§ 17.70

The purpose of this article is to establish the highest density residential (R-7) zone. The intent of the R-7 zone is to implement the highest density residential land use designation of the general plan in an effort to accommodate the county's regional housing needs assessment (RHNA) allocation.

(Ord. No. 348.4950, § 10(8.301), 3-2-2021)

A.

The following uses shall be permitted in the R-7 zone:

One-family dwelling on an existing legal lot.

2.

Home occupations.

3.

Multiple family dwellings.

4.

Community gardens.

B.

The following uses shall be permitted provided a plot plan has been approved pursuant to the provisions of chapter 17.216 of this ordinance:

1.

Boarding, rooming and lodging houses.

2.

Child day care centers.

3.

Churches, temples and other places of religious worship.

4.

Libraries, museums and art galleries.

5.

Public and private parks and playgrounds.

C.

The following uses shall be permitted provided a conditional use permit has been approved pursuant to the provisions of chapter 17.200 of this ordinance:

1.

Mobile home parks.

D.

Any use not specifically listed in subsection B. or C. may be considered a permitted or conditionally permitted use provided that the planning director finds that the proposed use is substantially the same in character and intensity as those listed in the designated subsections. Such a use is subject to the permit process which governs the category in which it falls.

(Ord. No. 348.4950, § 10(8.302), 3-2-2021)

17.70.030 - Development standards in the R-7 zone.

A.

Lot size. There is no minimum lot size.

B.

Lot width. There is no minimum lot width.

C.

Lot depth. There is no minimum lot depth.

D.

Frontage. There is no minimum frontage.

E.

Height. The maximum height of any buildings or structures shall be no greater than seventy-five (75) feet.

F.

Screening. All roof-mounted equipment, excluding solar panels, shall be screened from the ground elevation view to a minimum sight distance of six hundred sixty (660) feet for residential buildings and one thousand three hundred twenty (1,320) feet for non-residential buildings.

G.

Lot coverage. There is no maximum lot coverage.

H.

Front setback. There is no front setback requirement, except for one-family dwellings or associated structure(s), which shall have a minimum front setback of no less than twenty-five (25) feet.

I.

Side setback. There is no side setback requirement, except for the following:

1.

One-family dwellings or associated structure(s) shall have a minimum side setback of no less than five feet.

For lots zoned R-7 that abut lots zoned R-R, R-A, R-1 and R-1-A, the minimum side setback shall be no less than five feet.

J.

Rear setback. There is no rear setback requirement, except for the following:

1.

One-family dwellings or associated structure(s) shall have a minimum rear setback of no less than fifteen (15) feet.

2.

For lots zoned R-7 that abut lots zoned R-R, R-A, R-1 and R-1-A, the minimum rear setback shall be no less than fifteen (15) feet.

K.

Open space.

1.

Any development with more than ten (10) multiple family dwelling units shall provide at least one hundred (100) square feet of common use area (CUA) for each unit above ten (10) units. A CUA is a recreational open space area, such as a park, sport field, pool, gym, or passive recreational area, associated with and located on the same lot or lots as the primary use. A reduction in this requirement may be applied pursuant to the following:

a.

A five percent reduction for developments that provide more than two hundred (200) dwelling units.

b.

A five percent reduction for developments that provide housing for very low, low or moderate income households, as defined in the Riverside County's General Plan Housing Element, with applicable affordability restrictions.

2.

Any development with multiple family dwelling units shall provide at least fifty (50) square feet of private open space (POA) per unit. A POA is a private usable open space area, such as a patio or balcony, which is not encumbered with structures and is attached to the primary dwelling unit.

L.

Site requirements.

1.

Refuse and recyclable material storage area. A refuse and recyclable material storage area shall be provided for any new development, or existing development that will add thirty (30) percent or more units or floor area. This area must be fully enclosed and have adequate separation from any habitable areas. This area shall be screened using landscape or architectural features.

2.

Encroachments. No setback or yard encroachments are permitted, except as provided in section 17.172.140 of this ordinance.

