately located away from the central business district of communities within the county. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.42.020 Uses Permitted

Yards 15.42.100 Maximum Heights 15.42.110 Site Plan Review 15.42.010 Purpose The purpose of the service commercial district is to provide areas suitable for heavy retail and service commercial uses which do not specialize in pedestrian traffic and are more appropriately located away from the central business district of communities within the county. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.42.020 Uses Permitted

When conducted within a completely enclosed building, when outdoor storage does not exceed fifty percent of the gross floor area per use and when within a completely screened area on the same lot, the following service commercial uses are permitted:

1. Retail sales of large and bulky household items such as appliances, carpet and floor covering, furniture, fireplaces or woodstoves;

2. Installation of auto parts and accessories such as tire or battery stores, muffler shops and tune-up shops, including incidental retail sales of auto parts and accessories;

3. Commercial trade services with or without incidental retail sales such as cleaning and dyeing agencies and plants, bottling works, funeral homes, cabinet and carpentry shops, blacksmith, welding and machine shops, furniture repair and upholstery shops;

4. Construction-related sales and services such as building supply stores with incidental lumber storage yards, general and specialty contractors offices, electrical, plumbing and heating shops, and light equipment rental shops;

5. Warehouses and mini-storage;

6. Sales and services to the agricultural sector such as farm supply stores, farm implement sales and service shops, agricultural supply cooperatives and commercial irrigation services;

7. Professional construction support services such as blue-printing, duplicating, printing, drafting, engineering, surveying, planning or architecture services;

8. Laundry, janitorial or facility maintenance services;

9. Other service commercial uses when of similar character to those listed above;

10. Commercial and residential accessory uses and accessory structures;

11. Public buildings, public utility substations. (Ord. 1253 § 2, 2015; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.42.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit The following uses shall be permitted only after obtaining a conditional use permit. The following service commercial uses are permitted when conducted within a completely enclosed building (excepting auto sales):

1. Uses permitted in Section 15.42.020 when outdoor storage does exceed fifty percent of the gross floor area per use or when not contained within a completely screened area; 2. Uses which do not meet the performance criteria listed in Division 4, Part 1, Performance Standards;

2. Businesses providing retail sales of new or used automobiles with incidental minor and major repair services;

3. Open-air retail sales of boats, recreational vehicles, mobilehomes, modular homes, factory-built homes, swimming pools, storage tanks, satellite dish antennas and other large and bulky items; 5. Rental or leasing of trucks, trailers and recreational vehicles;

4. Automobile, truck and vehicle service and repair shops and garages providing minor and major repairs, body work and painting;

5. Commercial parking lots, taxicab companies, including outdoor storage;

6. Contractors’ heavy equipment storage yards or heavy equipment rental yards;

7. Fuel tank farms, wholesale fuel sales or distributors, including natural gas or propane distributors or wholesalers;

8. Natural gas wells. (Ord. 1253 § 2, 2015; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.42.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit The following uses shall be permitted only after obtaining an administrative permit: 1. An administrative permit for one (1) residential dwelling unit per parcel of land used and occupied exclusively by the proprietor who owns and operates the business on the site, or by an employee who is employed specifically as a caretaker or watchman for the business on the site. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.42.050 Minimum Lot Size Net lot sizes shall be no less than the following:

9. Lots with public water and sewer: Twelve thousand five hundred square feet;

10. Lots with well and public sewer, or public water and septic system: Twenty thousand square feet;

11. Lots with well and septic system: Forty thousand square feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.42.060 Minimum Average Lot Width The minimum average lot width shall be as follows: 1. Interior lots: One hundred feet; 2. Corner lots: One hundred twenty feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.42.070 Maximum Length To Width Ratio Maximum length to width ratio shall not exceed three to one. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.42.080 Maximum Lot Coverage The maximum lot coverage shall be seventy-five percent. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.42.090 Minimum Yards Yards shall be no less than the following: 1. Front Yard: Ten feet from lot line, or thirty-five feet from the centerline of a roadway, whichever is greater. Yards abutting streets are front yards; 2. Rear Yard: None, or five feet from the lot line when contiguous to any residential district; 3. Side Yard: None, or twenty-five feet from the lot line when contiguous to any residential district; 4. Accessory structures: The above yards shall apply. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.42.100 Maximum Heights Structures shall not exceed the following heights:

reater. Yards abutting streets are front yards; 2. Rear Yard: None, or five feet from the lot line when contiguous to any residential district; 3. Side Yard: None, or twenty-five feet from the lot line when contiguous to any residential district; 4. Accessory structures: The above yards shall apply. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.42.100 Maximum Heights Structures shall not exceed the following heights:

1. Principal Structures: Thirty-five feet; 2. Accessory Structures: Twenty feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.42.110 Site Plan Review Prior to or concurrent with the application for a building permit, the applicant shall submit to the agency a complete site plan and all necessary supporting documentation for review by the agency to ensure compliance with all the requirements of the Glenn County Code. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.43 HVC - Highway And Visitor Commercial District 15.43.010 Purpose 15.43.020 Uses Permitted 15.43.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit 15.43.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit 15.43.050 Minimum Lot Size 15.43.060 Minimum Average Lot Width 15.43.070 Maximum Length To Width Ratio 15.43.080 Maximum Lot Coverage 15.43.090 Minimum Yards 15.43.100 Maximum Height 15.43.110 Site Plan Review 15.43.010 Purpose The purpose of this district is to provide for the location of the facilities and services needed by the traveling public along the county’s major collectors, at intersections with state highways and where they can be reached conveniently and safely and to provide for tourist recreational development in areas of unique scenic and recreational value, while providing for maximum conservation of the resources of the parcel. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.43.020 Uses Permitted

When serving the needs of the traveling public, when conducted within a completely enclosed building, the following highway commercial uses are permitted:

1. Food services such as restaurants, cafes, coffee shops and delicatessens, including drive-in, or drive-through fast food services, including outdoor dining areas;

2. Bus stations;

3. Real estate sales offices;

4. Retail sales of groceries, beer and wine sold but not consumed on the premises subject to Chapter 15.745, sporting goods, bait and tackle, souvenirs, antiques and curios;

5. Other highway commercial uses when of a similar character to those listed above;

6. Hotels, motels, recreational vehicles parks and public or private campgrounds when not exceeding fifteen units;

7. Commercial and residential accessory uses and accessory structures including piers, boat docks, boat storage, tennis courts, swimming pools, riding and hiking facilities and laundry facilities, for private use of the hotel or motel guests, or restaurant patrons only;

8. Novelty and gift shops, beauty and barber shops, sporting goods and apparel shops, game room, arcades, laundromats open to the public and bait and tackle shops when incidental to a hotel, motel, campground, RV park or tune share condominium when not exceeding a use area of five hundred square feet. (Ord. 1253 § 2, 2015; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The following uses shall be permitted only after obtaining a conditional use permit:

1. Uses permitted in Section 15.43.020 with outdoor storage, sales, or display;

2. Uses which do not meet the performance criteria listed in Division 4, Part 1, Performance Standards;

3. Fruit and produce stands exceeding four hundred square feet in size;

4. Park-and-ride facilities;

5. Hotels, motels, recreational vehicle parks and public or private campgrounds when exceeding fifteen units;

6. Caretaker’s quarters, employee housing or dormitories incidental to a hotel or motel of at least sixteen units;

7. Retail fuel sales, minor auto repair and mechanical auto washes;

8. Recreational vehicle parks, public and private campgrounds;

9. Truck stops or auto truck service stations and incidental minor auto/truck repair;

10. Bars, taverns or cocktail lounges with or without live entertainment, off-sale liquor subject to Chapter 15.745;

11. Time share condominiums, including conversion of residential uses into time share or resort units. (Ord. 1253 § 2, 2015; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

1. An administrative permit for one residential dwelling unit per parcel of land used and occupied exclusively by the proprietor who owns and operates the business on the site, or by an employee who is employed specifically as a caretaker or a watchman for the business on the site. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Net lot sizes shall be no less than the following:

1. Lots with public water and sewer: Eight thousand square feet;

2. Lots with well and public sewer, or public water and septic: Twenty thousand square feet;

3. Lots with well and septic system: Forty thousand square feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The minimum average lot width shall be as follows:

1. Interior lots: Eighty feet;

2. Corner lots: One hundred feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.43.070 Maximum Length To Width Ratio

The maximum length to width ratio shall not exceed three to one. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• 15.43.080 Maximum Lot Coverage

The maximum lot coverage shall be fifty percent. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Yards shall be no less, than the following:

1. Front yard: Twenty feet from the lot line, or forty-five feet from centerline of roadway, whichever is greater. Yards abutting streets are front yards;

2. Rear yard: Twenty feet from the lot line;

3. Side yard: Five feet from the lot line;

4. Accessory structures: The above yards shall apply. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Structures shall not exceed two stories or thirty feet maximum, which ever is less. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Prior to or concurrent with the application for a building permit, the applicant shall submit to the agency a complete site plan and all necessary supporting documentation for review by the agency to ensure compliance with all the requirements of the Glenn County Code. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.44.010 Purpose 15.44.020 Permitted Uses 15.44.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit 15.44.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit 15.44.050 Site Area And Configuration 15.44.060 Minimum Yard Requirements 15.44.070 Maximum Building Height 15.44.080 Walls And Fences 15.44.090 Site Plan Review 15.44.010 Purpose This zoning classification is established for the following purposes: 1. To reserve appropriately located areas for industrial plants and related activities; 2. To protect areas appropriate for industrial use from intrusion by residential dwellings and other conflicting uses; 3. To protect residential and commercial properties and nuisance-free, nonhazardous industrial uses from noise, odor, dust, dirt, smoke, vibration, heat, glare, fire, explosion, noxious fumes, radiation and other hazards and objectionable influence incidental to certain industrial uses; 4. To promote the most desirable use of land and development in accordance with the general plan of Glenn County. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.44.020 Permitted Uses 1. The following manufacturing, fabricating, processing and related necessary product storage uses and associated structures shall be permitted in “M” zone. Product storage shall only be permitted on the parcel upon which the manufacturing, fabricating or processing takes place:

1. Apparel and finished products made from fabric and similar materials;

2. Food and beverages including ice, dry ice and cold storage subject to Chapter 15.745; 3. Furniture, fixtures and cabinets; 4. Instruments, optics, photographic equipment and supplies; 5. Jewelry, silverware and metal ware; 6. Leather and leather products; 7. Lumber and wood products including mobilehome, modular home and prefabricated structures; 8. Machinery including electrical, electronic and communications; 9. Metal products;

3. Miscellaneous goods and supplies including but not limited to musical instruments, toys and games, sporting and athletic goods and artists’ materials; 11. Commercial storage (storage for resale) of inflammable fluid or gas fuels.

4. The following nonmanufacturing uses and associated structures shall be permitted in the “M” zone:

1. Ambulance service;

15.53 AV - Airport Zone 15.45 TPZ - Timberland Preserve Zone 15.45.010 Purpose And Authority 15.45.020 List Of Criteria 15.45.030 Terms 15.45.040 Placement 15.45.050 Permitted Uses 15.45.060 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit 15.45.070 Site Area 15.45.080 Other Requirements 15.45.010 Purpose And Authority This chapter is adopted pursuant to the mandate and authority of the Z’Berg-Warren-Keene-Collier Forest Taxation Reform Act of 1976 and, more particularly, Section 51113 of the Government Code of the state of California, a part of said Act. The purpose of the timberland preserve zone is to provide a zone in the county in which the highest and best use of the land is the growing and harvesting of timber. Lands so zoned will be subject to all of the provisions of the Z’Berg-Warren-Keene-Collier Forest Taxation Reform Act of 1976. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.45.020 List Of Criteria Pursuant to Section 51113 (c) and (d) of the Government Code the criteria for parcels of land to be considered for zoning as timberland under the provisions of Section 51113 of the Government Code are set and declared to be the following:

1. A map shall be prepared showing the legal description of the assessor’s parcel number of the property desired to be zoned; 2. A plan for forest management must be prepared or approved as to content, for the property by a registered professional forester. Such plan shall provide for the eventual harvest of timber within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the preparer of the plan;

2. The parcel shall currently meet the timber stocking standards as set forth in Section 4561 of the Public Resources Code and the forest practice rules adopted by the State Board of Forestry for the district in which the parcel is located, or the owner must sign an agreement with the board to meet such stocking standards and forest practice rules by the fifth anniversary of the signing of such agreement. If the parcel is subsequently zoned as timberland preserve under subdivision (a) of Section 51112 of the Government Code, then failure to meet such stocking standards and forest practice rules within this time period provides the board with a ground for rezoning of the parcel pursuant to Section 51121;

3. The land area concerned and described on said map shall be in the ownership of one person, as defined in Section 38106 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, and shall be comprised of single or contiguous parcels of no less than one hundred sixty acres;

4. The land shall be of “Site III” Site Quality Class, as said term is defined and used pursuant to said Act. Land shall be deemed to be Site III land if the average quality of the land is Site III. “Average,” for the purposes of this subsection means that for every acre of land which is Site IV or Site V quality, there must be at least one acre, respectively, of Site II or Site I land to balance the lesser quality land to create an exact Site III or better numerical average as to quality of acres to be included. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.45.030 Terms For the purposes of this chapter, the terms or words used herein shall be as defined in Chapter 6.7 (commencing with Section 51100) of Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5 of the Government Code. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.45.040 Placement The zoning of land in the timberland preserve zone is to be limited to those parcels within the county which:

1. Meet all of the requirements for inclusion in “List A” as defined in Section 51110 of the Government Code; or 2. Meet all of the requirements for inclusion in “List B” as defined in Section 51110.1 of the Government Code; or

2. Meet the criteria for parcels of land to be considered for zoning as timberland under the provisions of Section 51113 of the Government Code. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.45.050 Permitted Uses The following principal uses and structures which meet the definition of “compatible use” as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 51100 of the Government Code and no others are permitted in timberland preserve zone: 1. Management for watershed; 2. Management for fish and wildlife habitat or hunting and fishing; 3. A use integrally related to the growing and harvesting of forest products, including but not limited to roads, log landings and log storage areas; 4. The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance of gas, electric, water or communication transmission facilities; 5. Grazing; 6. One single-family dwelling or mobilehome for each TPZ contract (refer to mobilehome standards); 7. Buildings and structures which are incidental and accessory to permitted uses, and which are in conformity with uses or forest service practices. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.45.060 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit The following uses and structures may be permitted in the TPZ zone only if a conditional use permit has first been secured:

ach TPZ contract (refer to mobilehome standards); 7. Buildings and structures which are incidental and accessory to permitted uses, and which are in conformity with uses or forest service practices. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.45.060 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit The following uses and structures may be permitted in the TPZ zone only if a conditional use permit has first been secured:

1. Sawmills, shingle mills, and other forest products processing operations utilizing power equipment; 2. Subsurface exploration for, and extraction of, mineral resources, including oil, gas and other hydrocarbon substances, and also including geothermal energy production; 3. Commercial storage (storage for resale) of inflammable fluid or gas fuels in a quantity greater than five hundred gallons in any container less than two and one-half feet below the surface of the ground. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.45.070 Site Area Parcels used as timberland preserve may not be divided into parcels containing less than one hundred fifty-five (155) acres unless they meet the requirements established by Section 51119.5 of the Government Code. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.45.080 Other Requirements 1. Any rezoning, immediate rezoning or removal from a zone of any parcels zoned timberland preserve zone shall conform to the requirements of Articles 3 - 5, inclusive, (commencing with Section 51121) of Chapter 6.7, Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5 of the Government Code. 2. All actions not specifically addressed in this chapter must comply with the requirements of Chapter 6.7 (commencing with Section 51100) of Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5 of the Government Code. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.46 AP - Agricultural Preserve Zone 15.46.010 Purpose 15.46.020 Permitted Uses 15.46.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit 15.46.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit 15.46.050 Site Area 15.46.060 Maximum Building Height 15.46.070 Minimum Distance Between Structures 15.46.080 Minimum Yard Requirements 15.46.090 Site Plan Review 15.46.010 Purpose The agricultural preserve zone is to be applied to lands which are covered by a California Land Conservation Act (Williamson Act) contract with the county for the following purposes: 1. To preserve the maximum amount of the limited supply of agricultural land which is necessary in the conservation of the county’s economic resources and vital for a healthy agricultural economy of the county; 2. To protect the general welfare of the agricultural community for encroachments of unrelated agricultural uses which, by their nature, would be injurious to the physical and economic well-being of the agricultural community. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The following uses and structures shall be permitted in the AP zone:

1. One single-family dwelling for each parcel of land;

2. Second dwelling per each parcel of land subject to Chapter 15.175 providing that such dwelling may only be occupied by relatives of the owner or by employees who work on the property; 3. Accessory buildings such as garages, carports, greenhouses, gardening sheds, recreation rooms, storage of petroleum products for the use of persons residing on the property and any other structures that are customarily used in conjunction with and incidental to a principal use or structure;

3. Home occupations as defined in Chapter 15.78;

4. Growing and harvesting of fruit and nut trees, vines, vegetables, horticultural specialties and timber;

5. Growing and harvesting of field crops, grain and hay crops, and the growing of grass for pasture and grazing;

6. Livestock farming, including the raising, feeding, maintaining and breeding of horses, cattle, sheep, goats and similar livestock; 8. Operation of apiaries and dairies; 9. Curing, processing, packaging, packing, storage and shipping of agricultural products; however, those particular operations, uses and structures which create smoke, fumes, dust, odor and other hazards may be permitted only if a conditional use permit is first secured;

7. Accessory buildings or structures required for the storage of any crops, products, equipment or uses lawfully permitted or produced on the premises. Structures such as barns, stables, coops, tank houses, storage tanks, wind machines, windmills, silos and other farm buildings;

8. Game preserves and hunting clubs, private or public, but shall not include permanent facilities such as hotels, motels, restaurants, club houses; 12. Agricultural service establishments primarily engaged in performing agricultural animal husbandry services or horticultural services to farms; 13. Temporary landing of aircraft engaged in agricultural uses;

9. Dehydrators but not for the general public on a commercial basis; 15. Stands for the purpose of displaying and selling agricultural, floricultural or farming products which are grown or produced on the premises; provided, that there shall not be more than one stand per parcel of land. The stand shall be set back from the street or highway right-of-way a distance of at least twenty feet. Such stand must be of good frame construction;

ublic on a commercial basis; 15. Stands for the purpose of displaying and selling agricultural, floricultural or farming products which are grown or produced on the premises; provided, that there shall not be more than one stand per parcel of land. The stand shall be set back from the street or highway right-of-way a distance of at least twenty feet. Such stand must be of good frame construction;

16. Seasonal farmworker housing which meets the Seasonal Farmworker Housing Standards as set forth in Chapter 15.80 and approved for such use pursuant to Title 25 of the California Code of Regulations. Seasonal farmworker housing shall also conform to such public health, building, and fire safety criteria as may be established by resolution or ordinance of the board of supervisors. (Ord. 1263 § 19, 2017; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.46.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit The following uses and structures may be permitted in the AP zone only if a conditional use permit has first been secured: 1. Irrigation and flood control facilities, public utility and public service structures including electric transmission and distribution substations, gas regulator stations, communications equipment buildings, public service pumping stations and reservoirs over fifty acre-feet or over twenty-five feet high; 2. Agricultural labor camps; 3. Injection wells; 4. Confined animal facility; 5. Mining which meets the requirements of Government Code Sections 51238.1 or 51238.2. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.46.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit The following uses and structures may be permitted only if an administrative permit has first been secured: 1. Natural gas wells; 2. Home occupation not in residential dwelling for parcels of at least 10 acres or more in size; 3. Agricultural Homestay Establishment. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.46.050 Site Area 1. For prime land, the minimum area of any lot or parcel of land shall be thirty-six (36) acres or one quarter of one quarter section. 2. For nonprime land, the minimum area of any lot or parcel of land shall be one hundred forty-four (144) acres or one quarter section. 3. Variance for parcel size shall not be permitted. 4. The minimum area of any lot or parcel of land for each of the “AP” zones shall be as shown below: AP-40 - Minimum Parcel Size 36 acres AP-80 - Minimum Parcel Size 72 acres AP-160 - Minimum Parcel Size 144 acres 5. Non-contiguous parcels with a farmed area between 10 and 36 acres may be allowed if: 1. Parcel is in the same ownership as qualifying parcels but is not contiguous to the qualifying parcel, and 2. The contract contains a provision not allowing the non-contiguous parcel to be separated from the ownership of the qualifying parcels. 3. The contract contains a provision not allowing construction of any residential use on the qualifying parcel. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.46.060 Maximum Building Height The maximum building height in the AP zone shall be: 1. Thirty-five feet for residential structures; 2. Fifty feet for agricultural buildings or structures; 3. Exceptions. Water tanks, silos, granaries, barns, pole buildings, electronic towers, antennas and similar structures of necessary mechanical appurtenances may exceed fifty feet in height; provided, they do not exceed the airport height restrictions. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.46.070 Minimum Distance Between Structures 1. The distance between any accessory building and a dwelling unit shall conform to Uniform Building and Fire Codes. 2. All pens, coops, stables, barns, corrals or other structures housing livestock or poultry shall be located not less than one hundred feet from all structures used for human habitation. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.46.080 Minimum Yard Requirements 1. Front Yard. The minimum front yard shall be thirty feet. The measurement shall start at the edge of the existing county right-of-way as shown on the adopted Glenn County Circulation Plan. 2. Side Yards. The minimum side yards shall be twenty-five feet. 3. Rear Yard. The minimum rear yard shall be twenty-five feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.46.090 Site Plan Review Prior to or concurrent with the application for a building permit, the applicant shall submit to the agency a complete site plan and all necessary supporting documentation for review by the agency to ensure compliance with all the requirements of the Glenn County Code. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.47 FS - Farmland Security Zone 15.47.010 Purpose 15.47.020 Permitted Uses 15.47.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit 15.47.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit 15.47.050 Site Area 15.47.060 Maximum Building Height 15.47.070 Minimum Distance Between Structures 15.47.080 Minimum Yard Requirement 15.47.090 Site Plan Review

The Farmland Security Zone is to be applied to lands which are covered by a Farmland Security Zone Contract as allowed by the California Land Conservation Act (as amended) for the following purposes:

1. To preserve the maximum amount of the limited supply of agricultural land which is vital for the healthy agricultural economy of the County;

2. To protect the general welfare of the agricultural community from encroachments of unrelated agricultural uses which, by their nature, would be injurious to the physical and economic well-being of the agricultural community;

3. To provide a unique zoning district for the Farmland Security Zone to meet the requirements of the State Law and the landowners under Farmland Security Zone Contracts. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The following uses and structures shall be permitted in the “FS” Zone:

1. One single-family dwelling for each parcel of land;

2. Second dwelling subject to Chapter 15.175 providing that such second dwelling may only be occupied by relatives of the owner or by employees who work on the property; 3. Accessory buildings to the single-family residence such as garages, carports, greenhouses, gardening sheds, recreation rooms and other structures which are customarily used in conjunction with a single-family residence;

3. Home Occupations as defined in Chapter 15.78;

4. Growing and harvesting of fruit and nut trees, vines, vegetables, horticultural specialties and timber; 6. Growing and harvesting of field crops, grain and hay crops, and the growing of grass for pasture and grazing; 7. Livestock farming, including the raising, feeding, maintaining and breeding of horses, cattle, sheep, goats and similar livestock;

5. Operation of apiaries and dairies. (Refer to dairy standards);

6. Curing processing, packaging, packing, storage and shipping of agricultural products;

7. Accessory buildings or structures required for the storage of any crops, products, equipment or uses lawfully permitted or produced on the premises. Structures such as barns, stables, coops, tank houses, storage tanks, wind machines, windmills, silos, and other farm buildings;

8. Game preserves and hunting clubs, that do not include permanent facilities or buildings;

9. Temporary landing of aircraft engaged in agricultural uses;

10. Seasonal Farmworker Housing which meets the Seasonal Farmworker Housing Standards as set forth in Chapter 15.80 and approved for such use pursuant to Title 25 of the California Code of Regulations. (Ord. 1263 § 20, 2017; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.47.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit

The following uses and structures may be permitted in the “FS” zone only if a conditional use permit has first been secured:

1. Irrigation and flood control facilities; public utility and public service structures including electric transmission and distribution sub-stations, gas regulator stations, communications equipment buildings, public service pumping stations and reservoirs over 50 acre feet or over twenty-five (25) feet high;

2. Agricultural labor camps; 3. Injection wells; 4. Confined animal facility. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.47.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit The following uses and structures may be permitted only if an administrative permit has first been secured: 1. Natural gas wells;

2. Agricultural Homestay Establishment. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The minimum area of any lot or parcel of land shall be seventy-two (72) acres or one-half of a quarter section. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The maximum building height in the “FS” zone shall be:

1. Thirty-five feet for residential structures; 2. Fifty feet for agricultural buildings or structures; 3. Exceptions: Water tanks, silos, granaries, barns, pole buildings, electronic towers, antennas and similar structures of necessary mechanical appurtenances may exceed fifty feet in height, provided they do not exceed the airport height restriction. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.47.070 Minimum Distance Between Structures 1. The distance between any accessory building and a dwelling unit shall be determined by the Building Inspection Department. 2. All pens, coops, stables, barns, corrals or other structures housing livestock or poultry shall be located not less than 100 feet from all structures used for human habitation. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.47.080 Minimum Yard Requirement 1. Front Yard: The minimum front yard shall be thirty (30) feet. The measurement shall start at the edge of the existing “County Right-of-Way” as shown on the adopted Glenn County Circulation Plan. 2. Side Yards: The minimum side yards shall be twenty-five (25) feet. 3. Rear Yard: The minimum rear yard shall be twenty-five (25) feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.47.090 Site Plan Review Prior to or concurrent with the application for a building permit, the applicant shall submit to the agency a complete site plan and all necessary supporting documentation for review by the agency to ensure compliance with all the requirements of the Glenn County Code. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.48 PDR - Planned Development Residential District 15.48.010 Purpose 15.48.020 Applicability 15.48.030 Plans Required 15.48.040 Uses Permitted 15.48.050 Uses Permitted By General And Specific Plans Of Development 15.48.060 Application Procedure For Rezoning And The General Plan Of Development 15.48.070 Phasing Of Development 15.48.080 Open Space 15.48.090 Traffic Circulation 15.48.100 Streets 15.48.110 Lapse Of Approval 15.48.120 Resubmittal Following Expiration 15.48.010 Purpose The intent and purpose of the PDR district are as follows:

1. To provide a means for encouraging creative and innovative developments that are environmentally pleasing through the application of imaginative land planning techniques not permitted within other residential zones with fixed standards;

2. To assure conformance of the project with the county general plan with respect to use, density, open space, circulation, public facilities and the preservation of natural features;

3. To maximize public and private open space areas including, but not limited to the following: scenic easements, historical areas, scenic areas, active and passive recreational areas, pedestrian ways, equestrian and hiking trails, plazas, environmentally sensitive areas and distinct spatial separations between pedestrian and vehicular areas;

4. To provide for an orderly and cohesive growth and physical development pattern and the efficient delivery of county or community services;

5. To encourage the design of all residential planned developments to be compatible with both existing and potential land uses, including a proper functional relationship with such adjacent areas; 6. To encourage the optimal use of land to provide a full range of dwelling unit types, sites, rents and sales prices;

6. To assess the residential development’s impacts on public and private support services through the submittal of cost/revenue analyses;

7. To promote an equitable distribution of public facilities by encouraging developers to provide educational recreation, water and wastewater, fire protection and other public services in order to avoid the overcrowding of existing facilities used by established residents and provide for a balance of community services;

8. To provide the county and developer with alternative standards in return for increased amenities to serve the inhabitants of the development and surrounding areas. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Applications for PDR zoning shall be for a parcel or contiguous parcels of five acres or more. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

1. A rezoning application to PDR shall be accompanied by a general plan of development for the entire parcel(s) unless the rezoning is publicly initiated and implements language included in an approved general or community plan.

2. A conditional use permit for specific plan of development shall be required for the portion of the parcel(s) to be developed.

3. General plans and conditional use permits for specific plans of development shall be approved prior to any development.

4. Ministerial permits such as grading, building and health department permits shall not be issued prior to approval of a conditional use permit for specific plan of development. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Notwithstanding Section 15.48.030, the following uses are permitted in any PDR district provided that such uses are not inconsistent with an approved general or specific plan of development:

1. One single-family dwelling or mobilehome;

2. Crop and tree farming and animal husbandry;

3. Agricultural and residential accessory uses and accessory structures, including barns and stables;

4. One foster or small family home, family care home, or small family care home not to exceed six persons in addition to the resident family; 5. One second dwelling subject to Chapter 15.175. (Ord. 1263 § 21, 2017; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.48.050 Uses Permitted By General And Specific Plans Of Development The following uses shall be permitted by general and specific plans for development in the PDR district:

1. All those uses permitted in the residential districts and private storage facilities for exclusive use by the residents of the development; 2. For projects with a minimum of one hundred dwelling units, all those uses permitted in the local commercial district. The gross lot area of the LC uses shall not exceed eighty square feet per dwelling unit;

2. For projects with a minimum of fifty acres and two hundred dwelling units, all those resort commercial uses permitted in the highway and visitor commercial district; 4. Recreation facilities including, but not limited to, tennis courts, golf courses, swimming pools, equestrian trails, fitness trails, boat docks, marinas, playgrounds and parks; 5. Community facilities such as day care centers, meeting rooms and clubhouses for use by residents of the development; 6. Temporary model home complexes and real estate sales offices only for the limited purpose of conducting sales or rental of lots or units within the PDR district. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.48.060 Application Procedure For Rezoning And The General Plan Of Development 1. Preapplication meeting(s). Prior to preparation of the application for rezoning and the general plan of development, the applicant shall attend a preapplication meeting(s) with the planning authority staff. Purposes to be served by the preapplication meeting include the following: 1. To explain the purpose of the planned development residential district; 2. To review the project’s consistency with the county general plan; 3. To review the county code requirements; 4. To provide a review of the applicant’s conceptual design and development objectives.

2. Application. Application shall be made on forms provided by the planning authority and accompanied by all fees, information and supplemental plans required by the district or the subdivision ordinance. No applications shall be accepted until the applicant has complied with subsection A of this section. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

PDR may be phased if phasing is approved as part of the general plan of development. Specific plans of development and tentative final map proposals shall conform to the phasing of the approved general plan of development. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

All developments proposed under the PDR district shall include open space for active and passive use by the residents of the development. The amount to be provided shall be determined as follows:

1. Each single-family dwelling on each lot in a subdivision shall have a minimum of one thousand square feet of usable open space. If a dwelling is on a lot contiguous to permanent open space available to and usable by adjacent owners or the public, the area of required usable open space may be reduced by not more than twenty-five percent.

2. All townhouse ownership units with a density of seven units per net acre or less shall have a minimum private open space of three hundred square feet per unit with a minimum dimension of fifteen feet and with direct access to the unit. Townhouse ownership units in excess of the density set forth in this subsection shall have private yard areas as required by the approved specific plan of development.

3. All apartment units shall have a minimum private open space or balcony area of one hundred square feet per unit and a minimum dimension of seven feet with direct access to the unit. 4. Common Open Space. Each planned residential development shall contain one or more large areas of land permanently reserved primarily for the leisure and recreational use of all the development’s residents and owned and maintained in common by them. Common open space shall be integrated throughout the development and easily accessible to all the residents.

4. Common open space may include the following:

   1. Land area of the site not covered by buildings, parking structures or accessory structures;

5. Land which is accessible and available to all occupants of dwelling units for whose use the space is intended unless such land is in a category listed below; 3. Commonly owned recreational structures and facilities including but not limited to clubhouses, tennis courts, swimming pools, golf courses and trails.

6. Common open space shall not include the following: 1. Areas reserved for private open space; 2. Proposed street rights-of-way; 3. Open parking or recreational vehicle (RV) storage areas, driveways and sidewalks for dwellings; 4. Areas reserved for school buildings, not including playground areas open to the public;

   5. Commercial areas including buildings, accessory buildings, parking and loading facilities for such commercial areas;

7. Flood control and drainage channels improved with cement, riprap, or having a cross-section slope exceeding twenty percent; 7. Areas with cross-slope in excess of thirty percent; 8. Unsuitable land as determined by the planning commission. 7. The planning commission may determine that up to one-half of any body of water, natural watercourse and slopes over thirty percent grade may be included as common open space. In making this determination, the commission shall be guided by the following factors: 1. The extent of these areas in relation to the area of the planned development; and 2. The degree to which these areas contribute to the quality, livability and amenity of the planned development. 8. Public Open Space. As an alternative, or in addition to, common open space required in subsection (B) of this section, each planned residential development may propose one or more parcels of land which would be permanently dedicated in fee to the county or other public or private agency. Such areas will be for the use of the development’s residents in addition to the use by all county residents or for the protection of environmentally sensitive areas. 9. Required amount. The county shall specify the required amount of public and or common open space in a planned residential development at the time of approval of the general plan of development, but in no case shall the total amount of public and or common open space be less than thirty-five percent of the parcel. Determination of the appropriate amount of public and/or common open space shall be based on consideration of the factors listed below:

   1. The degree to which these areas contribute to the quality, livability and amenity of the planned development;

   2. The need to protect public use areas historically used by the public such as trails or beaches;

8. The avoidance of siting of structures in hazardous areas or on steep slopes; 4. The protection of environmentally sensitive habitat areas and archaeological sites; 5. Protection of scenic areas of the site. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.48.090 Traffic Circulation

1. Internal Access. All residential planned development proposals shall ensure that internal circulation systems are properly designed to serve the different types of proposed land uses, accommodate expected traffic flows, provide adequate emergency access to all buildings and structures, and provide for safe and convenient pedestrian access, whether the project is partially or fully implemented. In addition, the following access requirements shall apply:

   1. At least two different routes of entrance and exit for emergency vehicles shall be provided where streets are longer than eight hundred feet;

   2. Cul-de-sacs shall be limited to one thousand feet in length and shall be terminated by a turnaround not less than eighty feet in diameter.

2. External Access. The planning commission shall review development applications to ensure that projected traffic increases resulting from the project, when partially and fully implemented, will not significantly impact connecting streets, roads and existing and proposed land uses outside the project perimeter. The applicant shall propose measures acceptable to the county to reduce significant impacts to existing road networks or land uses outside the development itself. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

1. All public internal streets, roads and driveways serving the development shall be designed and constructed to county road improvement and design standards. 2. The use of private streets within planned residential developments shall be permitted upon approval by the planning commission. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

1. A general plan of development shall expire two years after its date of approval unless an application has been filed with the planning authority for a specific plan of development prior to expiration, or a time extension has been approved prior to the date of general plan of development expiration. The planning commission may, upon good cause shown, grant a time extension for one year. 2. A conditional use permit for a specific plan of development shall expire five years after approval unless, prior to the expiration date, substantial physical construction has been completed on the development or a time extension has been approved. The planning commission or board of supervisors may, upon good cause shown, grant a time extension for one year. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.48.120 Resubmittal Following Expiration After a general plan or conditional use permit for specific plan of development expires, a new general plan or conditional use permit for a specific plan of development application and fee must be submitted for reconsideration. The new application shall be subject to the same procedures and approval as the original application. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.49 PDC - Planned Development Commercial District 15.49.010 Purpose 15.49.020 Applicability 15.49.030 Plans Required 15.49.040 Uses Permitted 15.49.050 Uses Permitted By General And Specific Plans Of Development 15.49.060 Application Procedure For Rezoning And The General Plan Of Development 15.49.070 Application Procedure For The Specific Plan Of Development 15.49.080 Phasing 15.49.090 Minimum Yards 15.49.100 Open Space 15.49.110 Traffic Circulation 15.49.120 Streets 15.49.130 Signs 15.49.140 Lapse Of Approval 15.49.150 Resubmittal Following Expiration 15.49.010 Purpose The intent and purposes of the PDC district are as follows: 1. To provide a means for encouraging creative and innovative commercial or industrial developments that are environmentally pleasing through the application of imaginative land planning techniques not permitted within other zones with fixed standards; 2. To provide for an orderly and cohesive growth, physical development pattern and the efficient delivery of county or community service; 3. To assure conformance of the project with the county general plan with respect to use, intensity, circulation, public facilities and the preservation of natural features; 4. To encourage the design of commercial planned developments for compatibility with both existing and potential land uses, including a proper functional relationship with such adjacent areas; 5. To promote an equitable distribution of public facilities. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.49.020 Applicability Applications for PDC zoning shall be for a parcel or contiguous parcels totaling one acre or more. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

sign of commercial planned developments for compatibility with both existing and potential land uses, including a proper functional relationship with such adjacent areas; 5. To promote an equitable distribution of public facilities. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.49.020 Applicability Applications for PDC zoning shall be for a parcel or contiguous parcels totaling one acre or more. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.49.030 Plans Required 1. A rezoning application to PDC shall be accompanied by a general plan of development for the entire parcel(s) unless the rezoning is publicly initiated and implements language included in an approved specific, general or community plan. 2. A conditional use permit for a specific plan of development shall be required for the portion of the parcel(s) to be developed. 3. General plans and conditional use permits for plans of development shall be approved prior to any development. 4. Ministerial permits such as grading, building and health department permits shall not be issued prior to approval of a conditional use permit for a specific plan of development. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.49.040 Uses Permitted The following uses are permitted in any PDC district provided that such uses are not inconsistent with an approved general or specific plan of development: 1. Crop and tree farming; 2. Agricultural and residential accessory uses and accessory structures. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.49.050 Uses Permitted By General And Specific Plans Of Development The following uses shall be permitted by general and specific plans of development in the PDC district: 1. All those uses permitted or conditionally permitted in the commercial and industrial districts; 2. Day care centers, gymnasiums and health care facilities; 3. Recreation facilities including, but not limited to, tennis courts, fitness trails, swimming pools, boat docks, marinas, playgrounds and parks. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.49.060 Application Procedure For Rezoning And The General Plan Of Development 1. Preapplications Meeting(s). Prior to preparation of the application for rezoning and the general plan of development the applicant shall attend a preapplication meeting(s) with the planning authority staff. Purposes to be served include: 1. To explain the purpose of the planned development commercial district; 2. To review the project’s consistency with the county general plan, 3. To review the county code requirements; 4. To provide a review of the applicant’s conceptual design and development objectives. 2. Application. Application shall be made on forms provided by the planning authority and accompanied by all fees, information and supplemental plans required by this chapter. No applications shall be accepted until the applicant has complied with subsection (A) of this section. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.49.070 Application Procedure For The Specific Plan Of Development 1. Preapplication Meeting(s). Applicants for a conditional use permit for a specific plan of development shall attend a preapplication meeting(s) with the planning authority staff. The following shall be reviewed at the preapplication meeting: 1. Consistency of the specific plan of development with the approved general plan of development; 2. Review of the development standards applicable to the project. 2. Application. Application shall be made on forms provided by the planning authority and accompanied by all fees, information and supplemental plans required by this district or the subdivision ordinance. No applications shall be accepted until the applicant has complied with subsection (A) of this section. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.49.080 Phasing PDC’s may be phased if phasing is approved as part of the general plan of development. Specific plans of development and tentative and final map proposals shall conform to the phasing of the approved general plan of development. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.49.090 Minimum Yards

ll be accepted until the applicant has complied with subsection (A) of this section. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.49.080 Phasing PDC’s may be phased if phasing is approved as part of the general plan of development. Specific plans of development and tentative and final map proposals shall conform to the phasing of the approved general plan of development. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.49.090 Minimum Yards

Net yards shall be no less than the following:

1. Front Yard. Twenty feet from front lot line, or forty-five feet from centerline of roadway, whichever is greater. Yards abutting streets are front yards. 2. Rear Yard. Twenty feet from rear lot line, except as provided below:

2. Where the rear lot line of a lot abuts a residential zone, the minimum rear yard setback shall be fifty feet. Not less than ten feet abutting the rear lot line shall be landscaped and permanently maintained. A six-foot-high solid masonry wall shall be required ten feet from the rear lot line.

