Determine Zoning
Before developing a parcel of land, you will need to determine if the parcel is zoned for your desired use or if there are any special development considerations for your project.
The Planning Division will be able to tell you the zoning of the property or if there are any special considerations for your project.
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Residential Zoning Classifications
(Extracted from the Temecula Development Code)
- Hillside Residential District (HR). The hillside residential zoning district is intended to provide for the development of very low density residential uses. These areas include properties that have severe constraints for development, such as hillside areas with slopes over twenty-five percent. Typical lot sizes in the HR district are in excess of ten net acres.
- Rural Residential (RR). The rural residential zoning district is intended to provide for the development of single-family detached home on large lots with a distinct rural character. Some of these areas may include severe constraints for development, such as hillside areas with slopes over twenty-five percent. Typical lot sizes in the RR district are five acres and larger.
- Very Low Density Residential (VL). The very low density residential zoning district is intended to provide for the development of single-family detached homes on large lots with a rural ranchette character of development. Typical lot sizes are two and one-half to five net acres.
- Low Density Residential (L-1 and L-2). The low density residential zoning district is intended to provide for the development of single-family detached homes on larger lots with a custom character of development. In order to provide for compatibility with existing and future areas, the low density residential zoning district is further divided into the L-1 zoning district and the L-2 zoning district. Typical lot sizes in the L-1 zoning district are one to two and one-half net acres: the L-2 zoning district typically has lot sizes from one-half to one net acres.
- Low Medium Density Residential (LM). The low medium density residential zoning district is intended to provide for the development of single-family homes. Typical density for the low medium density residential development is from three to six dwelling units per net acre, with a target density of four and one-half dwelling units per acre.
- Medium Density Residential (M). The medium density residential zoning district is intended to provide for the development of attached and detached residential development. Typical housing types may include single-family, duplexes, triplexes, townhouses and patio homes, with a density range of seven to twelve dwelling units per acre.
- High Density Residential (H). The high density residential zoning district is intended to provide for the development of attached residential developments. Typical housing types may include townhouses, stacked dwellings and apartments, with a density range of thirteen to twenty dwelling units per acre.
Non-Residential Zoning Classifications
(Extracted from the Temecula Development Code)
- Neighborhood Commercial (NC). The neighborhood commercial designation includes smaller-scale business activities which generally provide retail or convenience services for the local residents in the surrounding neighborhood. Typical uses include traditional small food markets (floor area less than twenty-five thousand square feet), drug stores, clothing stores, sporting goods, offices, hardware stores, child care and community facilities.
- Community Commercial (CC). The community commercial designation includes retail, professional office and service-oriented business activities which serve the entire community. Community commercial areas typically include some neighborhood commercial uses as well as larger retail uses including department stores, theaters, restaurants, professional offices, specialty retail stores and shopping centers.
- Highway/Tourist Commercial (HT). The highway commercial designation is intended to provide for those uses that are located adjacent to major transportation routes or within convenient access from freeway interchanges. Highway commercial development should be located near major arterials, and developed as clusters of commercial development rather than permitted to extend along the major streets. Typical uses may include tourist accommodations and lodging facilities, automobile service stations, restaurants, convenience shopping, and food stores, and gift shops.
- Service Commercial (SC). The service commercial designation is intended to provide for intensive commercial uses and selected light manufacturing uses that typically require extensive floor area. Typical uses include home improvement stores, discount retail stores, furniture stores, auto dealerships and auto service and repair. Warehousing and light manufacturing may be permitted as supporting uses for a business that is consistent with the service commercial designation.
- Professional Office (PO). The professional office designation includes primarily single-tenant or multi-tenant offices and may include supporting uses. The office developments are intended to include low-rise offices situated in a landscaped garden arrangement and may include mid-rise structures at appropriate locations. Typical uses include legal, design, engineering or medical offices, corporate and governmental offices, community facilities. Limited supporting convenience retail and personal service (such as dry cleaners, barbers, shoe repair shop) commercial may be permitted to serve the needs of the on-site employees. A maximum of fifteen percent of the total square footage of the floor area shall be devoted to retail or personal service uses.
- Business Park District (BP). It is the intent of the business park zoning designation to develop well designed business and employment centers that include attractive and distinctive architectural design, innovative site planning, and substantial landscaping and visual quality. Typical uses may include administrative offices, research and development laboratories, custom-made product manufacturing, processing, assembling, packaging, and fabrication of goods, such as jewelry, furniture, art objects, clothing, on-site wholesale of goods produced, and labor intensive manufacturing, assembly, and repair processes which do not involve frequent truck traffic. Retail uses are not permitted in this zoning district, except as supporting a principal business park use (limited to fifteen percent of the square footage of the development).
- Light Industrial District (LI). It is the intent of the light industrial zoning designation to promote the development of attractive comprehensively planned industrial uses that will help to provide the city with a sound and diverse industrial base. This district allows for a wide variety of industrial uses, including manufacturing, compounding of materials, processing, assembling, packaging, treatment or fabrication of materials, and products which require frequent truck activity or the transfer of heavy or bulky items. Wholesaling, storage and warehousing within enclosed building, storage and wholesale to retailers from the premises of finished goods and food products are also allowed. Also included in this zoning district are the following uses: warehousing, freight handling, shipping, truck services and terminals, storage and wholesaling from the premises of unrefined raw or semirefined products requiring further processing or manufacturing. Storage of raw or finished materials may occur outside providing there is adequate screening from adjoining land use areas. Standards are provided to protect adjoining uses from excessive noise, odor, smoke toxic materials, and other potentially objectionable impacts.
- Special Use Overlay Zone No. 1. It is the intent of the special use overlay zone No. 1 to designate areas that adult businesses may be considered provided that they meet the provisions of Chapter 5.09 of the Temecula Municipal Code. This area is generally away from residential uses and other sensitive uses and is primarily located within the commercial districts.
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