8050 Gopher Gulch Rd, Riverside, CA 92506

Residential Conservation Zone

The Residential Conservation Zone (RC) is established consistent with General Plan objectives and voter approved initiatives (Proposition R and Measure C) to protect prominent ridges, hilltops and hillsides, slopes, arroyos, ravines and canyons, and other areas with high visibility or topographic conditions that warrant sensitive development from adverse development practices, and specifically, to achieve the following objectives: To preserve and enhance the beauty of the City's landscape; To maximize the retention of the City's natural topographic features, including, but not limited to, skyline profiles, ridgelines, ridge crests, hilltops, hillsides, slopes, arroyos, ravines, canyons, prominent trees and rock outcrops, view corridors, and scenic vistas through the careful selection and construction of building sites and building pads on said topographic features.; To assure that residential use of said topographic features will relate to the surrounding topography and will not be conspicuous and obtrusive because of the design and location of said residential use; To reduce the scarring effects of excessive grading for building pads and cut and fill slopes; To prevent the construction of slopes inadequately protected from erosion, deterioration or slippage and To conserve the City's natural topographic features.