3. Side Yard. Ten feet from side lot lines, except as provided below:

4. Where the side lot line of a lot abuts a residential zone, the minimum side yard setback shall be fifty feet. Not less than ten feet abutting the side lot line shall be landscaped and permanently maintained. A six-foot masonry wall shall also be required ten feet from the side lot line and shall not exceed three feet in height when extending into any required front yard. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.49.100 Open Space All developments proposed under the PDC district may include a proportionate amount of open space for active and passive use by the occupants of the development, whether they are merchants, employees or the general public. The amount to be provided shall be determined as follows:

5. Common Open Space. Each planned commercial development may contain one or more large areas of land permanently reserved primarily for the leisure and recreational use of all the development’s occupants or public and owned and maintained in common by the occupants.

6. Common open space may include:

7. Land area of the site not covered by buildings, parking structures or accessory structures; 2. Land which is accessible and available to all occupants of structures for whose use the space is intended unless such land is in a category listed below; 3. Commonly owned recreational structures and facilities including, but not limited to, gymnasiums, tennis courts, swimming pools, picnic areas and parks. 3. Public Open Space. As an alternative, or in addition to, common open space in subsection (B) of this section, each planned commercial development may propose one or more parcels of land which would be permanently dedicated in fee to the county or other public or private agency. Such areas will be for the use of the development’s occupants in addition to the use by all county residents or for the protection of environmentally sensitive areas. 4. Required Open Space. The county may require public and/or common space in a planned commercial development at the time of approval of the general plan of development. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.49.110 Traffic Circulation 1. Internal Access. All commercial planned development proposals shall ensure that internal circulation systems are properly designed to serve the different types of proposed land uses, accommodate expected traffic flows, provide adequate emergency access to all buildings and structures, and provide for safe and convenient pedestrian access, whether the project is partially or fully implemented. In addition, the following access requirements shall apply: 1. At least two different routes of entrance and exit for emergency vehicles shall be provided where streets are longer than eight hundred feet; 2. Cul-de-sacs shall be limited to one thousand feet in length and shall be terminated by a turnaround not less than eighty feet in diameter. 2. External Access. The planning commission shall review development applications to ensure that projected traffic increases resulting from the project, when partially and fully implemented, will not significantly impact connecting streets, roads and existing and proposed land uses outside the project perimeter. The applicant shall propose measures acceptable to the county to reduce significant impacts to existing road networks or land uses outside the development itself. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.49.120 Streets 1. All internal streets, roads and drives serving the development shall be designed and constructed to county road improvement and design standards. 2. The use of private streets within planned commercial developments may be permitted. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.49.130 Signs 1. Signs shall be governed by the provisions of Chapter 15.62. 2. There shall be a common theme to the signing of the development. The theme should include some identifiable common element or elements such as dimension, construction material, color scheme, lighting or lettering style. All signs in the development shall be integral components of the common theme. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.49.140 Lapse Of Approval 1. A general plan of development shall expire two years after its date of approval unless an application has been filed with the planning authority for a conditional use permit for specific plan of development prior to plan expiration, or a time extension has been approved prior to the date of the general plan of development expiration. The planning commission may, upon good cause shown, grant a time extension for one year. 2. The conditional use permit for a specific plan of development shall expire five years after approval unless, prior to the expiration date, substantial physical construction has been completed on the development or a time extension has been approved. The planning commission or board of supervisors may, upon good cause shown, grant a time extension for one year. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.49.150 Resubmittal Following Expiration After a general plan or a conditional use permit for a specific plan of development expires, a new general plan or conditional use permit for a specific plan of development application and fee must be submitted for reconsideration. The new application shall be subject to the same procedures and approval as the original application. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.50 MHP - Planned Mobilehome Parks 15.50.010 Purpose 15.50.020 Required Permit 15.50.030 Development Standards 15.50.010 Purpose The purpose of this chapter is to promote the available housing opportunities for the present and future residents of Glenn County by the establishment of policies and development standards for the planned mobilehome parks. The development standards for the planned mobilehome parks will further encourage the creation of stable, attractive, residential environments within the individual mobilehome parks. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.50.020 Required Permit Planned mobilehome parks may be permitted in the RZ, RM, RE, RE-NW, C and M zones only if a conditional use permit has first been secured. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.50.030 Development Standards 1. Mobilehome Site Requirements. Each mobilehome site shall be plainly marked and numbered for identification and shall meet all requirements of this chapter. 1. Mobilehome Site Area. Each mobilehome site in a mobile home park shall have a minimum of three thousand square feet in area. 2. Mobilehome Site Width. Each mobilehome site shall have a width of thirty feet plus the width of the mobilehome, unless it can be shown that adequate space for a patio, parking, and side yard(s) will be assured, despite a site of lesser width. 3. Front Yard. Each mobilehome site shall have a front yard of not less than five feet. The front yard so required shall not be used for vehicle parking, except such paved a portion thereof as is devoted to driveway use. 4. Side Yard, corner Lot. On corner sites, the side yard adjoining the mobilehome park street shall not be less than five feet. 5. Side Yards, Interior. Each mobilehome site shall have a side yard on each side of not less

ave a front yard of not less than five feet. The front yard so required shall not be used for vehicle parking, except such paved a portion thereof as is devoted to driveway use. 4. Side Yard, corner Lot. On corner sites, the side yard adjoining the mobilehome park street shall not be less than five feet. 5. Side Yards, Interior. Each mobilehome site shall have a side yard on each side of not less

ave a front yard of not less than five feet. The front yard so required shall not be used for vehicle parking, except such paved a portion thereof as is devoted to driveway use. 4. Side Yard, corner Lot. On corner sites, the side yard adjoining the mobilehome park street shall not be less than five feet. 5. Side Yards, Interior. Each mobilehome site shall have a side yard on each side of not less than five feet. 6. Side Yard, Driveway. When used for access to a parking facility, a side yard shall be wide enough for a ten foot wide unobstructed driveway. All such side yard driveways shall be paved with concrete or asphaltic concrete except in the RZ zone. 7. Rear Yard. Each mobilehome site shall have a rear yard of not less than five feet in depth. 8. Projection Into Yard. The following structures may be erected or projected into any required yard. 1. Eaves, stairways and awnings not to exceed one foot; 2. Landscape elements including trees, shrubs, and other plants, except hedges; provided, that such landscape feature does not hinder the movement of the mobilehome in or out of its space; 3. Mobilehome hitches; 4. Necessary appurtenances for utility services. 9. Distance Between Mobilehomes or Accessory Structures. No portion of a mobilehome or attached accessory structure shall be closer than ten feet to another mobilehome or attached accessory structure. 10. Mobilehome Site Coverage. The mobilehome and accessory structures shall not cover more than seventy-five percent of the mobilehome site. 2. Population Density. Not more than one single-family mobilehome may be placed on a mobilehome site. 3. Off-street parking. 1. Each mobilehome site shall have a paved space (except in RZ zone) suitable for providing automobile shelter with space for at least two automobiles for each mobilehome (tandem parking is allowed). 2. Recreation and laundry areas shall have sufficient parking facilities to accommodate one automobile for every ten mobilehome sites.

4. Signs.

5. Each mobilehome park shall have a bulletin board for listing each mobilehome site and the name of the occupant thereof. The bulletin board shall be located outside the office and it shall be lighted at night. 2. Adequate signs and markings indicating directions, parking areas, recreation areas and street names shall be established and maintained in the mobilehome park. Such signs shall not exceed six square feet in area. 3. Signs or name plates not exceeding two square feet in area and displaying only the name and address of one occupant of the mobilehome may be erected at each mobilehome site. 4. Signs which identify or advertise the mobilehome park may be erected if approved by the planning commission concurrently with its action on the conditional use permit for the mobilehome park. Such signs must be located on the premises and shall not be more than one hundred twenty square feet in area. They shall not be animated or illuminated except by indirect, nonflashing light. 5. Landscaping. The following landscaping provisions shall apply to all mobilehome parks: 1. All open areas except driveways, parking area, walkways, utility areas, improved decks, patios or porches shall be maintained with landscaping as hereinbefore defined. 2. The trees shall be planted along street frontage as may be required by the planning commission. 6. Walls and Fences. Walls and fences on individual mobilehome sites shall not exceed two feet in height. Walls or fences shall be erected around the perimeter of each mobilehome park as required by the planning commission. The height, construction, and type of material for such perimeter walls shall be as specified by the planning commission in the conditional use permit. 7. Mobilehome Park Streets. Mobilehome park streets shall be provided in such a pattern as to provide convenient traffic circulation within the mobilehome park. On-street parking is not permitted. They shall be built to the following standards (except in the RZ zone): 1. All mobilehome park streets shall have a width of not less than thirty feet including curbs. 2. There shall be concrete roll curbs on each side of the streets. 3. The mobilehome park streets shall be paved. Detailed plans shall be submitted to the public works director for review and approval. 8. Park and Recreation Areas. A central recreational area shall be established in each mobilehome park created pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. The size of such area shall be at least two hundred square feet per mobilehome site. The recreation area may contain community club houses, swimming pools, shuffleboard courts and similar facilities. The planning commission may permit decentralization of the recreation facilities in accordance with principles of good planning provided that the total recreation area meets the above stated minimum size. 9. Mobilehome Park Office. Every mobilehome park shall include a permanent building for office use. Such building may include a single-family dwelling for the exclusive use of the owner or manager. 10. Laundry Rooms. Every mobilehome park shall have one or more laundry rooms. Laundry drying lines shall not be permitted on any mobilehome site. 11. Mail Boxes Provided. Each mobilehome site shall be equipped with a receptacle for mail deliveries in accordance with the standards prescribed by the local postmaster. 12. Telephones. The mobilehome park shall contain at least one public telephone for the use of the park residents. 13. Storage Areas. Areas used for the storage of travel trailers, boats and other such items may be established in a mobilehome park; provided, they are adequately screened from public view. 14. Utilities. Except in the RZ zone, all utility distribution facilities serving individual mobilehome sites shall be placed underground. The owner is responsible for complying with the requirements of this subsection and he shall make the necessary arrangements with each of the serving utilities for the installation of such facilities. Transformers, terminal boxes, meter cabinets, pedestals, concealed ducts and other necessary appurtenant structures may be placed above ground. Water and sewer distribution facilities shall be installed in conformance with specifications of the utility engineer. 15. Transient Mobilehome Sites. Sites reserved for transient mobilehomes shall be so designated on the plans submitted with the application for the mobilehome park conditional use permit. The site, yard and property development standards of this part shall fully apply to sites reserved for transient mobilehomes. 16. Sales of Mobilehomes at Mobilehome Parks. 1. Operation Subject to Conditional Use Permit. The operation of a business or occupation, either full or part time, for the purpose of mobilehome sales, shall be allowed on the premises of any legally established mobilehome park, subject to the issuance of a conditional use permit. 2. Conditions. Such conditional use permits shall be subject to any conditions imposed by the county. 3. Restrictions. In no event shall the holder of the conditional use permit or any other person maintain or allow to be maintained on the mobilehome park premises for display any mobilehome either assembled or disassembled which is not installed on the site and connected to all utilities sufficient to be legally adequate for immediate occupancy. The maximum number of unoccupied mobilehomes so installed for display shall not exceed three units at any one time. 4. Other Requirements. This section does not affect any other requirements of any agency, board, commission, council or entity at whatever level for any other permit, authorization or approval. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.51 MP - Industrial Park Or MP District 15.51.010 Purpose 15.51.020 Applicability 15.51.030 Uses Permitted 15.51.040 Uses Permitted Subject To First Obtaining A Conditional Use Permit 15.51.050 Minimum Lot Size 15.51.060 Minimum Average Lot Width 15.51.070 Maximum Length To Width Ratio 15.51.

uncil or entity at whatever level for any other permit, authorization or approval. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.51 MP - Industrial Park Or MP District 15.51.010 Purpose 15.51.020 Applicability 15.51.030 Uses Permitted 15.51.040 Uses Permitted Subject To First Obtaining A Conditional Use Permit 15.51.050 Minimum Lot Size 15.51.060 Minimum Average Lot Width 15.51.070 Maximum Length To Width Ratio 15.51.

uncil or entity at whatever level for any other permit, authorization or approval. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.51 MP - Industrial Park Or MP District 15.51.010 Purpose 15.51.020 Applicability 15.51.030 Uses Permitted 15.51.040 Uses Permitted Subject To First Obtaining A Conditional Use Permit 15.51.050 Minimum Lot Size 15.51.060 Minimum Average Lot Width 15.51.070 Maximum Length To Width Ratio 15.51.080 Maximum Lot Coverage 15.51.090 Minimum Yards 15.51.100 Maximum Height 15.51.110 Additional Performance Standards 15.51.120 Site Plan Review 15.51.010 Purpose The purpose of this chapter is to provide areas for a wide range of heavy commercial, light manufacturing uses, research facilities, and administrative offices clustered within business parks with welldesigned buildings and attractively landscaped areas. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.51.020 Applicability

This district shall apply to designated areas of the County identified in the Glenn County General Plan which are or are likely to be served by public water and sewer systems. Parcels or lots shall front on County maintained roadways as designated on the Circulation Element of the Glenn County General Plan. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.51.030 Uses Permitted

The following heavy commercial and manufacturing uses are permitted when conducted within a completely enclosed building; when not obnoxious or offensive because of noise, dust, odor, smoke, vibration, danger to life and property; and when outdoor storage of finished products or materials does not exceed fifteen percent (15%) of the net lot area and when stored within an area completely screened from adjacent County road rights-of-way and adjacent properties:

ted when conducted within a completely enclosed building; when not obnoxious or offensive because of noise, dust, odor, smoke, vibration, danger to life and property; and when outdoor storage of finished products or materials does not exceed fifteen percent (15%) of the net lot area and when stored within an area completely screened from adjacent County road rights-of-way and adjacent properties:

1. Retail sales of large and bulky household items such as appliances, carpet and floor covering, fabric, machinery, furniture, and fireplaces or wood stoves; not including new and used auto sales; 2. Commercial trade services including incidental retail sales such as cleaning and dyeing agencies and plants, bottling works, cabinet and carpentry shops; blacksmith, welding and machine shops; furniture repair and upholstery shops; not including minor or major auto repair; 3. Construction related sales and services such as hardware stores; general and specialty contractors offices; electrical, plumbing, and heating shops; and light equipment rental shops; 4. Commercial warehouses and wholesale warehouses, not including mini-storage or aircraft hangers; 5. Light manufacturing, assembly, packaging, or processing of the following materials, including incidental retail sales of finished products at the point of manufacture; and when not including any use which incorporates processes involving the pulverization of clays, use of kilns fired by fuels other than electricity or gas, or the refining or rendering of oils or fats: 1. High technology products such as electrical instruments, computers, optical equipment and similar uses, including research and development. 2. Grains, vegetables, fruit or other farm products. 3. Wood, paper, or paper products, not including lumber and paper mills. 4. Fabrics, textiles, and similar materials. 5. Leather and leather products. 6. Metals and alloys, not including steel mills. 7. Plastic and fiberglass. 6. Administrative and general business offices and facilities when compatible with uses permitted in this district; 7. Professional construction support services such as blueprinting, duplicating, printing, drafting, engineering, surveying, planning, or architectural services; 8. Research, development, and testing laboratories and facilities; 9. Any other heavy commercial or light industrial use, building, or structure which is of similar character and not materially different from those enumerated herein; 10. Food services such as cafes and diners open to the public subject to Chapter 15.745; 11. Laundry, janitorial or facility maintenance services; 12. Industrial and commercial accessory uses and accessory structures; 13. Recycling centers when conducted within a completely enclosed building; 14. Energy production facilities. Public and private utilities and facilities. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.51.040 Uses Permitted Subject To First Obtaining A Conditional Use Permit

The following heavy commercial and manufacturing uses are permitted when conducted within a completely enclosed building; and when not exceeding fifteen percent (15%) of the total area of the lot for outdoor storage of finished products or materials within a completely screened by a site obscuring fence or masonry wall from adjacent properties and County road rights-of-way on the same lot:

1. Uses permitted in Section 15.51.030 when obnoxious or offensive because of noise, dust, odor, smoke, vibration, or danger to life and property as determined by the planning authority;

   2. Uses permitted in Section 15.51.030 when not in compliance with the Performance Standards set forth in Division 4, Part 1 of the Glenn County Unified Development Code; 3. Home improvement centers;

   3. Tractor, boat, and airplane manufacturing and repair, not including minor or major auto repair. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• 15.51.050 Minimum Lot Size

Forty thousand (40,000) square feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• 15.51.060 Minimum Average Lot Width

  1. Interior lots: One hundred (100) feet.

  2. Corner lots: One hundred twenty-five (125) feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• 15.51.070 Maximum Length To Width Ratio Three to One (3:1). (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.51.080 Maximum Lot Coverage Seventy-five percent (75%). (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• 15.51.090 Minimum Yards

  1. Front yard: Twenty feet (20’) from the lot line; or forty- five feet (45’) from the centerline of the roadway, whichever is greater.

  2. Rear yard: Twenty feet (20’); except as provided below:

  • Where the rear lot line of a site abuts a residential zoning district, the minimum rear yard setback shall be fifty feet (50’). Where the rear lot line abuts a residential zoning district the owner shall construct, on the rear lot line, a six-foot high solid masonry wall or solid wood fence. The masonry wall or solid wood fence shall be continuously maintained.

  • 3. Side yard: Ten feet (10’); except as provided below:

Where the side lot line of a site abuts a residential zoning district, the minimum side yard setback shall be fifty feet (50’). Where the side lot line abuts a residential zoning district the owner shall construct, on the side lot line, a six-foot high solid masonry wall or solid wood fence which shall not exceed three (3) feet in height when extending into any required front yard. The masonry wall or solid wood fence shall be continuously maintained.

4. Accessory structures: The above setbacks shall apply. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Twenty feet (20’); for each foot of setback in excess of all required setback lines, an additional height of six inches (6”) shall be permitted, but the total height shall not exceed forty-five feet (45’), provided that additional height may be permitted subject to first securing a conditional use permit in each case. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.51.110 Additional Performance Standards

The following requirements shall apply in addition to performance standards provided for in Division 4, Part 1, Performance Standards of the Glenn County Code.

1. Public safety: All proposed development shall comply with the following public safety requirements beyond those required elsewhere:

   1. An emergency access way to the rear portion of the lot shall be provided where deemed necessary or where required by the standards of the applicable local fire protection district. 2. Adequate lighting of parking lots and buildings shall be provided.

   2. Clearly marked street numbers with lighting for night visibility shall be provided.

2. Required landscaping shall not totally shield a security officer’s view of doors, windows, or entrance areas;

3. Development shall not occur until community sewer and water systems are available to serve the site;

4. The following additional design criteria shall apply:

   1. Facades of buildings shall be decorative and architecturally pleasing. At a minimum, all buildings shall be designed so that exterior walls look like wood or masonry regardless of their composition. All roofing materials shall be designed to look like composition roofing, tile, shakes, shingles, or tar and gravel, or consist of architectural metal roof sheathing with factory applied color coatings;

   2. Colors, materials, and finishes are to be coordinated on all exterior elevations of the buildings to achieve a total continuity of design that is visually pleasing and harmonious with adjacent development;

   3. All roof-mounted mechanical equipment and/or duct work, which projects vertically more than one and one-half feet (1 1/2’) above roof or roof parapet and visible from an adjoining street is to be screened by an enclosure which is detailed consistent with the building. Where total screening of roof-mounted mechanical equipment and/or duct work which projects one and one-half feet (1 1/2’) or more above the roof or roof parapet is not practical, as determined by the Glenn County Building Inspector, the projections shall be painted consistent with the color scheme of the building;

   4. No mechanical equipment except for emergency equipment and air conditioning equipment is to be exposed on the wall surface of a building. Such mechanical equipment shall be screened by an enclosure which is designed to be consistent with the building;

   5. Plans for cyclone blowers, bag houses, tanks, etc., shall be reviewed at the time of site plan review to determine design integration with buildings and adjacent areas. Such equipment shall be painted to blend with or complement the surface to which attached, if visible;

5. All gutters, down spouts, vents, louvers, exposed flashing and overhead doors, shall be painted to blend with or complement the surface to which attached;

   7. For development that is adjacent to any Scenic Highway as designated in the Glenn County General Plan, the following standards shall also apply:

      1. Outdoor storage of materials and equipment shall not face the scenic highway;

      2. Overhead doors, garages, or loading zones shall be placed facing away from view of the scenic highway.

   8. Not less than twenty (20) feet of landscaping shall be provided and permanently maintained in any required front yard. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.51.120 Site Plan Review Prior to or concurrent with the application for a building permit, the applicant shall submit to the agency a complete site plan and all necessary supporting documentation for review by the agency to ensure compliance with all the requirements of the Glenn County Code. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.52 RPM - Recreation And Planned Motorsport Zone 15.52.010 Purpose 15.52.020 Applicability 15.52.030 Plans Required 15.52.040 Uses Permitted 15.52.050 Uses Permitted By General And Specific Plans Of Development 15.52.060 Application Procedure For Rezoning And The General Plan Of Development 15.52.070 Application Procedure For The Specific Plan Of Development 15.52.080 Minimum Yards 15.52.090 Open Space 15.52.100 Traffic Circulation 15.52.110 Streets 15.52.120 Signs 15.52.130 Lapse Of Approval 15.52.140 Resubmittal Following Expiration 15.52.010 Purpose The intent and purposes of the RPM district are as follows:

1. To provide a means for encouraging creative and innovative recreation or motorsport developments that are environmentally pleasing through the application of imaginative land planning techniques not permitted within other zones with fixed standards;

2. To provide for an orderly and cohesive growth, physical development pattern and the efficient delivery of county or community service;

3. To assure conformance of the project with the county general plan with respect to use, intensity, circulation, public facilities and the preservation of natural features;

4. To encourage the design of planned developments for compatibility with both existing and potential land uses, including a proper functional relationship with such adjacent areas;

5. To promote an equitable distribution of public facilities.

6. To promote economic development and the expansion of recreational opportunities.

7. To protect recreational and motorsport activities from encroachment by incompatible development such as residential development. (Ord. 1189 § 3, 2006)

Applications for RPM zoning shall be for a parcel or contiguous parcels totaling one hundred, sixty (160) acres or more. (Ord. 1189 § 3, 2006)

1. A rezoning application to RPM shall be accompanied by a general plan of development for the entire parcel(s) unless the rezoning is publicly initiated and implements language included in an approved specific, general or community plan.

2. A conditional use permit for a specific plan of development shall be required for the portion of the parcel(s) to be developed. 3. General plans and conditional use permits for plans of development shall be approved prior to any development. 4. Ministerial permits such as grading, building and health department permits shall not be issued prior to approval of a conditional use permit for a specific plan of development. (Ord. 1189 § 3, 2006)

The following uses are permitted in any RPM district provided that such uses are not inconsistent with an approved general or specific plan of development:

1. Growing and harvesting of any agricultural crop or product;

2. Livestock farming, including the raising, feeding, maintaining and breeding of horses, cattle, sheep, goats and similar livestock;

3. Game preserves and hunting clubs, private or public, but shall not include permanent facilities such as hotels, motels, restaurants, club houses; 4. Accessory buildings or structures required for the storage of any crops, products, equipment or uses lawfully permitted or produced on the premises. (Ord. 1189 § 3, 2006)

15.52.050 Uses Permitted By General And Specific Plans Of Development

The following uses may be permitted by general and specific plans of development in the RPM district:

1. Motorsport activities and facilities included, but not limited to, automobile racing, motorcycle racing, garages, storage, stands, viewing and judging areas, support facilities, and parking areas.

2. Recreation facilities including, but not limited to, tennis courts, fitness trails, swimming pools, boat docks, marinas, playgrounds and parks. 3. All those uses permitted or conditionally permitted in the commercial and industrial districts compatible with recreational activities and motorsports. (Ord. 1189 § 3, 2006) 15.52.060 Application Procedure For Rezoning And The General Plan Of Development 1. Preapplications Meeting(s). Prior to preparation of the application for rezoning and the general plan of development the applicant shall attend a preapplication meeting(s) with the planning authority staff. Purposes to be served include: 1. To explain the purpose of the planned development commercial district; 2. To review the project’s consistency with the county general plan, 3. To review the county code requirements; 4. To provide a review of the applicant’s conceptual design and development objectives. 2. Application. Application shall be made on forms provided by the planning authority and accompanied by all fees, information and supplemental plans required by this chapter. No applications shall be accepted until the applicant has complied with subsection (A) of this section. (Ord. 1189 § 3, 2006) 15.52.070 Application Procedure For The Specific Plan Of Development 1. Preapplication Meeting(s). Applicants for a conditional use permit for a specific plan of development shall attend a preapplication meeting(s) with the planning authority staff. The following shall be reviewed at the preapplication meeting: 1. Consistency of the specific plan of development with the approved general plan of development; 2. Review of the development standards applicable to the project. 2. Application. Application shall be made on forms provided by the planning authority and accompanied by all fees, information and supplemental plans required by this district or the subdivision ordinance. No applications shall be accepted until the applicant has complied with subsection (A) of this section. 3. Phasing. RPM projects may be phased if phasing is approved as part of the general plan of development. Specific plans of development and tentative and final map proposals shall conform to the phasing of the approved general plan of development. (Ord. 1189 § 3, 2006) 15.52.080 Minimum Yards Net yards shall be no less than the following: 1. Front Yard. Twenty feet from front lot line, or forty-five feet from centerline of roadway, whichever is greater. Yards abutting streets are front yards. 2. Rear Yard. Twenty feet from rear lot line, except as provided below: 1. Where the rear lot line of a lot abuts a residential zone, the minimum rear yard setback shall be one thousand (1000) feet. Not less than twenty (20) feet abutting the rear lot line shall be landscaped and permanently maintained. Such rear yard may be satisfied by maintenance of a agricultural preservation zone, farmland security zone or other non-residential zoning designation between the RPM district and the residential district. 2. Where the rear lot line of a lot abuts an agricultural preservation zone or a farmland security zone shall be three hundred (300) feet. Not less than twenty (20) feet abutting the rear lot line shall be landscaped and permanently maintained. 3. Side Yard. Ten feet from side lot lines, except as provided below: 1. Where the side lot line of a lot abuts a residential zone, the minimum side yard setback shall be one-thousand (1000) feet. Not less than ten feet abutting the side lot line shall be landscaped and permanently maintained. Such side yard may be satisfied by maintenance of a agricultural preservation zone, farmland security zone or other non-residential zoning designation between the RPM district and the residential district. 2. Where the side lot line of a lot abuts an agricultural preservation zone or a farmland security zone shall be three hundred (300) feet. Not less than twenty (20) feet abutting the rear lot line shall be landscaped and permanently maintained. (Ord. 1189 § 3, 2006) 15.52.090 Open Space All developments proposed under the RPM district may include a proportionate amount of open space for active and passive use by the occupants of the development, whether they are merchants, employees or the general public. The amount to be provided shall be determined as follows: 1. Common Open Space. Each planned development may contain one or more large areas of land permanently reserved primarily for the leisure and recreational use of all the development’s occupants or public and owned and maintained in common by the occupants. 2. Common open space may include: 1. Land area of the site not covered by buildings, parking structures or accessory structures; 2. Land which is accessible and available to all occupants of structures for whose use the space is intended unless such land is in a category listed below; 3. Commonly owned recreational structures and facilities including, but not limited to, gymnasiums, tennis courts, swimming pools, picnic areas and parks. 3. Public Open Space. As an alternative, or in addition to, common open space in subsection (B) of this section, each planned development may propose one or more parcels of land which would be permanently dedicated in fee to the county or other public or private agency. Such areas will be for the use of the development’s occupants in addition to the use by all county residents or for the protection of environmentally sensitive areas. 4. Required Open Space. The county may require public and/or common space in a planned development at the time of approval of the general plan of development. (Ord. 1189 § 3, 2006) 15.52.100 Traffic Circulation 1. Internal Access. All recreation and planned motorsport development proposals shall ensure that internal circulation systems are properly designed to serve the different types of proposed land uses, accommodate expected traffic flows, provide adequate emergency access to all buildings and structures, and provide for

eneral plan of development. (Ord. 1189 § 3, 2006) 15.52.100 Traffic Circulation 1. Internal Access. All recreation and planned motorsport development proposals shall ensure that internal circulation systems are properly designed to serve the different types of proposed land uses, accommodate expected traffic flows, provide adequate emergency access to all buildings and structures, and provide for

eneral plan of development. (Ord. 1189 § 3, 2006) 15.52.100 Traffic Circulation 1. Internal Access. All recreation and planned motorsport development proposals shall ensure that internal circulation systems are properly designed to serve the different types of proposed land uses, accommodate expected traffic flows, provide adequate emergency access to all buildings and structures, and provide for safe and convenient pedestrian access, whether the project is partially or fully implemented. In addition, the following access requirements shall apply: 1. At least two different routes of entrance and exit for emergency vehicles shall be provided where streets are longer than eight hundred feet; 2. All internal circulation systems shall meet the requirements of Chapter 15.64 Road Standards 2. External Access. The planning commission shall review development applications to ensure that projected traffic increases resulting from the project, when partially and fully implemented, will not significantly impact connecting streets, roads and existing and proposed land uses outside the project perimeter. The applicant shall propose measures acceptable to the county to reduce significant impacts to existing road networks or land uses outside the development itself. (Ord. 1189 § 3, 2006)

15.52.110 Streets

1. All internal streets, roads and drives serving the development shall be designed and constructed to county road improvement and design standards.

2. The use of private streets within planned developments may be permitted. (Ord. 1189 § 3, 2006)

1. Signs shall be governed by the provisions of Chapter 15.62 Sign Standards 2. There shall be a common theme to the signing of the development. The theme should include some identifiable common element or elements such as dimension, construction material, color scheme, lighting or lettering style. All signs in the development shall be integral components of the common theme. (Ord. 1189 § 3, 2006) 15.52.130 Lapse Of Approval 1. A general plan of development shall expire two years after its date of approval unless an application has been filed with the planning authority for a conditional use permit for specific plan of development prior to plan expiration, or a time extension has been approved prior to the date of the general plan of development expiration. The planning commission may, upon good cause shown, grant a time extension for one year. 2. The conditional use permit for a specific plan of development shall expire five years after approval unless, prior to the expiration date, substantial physical construction has been completed on the development or a time extension has been approved. The planning commission or board of supervisors may, upon good cause shown, grant a time extension for one year. (Ord. 1189 § 3, 2006) 15.52.140 Resubmittal Following Expiration After a general plan or a conditional use permit for a specific plan of development expires, a new general plan or conditional use permit for a specific plan of development application and fee must be submitted for reconsideration. The new application shall be subject to the same procedures and approval as the original application. (Ord. 1189 § 3, 2006) 15.53 AV - Airport Zone 15.53.010 Purpose 15.53.020 Permitted Uses 15.53.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit 15.53.040 Maximum Building Height 15.53.050 Site Plan Review 15.53.010 Purpose This chapter shall be applied to properties used, or planned to be used, as airports and where special regulations are necessary for the protection of life and property. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.53.020 Permitted Uses The following-uses and structures shall be permitted in the AV zone:

tted With A Conditional Use Permit 15.53.040 Maximum Building Height 15.53.050 Site Plan Review 15.53.010 Purpose This chapter shall be applied to properties used, or planned to be used, as airports and where special regulations are necessary for the protection of life and property. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.53.020 Permitted Uses The following-uses and structures shall be permitted in the AV zone:

1. Paved runways, taxiways, landing strips and aprons; 2. Aircraft storage, service and repair hangars; 3. Aircraft fueling facilities; 4. Passenger and freight terminal facilities; 5. Lighting, radio and radar facilities; 6. Accessory structures and facilities, including aircraft and aviation accessory sales. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.53.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit Uses permitted in the M (industrial) zone; this does not include conditionally permitted uses in the M (industrial) zone. 1. Commercial uses which are dependent upon the airport for their existence or commercial uses which are related to the traveling public, including highway, community and service commercial uses, but not including any commercial use such as minor or major auto repair or commercial use not conducted entirely within an enclosed building. 2. Those uses which have overhead public utility transmission and distribution facilities are not permitted. 3. Wash racks, rinsing and/or mixing facilities for agricultural chemicals and/or fertilizers prior to or following aerial application. 4. Non-airport related public facilities. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.53.040 Maximum Building Height No building or structure in this zone shall exceed thirty-five feet, except as otherwise permitted with a conditional use permit. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.53.050 Site Plan Review Before applying for a building permit, the applicant shall submit to the planning authority a complete site plan and all other documents necessary for review by the director to ensure compliance with all the requirements of the Glenn County Code. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) Division 15-3 Part 3 Combining Districts 15.54 FP - Flood Plain Management Zone 15.55 AVH - Airport Hazard Zone 15.54 FP - Flood Plain Management Zone 15.54.010 Authorization And Purpose 15.54.020 Findings Of Fact 15.54.030 Methods Of Reducing Flood Losses 15.54.040 Basis For Establishing The Areas Of Special Flood Hazard 15.54.050 Lands To Which This Chapter Applies 15.54.060 Compliance 15.54.070 Establishment Of Development Permit 15.54.080 Designation Of Flood Plain Administrator 15.54.090 Duties And Responsibilities Of Flood Plain Administrator 15.54.100 Standards Of Construction 15.54.110 Standards For Utilities 15.54.120 Standards For Subdivisions 15.54.130 Standards For Manufactured Homes 15.54.140 Standards For Recreational Vehicles 15.54.150 Permit Exceptions-Structures Placement, Construction 15.54.160 Floodway Encroachments 15.54.170 Appeals 15.54.180 Variances 15.54.190 Variance Appeals 15.54.200 Conditions For Variances 15.54.210 Application And Interpretation 15.54.220 Severability

15.54.010 Authorization And Purpose

The purpose of this chapter is to promote and protect. This chapter is adopted pursuant to Section 7 of Article XI of the California Constitution and supplemental authority contained in state statutes. The purpose of this chapter is to promote and protect the public health, safety, and general welfare by providing a definite plan of development standards to guide, control and regulate growth in areas subject to flooding and to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions in specific areas by provisions designed to:

1. Protect human life and health;

2. Minimize expenditures of public money for costly flood control projects;

3. Minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated with flooding and generally undertaken at the expense of the general public;

4. Minimize prolonged business interruptions;

5. Minimize damage to public facilities and utilities such as water and gas mains; electric, telephone and sewer lines; and streets and bridges located in areas of special flood hazard;

6. Help maintain a stable tax base by providing for the sound use and development of areas of special flood hazard so as to minimize future blighted areas caused by flood damage;

7. Provide for notice to potential buyers that property is in an area of special flood hazard; and

8. Provide that those who occupy or use areas of special flood hazard assume responsibility for their actions (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.54.020 Findings Of Fact

1. Flood hazard areas exist in Glenn County and are characterized by periodic inundation which may result in loss of life and property, create health and safety hazards, disrupt commerce and governmental services, cause extraordinary public expenditures for flood protection and relief, and impair the tax base, all of which adversely affect the public health, safety, and general welfare of persons residing, working or visiting in the county.

2. These flood losses are caused by uses that are inadequately elevated, flood-proofed, or protected from flood damage. The cumulative effect of obstructions in areas of special flood hazards which increase flood heights and velocities also contribute to the flood loss. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.54.030 Methods Of Reducing Flood Losses

To accomplish its purposes, this chapter establishes methods and provisions to:

1. Restrict or prohibit uses which are dangerous to health, safety, and property due to water or erosion hazards, or which result in damaging increases in erosion or in flood heights or velocities; 2. Require that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities which serve such uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction;

2. Control the alteration of natural flood plains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers, which help accommodate or channel flood waters;

3. Control filling, grading, dredging, and other development which may increase flood damage; and 5. Prevent or regulate the construction of flood barriers which will unnaturally divert flood waters or which may increase flood hazards in other areas. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.54.040 Basis For Establishing The Areas Of Special Flood Hazard 1. The areas of special flood hazard identified by the Federal Insurance Administration (FIA) of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the Flood Insurance Study for the County of Glenn effective June 5, 1997 (FIS) and accompanying Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMS) and Flood Boundary and Floodway Maps (FBFMS) effective September 3, 1980, and all subsequent amendments and/or revisions, are hereby adopted by reference, declared to be a part of this chapter, and designated as special zone maps pursuant to this section.

