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Title 9 — CONSTRUCTION CODES AND FIRE CODE›Division 8 — COUNTY ENERGY EFFICIENCY CODE›Chapter 8 — SYH

8.3 Land Use Designations, Zoning and Development Regulations

San Diego County Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-02 · San Diego County

8.3.1 Existing Uses

SYH occupies approximately 122.28 acres within the Master Plan. A clinic, located in the center of the SYH Planning Area, provides services including CalFresh applications for food stamps, Medi-Cal, senior transport, emergency food boxes, and onsite senior lunches. The Community Center currently serves over 20,000 meals per year that are provided three times per week. Approximately 34 structures ranging from 675–9,500 sf. in size are located onsite.

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8.3.2 Planned Uses

SYH intends to stimulate economic growth and personal development in Campo by creating programs for job and vocational training, providing child daycare services and senior daycare services, conducting wellness/behavior health training, and being a resource center for the area. Other potential uses of the property include recreational facilities, expanded summer camp programs, storage to support local transportation services, and commercial uses such as a gift shop, thrift store, and laundry facility. The majority of existing buildings will be adaptively reused.

Figure 7 classifies the constraints related to the SYH Planning Area into the following five categories: no impacts, potential issues that require additional analysis, potential issues that involve higher level of analysis/difficulty, potential significant impacts, and significant impacts – no build possible. Constraints were identified from a variety of sources including available GIS files, field-verification, and surveys. Constraints such as cultural resources, archaeological resources, biological resources, vegetation, steep slopes, 100-year floodplain, and liquefaction were evaluated. Once constraints were identified, Figure 8 was developed to depict the zones governing the site.

The SYH Planning Area is divided into the following three subareas:

Table 5: SYH Planning Subareas

No. Planning Area Description Allowed Uses*

Major Impact Services and Utilities (Public Includes, but not limited to existing baseball Park/Playground Recreational Areas), Child Care Proposed Children s Activity 1 fields and park, and proposed childcare center Center or Small School depending on State license Center and pool requirements, Group Care, and Participant Sports and Recreation (Outdoor) Administrative and Professional Services, Convenience Sales and Personal Services, Personal Services, Laundry Services or Personal Services, Proposed SYH administrative offices and General depending on scale of services, Cultural building services, community services Exhibits and Library Services, Clinic Services or including, but not limited to, the wellness Proposed SYH Community Medical Services depending on number of individuals 2 center, drug and alcohol classes, joint- uses Services Center and overnight accommodations, Community with MEUSD, and amenities for residents Recreation or Small School depending on State including Chaffee Park, the theater, license requirements, Spectator Sports (Limited), laundromat, and small retail. Major Impact Services and Utilities (Public Park), Medical Services, Group Care, and Building Maintenance Services. Open space areas for preservation, potential 3 Proposed Open Space mitigation, and potential solar to support the Essential Services SYH buildings

  • Some uses are subject to further review.

The following table identifies the planned uses/amenities proposed by SYH and how they fit within the County’s existing use types.

Table 6: SYH Proposed Uses

Description on Map Zoning Ordinance Use Type Zoning Ordinance Use Type Description

Table 6: SYH Proposed Uses

Description on Map Zoning Ordinance Use Type Zoning Ordinance Use Type Description

Residential Use Types: Refers to the residential occupancy of living units by Proposed Reuse Staff Cottages/Rental Family Residential families on a weekly or longer basis, including occupancy of Housing (17 units) dwelling or apartment. Civic Use Types: Refers to recreational, social, or multi- purpose uses within Proposed Reuse Joint-Use Dining Hall, Community Recreation buildings with no fixed seats and occupancy limited to 500 Special Events, Food, and Nutrition Center persons. Laundry Services refers to establishments engaged in the provision of laundering, dry cleaning, or dyeing services, including laundry agencies, diaper services, or linen supply services.

