88.0520 Design Standards. — Yucaipa Zoning Code

(a) Unless specifically changed within this section, all adopted City ordinances, standards, and policies apply to a Planned Development project, including those set forth in the Yucaipa General Plan. The Planning Commission may alter adopted standards where, in their opinion, the altered standards would more adequately serve the intent and purposes of the Planned Development provisions of the Code.

(b) Circulation
(1) The vehicular circulation pattern shall be designed such that the following are accomplished.
(A) It provides adequate vehicular access to and within the project, in accordance with adopted City standards.
(B) It is coordinated with external transportation networks in terms of location and loads.
(C) It is integrated with the natural landscape and, where possible, parallels the natural drainage system.
(D) It is designed such that the noise levels from vehicular traffic shall comply with the Noise Quality Standards of the Yucaipa General Plan.

(E) The planned development project and each phase thereof has two points of vehicular ingress and egress from surrounding streets, one of which may be emergency only. Where the applicant can show that this is a physical impossibility, this requirement may be modified by the local Fire Authority or County Fire Warden.

(F) Private streets are acceptable if they are built to City standards and are inspected by the City. However, right-ofway shall not be accepted by the City, nor shall private streets be accepted into the City-maintained road system.
(2) The pedestrian circulation pattern shall be designed such that the following are accomplished.
(A) It is separated from vehicular traffic where possible and designed to discourage pedestrian crossing of the vehicular network, except at controlled points which are designed for pedestrian safety.
(B) Hard-surfaced, safely-lighted pedestrian access to common open space, recreational areas, community facilities, and other logical terminal points shall be provided.
(3) All common off-street parking areas shall be designed such that the following are accomplished.
(A) They provide adequate, convenient, well-marked, and safely-lighted parking.
(B) With the exception of building-enclosed parking structures, they shall contain appropriate landscaping to minimize the effect of large areas of asphalt or concrete
(4) Two parking spaces per dwelling unit shall be provided. No tandem parking is permitted. Guest parking, either on-street or in common parking areas, shall be provided at a ratio of one space per two dwelling units.
(c) Open Space
(1) For the purposes of this chapter, open space within a planned development shall be the total area of land or water within the boundaries of a planned development, designed and intended for use and enjoyment as open space areas.
(A) Open space within a planned development shall include the following.
(I) Area of the site not covered by buildings, paved areas, or accessory structures, except recreational structures
(II) Land which is accessible and available to all occupants of the development for which the space is intended
(B) Open space within a planned development does not include the following.
(I) Proposed and existing street rights-of-way and private streets
(II) Open parking areas and driveways
(III) School sites
(IV) Commercial, industrial, or office areas, and the buildings, accessory buildings, parking, and loading facilities thereof
(2) A residential planned development project shall have a minimum of 40% private and common open space, not including balcony area.
(3) Each dwelling unit shall have a minimum contiguous private open space area as follows.
(A) Ground Floor
225 square feet
(B) Upper-Story Dwelling with No Ground Floor
660 square feet
(4) Provisions for the maintenance and management of the common open space and common facilities shall be reviewed and approved by the reviewing authority. Such approval shall be based on the following criteria.
(A) The applicant shall establish a Property Owners’ Association prior to the selling of any lot or occupancy of any dwelling unit.
(B) The Property-Owners’ Association by-laws, restrictions, and articles of incorporation shall include the necessary regulations required by the Federal Housing Administration. Other standards may be approved by the reviewing Housing Authority.
(d) Site Resource Utilization
(1) The planned development shall be designed and developed in such a manner as to minimize the cutting of trees, disturbance of ground cover, cut-and-fill work, drainage alteration, and hillside development. All tree removals shall be in accordance with City permit procedures.
(2) All new dirt work and exposed slopes shall be suitably stabilized in accordance with Sections 68.001 through
68.024 of the City Code. Scarred and erosion-prone areas shall be stabilized with appropriate planting.
(3) A drainage analysis shall be prepared and shall accompany the application for a planned development.
(e) Site and Structure Relationship
(1) The spacing of buildings shall be governed by the requirements for adequate light and air, proper access, fire regulations, and by the need for visual and auditory privacy.
(2) Whenever possible, dwelling units shall be arranged to take advantage of views and vistas with consideration given to “micro” (subsections of the planned development) climate control and pleasing relationships of building mass.
(3) The planned development shall be designed to minimize the likelihood of criminal activity by the following methods.
(A) Minimizing those areas that are neither clearly private or public
(B) Planting landscaping such that maximum observation is obtained while providing the desired degree of aesthetics
(4) Building height, bulk, and “micro” coverage are regulated only inasmuch as they meet the performance criteria set out above.
(5) No structure for human habitation shall be placed in an environmentally hazardous, fragile, or unique area.
(f) Perimeter
(1) Adjacent properties to the planned development shall be protected from adverse influences of traffic, land uses, building scale, and density by the combined use of screening, setbacks, and land use location.

(2) Perimeter planning and coordination are required to assure continuity in the community facilities and services. The applicant shall demonstrate that the development proposal can be adequately served by community facilities and services without undue public expenditure.

(3) Planned development projects which are within Fire Safety (FR) Overlay Districts shall develop perimeter areas in accordance with standards set forth in that element.