2. This FIS and attendant mapping is the minimum area of applicability of this chapter and may be supplemented by studies for other areas which allow implementation of this chapter and which are recommended to the Board of Supervisors by the flood plain administrator. The study, FIRMS, and FBFMs are on file at the planning authority. (Ord. 1211 § 3, 2009; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.54.050 Lands To Which This Chapter Applies This chapter shall apply to all areas of special flood hazards within the jurisdiction of Glenn County. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.54.060 Compliance

No structure or land shall hereafter be constructed, located, extended, converted, or altered without full compliance with the term of this chapter and other applicable regulations. Violation of the requirements (including violations of conditions and safeguards established in connection with conditions) shall constitute a misdemeanor. Nothing herein shall prevent the county from taking such lawful action as is necessary to prevent or remedy any violation. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.54.070 Establishment Of Development Permit A development permit shall be obtained before any construction or other development begins within any area of special flood hazard established in Section 15.54.040. Application for a development permit shall be made on forms furnished by the flood plain administrator and may include, but not be limited to: plans in duplicate drawn to scale showing the nature, location, dimensions, and elevation of the area in question; existing or proposed structures, fill, storage of materials, drainage facilities; and the location of the foregoing. Specifically, the following information is required: 1. For new structures and substantial improvements, provide detailed site plan with spot elevations of ground adjacent to proposed footprint of structure and all supporting building systems, well, septic system; and 2. Foundation design detail; and 3. Proposed elevation in relation to mean sea level, of the lowest floor (including basement) of all structures; in Zone AO, elevation of highest adjacent grade and proposed elevation of lowest floor of all structures; or proposed elevation in relation to mean sea level to which any nonresidential structure will be floodproofed, if required in Section 15.54.100.C.2; and 4. All appropriate certifications listed in Section 15.54.090.D; and 5. Description of the extent to which any watercourse will be altered or relocated as a result of proposed development. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.54.080 Designation Of Flood Plain Administrator The building official is hereby appointed to administer, implement, and enforce this chapter by granting or denying development permits in accord with its provisions. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.54.090 Duties And Responsibilities Of Flood Plain Administrator The duties and responsibilities of the flood plain administrator include, but are not limited to the following: 1. Permit Review. Review all development permits to determine that: 1. All permit requirements of this chapter have been satisfied; 2. All other required state and federal permits have been obtained; 3. The site is reasonably safe from flooding; and 4. The proposed development does not adversely affect the carrying capacity of areas where base flood elevations have been determined but a floodway has not been designated. For purposes of this ordinance, “adversely affects” means that the cumulative effect of the proposed development, when combined with all other existing and anticipated development, will increase the water surface elevation of the base flood more than one foot at any point. 2. Review and Use of Any Other Base Flood Data. When base flood elevation data has not been provided in accordance with Section 15.54.040, the flood plain administrator shall obtain, review, and reasonably utilize any base flood elevation and floodway data available from a federal or state agency, or other source, in order to administer this chapter. Any such information shall be submitted to the Board of Supervisors for adoption. 3. Notification of Other Agencies. If alteration or relocation of a watercourse is proposed: 1. Notify adjacent communities and the California Department of Water Resources prior to alteration or relocation; 2. Submit evidence of such notification to the Federal Insurance Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency; 3. Assure that the flood-carrying capacity within the altered or relocated portion of the affected watercourse is maintained; and 4. Base Flood Elevation changes due to physical alterations: 1. Within 6 months of information becoming available or project completion, whichever comes first, the flood plain administrator shall submit or assure that the applicant submits technical or scientific data to FEMA for a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR). 2. All LOMR's for flood control projects are approved prior to the issuance of building permits. Building Permits must not be issued based on Conditional Letters of Map Revision (CLOMRs). Approved CLOMRs allow construction of the proposed flood control project and land preparation as specified in the “start of construction” definition. Such submissions are necessary so that upon confirmation of those physical changes affecting flooding conditions, risk premium rates and floodplain management requirements are based on current data. 4. Documentation of Flood Plain Development. Obtain and maintain for public inspection, and make available as needed, the following: 1. Certification required by Section 15.54.100.C.1 (lowest floor elevations); 2. Certification required by Section 15.54.100.C.2 (elevation or floodproofing of nonresidential structures); 3. Certification required by Sections 15.54.100.C.3 (wet floodproofing standard); 4. Certification of elevation required by Section 15.54.120.B (subdivision standards); and 5. Certification required by Section 15.54.160.A (floodway encroachments). 5. Map Determinations. Make interpretations where needed, as to the exact location of the boundaries of the areas of special flood hazard, for example, where there appears to be a conflict between a mapped boundary and actual field conditions. The person contesting the location of the boundary shall be given a reasonable opportunity to appeal the interpretation as provided in Section 15.54.160. 6. Remedial Action. Take action to remedy violations of this chapter as specified in Section 15.54.060. (Ord. 1252 § 2, 2014; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

ample, where there appears to be a conflict between a mapped boundary and actual field conditions. The person contesting the location of the boundary shall be given a reasonable opportunity to appeal the interpretation as provided in Section 15.54.160. 6. Remedial Action. Take action to remedy violations of this chapter as specified in Section 15.54.060. (Ord. 1252 § 2, 2014; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.54.100 Standards Of Construction

In all areas of special flood hazards the following standards apply:

A. California Building Standards Commission (CBSC) Certified Elevations for two stages of construction for structures developed within a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) requires: 1. Building Under Construction (when the lowest floor is first established and prior to any vertical construction).

2. Finished Construction Elevation Certificate (prior to final approval)

B. Anchoring. 1. All new construction and substantial improvements shall be adequately anchored to prevent flotation, collapse or lateral movement of the structure resulting from hydrodynamic and hydrostatic loads, including the effects of buoyancy. 2. All manufactured homes shall meet the anchoring standards of Section 15.54.130. C. Construction materials and methods. All new construction and substantial improvements shall be constructed as follows: 1. With materials and utility equipment resistant to flood damage; 2. Using methods and practices that minimize flood damage; 3. With electrical, heating, ventilation, plumbing and air conditioning equipment and other service facilities that are designed and/or located so as to prevent water from entering or accumulating within the components during conditions of flooding; and 4. If within zones AH or AO, so that there are adequate drainage paths around structures on slopes to guide flood waters around and away from proposed structures. D. Elevation and floodproofing. 1. All residential construction, new or substantial improvements, shall comply with all applicable provisions of Code of Federal Regulations Title 44, Subchapter B, Subpart A, Section 60.3 and California Residential Code Section R322. 2. The elevation of the lowest floor, including basement, shall be certified by a registered professional engineer or surveyor, and verified by the community building inspector to be properly elevated. Such certification and verification shall be provided to the flood plain administrator at plan check, prior to vertical construction, and at final inspection. 3. Nonresidential construction, new or substantial improvement, shall either be elevated to conform with paragraph C.1 or, together with attendant utility and sanitary facilities: a. Be floodproofed below the elevation recommended under paragraph C.1 so that the structure is watertight with walls substantially impermeable to the passage of water; b. Have structural components capable of resisting hydrostatic and hydrodynamic loads and effects of buoyancy; and c. Be certified by a registered civil engineer or licensed land surveyor that the standards of this paragraph C.2 are satisfied. Such certification shall be provided to the flood plain administrator. 4. All new construction and substantial improvements with fully enclosed areas below the lowest floor (excluding basements) that are usable solely for parking of vehicles, building access or storage, and which are subject to flooding, shall be designed to automatically equalize hydrostatic flood forces on exterior walls by allowing for the entry and exit of floodwater. Designs for meeting this requirement must meet or exceed the following minimum criteria: a. Be certified by a registered professional engineer or licensed land surveyor; or b. Have a minimum of two openings having a total net area of not less than one square inch for every square foot of enclosed area subject to flooding. The bottom of all openings shall be no higher than one foot above grade. Openings may be equipped with screens, louvers, valves or other coverings or devices provided that they permit the automatic entry and exit of floodwater. 5. Manufactured homes shall also meet the standards set forth in Section 15.54.130.

t less than one square inch for every square foot of enclosed area subject to flooding. The bottom of all openings shall be no higher than one foot above grade. Openings may be equipped with screens, louvers, valves or other coverings or devices provided that they permit the automatic entry and exit of floodwater. 5. Manufactured homes shall also meet the standards set forth in Section 15.54.130.

6. New and substantially improves residential structures located within AO Zones and requires to have their lowest floor elevated above the highest adjacent grade (HAG) at least as high as the flood depth number specified on the community Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM). California Residential Code (CRC) Section 322.2.1(2) also requires lowest floors to be elevated to a height about the highest adjacent grade of not less than the depth number on the FIRM plus 1 foot or not less than 3 feet if the depth number is not specified. The stricter standard shall apply.

7. New and substantially Improved non-residential structures located within AO Zones are required to have their lowest floor elevated or completely floodproofed above the highest adjacent grade. California Building Code (CBC) Section 1612A.2 also requires that buildings and structures located in flood hazard areas to be designed and constructed in accordance with Chapter 5 of ASCE 7 and ASCE 24.

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1. Not be appreciably damaged by flooding; 2. Offer minimum resistance to flood flows; 3. Resist flotation; 4. Resist hydrostatic forces in accordance with wet floodproofing standards as specified in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s 1993 Technical Bulletin; and 5. Meet required setback distances. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

HISTORY Amended by Ord. 1326 on 3/12/2024 15.54.160 Floodway Encroachments 1. Located within areas of special flood hazard established in Section 15.54.060 are areas designated as floodways. Since the floodway is an extremely hazardous area due to the velocity of flood waters which carry debris, potential projectiles, and erosion potential, the following provisions apply.

2. Encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvement, and other new development are prohibited unless certification by a registered civil engineer is provided demonstrating that encroachments shall not result in any increase in the base flood elevation during the occurrence of the base flood discharge.

3. If subsection A is satisfied, all new construction, substantial improvement, and other proposed new development shall comply with all other applicable flood hazard reduction provisions of Sections 15.54.100 through 15.54.140. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.54.170 Appeals

The Board of Supervisors shall hear and decide appeals when it is alleged there is an error in any requirement, decision, or determination made by the flood plain administrator in the enforcement or administration of this chapter. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.54.180 Variances

Pursuant to the authority conferred by the Government Code of the state of California, and in conformance with the standards of the Federal Aviation Administration, this chapter is adopted for the purpose of promoting and safeguarding the health, safety and general welfare of the inhabitants of the county by preventing the creation, establishment or maintenance of airport hazards, thereby protecting the lives and property of the users of the Glenn County airports (Willows and Orland) and of the occupants of the land in the vicinity of the airports, and preventing the destruction and impaired use of the airports and the public investment therein. The AVH zone is a zone which may be combined with any other zone in this title. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.55.020 Necessity

The creation and establishment of an airport hazard is a public nuisance and an injury to the areas served by the airports. It is necessary, in the interest of the public health and safety and the general welfare, that the creation or establishment of airport hazards be prevented. To the maximum extent legally possible, prevention of such hazards should be accomplished by the exercise of the police power without compensation. It is further declared that both the prevention of airport hazards and the elimination, removal, alteration, mitigation or marking and lighting of existing airport hazards are public purposes for which the county raises and expends public funds and acquires lands, interests in lands, or easements over lands. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.55.030 Zones

In order to carry out the purposes of this chapter, all land within the boundaries of an airport and other lands in the vicinity of the airport are divided into runway approach zones, transitional zones, horizontal zones and conical zones. The zones underlie the approach, transitional, horizontal, and conical surfaces defined in FAR 77.25, boundaries of which are shown on the airport zoning maps. The approach airport zoning maps shall be kept on file in the office of the county clerk, and such zoning maps along with all amendments thereto are made a part of this chapter. Amendments to such maps shall be entered on the official zoning maps which shall be maintained current at all times. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

1. Willows Airport. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no structure or tree shall be erected, altered, maintained or allowed to grow in any zone created by this chapter to a height in excess of the applicable height limit established herein for each such zone. For purposes of determining these heights, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic (based) Survey has established the official elevation reference of the Willows Airport to be one hundred thirty-eight feet and all height limits shall be based on that elevation as follows: 1. Horizontal zone, one hundred fifty feet;

2. Conical zone, one hundred fifty feet at the inner perimeter increasing uniformly at a slope of 20:1 (one foot vertically for each twenty feet horizontally) to the outer perimeter; 3. Approach Zones. For runways 16-34 and 13-31 as designated on the Willows Airport Zoning Map, the height shall not exceed that permitted by an approach slope of 34:1 and 20:1 respectively and in no event shall the height exceed one hundred fifty feet;

3. Transition Zones. The height of objects shall not be such as to penetrate a transitional surface commencing at the side of the primary surface and sloping upward and outward at a slope of 7:1 (one foot vertically for each seven feet horizontally) and extending to a height of two hundred fifty feet above the airport elevation. The same restriction shall apply beginning at the sides of, and at the same elevation as, the approach surface and extending to where the slope intersects the conical surface.

4. Orland Airport. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no structure or tree shall be erected, altered, maintained or allowed to grow to a height in excess of the applicable height limits established as shown on the Orland Airport zoning map, For purposes of determining these heights, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic (based) Survey has established the official elevation reference of the Orland Airport to be two hundred ten feet, and all height limits shall be based on that elevation. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.55.050 Use Restrictions

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, no use may be made of land (or water) within any zone and height limitations established by this chapter which will:

1. Create electrical interference with navigational signals or radio communications between the airport and aircraft; 2. Make it difficult for pilots to distinguish between airport lights and other lights; 3. Result in glare in the eyes of pilots using the airport; 4. Impair visibility of the airport; or

2. Otherwise in any way create a hazard or endanger the landing, takeoff, or maneuvering of aircraft using or intending to use the airport. 6. The use restrictions imposed by subsection A of this section shall not be applied so as to prevent any present or future agricultural use or practice so long as the agricultural use or practice does not cause a permanent penetration of the height limitations set forth in Section 15.55.040. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.55.060 Nonconforming Uses

1. The regulations prescribed in this chapter shall not be construed to require the removal, lowering or otherwise changing or altering of any structure or tree not conforming to the regulations as of the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter nor otherwise interfere with the continuation of a nonconforming use. Nothing contained in this chapter shall require any change in the construction, alteration, or intended use of any structure, the construction or alteration of which was begun prior to the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, and which is diligently prosecuted.

   2. Notwithstanding the foregoing ban on retroactivity, the owner of any existing nonconforming structure or tree is required to permit the installation, operation and maintenance thereon of such markers, markings or lights as shall be deemed necessary by the airport manager to indicate to pilots of aircraft in the vicinity of the airport the presence of such hazards. Such markers and lights shall be installed, operated, and maintained at the expense of the county. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.55.070 Variances

Any person desiring to erect any structure or increase the height of any structure or permit the growth of any tree or otherwise use the property in a manner contrary to the regulations adopted under this chapter may apply to the planning authority for a variance application. Such variances shall be allowed where a literal application or enforcement of the regulations would result in practical difficulty or unnecessary hardship and the relief would not be contrary to the public interest, but do substantial justice and be in accordance with the spirit of the regulations and this chapter. No variance shall be granted for a use or activity which is not authorized by the county zoning regulations which applies to the property. Any variance may be allowed subject to reasonable conditions that the planning commission may deem necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. In granting any variance under this chapter, the planning commission may, if it deems such action advisable to effectuate the purposes of this chapter and reasonable in the circumstances, so condition such variance as to require the owner of the structure or tree in question to permit the county, at the owner’s expense, to install, operate and maintain thereon such markers and lights as may be necessary to indicate to pilots the presence of an airport hazard. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.55.080 Conflicting Regulations

Where there exists a conflict between any of the regulations or limitations prescribed in this chapter and any other regulations applicable to the same area, whether the conflict is with respect to the height of structures or trees, the use of land, or any other matter, the more stringent limitation or requirement shall govern and prevail. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Division 15-4 Development Standards Division 15-4 Part 1 Performance Standards Division 15-4 Part 2 Public Improvement Standards Division 15-4 Part 3 Building Standards Division 15-4 Part 1 Performance Standards 15.56 Performance Standards 15.57 Landscaping Standards 15.58 Right To Farm 15.59 Minimum Residential Construction Standards 15.60 Density Bonus 15.61 Off-Street Parking And Loading Facilities 15.62 Sign Standards

15.56 Performance Standards 15.56.010 Purpose 15.56.020 Compliance Procedures 15.56.030 Exceptions 15.56.040 Air Quality 15.56.050 Electromagnetic Interference 15.56.060 Erosion Control 15.56.070 Fire And Explosion Hazards 15.56.080 Glare And Heat 15.56.090 Liquid, Solid And Hazardous Wastes 15.56.100 Noise 15.56.110 Open And Outdoor Storage, Sales And Display 15.56.120 Radioactivity

15.56.130 Vibrations 15.56.140 Commercial Coach 15.56.150 Restrooms 15.56.160 Storage Of Accumulation Vehicles 15.56.010 Purpose

The purpose of this chapter is to establish performance standards or their functional equivalent to promote compatibility among various uses of land; protect and enhance the rural-agricultural character of the county; protect the health, safety or welfare of the community; and control noise, dust, odor, smoke, vibration, danger to life and property, or similar causes likely to create a public nuisance. All uses permitted in this title shall comply with all applicable performance standards of the base zoning district as set forth herein, except as provided in Division 4. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.56.020 Compliance Procedures

1. The director may require pertinent information demonstrating that the proposed use will comply with all applicable performance standards prior to issuance of any ministerial or discretionary approval. This information may consist of a report prepared by a qualified technical consultant(s).

2. When technical information is required, accurate and representative measurements shall be made according to accepted engineering or scientific practice. Measurements shall be made at the exterior lot lines. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

1. Uses which are not in compliance with all applicable performance standards at the time of zoning clearance shall require a conditional use permit. 2. The following agricultural uses are exempt from the provisions of Sections 15.56.100 F, 15.56.100 H, 15.56.100 I, 15.56.100 J and 15.56.100 L: livestock grazing, crop and tree farming, animal husbandry, apiaries and aviaries.

2. The performance standards contained in the following subsections are the required minimum. They shall not be construed as preventing the review authority, as part of any discretionary approval, to require more restrictive standards as deemed necessary. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.56.040 Air Quality All uses shall comply with applicable local, state and federal laws and regulations regarding contaminants and pollutants. This requirement includes, but is not limited to, emissions of suspended particles, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, odors, toxic or obnoxious gases and fumes. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.56.050 Electromagnetic Interference

Devices which generate electromagnetic interference shall be so operated as not to cause interference with any activity carried on beyond the boundary line of the property upon which the device is located. Public utilities shall comply with all applicable state and federal regulations. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.56.060 Erosion Control The following erosion control standards shall apply to all development projects in commercial or industrial zoning districts: 1. The smallest area practical of land shall be exposed at any one time during development; 2. When land is exposed during development, the exposure shall be kept to the shortest practical period of time; 3. Natural features such as trees, groves, natural terrain, waterways and other similar resources shall be preserved where feasible; 4. Temporary vegetation and/or mulching shall be used to protect critical areas exposed during development; 5. The permanent final vegetation and structures shall be installed as soon as practical in the development; 6. Wherever feasible the development shall be fitted to the topography and soils to create the least erosion potential; 7. Provisions shall be made to effectively accommodate the increased runoff caused by changed soil and surface conditions during and after development; 8. Sediment basins (debris basins, desalting basins, or silt traps) shall be installed and maintained to remove sediment from runoff waters from land undergoing development where needed. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.56.070 Fire And Explosion Hazards All uses involving the use or storage of combustible, explosive, caustic or otherwise hazardous materials shall comply with all applicable local, state and federal safety standards and shall be provided with adequate safety devices against the hazard of fire and explosion, and adequate fire-fighting and fire suppression equipment. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.56.080 Glare And Heat 1. All exterior lighting accessory to any use shall be hooded, shielded or opaque. No unobstructed beam of light shall be directed beyond any exterior lot line. Buildings and structures under construction are exempt from this provision. 2. No use shall generate heat so that increased ambient air temperature or radiant heat is measurable at any exterior lot line. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• 15.56.090 Liquid, Solid And Hazardous Wastes 1. All uses are prohibited from discharging liquid, solid, toxic or hazardous wastes onto or into the ground and into streams, lakes or rivers. Discharge into a public or private waste disposal system in compliance with applicable local, state and federal laws and regulations is permitted.

• 2. Wastes detrimental to a public sewer system or a sewage treatment plant shall not be discharged to a public sewer system unless they have been pretreated to the degree required by the authority having jurisdiction over the sewerage system.
• 3. The handling and storage of hazardous materials the discharge of hazardous materials into the air and water and disposal of hazardous waste in connection with all uses shall be in conformance with all applicable local, state and federal regulations.

4. All burning of waste materials accessory to any use shall be in compliance with the county air pollution control district rules and regulations.

5. The disposal or dumping of solid wastes accessory to any use including, but not limited to, slag, paper and fiber wastes or other industrial wastes shall be in compliance with applicable local, state and federal laws and regulations. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.56.100 Noise

*NOTE: The residential category also includes all resource zoning districts.

2. In the event the receiving property or receptor is a dwelling, hospital, school, library or nursing home, even though it may be other wise zoned for commercial or industrial and related uses, maximum one-hour equivalent sound pressure received shall be as indicated in Table C.

Table C Maximum One-hour Equivalent Sound Pressure Levels (A-Weighted - dBA)

3. Noises of Short Duration. For noises of short duration or impulsive character, such as hammering, maximum one-hour sound pressure levels permitted beyond the property of origin shall be seven decibels less than those listed in Table C.

4. Noises of Unusual Periodic Character. For noises of unusual periodic character, such as humming, screeching and pure tones, the median octave band sound pressure levels as indicated in Table D shall not be exceeded beyond the property of origin when the receiving property is zoned residential or is occupied by a dwelling, hospital, school, library, or nursing home.

Table D Medial Octave Band Sound Pressure Levels Octave Band Center

5. Additional Allowance. When the receiving property is zoned commercial or industrial and is not a dwelling, hospital, school, library or nursing home, an additional sound decibel emission above the pressure levels specified in Table D above shall be permitted as indicated in Table E.

Table E Additional Allowance

4. Nonelectronically amplified sounds at sporting, amusement and entertainment events; 5. Construction site sounds between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.;

5. Lawn and plant care machinery fitted with correctly functioning sound suppression equipment and operated between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.; 7. Aircraft when subject to federal or state regulations;

6. Agricultural equipment when operated on property zoned for agricultural activities.

7. Exceptions. Upon written application from the owner or operator of an industrial or commercial noise source, the director or planning commission, as part of a use permit approval, may conditionally authorize exceptions to local noise emission standards in the following situations: 1. Infrequent noise; 2. Noise levels at or anywhere beyond the property lines of the property of origin when exceeded by an exempt noise, as listed in subsection (E) of this section, in the same location; 3. If after applying best available control technology (BACT), a use existing prior to the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, is unable to conform to the standards established by this section. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.56.110 Open And Outdoor Storage, Sales And Display 1. General. Outdoor storage in any district shall be maintained in an orderly manner and shall not create a fire, safety, health or sanitary hazard. 2. Standards for Uses Permitted in the Agricultural and Residential Zoning Districts: 1. Except for farm products, supplies or equipment when incidental to a working farm or ranch, construction materials during authorized construction, or firewood, outdoor storage of materials, including but not limited to junk, construction materials, scrap metal, wood, petroleum-based materials or products, paper products, waste or trash materials on parcels of one acre or less shall not exceed an aggregate area of one hundred square feet per lot, or on parcels larger than one acre, but less than five acres, four hundred square feet of aggregate area and on parcels of five acres or more an aggregate area of six hundred square feet in the TPX, RE, and agricultural district. This performance standard does not prohibit the enclosed storage of similar materials in a building of up to two thousand square feet in area. 2. Except for farm supplies and products, firewood, boats and farm equipment, open or outdoor storage shall be limited to a height of six feet. 3. Except for farm products, supplies, or equipment, construction materials during authorized construction or firewood for personal consumption on the premises, outdoor storage shall be completely screened from public view from all exterior property lines and any public roadway within one-half mile of the open storage area by the use of sight-obscuring fences, hedges or other measures determined to be effective by the director. Securely fastened tarps may be utilized for screening of open storage areas of one hundred square feet or less. 1. On parcels of five acres or more, open storage areas shall not be maintained closer than seventy-five feet from any property line; 2. On parcels of less than five acres, open storage areas when not completely enclosed by solid fencing shall have a minimum setback from any property line of a distance of not less than twenty percent of the lot width; 4. There shall be no outdoor storage in any required yard in the case of interior lot, or required street-side setback area in the case of corner lot, or in an area three-feet-wide along one side lot line; and there shall be no outdoor storage in any front yard in any RE, RE-NW, R1 or RM district. 5. In addition of the outdoor storage permitted in subsection (B)(1) of this section, the open and outdoor storage of accumulation vehicles shall be limited to the following: 1. The open storage of one accumulation vehicle per lot in an R1 or RM district; 2. The open storage of two accumulation vehicles per lot in any RE, RE-NW or TPZ district; 3. The indoor or outdoor storage of accumulation vehicles, subject to first obtaining an administrative collector’s permit or conditional use permit for a collector’s use of accumulation vehicles pursuant to Section 15.77 in a residential district. 3. Standards for Uses Permitted in Any Commercial and Manufacturing District. 1. No outdoor storage of materials or equipment shall be permitted in the following areas: required front yards, off-street parking and loading areas, driveways, landscaped areas or street right-of-ways. 2. Open and outdoor storage and operation yards (work areas) of an interior lot shall be confined to the area to the rear of a line which is the extension of the front wall of the principal building and shall be screened from view from any street by appropriate walls, fencing, earthen mounds or landscaping as approved in the required landscaping plan. Storage or operation yards on a corner or through lot shall be subject to approval of the director. 3. Open and outdoor storage of materials or products, except for trucks and other vehicles necessary for the operation, shall not exceed a height of eight feet. 4. Open and outdoor storage shall be located so as not to constitute a hazard to adjacent buildings or property and shall not exceed six feet in height when within ten feet of side or rear property lines. 5. Exterior trash and storage areas, service yards and electrical utility boxes shall be screened from view of all nearby streets and adjacent structures in a manner that is compatible with the building design. Smaller areas near the building shall be screened with a wall of the same construction as the building wall. Larger areas shall be screened by a solid six foot-high fence. Chain-link fencing shall be permitted only when accompanied by heavy landscaping which will grow to screen the fence in three years. Provisions for adequate vehicular access to and from trash, garbage or refuse areas shall be provided. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

No radiation of any kind shall be emitted in quantities which is dangerous to humans. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

No use shall generate ground vibration which is perceptible without instruments beyond the lot line. Ground vibration caused by motor vehicles, aircraft, temporary construction work or agricultural equipment are exempt from these standards. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.56.140 Commercial Coach

Mobilehomes shall only be permitted as permanent offices in the industrial zoning districts provided that the standards of Chapter 15.59 are met. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.56.150 Restrooms

1. Restrooms open for public use shall be provided by all retail sales, entertainment or open to public recreational uses when gross building floor area exceeds three thousand square feet in area per use, and for all attended retail fuel sales uses.

2. Restrooms shall meet the occupant load factors, accessibility and plumbing facilities regulations of the Uniform Plumbing and Building Code as amended.

3. The availability and/or location of restrooms shall be noticed by signing when restroom facilities are not readily visible to the public. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.56.160 Storage Of Accumulation Vehicles

As provided in this section the storage of not more than two accumulation vehicles may be allowed per parcel of land in a residential zoning district provided the following standards are met:

1. The parcel size is twenty thousand square feet or larger, for the first vehicle and that twenty thousand additional square feet is provided for the second vehicle; 2. Accumulation vehicles are the legal property of the same person/family who resides in the on-site dwelling, as evidenced by a certificate of ownership issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles;

2. Accumulation vehicles shall not be stored in any required yard area;

3. Accumulation vehicles shall be completely screened and not visible from any public right-of-way or adjacent property;

4. Accumulation vehicles shall be allowed in the R-1 single-family residential district upon securing a conditional use permit. In all cases accumulation vehicles shall be placed behind screening not visible from public right-of-way or adjacent properties;

5. An administrative collector’s permit shall be obtained for parcels having three to five accumulation vehicles and a conditional use permit for more than six accumulation vehicles provided the requirements of Chapter 15.22 are met. (Ord 1200 § 3, 2008)

15.57 Landscaping Standards 15.57.010 General 15.57.020 Standards 15.57.030 Plan Required 15.57.040 Final Inspection 15.57.050 Bonding Required

All undeveloped land areas shall be maintained in permanent vegetative cover, or alternatively be landscaped with a combination of materials to control runoff. All yards shall be landscaped such that there shall be no accumulation of silt, mud or standing water causing unsightly or hazardous conditions, either within the yard or on adjacent properties, public roads or sidewalks. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.57.020 Standards

Standards for Uses Permitted in the R-M, Commercial and Industrial Zoning Districts. The following recommended landscaping standards shall be required unless an alternative landscaping plan is approved or waived by the review authority which meets the intent of this chapter.

1. Minimum required landscaping per parcel: All development shall include an area or areas of the parcel for landscaping to serve as a visual screen and/or provide an increased aesthetic environment; except where street frontages are occupied by existing development;

2. The front of the lot shall be landscaped with a minimum of a ten-foot wide planted area, starting at the edge of the county road right-of-way, unless curb, gutter and sidewalk are provided, in which case a five-foot wide planted area shall be adequate. However, landscaping shall not obstruct traffic or reduce sight distance at any driveway or intersection, unless because of the location or design of existing development, or appropriate site planning would make adherence to this standard result in development inconsistent with the purposes of subsection A. In such case, an alternative landscape plan may be approved by the review authority. The landscaping may be interrupted by building entrances or exits and driveways;

3. When abutting any residential district side yard:

   1. The side of the lot shall be landscaped with a minimum of a five-foot wide planted area but not so as to obstruct traffic or reduce sight distance at any driveway or inter-section; or 2. A six-foot-high wooden fence or masonry wall shall be constructed at the side lot line(s), but shall not exceed three feet in height within any required front yard.

4. When abutting any residential district rear yard:

   1. The rear of the lot shall be landscaped with a minimum of a five-foot-wide planted area when abutting any residential use or district; or

   2. A six-foot high wooden fence or masonry wall shall be constructed at the rear lot line.

5. Where a parking lot contains five or more spaces and is visible from a street, not less than five percent of the parking lot, excluding the area of the landscaped strip, required by subsection A of this section shall be landscaped. Such landscaping shall be distributed through the parking lot and shall not be concentrated in any one area. Landscaping shall be computed on the basis of the total amount of parking and driveways provided (except spaces provided for enclosed vehicle storage areas);

6. For landscaping required for parking lots in subsection E of this section, protective measures including, but not limited to, concrete curbing, railroad ties or decorative rock shall border all landscaped areas;

7. Existing or indigenous plant materials that meet the requirements of this section maybe counted as contributing to the total landscaping required when located within the proposed use area; 8. Minimum plant size: Unless otherwise specifically indicated elsewhere all plant materials shall meet the following minimum standards as indicated in Table A:

Table A Minimum Plant Size

9. Irrigation required: All landscaping shall be provided with a drip irrigation system or in-ground sprinkler system. If all plant materials are indigenous or drought-resistant, a temporary or portable irrigation system may be provided.

• (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.57.030 Plan Required

A landscape plan, either as an overlay of the proposed site plan or a separate drawing, shall be submitted to the planning authority for review and approval by the director. The following information shall be included in the plan:

1. The location of all landscaped areas with the proposed shrubs, trees and other plant materials clearly labeled with information on size, type and spacing;

2. The location of existing trees and shrubs, including any riparian vegetation, large oak trees, etc., and indicating those existing trees, shrubs or other indigenous species that are to be included as part of the landscape plan;

3. A description and layout of the proposed irrigation system;

4. Any additional information or materials required by the director. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.57.040 Final Inspection

No use shall commence nor occupancy permit issued (building finaled) until:

1. The landscape plan has been implemented and approved as required herein; or

2. The applicant has entered into an agreement and posted bonding as required in section 15.57.050 of this section for that portion or portion(s) of the landscaping plan determined incomplete. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• 15.57.050 Bonding Required

  1. Where the department determines that the applicant has failed to implement an approved landscape plan according to the provisions of section 15.57.030, the applicant shall be required to enter into an improvement/maintenance agreement with the county planning authority and provide financial assurance for completion of the required landscaping within one year. The financial

assurance may take the form of a certificate of deposit, letter of credit, bond or other financial assurance acceptable to the director;

2. Such financial assurance shall be set at one hundred fifty percent of the costs necessary to cover all landscape improvements as indicated on the approved landscape plan; and

3. Such agreement shall provide for maintenance of plantings utilizing acceptable horticultural practices, and for replanting of new material where a required planting has not survived the first year after planting. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.58.010 Findings And Policy

15.58.020 Nuisance 15.58.030 Disclosure 15.58.040 Binding Arbitration Procedures 15.58.050 Agricultural Statement Of Acknowledgment 15.58.060 Agricultural Grievance Committee

1. It is the declared policy of this county to enhance and encourage agricultural operations within the county. It is the further intent of this county to provide to the residents of this county proper notification of the county’s recognition and support through this chapter of those persons and/or entities’ rights to farm.

2. Where nonagricultural land uses extend into agricultural areas or exist side by side, agricultural operations are frequently the subject of nuisance complaints and are forced to cease or curtail operations. Such actions discourage investments in farm improvements to the detriment of adjacent agricultural uses and the economic viability of the county’s agricultural industry as a whole. It is the purpose and intent of this chapter to reduce the loss to the county of its agricultural resources by limiting the circumstances under which agricultural operations may be considered a nuisance. This chapter is not to be construed as in any way modifying or abridging state law as set out in the California Civil Code, Health and Safety Code, Fish and Game Code, Food and Agricultural Code, Division 7 of the Water Code, or any other applicable provision of state law relative to nuisances, rather it is only to be utilized in the interpretation and enforcement of the provisions of this code and county regulations.

3. An additional purpose of this chapter is to promote a good neighbor policy between agricultural and nonagricultural property owners by advising purchasers and users of property adjacent to or near agricultural operations of the inherent potential problems associated with such purchases or residence, including but not limited to the noises, odors, dust and chemicals, smoke and hours of operation that may accompany agricultural operations and be prepared to accept attendant conditions as the natural result of living in or near rural areas. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

No agricultural activity, operation or facility or appurtenances thereof, conducted or maintained for commercial purposes, and in a manner consistent with proper accepted customs and standards and with all present or future chapters of this code, as established and followed by similar agricultural operations, shall be or become a nuisance, public or private, pursuant to this code, if it was not a nuisance when it began. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The following statement shall be signed and recorded at the time and in the manner required by subsection B of this section:

1. “If your real property is adjacent to property used for agricultural operations or included within an area zoned for agricultural purposes, you may be subject to inconveniences or discomforts arising from such operations, including but not limited to noise, odors, fumes, dust, the operation of machinery of any kind during any twenty-four-hour period (including aircraft), the storage and disposal of manure and the application and spraying or otherwise of chemical fertilizers, soil amendments and pesticides.

2. Glenn County has determined that the use of real property for agricultural operations is a high priority and favored use to the county and will not consider to be a nuisance those inconveniences or discomforts arising from agricultural operations if such operations are consistent with accepted customs and standards.”

3. The statement set forth in subsection A of this section shall be used under the following circumstances and in the following manners:

   1. Upon transfer of real property by sale, exchange, installment land sale contract, lease with an option to purchase, or other option to purchase, or ground lease coupled with improvements with dwelling units, the transferor shall require that the agricultural statement of acknowledgment for residential development in the form set forth in Section 15.58.040 of this chapter be signed by the purchaser and recorded in the county recorder’s office in conjunction with the deed conveying the real property;

4. Upon the issuance of a discretionary development permit including but not limited to subdivision maps and use permits, for use on or adjacent to lands zoned for agricultural operations. The discretionary development permit shall include a condition that the owners of the property and the party seeking the discretionary permit shall be required to sign an agricultural statement of acknowledgment for residential development in the form set forth in Section 15.58.040 of this chapter which form shall then be recorded in the county recorder’s office.

5. Resolution of disputes

6. Should any controversy arise regarding any inconveniences or discomforts occasioned by agricultural operations, including but not limited to noises, odors, fumes, smoke, dust, traffic, the operation of machinery of any kind during any twenty-four-hour period (including aircraft), the storage and disposal of manure and the application by spraying or otherwise of chemical fertilizers, soil amendments and pesticides, the parties may submit the controversy to the agricultural grievance committee as set forth below in an attempt to resolve the matter prior to the filing of any court action:

   1. Any controversy between the parties shall be submitted to the agricultural grievance committee as established in Section 15.58.060 of this chapter within thirty days of the date of the occurrence of the particular activity giving rise to the controversy or of the date a party became aware of the occurrence;

7. The county recognizes the value and importance of full discussion and complete presentation and agreement concerning all pertinent facts in order to eliminate any misunderstandings; 3. The controversy shall be presented to the committee by written request of one of the parties within the time limits specified. The request shall be delivered to the committee at the office of the Glenn County agricultural commission in Willows. Thereafter the committee may investigate the facts of the controversy, but must, within thirty days, hold a meeting to consider the merits of the matter and within twenty days of the meeting must render a written decision to the parties. At the time of the meeting both parties shall have an opportunity to present what each considers to be pertinent facts;

   4. The decision of the committee shall not be binding. If, however, one of the parties is not satisfied with the committee decision, upon agreement of both parties, the matter may be submitted to binding arbitration according to the procedures set forth in subsection E of this section. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The controversy between the parties shall be submitted to arbitration upon the written agreement of both parties and any decision resulting therefrom shall be binding upon both parties.

