§ 22.300

Planning Area Standards Districts (PASDs) and Community Standards Districts (CSDs) are established to provide, where useful and appropriate, special development standards to:

A.

Assist in implementing special development requirements or land use limitations previously adopted by the County in neighborhood, community, area, specific, and local coastal plans for particular unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, to address special problems that are unique to those geographic areas; and

B.

Facilitate development and new land uses that are more responsive to community objectives for the preservation, guided evolution and enhancement, and/or transformation of existing physical character and/or economic conditions than would otherwise be possible through the application of Countywide standards alone.

(Ord. 2024-0032 § 22, 2024; Ord. 2024-0029 § 8, 2024; Ord. 2019-0004 § 1, 2019.)

22.300.020 - Application of Planning Area Standards Districts, Community Standards Districts, and Supplemental Districts to Property.

A.

Hierarchy of Regulations. Standards within Division 10 are organized hierarchically within a category according to their applicable area or zone. Except as specified otherwise in this Title 22, where there is a conflict between two standards regulating the same matter:

1.

The standard in a category listed in Subsection A.2, below, supersedes the contrary standard that would apply to the base zone; and

2.

The standard within a category that is lower on the following list supersedes the contrary standard that is contained in any category above it.

a.

PASD Area-Wide Development Standards.

b.

PASD Zone Specific Development Standards.

c.

CSD Area-Wide Development Standards.

d.

CSD Zone Specific Development Standards.

e.

Sub-Area-Wide Specific Development Standards.

f.

Sub-Area Zone Specific Development Standards.

B.

Relationship to Other Title 22 Provisions.

1.

Specific Plans. Except as specified otherwise, regulations in a Specific Plan shall supersede any contrary provisions in this Division 10.

2.

Supplemental Districts. Except as specified otherwise, regulations in a Supplemental District listed in Table 22.06.040-A shall supersede any contrary provisions in this Division 10.

3.

Accessory Dwelling Units and Junior Accessory Dwelling Units. Accessory Dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units in a Planning Area Standards District, Community Standards District, or Supplemental District shall be subject to Section 22.140.640 (Accessory Dwelling Units and Junior Accessory Dwelling Units).

4.

Affordable Housing and Senior Citizen Housing. Property within the boundary of a PASD or a CSD may be subject to Chapter 22.119 (Affordable Housing Replacement), Chapter 22.120 (Density Bonus), Chapter 22.121 (Inclusionary Housing), Chapter 22.128 (Supportive Housing), and Chapter 22.166 (Housing Permits), where applicable.

5.

Compact Lot Subdivisions. Any Division 10 provisions pertaining to a required yard shall apply to the equivalent perimeter yard of a compact lot subdivision, pursuant to Section 22.140.585.F.18 (Yard Provisions in Specific Plans, Planning Area Standards Districts, and Community Standards Districts).

6.

Green Zone. Where the regulations in Chapter 22.84 (Green Zone) are contrary to the provisions in this Division 10, the more restrictive provisions shall prevail, except that any required perimeter identification signs or informational signs shall contain information required by both Section 22.84.040.C.1.j (Perimeter Identification Sign) and this Division 10.

7.

Nonconforming Uses and Structures. Except as specified otherwise in a PASD or a CSD, the nonconforming use and structure provisions in Chapter 22.172 (Nonconforming Uses, Buildings and Structures) shall apply to all uses and structures in the area governed by the PASD or the CSD that were legally established or built prior to the effective date of the PASD or the CSD.

C.

Modifications Authorized. Development Standards specified in this Division 10 may be modified, subject to Chapter 22.160 (Conditional Use Permits, Minor), except where the project is subject to:

1.

Chapter 22.158 (Conditional Use Permits);

2.

Chapter 22.166 (Housing Permits);

3.

Chapter 22.176 (Minor Parking Deviation);