Inglewood Municipal Code § 12-6 Minimum Dwelling Unit Requirements

(a) Every dwelling unit shall contain permanent kitchen facilities. A kitchen shall be a room, or a portion of a room, in which there is a sink, a refrigerator and one or more appliances for heating food.

(b) Every single apartment unit (with kitchen but without a separate bedroom) shall contain not less than five hundred square feet of floor area.

(c) Every dwelling unit, except single apartments, shall contain not less than seven hundred square feet of floor area plus an additional one hundred fifty square feet of floor area for each room in excess of one kitchen, one or more bathrooms, one living room, one bedroom, one laundry room, and any number of windowless closets.

(d) No condominium dwelling unit shall contain less than seven hundred square feet of floor area and less than one separate bedroom.

(e) One bedroom per each dwelling unit shall contain not less than one hundred twenty square feet of floor area (not including closets) with a minimum horizontal dimension of ten feet, and any additional bedrooms in a dwelling unit shall contain not less than one hundred square feet of floor area (not including closets) with a minimum horizontal dimension of ten feet.

(f) Any dwelling unit containing two or more bedrooms, including any den, shall have utility connections for a washing machine and clothes dryer in each unit. Any multiple unit structure or complex containing one bedroom units or single apartment units shall either provide such utility connections within each unit or provide a laundry room on site that contains washing machines and clothes dryers and that is accessible to the occupants of these units.

(Ord. 88-32 10-25-88; Ord. 90-23 9-11-90; Ord. 18-03 1-23-18; Ord. 25-04, 1/28/2025)

Whenever the room layout within any dwelling unit, guest room, or recreation room therein, is so designed, including, but not limited to, multiple room or hallway entrances, multiple toilet and bathing facilities, or sink installations, that it can be easily divided into or used for separate dwelling units or rental guest rooms, the lot area requirements and automobile parking requirements shall be based upon the highest number of potential dwelling units or guest rooms obtainable from such room layout. Furthermore, the total number of potential units shall not exceed the maximum density permitted by the zone in which the property is located.

(Ord. 88-32 10-25-88)