The parties shall each appoint one person to hear and determine the dispute. If these two arbitrators cannot agree, then the two arbitrators shall choose a third impartial arbitrator who shall make the decision. The cost of the arbitration shall be borne by the losing party or in such proportions as the arbitrators shall decide. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Section 15.58.030 of this chapter requires this acknowledgment to be recorded prior to issuance of a building permit, transfer of real property by sale, exchange, installment land sale contract, lease with an option to purchase or other option to purchase, or ground lease coupled with improvements with dwelling units, the issuance of a discretionary permit including but not limited to subdivision permits and use permits, for use on or adjacent to lands zoned for agricultural operations.

“ If your real property is adjacent to property used for agricultural operations or included within an area zoned for agricultural purposes, you may be subject to inconveniences or discomforts arising from such operations, including but not limited to noise, odors, fumes, dust, the operation of machinery of any kind during any 24-hour period (including aircraft), the storage and disposal of manure and the application by spraying or otherwise of chemical fertilizers, soil amendments and pesticides. Glenn County has determined that the use of real property for agricultural operations is a high priority and favored use to the county and will not consider to be a nuisance those inconveniences or discomforts arising from agricultural operations, if such operations are consistent with accepted customs and standards .

_Date: _______ __________________

PROPERTY OWNERS: _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ State of_) ) SS. County of)

_On this the _______ day of ______________, before me, the undersigned Notary Public, personally appeared _______________________________________Personally known to me. __________Provided to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person(s) whose name(s) ________________ subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged that _______________ executed the same for the purposes therein contained.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and official seal.

_________________________________ Notary Public Present A.P. No._____________” (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.58.060 Agricultural Grievance Committee

1. Creation. There is created in the county an agricultural grievance committee.

2. Composition. The county agricultural grievance committee to consist of five members, not officials of the county, shall be appointed by the board of supervisors, selected as follows:

   1. One representative of the orchard and vineyard industry;

   2. One representative of the dairy industry;

   3. One representative of the field crops industry;

   4. One representative of other agricultural interests (for example, implement or chemical dealer);

   5. One representative of the Glenn economic development committee or the Glenn County chamber of commerce.

3. Ex Officio Members. The Glenn County farm advisor and agricultural commissioner shall serve as ex officio members.

4. When Legally Constituted. The county agricultural grievance committee shall be legally constituted and have jurisdiction to proceed to act upon the appointment of the members thereof as hereinabove stated and evidenced by an order of the board of supervisors duly entered upon the minutes of such board.

5. Terms—Appointments, Vacancies. The terms of office of each member shall be four years and until the first appointment and qualification of his or her successor. A vacancy is filled only for the unexpired term. All vacancies on the committee shall be immediately reported to the board of supervisors by the committee chairman.

6. Regular Meetings. There shall be at least one regular meeting of the committee per calendar year and such additional meetings as needed. Additional meetings of the committee may be called by any two members of the committee.

7. Members Compensation Traveling Expense. All members of the committee shall serve without compensation. The members of the committee shall receive their actual and necessary traveling expenses to and from the place of meeting of the committee and while traveling in connection with the business of the committee. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.59 Minimum Residential Construction Standards 15.59.010 Applicability 15.59.020 Standards 15.59.030 Commercial Coach 15.59.040 Temporary Use 15.59.050 Exceptions 15.59.060 Permit Issuance 15.59.010 Applicability 15.59.020 Standards

1. All single-family dwellings, mobilehomes, modular homes and temporary dwellings shall meet the minimum residential construction standards set forth in this Chapter.

2. All farm labor quarters in the TPZ, RZ, AP and AE zones shall meet all the standards of this chapter with the exception of the permanent foundation requirement. Farm labor quarters must be elusively occupied by an employee who is employed specifically as a farm laborer for the owner of the farm where the mobilehome is placed. No farm labor quarters shall be rented to anyone other than a farm laborer employed exclusively by that farm upon which the farm labor quarters is placed. An affidavit stipulating that the farm labor quarters shall be occupied by a farm laborer exclusively employed by that farm shall be required prior to issuance of an administrative permit.

3. Minimum Residential Construction Standards may be amended upon first securing a conditional use permit. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

4. All single-family dwelling units permitted under the zones established under Chapter 15.30 shall meet the following:

   1. All units shall be attached to a permanent foundation, pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 18551.

5. An efficiency dwelling unit, as defined in Section 17958.1 of the California Health and Safety Code, shall be allowed provided that it meets all requirements of the building code. 3. Mobile homes shall be certified under the National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 and be at least constructed no more than 10 years prior to the date of building permit application, and no manufactured home or commercial coach shall be moved onto a property until an installation permit has been obtained from the building official. Manufactured homes, as defined in Section 18007 of the California Health and Safety Code shall be allowed provided they meet the requirements of this chapter. All mobile homes shall install skirting prior to the final inspection by the building division.

6. All units shall be designed so that exterior walls are framed with a minimum of two inch by four inch (nominal) studs.

7. All second dwelling units shall meet the following:

As required by California Government Code Section 65915, this chapter is intended to establish policies which facilitate the development of affordable housing to serve a variety of economic needs within the County. In order to encourage the provision for lower- and very low-income housing, the County shall provide to developers/property owners—who agree to meet the requirements which are established by this chapter—a density bonus and additional incentives if it is found that it is necessary for affordability, or provide other incentives of equivalent financial value. The regulations set forth in this chapter shall apply Countywide. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.60.020 Implementation

1. In accordance with Government Code Section 65915, the Board of Supervisors shall grant either of the following:

   1. A density bonus and an additional concession or incentive, unless determined unnecessary for affordability; or

   2. Provide an incentive of equivalent financial value. The increase in density must be at least twenty-five percent (25%) over the maximum density authorized by the County General Plan;

2. In order to qualify for this bonus, a housing project must consist of five or more dwelling units and meet one or more of the following criteria;

3. At least twenty (20) percent of the total units allowed by the maximum permitted density are designated for lower-income households as defined in Section 50079.5 of the Health and Safety Code; or 2. At least ten (10) percent of the total units allowed by the maximum permitted density are designated for very low-income households as defined in Section 50105 of the Health and Safety Code; or 3. At least fifty (50) percent of the total units allowed by the maximum permitted density are designated for senior citizens. 3. To be eligible for a density bonus, the developer/property owner must sign a binding agreement with the County which sets forth the conditions and guidelines to be met in the implementation of the Density Bonus Law requirements. 4. The agreement will also establish specific compliance standards and remedies available to the County upon failure by the developer/property owner to make units accessible to intended households. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.60.030 Application

In order to apply for a density bonus, the developer/property owner shall submit to the County a written proposal for a project pursuant to this chapter. If appropriate, the application shall be submitted in conjunction with a subdivision application or use permit application. Otherwise, the application shall be submitted prior to application for a building permit. The proposal shall specify the number, type location, size of housing units, and a construction schedule.

1. The written proposal shall consist of adequate information to determine the project cost per unit of the proposed development. This will include, but not be limited to, capital costs, equity investment, debt service, projected revenues, operating expenses, or other information requested by the County.

2. The County shall, process a completed written proposal along with the appropriate development application and shall notify the developer/property owner in writing of whether it shall: 1. Grant a density bonus; and 2. Grant additional concessions or incentives; or find that additional incentives are not necessary for affordability; or 3. Provide other incentives of equal financial value. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.60.040 Additional Incentives The County may grant additional concessions or incentives to the developer/property owner if it is found that the project with the proposed lower-income units would not be feasible without said incentives. Such concessions could include:

1. A modification of development standards pertaining to building height, open space, lot-size requirements, street access, off-street parking, landscaping, fencing, or off-site improvements. 2. Approval of mixed-use zoning within the housing development, such as allowing nonresidential use along with residential. Such allowance shall only be permitted if it is consistent with the County General Plan. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.60.050 Requirements For Participation In order for a developer/property owner to participate in the program and be eligible for the incentives, the following requirements must be met:

1. The developer/property owner shall set aside each month, at the completion of the project, the number of units which are designated for lower- or very low-income households. A unit will be counted toward meeting the set-aside requirement if it is either vacant or occupied by a lower- or very low-income tenant or a senior citizen.

2. The target units must be compatible in floor plan, furnishings, and exterior design to nondesignated units. Further, the target units must be reasonably dispersed throughout the development. 3. The time period of availability to the intended population shall be: with additional incentive, thirty (30) years; without additional incentive, ten (10) years.

3. The maximum allowable rents to comply with the law are determined by a formula designed by the State Department of Housing and Community Development based on the area medium income. 5. Houses for sale must be affordable to lower- or very low-income households as defined by income limits established by the State Department of Housing and Community Development. 6. The developer/property owner must provide to the planning authority staff a yearly accounting of the total units occupied, the total units vacant, the total units occupied by lower- or very lowincome households, and the total by which the units set aside fell short of the required number of units (default units). 7. Findings for approval. 8. In addition to the findings required for the approval of discretionary land use permits support of a density bonus by the director and the approval of the bonus by the applicable approval body shall also require the following special findings: 1. The project will not be a hazard or nuisance to the community at large or establish a use or development inconsistent with the goals and policies of the General Plan or applicable community plan. 2. The number of dwellings approved by the land use permit can be accommodated by existing and planned infrastructure capacities. 3. Adequate evidence exists to indicate that the development of the property in compliance with the permit will result in the provision of affordable housing in a manner consistent with the purpose and intent of the Glenn County Code. 4. If the County does not grant at least one financial concession or incentive as defined in California Government Code Section 65915 in addition to the density bonus, that the additional concession or incentive is not necessary in order to provide for affordable housing costs as defined in the California Health and Safety Code, Section 50052.5 or for rents for the targeted units to be set as specified in California Government Code Section 65915(C). 5. There are sufficient provisions to guarantee that units will remain affordable in the future. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.61 Off-Street Parking And Loading Facilities 15.61.010 Purpose 15.61.020 Parking Space Requirements 15.61.030 Standards Of Off-Street Parking Facilities 15.61.040 Landscaping 15.61.050 Driveway Widths 15.61.010 Purpose 1. In order to prevent traffic congestion, off-street parking facilities shall be provided incidental to any new building or structure and major alterations and enlargements of existing uses. Off-street parking spaces or areas required shall be in proportion to the need for such facilities created by the particular type of land use. Off-street parking facilities shall also be laid out in such a manner that the facilities will protect the public safety and insulate surrounding land uses from their impact. 2. All uses permitted in this title shall comply with all applicable standards of this chapter as set forth herein, except as provided in Division 4. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.61.020 Parking Space Requirements Off-street parking space shall be provided in connection with the erection or change of use of any building or structure as follows: 1. Residential. 1. Each lot or parcel of land shall have on the same lot or parcel, space suitable for providing off-street parking for at least two automobiles for each dwelling unit. Such parking facilities shall be conveniently accessible and located at the place where the erection of structures is permitted; 2. Roominghouses, boardinghouses and private lodges shall provide at least one parking space for each bedroom;

ot or parcel of land shall have on the same lot or parcel, space suitable for providing off-street parking for at least two automobiles for each dwelling unit. Such parking facilities shall be conveniently accessible and located at the place where the erection of structures is permitted; 2. Roominghouses, boardinghouses and private lodges shall provide at least one parking space for each bedroom;

3. Hotels and motels shall provide one space for each room. There shall also be one parking space for each two employees per shift regularly employed by the establishment or any independent business located within the motel or hotel; 4. Residential care facilities shall provide at least two parking spaces. 2. Medical Offices, Clinics, Hospitals and Other Facilities. 1. Dental and medical clinics and offices, one parking space for each two hundred square feet of gross floor area, or four parking spaces for each doctor, whichever is greater; 2. Hospitals, one parking space for each bed; 3. Veterinary hospitals and offices, one parking space for each two hundred fifty square feet of gross floor area; 4. Convalescent hospitals, fifteen parking spaces for every four beds. 3. Educational Facilities. 1. Kindergarten and nursery schools, one parking space for each employee plus one parking space for each ten children; 2. Elementary and junior high schools; one parking space for each employee plus two parking spaces for each classroom; 3. High schools, one parking space for each employee plus seven parking spaces for each classroom;

4. Colleges, business and professional schools and colleges, trade schools, one parking space for each employee plus ten parking spaces for each classroom; 5. Trade schools, one space for every sixty square feet of classroom plus one space for every twenty-five square feet of other floor area.

5. Places of Public Assembly. For auditoriums, community centers, theaters, churches, libraries, museums, stadiums, clubs and funeral chapels, one parking space for every five permanent seats or one parking space for every thirty square feet of gross floor area, whichever is less.

6. Recreational Facilities. 1. Bowling alleys, four parking spaces for each alley plus one parking space for each one hundred square feet of gross floor area used for restaurant and/or cocktail lounges; 2. Billiard and/or pool parlor, two parking spaces for each table; 3. Dancehalls, one parking space for each thirty-five square feet of dance floor area, plus one parking space for each five fixed seats or for each thirty-five square feet of seating area where there are not fixed seats.

parking space for each one hundred square feet of gross floor area used for restaurant and/or cocktail lounges; 2. Billiard and/or pool parlor, two parking spaces for each table; 3. Dancehalls, one parking space for each thirty-five square feet of dance floor area, plus one parking space for each five fixed seats or for each thirty-five square feet of seating area where there are not fixed seats.

6. Commercial and Industrial Facilities. 1. Banks and other financial institutions, one parking space for each two hundred fifty square feet of gross floor area; 2. General retail stores, except as otherwise specified, one parking space for each three hundred square feet of gross floor area; 3. Offices including all public and professional offices, except as otherwise specified, one parking space for each two hundred fifty square feet of gross floor area, with a minimum of four parking spaces; 4. Commercial service establishments, repair shops, wholesale establishments and retail stores which handle only bulky merchandise such as furniture, household appliances, motor vehicles, farm implements and machinery, one parking space for each five hundred square feet of gross floor area; 5. Automobile dealerships, one parking space for each two employees during the time of maximum employment, plus one parking space for each two thousand square feet of lot and building area used for the display or storage of automobiles; 6. Self-service laundries and dry cleaners, one parking space for each three washing machines; 7. Automobile repair shops, one parking space for each four hundred square feet of gross floor area; 8. Barbershops, beauty shops, two parking spaces for each barber or beautician, with a minimum of four spaces; 9. Restaurants, cafes, soda fountains and similar establishments, one parking space for each one hundred square feet of gross floor area; 10. Manufacturing plants and other industrial uses, one parking space for each five hundred square feet of floor area; 11. Warehousing, one space for each one thousand square feet of floor area; 12. Retail food market, one parking space for each five hundred square feet of gross floor area; 13. Nurseries, retail, one parking space for each one thousand five hundred square feet of site. area, plus one loading space for each acre of site area; 14. Shopping centers (major), one parking space for each two hundred square feet of gross floor area; 15. Open uses, commercial and industrial uses conducted primarily outside of buildings, one parking space for each employee on the maximum shift, plus additional parking spaces prescribed by the director; 16. Transportation terminal facilities, one parking space for each two employees plus additional parking spaces prescribed by the director; 17. For a use not specified in this section, the same number of off-street parking spaces shall be provided as are required for the most similar specified use. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.61.030 Standards Of Off-Street Parking Facilities 1. Surfacing and marking. 1. The parking area shall be maintained in good condition at all times and shall be surfaced in a manner to be consistent with the type and level of use so as to provide safe and convenient use in accordance with the following guidelines: 1. Parking areas used the year around shall be surfaced with asphaltic concrete or its equivalent, except that low intensive uses may be surfaced with gravel or its equivalent; 2. Parking areas used only periodically shall be surfaced with gravel or its equivalent, except under special circumstances when directed by the public works director; 2. Parking spaces, entrances, exits and circulation directions shall be marked and shall remain discernible at all times. 2. Stall Size. Each parking space shall be not less than eighteen feet in length and nine feet in width, exclusive of driveways, ramps and columns, for medium and large automobiles and not less than sixteen feet in length and eight feet in width for subcompact and compact automobiles. 3. Compact Cars. For any development, a maximum of forty percent of all parking provided may be compact car parking. Such spaces shall be signed or otherwise designated for smaller compact cars. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.61.040 Landscaping 1. For parking lots abutting public roads, a minimum five-foot landscape planter shall be installed abutting the right-of-way, except where driveways are installed; 2. In addition to the street side planter required in subsection (A), an additional five percent of all parking lot areas shall be landscaped; 3. All landscape areas shall be planted and continuously maintained by the owner. A minimum of one tree shall be planted for each twenty parking spaces; 4. Grading and Drainage. The grading and drainage of all parking areas shall conform to the requirements of the public works director. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.61.050 Driveway Widths 1. The minimum width of a driveway for two-way traffic shall be eighteen feet; 2. The minimum width of any driveway shall be ten feet; 3. Exception. Any parking lot or parking lot addition designed to serve ten or less vehicles shall be exempt from the paving and landscaping requirement. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.62 Sign Standards 15.62.010 Purpose 15.62.020 General Sign Provisions 15.62.030 Exempt Signs 15.62.040 Prohibited Signs And Sign Materials 15.62.050 Directional Signs 15.62.060 Permitted Appurtenant Signs And Sign Area 15.62.070 Off-Premises Advertising Structures 15.62.080 Sign Maintenance Requirement 15.62.010 Purpose The purpose of the regulations and provisions of this chapter shall be to insure the stability and safeguarding of property values, to preserve and improve the appearance of the county as a place to live and work, to encourage sound signing practices as an aid to business and for providing information to the public, to reduce hazards and confusion to motorists and pedestrians, and to promote the public health, safety and general welfare. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.62.020 General Sign Provisions 1. No persons shall erect any sign regulated by this chapter without first obtaining the written consent of the property owner(s) upon which such sign is located and filing such written consent with the planning authority. 2. Appurtenant signs for uses requiring conditional use permit approval are permitted subject to first securing a condit

(Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.62.020 General Sign Provisions 1. No persons shall erect any sign regulated by this chapter without first obtaining the written consent of the property owner(s) upon which such sign is located and filing such written consent with the planning authority. 2. Appurtenant signs for uses requiring conditional use permit approval are permitted subject to first securing a condit

(Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.62.020 General Sign Provisions 1. No persons shall erect any sign regulated by this chapter without first obtaining the written consent of the property owner(s) upon which such sign is located and filing such written consent with the planning authority. 2. Appurtenant signs for uses requiring conditional use permit approval are permitted subject to first securing a conditional use permit. 3. No permit for any sign shall be issued and no sign shall be constructed or maintained which has less horizontal or vertical clearance from communication lines and energized electrical power lines than that prescribed by the laws of the state of California or rules and regulations duly promulgated by agencies thereof. 4. All signs regulated by this chapter shall be located outside of county streets and road rights-of-way, except for variances granted by the planning commission. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.62.030 Exempt Signs The following signs are exempt from the provisions of this chapter, and the square footage of such signs shall not be included in the total square footage of signs permitted for any site use: 1. Agricultural Signs. Two signs with a total aggregate area not exceeding thirty-two square feet for each lot or parcel, identifying and advertising agricultural products produced on the premises; 2. Construction Signs. Two signs up to a combined total of thirty-two square feet not exceeding a height of eight feet, identifying parties involved in construction on the premises and future activity for which the construction is intended. Such signing shall not include the advertisement of any product. Such signs shall be removed within fourteen days following completion of construction; 3. Directory Signs. Wall-mounted building directory signs for pedestrian use, listing the tenants or occupants of a building: provided, that such directories do not exceed twenty square feet on any single building wall, nor a height of eight feet; 4. Hazard Signs. Signs warning of construction, excavation or similar hazards so long as the hazard exists;

5. Internal Signs. Signs not intended to be viewed from public streets and not visible from public streets or adjacent properties, such as signs in interior areas of shopping centers, commercial buildings and structures, ball parks, stadiums and similar uses of a recreational or entertainment nature;

6. Miscellaneous Information Signs. Miscellaneous permanent information signs in nonresidential categories, with an aggregate area not to exceed four square feet at each public entrance nor twelve square feet total, indicating address, hours and days of operation, whether a business is open or closed, credit card information and emergency address and telephone numbers;

7. Official Flags. Official federal, state or local government flags, emblems and historical markers; 8. Official Signs. Official federal, state or local government traffic, directional and informational signs and notices issued by any court, person or officer in performance of a public duty; 9. Political Signs. Temporary political signs not exceeding four square feet total for each property in residential categories and sixteen square feet total for each property in nonresidential categories; provided, that campaign signs shall not be posted more than sixty days preceding the election, and shall be removed within fourteen days following the election;

8. Prohibition Signs. “No Trespassing,” “No Parking” and similar warning signs; 11. Reader Board. Reader boards for community charitable or religious organizations; provided, such signs do not exceed an area of twenty square feet per face and are not illuminated; 12. Real Estate Signs: 1. For Sale Signs. Temporary signs indicating the property on which the sign is located is for sale, rent or lease. Only one signs is permitted to face each street adjacent to the property. Such signs may be a maximum of four square feet or less on property in residential categories and thirty-two square feet or less in nonresidential categories;

9. Model Homes. Temporary signs, banners and decorations attracting attention to a model home and sales office within a new subdivision; provided, that the aggregate area of such signing shall not exceed thirty-two square feet;

   3. Open House. Temporary signs or banners attracting attention to an open house, with signing having a maximum aggregate area of thirty-two square feet, which shall be in place a maximum of seven days.

   4. Residential Identification Signs. The following residential identification signs are allowed without permit approval:

   5. Individual residence identification signs, including but not limited to, names of occupants and home occupations, limited to a total aggregate area of two square feet; 2. One permanent identification sign with a maximum area of twenty square feet for each lot or parcel, identifying apartment projects, subdivision names, etc.; provided, such signing is approved as part of a subdivision map or land use permit for the project.

   6. Safety and Directional Signing. Parking lot and other private traffic directional signs, each not exceeding five square feet in area. Such signs shall be limited to guidance of pedestrian or vehicular traffic within the premises on which they are located, and shall not display any logo or name of a product, establishment, service, or any other advertising;

10. Temporary Sales and Events. Banners, signs or decorative materials in conjunction with an event or grand opening. Such banners, signs and decorative materials shall not be posted more than thirty days preceding the event, are to be removed within seven days following the event, and shall be limited to a maximum aggregate area of one hundred square feet per site;

11. Window Signs. Temporary window signs constructed of paper, cloth or similar expendable material; provided, the total area of such signs shall not exceed twenty-five percent of the window area. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.62.040 Prohibited Signs And Sign Materials The following signs and sign materials are prohibited in all zones: 1. Any sign which simulates or imitates in size, color, lettering or design any traffic, sign or signal, or which makes uses of words, symbols or characters in such a manner to interfere with, mislead or confuse pedestrian or vehicular traffic;

2. Any sign containing statements, words or characters of an obscene, indecent or immoral character such as will offend public morals or decency;

3. Signs consisting of any moving, rotating (exceeding eight rpm), flashing or otherwise animated light or component, except for time and temperature displays and barber poles; 4. Signs emitting sounds or designed to emit sounds;

4. Any sign or sign structure identifying a use or activity that has not occupied the site for a period greater than six months. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.62.050 Directional Signs

Directional signs shall be permitted in all zones subject to the following development standards:

1. The overall dimensions of any directional sign shall not exceed two feet in height and six feet in width; 2. The height of any directional sign shall not exceed six feet, which is the vertical distance measured from the finished grade at the point directly beneath the sign of the highest point of the sign or portions of structure that supports that sign;

2. The advertisement shall be limited to designate the name of the business, the principal product or service and the location of the business;

3. The colors and materials of the sign shall be in harmony with the natural features of the area in which the sign is to be located;

4. All directional signs must be located on private property and must be placed on or in the ground. The person submitting the directional sign to the planning authority for approval shall submit evidence that the owner or other person in control or possession of the property upon which the sign is situated has consented to the placing of the sign; 6. A maximum of three signs shall be permitted for any one business or service and not more than two such signs shall be permitted along any county select-arterial road or state highway route as identified on the official Glenn county road system map on file in the department of public works; 7. Plans for all directional signs shall be submitted to the director for approval prior to the installation of the sign. Said plans must show the location of the proposed sign and the advertising copy to be placed on the sign; 8. Upon completion of the installation of the sign or signs, applicant shall complete the application for certificate of zoning compliance (required by the Outdoor Advertising Act, state of California) available at the planning authority. A small photograph of the sign shall be filed at that time. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.62.060 Permitted Appurtenant Signs And Sign Area 1. One sign identifying a building by name and address shall be permitted for all multifamily residential developments. Such sign shall be a monument sign or mounted flat against a wall of the building and not projecting above the cornice or roof line of the building. Such sign shall not exceed thirty-two square feet in area and shall not be illuminated except by indirect lighting. 2. Signs identifying places of public assembly shall be permitted providing that the overall area of such signs does not exceed one hundred square feet. Such signs shall be monument signs or mounted flat against a wall of the building and not projecting above the cornice or roof line of the building. Such signs shall not be illuminated except by indirect lighting. 3. Signs identifying a permitted or conditionally permitted commercial or industrial establishment shall be permitted subject to the following development standards: 1. The maximum total aggregate sign area for a commercial establishment shall be one square foot per foot of building site frontage occupied by the business, to a maximum of two hundred fifty square feet; 2. The maximum total aggregate sign area for an industrial establishment shall be two square feet per foot of building site frontage occupied by the business, to a maximum of five hundred square feet; 3. Signs may be erected in the form of a monument sign, wall sign or freestanding pole sign; 4. All wall signs shall be mounted flat against the wall of the building and not projecting above the cornice or roofline of the building; 5. All freestanding pole signs shall not exceed fifty feet in height; 6. Lighting of signs shall be arranged so as not to produce a glare on other properties in the vicinity and the source of light shall not be visible from adjacent property or a public street. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.62.070 Off-Premises Advertising Structures Off-premises advertising structures may be permitted in the RZ, AE, AP C, and M zones only if a conditional use permit has first been secured. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.62.080 Sign Maintenance Requirement All signs are to be properly maintained in a safe and legible condition at all times. In the event that a use having signing is discontinued for a period exceeding six months, all signs identifying the use and associated structures are to be removed from the site, or in the case of painted signs, painted out. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) Division 15-4 Part 2 Public Improvement Standards 15.63 Land Division Standards 15.64 Road Standards 15.65 Drainage 15.66 Sewage Disposal 15.67 Water Supply 15.68 Surveying And Mapping 15.69 Encroachments/Excavations 15.70 Leveling Of Land--Drainage Changes 15.71 Address Numbering 15.63 Land Division Standards 15.63.010 Purpose 15.63.020 Findings And Declarations Of The Board Of Supervisors 15.63.030 Refuse Disposal 15.63.040 Other Requirements 15.63.010 Purpose

on Standards 15.64 Road Standards 15.65 Drainage 15.66 Sewage Disposal 15.67 Water Supply 15.68 Surveying And Mapping 15.69 Encroachments/Excavations 15.70 Leveling Of Land--Drainage Changes 15.71 Address Numbering 15.63 Land Division Standards 15.63.010 Purpose 15.63.020 Findings And Declarations Of The Board Of Supervisors 15.63.030 Refuse Disposal 15.63.040 Other Requirements 15.63.010 Purpose

2. Signs identifying places of public assembly shall be permitted providing that the overall area of such signs does not exceed one hundred square feet. Such signs shall be monument signs or mounted flat against a wall of the building and not projecting above the cornice or roof line of the building. Such signs shall not be illuminated except by indirect lighting.

The purpose of the land division standards set forth in Division 4, Part 2, is as follows:

1. To identify land division classifications, which will be based on density, land use, topography and climate;

2. To establish required standards of design, construction, and facility development for these land division classifications;

3. To establish operational procedures for the preparation of plans, tentative maps, lot line adjustments, parcel maps, and final maps and provide the necessary fee schedules;

4. All land divisions will be viewed with the goal of preserving the environment, agricultural land and pursuits, open space and wild lands;

5. These land division standards shall implement the objectives established for the development of Glenn County in conformance with its general plan, the specific elements thereof, and the zoning plan. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.63.020 Findings And Declarations Of The Board Of Supervisors

1. The regulations, standards and procedures provided herein are the minimum necessary to promote and protect the public health, safety, general welfare, and they may be made more restrictive if the planning commission finds that action is necessary to protect the public interest, to insure sound planning standards, or on the advise of the public works director, to insure sound engineering standards.

2. The board of supervisors hereby declares that the following lands are not suitable for land division for the purposes of residential or industrial development: 1. Land subject to inundation;

   2. Land zoned designated floodway (DF) or land in a flood- plain combining district (:FP);

   3. Land without physical vehicular access to a city, county, state or federal maintained road;

   4. Land zoned for agricultural use;

   5. Airport glide or flight path areas;

   6. Land close to city boundary.

3. Prior to the division for the purpose of development of any lands within the adopted sphere of influence of an incorporated city, the county planning authority staff shall notify the city of such proposed development, requesting comments with regard to the development of sewage systems, water systems, streets, and other public facilities. Such comments from the city shall be considered prior to the approval of the proposed land division. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.63.030 Refuse Disposal

When a subdivision is within the boundaries of a refuse collection franchised area, the applicant shall obtain a letter from the franchised operator stating that he has been notified to begin collection of refuse or shall provide an acceptable alternative refuse disposal plan to be approved by the public works director. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• 15.63.040 Other Requirements

  1. The director, planning commission or board of supervisors may require that an applicant provide such documents, including but not limited to, deeds, dedications, grants, restrictions, easements and rights-of-way, as it deems necessary to effect a sound and proper plan of land division.

  2. The planning commission may require the installation of appropriate and necessary public utility facilities, including underground installation of power, telephone and other utilities when it finds such installations reasonable and economically feasible, compatible with adopted utility undergrounding plans, required by other regulations or necessary for conformity with area characteristics and standards. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

quire the installation of appropriate and necessary public utility facilities, including underground installation of power, telephone and other utilities when it finds such installations reasonable and economically feasible, compatible with adopted utility undergrounding plans, required by other regulations or necessary for conformity with area characteristics and standards. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.64 Road Standards 15.64.010 Improvements And Dedications Of Rights-Of-Way 15.64.020 Road Systems Required Within Subdivision 15.64.030 Connection To Dedicated And Improved Street 15.64.040 Widening And Improvement Of Existing Streets 15.64.050 Optional Design And Improvement Standards 15.64.060 Channelized Intersections 15.64.070 Public Streets And Roads 15.64.080 Private Streets And Roads 15.64.090 Street Extensions 15.64.100 Intersection Spacing 15.64.110 Intersection Corner Roundings 15.64.120 Typical Road Intersections 15.64.130 Horizontal Alignment 15.64.140 Design Speed 15.64.150 Grades Of Streets And Highways 15.64.160 Road Surfacing And Structural Section 15.64.170 Side Slope Treatment 15.64.180 Concrete Curbs 15.64.190 Sidewalks 15.64.200 Utilities 15.64.210 Road Names 15.64.010 Improvements And Dedications Of Rights-Of-Way 1. The planning commission shall require as a condition of the approval of all land division, including lot line adjustments for which a parcel map is required, that the applicant or land divider make an irrevocable offer of dedication to the county and to the public, such rights-of-way for public streets, roads, and easements, and construct and install at his or her expense such improvements, including off-site and on-site rights-of-way, as are required by these standards or as deemed necessary by the planning commission. All such improvements shall be constructed in accordance with these standards, shall be governed by the State of California Department of Transportation’s latest edition of the Standard Specifications and Standard Plans. 2. If a parcel of land to be divided or subdivided includes a portion of the right-of-way necessary for a public freeway or parkway, and the board of supervisors determines the boundaries of the rightof-way, the applicant shall either make an irrevocable offer of dedication or withhold from the subdivision all the area included in said right-of-way. (Ord. 1269 § 10, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.64.020 Road Systems Required Within Subdivision 1. All parcels within a subdivision shall be required to have either an approved access or other acceptable access to an improved public road. Whenever private road construction or improvements are required, the improvements will not be accepted by the county for maintenance.

2. Any subdivision street which is the primary access to any school, or other traffic generator, shall meet or exceed the requirements for a collector street, as provided in this chapter.

3. All road or street easements within a subdivision, whether required by these standards or by the planning commission shall be shown on the parcel map or final map as “public easements for ingress and egress and for public utilities.” Private roads, however, may be “exclusive easements for egress and ingress for public utilities.” (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.64.030 Connection To Dedicated And Improved Street When public streets are required within a subdivision, the street shall connect to an improved road in the county-maintained road system, an improved state highway or an improved city street. Where an off-site connection is necessary to provide access to such road or highway, the applicant shall acquire the right-of-way and construct the improvements pursuant to conditions established by the planning commission and Section 66462.5 of the Subdivision Map Act. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.64.040 Widening And Improvement Of Existing Streets

4. If a portion or all of a parcel as shown on the latest county equalized assessment roll abuts an existing county road and such parcel is being divided, the applicant shall make an irrevocable offer of dedication of sufficient right-of-way to enable the abutting section of road to be constructed to the standards set forth in this chapter. The applicant shall improve the following sections of the abutting road to comply with these standards and the standard drawings and typical cross-sections adopted by the board of supervisors:

   1. Those sections of any existing county road which abut a parcel containing less than four and one quarter net acres within the subdivision;

   2. Those sections of any existing county road which abut the subdivision if the land is zoned industrial or commercial;

   3. Those sections of any county road which abut the subdivision if the planning commission determines that such improvements are necessary, as a result of increased density, to protect the health, safety and welfare of the public.

5. Such improvements shall be subject to the following conditions:

   1. If the parcel abuts both sides of the county road, the improvements shall be made to the full width of the road. If such parcel abuts one side only, the improvements shall be made to the abutting one-half width of the road except as hereinafter provided;

6. If the grade of the existing roadway is such that the new pavement can join the existing pavement and not vary from the approved cross-slope shown in the drawings by two percent for the length of the improvement, the improvement shall consist of reconstructing the abutting one-half width or, if it is deemed structurally adequate by the public works director, widening the existing pavement. If the existing paved surface is such that due to its shape, the pavement cannot join within the above limits of cross-slope and/or if it is desired by the developer or required by the public works director to change the grade of the existing roadway, the entire roadway shall be reconstructed. The public works director may grant an exception to the crossslope requirement set forth above if in his or her opinion it will not create ponding, drainage problems, or a safety hazard;

   3. If land abutting existing substandard streets or roads is being subdivided and ingress and egress to the lots within the subdivision is not required from the street or road, the applicant shall dedicate additional right-of-way and dedicate reserve strips of land to control access from the lots;

   4. If the only access to land being subdivided is an existing substandard street or road system, and it is expected that this substandard street or road will carry principally vehicular traffic generated by the proposed subdivision, the planning commission may determine that the applicant shall pay the cost of or enter into an agreement to pay the cost of acquisition of off-site right-of-way pursuant to Section 66462.5 of the Subdivision Map Act;

   5. At the time the improvements are to be made, the applicant may request the public works director to require the applicant to defer the construction of such improvements by agreement in lieu of requiring the immediate construction thereof. The public works director may require deferment of the construction requirements only if he or she finds one or more of the following to be true:

      1. The improvements will not be beneficial or in the best interest of the county at the time the improvements are to be made;

      2. The improvements will cause safety hazards if constructed at the time required by the planning commission. For purposes of this paragraph transitions are deemed not to be safety hazards;

      3. The specific terrain, run-off, and/or other conditions in the area require deferment of the improvements.

The public works director shall make a written determination, within twenty days after submission of a written request by the applicant, as to whether the construction of improvements shall be deferred. The public works director may require plans in sufficient detail to enable him or her to make that determination. Any such decision may be appealed to the board of supervisors by submitting a notice of such appeal and the appropriate fee to the clerk of the board of supervisors within ten days after a copy of the written determination is mailed to the applicant;

of improvements shall be deferred. The public works director may require plans in sufficient detail to enable him or her to make that determination. Any such decision may be appealed to the board of supervisors by submitting a notice of such appeal and the appropriate fee to the clerk of the board of supervisors within ten days after a copy of the written determination is mailed to the applicant;

6. At any time after entering into a deferred improvement agreement, a applicant or his or her successor in interest may request cancellation of the agreement by paying to the county a sum of money equal to not more than the estimated cost of making the improvements. The developer’s engineer shall provide the estimate subject to the approval of the public works director. The board of supervisors shall adopt by resolution a schedule of costs for such cancellations.

• (Ord. 1269 § 10, 2018; Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.64.050 Optional Design And Improvement Standards

The planning commission may approve an exception from these standards based on a modified design if the resulting subdivision would be a substantial improvement over that which could have been developed by following these standards. A request for an exception from these standards shall accompany the tentative map, together with the substantiating evidence that such exception will improve the subdivision. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.64.060 Channelized Intersections

1. The applicant shall improve, with channelized intersections, that is, one with lanes marked with paint or physical dividers, on county roads where any of the following conditions exist: 1. The street intersects at a point of restricted sight distance which requires a reduction in the normal driving speed on the major street or highway;

   2. The intersecting street serves more than one hundred lots as sole access;

   3. It is anticipated that the street will generate traffic in excess of one thousand vehicles per day.

2. The channelized intersection shall be designed in accordance with the requirements of the California Department of Transportation, Highway Design Manual, and the following width of turning lanes requirements:

(Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.64.070 Public Streets And Roads

The construction of off-site and on-site streets, roads, and other improvements required by these standards shall conform to the typical cross-sections adopted by the board of supervisors for the land division classification assigned. All roads and streets required to be constructed and dedications therefore shall be one of the following as indicated:

1. Major Divided Street or Road. This street is so designated on a general or specific plan adopted by the board of supervisors. This classification shall also include any street which by reason of its through route characteristics, now carries or is expected to carry within twenty years more than ten thousand vehicles per day or any street which is expected to handle one thousand five hundred turning movements per day such as a street providing access to a shopping center. The right-of-way shall be at least one hundred ten feet in width. The improved roadbed, including median strip, shall be at least ninety feet in width. Where a circulation element of the general plan has been adopted by the board of supervisors for this major county street, the applicant shall construct, in accordance with these standards, any required curbs and gutters and forty-four feet of surfacing, consisting of two twenty-two-foot strips of pavement; one along each exterior edge of the roadbed. In the event a subdivision creates a four-lane traffic demand on the major divided street, the applicant shall construct the street in its entirety and/or complete any portion not previously constructed.