3.

Lighting. All onsite lighting shall be focused, directed, or arranged to prevent glare or direct illumination on adjacent residential uses.

4.

Parking. Off-street parking shall be provided pursuant to chapter 17.188 of this ordinance.

5.

Landscape. There is no minimum landscape area requirement.

(Ord. No. 348.4950, § 10(8.303), 3-2-2021)

A.

Phasing plan. For phased developments, a site development phasing plan shall be submitted with the land use application or design review application and include maps, exhibits and a description of the following: phasing for development and infrastructure, and the development of multi-modal transportation connectivity with the neighborhood and adjoining community areas.

B.

Design review. For multiple family dwellings, a site design plan shall be submitted to the Planning Director for review and shall include the following:

1.

Site plan with building footprint.

2.

Floor plans.

Landscape plan, as necessary.

4.

Wall and fencing plan.

5.

Elevation plan.

6.

Architectural design.

7.

Photometric plan, as necessary.

8.

Traffic analysis.

C.

Public review period. A thirty-day public review period shall be provided prior to the planning director considering the site design plan submitted for multiple family dwellings. Notice of the public review period shall be given in the same manner as provided in Section 18.26.c. subsections (2), (4), (5), (6) and (7) of this ordinance. The notice shall include the mailing address to send comments to, the dates for the public review period, location where the site design plan may be reviewed, and explain that the public may comment on the site design plan for the multiple family dwellings.

D.

Design approval. The above referenced site design plan shall be approved by the planning director if the site design plan is consistent with all of the following:

1.

The Riverside County General Plan;

2.

This ordinance;

3.

The countywide design guidelines;

4.

There is no specific, adverse impact upon the public health or safety. A specific adverse impact means a significant, quantifiable, direct, and unavoidable impact, based on objective, identified written public health or safety standards, policies or conditions as they existed on the date the application was deemed complete; or

5.

If there is a specific adverse impact upon the public health or safety, the development has been conditioned to develop at a lower density which removes the specific adverse impact.

E.

Approval period. An applicant of a site design plan shall obtain building permits within two years of the site design approval for any multiple family dwellings, pursuant to this section. The planning director may grant a request for a one-year extension of time of this requirement, if the request is submitted by the applicant at least six months prior to the expiration of the original time limit with the appropriate fee. If an extension is granted, the total time allowed for a site design plan approval shall not exceed three years.

(Ord. No. 348.4950, § 10(8.304), 3-2-2021)

Chapter 17.72 - C-1 AND C-P GENERAL COMMERCIAL ZONES

Sections:

17.72.010 - Uses permitted.

A.

The following uses are permitted, only in enclosed buildings with not more than two hundred (200) square feet of outside storage or display of materials appurtenant to such use, provided a plot plan shall have been approved pursuant to provisions of Chapter 17.216:

1.

Ambulance services;

2.

Antique shops;

3.

Appliance stores, household;

4.

Art supply shops and studios;

Auction houses;

6.

Auditoriums and conference rooms;

7.

Automobile repair garages, not including body and fender shops or spray painting;

8.

Automobile parts and supply stores;

9.

Bakery goods distributors;

10.

Bakery shops, including baking only when incidental to retail sales on the premises;

Banks and financial institutions;

12.

Barber and beauty shops;

13.

Bars and cocktail lounges;

14.

Billiard and pool halls;

15.

Blueprint and duplicating services;

16.

Book stores and binders;

17.

Bowling alleys;

Catering services;

Cleaning and dyeing shops;

Clothing stores;

Confectionery or candy stores;

Costume design studios; 23.

Dance halls; 24.

Delicatessens; 25.

Department stores; 26.

Drug stores; 27.

Dry goods stores; 28.

Employment agencies; 29.

Escort bureaus;

Feed and grain sales;

Florists shops;

Food markets and frozen food lockers;

33.

Gasoline service stations, not including the concurrent sale of beer and wine for off-premises consumption;

Gift shops;

35.

