91865 Rebecca Rd, Mecca, CA 92254

Residential Incentive

The Housing Element of the Riverside County General Plan has identified the need for affordable housing as one of the most significant housing problems in the County of Riverside. It is the intent of the Board of Supervisors in enacting the R-6 Zone to establish a specialized zone that will, through incentives and consideration of a specific housing proposal in connection with a proposed zone change, facilitate construction of affordable housing. Pursuant to the Housing Element, the density of a project shall be determined by the physical and service constraints of the parcel being considered, during the hearing process, and may exceed the density permitted for standard projects by the Land Use Element. The Board finds and determines and declares that it is its intent that the R-6 Zone be used and applied in areas where basic services such as water, sewer, other utilities and adequate road circulation already exist or can be reasonably extended. The Board further determines that the R-6 Zone shall be applied to a specific geographic area only in conjunction with an approved plan for development, including any necessary land division maps, plot plans or other approvals, as required by the County, and that applications for the R-6 Zone and related projects are to receive priority processing by all County departments involved in the review and issuance of permits for the development.