2. Major Street. This street is so designated by the circulation element of the general plan adopted by the board of supervisors, but shall also include any street which by reason of its route characteristics is expected to carry within twenty years more than five thousand but less than fifteen thousand vehicles per day.

3. Major streets shall be designed and improved by the applicant to provide a four-lane highway with parking lanes as follows:

   1. Right-of-way shall be eighty-four feet in width, minimum;

   2. Surfaced roadbed shall be sixty-four feet in width, minimum;

4. Where a master plan of streets and highways has been adopted by the board of supervisors for this major street, the applicant shall construct, in accordance with adopted standards, any required curbs and gutters and forty-four feet of surfacing consisting of two twenty-two-foot strips of pavement, one along each exterior edge of the roadbed. In the event a subdivision creates a four-lane traffic demand, the applicant shall construct the street in its entirety or complete any portion not previously constructed.

applicant shall construct, in accordance with adopted standards, any required curbs and gutters and forty-four feet of surfacing consisting of two twenty-two-foot strips of pavement, one along each exterior edge of the roadbed. In the event a subdivision creates a four-lane traffic demand, the applicant shall construct the street in its entirety or complete any portion not previously constructed.

4. Collector Street or Road. This street classification is expected to collect or carry vehicular traffic generated from up to four hundred tributary dwelling units through a subdivision having two or more entrances, or constitutes the principal entrance to a residential subdivision of two hundred dwelling units that is not expected to serve in the future as a major street. Where access is relinquished along an appreciable length of street frontage and where an emergency parking lane is provided, the number of tributary dwelling units may be increased thirty percent. The structural section shall be increased appropriately. Collector streets shall be designed and improved by the developer to provide a two-lane street with parking lanes (except for estate, rural, and agricultural developments in which case parking lanes are not required) as follows: 1. Minimum right-of-way shall be sixty feet in width; 2. Design speed shall be not less than thirty-five miles per hour; 3. The minimum centerline radius shall be three hundred fifty feet; 4. The minimum safe stopping sight distance shall be two hundred fifty feet for standard street sections.

5. Local Street or Road. This street classification is abutted by residential lots, is to provide access to not more than one hundred tributary dwelling units and is not intended to serve, now or in the future, as a major street or collector street. Local streets shall be designed and improved by the developer to provide a two-lane street and parking lanes (except for estate, rural, and agricultural developments in which case parking lanes are not required) as follows: 1. Right-of-way shall be not less than sixty feet in width; 2. Local streets which are to be extended and whose temporary terminus cannot be seen shall have a turning circle paved to a radius of at least forty feet with defensible easement of uniform sidewalk width;

6. The design speed shall be not less than thirty miles per hour; 4. The minimum centerline radius shall be two hundred fifty feet; 5. The minimum safe stopping sight distance shall be two hundred feet.

7. Cul-de-sac Street or Road. This street classification is a dead-end street which is to provide access to a limited number of abutting dwelling units and which cannot be extended to serve a greater number of dwelling units. No cul-de-sac street constructed for dedication to Glenn County shall be longer than five hundred feet in length. Cul-de-sac streets shall be designed and improved by the applicant to provide a two-lane street and parking lanes (except for estate, rural, and agricultural developments in which case parking lanes are not required) as follows: 1. Minimum right-of-way shall be sixty feet in width; 2. Turning circle shall have not less than sixty-foot property line radius except for urban developments where a fifty-foot radius will be acceptable; 3. Turning circle shall be paved to a radius of not less than forty feet; 4. The minimum design speed shall be twenty-five miles per hour; 5. The minimum centerline radius shall be one hundred seventy-five feet; 6. The minimum safe stopping sight distance shall be fifty feet;

8. Industrial Street. This street classification is to provide access to abutting industrial lots. In these streets: 1. Right-of-way shall be not less than sixty feet in width; 2. Surfaced roadbed shall be not less than forty-four feet in width; 3. A turning circle shall be provided for dead-end or cul-de-sac industrial streets which provide access to a limited frontage where due to physical conditions such street cannot be expected to be extended. The turning circle shall have a minimum of sixty feet property line radius, and forty-four feet curb radius;

9. In cases where an industrial street collects traffic from intersecting industrial streets or commercial streets, or where such street provides access to property which has an area of more than forty acres and is zoned for industrial or commercial purposes, the right-of-way shall be increased by not less than twenty-four feet and surface roadbed shall be increased by not less than twenty feet;

10. The minimum design speed for determining safe stopping sight distance and minimum curve radius shall be thirty-five miles per hour.

11. Frontage Road. This street classification is auxiliary to and located adjacent to a freeway, major highway, railroad or arterial street. A frontage road provides service to abutting property and adjacent areas where access to the adjacent major route is restricted. A frontage road may be of any street classification. The following requirements are for frontage roads: 1. Right-of-way width for the frontage road shall equal the right-of-way width for a standard street of the same classification, less ten feet, but in no event shall it be less than a total of fifty feet in width;

12. Surfaced roadbed shall be equal to the improved width for a standard street of the same classification, less six feet for parking lanes, but in no event shall it be less than a total of thirty feet in width.

13. Alleys. Alleys shall be permitted only along the rear of lots zoned for commercial or multiple dwelling use or the rear of lots fronting on major streets when said streets are divided by a median barrier. The following criteria apply:

14. Right-of-way shall be not less than twenty feet in width;

    2. No intersecting alleys shall be permitted;

    3. Surfaced roadbed shall be the full width of the right-of-way, except at intersections with streets where standard returns shall be constructed.

15. Split-level Street. This type of street shall have the same geometrics of design, improvements and capacity as those provided in a normal street of the same classification, but with each direction of traffic constructed at different elevations separated by a median. A split-level street may be designed and improved by the applicant on approval of the public works director as follows: 1. A split-level street shall provide for the same margins, parking lanes, traveled way and turning-lane area required for a normal street of the same classification. In addition, a shoulder at least two feet in width along the median of the lower roadway, and a strip at least four feet in width along the median edge of the upper roadway shall be provided. In this strip, the concrete curb or approved type barrier, shall be installed in those locations where they are required for the safe use of the street. A guard rail shall be provided on the median side of the upper roadway when the difference in street level elevation exceeds ten feet or when retaining walls are provided.

16. An additional right-of-way width for the cut or fill slope shall be provided if required. The total width of the dedicated right-of-way shall not be less than the sum of the improvement widths, slope requirements and margins.

    3. Grade at intersections shall not exceed two percent cross slope within the area bounded by the curb line or traveled way.

    4. Pedestrian walkways shall be provided at approximately the mid-block points for blocks in excess of five hundred feet or at not greater than five hundred feet spacing.

17. One-way Loop Road. A one-way loop road is a road which is designed for traffic in one direction only, which serves less than thirty lots, which lies in difficult side-hill development on slopes exceeding fifteen percent and which serves a useful purpose to the development of “view” lots or other interesting lots which could not otherwise be developed by the use of other roads. The minimum right-of-way width is fifty feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

1. Private streets and roads may be permitted in subdivisions provided that they meet the minimum standards set forth in the typical cross sections for private roads for each zone as may be adopted by the board of supervisors by resolution.

2. An admonishment in substantially the following form shall be shown on the face of the final map or parcel map and included in deeds prior to recording for subdivisions in which lots or parcels are served by a private road:

• Lots or parcels 1, 2, 3, etc....are served by a private road. Maintenance of said road is not the responsibility of Glenn County. Owners of said lots or parcels are hereby advised that they and/or others are solely responsible for maintenance of this road .

3. The board of supervisors may refuse to accept any offer of dedication until such time as it is determined that the portion of the street or road dedicated serves a public purpose or the portion of the street or road no longer lies within property under one ownership and does not continue through such ownership or end touching property of another. The county will refuse to accept any private road until such time as the road has been constructed in accordance with current county road standards for the zone in which the road is located. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.64.090 Street Extensions The alignment of street extensions shall connect with existing streets by continuation of the centerlines or by adjustments by curves and shall be in general conformity with plans that the director determines to be the most advantageous development of the area in which the subdivision lies. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.64.100 Intersection Spacing

The location of streets shall be such that intersections are spaced not less than two hundred feet apart on secondary streets and five hundred feet apart on major streets. All streets shall be required to intersect one another at an angle as near to a right angle as is practicable in each case. “Tee” type intersections are preferred except at arterial intersections. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.64.110 Intersection Corner Roundings

On all street, road and highway intersections, the property line at each block corner shall be rounded with a curve having a radius of not less than twenty feet. In any case, a greater curve radius may be required if streets or alleys intersect other than at right angles. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.64.120 Typical Road Intersections

All other specifications for intersections shall be as shown on the standard drawings adopted by the board of supervisors. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.64.130 Horizontal Alignment

The centerline curve radius of all streets and highways shall conform to acceptable engineering standards of design as shown in the latest edition of the California Department of Transportation Highway Design Manual. Generally, horizontal curves shall be as long as practical. The use of compound curves and double reversing curves shall be held to a minimum. As far as practical, one hundred-foot tangents shall be provided between all curves on residential streets, with longer tangents of not less than safe stopping sight distance on major streets. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.64.140 Design Speed

All subdivision streets shall be designed to provide safe stopping sight distance, horizontal curve radii, and vertical curves for not less than the following speed shown for that particular street section and in accordance with the California Department of Transportation Design Manual, except for stop streets. Combinations of changes in grade and curve alignment shall be designed with greater than the minimum design as far as practical. The following shall apply:

(Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.64.150 Grades Of Streets And Highways

1. No street or highway shall have a grade of more than eight percent except where, because of topographical conditions or other exceptional conditions, the public works director may determine that a grade up to fifteen percent maximum may be allowed. No gutter grade shall be less than 0.3 percent where underground storm drainage systems are required. All others shall be not less than 0.2 percent unless approved by the public works director.

2. The grade within the intersection of streets shall not exceed four percent in the area bounded by the curb returns, except that the street anticipated to handle the major movement of traffic may exceed four percent but shall not be greater than the grade approaching the intersection. The grade of the turn around bulb at the end of cul-de-sac streets shall not exceed eight percent. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.64.160 Road Surfacing And Structural Section

1. Structural sections of all streets and roads shall be designed based on R-values determined by California Test Method No. 301 of the soil within the roadway and in accordance with Section 600 of the Highway Design Manual.

2. R-value tests for structural pavement design shall be taken within the soil to be used for the subgrade or at the designated source of selected material. A soil inventory consisting of location and R- value tests of various soils to be used within the designed structural section shall be provided unless the plans specify that the thickness of the elements of structural pavement shall be determined by R-value tests to be performed after rough subgrade is completed. The locations and number of samples of soil taken for R-value tests on rough subgrade shall be determined by the public works director.

e tests of various soils to be used within the designed structural section shall be provided unless the plans specify that the thickness of the elements of structural pavement shall be determined by R-value tests to be performed after rough subgrade is completed. The locations and number of samples of soil taken for R-value tests on rough subgrade shall be determined by the public works director.

3. Upon request of the applicant, the public works director may assign the structural section or R-value to be used for design in areas of consistent soils, provided that adequate information is available as to the properties of such soil.

4. The traffic index may be determined by using the Highway Design Manual together with a traffic study of the area contributing truck traffic loads to such streets. If ultimate street development pattern is not known and streets can be extended, the traffic index shall be as follows:

   1. Cul-de-sac and loop streets shall be a minimum of 4.5;

   2. Local streets shall be a minimum of 5.0;

   3. Residential collector streets shall be a minimum of 5.5;

   4. Major or primary collector streets shall be a minimum of 6.0;

   5. Farm to market roads in agricultural zoned areas shall be a minimum of 7.0;

   6. Commercial roads shall be a minimum of 8.0;

   7. County highways shall be a minimum of 9.0;

   8. The above traffic indexes shall be increased to reflect commercial and industrial truck traffic loading.

5. The minimum structural thickness of all new roads and streets or those roads and streets to be reconstructed shall be as shown on the standard drawings adopted by the board of supervisors unless otherwise approved by the public works director.

6. Where asphalt concrete (AC) is used it shall be type B one-half maximum (medium). Class 2 Aggregate Base (AB) and Class 1 Imported Aggregate Subbase (ASB) shall be used in street construction except that select material may be used in place of Class 2 Aggregate Base and Class A Imported Aggregate Sub-base provided the following requirements are met:

   1. The R-value of select material in place shall determine the thickness of asphaltic concrete in accordance with the “Pavement Design Chart” shown in the Highway Design Manual, with the addition of ten percent as a safety factor. The minimum thickness of asphaltic concrete shall be 0.20 foot;

   2. The sand equivalent shall exceed twenty-five;

   3. Ten percent or 0.17 foot, whichever is greatest, shall be added to the thickness determined for select material as a safety factor;

   4. The top 0.34 foot of select material shall be screened to remove oversized aggregate larger than 2 inches;

   5. The particle interlock shall provide a firm working table. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

1. Improvements. The applicant shall improve side slopes for functional effectiveness, and pleasing appearance. Planting of vegetation may be required to prevent erosion.

2. Cut and fill. Cut slopes for subdivision streets shall be one and one-half to one and fill slopes shall be two to one. Flatter slopes shall be used in soils susceptible to erosion. Steeper cut slopes will be considered in special situations, such as in solid material, if approved by the public works director. Cut slopes steeper than one to one that are higher than ten feet will be considered only if submitted with a report from an engineering firm based on an analysis of soil borings or excavations determining that such cut bank will be stable and not lead to structural defects to dwellings constructed on adjacent lots.

3. Catch Point. In light grading where the normal slopes catch in a distance less than ten feet from the hinge point, a uniform catch point is to be used to provide flatter slopes. Transition slopes shall be provided between adjacent cuts and fills. Such slopes shall intersect the ground at a catch point ten feet from the hinge point.

4. Slope Roundings. The tip of all slopes shall be rounded. Where material cut is solid rock, only the layer of earth overlaying the rock shall be rounded. 5. Slope Benches. Width and vertical spacing shall be established from adequate soils investigation. Benches may be used in unstable material and to intercept and store loose material resulting from minor slides. Sufficient width shall be provided for maintenance and drainage control.

5. Special Slope Treatment. When it is desirable to retain certain natural features such as trees or natural banks within the side slope, the size, location and elevation shall be shown on the improvement plans. Cut and fill slopes shall be designed to retain such features. Retaining walls may be required. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.64.180 Concrete Curbs Vertical concrete curb or roll-type concrete curb and gutter shall be constructed by the applicant in accordance with the specifications set forth in the standard drawings adopted by the board of supervisors on all streets where any abutting lots have an area of twenty thousand square feet or less or a frontage of less than one hundred five feet and on all streets in areas zoned for commercial, industrial, or multiple residential uses. They may also be required by the director if the streets are located within one-half mile of any incorporated city. They may be constructed on any street on which the applicant elects to construct such curbs and gutters. The construction of concrete curb and gutter may be deferred by the public works director pursuant to the procedure set forth in subsection (B) (5) of Section 15.64.040. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.64.190 Sidewalks Concrete sidewalks shall be constructed by the applicant in accordance with the specifications set forth in the standard drawings adopted by the board of supervisors in areas zoned for commercial or multiple residential uses and in areas zoned for single-family or two-family residential use where any of the lots contain ten thousand square feet or less. They may be required by the director if the sidewalks are to be located within one-half mile of any incorporated city. Sidewalks may be constructed on any other street at the option of the applicant. The construction of sidewalks may be deferred by the public works director pursuant to the procedures set forth in subsection (B) (5) of Section 15.64.040. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.64.200 Utilities

1. The location of utilities within subdivision street rights-of-way, either above ground or below ground, shall be in accordance with the specifications set forth in the standard drawings adopted by the board of supervisors unless an alternative location is approved by the public works director. Utilities shall be underground wherever practical.

2. The minimum depth of underground conduits, with the exception of appurtenances designed for surface loads such as manholes, valve boxes, and electrical vaults, shall be thirty inches. Where location of electrical cables for power, community television, and telephone are located under portland cement concrete sidewalks, a minimum depth of eighteen inches may be permitted. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.64.210 Road Names Roads which are extensions of or are determined to be in future alignment with existing named roads shall bear the name of the existing road. Naming of new subdivision roads shall be subject to the approval of the planning commission and shall not duplicate or be similar to any other road in the county. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.65 Drainage 15.65.010 General Requirement 15.65.020 Easements 15.65.030 Drainage Systems 15.65.040 Channels 15.65.050 Discharge Of Water From Subdivisions 15.65.060 Valley Gutters 15.65.070 Deviations 15.65.010 General Requirement

vision roads shall be subject to the approval of the planning commission and shall not duplicate or be similar to any other road in the county. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.65 Drainage 15.65.010 General Requirement 15.65.020 Easements 15.65.030 Drainage Systems 15.65.040 Channels 15.65.050 Discharge Of Water From Subdivisions 15.65.060 Valley Gutters 15.65.070 Deviations 15.65.010 General Requirement

All subdivisions shall be protected from flood hazard and inundation by storm waters originating without and within the proposed subdivision. The design and construction of drainage facilities shall be such that water courses traversing the subdivision and water emanating from within the subdivision will be carried through and off the subdivision without injury to improvements, residential sites, or adjacent properties. Drainage waters shall not be discharged onto existing county rights-of-way except in manner approved by the public works director. All proposed subdivisions, whether or not they front on existing county rights-of-way, shall meet the minimum requirements of this chapter. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• 15.65.020 Easements 1. Drainage facilities shall be located in a dedicated public street, road or lane, or within a public drainage easement. Necessary dedications shall be accomplished on the parcel or final map or by grant deed. The county shall not accept the maintenance of drainage facilities which are not located in a public right-of-way. Dual use of easements shall not be approved unless it can be demonstrated to the satisfaction of the public works director that dual use will not be conflicting.

• 2. The minimum width of any drainage easement for a closed conduit system shall be twelve feet and the minimum width for any open conduit system shall be twenty feet. For any conduit exceeding thirty inches in diameter, with more than one manhole or more than one turning structure, a twelve-foot width service road shall be improved and dedicated. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• 15.65.030 Drainage Systems 1. Drainage systems and all bridges shall be designed to pass a one hundred-year frequency flood without damage to the structure or adjacent property, except that drainage systems draining an area smaller than one square mile may be designed for ten-year frequency floods if ponding due to the one hundred-year flood will not cause damage.

• 2. Drainage systems under driveway entrances shall be adequate to carry the design flow but shall not have less than a twelve-inch inside diameter. The minimum slope shall be one percent where practical. Drainage systems crossing streets shall be of a size adequate to carry the design flow but shall not have less than a fifteen inch inside diameter for concrete and an eighteen-inch inside diameter for C.M.P. Drainage systems for use outside the public right-of-way may be of any approved type and strength to meet field conditions, but shall not have less than a twelve-inch diameter. All pipe in the right-of-way shall be designed to standard H-20 live load and shall have a design life of twenty-five years.

than a fifteen inch inside diameter for concrete and an eighteen-inch inside diameter for C.M.P. Drainage systems for use outside the public right-of-way may be of any approved type and strength to meet field conditions, but shall not have less than a twelve-inch diameter. All pipe in the right-of-way shall be designed to standard H-20 live load and shall have a design life of twenty-five years.

• 3. Debris control, location and slope of culverts, entrances and endwalls, shall be in accordance with the recommendations of “California Culvert Practice.” (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• 15.65.040 Channels

  1. Drainage facilities shall be located in a dedicated public street, road or lane, or within a public drainage easement. Necessary dedications shall be accomplished on the parcel or final map or by grant deed. The county shall not accept the maintenance of drainage facilities which are not located in a public right-of-way. Dual use of easements shall not be approved unless it can be demonstrated to the satisfaction of the public works director that dual use will not be conflicting.

  2. Drainage systems and all bridges shall be designed to pass a one hundred-year frequency flood without damage to the structure or adjacent property, except that drainage systems draining an area smaller than one square mile may be designed for ten-year frequency floods if ponding due to the one hundred-year flood will not cause damage.

  3. Drainage systems under driveway entrances shall be adequate to carry the design flow but shall not have less than a twelve-inch inside diameter. The minimum slope shall be one percent where practical. Drainage systems crossing streets shall be of a size adequate to carry the design flow but shall not have less than a fifteen inch inside diameter for concrete and an eighteen-inch inside diameter for C.M.P. Drainage systems for use outside the public right-of-way may be of any approved type and strength to meet field conditions, but shall not have less than a twelve-inch diameter. All pipe in the right-of-way shall be designed to standard H-20 live load and shall have a design life of twenty-five years.

  4. All open ditches having a top width of ten feet or more shall be designed in an easement wide enough to allow motor vehicles on one side of the open ditch. The access shall be at least ten feet wide. This requirement may be waived by the public works director when, in his or her opinion, access will not be needed for future maintenance and when, in the opinion of the health officer, access is not needed for mosquito control.

  5. New unlined drainage facilities or relocated natural drains may not be installed closer than fifty feet to existing or proposed leach lines. The gradient for earth ditches shall not exceed 4 percent nor be less than 0.1 percent. Earth ditches shall not be permitted if water therein could reach erosive velocities. The gradient for lined or paved ditches and gutters shall be not less than 0.20 percent, unless specific written approval is granted by the public works director. (Ord. 1269 § 10, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.65.050 Discharge Of Water From Subdivisions

Whenever water is discharged from a subdivision where the method of discharge or the quantity has been changed, a “Drainage Release”, approved by the county counsel, shall be filed with the public works director prior to approval of the construction plans. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Valley gutters, where feasible, are preferred for driveways and may be used for local streets where it can be shown that underground conduits cannot feasibly or reasonably be installed. Valley gutters will not be permitted across major or collector roads, except at intersections. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.65.070 Deviations

Alternative methods of analysis and solution of drainage problems may be used in lieu of the requirements of this chapter when, based upon accepted engineering principles, they achieve the results of Section 15.65.010. Such deviations of the requirements herein may be accomplished only upon the consent of the public works director without complying with the provisions of Chapter 15.28. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.66 Sewage Disposal 15.66.010 Public Or Community Sewage Disposal System 15.66.020 Requirements For Public Or Community System 15.66.030 Standards For Public Or Community System 15.66.040 Site Suitability 15.66.050 Testing And Reporting 15.66.060 Alternative Sewage Disposal Systems 15.66.010 Public Or Community Sewage Disposal System 1. Proposed development on lots less than twenty thousand (20,000) square feet shall be required to have a public or community sewage disposal system. 2. Proposed development on lots larger than twenty thousand (20,000) square feet shall be required to have a public or community sewage disposal system if no public or community water system is available and site conditions do not allow for individual on-site sewage disposal systems. Site conditions include factors such as soil permeability, topography, depth to ground water and other physical characteristics. 3. When a subdivision is located within a reasonable distance of an existing, operating and available sewage system, and it is practical and feasible to connect with and be served by the system, the applicant shall be required to request annexation to that system. If the public entity is unable to service the subdivision with sewers, septic tanks and drain fields will be allowed if soil and other conditions are suitable. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.66.020 Requirements For Public Or Community System When a applicant proposes to develop a community sewer system with treatment and disposal facilities, the applicant shall do the following: 1. Provide a public entity with powers to levy taxes adequate to maintain and operate the system; 2. Meet the requirements of the California State Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board; 3. a general plan for the sewage collection and disposal system to the County along with his or her tentative map application; 4. Submit, after approval of the general plan, complete plans and specifications for the sewage collection and disposal system to the health officer and the public works director. The complete plans and specifications shall be approved by the public works director prior to commencement of work. (Ord. 1269 § 10, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.66.030 Standards For Public Or Community System 1. All subdivisions having sewage collection systems shall be constructed to the standards required by the district which serves the subdivision. 2. All other subdivisions shall meet the requirements established by the health officer and shall be in conformance with all current health and safety standards. 3. All sewage systems shall meet the requirements of all other Glenn County codes and standards. 4. Except as otherwise required, sewer mains within a subdivision to be serviced by a public or community sewer system shall be a minimum of six inches in diameter and shall be of either vitrified clay, cast iron, or other material approved by the public works director. The joints shall be either bell and spigot or an approved rubber seal type packing. Manholes shall be a minimum of fortyeight inches in diameter and shall be of precast concrete. All service laterals shall comply with the Uniform Plumbing Code, latest edition, and shall have a minimum slope of one-eighth inch per foot to the trunk sewer. 5. The applicant shall meet the specifications set forth in the standard drawings adopted by the board of supervisors. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.66.040 Site Suitability 1. The applicant must demonstrate that each proposed parcel contains an adequate usable area for a sewage disposal system and replacement area as required by regulations duly adopted by the board of supervisors. Parcels with an existing sewage disposal system that is functioning satisfactorily must demonstrate adequate replacement area only. 2. Soil testing to show site suitability shall conform to regulations duly adopted by the board of supervisors. A lesser or greater number of tests shall be required if requested in writing by the health officer. 3. Lots zoned for agricultural or TPZ uses that will not generate liquid wastes or do not require the regular presence of workers or employees are not subject to the disposal area or testing requirements of the above portions of this section. 4. Each of the parcels described in subsection C shall be identified with this statement: “This parcel is not approved for any use that will generate liquid wastes. No permit to dispose of sewage or other liquid waste generated by the use of this property will be issued until the applicant has complied with the applicable provisions of Chapter 7.10 of the Glenn County Code.” This statement shall be referenced on the recorded map and recorded concurrently with the recorded map. Where no map is recorded the statement shall be recorded with the certificate of compliance. 5. Land not suitable for on-site sewage disposal systems. 6. Portions of a lot in the following classifications are not to be considered as usable area for the development of standard septic tank and drainfield facilities: 1. Gravel bars of very pervious material adjacent to a body of water; 2. Land subject to flooding more often than once every ten years; 3. Land steeper than thirty percent grade; 4. Areas occupied by structures or to be occupied by proposed structures and areas within eight feet of such structures. For purposes of single-family residential lots on which there are no existing structures, this area shall be assumed to be four thousand square feet; 5. Areas that do not comply with the minimum separation distances and design criteria establish

teeper than thirty percent grade; 4. Areas occupied by structures or to be occupied by proposed structures and areas within eight feet of such structures. For purposes of single-family residential lots on which there are no existing structures, this area shall be assumed to be four thousand square feet; 5. Areas that do not comply with the minimum separation distances and design criteria establish

teeper than thirty percent grade; 4. Areas occupied by structures or to be occupied by proposed structures and areas within eight feet of such structures. For purposes of single-family residential lots on which there are no existing structures, this area shall be assumed to be four thousand square feet; 5. Areas that do not comply with the minimum separation distances and design criteria established by regulation of the board of supervisors. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.66.050 Testing And Reporting

1. Soil testing and site evaluation must be completed by a qualified individual as defined in Section 7.10.020 of the code. 2. Report information shall include such additional information required by regulation of the board of supervisors. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.66.060 Alternative Sewage Disposal Systems Where lots are approved based on alternative sewage disposal systems the applicant shall: 1. Submit a site-specific design for each parcel utilizing an alternative sewage disposal. The design must meet all requirements of the sewage disposal regulations adopted by the county board of supervisors. 2. Record concurrently with and referenced on the recorded map, a separate instrument identifying each parcel that is approved on the basis of an alternative sewage disposal system and the following statement: “An alternative sewage disposal system has been designed for this parcel and is on file with the Glenn County Health Department. Any changes in the approved alternative sewage disposal system design must be approved in writing by the health officer.” (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.67 Water Supply 15.67.010 When Required 15.67.020 Data Required 15.67.030 Design 15.67.040 Distribution System 15.67.050 Spacing Of Valves 15.67.060 Water Storage 15.67.070 Standards For Separation Of Water And Sewer Lines 15.67.080 Disinfection Of Water System 15.67.090 Fire Hydrants

15.67.010 When Required

An applicant shall be required, as a condition of approval of a final map to provide a public or community water system if the development is within the urban development classification. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

When an applicant proposes to develop a public or community water system, he or she shall provide the following documentation together with his tentative map application:

1. If the subdivision is to be supplied from a stream, spring, or other surface water, sufficient data shall be submitted to demonstrate that water in adequate quantity and quality is available and that rights of use of water have been obtained or are obtainable. If ground water is to be the source for the subdivision, sufficient data shall be provided to demonstrate that ground water in adequate quantity and quality is available. Also, it shall be demonstrated, if possible, that the proposed use of ground water will not adversely affect other users of ground water in the area;

2. The applicant shall submit a sample of the proposed water source to a laboratory approved by the State Department of Public Health, Division of Laboratories, for a primary and secondary maximum constituent levels for drinking water standards analysis pursuant to Chapter 15 (commencing with Section 66401) of Division 4 of Title 22 of the California Administrative Code, and the results of the analysis shall be forwarded to the health department by the laboratory;

3. A general plan of the distribution system;

4. A general plan of the source, treatment and storage works showing the location, function, and capacity of each component; 5. The parcels on which source, treatment and storage works are proposed shall be specifically delineated;

5. A plan for the continuing operation and maintenance of the system;

6. Complete plans and specifications for the water system shall be submitted to the health officer and the public works director, after approval of the general plan. The complete plans and specifications shall be approved by the public works director prior to the commencement of work. (Ord. 1269 § 10, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

1. In the case of a subdivision included in, or annexing to, an existing approved and operating water district or community services district, the applicant shall install the water system and appurtenances in conformance with standards established by the district and the State of California. The applicant shall furnish a letter from the district certifying that the improvement design is to district standards prior to approval of construction. The applicant shall provide a letter from the water purveyor agreeing to unconditionally and without exception provide domestic water to each lot in the proposed subdivision. 2. If the subdivision is to be developed on the basis of a public or community water system, the plans, specifications and construction shall conform to the “Standards of Minimum Requirements for Safe Practice in the Production and Delivery of Water for Safe Practice of the American Water Works Association”. 3. A permit from the health officer or the California State Health Department to serve water shall be obtained as provided in Section 4011 of the Health and Safety Code of the State of California. 4. Water which is not obtained from a natural source free from pollution, shall not be delivered for domestic use unless it is adequately treated and disinfected to insure compliance with Sections 3 and 4 of the United States Public Health Service Drinking Water Standards and California Public Utilities Commission General Order No. 103. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.67.040 Distribution System The supply mains, arteries, and secondary feeders shall extend throughout the system. These shall be of sufficient size, considering their length, and character of the sections served, to deliver fire flow and consumption demands to all areas served. They shall be properly spaced and looped. No pipe less than six inches in diameter shall be used for fire service and 6 inch pipes shall be limited to a length of not over six hundred feet unless looped, except that in mountain rural subdivisions four-inch pipe may be allowed in place of six-inch pipe. In commercial, industrial, or urban subdivisions, zoned for R-3, or high density building, pipe sizes shall be not less than eight inches and interconnected within every six hundred feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.67.050 Spacing Of Valves The distribution system shall be equipped with a sufficient number of valves so located that no single accident, breakage, or repair to the pipe system will necessitate the shut-down of an artery or a length of pipe greater than one thousand six hundred feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.67.060 Water Storage The system shall provide sufficient water storage to assure the required minimum duration fire flow for two hours with the single most serious interruption to power lines, water mains and hydrants. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.67.070 Standards For Separation Of Water And Sewer Lines The following requirements shall be met for the separation of water and sewer lines: 1. Water lines shall be laid in separate trenches as far from nearby sewer lines as possible; 2. Water lines shall be laid at a higher elevation than nearby sewer lines; 3. When pipelines cross, the bottom of the water line shall be at least twelve inches above the top of the sewer pipe; 4. Steel casings or tunnels for the passage of water and sewer lines under railroad tracks, highways or other structures shall be specially designed to eliminate any hazard of contamination to the water system. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.67.080 Disinfection Of Water System 1. The completed water system shall be disinfected and water samples taken as specified in the American Water Works Association for Disinfecting Water Mains - (AWWA 9601-68). 2. Individual wells for land subdivisions. 3. For proposed land divisions, reasonable proof of water supply may be required at the discretion of the health officer. 4. If the land division is in an area not deemed marginal for water supply or quality by the health officer, a signed statement by a registered civil engineer or engineering geologist, registered in the state, which states at least the following will be required: “Based upon my experience and knowledge of this area, it is my opinion that individual wells with an adequate supply of potable water that meets the California Domestic Water Quality and Monitoring Regulations can be developed on each parcel.” (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.67.090 Fire Hydrants Fire hydrants, when required, shall meet the following conditions:

at least the following will be required: “Based upon my experience and knowledge of this area, it is my opinion that individual wells with an adequate supply of potable water that meets the California Domestic Water Quality and Monitoring Regulations can be developed on each parcel.” (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.67.090 Fire Hydrants Fire hydrants, when required, shall meet the following conditions:

1. A fire flow minimum of two thousand five hundred gallons per minute is required for a duration period of ten hours in commercial and industrial areas of the county; 2. A fire flow of one thousand five hundred gallons per minute is required for a duration period of 6 hours in urban subdivision which are zoned R-M or closely built upon residential areas in which churches, schools and other similar structures would be interspersed; 3. A fire flow of one thousand five hundred gallons per minute is required for a duration of four hours in urban residential subdivisions in which a water system is required; 4. A fire flow of one thousand five hundred gallons per minute is required for a duration period of four hours in rural and estate subdivisions that are served from a public water agency, district, or municipality or private water system; 5. Static water pressures shall be such as to deliver the required fire flows at a flowing or residual pressure of twenty pounds per square inch over and above the normal consumption demands of the system. In no case shall the fire hydrant spacing be more than five hundred feet from hydrant to hydrant, or more than two hundred fifty feet from fire hydrant to the center of any lot, except in rural subdivisions where the fire authority shall determine the minimum spacing; 6. Standard dry barrel, breakaway-type fire hydrants with one 4-1/2 inch National Standard nozzle and two 2-1/2 inch National Standard nozzles shall be required for all urban subdivisions; 7. Standard wharf-type fire hydrants not less than four inches in size, with 2-1/2 inch National Standard outlet connection shall be allowed for all estate, rural and agriculture developments and above subdivisions, where a water system is required; 8. Freezing precautions that would be adequate (in the judgment of the fire authority) for protection of the system shall be taken; 9. Fire hydrant systems shall be constructed in accordance with standard details approved by the public works director and the appropriate fire protection district. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.68 Surveying And Mapping 15.68.010 Map Form 15.68.020 Certificates 15.68.030 Accuracy 15.68.040 Basis Of Bearing 15.68.050 Monuments 15.68.060 Checking By Public Works Director 15.68.070 Filing With The Public Works Director 15.68.080 Form And Contents 15.68.090 Filing And Action 15.68.100 Checking By Public Works Director 15.68.110 Requirements Prior To Final Map Approval 15.68.120 Form And Contents 15.68.130 Filing And Action

All final and parcel maps shall comply with the following:

1. When the map proper consists of more than one sheet, exclusive of the certificate sheet, a key map showing the relation of the sheets and a vicinity map shall be placed on sheet two. 2. Boundary lines of all political subdivisions crossing or bounding the subdivision shall be clearly designated and referenced.

2. Each lot shall be shown in complete form on its respective sheet.

3. Dimensions of lots shall be given as total dimensions, corner to corner, and shall be shown in feet and hundredths of a foot. No ditto marks shall be used. Lots shall show acreage to the nearest hundredth.

4. The total area of the property within the boundary of the subdivision shall be shown. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Unless otherwise established by law, the board of supervisors may establish, by resolution, standard language and wording for all certificates, acknowledgments, dedications and other statements which may appear on maps. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

All closures (lots, blocks, streets, or subdivision boundaries) on a parcel map or final map shall be within 0.01 feet. All surveys shall have an accuracy of 1:10000. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The basis of bearing shall be taken from a line between two monuments. The bearing shall be obtained from either a filed map or record of survey, an astronomical observation, the California coordinate system, a filed state highway map, or the county surveyor’s records. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

1. The exterior boundary of the land being subdivided shall be monumented before the final map or parcel map is recorded. For final maps iron pipe monuments shall be placed at all exterior boundary corners and at intervals of not over one thousand feet should the boundary corners exceed this distance. These iron pipe monuments shall be two-inch I.D. iron pipes twenty-four inches long, or longer plugged and tagged with brass, aluminum or plastic stamped with the R.E. or L.S. number of the person responsible for the survey. Standard pipe monuments as shown in the standard drawings may be required in place of the above monuments at corner locations to be determined by the county surveyor.

   2. Iron pipe monuments shall be set at all corner angle points and curve points. These pipe monuments shall be three-fourths-inch I.D. iron pipe eighteen inches long or longer, plugged and tagged with brass, aluminum or plastic stamped with the R.E. or L.S. number of the person responsible for the survey. All iron pipe monuments shall be set to finish grade or at a maximum of two inches below finish grade.

   3. A minimum of two standard centerline monuments as shown in the standard drawings shall be placed in each subdivision of fifty lots or less at locations which are visible to each other. Where subdivision streets are curvilinear, an additional two standard centerline monuments for each subdivision of fifty lots or less may be required. A minimum of two additional standard centerline monuments shall be required for each additional fifty lots. Subdivisions having curb, gutter and sidewalks may, in lieu of the standard centerline monuments required, reference the centerline points with lead and tag placed in the top of curb using a minimum of four tie points. The tie points and distances shall be shown on the final map. In any case, the locations, type and number of monuments shall be approved by the county surveyor.

   4. A concrete nail two and one-half inches in length with a two-inch metal shiner shall be placed in the centerline of the completed pavement at all street intersections and at the end and beginning of all curves and at intervals of not to exceed one thousand feet.