Hotels, resort hotels and motels;

36.

Household goods sales, including, but not limited to, new and used appliances, furniture, carpets, draperies, lamps, radios, and television sets, including repair thereof;

37.

Hobby shops;

Ice cream shops;

39.

Ice sales, not including ice plants;

40.

Interior decorating shops;

41.

Jewelry stores, including incidental repairs;

42.

Labor temples;

43.

Laboratories, film, dental, medical, research or testing;

44.

Laundries and laundromats;

Leather goods stores;

Deleted;

Locksmith shops;

Mail order businesses;

Manufacturer's agent;

Market, food, wholesale or jobber;

Massage parlors, Turkish baths, health centers and similar personal service establishments;

Meat markets, not including slaughtering;

Mimeographing and addressograph services;

Mortuaries;

Music stores;

News stores;

Notions or novelty stores;

Offices, including business, law, medical, dental, chiropractic, architectural, engineering, community planning, real estate;

59.

One on-site operator's residence, which may be located in a commercial building;

60.

Paint and wallpaper stores, not including paint contractors;

Pawn shops;

62.

Pet shops and pet supply shops;

63.

Photography shops and studios and photo engraving;

64.

Plumbing shops, not including plumbing contractors;

65.

Poultry markets, not including slaughtering or live sales;

66.

Printers or publishers;

67.

Produce markets;

68.

Radio and television broadcasting studios;

69.

Recording studios;

70.

Refreshment stands;

Restaurants and other eating establishments;

72.

Schools, business and professional, including art, barber, beauty, dance, drama, music and swimming;

Shoe stores and repair shops;

74.

Shoeshine stands;

Signs, on-site advertising;

Sporting goods stores;

Stained glass assembly;

Stationer stores;

Stations, bus, railroad and taxi;

Taxidermist;

Tailor shops;

Telephone exchanges;

Theaters, not including drive-ins;

Tire sales and service, not including recapping;

Tobacco shops;

86.

Tourist information centers;

87.

Toy shops;

88.

Travel agencies;

89.

Typewriter sales and rental, including incidental repairs;

Watch repair shops;

91.

Wholesale businesses with samples on the premises but not including storage;

92.

Car washes;

93.

Fortune telling, spiritualism, or similar activity;

94.

Recycling collection facilities;

95.

Convenience stores, not including the sale of motor vehicle fuel;

96.

Day care centers;

97.

Deleted;

B.

The following uses are permitted, together with outside storage and display of materials appurtenant to such use, provided a plot plan has been approved pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 17.216:

1.

Repealed;

2.

Bicycle sales and rentals;

3.

Boat and other marine sales;

4.

Ceramic sales and manufacturing for on-site sales, provided the total volume of kiln space does not exceed sixteen (16) cubic feet;

5.

Electrical substations;

6.

Equipment rental services, including rototillers, power mowers, sanders, power saws, cement and plaster mixers not exceeding ten (10) cubic feet in capacity and other similar equipment;

7.

Fishing and casting pools;

8.

Golf cart sales and service;

9.

Hardware stores, including not more than one thousand (1,000) square feet of outside storage lumber;

10.

Liquid petroleum service stations, not including the concurrent sale of beer and wine, provided the total capacity of all tanks shall not exceed ten thousand (10,000) gallons;

11.

Mobilehomes, provided they are kept mobile and licensed pursuant to state law, used for:

a.

Sales offices on mobilehome sales lots,

b.

Construction offices and caretaker's quarters on construction sites for the duration of a valid building permit, provided they are inconspicuously located,

c.

Caretakers or watchmen and their families, provided no rent is paid, where a permitted and existing commercial use is established. Not more than one mobilehome shall be allowed for a parcel of land or a shopping center complex;

12.

Mobilehome sales and storage, trailer sales and rental house trailers;

13.

Nurseries and garden supply stores;

14.

Parking lots and parking structures;

15.

Sports and recreational facilities, not including motor driven vehicles and riding academies, but including archery ranges, athletic playgrounds, sports arenas, skating rinks, stadiums, and commercial swimming pools;

16.

