Humboldt County Municipal Code § 7.6 Tl: Tribal Lands

The Tribal Lands or TL Zone is intended to implement the Tribal Lands (TL) and the Tribal Trust Lands (TTL) Land Use Designations contained in General Plan Land Use Element Section 4.8, Land Use Designations. The TL Zone is intended to be applied to land planned as Tribal Trust Land (TTL) or land located on Native American reservations and rancherias that is not zoned TPZ and is identified as Tribal Lands (TL) on the General Plan Land Use Map.

in trust by the Federal government for a tribe or its members, or owned in fee by the tribe or by members of the tribe.

the boundaries of a rancheria or reservation, except land owned in fee by nontribal members within the boundaries of the Hoopa Reservation.

additional information to allow the County to determine if the County has land use jurisdiction.

(1) notify the tribal government of the application, (2) determine if the tribal government has an adopted land use plan, and (3) the County shall refer the project to and engage with the tribal government for comment prior to approval.

If the tribal government has an adopted land use plan, this plan shall

be used by the County as policy guidance for all land use and permit approvals.

For land use and

permit approvals on land zoned TL within or adjacent to urbanized areas, the permitted and conditionally permitted use and minimum yard setbacks and ground coverage, maximum structure height, and permitted main building types shall be those specified for Rural Residential Agriculture Zone (minimum lot size less than two and one-half (2-1/2) acres) in Section 314-6.6.

For land use and

permit approvals on land zoned TL outside and not adjacent to urbanized areas, the permitted and conditionally permitted use and minimum yard setbacks and ground coverage, maximum structure height, and permitted main building types shall be those specified for Rural Residential Agriculture Zone (minimum lot size two and one-half (2-1/2) acres or greater) in Section 314-6.6.

density of maximum residential density of forty (40) acres per dwelling unit.

all subdivisions of land zoned TL. (Ord. 2629, § 5, 6/11/2019; Ord. 2635, §§ 2, 3, 5, 8/27/2019; Ord. 2678, § 5, 7/13/2021; Ord. 2703, § 3, 11/29/2022; Ord. 2781, § 3, 1/13/2026) 314-8 Unclassified Zone Regulations