2. When it is impossible to set the monuments described above, other suitable monuments may be approved by the county surveyor. 6. The front lot corners for all lots fronting on a public street or highway shall be set along the right of way line. These monuments shall be iron pipe monuments and shall be shown on the final map or parcel map. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.68.060 Checking By Public Works Director After the parcel map and improvement plans have been checked and all corrections required by the public works director have been made by the applicant, the applicant shall submit the parcel map for recording pursuant to Section 15.68.070. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.68.070 Filing With The Public Works Director

The applicant shall submit to the public works director in complete and approvable form, the following:

1. Three legible prints of the parcel map (ten legible prints shall be required upon request of the public works director), the original tracing, and two reproducible copies acceptable to the county recorder; 2. Original and one reproducible mylar of the improvement plans, if required, along with the fees for plan check, map review , and field inspection; 3. Traverse sheets showing closures and computation of all distances, angles, and courses shown on the parcel map, ties to existing and proposed monuments, and adjacent subdivisions, street centerlines, and highway stations. The traverse of the exterior boundaries of the tract and of lots and blocks shall close within a limit of error of one in five thousand;

2. All deeds, offers of dedication and easement agreements for sites, streets, and other purposes as were required in the action of approval of the tentative map, and any required bonds and agreement forms. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

A parcel map shall be based on a field survey made in conformity with Section 66448 of the Subdivision Map Act by a registered civil engineer or licensed land surveyor, and shall comply with all provisions of this chapter, the Subdivision Map Act and other provisions of law. The parcel map shall conform to the requirements of Section 66445 of the Subdivision Map Act, Chapter 15.68 hereof and all of the following provisions:

1. It shall be clearly and legibly drawn in black water proof India ink upon good quality tracing cloth or other material approved by the county recorder;

2. The size of each sheet shall be eighteen by twenty-six inches. A marginal line shall be drawn completely around each sheet, leaving an entirely blank margin of one inch. The scale of the map shall be one inch equals one hundred feet, or otherwise large enough to show all details clearly, and enough sheets shall be used to accomplish this end. The particular number of the sheet and the total number of sheets comprising the parcel map shall be stated on each of the sheets. The exterior boundary of the land included within the subdivision shall be indicated by distinctive symbols and clearly so designated;

3. The parcel map shall show all data as is necessary to fully conform with the approved tentative map and any conditions to such approval and references to all deeds or offers of dedications for sites, streets, easements and other such purposes as were required in the action of approval of the tentative map;

4. The parcel map shall show precise distances and bearings, ties to corners and points of record and references thereto, sources of map and survey data, and other details as may be required by the public works director. Each lot and parcel shall be numbered, or otherwise identified;

5. A certificate signed and acknowledged by all parties having any record title interest in the real property subdivided, consenting to the preparation and recordation of the parcel map in accordance with the requirements of the Subdivision Map Act. For parcel maps which create four or less lots, and no dedications are offered, the owner’s certificate need only contain the signatures of the fee owners of the surface rights to the property shown on the map. The names and the nature of the respective interests of all other parties having record title interest shall be stated on the map;

6. The parcel map shall show the location of each parcel and its relation to surrounding surveys. The location of any remainder of the original parcel shall be shown, but if the public works director permits, it need not be shown as a matter of survey but only by reference to the existing record boundaries of such remainder if such remainder has a gross area of five acres or more. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The parcel map, together with the necessary fees, and supporting data, shall be filed with the public works director for checking. If the parcel map is found to be in substantial conformity with the approved tentative map and the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act and this title, the director shall, within twenty working days after filing, so certify the map and present the map to the county recorder for filing unless action of the board of supervisors is required. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

After the final map and improvement plans have been checked and all corrections required by the public works director have been made by the applicant, the applicant shall construct the required subdivision improvements prior to submitting the final map for recording, or in the alternative, submit, fully executed by the applicant a subdivision agreement with the appropriate bonding or security along with the final map to be recorded. Approval of the agreement by the board of supervisors shall be a condition precedent to approval of the final map. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

At least thirty working days prior to the date of the meeting of the board of supervisors at which approval of the final map is desired, the applicant shall submit to the public works director in complete and approvable form, the following:

1. Ten legible prints of the final map, together with the original tracing and two reproducible copies acceptable to the county recorder;

2. Original and one reproducible mylar copy of the subdivision improvement plans, along with the fees for the plan check, map review, and field inspection;

3. Traverse sheets showing closures and computation of all distances, angles, and courses shown on the final map, ties to existing and proposed monuments, and adjacent subdivisions, street corners, and highway stations. The traverse of the exterior boundaries of the tract and of lots and blocks shall close within a limit of error of one in five thousand;

4. An instrument restricting vehicular traffic over the sidelines of any road or highway, when and if the same is required;

5. Improvement bonds, subdivision agreements and such other documents as are required by this title;

6. Design calculations as required by the land division standards or the public works director. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.68.120 Form And Contents

The final map shall conform to the requirements of Section 66434 of the Subdivision Map Act, Chapter 15.68 of this title and all of the following provisions:

1. It shall be clearly and legibly drawn in black waterproof India ink upon good tracing cloth or other material approved by the county recorder, and shall include certificates as required by the Subdivision Map Act and this title;

2. The size of each sheet shall be eighteen by twenty-six inches. A marginal line shall be drawn completely around each sheet, leaving an entirely blank margin of one inch. The particular number of the sheet and the total number of sheets comprising the map, the tract number, title, or other designation shall be stated on each of the sheets, and its relation to each adjoining sheet shall be clearly shown. The tract designation, all drawings, affidavits, acknowledgments, endorsements, offers, and acceptances of dedications, and notarial seals shall be within said marginal lines. The first sheet of the map shall contain all affidavits, acknowledgments, endorsements, offers, and acceptances of dedications and notarial certificates, and no signed certificates shall appear on any other sheet of the map, nor shall any portion of the map appear on the sheet containing the certificates. The scale of the final map should be one inch equals one hundred feet or one inch equals fifty feet unless otherwise permitted by the public works director but in any case the map shall show clearly all the details of the subdivision;

rtificates, and no signed certificates shall appear on any other sheet of the map, nor shall any portion of the map appear on the sheet containing the certificates. The scale of the final map should be one inch equals one hundred feet or one inch equals fifty feet unless otherwise permitted by the public works director but in any case the map shall show clearly all the details of the subdivision;

3. The title sheet of the final map shall contain the tract number and designation and such other descriptive matter as may be necessary. Below the tract designation shall appear a subtitle consisting of a general description of all property being subdivided by reference to recorded deeds or to maps which have been previously recorded or by reference to a United States survey. References to tracts and subdivisions in the description shall be worded identically with the original records and references to book and page of record shall be complete. The basis of bearing for the survey shall be clearly noted;

4. The final map shall particularly define and designate all lots or parcels with all dimensions, boundaries, and courses clearly shown and defined, whether or not such parcels are reserved for private purposes or are offered for dedication for any purpose. No ditto marks shall be used. Parcels offered for dedication but not accepted shall be designated by letter;

5. The final map shall show clearly what stakes, monuments, or other evidences were found on the ground to determine the boundaries of the tract. The adjoining corners of all adjoining subdivisions shall be identified by lot and block number, track designation, and place of record, or by section, township, and range, or other proper designation;

6. The final map shall show all information, data, and monuments necessary to locate and retrace any and all exterior boundary lines, and lot and block lines. It shall also show bearings, distances of straight lines and radii, central angle and arc length for all curves and such information as may be necessary to determine the location of the centers of curves, bearings and tangent distances and radii, central angle and arc lengths of all lots. Where streets intersect on curves, centerline lengths, radii and deltas, and centerline intersection points shall be shown;

7. Wherever the public works director has established the center of a street or alley, the data shall be shown on the final map, indicating all monuments found and making reference to a field book or map. If the points were reset by ties, the fact shall be stated;

8. The final map shall show the line of extreme high water if the subdivision is adjacent to a stream, channel, or subject to periodic inundation;

9. The boundary of the tract shall be indicated by distinctive symbols and clearly so designated;

10. Lots shall be numbered consecutively throughout the subdivision, with no omissions or duplications;

11. The total width of all road rights-of-way shall be shown, as well as the widths of rights-of-way for flood control or drainage channels, and any other rights-of-way; 12. The final map shall show all easements of record and easements to be recorded. If any easement is not definitely located of record, a statement of such easement shall appear on the title sheet. Easements for storm drains, sewers, public utilities and other purposes shall be clearly defined. Distances and bearings on the sidelines of lots which are cut by an easement shall be so shown that the final map will indicate clearly the actual length of the lot lines. The width of the easement and if known or determined necessary the lengths and bearings of the lines thereof and sufficient ties thereto to definitely locate the easement with respect to the subdivision shall be shown;

12. In order to avoid duplication, names to be used for new streets shall be subject to approval by the planning commission. If any designations are numbers, they shall be spelled out completely, using hyphens in such forms as “Twenty-third Street.” The words “Avenue”, “Boulevard”, “Place”, etc., shall be spelled out in full. Names of newly dedicated portions of streets shall be shown in or arrowed to the dedicated portion. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

1. If the public works director determines that the final map is in substantial conformity with the approved tentative map, the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act and this title, the public works director and the director shall so certify on the final map and, within fourteen working days after submission or resubmission, shall file such map, together with any other materials pertinent thereto, with the clerk of the board of supervisors for presentation to the board.

2. If the public works director determines that the final map does not substantially conform to the provisions of this title, the Subdivision Map Act or the approved tentative map, he shall, within fourteen working days from the date of submission of the final map for approval, advise the applicant of the changes or additions which shall be made for such purpose and shall afford the applicant an opportunity to make such changes or additions. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.69 Encroachments/Excavations 15.69.010 Barriers And Lights 15.69.020 Removal Of Surplus Materials 15.69.030 Diligence In Work Required--Notice Ordering Diligence 15.69.040 Cost Of Restoration 15.69.050 Supervision 15.69.060 Maps Of Pipes And Other Appliances 15.69.070 Special Act Work Excepted 15.69.080 Work And Replacement 15.69.090 Bond In Lieu Of Deposit 15.69.100 Gas And Water Pipe Laying 15.69.010 Barriers And Lights

It is unlawful for any person making any excavation in any public street or public place, not to maintain safe crossings for vehicle traffic at all street intersections, or not to provide free access to all fire hydrants and water gates, and not to maintain all gutters free and unobstructed, or not to place and maintain barriers at each end of such excavation and at such places as may be necessary along the excavation to prevent accidents, or also not to place and maintain lights at each end of such excavation and at distances of not more than fifty feet along the line thereof, from sunset each day to sunrise of the next day, until such excavation is entirely refilled. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.69.020 Removal Of Surplus Materials

• All surplus materials removed under the provisions of this chapter shall, if required by him or her, be delivered to such points as the road commissioner shall direct. (Ord. 1269 § 10, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.69.030 Diligence In Work Required--Notice Ordering Diligence

After excavating is commenced, the work of making and refilling the same shall be prosecuted with due diligence and so as not to obstruct the street or other public place or travel thereon more than is necessary therefore. If the work is not so prosecuted or if the work of refilling does not, in the judgment of the road commissioner, comply with the terms of this chapter, the road commissioner shall notify the person, firm, or corporation named in the permit that the work is not being prosecuted with due diligence or that the refilling of such excavation has not been properly done, and shall require such person within five days after the service of such notice to proceed with the diligent prosecution of such work. Such notice shall be in writing or printed. If such notice is not complied with, the road commissioner shall do such work as may be necessary to refill the excavation and to restore the street or other public place, or part thereof excavated, to as good a condition as the same was in before such excavation was made, the cost of same to be paid by the party to whom the permit was given or deducted from the cash deposited or collected from the bond given. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.69.040 Cost Of Restoration

The county shall pay the cost of restoration, out of the money deposited as required by Section 15.12.010. If in lieu of cash deposits a general deposit bond has been filed as provided in Section 15.69.090, an action at law shall be commenced and prosecuted in the name of the county upon the bond for the recovery of such damages as may have accrued to the county, by reason of the failure to fulfill the conditions thereof. The cash deposits shall be retained by the commissioner for a period of one year from the completion of the replacement, and at that time on demand the deposits, less the deductions made pursuant to this chapter, if any, shall be returned to the person, firm or corporation making the same or to his or her heirs or assigns. (Ord. 1269 § 10, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.69.050 Supervision

All excavations, refilling of excavations and repairing of street surfaces, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be made under the supervision and direction of the road commissioner. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.69.060 Maps Of Pipes And Other Appliances

It is the duty of every person, firm or corporation owning, using or controlling an interest in pipes, conduits, ducts or tunnels under the surface of any public street, alley, sidewalk or other public place in the county for supplying or conveying gas, electricity, water, steam, ammonia, oil, or similar substances in, to or from the county, or to or from its inhabitants or for any other purpose, within ninety days

very person, firm or corporation owning, using or controlling an interest in pipes, conduits, ducts or tunnels under the surface of any public street, alley, sidewalk or other public place in the county for supplying or conveying gas, electricity, water, steam, ammonia, oil, or similar substances in, to or from the county, or to or from its inhabitants or for any other purpose, within ninety days

after May 2, 1955, to file in the office of the road commissioner a map or a set of maps, each drawn to a scale or not less than two hundred feet to one inch, which map or set of maps shall show in detail the exact location, size, description and date of installation, if known, of all mains, laterals, services and service pipes, manholes, transformers or other appliances installed beneath the surface of the public streets, alleys, sidewalks, or other public places in the county belonging to, used by or under the control of such person, firm or corporation, and to file within fifteen days after the first day of January of each and every year, a corrected map, or set of maps, each drawn to a scale of not less than two hundred feet to one inch, showing the complete installation of all such pipes and other appliances made during the previous year. Each such map shall be accompanied by an affidavit endorsed thereon subscribed and sworn to by such person or by the president or secretary of such corporation to the effect that the same correctly exhibits the details required by this chapter to be shown thereon. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.69.070 Special Act Work Excepted

This chapter shall not apply to any persons, firm or corporation doing work under contract awarded by the board or to work performed under any special act of the legislature of the state of California. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.69.080 Work And Replacement All materials taken up or removed in pursuance of this chapter shall be replaced in accordance with the specifications for the concreting, macadamizing, graveling or other improving of the street, as the same was at the time it was torn up, loosened or disturbed, and when pipes are laid the filling of trenches shall be thoroughly tamped and wet down. The surface dressing shall be rolled or tamped so as to leave no ridge in the paved street. The person or company so removing the surface dressing shall at any time within one year after replacing the same on demand of the road commissioner, repeat the work of refitting the concreting or macadamizing and do all filling that may be necessary to raise any sunken part of the street above the pipes to the proper grade. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.69.090 Bond In Lieu Of Deposit Any person, firm or corporation, intending to make excavations in public highways or other public places in the county may execute and deliver to the road commissioner a general bond payable to the county, in the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, with two good and sufficient sureties, which bond shall be used for the same purpose as special deposits provided for in Section 15.12.010. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.69.100 Gas And Water Pipe Laying All water, electric and gas pipes and conduits, gas pipes and other pipes to be laid in the county shall be laid in conformity with this chapter and the lines determined by the road commissioner. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.70 Leveling Of Land--Drainage Changes 15.70.010 Necessity Of Regulations 15.70.020 Leveling - Permit Required 15.70.030 Drainage Changes 15.70.040 Permit - Application - Form And Contents 15.70.050 Application - Maps 15.70.060 Application And Plans - Review 15.70.070 Application - Restrictions 15.70.080 Issuance 15.70.090 Refusal - Appeal - Hearing 15.70.010 Necessity Of Regulations The board of supervisors finds that certain regulations governing the leveling of land, the obstruction of natural drainage, and the control of irrigation and drainage water resulting therefrom are necessary from the protection of roads, highways and other public properties and improvements. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.70.020 Leveling - Permit Required 1. No person, firm or corporation shall hereafter level, cause to be leveled, or commence land leveling operations upon any land area in one ownership of a total of five or more acres, for farming, agricultural or horticultural purposes unless or until a permit has first been secured for such operation from the county director of public works as hereinafter provided. 2. This chapter shall not apply to land which has previously been leveled, land planed or laser planed unless there is to be a change in the water flow patterns onto, through or from the parcel. 3. This chapter shall not apply to activities for which a permit and a reclamation plan is required pursuant to Chapter 15.81 of this code. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.70.030 Drainage Changes No person, firm, or corporation shall move, excavate, remove, dredge, pile, stockpile or otherwise change an existing course of any channel or waterway or to increase or accelerate the flow of any water onto a public road or highway unless and until a permit has first been secured for such operation from the county director of public works, as hereinafter provided. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.70.040 Permit - Application - Form And Contents The application for a permit shall be in writing upon a form furnished by the county, signed by the applicant and filed with the county director of public works and shall be accompanied by such of the following as may be required by the county director of public works:

ounty director of public works, as hereinafter provided. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.70.040 Permit - Application - Form And Contents The application for a permit shall be in writing upon a form furnished by the county, signed by the applicant and filed with the county director of public works and shall be accompanied by such of the following as may be required by the county director of public works:

1. Plans, profiles, maps and other data as may be required to show the present conditions and proposed work; 2. When land leveling is involved, it shall include a plat of existing topography with a one-foot contour interval, showing existing drainage and watercourses, adjacent roads, highways, ditches, bridges, culverts and such other data as may be required by the county director of public works; 3. A map showing the proposed finished leveled area indicating finished elevations, irrigation water source, and drainage features as called for herein, may be shown on the same map called for in subsection B of this section; 4. Such filing fee as is established by resolution of the board of supervisors. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.70.050 Application - Maps Maps and other drawings shall be drafted to a scale which will clearly set forth the intended work and shall be legibly drawn and shall be subject to the approval of the county director of public works. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.70.060 Application And Plans - Review The application and plans shall be reviewed by the county director of public works to determine whether the proposed work will jeopardize public property or improvements but in no event shall the review relieve the applicant from any responsibility for damages caused to any person or property resulting from the work authorized under the permit. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.70.070 Application - Restrictions No application will be considered unless it provides that where existing watercourses are proposed to be changed in size, grade, capacity, location or otherwise, the proposed new or altered channel shall in all cases be at least equal in capacity to the original existing watercourse and shall result in drainage water resuming its existing course, upon leaving the area where the work is proposed. When deemed necessary by the county director of public works, the applicant shall submit verification by a registered civil engineer that the requirements of this section will be met. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.70.080 Issuance The county director of public works shall, within a reasonable time, not to exceed fifteen days, after the filing of an application and plans, issue a permit subject to such conditions as appear necessary, or shall deny the permit, stating the reasons therefore in writing. In no event shall the issuance of a permit create any liability for the county or relieve the permittee from any responsibility for damages caused to any person or property. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.70.090 Refusal - Appeal - Hearing In the event of refusal by the county director of public works to grant a permit, or in the event of the issuance of a conditional permit, the terms of which are not satisfactory to the applicant, the applicant may apply to the board for a review of the action taken by the county director of public works. Such application to the board shall be in writing, and shall be filed with the clerk of the board, who shall set the matter for hearing within fifteen days after the receipt of the notice and shall immediately notify the county director of public works of the request for review. The board shall, within fifteen days after hearing the matter presented by the applicant, approve, conditionally approve or reject the application for a permit. The determination of the board shall be final. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.71 Address Numbering 15.71.010 Purpose 15.71.020 System Description 15.71.030 System Maps 15.71.040 Administration

director of public works of the request for review. The board shall, within fifteen days after hearing the matter presented by the applicant, approve, conditionally approve or reject the application for a permit. The determination of the board shall be final. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.71 Address Numbering 15.71.010 Purpose 15.71.020 System Description 15.71.030 System Maps 15.71.040 Administration

15.71.050 Assignment Of Address Numbers 15.71.060 Display Of Address Numbers 15.71.070 Violation An Infraction 15.71.080 Appeals 15.71.090 Validity

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a county-wide comprehensive address numbering system for the unincorporated areas of Glenn County. The system will enable emergency vehicles from fire, sheriff, and ambulance services to respond more quickly to calls and facilitate utility, postal, and other delivery services as well. Such an address numbering system is deemed to be in the public interest and necessary to protect the public health, general welfare and safety of the citizens of Glenn County. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.71.020 System Description

The Glenn County Master Address Numbering System shall consist of index lines corresponding to the township section lines within Glenn County. The Grid reference numbers shall range from zero to five thousand in the north-south direction and from zero to more than nine thousand in the east-west direction. The point of origin shall be at the intersection of the township line between T.17N. and T.18N. and the southerly prolongation of the section line between sections 11 and 12 of T.22N. R.10W M.D.B.&M. One thousand numbers shall be allocated sequentially for each six sectional increments to the east and north from the point of origin. The south and west sides of all roadways shall have odd address numbers and the north and east sides of all roadways shall have even address numbers. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The Glenn County Master Address Numbering System shall initially be delineated on a set of the Assessor’s Parcel Maps. These maps shall show the grid index system and the assigned address numbers. The addresses shall also be recorded on the Assessor’s Master Property Index adjacent to their corresponding Assessor’s Parcel Numbers. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Initial implementation of The Glenn County Master Address Numbering System shall be under the direction of the Public Works Director and supersedes any system used prior to its implementation. After the initial addresses are assigned by the Public Works Department, the system will then be maintained by the planning authority. The planning authority will be responsible for assigning all new addresses and for making any necessary changes in the system. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

1. Addresses shall be determined and assigned to all single family dwellings, duplex residences, properties, and business establishments and shall be issued to property owners and occupants without charge in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. A record of all numbers assigned pursuant to this chapter shall be maintained by the planning authority and open for inspection by the public during business hours.

2. An address number for a particular location shall be assigned to the principal access based on the incremental distance between index grid lines. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.71.060 Display Of Address Numbers 1. Within six months after receipt of the address number, the owner of the property or building shall have the number displayed upon the building or land. The display of the number shall be in such a manner as to be visible from the roadway upon which the building or land fronts. Any old or obsolete number not in accordance with the system shall be removed or obscured from public view.

2. In areas where buildings or properties front upon roadways where mail delivery is provided, the number shall be displayed upon the mailbox or receptacle designed for receipt of mail. 3. In areas where buildings or properties are not clearly visible from the roadway and where mail delivery is not provided, the address shall be displayed on a four inch by four inch post, a metal stake or a suitable equivalent and elevated at least three feet for clear visibility from the roadway.

3. Residence or building address numbers shall be conspicuous to ensure positive identification and placed at front doors, on lamp posts, near garage doors, at driveway entrances or other areas of similar proximity and visibility.

4. All address numbers shall be a minimum of three inch letter height and three eighths inch stroke size with reflective finish and/or a color contrasting with the surface placed. 6. As a condition of approval for new construction, the assigned building address shall be posted in accordance with the minimum standards set by this chapter. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Any person, firm or corporation, whether as principal, agent, employee or otherwise failing to comply with the provisions of Section 15.71.060 shall be guilty of an infraction. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Any individual whose property is affected by the implementation of this chapter and who is dissatisfied with the implementation as it applies to his/her property may submit a written request, and fees pursuant to section 15.05.010, to the director for hearing by the Planning Commission. Such requests must be received by the director or post-marked no later than fifteen days after receiving notice of the Public Works Director’s or the director’s action. The director shall set the matter for a hearing before the Planning Commission within thirty days after receipt of the appeal by the appellant. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.71.090 Validity

If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this chapter is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the remaining portions of this chapter. The Board of Supervisors hereby declares that it would pass this chapter and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases may be declared invalid. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The 2025 California Code of Regulations Title 24, Part 2 also known as the California Building Code, including appendix C-Group U-Agricultural Buildings and Appendix I – Patio Covers, copies of which are on file as required by law, are hereby adopted and incorporated into this chapter by reference; are declared to be the building code for the county; and shall apply to the unincorporated areas of the county. (Ord. 1285, 2019; Ord. 1260, 2017; 1247, 2013; Ord. 1199 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

HISTORY Amended by Ord. 1315 on 8/30/2022 15.72.020 California Energy Code Adopted

The 2025 California Code of Regulations Title 24, Part 6 also known as the California Energy Code, copies of which are on file as required by law, are hereby adopted and incorporated into this chapter by reference; and are declared to be the energy efficiency standards for the county; and shall apply to the unincorporated areas of the county. (Ord 1285, 2019; Ord. 1260, 2017; 1247, 2013; Ord. 1199 § 4, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

ations Title 24, Part 6 also known as the California Energy Code, copies of which are on file as required by law, are hereby adopted and incorporated into this chapter by reference; and are declared to be the energy efficiency standards for the county; and shall apply to the unincorporated areas of the county. (Ord 1285, 2019; Ord. 1260, 2017; 1247, 2013; Ord. 1199 § 4, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.72.140 Definitions

The following names or terms have the following meaning or usage whenever used in this title or in any of the codes incorporated by reference in to this title:

1. “Administrative authority” means the building official of the county.

2. “Assistants” means the duly appointed assistants to the building official.

3. “Board of appeals” means the Board of Supervisors of the county.

4. “Building department” means the building inspection division of the county.

5. “Building official” means the building official of the county.

6. “Bureau of fire prevention” means the fire department of any concerned or affected city or fire protection district located within the county.

7. “Chief electrical inspector” means the building official of the county.

8. “Chief of the bureau of fire prevention”, “Chief of the fire department” or “Fire Marshal” means the chief of the fire department of any concerned or affected city or fire protection district located within the county.

9. “City” means the county when referring to a political entity, or the unincorporated area of the county when referring to an area.

10. “City clerk” means county clerk.

11. “City council” means the Board of Supervisors.

12. “Corporation counsel” means the district attorney or the county counsel of the county.

13. “Housing Act” means the State Housing Act (Section 17910, et seq., of the Health and Safety Code of the State of California).

14. “Legislative body of the local agency” means the Board of Supervisors.

15. “Mayor” means the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors.

16. “Municipality” means the county.

17. “Police department” means the sheriff’s department. (Ord. 1247, 2013; Ord. 1199 § 14, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The board may modify the application of any of the provisions of a code incorporated by reference into this chapter upon application in writing by a permittee or applicant, or a duly authorized agent of either, when there are practical difficulties in carrying out the strict letter of the code, provided that the spirit of the code is observed, public safety secured, and substantial justice done. Economic hardship or cost of compliance with any provision of this title or any code incorporated by reference into this title is not, by itself, a sufficient ground for such a modification. The particulars of such modifications when granted or allowed and the decision of the board thereon shall be entered upon the minutes of a regular or special meeting of the board, and a copy of the minute order shall be furnished to the applicant or permittee by the clerk. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

If any provision, part or portion of any of the codes incorporated by reference into this title are inconsistent or in conflict with an express provision or the meaning or intent of this title, then the latter shall prevail and be given effect to the exclusion of the former to the extent required to obviate such inconsistency or conflict. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Division 15-5 Special Use Standards 15.73 Adult Entertainment Business 15.74 Agricultural Processing Facility 15.745 Alcoholic Beverage Sales 15.75 Automobile Wrecking Yards And Junkyards 15.76 Bed And Breakfast Establishment 15.77 Collector 15.78 Home Occupation 15.79 Livestock Operations 15.795 Major Electrical Transmission And Distribution Projects 15.797 Cannabis 15.798 Industrial Hemp 15.80 Seasonal Farmworker Housing 15.801 Emergency Shelters And Low Barrier Navigation Centers 15.81 Surface Mining And Reclamation 15.82 Vendor Permits 15.83 Well, Class II Injection 15.84 Wells, Natural Gas 15.85 Wireless Communication Facilities, Collocation Of 15.86 Power Generation Facilities 15.73 Adult Entertainment Business 15.73.010 Regulation Of Location 15.73.020 Waiver Of Locational Provisions 15.73.010 Regulation Of Location

In those land use zones where the “adult entertainment” businesses regulated by this chapter would otherwise be permitted uses, such businesses shall be permitted only upon the securing of a use permit. It shall be unlawful to establish any such “adult entertainment” business if the location is:

1. Within five hundred feet of any area zoned for residential use; or

2. Within one thousand feet of any other “adult entertainment” business; or

3. Within one thousand feet of any public or private school, park, playground, public building, church, any noncommercial establishment operated by a bona fide religious organization or any establishment likely to be used by minors.

The “establishment” of any “adult entertainment” business shall include the opening of such a business as a new business, the relocation of such business, or the conversion of an existing business location to any “adult entertainment” business use. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.73.020 Waiver Of Locational Provisions Any property owner or his or her authorized agent may apply to the planning commission for a waiver of any locational provisions contained in this chapter. The planning commission, after a hearing, may waive any locational provision, if all of the following findings are made:

1. The proposed use will not be contrary to the public interest or injurious to nearby properties, and that the spirit and intent of this chapter will be observed; and

2. The proposed use will not enlarge or encourage the development of a “skid row” area; and

3. The establishment of an additional regulated use in the area will not be contrary to any program of neighborhood conservation;

4. All applicable regulations of the codes and ordinances of the county will be observed. (Ord. 1269 § 10, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.74 Agricultural Processing Facility 15.74.010 Standards

1. An agricultural processing operation shall be located a minimum of at least five hundred feet from any residence located on an adjacent parcel.

2. No hazardous materials other than for incidental use shall be used for the operation.

3. An agricultural processing operation shall be set back at least one hundred feet from the county or state road right-of-way.

4. All agricultural processing facility development shall require an encroachment permit from the county public works department. Driveways shall be paved according to county standards. 5. All parking and loading shall remain on-site and not in county or state road right-of-way.

5. A use permit shall be required for an agricultural processing operation if the county air pollution control officer determines that the potential exists for smoke, light, dust, glare or odor beyond the property line; or if the county sanitarian determines that the potential exists for flies, vermin or other health hazards to cross the property line.

6. A use permit shall be required for an agricultural processing facility if noise levels exceed sixty-five dBA at the property line between seven a.m. and ten p.m. and/or noise levels exceed sixty dBA between ten p.m. and seven a.m. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.745 Alcoholic Beverage Sales 15.745.010 Purpose 15.745.020 ABC Licensing 15.745.030 Letter Of Public Convenience Or Necessity Procedures 15.745.040 Alcoholic Beverage Sales

This Chapter contains the County of Glenn’s (County) review procedures for an applicant securing a license from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) (Ord. 1282 § 2, 2019)

• State law requires a local jurisdiction to make a “public convenience or necessity” determination before ABC will issue a liquor license. (See Division 9 of the State Business and Professions Code for specific State Requirements and definitions regarding alcoholic beverage control 23958, 23958.4 and 23817.7 of that code specifically address State licensing requirements). (Ord. 1282 § 2, 2019) 15.745.030 Letter Of Public Convenience Or Necessity Procedures 1. Action by Director or Planning Commission 1. The Director shall review and process upon a request for a letter of “public convenience or necessity (PCN)” when it is required from the local jurisdiction by ABC. 2. The request shall be referred to the Planning Commission for action. 3. Requests to appeal the Planning Commission actions shall be filed in compliance with Glenn County Code Section 15.050 (Appeals)

• 2. Procedure . Staff shall review and notice prior to a public hearing. 3. Review Authority . The review authority shall belong to the Planning Commission. 4. Notification of license request . The applicant who has been required by ABC to obtain from the County a letter of PCN must provide notice to owners and occupants of properties located within 1,000 feet of the exterior parcel boundaries of the proposed establishment. The text of the notice shall be in compliance with the guidelines provided. Such notice shall be given by: 1. Sign . A sign of at least 16 square feet, posted in a conspicuous location on the site of the proposed alcohol sales establishment but not within the clear site triangle of any driveway or intersection. No action shall take until the sign has been in place for 14 consecutive days. The sign must be removed within 14 days of final action by the County.
• 2. Mail . Notice of application may be mailed when the applicant can prove that surrounding property owners and occupants will be as likely to be notified of the application as if by the posting of a sign. The applicant shall provide proof of mailing, and the Department shall take no action until 19 days after such mailing.
• 5. Finding Required . Before issuing a letter of PCN for an ABC license, the review authority shall find that the following is true: 1. A public convenience or necessity will be served by the granting of the license. (Ord. 1282, 2019)

If a revenue source of the establishment consists of the sale of alcoholic beverages, including but not limited to: a bar, tavern, nightclub, cocktail lounge, liquor store, convenience store, restaurant with bar, restaurant, cafe, diner, winery with tasting room, brewery with tap room, tasting room, tap room, motel, bowling alley, food and beverage service and concession facilities, entertainment facilities, or any facility that has on-site sale of alcoholic beverages, or the ABC has determined that the business will exceed census tract concentration thresholds and requires a letter of PCN, then the proposed business shall be required to obtain a Conditional Use Permit approving the PCN, in order to sell alcoholic beverages in the County. An applicant shall be required to apply for, and receive an approved Conditional Use Permit, and if necessary a letter of PCN, from the Glenn County Planning Commission. The applicant shall work with the Department to file the appropriate application and current Conditional Use Permit fee. (Ord 1282; 2019)

15.75 Automobile Wrecking Yards And Junkyards 15.75.010 Purpose 15.75.020 Fencing Of Premises 15.75.030 Premises To Be Kept Clean

15.75.010 Purpose When lawfully permitted, automobile wrecking yards and junkyards shall comply with the standards and regulations set forth in this chapter. Any requirements set forth in this chapter are in addition to and not inclusive of or in derogation of any other regulations and standards that apply to such activities. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.75.020 Fencing Of Premises

1. If any business or establishment referred to in Section 15.75.010 of this chapter is located in whole or in part in a yard, enclosure, lot or open area, the premises shall be completely surrounded and enclosed by a wall, fence or barrier and so constructed as to be a continuous sight barrier, except for necessary openings. All junk such as rags, sacks, bottles, cans, papers and metal and all other articles including automobile parts shall be kept and stored behind the wall, fence or barrier. The wall, fence or barrier shall be continuously kept and maintained in the condition required by this section. The wall, fence or barrier shall extend above the ground for at least six feet and shall be constructed of chain-link type fencing with slats or other sight obstructions, or of an alternate type of wall, fence or barrier using standard materials and construction methods of a type approved by the planning commission. All fences shall be continuously maintained. Any and all necessary openings in the fence, wall or barrier shall be provided with suitable gates or doors constructed of the same material and in the same manner of construction as is authorized by this chapter as suitable and sufficient for a fence, wall or barrier under this section. No opening shall in any single instance exceed twenty-four feet in width. The gate or door shall be kept closed at all times except when in actual use for the purpose of ingress or egress. Public street or road frontage sides shall be a minimum of eight feet above the ground and of continuous single construction design, using standard materials and construction methods to assure a continuous sight barrier of uniform height, material and type of construction.

2. It is unlawful for any person to permit any business or establishment referred to and described in this chapter to be established, conducted, carried on, or maintained unless the premises has been enclosed by wall, fence or barrier in the manner prescribed in this section and continuously maintained in such condition. Each day’s violation of the requirements declared and established by this provision is and constitutes a separate and distinct violation and offense.

3. Fences must conform to the county setback requirements. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.75.030 Premises To Be Kept Clean If any business or establishment referred to in Section 15.75.010 of this chapter is located in whole or in part in a yard, enclosure, lot or open area, the premises and area shall be kept clean and free from rubbish and similar loose material that might service as a harborage for rats, mice or other rodents, and all loose metal or parts or accessories of automobiles, and all other material kept, stored or accumulated in such place shall be neatly and carefully piled in a manner as to minimize and prevent as far as possible the harboring of rodents and shall be suitably protected from water and the elements so that there can be no accumulation of water in any article or thing located on the premises. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.76 Bed And Breakfast Establishment 15.76.010 Permit Requirements 15.76.010 Permit Requirements

Bed and breakfast establishments may be permitted in the RZ, FA, AP, AE, RE and R-1 zones provided the following requirements are met:

1. An administrative permit is obtained from the planning authority for establishments located in zones in which a minimum of five acres per parcel are allowed;

2. A conditional use permit is obtained from the planning commission for establishments located in zones allowing parcel sizes of less than five acres;

3. Not more than one bed and breakfast establishment shall be permitted on each parcel of land;

4. An owner or operator of the establishment shall reside within the establishment;

5. One detached or attached sign with a maximum allowable sign area of twelve square feet is permitted;

6. A minimum of one parking space per guestroom shall be provided;

7. Proper permits are obtained from the Glenn County health department prior to occupancy. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

An administrative permit for the collection of a specified number of antique or hobby accumulation vehicles provided the following standards are met:

1. An administrative collector’s use shall be a residential accessory use in the “RE” zoning district;

2. All outdoor storage shall be completely screened to a height of six feet by a solid wood or masonry fence when not completely enclosed in a building. All fences and/or buildings shall be continuously maintained;

3. There shall be no outdoor storage in any required yard area;

4. Storage shall only occur in those areas shown on the approved plot plan;

5. All requirements of the fire marshal shall be met. The property shall be kept in a weed-free condition;

6. A conditional use permit shall be required for automobile collectors of six or more accumulation vehicles;

7. A use permit shall be required for collectors of antique or hobby accumulation vehicles on parcels smaller than two acres or when the standards of an administrative collector’s permit cannot be met;

8. In all cases, the administrative collector permit shall not be issued or held for the purposes of conducting a business. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.78 Home Occupation 15.78.010 Purpose 15.78.020 Permit Requirements

1. The purpose of these regulations is to establish development standards and limitations for the operation and maintenance of home occupations in Glenn County. Home Occupations shall mean any use customarily conducted entirely within a building or screened from public view and carried on by the owners and occupants of the residence thereof.

