SCH Number 2009011031

Project Info

Title

Plan Santa Barbara General Plan Update (Policy Amendments including General Plan Framework, Land Use Element, Housing Element) and Associated Rezone

Description

Effective Oct. 1, 2017, the New Zoning Ordinance is established as Santa Barbara Municipal Code Title 30-Inland for the portions of the City jurisdiction outside of the Coastal Zone, by City Council adoption on July 25, 2017. Zoning code changes include reformatting of the ordinance; renaming of zone districts; clarifications to existing regulations; limited changes to allowed land uses (including narrowing range of uses within M-1 Light Manufacturing zone, allowing neighborhood markets, updating home occupation standards, allowing mobile food vendors on private property, and expanding temporary use regulations); limited changes to development standards (including provisions for number of stories in buildings, building separation, setbacks, open yards, encroachments into setbacks and yards, size of accessory buildings and garages, fences, and hedges, and nonconforming buildings and land uses); and limited changes to parking requirements (including standardizing nonresidential parking requirements for food services, change of uses, expansions, and bicycle parking, and reduced parking for small residential units).

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