Glenn County Municipal Code § 15.35 RE - Rural Residential Estate Zone

• 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

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)

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;

5. Government buildings and properties;

6. 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. Planned mobilehome parks;

10. Natural gas wells;

11. 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)