2. This use shall be incidental and secondary to the residential use and does not change the character thereof or shall not adversely affect the uses permitted in the same zone of which it is a part, but would require a conditional use permit. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.78.020 Permit Requirements

Home occupations may be permitted in the “RZ”, “FA”, “AP”, “AE”, “AT”, “RE”, “RE-NW”, “R1” and “RM” zones providing the following standards are being met:

1. A Home Occupation Permit Application shall be submitted to the planning authority; 2. No person other than members of the family residing on the premises shall be engaged in such occupation when it is located in a Residential Zone. A maximum of two employees may be employed when the use is located in an agricultural zone;

2. Not more than twenty-five (25%) of the floor area of the dwelling unit shall be used in the conduct of the home occupation; 4. A Conditional Use Permit shall be required for home occupations on parcels less than ten acres in size when the use will be located in a building other than the primary residential structure; 5. An Administrative Permit and a Site Plan Review shall be obtained from the planning authority for home occupations on parcels of ten acres or more in size when the use will be located in a building other than the primary residential structure;

3. The home occupation may be conducted in a detached accessory building; 7. In no way shall the appearance of the structure be so altered or the conduct of the occupation within the structure be such that the structure may be reasonably recognized as serving a nonresidential use;

4. No equipment or process shall be used in such home occupation which creates noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors, or electrical interference detectable to the normal senses off the lot if the occupation is conducted in a single family residence or outside the dwelling unit if conducted in other than a single family residence. In the case of electrical interference, no equipment or process shall be used which creates a visual or audible interference in any radio or television receivers off the premises, or causes fluctuations in the line voltage off the premises;

5. The home occupation shall not generate pedestrian or vehicular traffic in excess of that customarily associated with the zone in which the use is located;

6. All maintenance or service vehicles and equipment, or any vehicle bearing any advertisement related to the home occupation or any other similar vehicle shall be garaged or stored entirely within a building or structure. Such vehicle shall not have more than two axles;

7. There shall be no use of utilities or community facilities beyond that normal to the use of the property for residential or agricultural purposes as defined in the zone; 12. There shall be complete conformity with fire, building, plumbing, electrical and health codes and to all federal, state and County laws or ordinances; 13. The sale of merchandise on the subject lot shall be directly related to and incidental to the home occupation. Retail sales of products not produced or processed on the premises shall be prohibited; 14. All equipment and materials storage areas adjacent or in any residential zone shall be screened by walls, fences, or landscaping to a height of at least six (6) feet; 15. Hours of operation shall be limited so as not to interfere with the character of the neighborhood and shall be set by the director. Hours of operation in a Residential Zone shall be between 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Monday through Friday. Hours of operation in an Agricultural Zone shall be between 7:00 A.M. and 7:00 P.M. seven days per week;

8. One on-site sign is permitted advertising the home occupation, not to exceed two (2) square feet in total aggregate area. No lighted signs are allowed; 17. Only those buildings or parking areas as specifically approved may be utilized in the conduct of the home occupation; 18. A minimum of one (1) parking space shall be provided for any home occupation requiring customers to visit the site in addition of the parking requirements of the principal residence; 19. The applicant for a home occupation shall submit evidence that the proposed operation meets the requirements of the Glenn County Health Department at the time the application is submitted to the planning authority;

9. The director, or his or her representative, shall have the right to inspect the premises at any time in order to insure compliance with this Code and with the Conditions of Approval; 21. The home occupation shall conform with the development standards in the applicable zoning district and all other requirements of the Glenn County Code and State and Federal Laws; 22. All uses shall be enclosed within a building or completely screened from public view; 23. The building for the home occupation and the residential dwelling, together, shall not exceed the maximum lot coverage allowed in the General Plan for the land use designation; 24. The number of customers coming to a home occupation shall be limited to five (5) per day; 25. That no home occupation permit shall be issued for automobile, truck, or heavy equipment repair. This type of business as determined by the director shall be permitted only in the individual zoning districts where it is allowed;

10. Owners of home occupations are notified that if the business grows and cannot meet the requirements of this code section in the future they may have to apply for a Conditional Use Permit for the business or may have to relocate the business to a zone where it is permitted depending on the regulations of the individual zoning district. (Ord. 1269 § 10, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.79 Livestock Operations 15.79.010 Standards 15.79.010 Standards Notwithstanding any other provision of the County Code new construction for a livestock operation shall meet the following minimum setbacks from all county road and/or state highway rights-of-way: 1. Milk barns: 45 feet from edge of right-of-way. 2. Holding pens, housing barns, manure ponds and animal confinement areas: one hundred feet from edge of right-of-way. 3. Confined animal and manure handling facilities for livestock operations shall be located at least five hundred feet from any residential zoning district and five hundred feet from any school or high occupancy structures on neighboring parcels in any zoning district.

4. The use, storage, and disposal of hazardous materials shall meet all county, state, and federal regulations. 5. An encroachment permit shall be required from the Glenn County Public Works Department prior to any work in a county road right-of-way. An encroachment permit shall be required from Caltrans prior to any work in a state highway right-of-way.

5. The construction and operation of a livestock operation shall conform to all applicable state and county codes including but not limited to the following: 7. A building permit shall be secured from the Glenn County Building Department prior to any construction at the site. 8. The Glenn County Health Department shall approve the location and design of all wells and on-site sewage disposal systems. 9. A land leveling permit shall be applied for and received from the Glenn County Public Works Department prior to the grading of any land, where the grading exceeds five (5) acres in size and will result in cuts or fills of greater than two (2) feet, a redirection of runoff from the site onto a county road or a change in the entrance or exit of runoff from the parcel. A grading and drainage plan shall accompany all land leveling permit applications and any inquiries as to the applicability of this section to the proposed project.

6. All trash, discarded materials, animal remains shall be screened from adjacent properties and county and/or state rights-of-way and shall be disposed of according to the applicable codes. 11. Disposal of manure shall meet State of California Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board Standards. Verification of submission of an application for a waste discharge permit is required; final State approval of plans will be a condition for issuance of a building permit.

7. Best management practices shall be applied to the animal confinement, manure ponds, holding and animal housing pens to prevent a nuisance caused by fly and/or mosquito breeding, dust and/or odors.

8. Farm labor quarters consisting of one mobile home or residence meeting the requirements of Section 15.590 of the Glenn County code shall be permitted upon first securing an administrative permit.

9. Farm labor camps (consisting of mobile homes and/or conventional homes) shall be permitted upon first securing a conditional use permit in the “FA” (Foothill Agriculture). “AP” (Agricultural Preserve), and “AE” (Exclusive Agricultural) zoning districts. Mobile home parks and farm labor camps consisting of mobile homes shall also meet requirements of the State Department of Housing and Community Development Division of Codes and Standards.

10. A conditional use permit shall be required for dairies that exceed one (1) cow per 20,000 square feet of area in the “RE” (Rural Residential Estate) zoning district. Dairies in the “RE” district exceeding 30 cows shall be required to obtain a conditional use permit.

11. Reactivation of existing livestock operation or dairy facilities shall be permitted in accordance with these performance standards.

12. Prior to the issuance of a building permit for a new livestock operation or dairy, the applicant shall enter into an agreement with the County of Glenn to improve the existing county maintained road from the main entrance of the livestock operation or dairy to the nearest county road having a paved surface at least 24 feet wide, in accordance with Standard Drawing No. RS 6, except that a double chip seal shall be allowed instead of asphalt concrete. The maximum length of roadway improved as a result of this paragraph shall not exceed one (1) mile. The cost of any improvements required as a result of this paragraph shall be borne equally by both the dairy and the County. The Public Works Director may grant a waiver to the requirements of this paragraph upon receiving a written request from the applicant.

13. Livestock operations or dairies shall conform to all applicable County, State and Federal codes and requirements including but not limited to Chapter 20.08 of the Glenn County Code, Water Well Drilling Permits and Standards, and the State of California Central Valley Regional Water Quality control Board. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.795 Major Electrical Transmission And Distribution Projects

15.795.010 Purpose

15.795.020 Permit Required

15.795.030 Application And Fees

15.795.040 Coordination And Documentation 15.795.050 Public Outreach 15.795.060 Review Criteria

1. The purpose of the regulations and provisions of this chapter shall be to provide the County with the maximum control, consistent with such other laws, over major electrical transmission and distribution projects and to insure that new transmission line construction is minimized, that new lines are efficiently located when needed, that all feasible alternatives have been exhausted, and that all impacts of the project are disclosed.

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of Division 3, all major electrical transmission and distribution projects shall comply with this chapter. (Ord. 1221 § 2, 2010)

1. Applications for a conditional use permit shall be filed as required by Chapter 15.09. In addition to this information, the applicant shall also include the following:

   1. A description of a reasonable range of alternatives to the proposed project, including alternatives that use or expand existing rights-of-way; and

   2. All application materials (maps, site plans, etc.) necessary to illustrate the proposed location of the proposed facilities and all alternative locations; and 3. A photo simulation of the proposed project and each alternative from at least six locations along its route in the County. Additional locations shall be provided if the Director deems necessary to illustrate the scope of the project. Each location shall include simulated views of project facilities from four directions (north, south, east, and west) and;

   3. A narrative explanation of the route of the proposed project and each alternative, together with a discussion of any alternative locations and project alternatives considered by the applicant but not formally included for County consideration; and

   4. For the proposed project and each alternative, all of the following:

      1. Estimated cost, including construction, land acquisition, and other development costs;

      2. A description of the type of vegetation and soils that would be removed or impacted by construction;

      3. A map showing the number, types, uses, and distances of buildings, public and private airports, dedicated open space, and parklands located within a 2,000 foot wide corridor of project infrastructure;

      4. An analysis of the audible noise and lighting impacts of the proposal, together with any other studies reasonably necessary for the County to perform its duties as a lead or responsible agency in connection with the environmental review of the project; and

      5. An analysis of the potential adverse human health effects of the project on those present in residential areas, schools, licensed day-care facilities, playgrounds, and other developed areas in reasonable proximity to the project. The analysis shall use the best available scientific information at the time it is conducted.

      6. An analysis of potential economic impacts on agriculture and related support industries. The Director may also require an analysis of potential economic impacts on other relevant matters.

2. In addition to the application fee required by Section 15.09.010, the project applicant shall reimburse all County costs associated with reviewing the application which are not covered by the prescribed fee. In the event that the County is required to review a proposed transmission corridor zone pursuant to California Government Code Section 25334 or other provisions of law, such costs shall also be reimbursed by the project applicant. (Ord. 1221 § 2, 2010)

15.795.040 Coordination And Documentation

Included with the filed application for a use permit in connection with a major electrical transmission and distribution project, the applicant shall provide the County with copies of all applications for state, federal, and other permits and licenses in connection with the proposed project. Promptly following the issuance of any state or federal permits or licenses, biological opinions, records of decision, memoranda of understanding, exemptions, variances, or similar authorizations or approvals related to the proposed project, the applicant shall provide copies of those documents to the County. (Ord. 1221 § 2, 2010)

15.795.050 Public Outreach

For all major electrical transmission and distribution projects that traverse a significant portion of the County, and whose impacts are not likely to be isolated to a small geographic area, the Director may require the applicant to present the application to interested members of the public at one or more public meetings to be arranged by the applicant. Such meetings shall be in addition to any hearings on the permit application held by the planning commission and the board of supervisors. The Director and the applicant shall, if requested by the Director, develop a mutually acceptable public outreach program that includes such meeting(s) and any similar public outreach efforts to be undertaken by the applicant. (Ord. 1221 § 2, 2010)

15.795.060 Review Criteria

A conditional use permit for such projects may only be approved if all of the following findings are made based on substantial evidence in the record in addition to those required by Section 15.22.020:

1. The proposed project is consistent with any applicable policies in the General Plan and any applicable specific plan(s).

2. There is a demonstrated need for the proposed project;

3. To the greatest feasible (as that term is defined in Public Utilities Code Section 12808.5) extent, the project utilizes existing infrastructure and rights-of-way or, alternatively, expands existing rights-of-way, in that order of preference;

4. There are no feasible alternatives that are superior to the proposed project, taking into consideration and balancing the considerations set forth in this Section; 5. The proposed project would not have adverse human health effects, particularly with respect to individuals present in residential areas, schools, licensed day-care facilities, playgrounds, and other developed areas in reasonable proximity to the project;

5. To the greatest feasible extent, the proposed project does not have a significant adverse effect on the environment, agriculture, existing land uses and activities, areas with significant scenic qualities, or other relevant considerations of public health, safety, or welfare;

6. To the greatest feasible extent, the proposed project avoids lands preserved by the County for public park purposes;

7. To the greatest feasible extent, the proposed project avoids lands preserved by a conservation easement or similar deed restriction for agricultural, habitat, or other purposes. The board of supervisors may waive this requirement if the applicant provides documentation that the project does not conflict with the conservation easement or deed restriction, or that the conservation easement or deed restriction was provided as mitigation for the impacts of a prior development project. However, it shall only be amended or extinguished if adequate substitute mitigation is provided by the applicant;

   9. The proposed project complies with all laws, regulations, and rules regarding airport safety conditions and similar matters, and will not require a significant change in the operations of a public or private airport in the County, create an undue hazard for aircraft, or substantially hinder aerial spraying operations;

   10. To the greatest feasible extent, operations of the proposed project would not create conditions that unduly reduce or interfere with public or private television, radio, telemetry, or other electromagnetic communications signals; and

   11. The applicant has agreed to conduct all roadwork and other site development work in compliance with all laws, regulations, and rules relating to dust control, air quality, erosion, and sediment control, as well as any permits issued pursuant thereto. (Ord. 1221 § 2, 2010)

• 15.797 Cannabis 15.797.010 Purpose 15.797.020 Prohibited Uses 15.797.030 Exemptions 15.797.040 Nuisance 15.797.050 Enforcement

15.797.010 Purpose

It is the intent and purpose of this Chapter to implement State law by providing a means for regulating the cultivation, selling, distributing, dispensing, manufacturing or testing of cannabis in a manner consistent with State law and which balances the health, safety, and welfare of the residents and businesses within the unincorporated territory of the County of Glenn. This Chapter is intended to be consistent with California’s medical cannabis laws and the Adult Use of Cannabis Act, and represents an exercise of the local authority retained by the County of Glenn under those laws. (Ord. 1288 §5, 2020 Ord. 1278§ 9, 2019; Ord. 1275, 2019; Ord. 1261 § 6 & 7, 2017; Ord. 1233 § 2, 2012;)

15.797.020 Prohibited Uses

1. Subject only to the exemptions in this ordinance and to the fullest extent allowed by state law, the following uses are prohibited in all zoning districts of the County: 1. The cultivation of cannabis.

   2. The delivery of cannabis.

   3. The establishment or operation of a location, facility, or business, that sells, distributes, dispenses, manufacturers, or tests cannabis.

   4. The establishment, development, construction, maintenance, operation, or enlargement of any cannabis dispensary or retailer for medical or non-medical purposes or any collective and/or cooperative, as these terms are defined herein. (Ord. 1288 §6, 2020; Ord. 1278§ 11, 2019; Ord. 1275, 2019; Ord. 1261 § 8 & 9, 2017; Ord. 1233 § 2, 2012)

1. Six or fewer cannabis plants may be cultivated indoors at a residence if all of the following conditions are met:

   1. The residence, and all lighting, plumbing, and electrical components used for cultivation, must comply with all applicable zoning, building, electrical, and plumbing codes and permitting requirements.

   2. All living cannabis plants, and all cannabis in excess of 28.5 grams produced by those plants, must be kept in a locked room and may not be visible from an adjacent property, right-of-way, street, sidewalk, or other place accessible to the public.

   3. The residence must be lawfully occupied. If the residence is not owner-occupied, written permission from the owner of the residence must be obtained before cannabis may be cultivated. 4. No cannabis plants may be cultivated outdoors.

   4. The cannabis plants, and all cannabis produced by the plants, shall be for the personal use of the cultivator only, and not for sale, provided that such cannabis and cannabis plants may be given away to persons 21 years of age or older without any compensation whatsoever in accordance with Health and Safety Code section 11362.1, subdivision (a)(2)

2. It is not a violation of this ordinance for any person employed by a licensed cannabis delivery service to travel on a public road within the unincorporated area of the County for the purposes of delivering cannabis to persons located in a city or county where the delivery of cannabis is not prohibited. (Ord. 1288 §7, 2020; Ord. 1278§ 13, 2019; Ord 1275, 2019; Ord. 1261 § 10 & 11, 2017; Ord. 1233 § 2, 2012,)

Any violation of any provision of this chapter shall be, and is hereby declared, a public nuisance and may be abated by the Glenn County Sheriff and/or the Planning and Community Services Agency Director as such. (Ord. 1288 §8, 2020; Ord. 1233 § 2, 2012)

1. The County Sheriff may, at his/her discretion, abate any violation of this Chapter by the prosecution of a civil action, including an action for injunctive relief. The remedy of injunctive relief may take the form of a court order, enforceable through civil contempt proceedings, prohibiting the maintenance of the violation of this Chapter or requiring compliance with other terms. No provision of this chapter shall be deemed a defense or immunity to any action brought against any person.

2. The Planning and Community Services Agency Director may, at his/her discretion, abate any violation of this Chapter in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 1.15 (Public Nuisance Abatement) of this code. (Ord. 1288 §9, 2020; Ord. 1233 § 2, 2012)

15.798 Industrial Hemp 15.798.010 Purpose And Authority 15.798.020 Definitions 15.798.030 Administration 15.798.040 License Required 15.798.050 License Requirements 15.798.060 Cultivation Requirements 15.798.070 Destruction Of Non-Compliant Industrial Hemp Crops 15.798.080 Fees 15.798.090 Public Nuisance 15.798.100 Violations 15.798.110 Zoning District Land Use Table

15.798.010 Purpose And Authority

Pursuant to Article XI, section 7, of the California Constitution, the County of Glenn (“County”) may adopt and enforce ordinances and regulations not in conflict with general laws to protect and promote the public health, safety, and welfare of its citizens. It is the purpose and intent of this Ordinance to establish standards, requirements, and regulations governing industrial hemp cultivation. Further, it is the purpose and intent of this chapter to impose reasonable land use regulations to protect the County’s residents, neighborhoods, businesses, and the environment from disproportionately negative impacts caused by industrial hemp cultivation, and to enforce rules and regulations consistent with state and federal law. The provisions of this chapter are in addition to any other permits, licenses and approvals which may be required to conduct business in the County, and are in addition to any permits, licenses and approval required under state, County, or other law. (Ord. 1289, 2020; Ord 1279, 2019; Ord 1276, 2019)

15.798.020 Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. If a word is not defined in this chapter, the common and ordinary meaning of the word shall apply. All citations to state law shall refer to the act, statute, or regulations as may be amended from time to time.

1. “Cultivation” shall include any activity involving the propagation, planting, growing, harvesting, drying, curing, grading, or trimming of hemp.

2. “Established agricultural research institution” is an institution of higher education, as defined in Section 101 of the federal Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C Sec. 1001), that grows or cultivates industrial hemp for purposes of research conducted under an agricultural pilot program or other agricultural or academic research in accordance with Section 7606 of the Federal Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. Sec. 5940) or is otherwise approved by the California Secretary of Food and Agriculture.

3. “Hemp” shall have the same meaning as “industrial hemp” set forth below.

4. “Industrial hemp” has the same meaning as that term as defined in section 11018.5 of the Health and Safety Code. That section defines industrial hemp as “a crop that is limited to types of the plant Cannabis sativa L. having no more than three-tenths of one percent (0.3%) tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) contained in the dried flowering tops, whether growing or not; the seeds of the plant; the resin extracted from any part of the plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds or resin produced therefrom.”

5. “Nursery stock” shall have the meaning set forth in Food and Agricultural Code section 5005.

6. “Person” includes any individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, limited liability company, estate, trust, business, business trust, receiver, syndicate, collective, cooperative, institution, including an established agricultural research institution, or any other group or entity, or combination acting as a unit. Except where otherwise indicated by context, the singular shall include the plural, and vice versa.

7. “Sensitive receptor” is a facility or land use that serves or attracts members of a population who are particularly sensitive to the effects of air pollutants or strong odors, such as children, the elderly, and people with illnesses. Examples of sensitive receptors include hospitals, schools, and parks.

8. “Transplant” is a cultivated hemp plant grown from seed or cutting in soil or individual containers for less than eight (8) weeks that does not exceed a height of eight (8) inches. (Ord 1289, 2020; Ord 1279, 2019, Ord 1276, 2019)

15.798.030 Administration

The Sheriff, the Agricultural Commissioner, and/or the Planning and Community Development Services Agency Director, or their respective designees, are charged with the responsibility of administering, and exercising the authority conferred under, this chapter. (Ord 1289, 2020; Ord 1279, 2019, Ord 1276, 2019)

15.798.040 License Required

No person shall cultivate industrial hemp in the unincorporated areas of Glenn County without first obtaining a license issued by the Agricultural Commissioner to cultivate as provided in this chapter. A license for cultivation may be issued to an established agricultural research institution only if it meets the definition of established agricultural research institution stated in section 15.798.020 of this chapter. A license issued under this chapter does not grant any interest in real property or create any interest of value and is not transferable. (Ord 1289, 2020; Ord 1279, 2019, Ord 1276, 2019) 15.798.050 License Requirements

A license for the cultivation of industrial hemp may be issued only if each of the following requirements are met:

1. Applicants shall submit an application in accordance with the application process established by the Agricultural Commissioner. A single license may be issued for multiple parcels. 2. An applicant shall be the deed holder of the land upon which hemp is to be cultivated, or provide written consent in a form acceptable to the Agricultural Commissioner, from the deed holder granting permission for the cultivation of industrial hemp on the specified parcel(s).

2. Each parcel for which a license application is submitted must be a minimum of 36 acres in size, and located in the FA (Foothill Agricultural/Forestry), AE (Exclusive Agricultural), AP (Agricultural Preserve Zone), FS (Farmland and Security Zone), or AT (Agricultural Transitional) zoning districts. Conditional Use Permits are required for any parcels less than 36 acres (where permitted).

3. Before a license is issued under this chapter, the applicant shall submit a bond or other form of security acceptable to the agricultural commissioner in the amount of one hundred (100%) of the estimated cost to fully abate a crop of industrial hemp that does not meet requirements for legal harvest under applicable laws and regulations. The financial security provided shall be released to the applicant after the agricultural commissioner determines that the security is no longer needed to secure the abatement of a non-compliant hemp crop.

4. An applicant shall fully satisfy the registration requirements stated in Food and Agricultural Code section 81003 as may be amended from time to time.

5. An applicant for the cultivation of transplants shall have a license to sell nursery stock as required under California Food and Agricultural Code section 6721 et seq.

6. Each license issued under this chapter shall expire one year from the date of its issuance. (Ord 1289, 2020; Ord 1279, 2019, Ord 1276, 2019)

15.798.060 Cultivation Requirements

The following standards shall apply to the cultivation of industrial hemp.

1. The cultivation of industrial hemp is permitted in the FA (Foothill Agricultural/Forestry), AE (Exclusive Agricultural), AP (Agricultural Preserve Zone), FS (Farmland Security Zone), or AT (Agricultural Transitional) zoning districts. Cultivation of industrial hemp is prohibited in all other zoning districts including any zoning within the sphere of influence of the cities of Willows and Orland, or within the sphere of influence of Artois, Butte City, Elk Creek, or Hamilton City.

2. A person cultivating industrial hemp shall design the parcel used for cultivation in a manner that minimizes odors to surrounding areas.

3. The field planting (by seed or transplants) of outdoor industrial hemp cultivation shall be permitted to occur between July 15 and December 31 of each calendar year, and shall meet the following setback requirements:

   1. Two-hundred (200) feet from any boundary line of the parcel, unless the boundary line is adjacent to the boundary line of a parcel that is either owned, managed, or otherwise under the control of the person who obtained the license for the cultivation of industrial hemp.

   2. One-thousand (1,000) feet from any sensitive receptor.

   3. Two-hundred (200) feet from any residence.

4. Any structure(s) containing facilities used for the processing of industrial hemp must have all permits required under state law and Glenn County Code.

5. The indoor cultivation of hemp is limited to the cultivation of hemp transplants in a structure dedicated solely to the cultivation of nursery stock and located within the FA (Foothill Agricultural/Forestry), AE (Exclusive Agricultural), AP (Agricultural Preserve Zone), FS (Farmland Security Zone), or AT (Agricultural Transitional) zoning districts on a parcel with a minimum size of thirty-six (36) acres. All other indoor cultivation of industrial hemp is prohibited. Structures must comply with applicable building codes and be permitted by the Planning and Community Development Services Agency as required by County code. Structures used for indoor cultivation of hemp shall meet the following setbacks:

   1. Fifty (50) feet from any boundary line of the parcel adjacent to a parcel under different ownership.

   2. Five-hundred (500) feet from any sensitive receptor.

   3. One-hundred (100) feet from any residence.

6. All parcels used for the cultivation of industrial hemp shall have onsite signage indicating that hemp is being cultivated on site. The signs shall:

   1. Be of a size so that the wording on the sign is clearly visible and readable to a person with normal vision from a distance of twenty-five (25) feet; and

   2. Use letters and symbols that are of a color that sharply contrasts with their immediate background; and

   3. Be posted at the corners of the parcel and at all usual points of entry to the parcel, including each road, footpath, walkway, or aisle that enters the cultivation area. When a parcel is adjacent to a public right-of-way, such as a road, trail, or path, signs shall be posted at intervals not exceeding six-hundred (600) feet along the parcel’s border with the right-of-way.

7. A person cultivating industrial hemp shall comply with all provisions of California State law, and associated regulations, applicable to the cultivation of industrial hemp, including, but not limited to, requirements for cultivation, sampling, laboratory testing, harvesting, and crop destruction. (Ord 1289, 2020; Ord 1279, 2019, Ord 1276, 2019)

15.798.070 Destruction Of Non-Compliant Industrial Hemp Crops

An industrial hemp crop that does not comply with the provisions of this chapter and all applicable provisions of California State law, and associated regulations, shall be destroyed. Crop destruction shall proceed as provided for in all applicable laws and regulations, which includes Food and Agricultural Code section 81006 and California Code of Regulations, title 3, sections 4950 and 4950.1. The grower of the industrial hemp crop shall submit a destruction plan to the Agricultural Commissioner at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the start of the destruction. The Agricultural Commissioner shall approve the method of destruction. An industrial hemp grower that fails to destroy an industrial hemp crop as required shall forfeit the financial security provided under section 15.798.050, subsection D, and the Agricultural Commission shall proceed to destroy the non-compliant crop. (Ord 1289, 2020)

The Board of Supervisors may, by resolution, establish a fee for a license issued under this chapter. (Ord 1289, 2020)

The cultivation of industrial hemp in violation of state law, state regulation, this chapter, or other local regulation, constitutes a public nuisance subject to abatement and the imposition of administrative penalties under chapter 1.15 of the Glenn County Code. Each and every day a violation of this chapter exists constitutes a separate and distinct violation. (Ord 1289, 2020)

• Each and every violation of this chapter shall constitute a separate violation. All violations of this chapter are subject to punishment and enforcement measures authorized under federal, state, and Glenn County Code. (Ord 1289, 2020)

Conditional Use Permits are required for any parcels less than 36 acres (where permitted).

Cultivation of industrial hemp is prohibited in all other zoning districts including any zoning within the sphere of influence of the cities of Willows and Orland, or within the sphere of influence of Artois, Butte City, Elk Creek, or Hamilton City . (Ord 1289, 2020)

15.80 Seasonal Farmworker Housing

1. Seasonal farmworker housing shall be located on parcels of forty (40) acres or more in size zones “AP” (Agricultural Preserve) or “AE” (Exclusive Agricultural) and having an “Agriculture Intensive” or “Agriculture General” land use designation. Such parcels shall be owned by the applicant. Seasonal farmworker housing proposed for parcels smaller than the forty (40) acres in size shall require a conditional use permit.

   2. Seasonal farmworker housing shall be located on parcels having direct access to a County or State maintained road. 3. Seasonal farmworker housing and support structures shall be set back a minimum of sixty (60) feet from the center line of any roadway, 60 feet from any other property line, 40 feet from any other structure, and 40 feet from watering troughs, feed troughs, and accessory buildings. Seasonal farmworker housing and support structures shall also be set back 75 feet from barns, pens, or similar quarters of livestock or poultry. Seasonal farmworker housing and support structures shall be set back a minimum of 500 feet from any confined animal and manure handling facilities for dairy operations.

   3. Seasonal farmworker housing shall have off-street parking provided at a ratio of one (1) space per four (4) persons housed.

   4. Seasonal farmworker housing may be either a one (1) or two (2) story structure. 6. Seasonal farmworker housing shall be occupied no more than 180 days in any calendar year. Farmworker housing which is proposed to be occupied more than 180 days per year shall require a Conditional Use Permit.

   5. Seasonal farmworker housing having accommodations for at least six (6) persons may have a single caretaker unit (per parcel) occupied year-round provided that the caretaker unit meets the requirements of Chapter 15.59 Minimum Residential Construction Standards.

   6. Seasonal farmworker housing shall not be located within any designated floodway.

   7. Seasonal farmworker housing shall meet the requirements of Chapter 15.54 Flood Damage Prevention.

   8. Seasonal farmworker housing shall be maintained in such a manner so as not to constitute a zoning violation or a health and safety hazard. 11. Prior to the issuance of a building permit for seasonal farmworker housing, the applicant shall place on file with the planning authority an affidavit that the seasonal farmworker housing will be used to house persons employed for agricultural purposes. Further, a covenant shall be recorded, in a form satisfactory to the County Counsel, acknowledging and agreeing that in the event the housing units are proposed to be converted to another use, the entire facility shall be brought into compliance with the provisions of this code and State Laws in effect at the time of conversion; or the housing units and all accessory structures shall be removed.

Further, a covenant shall be recorded, in a form satisfactory to the County Counsel, acknowledging and agreeing that in the event the housing units are proposed to be converted to another use, the entire facility shall be brought into compliance with the provisions of this code and State Laws in effect at the time of conversion; or the housing units and all accessory structures shall be removed.

12. Seasonal farmworker housing shall house no more than fifty (50) persons at any time. Housing of more than fifty (50) persons at a single site shall require a conditional use permit. 13. Once a building permit has been issued for a seasonal farmworker housing facility there shall be no additional building permits issued for seasonal farmworker housing within a three (3) mile radius of the approved site. If a seasonal farmworker housing facility is proposed within three (3) miles of an approved site a conditional use permit shall be required.

13. Within thirty days of the annual closure of the seasonal farmworker housing, the owner shall file a report to the planning authority showing the number of days that the site was open and the number of persons housed.

14. There shall be no more than one (1) seasonal farmworker housing facility per parcel of land. 16. The buildings used for the seasonal farmworker housing facility shall be located in a cluster with no building more than one hundred feet (100’) from another building in the facility. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.801 Emergency Shelters And Low Barrier Navigation Centers 15.801.010 Purpose 15.801.020 Definitions 15.801.030 Allowed Use 15.801.040 Standards 15.801.050 Process

A. It offers services to connect people to permanent housing through a services plan that identifies services staffing. B. It is linked to a coordinated entry system, which means a centralized or coordinated assessment system developed pursuant to Section 576.400(d) or Section 578.7(a)(8), as applicable, of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as those sections read on January 1, 2020, and any related requirements, designed to coordinate program participant intake, assessment, and referrals, so that staff in the interim facility or staff who collocate in the facility may conduct assessments and provide services to connect people to permanent housing. C. It complies with Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 8255) of Division 8 of the California Welfare and Institutions Code. D. It has a system for entering information regarding client stays, client demographics, client income, and exit destination through the local Homeless Management Information System as defined by Section 578.3 of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

SECTION 3: The adoption of the proposed zone change is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Public Resources Code section 15061(b)(3) (the "general rule" exemption). The proposed project is a change to the zoning ordinance and map, Title 15 of the Glenn County Code, and all potentially significant effects have been analyzed adequately in an earlier Environmental Impact Report (General Plan EIR). The Board of Supervisors also finds and determines that the rezoning of the land described herein is consistent with the Elements of the Glenn County General Plan. SECTION 4: Pursuant to Section 15.29.020 of the Glenn County Code, the Zoning Maps are hereby amended by changing the zones and zone boundaries as shown in in Exhibit “A”, Exhibit

ier Environmental Impact Report (General Plan EIR). The Board of Supervisors also finds and determines that the rezoning of the land described herein is consistent with the Elements of the Glenn County General Plan. SECTION 4: Pursuant to Section 15.29.020 of the Glenn County Code, the Zoning Maps are hereby amended by changing the zones and zone boundaries as shown in in Exhibit “A”, Exhibit

“B”, and Exhibit “C” attached hereto and incorporated herein; with the following Findings: Finding 1. That the proposed zone change promotes and protects public health, safety, peace, morals, comfort, convenience and general welfare of Glenn County by providing amendments to the Glenn County zoning ordinance and map consistent with the purposes of Title 15. Finding 2. That the proposed zone change will implement the Glenn County General Plan, facilitate, and guide growth in accordance with the General Plan by clarifying the development process to meet objectives contained in the Glenn County General Plan and meet State statutes. Finding 3. That the proposed zone change will protect the social and economic stability of residential, commercial, industrial, resource production, and recreational activities within the County by clarifying requirements to sections addressing multi-family housing and development and will assist in meeting HCD regulations. SECTION 5: Severability. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance is held by court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The Board of Supervisors hereby declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance and each section, sentence, clause, or phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, or phrases be declared invalid. SECTION 6: Conflict. All ordinances or parts of an ordinance or resolutions or parts of a resolution in conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict and no further. SECTION 7: Effective. This ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after the date of its adoption and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days from the date of passage thereof shall be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation, in the County of Glenn, State of California, together with the names of the members of the Board of Supervisors voting for and against the same.

CTION 7:** Effective. This ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after the date of its adoption and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days from the date of passage thereof shall be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation, in the County of Glenn, State of California, together with the names of the members of the Board of Supervisors voting for and against the same.

1. The extraction of minerals is essential to the continued economic well-being of Glenn County and to the needs of the society, and that the reclamation of mined lands is necessary to prevent or minimize adverse effects on the environment and to protect the public health and safety.

2. The reclamation of mined lands as provided in this chapter will permit the continued mining of minerals and will provide for the protection and subsequent beneficial use of the mined and reclaimed land.

3. Surface mining takes place in diverse areas where the geologic, topographic, climatic, biological, and social conditions are significantly different and that reclamation operations and the specifications therefore may vary accordingly.

4. It is the intent of the Board of Supervisors to create and maintain an effective and comprehensive surface mining and reclamation policy with regulation of surface mining operations so as to achieve the following:

5. Adverse environmental effects are prevented or minimized and that mined lands are reclaimed to a usable condition which is readily adaptable for alternative land uses. 6. Production and conservation of minerals are encouraged, while giving consideration to values relating to recreation, watershed, wildlife, range and forage, and aesthetic enjoyment. 7. Residual hazards to the public health and safety are eliminated. 8. Surface mining operations that comply with applicable ordinances and policies are recognized and protected. 9. This chapter shall be reviewed and revised as necessary to promote consistency with state policy, as expressed in SMARA. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.81.020 Vested Mining Operations 1. No person who has obtained a vested right to conduct surface mining operations prior to January 1, 1976, shall be required to secure a use permit pursuant to this chapter as long as the vested right continues and as long as no substantial changes are made in the operation except in accordance with this chapter. A person shall be deemed to have vested rights if, prior to January 1, 1976, he or she has, in good faith and in reliance upon a permit or other authorization, if the permit or other authorization was required, diligently commenced surface mining operations and incurred substantial liabilities for work and materials necessary therefore. Expenses incurred in obtaining the enactment of an ordinance in relation to a particular operation or the issuance of a permit shall not be deemed liabilities for work or materials. The reclamation plan required to be filed under subdivision (b) of Public Resource Code Section 2770 shall apply to operations conducted after January 1, 1976. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as requiring the filing of a reclamation plan for, or the reclamation of, mined lands for surface mining operations conducted prior to January 1, 1976.

2. Any person with an existing surface mining operation who has vested rights pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 2776 and who does not have an approved reclamation plan shall submit a reclamation plan to the county. If a reclamation plan application was not on file by March 31, 1988, the continuation of the surface mining operation is prohibited until a reclamation plan is submitted to the county. For purposes of this chapter, reclamation plans may consist of all or the appropriate sections of any plans or written agreements previously approved by the county or another agency, together with any additional documents needed to substantially meet the requirements of Public Resources Code Sections 2772 and 2773 and the county surface mining ordinance, provided that all documents which together were proposed to serve as the reclamation plan are submitted for approval to the county in accordance with this chapter.

reements previously approved by the county or another agency, together with any additional documents needed to substantially meet the requirements of Public Resources Code Sections 2772 and 2773 and the county surface mining ordinance, provided that all documents which together were proposed to serve as the reclamation plan are submitted for approval to the county in accordance with this chapter.

3. If a person with vested rights continues surface mining in the same area subsequent to January 1, 1976, he or she shall obtain an approval of a reclamation plan covering the mined lands disturbed by such subsequent surface mining. Where an overlap exists (in the horizontal and/or vertical sense) between pre- and post-SMARA mining, the reclamation plan shall call for reclamation proportional to that disturbance caused by the mining after the effective date of the SMARA.

4. Any area where surface mining operations have taken place subsequent to January 1, 1976, shall be subject to the requirements for reclamation, even if that area was originally disturbed prior to January 1, 1976.

5. An operator may request a determination of vested rights for a surface mining operation by submitting an application to the county on a form provided by the director. In addition to the information required by the application form, the application shall include the following information: 1. An aerial photograph of the site taken prior to January 1, 1976, if available, showing the area for which a vested rights determination is requested. 2. A site map showing the boundary line and acreage of the area for which vested rights are claimed. 3. Copies of any permits or other authorizations for the subject surface mining operation. 4. Other documentation to establish that the surface mining operations were diligently commenced and substantial liabilities for work and materials necessary therefore were incurred prior to January 1, 1976.

6. Vested rights shall be determined by the director based on information presented by the operator to substantiate the vested right. The director shall evaluate the information presented by the operator and shall inform the operator in writing of his or her determination. Such determination may occur in consultation with the planning commission. The decision of the director shall include an approved map or plan showing the extent of vested rights. No public notice is required for this determination.

   7. Prior to acknowledging a vested right, the director shall make the finding that the subject surface mining operation conforms to the standard for vested rights set forth in Public Resources Code Section 2776.

