1260 Newcastle Rd, Newcastle, CA 95658

Residential Multi-Family District-Design Review-Special Purpose

The residential multifamily district is intended to provide areas for residential neighborhoods of single-family dwellings, multiple single-family dwellings on one lot, halfplexes, duplexes, apartments, and other multiple-family attached dwelling units such as condominiums. It is intended that new development in this district utilize innovative site planning, provide on-site recreational amenities and be located near major community facilities, business centers, and/or major streets. The purpose of the design review (-Dc, -Dh, -Ds) combining districts is to provide special regulations to protect and enhance the aesthetic character of lands and buildings within public view; to protect historic buildings; to minimize any adverse impacts of conflicting land uses; to enhance tourism through the protection of lands and buildings having unique aesthetic characteristics; and to provide special project review procedures for lands and uses which by their nature require special attention to architectural design and massing, landscaping, circulation, and/or energy conservation. Special purpose (-SP) Purpose and Intent: The board of supervisors finds that mineral extraction operations, airports, community sewage treatment plants, and waste disposal facilities are of such importance to the health, safety, economy, and general welfare of the public that special consideration of the issue of land use must be afforded such uses. The special purpose combining zone is created to identify specific areas in the vicinity of such uses where land use compatibility issues are of particular importance. When applied to a particular parcel of land, the purpose of the district is to require a discretionary review of the proposed use of that land and to restrict the use of that land to uses that are determined to be compatible with the special use in the vicinity. The board further finds that the above-mentioned special uses occur in diverse areas where the geologic, topographic, biological and socio-economic conditions governing the maintenance of land use compatibility may vary accordingly.