Chapter 1 — INTERIM ZONES
Sacramento County Zoning Code · 2026-06 edition · ingested 2026-07-06 · Sacramento County
GENERAL PROVISIONS
401-01. PURPOSE.
The zones set forth in this Title are designed to promote and protect the public health, safety and general welfare in the same general manner as the permanent land use zones described in Chapter 2 of the Zoning Code. The zones in this Title, however, are considered to be temporary and it is the intent of the Board of Supervisors to rezone each parcel of property to one of the permanent land use zones as each new community plan is adopted. It is intended that this Title be eliminated from the Zoning Code after each of the zones herein has been rezoned to a permanent land use zone.
401-02. DEFINITION: DIVISION.
As used in and for the purposes of this Title, the term Division shall refer to and mean the Zoning Code of Sacramento County.
401-03. DEFINITION: PLANNING COMMISSION.
As used in and for the purposes of this Title, the term Planning Commission shall mean the Sacramento County Planning Commission .
401-04. DEFINITION: DAY CARE HOME.
As used in and for the purposes of this Title, the term “day care home” shall refer to and mean Family Day Care Home as defined in Chapter 7, ‘Definitions’, of this Code.
401-05. DEFINITION: FOSTER HOME, RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME, BOARDING HOUSE, ROOMING HOUSE, AND REST HOME.
Notwithstanding any provision or limitation on the number of occupants to the contrary contained in Title IV of this Code, the terms “foster home, ” “residential care home, ” “boarding house,” “rooming house,” or “rest home,” shall not include a residential facility providing care to children, to the elderly, or for mentally disordered or otherwise handicapped persons, which serves six or fewer persons not including the operator or members of the operator’s family or persons employed as facility staff.
A residential care facility providing care to six or fewer children, elderly, mentally disordered, or otherwise handicapped persons, not counting the operator or members of the operator’s family or persons employed as facility staff, shall be deemed to be a single family residential use.
401-06. SIGNS.
Signs and permitted advertising devices, as provided in the interim zoning classifications, shall be subject to the provisions of section 5.10, ‘Sign Regulations’ of this Code, and where development standards in the zoning classifications conflict, section 5.10. shall prevail.