   8. The decision of the director shall be appealable to the planning commission. An appeal of the director’s decision shall be filed in the planning authority within 10 days of the date of the director’s determination. The decision of the planning commission shall be appealable to the board of supervisors. An appeal of the planning commission’s decision shall be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors. Appeals shall be filed within 10 calendar days of the dates of the respective decision. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

No person shall conduct a surface mining operation, or substantially change an existing or previously approved operation, or expand a surface mining operation beyond the boundaries of any area in which vested rights to mine exist, without first obtaining a conditional use permit from the county for such a surface mining operation. The reclamation plan required by SMARA and this chapter shall be included in each such use permit, and the right to conduct surface mining operations pursuant to the permit is contingent upon the prior filing with the county of adequate financial assurances to secure the completion of the reclamation plan. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.81.040 Reclamation Plan Standards

Each reclamation plan shall:

1. Include measures specified by the county to implement state policy on grading, backfilling, resoiling, revegetation, soil compaction, other reclamation requirements, and measures for soil erosion control, water quality and watershed control, waste disposal, and flood control;

2. Be applicable to a specific piece of property or properties, shall be based upon the character of the surrounding area and such characteristics of the property as type of overburden, soil stability, topography, geology, climate, stream characteristics, and principal mineral commodities, and shall establish site-specific criteria for evaluating compliance with the approved reclamation plan, including topography, revegetation, and sediment and erosion control;

3. Be subject to the reclamation performance standards in 14 CCR § 3700 through 3713. These standards shall apply to each mining operation, but only to the extent that they are consistent with the planned or actual subsequent use or uses of the mining site;

4. Include any additional performance standards developed either in review of individual projects, as warranted, or through the formulation and adoption of countywide performance standards. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The provisions of this chapter do not apply to any activities excepted from the application of SMARA pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 2714. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Areas of regional significance” and “areas of statewide significance,” as may be designated by the State Mining and Geology Board, and “state policy” and related regulations as may be adopted by the State Mining and Geology Board, shall be recognized in the administration of this chapter per provisions of the act. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Surface mining and related operations regulated by this chapter shall be subject to zoning regulations and other applicable provisions of law. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Application for a conditional use permit for surface mining and approval of a reclamation plan shall be submitted by, or with the written approval of, the landowner, on forms provided by the director. The reclamation plan shall constitute a part of the permit application, and shall include both operations and reclamation proposals. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The application shall include the following information and documents, except as may otherwise be determined by the TAC:

1. Names and addresses of the landowners, the holder of mineral rights, the operator, and any persons designated as their agents for the service or process;

2. A signed statement that the person submitting the application accepts responsibility for conducting the operations and reclaiming the mined lands in accordance with the permit and plan as approved, and that all owners of possessory interest in the land have been notified of the application and proposals therein. The statement shall also include: 1. The proposed dates for the initiation and termination of the mining operation; and

   2. The anticipated type and quantity of minerals to be mined, and the maximum depth of mining.

3. Site location, description, including maps, plans and descriptive statements to show: 1. Legal description of lands in application; and

4. A map showing boundaries, topographic details, and the general geology of the total area; detailed geology of the proposed surface mining area; location and identification of all streams, roads, railroads, utility facilities, and dwellings and other structures on or adjacent to the permit site; and names and addresses of owners of adjoining lands and of mineral rights thereon.

5. Operations plan, including maps, plans, and descriptive statements to show: 1. The type of mining to be employed, and a schedule showing locations and dates for the start and completion of mining on segments of the total mining area, and when reclamation may be anticipated to be started on each of such segments; and

6. A description of the proposed operation, including seasons, days and hours of operations; access and trucking route and the number and timing of daily truck trips; measures for control of noise, dust, erosion, flooding and water pollution, proposed fencing, screening, landscaping, etc.

7. Reclamation plan, to be a plan applicable to the particular property, and based upon the character of the surrounding area and on reclamation site characteristics such as type of overburden, soil stability, topography, geology, climate, stream characteristics, and principal mineral commodities. The plan shall include:

   1. A description of the manner in which reclamation, adequate for the proposed use or potential uses, will be accomplished, and including the manner in which contaminants will be controlled, and mining waste will be disposed of; the manner in which rehabilitation of affected stream channels and banks, and drainage ways, will be accomplished to minimize erosion and sedimentation; proposals for backfilling, grading, bank sloping, resoiling, revegetation, soil compaction and stabilization, and other reclamation measures; and

including the manner in which contaminants will be controlled, and mining waste will be disposed of; the manner in which rehabilitation of affected stream channels and banks, and drainage ways, will be accomplished to minimize erosion and sedimentation; proposals for backfilling, grading, bank sloping, resoiling, revegetation, soil compaction and stabilization, and other reclamation measures; and

2. A description of the proposed use or potential uses of the land after reclamation, and an assessment of the effect of the reclamation plan on future mining in the area; 3. Other information which the commission may find necessary in particular cases including the amount and type of financial assurances proposed; 4. A statement that the person submitting the plan accepts responsibility for reclaiming the mined lands in accordance with the reclamation plan. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.81.100 Filing Of Application 1. When all required information related to the application has been submitted to the director together with the fees as adopted by the board of supervisors and checked and found acceptable, the director shall accept the application as being properly filed. 2. The director shall then notify the Department of Conservation of the filing, and shall furnish the department with copies of the application, plan and other related documents, and the director may request that the department furnish technical assistance in its review of the reclamation plan. 3. The fees required for determinations under this chapter shall be as adopted by the board of supervisors in the county book of administrative policies and procedures. 4. Whenever surface mining operations are proposed in the one-hundred-year floodplain for any stream, as shown in Zone A of the Flood Insurance Rate Maps issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and within one mile, upstream or downstream, of any state highway bridge, the planning authority upon receiving the application for the issuance or renewal of a permit to conduct the surface mining operations shall notify the Department of Transportation that the application has been received. The Department of Transportation shall have a period of not more than forty-five days to review and comment on the proposed surface mining operations with respect to any potential damage to the state highway bridge from the proposed surface mining operations. The planning commission shall not issue or renew the permit until the Department of Transportation has submitted its comments or until forty-five days from the date the application for the permit was submitted, whichever occurs first. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.81.110 Public Hearing And Notice 1. The application for the conditional use permit shall be processed and approved, conditionally approved, or denied according to the processes prescribed in Chapter 15.22, Conditional Use Permit, of this code. 2. The decision on a conditional use permit may be appealed according to the process prescribed in Chapter 15.050, Appeals, of this code. 3. Prior to approving a reclamation plan, the approving body shall find that: 1. The project has been reviewed pursuant to CEQA and the county’s environmental review guidelines, all adverse impacts related to the reclamation plan have been mitigated by the plan or the recommended conditions of approval, and the appropriate environmental determination has been adopted; 2. The reclamation plan complies with the requirements of SMARA, specifically Public Resources Code Sections 2772 and 2773, and the Reclamation Standards specified in California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Division 2, Chapter 8, Subchapter 1, Article 9, Sections 3700 through 3713;

plan or the recommended conditions of approval, and the appropriate environmental determination has been adopted; 2. The reclamation plan complies with the requirements of SMARA, specifically Public Resources Code Sections 2772 and 2773, and the Reclamation Standards specified in California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Division 2, Chapter 8, Subchapter 1, Article 9, Sections 3700 through 3713;

  3. The reclamation plan has been forwarded to the Department of Conservation pursuant to Section 15.81.180; 

4. The reclamation plan complies with the purpose, intent, and requirements of Chapter 15.81, Surface Mining and Reclamation, of the Glenn County Code; 5. The proposed goal of reclamation is consistent with the general plan policies and the zone district for the area. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.81.120 Appeal Of Planning Commission Action 1. Any aggrieved person or entity adversely affected by a formal action under the “Surface Mining and Reclamation Act” (SMARA) of the Glenn County Planning Commission, may appeal such action by filing a written notice thereof with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors within ten (10) calendar days after the action of the Planning Commission.

2. Within thirty calendar days from the date of filing the appeal, the Clerk of the Board shall schedule the date for the hearing. 3. The hearing shall be held within sixty calendar days from the date of filing the appeal. Notice of hearing shall be given as required by the California Government Code. The Board of Supervisors may continue such hearing for one additional meeting, to be held within thirty days, any further continuances shall be with the consent of the appellant.

3. The Board of Supervisors shall hear the matter de novo (a new hearing): 1. The written documents relied on by the Planning Commission to take the action and the minutes of the hearing(s) before the Planning Commission shall be a part of the Board’s record at the appeal hearing on the matter.

4. As part of the hearing do novo the Board shall hear such additional relevant evidence as may be offered.

   5. Appeal Hearing – Procedure and Order of Presentation

      1. Staff Reports(s)

      2. Open the Public Hearing on the matter.

         1. Appellant’s Presentation.

         2. Respondent’s Presentation.

5. Additional Public Testimony in favor of the appeal. 4. Additional Public Testimony opposed to the appeal.

6. Respondent’s Rebuttal (if any).

7. Appellant’s Rebuttal (if any).

     7. Close the Public Hearing. 
   

   3. Discussion of the matter by the Board of Supervisors.

   4. Decision of the Board of Supervisors. Affirm, reverse or modify, in whole of in part, the order, requirement, decision, recommendation, interpretation, or ruling of the Planning Commission appealed from, or make and substitute such other or additional decision(s) or determination(s) as it may find warranted under the laws and facts as follows:

8. Ask the staff to prepare written finding for the Board to adopt at the next regularly scheduled Board meeting setting forth the reasons for their decision sustaining, reversing or modifying the decision for the Planning Commission; or

9. May adopt a motion as a result of the hearing which is recorded in the minutes and may incorporate by reference all or part of the proposed findings in the staff report which the Board relied on to reach their decision; and the Clerk of the Board shall transmit a copy of the decision to the appellant and the applicant, if different than the appellant. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.81.130 Appeal From Action Of The Board Of Supervisors Within ten days of the board of supervisors actions on an appeal related to a site in an area of statewide or regional significance, an aggrieved person may file a written appeal with the State Mining and Geology Board, as provided in the act. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.81.140 Minor Modifications To Reclamation Plans 1. Minor modifications to reclamation plans may be approved by the director without public notice or consultation with the Department of Conservation. A minor modification to a reclamation plan may be approved only if it meets the following standards:

  1. To allow the minor recontouring of final topography effecting no more than ten percent of the site, provided that slope stability is maintained and substantiated; 

  2. To allow minor modification or addition of site access including new on-site roads and encroachments directly from the site to a public road, but not including new off-site roads; 3. To allow a minor substitution in the reclamation plan such as a substitution in the type and/or number of plant species, minor change in topsoil treatment, etc., provided it does not substantially alter the intended end-use described in the approved reclamation plan; 

  4. To allow minor technological or administrative changes in methods used to achieve reclamation; 

  5. To allow measures to be taken which will ensure or maintain public safety (e.g. fences, gates, signs, or hazard removal), provided such measures do not substantially alter the intended enduse described in the approved reclamation plan; 

  6. To allow minor modifications to a previously approved phasing plan; 

  7. To allow compliance with the requirements of other public agencies, provided the requirements are not inconsistent with the approved conditional use permit; 8. A minor modification shall not include changing the end use of the land. 

2. Applications for a minor modification shall be made on a checklist form provided by and filed with the planning authority.

3. Prior to approval of a minor modification, the director shall make the following written findings which shall include the reasons for the findings: 1. The minor modification is consistent with the approved conditional use permit and does not represent a significant change to the approved reclamation plan for the subject surface mining operations.

4. The minor modification is not subject to CEQA.

5. The director shall approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove an application for a minor modification within 45 days of accepting the application as complete, and give notice by mail of the decision, including any conditions of approval, to the applicant.

6. The decision of the director regarding a minor modification of a conditional use permit shall be appealable to the planning commission within 5 calendar days of said decision. The decision of the planning commission regarding the appeal shall be appealable to the board of supervisors within 5 calendar days of said decision.

7. Within 30 days of final action, the director shall send a copy of an approved minor modification to the Department of Conservation. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.81.150 Idle Mines

1. Within 90 days of a surface mining operation becoming idle, the operator shall submit to the department of planning authority for review and approval, an interim management plan. The review and approval of an interim management plan shall not be considered a project within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act.

2. The approved interim management plan shall be considered an amendment to the surface mining operation’s approved reclamation plan, for purposes of this chapter. The interim management plan shall provide measures the operator will implement to maintain the site in compliance with this chapter, including, but not limited to, all permit conditions.

3. Prior to county approval, interim management plans shall be submitted for review to the Department of Conservation for a 45-day review period.

4. The director may approve an interim management plan without a public notice or public hearing if the director determines that the interim management plan does not require significant changes to the reclamation plan. The decision of the director shall be appealable to the planning commission within five calendar days of the decision. The decision of the planning commission shall be appealable to the board of supervisors within five calendar days of the decision.

5. The interim management plan may remain in effect for a period not to exceed five years, at which time the director shall do one of the following:

6. Renew the interim management plan for another period not to exceed five years, if the director finds that the surface mining operator has complied fully with the interim management plan; 2. Require the surface mining operator to commence reclamation in accordance with its approved reclamation plan.

7. In any event, financial assurances required shall remain in effect during the period the surface mining operation is idle. If the surface mining operation is still idle after expiration of its interim management plan, the surface mining operation shall commence reclamation in accordance with its approved reclamation plan.

8. Within 60 days of the receipt of the interim management plan or a longer period mutually agreed upon by the county and the operator, the county shall review and approve the plan in accordance with this chapter and so notify the operator in writing of any deficiencies in the plan. The operator shall have thirty days, or a longer period mutually agreed upon by the operator and the county, to submit a revised plan. The operator shall have 30 days, or a longer period mutually agreed upon by the operator and the county, to submit a revised plan.

9. The director shall approve or deny approval of the revised interim management plan within 60 days of receipt. If the director denies approval of the revised interim management plan, the operator may appeal the action to the planning commission which shall schedule a public hearing to be held within 45 days of the filing of the appeal or any longer period mutually agreed upon by the operator and the planning commission. The action of the planning commission may be appealed to the board of supervisors within 10 days of said action.

10. Unless review of an interim management plan is pending before the director, or an appeal is pending before the planning commission, a surface mining operation which remains idle for over one year after becoming idle as defined in this chapter without obtaining approval of an interim management plan shall be considered abandoned and the operator shall commence and complete reclamation in accordance with the approved reclamation plan. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.81.160 Financial Assurances

1. Financial assurances are required to secure performance of the reclamation plan approved for each surface mining operation to which this chapter applies and shall be sufficient to perform reclamation of lands remaining disturbed. Financial assurances determined to substantially meet these requirements shall be approved by the county for purposes of this chapter. Except as specified in Public Resources Code Section 2770(e) or (i), unless the operator has filed on or before January 1, 1994, an appeal pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 2770(e) with regard to non-approval of financial assurances, and that appeal is pending before the State Mining and Geology Board, the continuation of the surface mining operation is prohibited until financial assurances for reclamation are approved by the county.

2. The county shall require financial assurances of each surface mining operation to ensure reclamation is performed in accordance with the surface mining operation’s approved reclamation plan, as follows: 1. Financial assurances may take the form of surety bonds, irrevocable letters of credit, trust funds, or other forms of financial assurances specified by the State Mining and Geology Board pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 2773.1(e), which the county reasonably determines are adequate to perform reclamation in accordance with the surface mining operation’s approved reclamation plan.

   2. The financial assurances shall remain in effect for the duration of the surface mining operation and any additional period until reclamation is completed.

3. The amount of financial assurances required of a surface mining operation for any one year shall be adjusted annually to account for new lands disturbed by surface mining operations, inflation, and reclamation of lands accomplished in accordance with the approved reclamation plan.

   4. The financial assurances shall be made payable to the county and the Department of Conservation. Financial assurances that were approved by the county prior to January 1, 1993, and were made payable to the State Geologist shall be considered payable to the Department of Conservation for purposes of this chapter. However, if a surface mining operation has received approval of its financial assurances from a public agency other than the county, the county shall deem those financial assurances adequate for purposes of this section, or shall credit them toward fulfillment of the financial assurances required by this section, if they are made payable to the public agency, the county, and the Department of Conservation and otherwise meet the requirements of this section. In any event, if the county and one or more public agencies exercise jurisdiction over a surface mining operation, the total amount of financial assurances required by the county and the public agencies for any one year shall not exceed that amount which is necessary to perform reclamation of lands remaining disturbed. For purposes of this paragraph, a “public agency” may include a federal agency.

   5. Estimates for financial assurances shall include descriptions of the tasks to be performed, identification of equipment, labor and materials requirements, definition of units costs, total cost per task, total direct cost of reclamation, and administrative costs including costs of supervision, profit and overhead, contingencies and mobilization. Additional required information may include a site plan showing the present limits of the disturbed area to be reclaimed, and other information necessary to verify the estimate. In projecting the costs of financial assurances, it shall be assumed without prejudice or insinuation that the surface mining operation could be abandoned by the operator and, consequently, that the county or state may need to contract with a third-party commercial company for reclamation of the site.

   6. Financial assurances determined not to substantially meet the requirements of Public Resources Code Section 2773.1 shall be returned to the operator within 60 days. The operator has 60 days to revise the financial assurances to address identified deficiencies, at which time the revised financial assurances shall be returned to the county for review and approval.

   7. Prior to county approval, financial assurances shall be forwarded to the Department of Conservation pursuant to Section 15.81.180.

4. The decision to approve financial assurance estimates and mechanisms shall be made by the director. The financial assurance estimates shall be based on an approved reclamation plan. No public notice or public hearing is required. The decision to approve financial assurance estimates and mechanisms is not subject to CEQA. The director’s decision is appealable to the Planning Commission within 10 calendar days of the decision. The decision of the planning commission is appealable to the Board of Supervisors within 10 calendar days of the decision.

   6. Financial assurances shall no longer be required of a surface mining operation, and shall be released, upon written notification by the county, which shall be forwarded to the operator and the Director of the Department of Conservation, that reclamation has been completed in accordance with the approved reclamation plan. If a mining operation is sold or ownership is transferred to another person, the existing financial assurances shall remain in force and shall not be released by the county until new financial assurances are secured from the new owner and have been approved by the county in accordance with Section 2770.

   7. If the county, following a public hearing, determines that the operator is financially incapable of performing reclamation in accordance with its approved reclamation plan, or has abandoned its surface mining operation without commencing reclamation, the director shall do all of the following:

      1. Notify the operator by personal service or certified mail that the county intends to take appropriate action to forfeit the financial assurances and specify the reasons for so doing. 2. Allow the operator 60 days to commence or cause the commencement of reclamation in accordance with its approved reclamation plan and require that reclamation be completed within the time limits specified in the approved reclamation plan or some other time period mutually agreed upon by the county and the operator.

      2. Proceed to take appropriate action to require forfeiture of the financial assurances if the operator does not substantially comply with paragraph 2, above.

      3. Use the proceeds from the forfeited financial assurances to conduct and complete reclamation in accordance with the approved reclamation plan. In no event shall the financial assurances be used for any other purpose. The operator is responsible for the costs of conducting and completing reclamation in accordance with the approved reclamation plan which are in excess of the proceeds from the forfeited financial assurances. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• 15.81.170 Annual Reports And Inspection 1. As a condition of approval of the permit and reclamation plan, a schedule for annual inspections of the site shall be established to evaluate continuing compliance with the permit and reclamation plan.

• 2. The planning authority shall conduct an inspection of a surface mining operation within six months of receipt by the planning authority of the surface mining operation’s report submitted pursuant to this chapter, solely to determine whether the surface mining operation is in compliance with this chapter. In no event shall the planning authority inspect a surface mining operation less than once in any calendar year.
• 3. All inspections shall be conducted using a form developed by the Department of Conservation and approved by the State Mining and Geology Board. The operator shall be solely responsible for the reasonable cost of the inspection.
• 4. The planning authority shall notify the Department of Conservation within thirty days of completion of the inspection that the inspection has been conducted. The notice shall contain a statement regarding the surface mine’s compliance with this chapter, shall include a copy of the completed inspection form, and shall specify which aspects of the surface mining operation, if any, are inconsistent with this chapter.
• 5. If the surface mining operation has an appeal pending in the case of a surface mining operator with vested rights, a review of existing financial assurances pending, or an appeal pending, the notice shall so indicate.
• 6. The planning authority shall forward to the operator a copy of the notice and any supporting documentation, including, without limitation, any inspection report prepared by the geologist, civil engineer, landscape architect, or forester. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• 15.81.180 State Review

  1. Prior to approving a surface mining operation’s use permits, financial assurances, including existing financial assurances reviewed by the county pursuant to subdivision (C) of Public Resources Code Section 2770, the county shall submit the plan, assurances, or amendments to the Director of the Department of Conservation for review.

  2. The Director of the Department of Conservation shall have 30 days to prepare written comments for use permits and amendments and 45 days for review of financial assurances and amendments, if the Director of the Department of Conservation so chooses. The county shall evaluate written comments received from the Director of the Department of Conservation during the comment period. The county shall prepare a written response describing the disposition of the major issues raised. In particular, when the county’s position is at variance with the recommendations and objections raised in the Director of the Department of Conservation’s comments, the written response shall address, in detail, why specific comments and suggestions were not accepted. Copies of any written comments received and responses prepared by the county shall be forwarded to the operator.

r issues raised. In particular, when the county’s position is at variance with the recommendations and objections raised in the Director of the Department of Conservation’s comments, the written response shall address, in detail, why specific comments and suggestions were not accepted. Copies of any written comments received and responses prepared by the county shall be forwarded to the operator.

3. The county shall notify the Director of the Department of Conservation of the filing of an application for a permit to conduct surface mining operations within 30 days of such an application being filed with the county. By July 1 of each year, the county shall submit to the Director of the Department of Conservation for each active or idle mining operation a copy of any permit or reclamation plan amendments, as applicable, or a statement that there have been no changes during the previous year. Failure to file with the Director of the Department of Conservation the information required under this section shall be cause for action under Public Resources Code Section 2774.4.

4. Whenever a permit application proposes surface mining operations in the 100-year flood plain for any stream, as shown in Zone A of Flood Insurance Rate Maps issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and within one mile, upstream or downstream, of any state highway bridge, the county shall notify the Department of Transportation that the application has been received. The Department of Transportation shall have a period of not more that 45 days to review and comment on the proposed surface mining operations with respect to any potential damage to the state highway bridge from the proposed surface mining operations. The county shall not issue or renew the permit until the Department of Transportation has submitted its comments or until 45 days from the date the application for the permit was submitted, whichever occurs first. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.81.190 Transferability 1. Whenever one operator succeeds to the interest of another in any uncompleted surface mining operation by sale, assignment, transfer, conveyance, exchange, or other means, the successor shall be bound by the provisions of the approved reclamation plan and the provisions of this chapter. 2. Financial assurances provided by the operator’s successor to the county and the Department of Conservation shall have been approved, and the financial assurance mechanism shall be in place prior to the continuation of surface mining operations. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.81.200 Permit Revocation Following a hearing held pursuant to Chapter 15.04, the commission may revoke a permit on a finding of noncompliance with any term or condition of the permit, this chapter or SMARA. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.82 Vendor Permits 15.82.010 Application For A Vendor's Permit 15.82.020 Standards For Vendor Permits 15.82.030 Where Allowed 15.82.010 Application For A Vendor's Permit

1.200 Permit Revocation Following a hearing held pursuant to Chapter 15.04, the commission may revoke a permit on a finding of noncompliance with any term or condition of the permit, this chapter or SMARA. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.82 Vendor Permits 15.82.010 Application For A Vendor's Permit 15.82.020 Standards For Vendor Permits 15.82.030 Where Allowed 15.82.010 Application For A Vendor's Permit

1. Whenever one operator succeeds to the interest of another in any uncompleted surface mining operation by sale, assignment, transfer, conveyance, exchange, or other means, the successor shall be bound by the provisions of the approved reclamation plan and the provisions of this chapter.

2. Applications for a vendor’s permit shall be accompanied by photos or renderings of sales structures to be used, and shall be submitted to the planning authority.

3. The application shall specify all locations where sales are proposed.

4. The application shall be accompanied by an itinerant business permit, if applicable, for proposed use issued by the County.

5. An application involving the sale of any prepared food, seafood, snack bars, pre-packaged food, approved unpacked food, or similar food item for retail sale, or distribution at no cost, shall be accompanied by a food service or food facility permit issued by the Glenn County Health Department pursuant to the requirements of the California Retail Food Facilities Law.

6. Vendor permits may be issued for the retail sale of items such as flowers, balloons, souvenirs, news publications, and food items such as hot dogs, sandwiches, candy, ice cream and similar items. 6. The vendor shall post the permit in a conspicuous space for the immediate inspection by the Sheriff or other officer of the county. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.82.020 Standards For Vendor Permits

1. Only one (1) vendor permit may be permitted per lot.

2. Hours of operation shall be limited to the hours between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. daily.

3. Only two (2) carts, push carts, stands, trailers, kiosks or similar sales structures not exceeding one hundred sixty (160) square feet in area shall be used in conjunction with a vendor’s permit. 4. A vendor’s permit shall only be valid for sixty (60) days. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.82.030 Where Allowed

Vendor permits shall only be granted for the Commercial, Industrial, Service Commercial, Local Commercial, Highway Commercial, Planned Development Commercial and Planned Development Residential Zoning Districts. No vendor permits shall be required for nonprofit organizations or for sales of produce. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.83 Well, Class II Injection 15.83.010 Purpose And Findings 15.83.020 Conditional Use Permit 15.83.030 Permit Requirement Of Applicant 15.83.040 Permit Term 15.83.050 Fees 15.83.060 Conditions Of Permit 15.83.070 Suspension Of Permit

The board of supervisors finds that the protection of surface and subsurface water within the county is of major concern to the citizens of the county for the protection of their health, welfare and safety. Injecting produced saltwater into deep injection zones poses the possibility of affecting water quality in overlying aquifers in the affected hydrogeological basin. The board further finds that the following standards are necessary for the protection of the waters within the county. It is the purpose of this chapter to develop regulations to establish a land use permitting process for the operation of Class II injection wells and to enable the county to administer an inspection and monitoring program of injected produced salt water. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

A conditional use permit shall be required prior to construction of any aboveground facilities at a site intended for use as a Class II injection well. The conditional use permit may be granted if the project complies with all provisions of this chapter. The conditional use permit will authorize construction of aboveground facilities and injection of produced salt water in compliance with county, state and federal laws. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• 15.83.030 Permit Requirement Of Applicant 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any injection well within the county of Glenn except as provided in this chapter. 2. No Class II injection well in the county of Glenn may commence operation after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter without first complying with the following minimum requirements: 1. The applicant shall fully comply with all of the requirements of CEQA; 2. The applicant shall provide the planning authority with proof of fiscal responsibility either by establishing a net worth of more than two hundred fifty million dollars or by filing a certificate of insurance in the amount of one million dollars. Said insurance coverage shall be maintained for the term of the permit;

• 3. The applicant shall provide the planning authority with a copy of any and all permits which authorize injection of produced salt water from all authorities having jurisdiction including the State of California, Department of Conservation, Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR);
• 4. If the permit is for the drilling of a new Class II injection well or the conversion of an existing well to a Class II injection well, tests which may be required by the DOGGR to demonstrate the integrity of the well including, but not limited to, spinner surveys and injectivity tests shall be performed by the applicant and at applicant’s expense. The testing program shall be in accordance with requirements of the DOGGR to ensure that the injected produced salt water is confined to the intended zone or zones and that underground sources of drinking water are not being endangered;
• 5. The results of the tests shall be submitted by the applicant to the planning authority for review prior to the commencement of long term injection. Long term injection operations under the permit shall not commence until approval for injection is obtained, in writing, from the DOGGR assuring the integrity of the Class II injection well;
• 6. The planning authority shall be provided with the opportunity and access to witness all such testing; 7. The applicant shall submit to the planning authority the name and address of the companies that will be hauling or trucking the produced salt water. No other haulers may be used; 8. Any Class II injection well permitted for operation by the DOGGR on the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, although such operation does not conform to the provisions thereof, may be continued; provided, however, that such Class II injection wells may be operated for a period not longer than five years from the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter unless compliance with this chapter is obtained. If any such Class II injection well is idle, as defined by the DOGGR, for a period of two years, subsequent use of the Class II injection well shall be brought into conformity with the provisions of this chapter. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.83.040 Permit Term The term of any use permit granted under the provisions of this chapter shall not exceed five years. The use permit may be extended by the planning commission upon written request for such extension at least sixty days prior to the expiration date of the use permit. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.83.050 Fees

In order to enforce the provisions of this chapter, the board of supervisors authorizes the following fee schedule:

1. The applicant shall be responsible for any and all costs which may be incurred by the county as a result of the inspection and monitoring program; 2. The applicant shall pay a five hundred dollar annual administrative permit fee to the planning authority for each Class II injection well permitted hereunder; 3. The applicant shall also be required to maintain a two thousand dollar deposit per Class II injection well with the planning authority to pay for additional inspection and monitoring which may be required by the county. At the direction of the planning authority, the applicant shall tender such additional monies as may be necessary to maintain a balance of not less than five hundred dollars on deposit. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

required to maintain a two thousand dollar deposit per Class II injection well with the planning authority to pay for additional inspection and monitoring which may be required by the county. At the direction of the planning authority, the applicant shall tender such additional monies as may be necessary to maintain a balance of not less than five hundred dollars on deposit. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.83.060 Conditions Of Permit The planning commission shall impose such of the following conditions on the conditional use permit as it deems necessary for the protection of the environment and the health, safety and welfare of the people of the county: 1. The Class II injection well and the site shall be used solely for injection and holding of produced salt water, condensate holding tanks and necessary additives. Injection or dumping into the Class II injection well or holding at the site of any other substance, waste or chemical is strictly prohibited. 2. Hauling of produced salt water shall be conducted during six a.m. to nine p.m. except under emergency situations. The applicant shall notify the planning authority in writing within five calendar days after beginning any emergency hauling. 3. The applicant shall submit reports (DOG Form 110B) to the planning authority at a frequency not to exceed monthly. A report shall also be submitted providing the following information: 1. Hauling company 2. Destination 3. Origin of the produced salt water 4. Composition of the produced salt water 4. Injection may occur twenty-four hours a day. Injection operations shall be conducted through a tamper-proof pressure recorder or similar metering device approved by the planning authority. Reports from said recorder or similar metering device shall be submitted to the planning authority at a frequency not to exceed monthly. 5. Annual mechanical integrity tests and any and all tests required by the CDOG necessary to maintain the integrity of the Class II injection well shall be conducted at applicant’s expense and the planning authority shall be provided with the opportunity and access to witness all such tests. The testing program is to be performed in accordance with the requirements of the CDOG. Tests results shall be submitted by the applicant to the planning authority. 6. The planning authority may at any time require the extraction of representative samples of injected produced salt water for testing from the storage tanks, the well and/or lines upstream from the injection pumps and downstream of the filters. These samples shall be analyzed by a state-certified laboratory at the expense of the applicant. Produced salt water may be sampled and analyzed at a frequency not to exceed quarterly to yield data representative of the characteristics of the injected produced salt water. 7. The planning authority or a designated representative thereof shall be granted twenty-four hour access to all Class II injection well sites. Said access shall be accompanied by the applicant’s employee or designated representative with at least four hours advance notice. 8. Any costs to the county which result from the inspection and monitoring programs required in this section shall be home by the county through fees collected from the applicant, as described in Section 15.83.050. 9. Only Class II injection wells may be permitted under this chapter. 10. Under emergency conditions, an exception to this chapter may be granted by the director at the request of the applicant. Such request shall be submitted in writing with detailed justification. Such exception shall not exceed one hundred twenty days. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.83.070 Suspension Of Permit If any condition(s) of this chapter or of the use permit has not been complied with, the county shall have the authority to suspend the permit and all conditions of operation until such time as the applicant provides evidence that the conditions are being met. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.83.080 Liability And Mitigation

eed one hundred twenty days. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.83.070 Suspension Of Permit If any condition(s) of this chapter or of the use permit has not been complied with, the county shall have the authority to suspend the permit and all conditions of operation until such time as the applicant provides evidence that the conditions are being met. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.83.080 Liability And Mitigation

The permittee and property owner are legally liable for all environmental damage, including but not limited to health hazards, resulting from the construction, operation, use and maintenance of any Class II injection well and related facilities. If such damage occurs, the county, in addition to pursuing all other remedies available to it, may summarily require the permittee and property owner to develop and implement with due diligence a mitigation plan, including requirements of state and federal agencies, to remedy all of such damage. Implementation of the plan will be required regardless of whether the county also revokes the permit. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.84 Wells, Natural Gas

15.84.010 Standards

15.84.010 Standards

Administrative permits may be approved and issued for the drilling of natural gas wells provided the following standards are being met:

1. The proposed location of the gas well is at least five hundred feet from the nearest residential dwelling unit;

2. The proposed location of the gas well is at least one hundred twenty feet from a county road right-of-way;

3. That if the proposed location of the gas well is within a flood hazard area as designated on the flood hazard maps of Glenn County, or within a designated floodway or special floodplain combining zone, the rules, regulations and restrictions of the zones shall be conditions of approval;

4. The fire protection regulations of the affected fire district shall be complied with;

5. The drilling mud shall be disposed of at an approved disposal site;

6. The necessary permits shall be secured from all affected federal, state and local agencies;

7. That the applicant shall enter into a road maintenance agreement with the Glenn county road department;

8. Conversion of this gas well to an injection well may be permitted with a conditional use permit.

9. Installation of a gas well compressor shall require an additional administrative permit approved by the director in the agricultural zones and a conditional use permit approved by the planning commission in the residential zones. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.85 Wireless Communication Facilities, Collocation Of 15.85.010 Standards

Collocation of wireless communication facilities shall only require a building permit and not a conditional use permit or amendment of an existing conditional use permit when the project fulfills the following requirements:

1. The original wireless communication facilities for which the collocation is proposed has received an approved conditional use permit and an environmental document was adopted (EIR, negative declaration or mitigated negative declaration).

2. The collocation facilities are required to be located on or within 10 feet of the original facilities but not outside the existing compound area. In the event that the compound area must be enlarged, a Site Plan Review shall be required for the proposed collocation.

3. The collocation facilities shall not extend the height of the existing pole structure or exceed the height of the existing tower or pole structure.

4. The collocation facilities shall be enclosed within a six-foot high fence.

5. The ground equipment shall not exceed the height of existing structures or the height prescribed by the existing permit.

6. The collocation antennas and/or dishes shall not exceed the girth of the original wireless equipment.

7. The total area of the collocation equipment and the original wireless facilities shall not exceed the maximum lot coverage of the individual zoning classification.

8. The collocation facilities shall meet the setback requirements of the individual zoning classification.

9. The collocation facilities shall be subject to the mitigation measures and conditions of approval for the original wireless communication facilities. (Org. 1200 § 3, 2008)

This purpose of this chapter is to facilitate the construction, installation and operation of power generation facilities in Glenn County in conformance with Section 15.01.020 of this Title. (Ord. 1256 § 2, 2016) 15.86.020 Definitions

As used in this Chapter:

1. “Practicable” shall mean available and capable of being done after taking into consideration cost, existing technology, and logistics in light of the overall project purposes. 2. “Uses Allowed” means one of the following:

   1. Accessory Use – a power generation facility designed to serve on-site needs or a use that is related to the Primary Use of the property.

   2. Direct Use – a power generation facility designed and installed to provide on-site energy demand for any legally established use of the property.

   3. Primary Use – a power generation facility that uses over 50% of a lot and is devoted to power generation for offsite use.

   4. Secondary Use – a power generation facility that is not the Primary Use of the property and occupies less than 50% of the lot area. This type of use would be considered conjunctive. (Ord. 1256 § 2, 2016)

The following standards have been established to facilitate the location of power generation facilities delineating the permitting necessary for each different class identified. All other standards set forth by this Title remain applicable.

1. Permits Required The table below shows the permit required for the different types of power generation facilities allowed under this Chapter. This table should be used in conjunction with the subparagraphs that follow in this section to identify permitting requirements. In all cases, there may be additional permits required by other governmental agencies other than the County and it is the permit applicant’s responsibility to comply with said permits. Evidence of compliance may be required for permit issuance.

2. Permitted Uses (P) Direct Use power generation facilities may require the application for a Site Plan review depending on the requirements of the individual zoning district. Also, ground mounted facilities are subject to the lot coverage standards of each zoning district which may not allow for ½ an acre of lot coverage. Facilities that generate noise, dust, heat, or glare may not meet established performance standards which will require an applicant to secure a conditional use permit.

3. Administrative Permit (ADM) See Chapter 15.18

4. Site Plan Review (SPR) See Chapter 15.13.

5. Conditional Use Permit (CUP) Secondary Use and Primary Use power generation facilities shall require an applicant to first secure a conditional use permit in accordance with Chapter 15.220 and the applicable zoning district. Issuance of said permit is subject to the following:

   1. Secondary Uses on Agriculture (AE and FA) zoning districts and Williamson Act contracted land shall be subject to California Government Code, Section 51238.1.

   2. Proposed power generation projects in Agriculture zoning districts and Williamson Act contracted lands, as defined in Section 15.86.030(A), shall be subject to the following requirements:

6. Land designated as Prime Farmland, Farmland of Statewide Importance and Unique Farmland under the most recent California Department of Conservation, Division of Land Resource Protection, Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program (FMMP) shall be avoided. When a proposed power generation use includes these lands as designated under the FMMP in Agriculture zoning districts or Williamson Act contracted lands specified under Section 15.86.030(A), mitigation shall be required to secure replacement land of equal or greater farming potential at a ratio of 1:1. Said mitigation may be accomplished on the same lot.

   2. Proposals for Secondary Use facility shall clearly demonstrate that the power generation use is subordinate to, practicable, and compatible with the primary agricultural use.

   3. Williamson Act contracted lands may qualify for placement into a solar-use easement pursuant to California Government Code Section 51190 et seq. Any land owner who desires to take such action shall also secure a conditional use permit in addition to all other required procedures and permits.

7. Not Permitted (NP) Zoning districts where power generation activities of any level of the uses allowed where such activities are not compatible, are prohibited by law, impracticable, or are detrimental to uses permitted under a particular zoning district are not permitted. There are no conditions under which a power generation facility is allowed.

8. General Requirements

   1. All power generation uses shall be subject to the requirements of the zoning district in which they are located.

   2. All power generation uses allowed in an Agriculture or Williamson Act zoning district, as defined by Section 15.86.030(A), shall comply with Chapter 15.58 of this Title.

   3. For all off-site facilities where a power generation use is located on more than one Lot, there shall be a proper easement agreement or other approved method for notification of all impacted parties.

   4. When a power generation use will be located near a residence on an adjacent Lot, one of the following measures shall be used to preserve site aesthetics:

      1. A setback of at least 60 feet shall be required for solar panels, 150 feet for enclosed buildings, and 200 feet for wind turbines.

      2. Visual screening shall be installed for any power generation use located on or mounted to the ground to the maximum extent practicable. In all respects, the power generation use shall meet the requirements of Chapter 15.56 of this Title. Vegetative screens shall employ native species which are resistant to drought. (Ord. 1256 § 2, 2016)