Personal Services refers to establishments primarily

Laundry Services or Personal engaged in the provision of informational, instructional,

Proposed Reuse Laundromat Services, General depending on personal improvement and similar services of a non- scale of services professional nature but excludes services classified a Spectator Sports and Entertainment, Participant Sports and Recreation, or Transient Habitation. Typical uses include art studios, barber shops, beauty salons, photography studios, massage parlors, vocational schools, trade schools, dance studios, or reducing salons. Refers to services provided in facilities and authorized, certified or licensed by the State to provide board, room and personal care to seven (7) or more persons or dependent Proposed Adult Daycare Area and Wellness Daycare and neglected children in facilities authorized to provide day Activities care services, including halfway houses, intermediate care facilities, and day care facilities serving more than 50 persons. Refers to public or private services and utilities which have substantial impacts. Such uses may be conditionally permitted in any zone when the public interest supersedes the usual limitations placed on land use and transcends the usual restraints of zoning for reasons of necessary location and community community-wide interest. Typical places or Major Impact Services and Utilities uses are schools, sanitary landfills, public and private Proposed Reuse Children s Activity Center (public park/playground/recr eational airports, public park/ playground/recreational areas (other with Recreational Activities areas) than public passive park/recreational areas), hospitals, psychiatric facilities, cemeteries, nursing homes, detention and correction institutions, trade schools (with outdoor training facilities) or security, law enforcement, military, paramilitary type training facilities, or field medical training uses. Commercial Use Types:

training facilities) or security, law enforcement, military, paramilitary type training facilities, or field medical training uses. Commercial Use Types:

Refers to offices of private firms or organizations which are

Proposed Reuse Central Administration and Administrative and Professional primarily used for the provision of professional, executive, Purchasing Area Services management, or administrative services, including administrative offices, legal offices, or architectural firms.

Refers to establishments primarily engaged in the provision

Proposed Reuse SYH Facility Maintenance of maintenance and custodial services to firms rather than Building Maintenance Services Center individuals, including janitorial, landscape maintenance, or window cleaning services.

Refers to establishments or places of business primarily

engaged in the provision of frequently or recurrently

Convenience Sales and Personal

Proposed Reuse Homemaker Thrift Store needed small personal items or services for residents Services within reasonable walking distance, including neighborhood grocery or drug stores.

Refers to providing non-profit medical services to persons

Proposed Reuse Drug/Alcohol Services Clinic Services afflicted with bodily or mental disease or injury without provision for on-site residence or confinement.

Refers to establishments or places primarily engaged in the provision of cultural, entertainment, athletic, and other events to spectators as well as those involving social or fraternal gatherings. Includes Limited (conducted within an

Proposed Reuse Theater Spectator Sports (Limited) enclosed building with a capacity of 500 people or less) and General (conducted in open facilities or within an enclosed building with a capacity of more than 500 people such as large exhibition halls or sports stadiums).

Refers to establishments or places primarily engaged in

the provision of sports or recreation by and for participants. Any spectators would be incidental and on a nonrecurring basis. Includes indoor (conducted within an enclosed Participant Sports andRecreation Proposed Reuse Pool building, such as bowling alleys or billiard parlors) and (Outdoor) outdoor use types (conducted in open facilities, including golf courses, athletic facilities, carnival facilities, sports fields, health clubs, and spas, swimming beaches, swimming pools, and nudist facilities).

Miscellaneous Proposed Open Space Set aside as a subarea within plan Proposed Parking Accessory Use Accessory Use to commercial Proposed Well and Pump House or Essential Services depending on Proposed Solar size of facility

FIGURE 7

SYH CONSTRAINTS

FIGURE 8

SYH ZONES

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8.3.3 Proposed Zoning

The following “Zoning Box” shall apply to the planned uses within the SYH Planning Area. Please refer to Section4000 to 4920 of the Zoning Ordinance for specific details regarding development regulations.

Table 7: SYH Zone Box

Table 7: SYH Zone Box

USE REGULATIONS Camp Lockett 1 (CL-1) Density: - Minimum Lot Size - Building Type L (allows all building types) Maximum Floor Area Ratio -DEVELOPMENT Floor Area Ratio -

REGULATIONS Height G (35’) Lot Coverage - Setback V Open Space - SPECIAL AREA REGULATIONS H (Historic)

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