Churches, temples and other places of religious worship;

Deleted;

Trailer and boat storage;

19.

Trucks and trailers; the rental of trucks not over nineteen thousand five hundred (19,500) pounds gross vehicle weight, with body not to exceed twenty-two (22) feet in length from the back of the cab to the end of body; and the rental of trailers not exceeding six feet in width or twenty-two (22) feet in length;

Truck sales and service.

C.

Deleted.

D.

The following uses are permitted provided a conditional use permit has been granted pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 17.200:

1.

Sale, rental, repair, or demonstration of motorcycles, scooters and motorbikes;

2.

Drive-in theaters;

3.

Heliports;

4.

Tire recapping;

5.

Animal hospitals;

6.

Body and fender shops and spray painting;

7.

Swap meets;

8.

All uses permitted in subsection A of this section that have more than two hundred (200) square feet of outside storage or display of materials;

9.

Mini-warehouse structures;

10.

Lumber yards, including only incidental mill work;

Building materials sales yards;

Underground bulk fuel storage;

13.

Congregate care residential facilities;

14.

Convenience stores, including the sale of motor vehicle fuel;

15.

Gasoline service stations with the concurrent sale of Alcoholic Beverages for off-premises consumption.

16.

Liquid petroleum service stations with the concurrent sale of Alcoholic Beverages for off-premises consumption, provided the total capacity of all tanks shall not exceed 10,000 gallons.

17.

Liquor stores pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 17.248;

Automobile sales and rental agencies.

Solar power plant on a lot ten (10) acres or larger.

20.

Parolee-probationer home developed in accordance with the standards set forth in Section 18.52 of this ordinance.

E.

The uses listed in subsections A, B and C of this section do not include sex-oriented businesses.

F.

Accessory Uses. An accessory use to a permitted use is allowed provided the accessory use is incidental to, and does not alter the character of, the principal permitted use, including, but not limited to:

Limited manufacturing, fabricating, processing, packaging, treating and incidental storage related thereto, provided any such activity shall be in the same line of merchandise or service as the trade or service business conducted on the premises and provided any such activity does not exceed any of the following restrictions:

a.

The maximum gross floor area of the building permitted to be devoted to such accessory use shall be twenty-five (25) percent.

b.

The maximum total horsepower of all electric motors used in connection with such accessory use shall be five horsepower.

c.

The accessory use shall be so conducted that noise, vibration, dust, odor, and all other objectionable factors shall be reduced to the extent that there will be no annoyance to persons outside the premises. Such accessory use shall be located not nearer than fifty (50) feet to any residential zone.

d.

Accessory uses shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building.

G.

Industrial hemp activities are permitted or conditionally permitted in subsection A., B., or D. in section 17.72.010 pursuant to the provisions set forth in chapter 17.306 of this ordinance including, but not limited to, permit processing, location, standards and approval requirements.

H.

Any use that is not specifically listed in subsections A, B, and D of this section may be considered a permitted or conditionally permitted use provided that the planning director finds that the proposed use is substantially the same in character and intensity as those listed in the designated subsections. Such a use is subject to the permit process which governs the category in which it falls.

(Ord. 348.3955 §§ 1 (part), 2, 2000; Ord. 348.3888 § 10, 1999; Ord. 348.3793, 1997; Ord. 348.3584, 1994; Ord. 348.3217, 1990; Ord. 348.3078, 1989; Ord. 348.3053, 1989; Ord. 348.3047, 1989; Ord. 348.3023, 1989; Ord. 348.2856, 1988; Ord. 348.2535, 1985; Ord. 348.2510, 1985; Ord. 3482.2496, 1985; Ord. 348 § 9.1)

(Ord. 348.4705, § 1, 11-8-2011; Ord. 348.4744, § 1, 6-19-2012; Ord. No. 348.4931, § 3, 11-10-2020; Ord. No. 348.5028, §§ 4, 5, 3-11-2025)